I still don't see why jug pets are considered useless - a BST in my 5-1 party used an Antillion Familiar to fight off the Ancient Warriors, and it still had about 30% by the time the fight was over. Without Reward or Familiar.

You only need Windy fame for the new avatar Diabolos, or CoP missions done too?

Edited, Wed Dec 14 09:20:46 2005

I've never been in there, but does this mean that the Diabolos fight is also at a level 40 cap?

Hapernack's Guide to the New Diabolos! Version 1.2
Info: This guide is subdivided into the quest followed by the rewards possible. It will be updated within a day into a very comprehensive guide, but here is what I have so far.

1. The Quest
2. The Fight (Realizing the Power of your Dreams)
3. The Rewards

Where is this quest?
Location: Windurst Waters Rhinostery Left hub. (J-8)

NPC Name: Kerutoto. Level of fame needed is mostly likely at least an amount in which you can get Fenrir.

Name of Quest: Waking Dreams
Description: Kerutoto will tell you he's having trouble meditating in peace because of the celestial avatar, Diabolos.

The Fight

Location: Go in the tower nearest the Outpost in Beaucidine Glacier. Lv 40 cap one. Travel through Pso'Xja following the Red, Black, Red, Black portals until you reach The Shrouded Maw.

Description: There will most likely be a line at this point, make sure to wait your turn in line and don't cut ^^. The battlefield is called "Waking Dreams". The battlefield is identical to the CoP battle of Diabolos and the tile breaks still apply. He is vulnerable to Paralyze, but not Silence. He spams Sleepga II, as well as his Blood Pacts. About 60% or so he'll attempt Nightmare which will sleep and BADLY Bio the party. He will continue to spam Nightmare until it goes through, so stun this when possible or for at least as long as possible. His deadliest combo would be Nightmare >> Ruinous Omen which he loves to do. When he hits 50%, he'll unleash Ruinous Omen, his 2hr which is dark elemental damage, and will bring you down to about 10% of your health. Unfortunately in this small arena, there's no avoiding his 2hr unless you're in 2 corners which isn't recommended since they can fall out.

Strategy Warning!!!: NIN or Tank of whatever, BEWARE. Diabolos also loves to use Nether Blast which is a long-ranged attack of Darkness Elemental damage. The damage is usually fairly sizeable (500-600) but it will pierce through shadows completely if you have blink tanks. Take care when he uses this or he can cause an untimely death.

Suggested setup: If you do a manaburn, the strategy we used was:
-Entry.
-Buff with Stoneskin + Blink + Aquaveil (very important).
-When you reach the ledge before dropping, have all BLM unleash whichever would be the strongest -aga III spell without using Thundaga III (which is usually the strongest one BLM buff up with merits), usually Firaga or Blizzaga depending on weather or day.
-He'll pull you in immediately after the initial wave of nukes, spam stuns as soon as you are sucked down, as he will most likely be trying to use Nightmare immediately. Spam your nukes immediately after your stuns (most likely Thundaga III).
-If all goes well and your stuns were fast enough to prevent almost certain destruction, He should be dead after only two waves. After 2 successes and over 40 runs of him, I've been able to pretty accurately place his HP at 10,000-11,000. So if your mages are able to deal at least 1k dmg each to him per wave, he won't be able to drain any HP from you in the time he's allotted and thusly die.

Other setups: I'd highly recommend a Ninja tank. I'm not sure that PLDs could take the punishment unless there was some strong Black Mage Power to speed the fight along. Make sure you posess a strong skillchain and a few strong DD in order to take his HP down quickly and effectively. Upon entry (and after buffs), strike Diabolos with paralyze and move to your appropriate tiles (preferrably ones that won't fall). Continue to strike him down until about 50%, then you should start buffing up and bracing for his Ruinous Omen + Nightmare combo. If you can make it past his 2hr, then you should immediately begin massive all-out dmg dealing to finish him off quickly because he will continue to spam Nightmare from 60% onward.

Tips: At all costs, try to stay awake, if he sleeps you, its probably going to wipe your party out. Poison Potions will not prevent Nightmare's sleep.

Note on Manaburning:
As it is with many parts of CoP, BLM are absolutely prime for this. In this battle, you're going to fall in love with stunning and the simple ability to allign our magic with the elements to take him out quickly and effectively. My setup was: 75BLM, 75BLM, 75BLM, 75BLM, 75BLM, 75SMN. The SMN summoned her avatar and continued to bloodpact while us 5 mages stood back with our stoneskin, blink, and aquaveil (very useful) on and continued to -aga III him to death which only took 1 volley of Blizzaga IIIs (Double Ice Weather on Iceday) and 1 volley of Thundaga IIIs (A BLM staple element). I can only theorize about a 6xSMN setup, but I would imagine that they simple could not deal the damage necessary to finish Diabolos off before he does too much damage (A SMN Astral Flow vs Diabolos averaged 1100-1300dmg on the correct elemental day, tested on 17 different SMNs Lv 75, where as a BLM75, I was able to deal 1400dmg in Blizzaga III on elemental day, and 1600dmg in Thundaga III on elemental day. That and, I can stun and SMNs can't.). This is still open to debate, as many parties are still just managing to defeat Diabolos and success stories are still difficult to find.

After you have completed your fight, you will pop out behind the Maw. Make sure you /shout your victory to all the others in the other side for good measure :P (taru dance if applicable).
Key Item Obtained: Whisper of Dreams

The rewards: Return to Kerutoto in the Rhinostery and turn in your whisper. You will have several options as usual of a Diabolos's Pole, Diabolos's Ring, Diabolos's Earring, Diabolos's Torque, Gil, or a pact with him (you MIGHT want the pact first!!).

Diabolos's Pole:
(Staff)All Races
DMG:57 Delay:402
Dark Weather: Enhances effect of "Drain" and "Aspir" Additional Effect: Slow
Lv 75 All Jobs

Diabolos's Ring:
[Ring]All Races
On Darksdays:
MP-15% Dark Magic Skill+15
Lv 65 All Jobs

Diabolos's Earring:
[Ear]All Races
Accuracty +3
Dark Weather: Accuracy -3 Magic Accuracy +2
Lv 65 All Jobs

Diabolos's Torque:
[Neck]All Races
Ranged Accuracy +8
Dark Weather:
Ranged Accuracy -8 Ranged Attack +8
Lv 70 All Jobs

Gil: Unknown amount (Possibly in the 10-20k range)

Pact: Ability to Summon Diabolos
His Blood Pacts:

Lv 1: Camisado - Deals Physical Damage

Lv ??: Somnolence - Damages Target + Gravity Effect

Lv ??: Nightmare - Deals Darkness Element Damage that Sleeps all targets within the Area of Effect and Gradually Reduces Their HP.

Lv ??: Ultimate Terror - Reduces Attributes of Foes within the Area Of Effect. (If used when links have occured, it will dispel those links from your main claimed monster.).

Lv ??: Noctoshield - Gives Players within the Area of Effect the effect of "Phalanx".

Lv 65: Dream Shroud - Enhances the Magic Atk and Def of Players Within the Area of Effect. Tests have shown this bonus to be +10 to Magic Atk and Def.

Lv ??: Nether Blast - Deals a Ranged Attack of Darkness Elemental damage. (Pierces through shadows).

Lv 1: (Astral Flow) Ruinous Omen - Unlike most Astrals which simply deal large dmg, this Blood Pact will reduce the HP bars of its foes by a random % (Damage towards that of very HP-heavy foes is still yet to be determined. Whether if a % of a large foe would be sizeable; say 20,000hp, if the effect would indeed take off that much.). Percentages towards normal enemies have ranged from 25% to 90% in tests.

I have screenshots of all the reward items, and can send them in if none are available to allakhazam yet.

When the Quest is added to the quest archive, Can I request someone move this guide to the post part of it? Thank you-^^

(Please Rate This Guide and give me any suggestions of what I can do to improve it)

*Edit*
Version 0.7 additions: Added the Diabolos rewards description section, fixed some simple grammar issues.
Version 0.8: Fixed some minor issues, Added Small Note on Manaburn from personal experience.
Version 1.0: Added setup suggestion sections.
Version 1.1: Added Blood Pacts and Descriptions with results of some tests. Also added an additional warning in the strategy.
Version 1.2: Minor fixes to the guide. Included additional Blood Pact findings.

Edited, Fri Dec 16 18:45:18 2005

Well now that XP isn't reduced for using "Call"ed pets, can you imagine a 6 man BST party or getting an invite as a BST now.

I want to coin the phrase "Jug Burn Party"

Edited, Tue Dec 13 12:18:01 2005

I want diablos !!!! so could anyone could plz tell me how to get him

Found couple small problems with the new MPK system.

First i was pulling a crab in Qufim earlier, i got out ahead of it so it wouldn't hit me, it lost its lock on me and disappeared before it got back to camp or i could go back to it. Guess all pullers have to let themselves get smacked a few times just to do their jobs (more wasted shihei u.u).

Second thing was when another person was pulling, he agroed a banshee and brought it back to camp. As i understand it the banshee should have have disappeared after he died, but it stayed where it was, did nothing for a few seconds, then starting smaking another member who didnt do anything to it. Am i misreading the literature or what?

P.S. Although half the pt died because of that banshee, the taru that raised us was pimpin Diabolos so it all good ^^
*smacks himself for not getting a picture*

For those of you that are telling the BST players to stop crying and adapt, you obviously never played BST. Jug pets are too weak. Jug pets can’t even solo Even match. Also just like all jobs the higher you get the less places you have to level. Because of this update certain BST leveling area’s are now ruined. Here is an example of one area.

Bostaunieux Oubliette.

Bst has to grab a blob or funnel bat and run to camp. Once at camp he fights monsters, releases and keep reusing that pet for the entire leveling time so we use same pet for about 3 hours. Now Leveling in this area is close to impossible. This strategy is used almost in every camp past lv 45.


Bst need at least 2 pets to kill 1 VT monster. Now we will probably need like 5 pets because we will have to let pet die if we cant find a new pet fast enough. Finding 5 pets wont be easy since we level in area’s that there are xp parties. Now that we will mostly likely just let pets die This will also slow down leveling parties in these areas because we usually release and swap back and forth between 2 pets. Now we will use all available pets meaning parties leveling in the area we are in which are usually 5 to 10 levels lower then us wont have many monsters to xp off of.



Unless SE makes Jug Pets more useful they just ruined the BST job. BST might still be a functional Job but leveling will be DEAD slow. SE needs to shorten or remove the recast time on “Call Beast” ability, 3 minutes recast is too high for a pet that only last like 45 seconds against an XP monster. BST only use jugs when in trouble and need to buy some time while looking for another pet.


Thanks SE.
You F%@k up RNG !! So I take up BST and you F@%K up BST.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news6259.shtml

well at least they know that something is wrong and is trying to fix it. Just thought I'd say something so we don't all panic at once and march on their HQ.(anybody have the address?)

POL was working fine before the update, but after I updated I couldn't get back in...

After I log in to my account, POL keeps crashing before it loads the menu with games, navigator, etc. I've checked the files of POL and FFXI and there was nothing wrong with them, apparently.

Is anyone else having this problem? Should I reinstall? Thanks in advance.

Just wondering if anyone has had an error with a dll file since the last update. I can log into POL fine, but after it checks for my mail i get an error and POL is shut down..

i guess im gonna use goback or restore. seeming how no one else has written to this. and i'm 6:30ESTam... and support is 9:00PSTam... 6 hours away

***updated*** 90 minutes later
system restore didn't help, tried reinstally POL, nothing new
sent bug/error report to POL. checking email to see if i get a generated response.

as for re-installing POL. I and others have tried, you still get updated and recieve whatever error that was initially created. No way to toggle out of this one. Just sit back and wait for those california dreamers to wake up and let me game.



Edited, Tue Dec 13 08:33:49 2005

To all you BSTs that are ******** about the update: ADAPT!!! We all have to at some point. There is another way to do things. Boo hoo you have to figure something out. Quitcher ********

Does anyone know if they have a mini-battle please! I'm sort of a newb with not many high level friends but I really would like to solo this avatar! Please Help!