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Millenary Mossback
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Job: Notorious Monster |
 Millenary Mossback |
| Zone | Level | Drops | Steal | Spawns | Notes |
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| NW Apollyon | ❔ | 1 | A, L, T(H) ~19,000 HP | ||
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A = Aggressive; NA = Non-Aggresive; L = Links; S = Detects by Sight; H = Detects by Sound; 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
- Susceptible to gravity, Bind, heavily resists thunder based spells such as Burst and Thunder IV.
Historical Background
Millenary is the adjective form of millennium (1000 years) and millenarian (a word similar to octogenarian). A mossback refers to a very old turtle or shellfish which has algae growing on its back. Mossback is also a word used to refer to a very old-fashioned or conservative person. So, a Millennary Mossback would be a 1000-year old turtle that has moss growing on its back (though, technically every Adamantoise model is a mossback since they all have moss growing on their shells). Eastern folklore also states when a tortoise becomes 1000 years old, it learns the ability to speak human languages and prophesize the future.
Source entry: Millenary Mossback. Cached on this server on 5 November 2026.