Dark Rider Damaged? Follow

Sounds like a Taisai story.

I didn't think the Dark Rider aggro'd? I could be wrong, I haven't yet seen him in the wild. But I do think I remember reading that the Dark Rider himself isn't aggressive.

I remember the Dark Rider actually going after some RMT once.

Maybe he's controlled by a GM and he only aggros people when he really feels like it.

I seem to recall there being a screenshot several years ago where a large group of people had managed to whittle his HP down below 100% at one point, but he proceeded to dispatch them quite easily.

yeah I've been trying to look for that picture but I can't find it anywhere on the net.

This is pretty much what I mean, I mean it's the only unbeaten monster in the game at this moment in time (well technically there's probably quite a few in Adoulin but that won't last for long) and I'm still looking for screenshots where he's actually taken damage.

Again, if anyone has anything like that, that'd be amazing. A lot of people still claim it's unkillable as it's meant to be Odin before you see Odin properly right?

But the way I see it, he's nothing like Odin apart from appearance, Odin doesn't cast Death and the Dark Rider has, what seems to be, only Death to cast, unlike Odin's repertoire of spells. Additionally, since when did Odin summon demons and imps? I mean maybe it's just me, but it seems silly to have that as a mechanic of the Dark Rider if he's going to wander around dropping Horse Hoofprints, why give him the pets? What's the point? Surely that distorts the image Odin is meant to have?

Personally I think there's more to the Dark Rider than meets the eye, and those pets are there not out of simple chance.

later ToAU storyline? Hasn't the expansion been out for years already and all missions released? :/

It's more of an NPC that was required to interact aggressively with the PCs. Even if there is a picture and any truth to the "I TOTALLY DID DAMAGE TO HIM" myth, it would be more because Square couldn't make it a real NPC and had to follow regular monster rules but jacked it up to the nth power.

In any case, it's hard to test any kind of battle strat for a monster that spawns so randomly.

..I am sure someone will jump in here and talk about Ixion here but I've seen him more times then the Dark Rider in my time.

I'll check my files and see. I don't recall imps being the problem so much as "Whoa that's cool, how come he's just running around...let's poke it" followed by "/linkshell don't bother coming out, we're all dead" about 3 seconds later.

I always wanted to see the Dark Rider out in the field, slowly going along with his horde of imps ready to slaughter any hapless adventurers he came across. Unfortunately I always seemed to miss him back when there were "Dark Rider" sightings.