Xolotl
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Job: Dark Knight, Black Mage, Beastmaster Notorious Monster |
File:Xolotl.jpg Xolotl |
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Steal |
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80-81 |
1 |
A, L, H, HP | ||||||||
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HP = Detects Low HP; M = Detects Magic; Sc = Follows by Scent; T(S) = True-sight; T(H) = True-hearing JA = Detects job abilities; WS = Detects weaponskills; Z(D) = Asleep in Daytime; Z(N) = Asleep at Nighttime; A(R) = Aggressive to Reive participants | |||||||||||
Notes:
- Spawns around (E-7)
- Respawns between 20:00 and 4:00 every 21-24 hours from last death. If not tagged by 4:00, he despawns.
- If everyone dies or is charmed after 4:00 he will despawn.
- If he despawns, he will repop again the next night and keep doing so until he is defeated.
- Uses normal Corse special attacks, plus:
- Casts Tier IV spells and Tier 3 AOE spells such as Thunder IV and Thundaga III
- Blood Weapon: Drains players HP when attacks hit
- Gala Macabre: AoE Charm
- Danse Macabre: Single target Charm
- Final Retribution: AOE attack for about 500+ damage
- Summons Xolotl's Sacrifice and Xolotl's Hound Warrior during the battle. They can be slept with Lullaby. He will resummon them if they are killed.
- Killable by 6 level 75's or 2 Beastmasters or 2 Summoners in combination with 2 kiters.
- A common strategy is to fight Xolotl with Charmed pets (because he can't charm them) while kiting his summons.
- Xolotl's Sacrifice and Xolotl's Hound Warrior will quickly build resistance to Lullaby, however, Xolotl can be slept with Lullaby once after each Charm, after which he builds resistance.
- Zoolater Hat is a very common drop, Bandomusha Kote drops around 20% of the time, and Perseus's Harpe seems to have a low drop rate (around 5%).
Historical Background
In Aztec mythology, Xolotl was the god of lightning who acted as a psychopomp (the person who escorts the dead to the underworld. Anubis and Hermes/Mercury were also psychopomps). Xolotl would guide the dead to Mictlan, the Aztec underworld, a journey which took 4 years (everyone who died except warriors slain in battle, people struck by lightning, and women who died in childbirth went to Mictlan). He was also the god of fire and bad luck. He was considered the patron of the Ulama (Mesoamerican ball game). One of his titles was Lord of the Evening Star. He would guard the Sun on its night time journey through the underworld (similar to Set guarding Ra from Apep in the underworld in Egyptian mythology). He also brought humanity out of the underworld (similar to the Spider Woman in Native American mythologies from the Desert Southwest) and also brought fire to humanity (similar to Prometheus of Greek mythology). Xolotl was commonly depicted as a skeleton or a dog-headed human. Xolotl means "dog" or "animal" in Nahuatl (language of the Aztecs).
