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Comment by 27147

Seems like a very common rare spawn, he's a real elite, and got a blue pair of boots which he drops now and then, I'd say not a high drop chance tho. Patrols at the fountain in the beginning of the instance.

Comment by 49056

He dropped the Ankleguards and another blue mace (https://www.wowhead.com/classic/item=13026#00Rz)

Comment by KingRamsesIII

This guy can easily be farmed by hunters and rogues (classes that can drop combat). Here's how:

1. Reset the instance until Zerillis spawns with his patrol. (He can also randomly spawn if you clear the fountain patrol, but that's less reliable).

2. Kill Zerillis, but do *NOT* kill his patrolling Shadowhunter buddy. Drop combat after Zerillis is dead, leaving his buddy to patrol by him/herself.

3. Find something to do. After 5-10 minutes, Zerillis will spawn again. This will continue to happen as long as you don't kill his patrolling partner.

4. Profit! Level 40ish greens can sell well; there are 4 classes that look to upgrade all of their armor at 40.

Comment by 2672

very easily solod with 1 add at 49 with a feral druid

Comment by Thottbot

Where exactly does this guy spawn in ZF?

Comment by Thottbot

From time to time he roams the very first crossing with the fountain-like structure in the center and trolls kneeling down towards it. There's also a large boulder to your right as you enter.

Comment by Thottbot

I dont think the drop chance is as high as the site states it, might be lower.... was there for 5 runs yesterday didn't get it on a single run.

Comment by Thottbot

We had him spawn. If you REALLY want him to pop, just camp the fountain. He spawns in the same place as the 2 roaming hunters (which always repop). Easy kill.

Comment by Thottbot

He does walk around the foutain, but he is also a Rare Spawn meaning he only Spawns 1 out of 4 times you attempt the instance. If he's not around the fountain, try resetting it and going back in.

Comment by Thottbot

When you get to the first crossing with the fountain, there is a patrol of two shadowhunters that circles the fountain. They are the placeholders. Kill them repeatedly and he will keep respawning.

Happened to my group today. We were in the instance, we killed the two shadow hunters, moved onto kill the hydromancer, came back and he was spawned. We killed him, went on to kill some other guys and toured back and he spawned yet again in the same instance run. We killed him again. And that was it. Both times he didn't drop the ankleguards. Just a lot of crap.

Not sure what the rate of his spawn is. I might have just gotten lucky. :)

Comment by Thottbot

its a rare spawn... or not that rare..

Comment by Thottbot

Dropped the epic Gutripper dagger... guildmate got it ^^

Comment by Thottbot

has anyone gotten a gutripper off this guy?
my group got one but the mage rolled and took it.... and im a rogue... i was just curious if it drops fairly often. and how many do u think it would take to just do zerillis runs? 3 lvl 50's? or a full group?

Comment by Thottbot

Stealthed in with a 52 rouge (48 rouge here), and sapped the female troll with him. We just waited until they came over to that little hill, and the 52 pulled him up there. Easy kill. He runs away when he's almost dead, so either kill him fast or stun him.

We would reset the instance, and both of us go in at the same time. Took 3 tries, got the boots for both of us.

Comment by Thottbot

I have killed Zerillis about 30 times in a row as I write this message.

Me (level 47 rogue) and my level 53 Paladin friend reset the instance till we saw him and killed him, I had distracted just him so that the other troll that patrols with him kept going and we could take out Zerillis by himself, green item dropped. After that we waited on a hill and Zerillis respawned approximately 8 minutes later, another green item. We just stayed there without reseting the instance and he spawned everytime after about 8 minutes (If you kill the trolls that patrols with him he stops spawning so you have to reset the instance).For the 30 times that we decimated him with our unrelenting attacks we were rewarded with a green item each time.

He is making me insane, just wondering if anyone has got the anklets recently or if patch 1.8 got rid of them/made the drop rate almost non-existant.

Comment by Thottbot

They just dropped for me about 5 mins ago.

An interesting side note. Im a 47 rogue doing this solo and I think about any rogue in this lvl range can pull it off. Here's my strategy ( I've killed him 4 times so far tonight with it ):
You will need health pots and bandages!
I also strongly recommend you have some Blinding Powder
There is a hill along the side of the area where he spawns, that is the "staging area".
Apply Crippling poison to both weapons ( very important, you dont want this guy running )
Eat whatever well fed food you can come up with ( I suppose you could beg a priest for a fort but it's not my style ) also drink any pots you can that will increase your agility, strength, and health ( I have been eating wolf ribs +8 stam/spirit, Drinking Agil pots +25, and Drinking elixers of Fortitude +120 health )
Distract Zerillis ( make sure you don't get his patroller ).
Ambush Zerillis once the patrol is out of range.
Start Evasion
Drag Zerillis back on to the hill that was the staging area
At some point Zerillis is going to net you, you cant control when it will happen but when it does, Blind him if you have blinding powder, If not, your going to take a pounding.
If/When you blind Zerillis, bandage.
Drink a pot if needed.

Good Luck, Its not a tough fight so long as you keep him from pulling any adds. Remember, if it gets too hairy, vanish, you can try again.

Comment by Thottbot

Using the above guide, I camped him today, he wasn't up when I got the instance, but I killed both the placeholder roamers and he spawned the next spawn. I killed him and found that if I killed him and leave the other roamer placeholder up, he tended to spawn every time. Got 7 spawns in a row and got the ankleguards on the 7th kill.

Comment by Thottbot

So using the aforementioned guide, I (47 NightElf Rogue) successfully handled Zerillis and got the the boots x2. It must have been on the fourth kill, he dropped the boots and a Journeymans Backpack. Needless to say I was all adrenilined out for the next few minutes, which gave Zerillis enough time to respawn. So I sacked him again, and what-do-you-know? The boots again :) too bad they're BoP!

(I didn't have too much trouble finding him, out of about 12 or so resets he appeared in 4 of them. Something not mentioned above me is it's best to kill all other patrollers that scout past the staging hill, EXCEPT the troll accompanying Zerillis. Keep this one alive to ensure he respawns till infinite)

Zerillis spawn: 33% 4/12
Sandstalker Ankleguards drop: 40% 2/5

Comment by Thottbot

I was doing ZF with a group, and we had a wipe and we had to go back and clear the patrols we killed before, and zerillis spawned. After we did the troll event and killed the chief, we were running out and we came back to the fountain and he was up again! thats twice in one instance, also for the other rare spawn by the troll event (dustwraith)we cleared the area and killed the boss had a wipe i believe so when we were on our way out i saw him standing in the first tent on the right after the zum rah fight. also zerillis is a pretty rare spawn i've done about 15 instances and only seen him 3 times, 2 of them in the same instance.

Comment by Thottbot

WOW:

1st run through ZF ever, RARE guy is here and the ankleguards drop! but i lose the roll....

2nd run through ZF ever, RARE guy is here and the ankleguards drop! but I'm the only rogue!

:)

he wasnt rare at all to me :) neither were the ankleguards :)

Comment by Thottbot

zerillis walks around the fountain where you can either turn left or right along with another roamer in a single file line. today my group killed him once with no drop, then waited for the respawn. the second kill yielded the ankleguard thingies.

so i guess he's counted as a roamer and respawns faster than normal, like the basilisk patrols that spawn super fast. so, if you get him, wait around until the ankles drop, he'll come back.

take advantage of it before they "fix" it, if you see him.

p.s. on that same run, the game disconnected two members and reconnected them with a different instance id so they got hearthed and the rest of us broke up. unfortunate

Comment by Thottbot

ive seen this guy a few times, but i noticed the last few times ive run ZF on my rogue that after we killed the last boss (Ukorz) that this guy spawned....just me or does the killing trigger the spawn?

Comment by Thottbot

I'm unsure if any of the previous rogues had the same trouble, but it's not Zerrilis who kills me.
The second add he brings along is only sapped for so long and does not continue on the normal patrol route. It immediately walks towards Zerrilis current position (in this case the little hill to the south where you're killing Zerrilis on) and starts to fight.. Closest I got him was 10% before the shadowhunter frogged me and I got killed :(

Comment by Thottbot

Just saw him today while farming mageweave for a tailor alt. He was wandering the room with the four casters around the fountain -after- I'd already cleared the instance, so apparently he doesn't have to spawn the first time through?

Comment by Thottbot

Ok We all know he exists have you seen the rest of the comments.

Comment by Thottbot

47 feral druid solod him and his add

cat form then bear

boots dropped GG

Comment by Thottbot

Exactly when does he spawns, is he just there or do u have 2 kill some1 before, acording 2 the other coments he is just there but they ar +1 year old... some1 plz tell me, (and sry for bad spelling =P )

Comment by Allakhazam

Is he real? I've been in ZF a dozen times and never seen him.

Comment by Allakhazam

When I've seen Zerillis, it's always been as the 2nd guy of the patrol going around the fountain in the middle of ZF - the one where you get to choose which direction you want to do the instance (Gahz to the left, everything else to the right).

It appears that Zerillis has a chance to spawn as part of that patrol each time it respawns, not only when the instance is started - I've seen the patrol killed on the way in, and Zerillis spawned as part of it going out.

Comment by Allakhazam

I have run ZF like 10 times and each time i find him, and each time he drops mojo and sweat, I AM SICK OF THIS! when will he loosen up and drop some nice blues 4 me?

Comment by Allakhazam

This guy isn't a Rare Spawn. He wanders around the instance, thru the one hallway that no one ever goes down. but if u spend enuff time at the well area you'll see him path thru.

I've seen him on every single ZF run i've been on.

Including when we would race our mounts around the instance, if u made it out. you won.

Comment by Allakhazam

He is a rare spawn apparently. We killed him without knowing this and i got the Ankleguards. It was only after someone came up to me and called me a lucky bastid for getting them tht i realised how lucky i had been.

Comment by Allakhazam

too bad the ankleguards look retarded as hell...

Comment by Allakhazam

we had a realy @#$% group and ot took us soooooooo long to move on , eventually we had killed Zerillis and he had just respawned with other mobs was fun the bootqs dropped twice

Comment by Allakhazam

ya 2nd time in on my rogue.. didnt even know about him or the boots.. and it drops.. VERY NICE

Comment by cordlc

I wanted his boots as soon as possible, so I figured out how to solo this guy as a 44 Rogue. Might be doable even sooner, with a better spec or gear (I was subtlety and had mediocre gear).

To the right of the fountain, is a hill that allows you to jump onto the wall. If you walk along the wall, there's a pillar you can hide behind (the one on the gate side). That's where you're going to pull from. Distract Zerilis once he's in shooting range from the wall, and once his guard is far enough, you'll shoot him and hide behind the pillar. When he gets on the wall, you want to hide behind the pillar on the other side of the gate. He won't have line of sight so he can't shoot you, and from my experience he can't net and shoot you because there's no room for him to back up. Without his ranged attacks, he's easier than most normal elites in the instance.

It's a little tricky to jump into the right spot, but once you get the hang of it, the fight becomes easy. Farm him until you've got your boots (and pick up Troll Temper before you start, he can drop a ton)!

Comment by rosesofmay

possible to solo as rogue lvl 46 with right tactic -- you have to sap/distract his friend far away, and when you engage zerillis you pull him slowly (so that he walks towards you and doesn't use his bow) up back the hill where no adds will aggro (not even his friend when it walks towards him) -- watch out for the two patrolling trolls too, here's video of it: https://youtu.be/Y9Mbm13U-RY

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