Armenius
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You're right about that. I farmed the Chaos Eaters before, but it is one of the reasons I hate farming in this game. They actually have a decent drop rate for slabs with 410 discovery, but there are only 4 per run and they're so far apart. After a couple times I stopped killing the one in the mud. IIRC I got 2 slabs in 2 hours and a lot of chunks. Each run for the top 2 and 1 above the mud takes about 3 minutes, so in 2 hours that is 120 kills for a drop rate of 1 in 60, or 1.67%. The drop rate for regular slabs from the Darkwraiths is around half that.low level trophy runs are easy, you just stay hollow. Red slabs supposedly drop from the chaos eater things, but... they are not a good farm. I think the DLC was supposed to include a red slab, where you have to bring light, but instead it is a chunk. That was probably a mistake. Oh well. Pyro gloves supposedly you can get 2 per run if you drop yours before talking to the pyro guy, but unsure.
Anyway found this but it disappeared before I could kill it...
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That is one of the vagrants we were talking about earlier. This one is a Good Vagrant. They appear in a random world when someone drops certain items and its resulting drift bag was bypassed by a player 10 or more times. They behave like Crystal Lizards, so they will disappear if you don't kill it in time. If a Vagrant disappears it will spawn in another player's world, so you won't get another chance unlike Crystal Lizards. A black one like this will drop some decent items if you kill it. I have yet to encounter one of these, myself, let alone a drift bag.
There are also Evil Vagrants that look like crabs. They appear in the world when a player with 5 or more soft humanity dies. We were talking about these earlier. If you run into them you have to watch out because their spine barrage can kill you in one attack if all the projectiles hit you. I recently ran into another one while trying to kill Hellkite on NG+. I noticed it at the last second behind me near the bonfire and was able to escape with my life. With 1800 HP and 380 total defense I was left with about 100 HP after being hit. It was killed by Hellkite's breath attack.
http://darksouls.wikidot.com/vagrant