Bounding Boots  

I camped Leaping Lizzy recently as a brand new player on FFXI. I spent about 7 hours camping it over three days, and it popped ONCE each time. Got it on the third go, very very lucky.

:) just got these this morning. I've kept an eye out for lizzy while i was farming beehive chips down there and got one kill no drop, but then this morning after getting all my road to aht urghan key items I saw no one was in the area and went to have a look.

Both parties of lizards were up so i rounded them all up and culled them. when they respawned lizzy was in the top group, killed her for a lizard tail... i was so disapointed and about to log out to go to work but i thought i'd try one more time as i've heard she can pop within 5 mins.
Well I rounded them all up again and culled them one more time, as i was running around counting to make sure they were all there. The very last lizard to spawn was lizzy again, this time got my boots.
Logged out happy as could be.

Don't give up, and try farming some of the bee drops while you're there.

I've camped Lizzy a couple time but I have never seen her. 4 or 5 days ago I camped her. I tryed the PH method for an hour. I then decided after reading all the posts here that I would Kill the Ph on both the east and west side of the tall Rock. After about 3 plus hours of Doing the PH method She Poped. She was in the place of the PH on the first set of lizzards on the wide scan. The Kill was simple with 47Thf/19Rng. I got three blows in and panicked..not for health but the drop... I decided to let it attack and like others I left the room. I blew out candles in the home put on my pajamas and came back after a minute or so. I scrolled up and there it was. Muffskat obtained Bounding Boots. 1/1


and they look gooooood

Long story short. First time I killed Lizzy was like 3.5 yrs ago, and I got Leaping boots first kill. Then I killed her again like 6 mnths later after selling my first pair and got them again. When I came back to the game they were R/EX, and finally 1/32 I got those damn boots ^^. Be patient, very very very patient.

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Edited, Jul 5th 2008 12:43am by ShaggFromIfrit

night b4 maintenance i thought id log out @ LL, hoping to be one of the first to log in (yeah right...what a mess that maintenance was eh) and claim him....but when i went down there, no one was there...i figured what the hell and started widescanning....both groups of 5 were up, so i killed the bottom one in the group of 5 east of the pillar....then the bottom one of the west group....waited....ph on east group came up again....then west group...after killing them i scanned again, and bam! LL is up in the east group...i hit flee, kill it and see in my log Bounding boots!!! went 1/1

so after im done telling my exploits to my ls mates, i widescan for the hell of it and sure enough, double pop, this time in the west group. a ls mate came rushing down and we killed it (still cant believe how empty the zone was that night) but no drop

anyway, if anyones camping this, for sure do the PH method, kill the bottom one in each group of 5, and if you dont get drop the first time, get rdy for a quick repop....good luck

As a Lizzy camping/claiming expert, I feel I should post.

First, /BST or /RNG? Completely unnecessary. Actually, if you depend on widescan, you'll lose to me. Going against campers using the supposed method? Just kill everything - It leaves them clueless.

Many are also clueless to the fact Lizzy can spawn twice, once in the upper area, one in the lower. I've killed her twice in nine minutes. So, if you don't get her, you know where to go next. Her spawn conditions can be strange, however - Only hunting in the upper section, she's spawned in the lower. So, if you don't see her after a while, she might be elsewhere.

Her spawn times are, on average, probably around an hour and a half. I'd come back to each area after an hour. Example times will be listed at the end of this post.
I've claimed this stupid lizard around 20 times - EVERY time I've camped them. You get used to the spawn times and locations of each enemy. You end up developing some kind of sense, I suppose. Frankly, you don't even need an insta-claim method - Probably around five of those claims were as a Monk... With no subjob. Being on your toes beats anything else.

Drop rate? Years ago, when the boots were still sellable, I got them my first try. Never sold them, never came back for profit. I was just glad to have the things.
When I came back to the game, they were rare/ex. Took me three kills to get the drop.
The third time? Fourteen. Yes, fourteen. Ten straight claims in one day, and she finally dropped on my last try of the night.

Spawn times for this day were as follows, (U) for the upper area, and (L) for the lower, respectively.
12:37 (U), 2:14 (L), 3:55 (L), 4:04 (U) (This is where I realized the two timers), 5:30 (U), 5:55 (L), 6:59 (U), 7:55 (L), 8:19 (U).

Be active, keep your eyes open, and tab like a **** if needed. :P
You'll always beat those that laughably stand around doing nothing, and expect it to just spawn in front of them.

Hope this helps someone out.
Best of luck hunting!

Edited, Nov 18th 2008 5:12pm by Aneirin

Just got mine 1/14 NO TH til the 14th run a 75THF friend helped

I was 1/10 when these boots dropped for me, which allowed me to sell my old Leaping Boots back to the AH for a hefty sum.

Getting the boots is frustrating, but they are well worth it. Keep at it, and GL to anyone camping LL.

Edited, Dec 1st 2007 4:58pm by Ozir

Camping this makes me want to quit this game.

0/26 (Not a lie)

Edited, Mar 30th 2010 7:22pm by Ceracyst

I know there is always the debate on the so called lucky items but I went 0/16 on LL and the 17th time I fought her I ate the 4-leaf bud and it dropped. So wether it's true or not who knows but coincidence makes believers ^^ Good luck guys!

I'm currently 2/2 on LL. Guess I'm just extremely lucky. Was camping her a while back with my WAR but got bored and logged. Came back 3 hours later and she was right beside me. Killed and dropped, go figure.

Second time I was duoing with a friend and we were around lvl 8, so it was a fight. Both of us ended up with red HP but we got the drop. 2/2

I feel sorry for the people who camp this endlessly or the horrifying stories I've heard, (0/13 on some), so just keep at it and hopefully you'll get the drop. Those boots are damn good and I still wear them on my BLU at lvl 42.