THE DARK RIDER

[Rustic]

Nope. Dark Rider is utterly immune to attacks, and designed to be that way. The Esquire and Bugler he summons will aggro, but Dark Rider doesn't link to either if they're attacked/attack something...though both will link to anyone dumb enough to aggro the Rider.

If you're dumb enough to hit Dark Rider, you gonna get reamed. That's all there is to it. Big Guy With Do Not Touch sign, FFXI's equivalent of "Don't Stand In The Fire".

[MarkovChain]

He doesn't aggro, so if he kills you it's your own fault.

He does agro, casts death on you and it's over. The demon and the imp are easily killed. I've never seen the proof of him being immune to damage but it makes sense. It's impossible to plan anything for this "NPC".

[Malthar]

What?! He's real?! Is this kinda like the /fume thing times back?

[Rustic]

Heh. Years after ToAU and people STILL don't know Dark Rider is real?

Yes, he's very real. He can kill you. You can't kill him. You can kill his summoned imp and demon, but he's immune.

[Ophannus]

Just leave him be.

[Jaall]

Think about what Odin is in both game and in mythology... SE obviously just added a way to make Odin invincible and that also ties in with the gameplay. He makes the warhorse print that was mentioned before, used for assault ranks so it's best he isn't killed anyway because if he was kill-able there would be no print for a while and then everyone would complain. Odin, like Bahamut etc, was never meant to be properly killed.