Vana'diel Bestiary: Chaos Idol  

these guys definatly arent stealable lol

Yea it is the one for CoP

Edited, Sat Dec 10 03:14:59 2005

meltdown vs barfire+phalanx = 22 damage

also try keeping your tp up so you can flat blade them or something. stunning stops it.

XD

they are checking too weak to me however [level 45 rdm] but i guess it's still good advice

Edited, Sun May 29 14:54:21 2005

Just wondering if anyone has seen an overly large idol in Delkfutt's Tower? I was farming these and grabbed aggro from one that was about 2 times bigger than the normal. Name was Disaster Idol. I was on lower when he hit. I had stoneskin/phalanx up and was half-way through finishing off a chaos idol. Fight lasted all of about 60 sec, after stoneskin got stripped he was hitting for about 110-120 damg. I was doing about 0-10 dam to him. I got a in-game pic but sadly in my panic i used the FFXI snapshot. I can't find anything here on this mob and was wondering if anyone else has seen it.

Klausnek
52RDM/26BLM
Hades Server

Without looking these guys up on this site, my husband looked in the guide book instead. He was a 34 Paladin, I was a 35 Red mage. To both of us it checked EP with HD. So I casted stoneskin and blink on myself, and waited for him to pull one since we weren't entirely sure if the book was right about them not linking. ((There were two others besides the one we pulled.))

So, we fought one, and it went fine. I only had to use Cure II on my husband twice, and took no damage myself since he was voking it. So, along comes his little buddy, about 3/4 into the fight. We got the first one down, and started to beat away at the second one. Three hits into the fight my stoneskin wears off, and I see. "Chaos Idol prepares Meltdown." Okay, I'm thinking, I'm gonna take a bit of damage, no big deal, I have 531 hp, and my husband had full hp.

Well, Meltdown occured alright, and all of a sudden I'm staring at the little 'Return to Homepoint' button. I just stared for a minute, not really sure what had happened. My husband was still alive, with 230/587 hp....but I'm laying face down on the ground. So I scroll through the the log, and see. 'Nydanna takes 534 points of damage.' O.O I only had 531.....

Just a word of warning, don't fight these...seriously, unless you have reraise. -.-

My friend and I took one of these on I was on my lvl 30 rdm and he was on his lvl 30 thf. Make a long story short it used meltdown on us, and I diesengaged it, but my thf friend didnt in time. I took 172dmg with no barfire. He took 506dmg and died.

the disengage tactic works :) 43xp and no loot. :(

Once I was fighting those and my LS suggested I cast Barfire. I thought, "They don't use fire magic," but I cast it anyway. In that battle, the Chaos Idol used Meltdown and everyone else was killed. I was still alive (albeit at low HP) so I /shouted for 5 Raises.

I looked at my fire defense and it was +50, to my surprise.

they will drop a vial of mercury also

Halfway through, Chaos Idol will use "Meltdown". A level 24 warrior with a defense of 129 took 340 points of damage and died (The Idol also kills itself).

After checking the log, it seems that they also drop a Vial of Mercury

There's nothing special about these... except they like to blow up and do 200+ damage to everyone in sight. Took out an entire unsuspecting alliance once. Not cool. Got 36 XP out of the deal! Bleah...