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Vana'diel Bestiary: Porphyrion  

Family:Gigas
Found in:Upper Delkfutt's Tower
Job:Ranger
Level:36
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Linking
  • Detects by Sight
  • Based on Ice
  • Strong against Ice
  • Strong against Lightning
Drops:
Involved in Quests:
Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007

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Bad way of dying...
# Aug 21 2004 at 8:32 PM Rating: Decent
Omg, last night it was really late and a few of my in-game friends were helping/completing mission 3-3 for Windurst and the first time we went and got his keys... I forgot to talk to the embassador.... so the second time I got back up there with everyone walking back up with me, I used the key on the elevator (removed invisible) and went down. So then here is what happened.

/p Tsukasaz: Phew that was close, he almost aggro'd me.

Michaelk: He did

Tsukasaz: OMG how the hell?? Help me!!

*Tsukasaz was defeated by Porphyion*

Tsukasaz: Gyah! How did he get down here? ; ;

Michaelk: He fell down through the elevator after you. (I think thats what he said.... hm...)


Then the other 3 members of my party (Thank God for Skyllar, Zinfandale and Draubard [not sure how to spell name...]) were killing him right near my dead body... as the whm didn't have a key to down and the monster didn't drop any keys.... /sigh

Be warned... kill him before you go down the elevator with your party if you are level 36 or less.... (Unless he aggro's to higher level... hm...)
hah killin VS gettin down
# Jul 27 2004 at 3:54 PM Rating: Decent
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lol i say gettin down is harder, i deleveled gettin down, killin was quite easy
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RE: hah killin VS gettin down
# Jul 28 2004 at 3:50 AM Rating: Decent
spend the 750 conquest points for a Warp Scroll if you are that bad at walking :/
Ok
# Jun 20 2004 at 9:45 PM Rating: Default
Ok,I was on my first name,and I killed it solo.Im a lvl 45 DRK.
i dunno
# Jun 10 2004 at 8:12 AM Rating: Default
I helped kill it with my LS becuz i needed to do the misson.it took forever to get too but when we opened the cermet door on the 10th floor.He was there.killed no problem most likey cuz they where lvl 45+.It drops 6 keys usually.
RE: i dunno
# Jul 28 2004 at 3:51 AM Rating: Decent
you sure it USUSALLY DROSS 6 keys,and not, rather, the amount of people in the party who have accepted the mission and are up to the NM fight part of it would be equal to the amount of drops?

that kinda made sense...

people that need keys = amount of key drops?
or amount of key drops = 6?

Edited, Wed Jul 28 04:56:25 2004
RE: i dunno
# Jul 28 2004 at 10:40 PM Rating: Default
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It drops six keys always. Monsters don't care how many people are in your party when they die =P
RE: i dunno
# Aug 16 2004 at 3:07 PM Rating: Good
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That's not true if the monster is there for part of a mission, it'll drop the amount of keys that your party needs. Drops usually depend mostly on your party, and if the mob HAS those drops.
RE: i dunno
# Aug 21 2004 at 1:37 PM Rating: Good
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eh actually, I've twice, once with 3 ppl and once with 5, both times it dropped 6 keys.... so yea 6 keys it is
RE: i dunno
# Aug 31 2004 at 7:11 PM Rating: Decent
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Actually, some NM do drop the same number of items as people in the party who need them. In this case, the NM does drop six keys regardless.
RE: i dunno
# Dec 16 2004 at 8:48 PM Rating: Decent
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it drops 6 keys EVERY time, regardless of if you are doing the mission or not. If you already have a key, you get the message "You do not meet the requirements for ....blah blah blah". Simple enough.

Happy Hunting
mission 3-3
# May 23 2004 at 2:09 PM Rating: Decent
I'm a lvl 44rdm/blm on Bismarck recruiting members (any level) for an alliance/party to complete this mission...send tell if interested (leave message if I'm not logged on and I will get back to you today) Will be completing this mission May 23rd at around 5:00 Central Standard time.
m9
# Apr 02 2004 at 9:12 PM Rating: Decent
for anyone who is on the Fenrir server, if you want help with m9, send me a tell and id be more than happy to help. . . please have a whm with both sneak and invisi, otherwise its a bit of a nuisance getting to the top, cause everything aggros under at least lvl 44. . . anyway, send me a tell on Fenrir if you want some help killing this big guy. =D always here to help.

Oicuro
Fenrir
50 Drg/Thf
lb1 -> complete (finally g*d damnit >.<)
soloing this?
# Mar 14 2004 at 8:39 AM Rating: Decent
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Do you think a ranger 40 could solo this ?

i think i can get up there without much trouble, then shoot 2h, barrage, and Piercing arrow before my utsusemi is off.. but i dont know if i will kill it with that :P being a decent dmg must hurt .. but well no idea tbh.

thanks for any help
RE: soloing this?
# Mar 25 2004 at 12:41 AM Rating: Good
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I would not recommend soloing this creature unless you have a ton of hit points.

It's highly unlikely that your combined 2h, Barrage and Piercing arrow it will be enough to kill it. It took the people helping me (36MNK and 42RDM) about five minutes of constantly hitting it to kill it. And they were doing considerable damage, between the MNKs fists and the RDM's buffs/debuffs.

The other problem is that for all your evasion/blink/defense, he will still use Eagle Eye Shot at an unpredictable time, and if it doesn't get sucked up by either an enormous cushion of remaining HP or Blink, you will get popped for a couple of hundred HP. This is more than enough to kill most mages attempting the Rank 4 mission and will bring the unwary to near death.

Bring help. At your level you and 2-3 other 40s should easily make it to the top of the tower and kill him with relative ease.

Edited, Thu Mar 25 00:40:34 2004
RE: soloing this?
# May 06 2004 at 8:49 PM Rating: Decent
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ok as a 45 ranger I completely Owned him. I need to help some ppl in my LS do the mission, so i made my way up and killed him. I didn't even pull out my 2hr. so I walk out and heal up right as Mimas pops and so I say what the hell! Lol.. 100 fists later i got a free trip to Jeuno. I would have gotten him if I had goten my 2hr off in time. haha next time...

Edit: went back the next day and got my revenge! didn't even have to use my 2hr. No drop, but i beat Mimas.

Edited, Fri May 7 15:56:28 2004
PT of 30s
# Feb 25 2004 at 1:25 PM Rating: Default
Do you think a PT of 30s (blm, whm, pld, etc.) could take this guy for M9? If not, we could form an alliance of 12-15 30s to take him...
Long time :/
# Feb 17 2004 at 1:49 PM Rating: Decent
Killed him last night.. just takes a LONG time for a lv30 pt to kill him.. we did have a drk45 to help. Although that after killing him 1 pt member got catapulted once by a stonemason and went down. (The rest of the party didn't get aggroed tho) Yes, he is a RNG.
This NM
# Feb 16 2004 at 9:05 PM Rating: Default
I really think you guys are mixing this NM up with the other giant NMs on the floor. I've fought this NM many many times just because he's in the room. All he drops is gil or 6 tower keys if someone in your PT doesnt have the key. I've fought him with friends who are thf main or sub and he has never dropped anything. His spawn time is quite frequent and so I've fought him quite alot.

The regular giants on the floor definately drop chest keys and Mimas drops the Moth Axe for sure. Either I have terrible luck or you guys are getting things mixed up, but whatever.
Arcanos
# Feb 16 2004 at 7:15 PM Rating: Default
tough for party level 25-26. was with a dark knight galka, war hume, whitemage hume, blackmage mithra, a redmage mithra and me, redmage hume. killed the war, black, and redmage, i survived by the skin of my teeth, and the mother f??? only droped the gigas socks!

that really suks!


Arcanos red mage level 25/ white mage level 10
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Missing
# Feb 11 2004 at 6:57 PM Rating: Decent
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This thing also drops the moth axe. Sells for about 7K on asura.
NM Drop
# Feb 10 2004 at 3:07 PM Rating: Decent
Definitely drops tower keys, but also drops chest keys. I was in a party of four and it dropped about 12 keys in total
Eagle Eye Shot
# Feb 09 2004 at 1:47 PM Rating: Decent
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watch out for his Eagle Eye Shot. popped me for 320+
Spawn time
# Feb 05 2004 at 12:14 PM Rating: Decent
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This guy has about a 20 minute Spawn time. This makes it difficult to get large Alliances through the M9 in short amount of time, not to mention competing PTs or Alliances.
ez kill
# Feb 02 2004 at 12:11 AM Rating: Decent
this guy is a *****, me and a 42PLD killed him in about 40 seconds
chest key
# Jan 30 2004 at 6:55 PM Rating: Default
Fyi it's the delkfutts tower key it drops not chest key this can only be use for door /lifts and such in the tower the chest key is a diff thing.
Solo?
# Jan 28 2004 at 5:14 PM Rating: Default
Can a 40BLM/20WHM succesfully solo him?
RE: Solo?
# Feb 16 2004 at 9:09 PM Rating: Default
I doubt you could solo him at that level. His Eagle Eye shot would do a lot of damage (probably over 300 dmg to you). Also, if the other giants link with him, you'll probably be in big trouble. You definately should have blink on and bind if you're going to try, perhaps his long range shots will miss and blink will absorb the eagle eye shot.
fsea
# Dec 23 2003 at 1:20 PM Rating: Decent
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hey always drops 6 keys =\

or more likely, the equivalent of how many people are in a party (ie 1-6, alliance excluded)
NM drop
# Dec 22 2003 at 11:20 PM Rating: Decent
The NM Gigas...dropped an average of 6 of these, tho I was the only treasure hunter and we had 9 party/alliance members, and we killed him 2x.
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