Ob

Job: Family: Automaton Crystal: Weak to: Notorious Monster

Zone	Level	Drops	Steal	Spawns	Notes
Alzadaal Undersea Ruins		Ob's Arm Attuner(???%) Coiler(???%) Stabilizer(???%) Guignol Earring(???%) Eraser (???%) Mana Channeler (???%) Target Marker (???%) Smoke Screen (???%) Steam Jacket (???%) Equalizer (???%)		1
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:

• Spawned by trading Cog Lubricant to ??? in Alzadaal Undersea Ruins G-7 at the Bhaflau Remnants map. (SE Porter)
• When checked, the ??? point says "The ground here is slimy to the touch..."
• Can be Gravitied, Paralyzed and Slowed. All hit without a problem. Silence and Bind would not stick even with Elemental Seal.
• Normal hits are weak, however it can Magic Mortar a PLD for 1400+ and hit a MNK twice for over 1800. Separate run, it hit a paladin for over 2000 at low HP.
• Tested and confirmed, that with a Puppetmaster present, Ob will change his frame depending on whatever damage is dealt to him through the Puppetmaster's specific Automaton frames. For example, deploying the Valoredge frame (melee) will cause him to morph into the same model, thus cancelling out powerful weaponskills such as Magic Mortar and Knockout. Deploying Stormwaker will allow it to cast powerful magic spells, and using Sharpshot will give it access to ranged attacks.
• Harlequin Ob has access to Dia, Blind, Slow, Paralyze, and can Cure IV itself.
• Stormwaker Ob has access to all tier IV black magic spells, tier 1 Ancient Magic, Stun, Sleep II, Sleepga II the "Elemental enfeebles" (Drown, Choke, etc...), Blaze Spikes, and the same enfeebles as the Harlequin. It does not seems to cure itself.
• Seems to gain an extremely strong Regain trait at low HP.

• The automaton can appear as any of the basic 4 frames, Valoredge, Sharpshot, Stormwaker, and Harlequin. Harlequin seems to give the most trouble, as it has a very liberal use of Knockout and Magic Mortar which both can hit upwards of 1500 damage, although knockout is usually around 500. The sharpshot is very easy, it will spam Arcuballist and Daze, 1 hit WS that shadows absorb. If Daze hits, though, it will break 1k damage. The valoredge has very high defense and strong melee. It is easier though, as it only uses Cannibal Blade and a 1 or 2 hit WS absorbable by shadows. Cannibal Blade ignores Shadows. The Stormwaker takes extremely high damage (a 2k damage Rampage from a warrior with very mediocre gear). It spams Knockout/Magic Mortar like the Harlequin, but because it is almost always casting some debuff or low level nuke it rarely has time to use them.

Historical Background

In Judaic culture, ob (or owb) is the word which refers to either the spirit of a dead human, the medium possessed by the dead person’s spirit (derived from “skin-bottle” or “leather bottle”, referring to the person as a vessel, which is usually the conjurer themselves), the artifacts used to conjure such spirits, or even the necromancer themselves. The practice of necromancy was relatively common among pagan Jewish belief based on the prohibitions of it and other such divination practices mentioned in the Old Testament. References to such wizards and familiar spirits can be found in the Books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

The Hebrew ob has cognates in various Mesopotamian languages, where it means “deceased person’s spirit” and “pit” (referring originally to the pit from which the spirit of a dead person, usually an ancestor, could be summoned, but later to any hole in the ground). It should be noted the equivalent word to ob in Greek, pytho, also refers to both the conjurer and the spirit possessing them.