North East Apollyon
Required Card: Black Card
Time Limit: 30 minutes
NE Apollyon: First Floor
This floor has a total of
four static
Armoury Crates;
three 5 minute time extension crates and
one MP/HP/Ability restoration crate.
There are six
white Mandragora and six
black Mandragora that roam on this island. Two of the twelve Mandragora (one black and one white) are larger than the others. One of these two larger (aka "fatty") Mandragora will drop a gold item crate which usually includes 4-5
Ancient Beastcoins and 1 or 2 AF+1 materials.
In order for us to trigger the
Swirling Vortex, you have to defeat the
Goobbue or one of the two "fatty"
Mandragora; the death of one of them will randomly activate the vortex.
The Mandragora on this floor seem especially weak to fire-based magic.
Naria suggests that BLM should cast Burn, Shock, Choke, Bio II, and then cycle through the Fire III, Fire II, and Drain spells.
The Mandragora will link with each other for significant distances. The Goobbue will not link with the Mandragora or vice versa.
NE Apollyon: Second Floor
This floor has a total of
four static
Armoury Crates;
three are 5 minute time extension crates and the other
one is a MP/HP/Ability restoration crate. Each of the Armoury Crates are guarded by
one Giant Bird and
two Lesser Birds.
Each
Giant Bird is a BRD (they often cast Horde Lullaby) and are accompanied by two of the
Lesser Birds. The smaller birds
will not link with the larger ones, so you can pull the
Thiazi or
Bialozar safely. However, the smaller birds will link with one another; they can not be slept.
There are no "fatty" monsters here. Instead, one of the
Giant Birds drops a gold item crate which usually includes 4-5
Ancient Beastcoins and 1 or 2 AF+1 materials.
In order to trigger the
Swirling Vortex, you must defeat one of the four
Giant Birds; the demise of one of them will randomly activate the vortex.
The
Giant Birds on this floor seem especially weak to ice-based magic.
Naria suggests using Blizzard II and III.
NE Apollyon: Third Floor
This floor has a total of
four static
Armoury Crates;
three are 5 minute time extension crates and the other
one is an MP/HP/Ability restoration crate.
These are your standard
Dolls and
Magic Pots. If you've fought them before in the
Temple of Uggalepih or in
Tu'Lia, you know exactly what you're getting yourself into.
There is one large (aka "fatty")
Magic Pot which will drop a gold item crate that usually includes 4-5
Ancient Beastcoins and 1 or 2 AF+1 materials. This
Magic Pot is significantly larger than the other pots and therefore, particularly easy to spot.
The monsters on this floor seemed grouped together very tightly, but we were able to pull each of them one at a time without any links, so it's possible that they don't link at all, but this is still undetermined.
In order to trigger the
Swirling Vortex, you will have to defeat either one of the "fatty"
Magic Pots or one of the
Dolls; the death of one of them will randomly activate the vortex.
Everything that we killed on this level dropped at least one
Ancient Beastcoin.
NE Apollyon: Fourth Floor
- x8 Kerkopes (Opo-opo)
- x1 Okeanos (Gigas) - Immune to ranged attack?
- x1 Hyperion (Gigas) - Immune to magic
- x1 Cronos (Gigas) - Immune to physical attack
On this floor, we only discovered two or three
Armoury Crates;
one of them was a 5 minute time extension crate and the other
one was an MP/HP/Ability restoration crate.
There are eight Opo-opos that monkey around the island. One of the eight is significantly larger than the others. This "fatty" Opo-opo will drop a gold item crate which usually includes 4-5
Ancient Beastcoins and 1 or 2 AF+1 materials.
There are also three
Gigas that wander around the island.
Hyperion is immune to all forms of magical attacks and must be physically defeated.
Cronos is immune to all forms of physical damage and must be defeated magically. Attempt to Stun the Gigas "Grand Slam" AoE Ability, as it does a lot of damage.
In order to trigger the
Swirling Vortex you have to kill one of the
Gigas (for us it was
Cronos); the death of one of them will randomly activate the vortex.
The Opo-opo on this level are extremely easy to defeat; and each one dropped at least one
Ancient Beastcoin.
NE Apollyon: Fifth Floor
There are absolutely
no Armoury Crates on this floor. The only crate that you can open will appear after you have defeated the
Manticore "Mega Boss"; this crate generally includes 7-8
Ancient Beastcoins and 1 or 2 AF+1 materials.
There are eight
Dhalmels that circle the center of this island. They move fairly quickly and sometimes in hordes. Defeating them usually yeilds 1-2
Ancient Beastcoins, but watch your time as the
Manticore "Mega Boss" on this level requires some attention. This is generally a good floor to farm if you have enough time left when you get here.
The
Manticore are just like your standard manticore-fare (especially if you've familiar with them from
Kuzotz or
Vollbow). They do, however, have a rather large amount of HP, so be sure to budget your time accordingly. Make sure that mages stay out of AoE range to avoid their HP/MP-Down ability. Once these Manticore have been defeated,
NE Apollyon will end—congratulations, you've just won!
Defeating
NE Apollyon nets you the
Smoky Chip (Rare/Ex).
Naria's Notes:
Here are some
really ugly and possibly innacurate maps of these areas:
Ugly NE Apollyon Maps.
Katsy
2008-08-30 #1
Jaraude (Katsy)
