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Vana'diel Bestiary: Doppelganger Dio  

Family:Shadow
Found in:Outer Horutoto Ruins
Job:Warrior
Level:23 - 25
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Not Linking
  • Detects by Sound
  • Detects by Low HP
  • Based on Dark
  • Weak against Fire
  • Weak against Light
  • Strong against Darkness
Drops:
Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007

Doppelganger Dio Picture

Doppelganger Dio is a lottery spawn from the place holder Balloon in the Outter Horutotto Ruins. The Balloon spawns every eight minutes with the chance instead spawning Doppelganger Dio, Doppelganger Gog, or Bomb King. He will always spawn behind the left door in one of three positions: (J-6); (I-7); or (G-7).

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Easy Work
# May 12 2004 at 2:00 PM Rating: Decent
Easy work, lv 30mnk/15war and lv 32sam/ 16war owned it. But i do have to say it hits really hard with that scythe and is not soloable at only lvl 30.
RE: Easy Work
# Jul 10 2004 at 9:31 AM Rating: Decent
Yeah, You are absolutly right. This guy gave me a good run when I was DRK 31. That Scythe of his hurts. I was pimpin full Centurion Armor, weilding Merc. Cptn. Scythe. He was hittin me for 40-50reg and 110-120TP attack. I was doing 80'ish each hit. He got me to red 3 times, his brother got me to red 3 times also.

Be careful guys, would not try it till 33+

Happy Hunting!
what i know
# May 02 2004 at 4:25 PM Rating: Decent
well, take it for what it's worth - camped for about 4 hours total, dio 2 times, gog 1, bombking 3 times - off all those attempts got cruel scythe at the very end. i do believe them to be totally random, as you can imagine with 4 hours in 2 rooms i experimented quite a bit with what to kill, i would only add that you should kill whatever is in the closed off rooms (even cards) and when i got the scythe i was solo at 31war/15 sam used two-hour and it was close- i didn't start at completely full health however. thats what i know ^^
do yu think b
# Apr 08 2004 at 1:44 PM Rating: Decent
taru can solo whith sub summor to help ?? my whm is not good
Hey
# Apr 06 2004 at 6:17 PM Rating: Decent
DO u think i can solo it lv 30 blm
38blm
# Apr 13 2004 at 10:57 AM Rating: Decent
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i managed to murder him at lvl 38 blm (taru) he only managed to hit me once.
first off i cast sleep then, paralyze, slow, silence and blind then went in for the kill with fireII.
he managed to kill me at lvl 25 when i ran into him accidentally so there must be a happy medium in there somewhere!
good luck to all of you fighting him!!
RE: Hey
# Apr 07 2004 at 10:52 PM Rating: Decent
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depends on your race and sub. i soloed with ease on a 34 whm / 17 drk.. i had 120 defense, and he hit me for 40 each time. with my 500 hp, and the ability to cure myself, he barely took a scratch out of me. if i hadn't have been a white mage, it would have been close though.

a 30 blm, you'll want 15 whm subbed so you can cure 2 yourself, and otherwise nuke the hell out of him. bind might be useful as well, since he'll be a couple of levels lower than you.
Hey
# Apr 06 2004 at 6:17 PM Rating: Decent
DO u think i can solo it lv 30 blm
just killed him
# Apr 06 2004 at 3:53 PM Rating: Decent
Killed him.....he hit me only once as blm 38 I dominated him with Fire II. Heres the screenshot-

http://home.comcast.net/~a.nichols001/ffxi/ffxip.JPG

But, of course,.....no sycthe
RE: just killed him
# Apr 07 2004 at 10:49 PM Rating: Decent
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of course no scythe, that was Gog.. he drops the spear ;)
Spawn
# Apr 04 2004 at 12:53 PM Rating: Excellent
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Doppleganger Dio, Doppleganger Gog, Bomb King, and Balloon all spawn in the three points marked on the map. Every 8 minutes, ONE of them will spawn in ONE of the rooms marked on the map. Once you kill whatever is in the room, count 8 minutes after that, and then start checking the rooms again. No point in randomly running around when they won't be spawning for another several minutes!
Solo for WHM.
# Feb 29 2004 at 11:53 PM Rating: Default
Soloed it as a level 32 WHM Taru.
Finally
# Feb 13 2004 at 2:41 PM Rating: Default
I pop in and out to see what I can find in the runes where the NMs spawn, and I have been pretty lucky the first time I was in there I fought a Bomb King and killed it. Got a Ring from him which was sweet, the next two weeks of popping in there I haven't gotten anything. Today I was in there just passing through I found a Dio and I killed it. He dropped a Sycthe I can't wait to see how much it is worth. I can't figure out if there is any thing to match how they spawn I guess they are right it is all random just dumb luck. Good luck Sid/Seriph lvl 36 Drg/18 War
drops
# Feb 11 2004 at 6:19 PM Rating: Default
Ive found Dio three times and managed to get the cruel scythe drop everytime too...... Of course I guess being a 46 thf helps too :D

Treasure hunter 2 rocks!!
Suggestion
# Feb 11 2004 at 2:44 PM Rating: Default
Do not kill anything in this tower except the Balloon (and the 2s if you're bored). Balloon will spawn at J-6 in the room to the West. If it's not there go find it and kill it or the NM then go back to J-6 (but not in the room or it wont spawn there). If you kill the 3s the likelyhood of an NM spawning will be much lower. If all 3s are alive you will get about a %25-%50 NM spawn rate after killing the Balloon. Gog seems to be the rarest.
Beat him at LVL 25
# Feb 10 2004 at 12:56 PM Rating: Default
I decided to take him with my 25war/monk (just to see if I could, I didnt really expect to win). I went in with full Beatle armor. The moment I found him I epuiped my Royal Spearman's Spear, used a Meat Mithkabob, and went at him with Mighty Strikes. It was more or less shot for shot but the thing that made the BIG difference is Double Attack, and Counter. He got me to the red but i still beat him, and i only got a Revival Tree Root
random spawn
# Feb 06 2004 at 12:16 AM Rating: Default
THE SPAWN IS COMPLETELY RANDOM

just like bomb king and gog, this NM spawns RANDOMLY in place of a Balloon every 8 minutes

thats why you could go down there and wait for a few hours and not see any of them
okay okay, new idea
# Feb 02 2004 at 11:58 PM Rating: Default
Something new to consider. I was there for a couple of hours today, and never once did one of the dopplegangers OR the Bomb King spawn. At first I thought it was based on day of the week, but then my partner suggested that it was based on moon phases. If it were, we'd expect a full moon to be optimal... when I left the moon was at 36% Waxing... so, if it were a full moon, do you think the dopplegangers would show mor often? Give it a shot...
lvl to kill
# Jan 26 2004 at 7:33 AM Rating: Default
well i got raped completely at lvl 30 BLM if ur gonna solo ur gonna need high def... he hits pretty hard

Hellslaughter
ramuh
30 blm/19 drk/17 sam
gog
# Jan 16 2004 at 12:19 PM Rating: Default
gog with the spear is much harder then dio the sycthe guy, does anyone know what determines drop?
times
# Jan 13 2004 at 9:02 AM Rating: Decent
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I went to the ruins with a friend 2 days ago (a 30 theif) and she saw Dio, then went to go find me, when we got back to the room he had spawned across the hall to the other room....weird, dropped revival root. Afterward we saw balloons spawn in place of NMs no more than 8-10 minutes after like said. Within 10 minutes the bomb king spawned in his room but was claimed by someone. I don't remember which compass direction it was, but a balloon spawned again and a few minutes later so did Gog. Killed him and dropped a cruel spear. Another 10 minutes pass for another balloon, then we see Dio in the same room that the bomb king & gog had spawned at J-6 (looking at the map above), he dropped the cruel scythe.

I went back yesterday between all the rooms for 2 hours and got absolutely no spawns. Something had to have been screwed up or the spawn times are sporatic. In the entire time I had seen 1 balloon with nothing to come after or anywhere in the ruins. Doesn't make sense
READ THIS
# Jan 08 2004 at 11:22 AM Rating: Default
there is a IW monster that will randomly appear in one of the 3 rooms named Ballon. exactley 8 min after you kill it one of the NM will appear in that same room and it takes about 10 min after you kill a NM before another Ballon will appear (i feal like a god this is the first major discovery i have ever made)
RE: READ THIS
# Jan 11 2004 at 9:44 AM Rating: Default
sorry im not sure why it posted 3 times^^
READ THIS
# Jan 08 2004 at 11:22 AM Rating: Default
there is a IW monster that will randomly appear in one of the 3 rooms named Ballon. exactley 8 min after you kill it one of the NM will appear in that same room and it takes about 10 min after you kill a NM before another Ballon will appear (i feal like a god this is the first major discovery i have ever made)
READ THIS
# Jan 08 2004 at 11:22 AM Rating: Decent
there is a IW monster that will randomly appear in one of the 3 rooms named Ballon. exactley 8 min after you kill it one of the NM will appear in that same room and it takes about 10 min after you kill a NM before another Ballon will appear (i feal like a god this is the first major discovery i have ever made)
NM
# Jan 08 2004 at 1:16 AM Rating: Default
My group has been camping this area for the last 4 hours. We have seen two Bomb Kings and got one bomb ring. We have killed Dio twice and Gog thrice. No spear or scythe. Just revival roots each time and an occasional dark crystal.
spawn time sucks
# Jan 07 2004 at 8:19 PM Rating: Default
i've been camping this guy for about 3-4 hours now, neither doppelganger have spawned, and the Bomb King did once within the first 20 minutes, haven't seen him since. it would be nice if those cards would drop gil, or if there was a little pond in there at least give me something to do lol
NMs
# Jan 04 2004 at 7:44 AM Rating: Default
Camped this place last night......

Both dopplegangers look like Elvaans. Dio wields a scythe and Gog wields the spear. They drop a cruel type weapon of what they wield.

Ran into Doppleganger Dio 3 times, Gog once, and never ran into the Bomb king. This was over a 3 hour period.

Any of the 3 can apparently pop at any of the three spots. The common placeholder is a balloon (bomb type mob).

Spawn times were rather erratic. I ran into Gog at first. 30 minutes later I ran into Dio. Then I ran into Dio again about 30 mins later after that. An hour later, I ran into Dio again. Guess it isnt a 2 hour respawn for these guys. Just random luck that it spawns instead of a balloon.
a thought
# Jan 01 2004 at 7:59 AM Rating: Default
isnt because its a doppelganger doesnt it mimic other people as in being what they look like?



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Currently in West saru
sigh
# Dec 23 2003 at 11:39 AM Rating: Default
Ok, STOP ASKING WHAT LEVEL TO SOLO WHEN IT'S LEVEL IS CLEARLY DISPLAYED. Sorry about that everyone who isn't a moron. He is a level 25 NM, ignore that 23 crap, he fights just like gog, and his level means realtively zip because he's stronger than a level 25. You need a party of 2 lvl 25 to barely beat him, you'd need to be around 28, maybe 27 to solo.
fool
# Feb 10 2004 at 8:11 AM Rating: Default
you have obviously never fought a shade before.
these things will ***** you up fast they hit hard and take little damage so before yelling about how you MIGHT need to be lvl 27 go fight it you will find that at lvl 27 this thing will kill you without breaking a sweat. so dont go telling people they're morons if you dont even know how high you have to be to kill it.
RE: sigh
# Jan 10 2004 at 8:12 AM Rating: Default
Awww, someone's grumpy-wumpy cuz they didn't get their juice. Maybe you should take a nap, ok?
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