San d'Oria 5-2 - The Shadow Lord

The Shadow Lord

Details
Head to Castle Zvahl in Xarcabard. Visit Chateau d'Oraguille to learn more.

Walkthrough
PT of lv57+

Talk to Your Mission NPC

Everybody should buy a couple silent oils, and in addition, fighters should buy several hipotions, and mages should buy several yagudo drinks.

Castle Zvahl is located in Xarbacard. Go west from the vars crystal and you'll reach there in a very short time. You may aggro some Evil Eye or Demons along the way, but do not worry, just run into the entrance.

After entering Zvahl Bailey, you have to work your way to the west in the first map. The monsters over there are not strong, so go ahead and fight along the way if aggroed (you can walk behind Evil Eyes (if high enough level, if not, sneak) and Demons and not get caught). When you see the first crossroad, don't go through the middle (dead end). Go around the left or the right road.

From the 2nd map, cast invisi and go through the area to the west again (look at the map and see how). If you reach the "Quadav Region", cast sneak instead. After this map, you will reach Zvahl Keep.

At this point, just keep fighting when you see any enemies. In the first map, find your way to the top of the map. In the 2nd map, find your way to the west exit of the map.

You should have reached a series of teleport devices. Be careful of the demons, but you should be able to get behind them and not get detected. After the last teleport, just run to the west exit of the map. Don't worry about demons/eyes that get aggroed and head to the zone line. Open the door and exit.

You have reached the the final area. Rest your HP and MP to the max, and gather in front of the door. When you enter, you'll see an event and the fight begins.

There are 2 forms of Shadow Lord.
His HP is about 10,000 for the first stage and about 4000 in his second stage.

When you enter the room, do not fight Shadow Lord first. Cast your prefight spells (protect/shell/etc) and eat your power up food. At the beginning of the fight, have a main fighter attract all the attention, with that fighter use his 2 hour skill. All the mages go up the stairs and start curing (with the main focus on the main taunter).

When Shadow Lord enters its invincible mode (you'll see the fighters doing only 0 damage), the mages should start firing damage spells (preferably ancient spells). If out of MP, use yagudo drinks, or even use the black mage 2 hour skill to continue bombing. When the invincible mode is over, the magic attacker should rest MP. The rest of the fight should not be a problem.

After the first form of Shadow Lord is beaten, you'll see an event. After the event, fighters use the silent oil, and the mages can use silent oil or sneak. After that, rest the HP and MP. Be careful if sneak is about to be wear out!

When everybody is in full health and ready to fight, everybody come in close to fight the 2nd form of shadow lord!!

In this form, all Shadow Lord does is a wide area attack. All mages should simply use their curega spells. All fighters should activate their 2 hour skill and use their strongest weapon skill whenever they can (no renkei). Shadow Lord should be killed rather easily in this mode.

After defeating Shadow Lord and watched the event, just go back to Sandoria castle and report.

Rank 6 and 20000 gil