Area Bosses - Which is which and how to find them

Half the area bosses have been out for a while now, and the other half look to be on the way, so I thought I'd give you a heads up on where you can find each of them, and a quick overview of their stats and abilities. I'm going to start with the new ones, in ascending order from lowest level to highest, then do the already released ones later.

First up is Deo.

Deo
level 38
HP 7700
MP 200
speed -60
Physical Attack 130
Weapon Defense 100
Magic 0
Magic Defense 120
accuracy 130
Avoid 18
exp 445
KB 1

Deo is located in Ariant, as you can tell. He spawns on his own Hidden Street, called "Hidden Street : Royal Catthus Desert." This map is currently available in GMS, and you may have been there before, as he spawns alongside a good number of Royal Cactus. When Deo appears, his spawn is announced, as is the custom with area bosses. He can appear on either the right or left side of the map. Once engaged, Deo will slam his walking cane into ground, causing an earthquake style attack, which can be avoided by jumping. This attack only does approximately 300 damage, so it shouldn't be a danger to anyone. He's comparable to Stumpy in the first set. He also possesses level 1 defense up.

The quest to defeat Deo is available at level 38, and involves answering a series of questions for the Ariant refining NPC, and you need a complete Lidium to finish the quest. Beware, if you answer his questions wrong, you will lose the lidium and have to get another. In KMS, the order is: 2nd option, 2nd option, 1st option, 1st option. It should be the same. The correct answer may be more obvious in english, in which case those notes are unnecessary.

Next comes Serph.

Serph
level 45
HP 7800
MP 150
speed 0
Physical Attack 135
Weapon Defense 150
Magic 155
Magic Defense 200
accuracy 200
Avoid 20
exp 330
KB 300

Serph spawns at "Aqua Road : Seaweed Tower", which is an ordinary map that lays between Aquarium and Korean Folk Town. Serph spawns on one of the platforms of the "tower" and his spawn is announced. When you first encounter serph, he will be inside his shell, just like King Clang. Once you attack, he will come out and begin fighting. Unlike King Clang, however, Serph is stationary in both forms. Serph's main attack, then, is to spit pearls at you, which are avoidable projectiles. If you get too close, he will also remove the top half of his shell and proceed to smack you with it. The most dangerous thing with Serph is that he possesses level 8 Darkness, which has a 100% chance of 10 second darkness. However, since Serph can't chase you, it's rather easy to wait it out by standing outside his range. He also has Super Weapon Defense up, but not Super Magic Defense, so mages should not be hampered at all.

Serph does not have a quest associated with it, so it likely won't be hunted much, however in KoreaMS it does drop Chaos Scrolls. Whether it does here is a point of debate.

After Serph comes Faust:

Faust
level 50
HP 9800
MP 100
speed -30
Physical Attack 165
Weapon Defense 110
Magic 0
Magic Defense 150
accuracy 100
Avoid 20
exp 410
undead 0
KB 600

Faust spawns at "Hidden Street : The Forest of Evil I", which is the first map with Malady on it. You can easily tell it is the correct map by the "corrupted portal" located in the upper right hand corner of the map. This portal is part of the quest to defeat Faust, but we'll get into that in a minute. Faust sports quite a few skills, especially for a monster of its level. He sports 10 second Super Weapon Def. up, and can summon 3 Zombie Lupins at a time to help. He also has level 1 Attack up, Defense up, and Magic Attack up. Faust's attack is throwing a whole bunch of bananas, rather than just one. It deals about 500 damage, so it shouldn't be a problem for most.

Faust's quest can be quite annoying for several reasons. Firstly, it involves hunting Malady. Everyone hates Malady. Secondly, The Faust NPC, Reef, is only available at certain times of day. This time window is 5 PM to 7 AM server time; That's quite inconvenient if you live in distant time zones (This meant that, in KMS, he did not appear until 4 AM). If you can't play during that window, then you'll never be able to do this quest, so that's a bit lame. Otherwise, the quest is fairly straightforward; You'll need to visit Arwen, Grendel, Fanzy the cat, and the aforementioned Reef. Reef is located through the Corrupted Portal in the upper corner.

After Faust comes Timer.

Timer
level 59
HP 21000
MP 200
speed -30
Physical Attack 200
Weapon Defense 180
Magic 205
Magic Defense 230
accuracy 150
Avoid 20
exp 650
KB 1100

Timer spawns at Ludibrium : Whirlpool of Time. This map has Tick Tocks on it. Timer is infamously annoying for his Super KB attack, as well as long lasting Super Weapon Defense up, Super Magic Defense up, and stun. He, like Faust, has attack up, defense up, and Magic Attack up. When Timer attacks, his colorful head will rotate, revealing a gray reverse side. This is your cue to get out of the way if you don't want to be KBed into the far wall, though sometimes it will in fact be one of the skills instead.

I don't know a great deal about timer's quest, but it does involve hatching a baby timer egg by collecting toy caterpillars from Ticks and Tick Tocks. As mentioned above, Timer's not very popular due to the fact that the battle can be quite annoying. He also tends to be rather hard to find, as people will kill them on their way to papulatus. I don't think he has any noteworthy drops either.

Next up... Dile:

Dile
level 65
HP 31000
MP 200
speed -30
Physical Attack 190
Weapon Defense 190
Magic 200
Magic Defense 220
accuracy 150
Avoid 30
exp 810
KB 1500

Dile spawns at "Warning Street : Dangerous Croko I". Dile possesses Attack up, Defense up, Magic Attack up, and can recover HP. He also has Super Weapon Defense up, as seems to be the general trend. Dile doesn't have a magic attack, so no worries there.

Dile's quest begins at JM in the Streets of Kerning, and he has you go get a note from the Hut in the Swamp, which is located off of Dangerous Croko. The note is only available from 5 PM to 8 PM Server time, so that's an even narrower and more annoying window than Faust's quests. Once you get the note, it's time to go around and visit several people in kerning (Nella, Jake, Mr. Pickall, and Shumi) to collect information. Once you've gathered it all, report back to JM, talk to Lakelis, return to JM, then go kill Dile. Talk to JM one last time.

Here comes Zeno!

Zeno
level 65
HP 36000
MP 300
speed -40
Physical Attack 205
Weapon Defense 210
Magic 0
Magic Defense 200
accuracy 150
Avoid 29
exp 940
KB 5400

Zeno spawns at "Hidden Street : Gray's Plain", however this map in GMS has no name. It's accessed from pressing up on a rock on the upper level at Kulan Field 4. has no skills, but he makes up for it with the raw power of Super KB. It does about 650 damage, but you can jump to avoid it, so it's not too much of a problem. Still, since it's his only ability, he uses it quite a bit. As I recall, Zeno drops some pretty nice scrolls, but since he's in Omega Sector I doubt he will be hunted often.

Zeno's quest has some annoyances as well, but fortunately no time limits. You start at Dr. Kim, go to Alien Gray, and travel back and forth a few times. Dr. Kim wants to make a device to spy on Gray's telepathy, so you must gather the pieces for it. Once you have them all, he gives you one of 2 devices at a 50% rate. One works, one will misread Gray's thoughts. If you get this one, then you've failed and you have to collect items again. This can be pretty annoying. After you get the right one, go back to Dr. Kim and go kill Zeno.

Time to move to the Big leagues:

Chimera
level 85
HP 96000
MP 350
speed -30
Physical Attack 430
Weapon Defense 700
Magic 430
Magic Defense 465
accuracy 160
Avoid 27
exp 3000
KB 3000

Chimera spawns at "Hidden Street : Lab - Secret Basement Path." This means that you must have completed a pretty large portion of the Magatia quest chain in order to even access the map where Chimera spawns, however Chimera himself has no quest attached. Chimera's primary attack is to fire a missile out of its mouth, which deals nearly 1,000 damage. Chimera has Magic Attack up, Magic Defense up, Super Weapon Defense up, and Avoid up. Chimera sports many great drops and is an extremely popular boss in KMS. However, all of Magatia is popular in KMS and yet it never really took off in GMS. For that reason, it may be easier to find Chimera here than it is there.


The biggest, baddest area boss there is -

Leviathan
Fire Resistant, Ice resistant
level 120
HP 13,400,000
MP 3500
speed -20
Physical Attack 620
Weapon Defense 950
Magic 710
Magic Defense 1050
accuracy 230
Avoid 41
exp 47,355
KB 10,000

Leviathan is by far the strongest area boss. Its damage is on par with that of Griffey and Manon, making it quite deadly to archers, NLs, and gunslingers below 13x, hitting upwards of 3.8k. Leviathan spawns at a map called "Hidden Street : Leviathan's Gorge", or alternatively "Leviathan's Valley". the name is still up in the air because, as is the case with Zeno's map, it lacks a name in GMS right now. This map can be reached by pressing up at Dragon Canyon (I need to revisit the area to get the exact map name), and is available right now. It can summon Wyverns of each color 2 at a time, so they might get in the way. He also possesses Weakness and Crazy Skull (the reverse controls move from Ariant Coliseum) so fighting him has the potential to be extremely deadly. Fortunately, no danger from Super Weapon Defense up or Dispel. Leviathan is known for dropping skillbooks, but because he's so dangerous and so far out there, he's not hunted too often. I imagine he'll become a new favorite solo boss challenge in GMS however, as he has that level of danger and challenge that we've come to love.

No quest for Leviathan sadly At least, not to my knowledge.

That's the first part for today, I'll edit in the older bosses later on.