Notorious Monsters: Bomb Queen

Last Saturday, a bunch of TheUltimates assembled in Ifrit's Cauldron, hoping to get five Bomb Queen Rings. This ring, which has +75HP on it, is a 100% drop from the Bomb Queen, which is spawned by trading three Bomb Queen Ashes and one Bomb Queen Core to a ??? spot in Ifrit's Cauldron. Armageddon, Tsakiki, Jarbit and Kojita all had pop items, and Lumikumi managed to get them as well before we finished the run (Jarbit had extra Bomb Queen Cores).

We had quite a few helpers, some of whom were hoping we might get Avengers to drop. Meshe, Goto, Frostwitch, Pokeil, Itera, Darsonavin, Lucrezia, Luiss, and Theodoric all helped us out. Lucrezia was there as her BST75, and used the local fauna as pets. The fights went very well. The Bomb Queen keeps generating "babies": Bomb Prince, Bomb Princess, and Bomb Bastard (we didn't see any of the Bomb Bastards). We had the BLMs ready to nuke the Bomb Princes, while the Bomb Princesses were taken care of by the melee. I was the nominal tank for the fights, but Itera usually ended up doing most of the tanking.

The Bomb Queen has about 50,000 HP, so the fights took a bit of time, but Lucrezia kept an eye out for Volcanic Gas spawns to send a pet after, and we all whitled away on the Bomb Queen. We only had a couple of deaths from Self Destruct I believe - Goto and Darsonavin were the victims if I remember correctly. It was a fun series of fights, and we now have 5 happy owners of Bomb Queen Rings. We didn't get any of the Avengers, which has led us to speculate that they're somehow tied to the Bomb Bastard.

It's nice to have finally added the ring to my collection of things to give me more HP!