Mantid is a family of enemies in Final Fantasy XI.

Special Attacks

Even the normal attacks of these huge insects count as special attacks, striking multiple players at a time.

• Macerating Bile: Area of effect heavy Bio and all stats down.
• Phlegm Expulsion: Area of effect Slow, Silence, and Amnesia status.
• Preying Posture: Attack Boost, Accuracy Boost, Magic Attack Boost, and Intension (magic accuracy boost). These effects can be dispelled but it will take four dispels to remove them all. Also gains a potent Defense Down (and sometimes Gravity) aura.
• Raptorial Claw: Area of effect heavy physical damage, Knockback, and Magic Defense Down.
• Slicing Sickle: Area of effect heavy physical damage, Knockback, and Defense Down.
• Death Prophet: Conal Instant Death.
• Immolating Claw: Conal damage and Plague status. Red mantids (Gaunab and Paramount Mantis) only.
• Exorender: Conal physical damage. Will kill Bloodswiller Flies, causing Tsui-Goab to level up. Brown mantids (Tsui-Goab) only.

Besides the listed special attacks, spellcasting (elemental and enfeebling magic only) is not uncommon among mantids.

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Etymology

[view · edit · purge]Mantises is an order of insects that contains over 2,400 species and about 430 genera in 15 families worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. Most are in the family Mantidae. A common name, often applied to any species in the order, is "praying mantis" due to the typical "prayer-like" posture with folded fore-limbs, although the eggcorn "preying mantis" is sometimes used in reference to their predatory habits. In Europe and other regions, however, the name "praying mantis" refers to only a single species, Mantis religiosa.