Diablos Is Here

[Grissom]

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Hey does this mean we need to do a couple PMs to get access to The Shrouded Maw?

Guessing so. I'm on 6-4 at the moment so hopefully I'm good lol.

[Kittyneko]

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Well I think i can access Pso'Xja.. but getting to The Shrouded Maw will be a %@%@%# ><. I hope it will be fine though.

[Kardor]

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Well one thing is for Sure everyone how wants him should get in a pt as long as the hype is hot otherweise it will get expensive^^

[Rai-Jin]

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well if you need 3-5 to get him see it this way:

you want have it hard finding a party for CoP now LOL

[tdh]

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In a way, this is good for everybody. EVERYBODY will be doing Promy/CoP missions now. So for those of us having problems getting groups together, more people will be needing it.

I've been trying for a week to get these done, and can't make it happen. Tried last night, and we wiped before we even got there. ><

[Karinya]

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Ok, having recently lost to him, here's some solid info:

You need PM 3-5 complete to get the quest. It is from a taru in the Rhinostery in Windurst Waters.

Battlefield is in the same place as it is for PM3-5. You need to go through the 40 cap area, but you can stealth through naked. It is mostly sound but with a few snowballs.

The battle itself is uncapped, 6 members, 30 minutes. Diabolos uses several (probably all) of the abilities listed as bloodpacts, as well as Cacodemonium - AoE curse (not big enough to hit the whole battlefield). Camisado is still knockback, so watch your positioning. He hit the PLD75 for ~80-150, not counting shield blocks; his attack speed is not that high. I don't think we saw any double attacks although that could just be luck. He does not have an added effect damage like the normal avatars.

Nether Blast does 550+ damage, ignores defense (since it's a nuke) and goes through Utsusemi. It and Nightmare are the big threats IMO. He also casts Sleepga (II I think it was), Bio 3, Dispel, Drain (for 200+) and Aspir. It will be difficult to erase bio3 because of Ultimate Terror, which puts a lot of separate stat down effects on you making it very likely that erase will hit the wrong one.

We weren't able to silence him (not sure if he is immune or we were just unlucky), but stun landed every time, even from RDM/DRKs with E dark magic. He can also be paralyzed, slowed and gravitied. He resists blind since it's dark based, but flash works.

Reportedly he does the tile dropping thing like in PM3-5 (we didn't live long enough to see) - there are diremite dominators down there now.

300% Spirits Within for 519 barely nudged his HP - no more than 5%, if that. So he has 10k+ HP. DRK was hitting for 20ish (and once 0) with Cross Reaper for 79. (I thought later that he might have prebuffed Noctoshield and/or Dream Shroud. Dispelling him at the start of the fight may be useful.) I tried a fire 3 after the tanks went down and it did 200ish - presumably a half resist.

We didn't get him far enough down for him to 2hr, so I can't comment on that.

As far as formulating a strategy that can win - it's going to be tough. Kiting is out of the question between the lack of room and the floor-breaking. A pure manaburn wiped while we were trying to get in, although I don't have details. A stun order for nightmare seems essential, as well as keeping HP high to survive Nether Blast, but as far as dealing damage, I don't know what's effective against him.

Some people on my LS saw people with him, though, so *someone* has won.

[Gobo]

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With 4SMN NIN and RDM/BLM we were able to get him down to 25%. Chaotic strike's stun kicked in both times I was able to use it. Nightmare the only real evil in the BC, other than that he is pretty easy. due to # of people we gave up lol

[Kardor]

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Would there be a slight chance that a Lvl 65 Smn can get into a pt to kill him?

[Kalel]

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Lol how ppl keep saying diablos wont be a summon over and over. He too big etc. Well, again I was right in my thinking that he would be next summon and he is. Lionx are you in Riverne Site Area 01 yet? Let me know if ya ae need ppl to do it. Or need me I would like to get good party set up. Last parties I was in didn't have ninja tank and we kept getting killed by mammets. I can't wait to get him. Lol 75 SMN and I gotta wait till I fight him first in COP before I can fight him for smn.

Lol, Diablos is gonna be harder than Fenrir, so 70+ is probably a must. So if a party wants to chance it hey you probably can.

[Gwynn]

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Actually, I was talking to a taru SMN who was showing Diabolos off in Qufim about the fight and he said that Fenrir > Diabolos. Dunno if he was on the mark though.

[Omniblast]

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6 members of my LS already have Diablos T_T. They ditched me and did him without me! /cry /cry
One of them is a Galka SMN too!

[Karinya]

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Well, I saw a lot of people coming out of that BC dead last night, but then, you see that at Fenrir sometimes, too. And since anyone who tried him last night did so basically blind, it's impressive that anyone was able to win at all. Once more information on the fight and possible strategies becomes available, he may be beaten more often, we'll see.

Diabolos's physical attacks are not nearly as strong as Fenrir's, but he has some very dangerous magic (Nightmare and Nether Blast as well as Bio 3, Sleepga 2, Drain, Dispel, Aspir). It will take a different approach to beat Diabolos than it will to beat Fenrir, but that doesn't necessarily make him easier or harder (of course, if you don't know how to beat him, that makes it hard!)

[Gwynn]

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The guy I was talking to said they used the typical RDM/DRK, 5 BLM combo and it was a cakewalk.

[LadyPeorth]

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Fenrir is harder than Diabolos. Fought and lost to Diabolos 5 times the day he came out, and I can pretty much say he only has one move that hurts: Nightmare.

That's it...as long as you have stunners who know their first priority is to stun, you can win this BC with just about any PT. Diabolos has around 8k HP (our Light SC + MB managed to kick off half his HP from the get go) and is of course Darkness based. He can cast Blind, Blindga, Dispel, Dispelga, Bio 3, Drain, Aspir, and Sleepga II (IMPORTANT DETAIL: If you do get Nightmared and he casts Sleepga 2, Sleepga 2 overwrites Nightmare...so if you have a poison potion on, you'll wake up). Camisado can knock you back into diremites...so position carefully, and does a fair amount of damage. Netherblast is kinda random for damage...doing anywhere from an impressive 700...to a piddly 149. His 2hr randomly removes 30%-75% of your current HP (most of the time at 50%) and he can use Chainspell.

Make sure to have either a RDM/DRK with your BLM or 2 BLM or 1 DRK 1 BLM to stun Nightmare and you're good. 3 Stunners is a little much, but certainly the safest bet. It is IMPORTANT to note...Diabolos has crap magic resistance. He takes almost full damage from any spell except Dark based, so you can manaburn him pretty easily

[UnnamedGalka]

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Other than his Nightmare attack, Diabolos is a complete pansy.

Took a small hiatus from my break to do this with my LS.

5xBLM and RDM/DRK. He didn't even know what hit him.