Baramos: Difference between revisions

|Game={{Dragon Quest III}}<br>{{DQ3HD}}<br>{{Dragon Quest XI}}

|Voice Actor=[[Masaharu Satō]] (Japanese, ''[[Dragon Quest III CD Theater|CD Theater]]'')<br>[[Takeshi Watabe]] (Original Japanese audio for {{Abel Yuusha}})<br>[[Garry Chalk]] (English Dub of {{Abel Yuusha}})<br>[[Takaya Hashi]] (Japanese, {{Rivals}})

Baramos and his forces menaced the world for an unknown number of years prior to the beginning of the game, which necessitated the Hero [[Ortega]] departing from [[Aliahan]] to slay him in the opening prologue. Though the [[King of Aliahan]] states that the world at large is unaware of the fiend's activities, his very presence emboldens monsters the world over to assault human settlements and he has sent disguised monsters to infiltrate society, the most disastrous instance being the [[boss troll]] replacing the [[King of Manoza]]. Though commanding the highest station among monsters Baramos is utterly petty and will single out specific humans to torment simply to spread more misery, such as when he cursed the young couple [[Carlos and Sabrina]]. This is not to imply that the wretch is short-sighted or distracted with his amusements, however; the HD-2D remake shows that Baramos is keenly aware of the threats against him and dispatches powerful minions to assassinate the {{Hero 3}} throughout the game.  

Throughout the first half of {{III}} Baramos is believed to be the final boss, but this is a malicious facade; when the Hero defeats Baramos and returns to [[Aliahan]] triumphant, [[Zoma]] interrupts the celebrations to reveal Baramos was just an underling of his--an advance force to clear the way for his master. With his chief servant having failed [[Zoma]] announces that he will personally plunge the world into eternal darkness, causing the {{Hero 3}} to continue his quest in the [[Alefgard|underworld]].

Baramos will attack the party once more in [[Zoma's Citadel]] as a [[Bones of Baramos|shambling corpse]]. There is no dialogue prior or during these encounters, implying that Baramos is not truly "revived" and is forced into further servitude by [[Zoma]]'s magic.  In the {{III}} remakes, a common enemy in {{Cloudsgate Citadel  3}} is a pallete-swap known as a [[Baramonster]]. Whether the [[Baramonster]]s were in [[Zoma]]'s employ is not certain.

|skills=Can attack twice per turn.<br>[[Inferno]]<br>Recovers 90~110 {{HP}} per turn.

| {{NES}} || [[Kaboom]] → normal attack → [[Inferno]] → [[Kafrizzle]] → [[Bazoom]] → normal attack → [[Kaboom]] → [[Fuddle]] → repeat

|All<br>others || [[Kaboom]] → normal attack → [[Inferno]] → normal attack → [[Kafrizzle]] → [[Fuddle]] → [[Kaboom]] → [[Bazoom]] → repeat

|Fizzled || Normal attack → [[Bazoom]] (fails) → [[Inferno]] → normal attack → repeat

Furthermore, Baramos has an excellent AI that halts him from casting [[Kaboom]] if a character has [[Bounce]] applied to them, skipping that phase of his pattern, and avoiding using magic altogether if he's been afflicted with [[Fizzle]], starting a briefer pattern of using physical blows and [[Inferno]] instead. The one exception to this is [[Bazoom]], which will fail to activate when cast and thus waste his turn.

In the {{Game Boy Color}} version Baramos will not cast [[Bazoom]] when [[Fizzle]]d, gaining an additional physical attack in the spells place for a loop of normal attack → normal attack → [[Inferno]] → normal attack.

 

 

Note that as with all bosses Baramos is programmed to burn through status ailments one turn faster than normal monsters.

Baramos appears as a {{Legacy Boss}}, obtained after completing [[List of quests in Dragon Quest IX#Quest #061 - #062|Quest #062]]. He is the weakest of the {{Legacy Boss}}es, but he is still very powerful and capable of casting [[Kafrizz]] and [[Kaboom]] and can also use [[Fire Breath]] and regular attacks (which are prone to inflicting critical hits). Ice attacks are his weakness, but he resists wind attacks.

|''Initial''||[[Kafrizz]], [[Kaboom]], [[Scorch]], [[Critical Hit|critical attack]], sometimes attacks twice per round

|16||Always attacks twice per round.

|41||Begins attacking 3 times per turn, stops using [[Scorch]] & [[Kafrizz]].

|talents=[[Baramos (Talent)|Baramos]] (lv. 1)

*Oddly, Baramos comes after the monsters derived from him in the numerical list of monsters in {{III}}.

DQW Baramos.jpg|Baramos in {{Walk}}.