[Shiggles]

After doing a wee bit of lurking on other forums and Google searching I have only seen a post or two asking about rare spawns (named, non-boss mobs), but have yet to find an answer.

Does anyone know if they exist? Or are there just normal and boss mobs? If anyone has found any, do they drop better than average loot? How can you determine whether it's a rare spawn or not?

Also I'd like to add that cake is delicious. :3

[Sparx]

The exist, not that much harder then normal mobs, you can tell just by the names.

Some do drop good stuff, but some are quest mobs and aren't special. Most non-quest mobs that are named drop pretty good greens.

There are a few or even countable on two hands in each zone.

[Auchiz0r]

Arent this mobs usually harder, like a elite mob around normal ones?

[Sparx]

Auchiz0r, on 09 June 2009 - 06:20 PM, said:

Arent this mobs usually harder, like a elite mob around normal ones?

Some are elite, like in the Krall or Mau area yes. But the area is elite themselves. But in the normal areas approximatly a handfull of elites between normal mobs at most.

From what I know on the Elyos side is that in the Shrine near Pilgrim Respite, there are two normal named mob, dropping damn good green items (level 17-20). While in the Dukaki area there is an elite mob that drops a blue level 20.. (level 14 area) while on cantas coast there's a sea turtle dropping a blue item as well.. while I kill it as a gladiator (20) with losing 10% HP at max... while the mob is level 19.. just big but not elite.

So if you look at it like that, it's not always a lot harder =)

[Shiggles]

Sparx, on 09 June 2009 - 06:07 AM, said:

The exist, not that much harder then normal mobs, you can tell just by the names.

Some do drop good stuff, but some are quest mobs and aren't special. Most non-quest mobs that are named drop pretty good greens.

There are a few or even countable on two hands in each zone.

Sparx, on 09 June 2009 - 09:30 AM, said:

Auchiz0r, on 09 June 2009 - 06:20 PM, said:

Arent this mobs usually harder, like a elite mob around normal ones?

Some are elite, like in the Krall or Mau area yes. But the area is elite themselves. But in the normal areas approximatly a handfull of elites between normal mobs at most.

From what I know on the Elyos side is that in the Shrine near Pilgrim Respite, there are two normal named mob, dropping damn good green items (level 17-20). While in the Dukaki area there is an elite mob that drops a blue level 20.. (level 14 area) while on cantas coast there's a sea turtle dropping a blue item as well.. while I kill it as a gladiator (20) with losing 10% HP at max... while the mob is level 19.. just big but not elite.

So if you look at it like that, it's not always a lot harder =)

Awesome! Can't wait to find one, I'll be keeping my eyes peeled in the cluster fuck that is the NACB.

Thanks Sparx!

[stykxs]

I found one in Poeta during the beta weekend that dropped some pretty hawt greens.

[Auchiz0r]

any clue on the spawn time of these mofos? I get a feeling you gotta be really lucky to catch one alive

[Cyllarus]

Some like Chankaki, the lvl 16 elite, in the Dukaki Settlement, only appear at night. I've seen plenty of them and know where to find some but haven't seen them yet. Their respawn times aren't really too long.

I usually just channel switch farm them when I'm in their areas. Luckily they're putting in a timer on the channel change to keep people like me from exploiting that so effectively. The mobs are harder than normal mobs (by very little) and they drop very nice items.

I know there's Aloof Tiara, lvl 4 elite, on the island in poeta.
Darkbeard Fauron, lvl 6 elite, to the right of the road before you reach the Forest Protector.
There's also an elite Sparky somewhere before you get to Pernos but I've never seen it.

I've seen and know of more but I really don't feel like going through them right now or ever actually... Maybe that'll help some low lvl people. If anyone else doesn't mind sharing loot then they can give some locations...I'm going to have to be stingy with the rest for now.

[Shiggles]

Cyllarus, on 30 June 2009 - 02:45 AM, said:

Their respawn times aren't really too long.

Darkbeard Fauron, lvl 6 elite, to the right of the road before you reach the Forest Protector.
There's also an elite Sparky somewhere before you get to Pernos but I've never seen it.

I've seen and know of more but I really don't feel like going through them right now or ever actually... Maybe that'll help some low lvl people. If anyone else doesn't mind sharing loot then they can give some locations...I'm going to have to be stingy with the rest for now.

Thanks for the info =)

I did managed to run into Mr. Darkbeard the other day. Also there's a rabbit in the first forest area of the asmoes starting area. I think he's called like silver-foot or something I can't really recall (I ran into him in the last beta in June). Dropped a green pair of cloth boots and a belt.

I found one the other day in the Dukaki Settlement. He was Chief someone or another, at a hut just due north of the cauldrons. A cleric managed to get to him before I could. Not sure if it was the Chankaki or not.

From what I noticed with Darkbeard, the respawn time was somewhere between 2-4 hours. Not sure if this is the same for every rare (probably isn't). Also I only checked back about once every 45 minutes or so for him. He could have spawned and been killed by someone else and spawned again. However, I'm greatful it's not the spawn once every 12 hours like in WoW.

[Cocowoushi]

I found a named mob when I was grinding at level 24 - solo'd it pretty easily and got a nifty necklace (which could be used at 28 =( ) I lurked around and grinding for the rest of my level but didn't see it spawn again. I don't know if someone got to it when I wasn't looking but I wish I knew the time on it.

[Anuxinamoon]

Man I haven't found any named mobs. Actually I think keisei, giggles and I killed one. I didn't know if it was named or not but it went down pretty fast

[Tanoshii]

Some named crab killed my ass outside Verteron Citadel. I literally ran out of town and it was right there. Boom 2 popped me D:

[Shiggles]

I know the crab your talking about, I've killed it a couple times last beta, but it didn't drop anything other than greys for me. I'm not quite sure the purpose of the crab (I haven't found any quests for it). All the rares I've found (5 of them between asmo & elyo) drop at least a white, if not a green & sometimes a blue (Lonely Mepisto I'm looking at you). It could be a rare, but I doubt it. I think he's just there to piss people off doing the 4-5 quests in the area. :/

[Tanoshii]

Shiggles, on 30 July 2009 - 02:37 AM, said:

I know the crab your talking about, I've killed it a couple times last beta, but it didn't drop anything other than greys for me. I'm not quite sure the purpose of the crab (I haven't found any quests for it). All the rares I've found (5 of them between asmo & elyo) drop at least a white, if not a green & sometimes a blue (Lonely Mepisto I'm looking at you). It could be a rare, but I doubt it. I think he's just there to piss people off doing the 4-5 quests in the area. :/

Yeah I didn't even know he was elite or whatever. After he raped me, I learned that the number of } at the end of the health bar determine its relative strength. I think >.>

[Anuxinamoon]

Tanoshii, on 30 July 2009 - 07:40 PM, said:

Shiggles, on 30 July 2009 - 02:37 AM, said:

I know the crab your talking about, I've killed it a couple times last beta, but it didn't drop anything other than greys for me. I'm not quite sure the purpose of the crab (I haven't found any quests for it). All the rares I've found (5 of them between asmo & elyo) drop at least a white, if not a green & sometimes a blue (Lonely Mepisto I'm looking at you). It could be a rare, but I doubt it. I think he's just there to piss people off doing the 4-5 quests in the area. :/

Yeah I didn't even know he was elite or whatever. After he raped me, I learned that the number of } at the end of the health bar determine its relative strength. I think >.>

I remember that damm crab. He 2 shotted my ranger after I killed a whole bunch of mini crabs (lodonites?)

I was like OMFG WHERE IS ITS WEAK POINT?

[Everybody Loves Ramen]

Granted, I'm a newb, but last beta I found one of the Elite non-bosser's in the cemetary (asmo side) I think the only difference is that he had a name and was much larger than most mobs around.

This Isn't a hack, but i farmed him for about 15+ greens. What I did was kill him then cycle to the next channel and repeat. I didn't sell the greens but extracted enchantment stones... got to +9 tried for +10 but ended up at +7 then eventually back to +8. True story.

On the downside.. I pretty sure there is a limit to how many times you can get greens from these mobs or something.. cuz eventually it stopped droping anything and I was still the same level as it.

[Tanoshii]

lol double post. But yeah, because of people doing exactly what your doing in channel hoping, they're putting a "cooldown" on changing channels, to discourage people from doing it.

[Maka_Rice]

How does this whole changing channels things affect the mobs?

[Tanoshii]

Maka_Rice, on 03 August 2009 - 06:55 AM, said:

How does this whole changing channels things affect the mobs?

It effects the player by not allowing you to change channels again until a certain amount of time has passed.

[Jest]

Tanoshii, on 03 August 2009 - 08:01 AM, said:

Maka_Rice, on 03 August 2009 - 06:55 AM, said:

How does this whole changing channels things affect the mobs?

It effects the player by not allowing you to change channels again until a certain amount of time has passed.

So it doesn't really keep you from farming channels as much as makes it way less convenient.