[Silversonic]

What's everyone's experience with this guy? I first camped him for about 1-2 weeks solid and ended up going 0/12 with TH1, didn't really have any competition but I did spend a lot of my time in Fei'Yin

Lately I've just been going there randomly in the chance that he'll pop.

Now I'm 0/16 and I'm getting slightly pissed off, do these things even exist? I don't even need them that badly but I still want them. I keep hearing people going 1/1 when it's unclaimed as they make their way to Eastern, and half the time they don't even need it.

[Jeho]

Welcome to the world if FFXI.

And had you spent that solid 1-2 weeks farming you probably could have picked up a pair from the AH.
That's what I did.

I'm sure you'll get the drop in three claims or less though.

[Seibar]

2/6 on E. Shadow bows

0/7 on W. Shadow h2h

2/4 on cassie earrings during that time xD

(all with th4, thf/dnc works nice for solo'n here, and violent flourish is decent claimer. nothing beats having a radar and a voke)

[pathwriter]

I have Retaliators, so they certainly exist. I spent something like a week down in Fei'yin, having to set my alarm to wake up at godawful hours of the night to maintain my death grip on the window. I think my overall total was something like 1 out of 12 or so claims. For what it's worth, I went down just before a maintenance and managed to log in to the thing already beating on me. That was an unpleasant few seconds, given I was Bard/Thief, but that was the kill that netted my Retaliators.

[Cruzandercerberus]

1/1 with a monk friend.

[Gov]

while camping Eastern Shadow I managed to get the Retaliators 3/14 or so, mind you I had others with me so they didn't go to waste =p so it would seem that you being at 0/16 now... well at this point you cant give up.. kinda like my exp camping for Vali's Bow after I had gone 0/10 for my friend.. I realized if i stop now then all the time I've put in so far will have been meaningless. however, I am 0/15+ on both Southern and Northern Shadows. as mentioned before welcome to FFXI lol

[Taint]

1/1 DRK/SAM solo

About 35 minutes of camping

Now to lvl RNG

[Silversonic]

0/21 <_>

Buying them would be pointless, like a guy said above, it would make all the time I've put in to this worthless, and I can't stop until I have them. Not only that, it's an unnecessary 800k I have to spend, I don't really need these and the only reason I want it is for the occasion that I need to use my MNK in a level cap - Pulling the Plug, it would come very handy in, but I'm not prepared to spend that money when I can do it just as easily with another weapon, Retaliators would help a great deal however.

[Seibar]

ya, its not that i at all -need- these h2hs, but it would be fun to have them for situations.
The counter+ would be fun for soloing i suppose, idk now after camping them for a few weeks i havent gone back in a month.
At least if i level rng ill have a nice bow!?

[Seifthelame]

Drop rates on ffxi are balls; never camp an NM unless you enjoy camping them or like to bitch about drop rates.

What the person said about farming is true, you can farm for 2~3 weeks and have enough to buy just about any item on AH. (depending on your level, anything 75+ can farm stuff easy {even bard}).

NM camping is like gambling, you win and you lose. Something you only do every now and then when you have nothing better to do.

[Silversonic]

1/25!




Oh and if you're wondering about the gear, it didn't re-equip after DK.

[pathwriter]

Congratulations.