Diaga

Diaga

Type	Enfeebling
Description	Lowers defense of enemies within area of effect and gradually deals light elemental damage
Cost	12 MP
Element	Light
Monster Family	{{{blue family}}}
Blue Physical Damage Type	Unspecified damage
Skillchain Properties
Magic Burst	Trans­fixion Fu­sion Light
Status Bonus	{{{blue stats}}}
Job Trait	{{{blue trait}}}
Points Required	{{{blue points}}}
Ninjutsu Tool	{{{ninjutsu tool}}}
Jobs	Red Mage Lv. 15 White Mage Lv. 18
Casting Time	1.5 seconds
Recast Time	6 seconds
Affected Targets	AOE, centered on target
Base Duration	60 seconds
Range	{{{range}}}

Statistics

Scroll of Diaga

WHM Lv.18 / RDM Lv.15

Teaches the white magic Diaga.
Lowers defense of enemies within area
of effect and gradually deals light
elemental damage

• Effective area radius is 10'
• Deals 1 damager every tick for the duration of the spell.
• Higher Tier Dia spells will overwrite this effect, ie: Dia II will override Diaga, but not the other way around. Diaga's effects are overwritten by equal or higher-tier Bio spell effects. Dia and Bio may not be on the same enemy target at the same time.
• The White Magic spell Erase will remove this effect.
• Defense is reduced by 27/512 (5.27%). This effect cannot be resisted except with Magic Shield. Other sources of Defense Down such as that from Acid Bolts and Armor Break may also be active on a target, but these sources are mutually exclusive with each other.
• This effect is increased to 13% with the effects of a Corsair's Light Shot
• Box Step's Sluggish Daze effect will stack with this effect.
• Geomancy's Frailty effect will stack with this effect.

Other Uses

Used in Quest: [[|]]

Resale Price: ???~??? gil

How to Obtain

Auction House Category: Scrolls > White Magic

Merchants

Price: 1,165 - 1,316 gil
Name	Location	Type
Kususu	Port Windurst (H-8)	Standard Merchant Windurst Conquest: 1st - citizens only
Regine	Port San d'Oria (J-8)	Standard Merchant San d'Oria Conquest: 1st - citizens only
Sororo	Bastok Markets (H-5)	Standard Merchant Bastok Conquest: 1st - citizens only

Derivations

The spell "Dia" comes from the Japanese release of Final Fantasy I. In the original localization of the game it was renamed as "Harm", "Hrm2", and so on. It is an abbreviation of "Dispel Undead" with the "U" in undead being an "A" in Japanese. While names in Final Fantasy XI are influenced by english, it was left as Dia to connotate with "daylight"(as per Latin-based languages) because daylight is often depicted as harmful to the undead. As such, in the localization of the FF1 remakes Harm was changed back into Dia (and animated as a blast of sunlight in graphically advanced remakes of the game to follow the theme)

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