Dia

Dia

Type	Enfeebling
Description	Lowers an enemy's defense and gradually deals light elemental damage.
Cost	7 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. 1 White Mage Lv. 3
Casting Time	1 seconds
Recast Time	5 seconds
Affected Targets	Single
Base Duration	60 seconds
Range	20

Statistics

Scroll of Dia

WHM Lv.3 / RDM Lv.1

Teaches the white magic Dia.
Lowers an enemy's defense and
gradually deals light elemental damage.

Deals 2 damage initially, then ticks 1 damage every 3 seconds for the duration of the spell.

The initial damage can be increased with enough Magic Attack Bonus, Weather and Elemental Affinity boosts. Equipment with "Enhances Dia" effect such as Dia Wand increases the damage over time component of the spell by 1.

The Defense Down value is a flat 10%. 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.

Dia's Defense Down effect cannot be resisted except in cases of complete spell immunity (e.g. Magic Shield).

Higher Tier Dia spells will overwrite this effect, ie: Dia II will override Dia, but not the other way around. Dia's effects are overwritten by equal or higher-tier Bio spell effects. Dia will only overwrite lower-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.

Other Uses

Used in Quest: [[|]]

Resale Price: ???~??? gil

How to Obtain

Auction House Category: Scrolls > White Magic

Jobs

Freshly-created Red Mages start with this in their inventory, tagged as

Merchants

82 - 95 gil

• Kususu - Port Windurst (H-8)
• Regine - Port San d'Oria (J-8)
• Sororo - Bastok Markets (H-5)

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", "Harm2", 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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