Sozu Rogberry pop item

[Murphie]

Yeah, everything I've read on BG has been someone saying that someone else told them that they didn't get it. No verifiable claims.

Even then, it could be that the drop rate is just 99% rather than 100.

[Shinhiryu_Kage]

I wonder if the person posting that they didn't get the item is that same guy who, when you go to Garlaige Citadel to get the coffer, is the one that never brings, oils and always aggros and dies or falls in the holes and aggros and dies prematurely to getting to the gate.......... w

[Zempten]

Well I got mine ^ ^

[Shinhiryu_Kage]

Oh... [Congratulations!] Omedetou~ salut!~ (don't know the german, probably something with alot of g's and k's in it.)

[Murphie]

No K's, but there is a G, yes.

[711rocks]

Got the latern after 4 kills, gonna kill him after work tonight.
On old sk00l S0zu I went 1/1 on the first instance I was there with a nin "friend" of mine. He kicked me from the party and sold it for 14 mil. ^^ Gotta love ffxi players huh? This update pwn't.

[Randwolf]

Done!
80-something Tonberries for a lantern. TK dropped from Sozu.

RMT were absolutely monopolizing zone. I guess they were trying to keep people from getting the lantern so they would have to buy the TK from them. And for some strange reason, when they had a claim, I kept accidentally aggro'ing the Bonze Marberry and loosing hate when he was in their midst. The best was an Everybody's Rancor on an RMT for over 17K. But I felt bad, because it was an accident.

But hey what can I say, if it weren't for their monopolizing the zone, I wouldn't have had to take risks pulling the Pursuer from the Bonze Marberry room.

Good luck getting your lantern and TK. Price has dropped considerably but for those who like to get their own gear, it can be quite a lot of camping and killing.

Plus side: Seals and experience points.
Negative: Asshat RMT who can take a fun thing S/E intended for PC's and ruin it with their cheating and greed.

BTW -
1) Bonze Marberry is not "true sight" and will loose aggro with Hide.
2) Dismayers' Elementals will see through your Hide, so Flee or fight them.
3) Clear your hate periodically. If you have a non-Pursuer, you can CFH and no hate will be added to your total when you kill it. I saw mostly RMT and a few players who got smacked with a Grudge that killed them. Bonze Marberry does Rancor which is way more damage for each Tonberry you have killed (use caution if you decide to kill him. Plus he loves -ga's so "goodbye, shadows")
4) Clear hate once you get lantern before fighting Sozu
5) Have Hi-Pots with you so a Throat Stab won't possibly make you loose your Sozu fight (I had to come kill a Sozu for a player who died. Fortunately, RMT in the room had gone AFK so they didn't claim it when he died)

Good hunting!

[Randwolf]

...simple solution people stop buying gil its really that easy no rmt's then , i stopped myself from saying the nubs need to stop buying gil cause its the big dynamis sky ls's that buy most of it end rant

I totally agree. No market means the product ceases to be produced. However, RMT are also practicing market economics. TK had gotten down to 380K then the flow of TK's stopped: RMT have placed a strangle-hold on the Pursuers so that they can have more influence on the number of TK's available and the price went back up to a million gil. I don't think it will hold there but RMT are attempting to make as much gil off this as possible before the market dries up.

But, again, using market economics, reducing the flow/amount of the RMT's product which is sold externally for RL money will push up the RL price. Price goes up, market which can afford to buy it gets smaller.

So, to diminish RMT, attempt to reduce the external market by

1) Discouraging players from buying gil,
2) By making the product more expensive and thus reduce demand by excluding players with less disposable income from buying,
3) Reduce RMT's ability to gain items to sell for gil by incapaciting their drones,
4) Slow RMT's ability to gain items/gil and raise their overhead by removing drones from the game and forcing them to spend time leveling new characters,
5) Reduce the value of items by introducing Rare/Ex versions and reducing demand for non-Rare/Ex versions,
6) Excluding (or actively hampering) PC's who are known gil buyers from receiving any assistance from other PC's

I'm sure there are other things we could do. FFXI was designed as a "closed" economy so that accomplishments were based upon effort exerted within game and external wealth was purposely designed to be excluded. It's why I decided to play the game. I wanted to play a game where my external wealth had no bearing on the game. Sure, people with more spare time (time = money) can achieve more in game but people with any logical sense knew that when they agreed to abide by the TOS.

[Murphie]

I wouldn't take too much pride in agreeing with anything he says.

[Omni]

replace greedy rmt's with pesant asians that will do anything for $$$ working in a rmt factory prob beats working in the nike factory though
blame is with se an when half of the gm's in the game work for rmt its just gonna be a never ending circle of coruption that it is
simple solution people stop buying gil its really that easy no rmt's then , i stopped myself from saying the nubs need to stop buying gil cause its the big dynamis sky ls's that buy most of it end rant
anyway back on topic TK hmmm THF is gimp who gives a fuck about a TK or THF
..................................... flee

dont forget to take your a.d.d meds.

[na2tt300zx]

Well i FINALLY got mine after about 60 kills! just happy to get this over with dont wanna sell it just use it for my thf ^^

[eticket109]

Well i FINALLY got mine after about 60 kills! just happy to get this over with dont wanna sell it just use it for my thf ^^

'grats! good to see you got it. you were down there a while. I need to get one for a friend of mine but haven't got around to it yet. oh well, I got him a P. Harpe so he can live without TK for a bit. lol

[na2tt300zx]

damn help me get a P. Harpe O.o