SW Apollyon

SW Apollyon is a subsection of the Apollyon zone in the Limbus region.
It is reached via the Teleport-Dem crag entrance to Al'Taieu.
Can be cleared with a full alliance only taking the Time chest on the 3rd floor.
- A group of 12 typically only needs to take one Time chest on the 1st or 2nd floor.
- A group of 7 typically needs to take an extra Time chest on the 1st and 2nd floors, but a melee heavy group can get by with only taking one time chest on the first floor.
- A group of 4 can clear this by taking 0 time chests and skipping floors 1 and 2 by opening vortex ASAP and going up. The third floor will depend on luck with mimics vs. item/time chests and how much time you have remaining. Keep at least 5 minutes for the final floor if you have 2+ BLM DD or 10 minutes if you have 0 magic DD (to be safe).
Duoed by RDM and BLM, both skilled and quite lucky - the first mimic chest killed opened the portal, and was killed using Chainspell.
The Time chests give an additional 10 minutes.
Drops AF+1 materials for All Jobs
Typical Ancient Beastcoin yield: 40
Reward for completion: Charcoal Chip

Enemies: Fir Bholg x10 (Fomor)
- About 4250 HP
- Galka = PLD, Elvaan = THF, Hume = SAM, Tarutaru = BLM, Mithra = RDM
- The Mage Fir Bholg are highly resistant to magic damage.
- Each has a chance of dropping an Ancient Beastcoin.
- Linking by sound.
- Uses their respective two-hour abilities once each.
- Susceptible to Lullaby, Sleep, and Repose
- Summoner pullers need to be very careful, they will link and stay linked at times on pet pulls
- Like all Limbus mobs, these have party hate: once aggroed, everyone in the alliance will have hate on the ones that aggro, so a sac puller must drop from the party before pulling.
You can open only one of the three chests.
The Vortex and Chests come from the same race of Fomor, the same race as the person who first entered the zone.
The Items chest has 4 Ancient Beastcoins and 1-2 AF+1 material (BRD, DRK, SAM, BLM, WAR, BLU, SCH, WHM, ?).

Killing a Jidra causes one of the other monsters to spawn.
Defeating the large, leafless Jidra opens the vortex (and doesn't spawn a kid).
- The large Jidra has the same special attack changes as Cemetery Cherry
- Leafstorm dispels all effects including food and gives Slow instead of damage.
The Jidra never drop Ancient Beastcoins, but the others have a high chance to.
- Jidra can be slept with Lullaby.
When all enemies are dead, the Time, Items and Restore chests spawn. You can only open one.
- They actually appear farther south than shown on the map.
The Items chest has 4 Ancient Beastcoins and an AF+1 material (RNG, WHM, SMN, BLM, WAR, COR, DRG).

Enemies: Armoury Crate x8 (Mimics)
- Often drop an Ancient Beastcoin.
- They only aggro when someone clicks on them to determine whether they are mimics or real chests. They are passive otherwise.
Defeating one of the Mimics opens the vortex.
The Time, Items and Restore chests are hidden among the Mimics. You can open all three.
- They are randomly distributed--they are not in the places marked on the map.
- You can't tell which chest it is which without opening it; they all look like Items chests.
Note: Mimics have the Draw In ability, so trying to use a SMN and a pet to find the real chests won't work.
- It has been reported that Draw In only works within 20'.
Death Trap (AoE Stun and Poison) has a huge range (>31'). This ability has a somewhat lengthy activation time, so it is easy to stun it.

Often drop an Ancient Beastcoin
They are susceptible to melee damage, unlike normal elementals. That being said, they still have a higher resistance than normal non-elemental monsters to melee attacks.
Elementals of the same type link, and will link from a very large distance. They also aggro to magic and have shared party hate.
A safe place to camp is the northeast corner near the exit portal where the final chest spawns.
The Dark Elementals are resistant to Lullaby and Repose, and immune to Sleep.
The Light Elementals are immune to Lullaby and Repose, but susceptible to Sleep.

Defeating the Elementals corresponding to the in-game day that you entered this floor on (tested on 07/19/09 by killing Dark Elementals after day changed to Fire) causes the final chest to spawn at the exit.
The final chest has 4-5 Ancient Beastcoins, ~2 AF+1 materials (THF, BST, MNK, RDM, PLD, PUP, DNC), a Charcoal Chip and a possibility of a Metal Chip.

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Apollyon	NW Apollyon SW Apollyon NE Apollyon SE Apollyon Central Apollyon CS Apollyon

Temenos	Temenos - Western Tower Temenos - Northern Tower Temenos - Eastern Tower Central Temenos - 1st Floor Central Temenos - 2nd Floor Central Temenos - 3rd Floor Central Temenos - 4th Floor Central Temenos - Basement 1

Rewards	Ancient Beastcoins Artifact Armor +1 Homam Corazza Set Enif Corazza Set Murzim Corazza Set Nashira Manteel Set Adhara Manteel Set Shedir Manteel Set

NPCs	Sagheera Wilhelm

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