Dhartok

General Notes Found past Diaphanous Gadget #E in Sortie. Requires Ra'Kaznar Shard #E to access. Dhartok's attacks and TP moves will inflict a stacking Taint debuff, which will grow in potency with each successive effect. Taint cannot be removed by Erase, Esuna, Sacrifice, Poisona, Full Cure, or Benediction, but can be removed by Chakra with MNK main job only. After sufficient Taint or Poison stacks have been accumulated, Clobbering Wave and Noyade can deal lethal amounts of damage (8000+). Requires a Ra'Kaznar Metal #E to limit its abilities—while in possession, attacks will inflict Poison instead of Taint. As a result, poison can be removed by any usual sources, and doing so will reset the damage multiplier granted to the above. Absorbs Water damage, and will retaliate with severely increased damage after doing so. This includes magic and skillchain damage, including Darkness Skillchain. This does not include Hydro Breath from DRG wyvern Elemental Breath attacks. This also causes the durability of your seal to degrade When Dhartok uses Cesspool, it gains an aura that grants it the ability to use two TP moves in a row. This aura lasts for a duration of 3 minutes. While this aura is active, a miasma cloud is placed at the location of Dhartok's target when the animation of the second TP move finishes. These miasma clouds inflict the effects of Drown and Magic Defense Down when the player is near them. The maximum number of clouds that can be created is 16. Cesspool can still be used once all 16 have been placed, however, no further clouds will be created. Possesses a cumulative damage resistance wall to repeated Weapon Skills, similar to that of Dynamis Divergence Wave 3's Mega Boss. See the Discussion page for published testimonials. Dhartok Adversary Type Amorph Family Plovid Job Warrior Sub Job Black Mage Class Sortie NM Resistances 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 70% 70% 70% 70% 50% 85% A 5% Geomancy 50% A: Absorbs · S: Susceptible · R: Resists 100% denotates that a monster takes full damage. Tiers of 50% or less guarantee a spell resist.

Listings

Listings by Zone
Zone   Outer Ra'Kaznar (U)       Level Behavior 145 HP MP DEF EVA M.DEF ~1,620,000 Check 1,581 100 Title Dhartok Defiler Rewards 10000 Gallimaufry G Ra'Kaznar Frag. 1 G Ra'Kaznar Starstone U Old Case C Old Case +1 R Abilities Spells   Traits INT: 363 MND: 338

Ability

Ability	Y'	Area	Target	Type			Condition
Nullifying Rain		AoE
	Damage. Taint for 5 minutes.
Noyade
	Damage and Silence. Taint -40HP/tic for 5 minutes.
Cesspool		AoE	Monster
	Damage. Taint for 5 minutes.
Clobbering Wave		Conal
	Damage and Knockback. Damage increases proportionally to the Taint/Poison effect on the player.
Fetid Eddies		Conal	Player
	Damage. Taint -30HP/tic for 5 minutes.
Area: 1P, AoE, Gaze, Conal · Target: Player or Monster Type: Physical-Magical-Breath-Buff · Element or Damage Type : Utsusemi shadows consumed (#), B Bypasses, but does not remove shadows, R Removes all shadows.

References

Cesspool and miasma cloud mechanics (Strikeret, Blog)
Verification of the maximum number of clouds that can be placed (Argisto, FFXIAH.com)
Post from Fujito about behavior of the NMs. (Note they removed the Stage 4 changes from all but Aminon)