Vana'diel Bestiary: Tumbling Truffle  

I understand that the point of forums is to express you're opinion. And I understand that I post VERy rarely, so I don't really have a reputation... but...

Does every thread about an NM have to be FILLED with "boring," "doesn't drop enough," "too hard," "too easy," or some other random complaint?

I went down with my 30 WAR/ 15 THF to get the Stone Monument, and by chance happened upon this guy. 5 or 6 hits, and he was dead, and I am 1/1 with the Fungus Hat. Needless to say, I'm a happy camper...at least I would have been if I had ever had to actually camp this guy....lol

It took me about 10 mins to lottery spawn this NM, and right near the stone monument like most people said. Unfortunately I'm 0/1. :(

I'm 1/1 for these! took me about 45 minutes to camp it and it popped in the middle of the canyon.

Before camping this NM, be sure to leave a note telling your Linkshell and Friends where you're going. They may start wondering what you've been doing in La Theine for the past 4 or 5 days.

Reading the posts on here, I knew this NM had a long time (long, here, meaning at least an hour and a half) between pops, so I started off by killing PHs until it popped (~30 minutes) for no drop. I then went about reading for classes, exercising, and doing all sorts of boring RL stuff, logging in every 2 hours or so to kill 2-3 rounds of PHs. Thankfully, because the Truffle is so undercamped on Remora, this method worked perfectly and I never had to kill more than 4 rounds of PHs for it to pop. It's in a pretty remote area, all told, so I think that contributes to the lack of campers... which reminds me: It gets really lonely down there! In the course of my camping I ran into absolutely no competition for the NM and only encountered two other players running past on the Stone Monument quest. One even offered to Tele-Holla me out (assuming I was lost), so I really don't think adding TT to their list of kills is high on most players' list of priorities.

In regards to the spawns themselves: The only things that spawn in the canyon are the three Funguars, 2 Giant Wasps, and, when he feels like it, Tumbling Truffle. On all six of my pops, TT appeared on the hill just North of the ramp leading up to the Stone Monument (top edge of the circle), but I noticed that the Funguars will spawn all over the canyon including the ramp leading into it- so take Aksannyi's advice and rest at the entrance to the canyon so you don't miss it.

One last note- in the course of camping, I accumulated 5 stacks of Sleepshrooms, a stack of Dark Crystals, a stack of Beehive Chips, and a stack of Honey. So clear out your inventory before heading down here and do some minor farming while you wait!

(edit for grammar)

Edited, Apr 9th 2007 1:31pm by Beltenebros

just making this clear, sorry if you already knew but i didnt see anyone really specify.. this is a lottery spawn so you need to kill all the funguars around this canyon before it pops

I've killed this guy about 6 or 7 times and only got drop once. Drop doesn't sell for much but it's an easy NM to camp and it is hardly ever camped so not much competition

Came here.. and after like 5 mins.. it spawned. didnt get the drop though.. 0/1 on this NM

I'm almost positive that he is a Lotto Pop. I may be wrong, but I know when I fought him I had to kill everything around me just for him to show!!!

I was leveling my WHM so i can sub it for BLU when i saw the Fungus Beetle. I figured it would be the thing to drop the fungus hat so i ran back, changed to my 30 THF. Hopped ion a chocobo and rode back. 10 min later when i got there i killed it and only got some crappy shield, which i later learned was the main drop from it. I ran back to S Sandy and then decided i really wanted that hat so i read up on the info here and decided it should be fairly easy for me to camp this mob. I grab another chocobo and ride down to the Chasm which is empty. I was afraid someone just killed the punk but i decided to kill a few rounds anyways. I killed 1 round, waited 5 min and there he was. Knocked him out fairly difficultly (used SA/shadowwhatever and had about 2/3 of my health to start with but didnt have to use perfect dodge. and i only had my WHM equip and THF dagger) and got the hat and a shroom. so its been a pretty good day with the shield, the hat, and a travelers mantle. it spawned near the monument and wasnet camped at all so its a fairly easy NM to get. at least on Pandimonium

Ive Killed 10 NM's today 1 drop so far and this little @#!$ will not spawn for me. I've been here probly 8 times in the past month stayed for 6 hours one day and still havnt even seen it..

I was on Remora server earlier today and thought hmm I might go camp an NM so looked on here and noticed that this one drops "Fungus Hat" (which I had wanted for ages). So i decided to go check it out when I got there, there was a guy named Deceiver there aswell and he was just standing in the same place so I ran around killing all the mobs, then thought hmm i'll run up the other end.
And there he was sat there in all his glory! so i wooped his butt and WOOHOO got drop so thats 1/1 for me.


Edited, Wed Apr 12 12:49:00 2006

So yeah went and tried to camp this guy last night. One other guy was there and said that it popped once when he got there and he had been waiting for another 2 hours for the next. So I helped buff him - He was 24 Monk, I was 43 Rdm -

I waited at the one end of the canyon near the Monument and eventually he popped right up by the entrance to the monument. I took him out fairly easily, no drop just a shroom. The guy left being tired and said good luck. So I camped it for another 2 hours. Played around with my new NPC I just aquired before doing this.

After my NPC left, I was walking to the other end of the canyon, the exit part, and bam he pops. Killed again for no drop just two shrooms. My mission now is to get this damn hat or any NM for that reason to drop something. Thats all I got.