Brother Zephyl  

Ive been reading all the posts about Brother Z and after a week of camping him i felt it was my turn to share the experience.
I saw how people kept statistics of how many mobs they killed of each, so I thought id do the same to see if I hit jackpot fast or slowly compared to the rest. Sadly im still camping him atm.
The facts posted on this board are all true, can verify it all.
Brother Z or any of the 3 placeholders (A Drake, Maldyn the Unkempt, Hasten Bootstrutter) spawn at the new Hillgiant hill just north of the ferrot zone in, they spawn randomly around the hill and wander towards the west wall at the same spot each time, where they walk into the wall and pop out on the other side, at the path behind the valley. Here they wander north to the merchants, and then back south going just inside the old Hillgiant area and then back up on the path towards ferrot, and into the new Hillgiant valley where they depop again, a good big circle pathing. Some drakes do from time to time wander away from the normal path tho, and through the 2 bottom valleys and up back into the new Hillgiant valley where they despawn again, but they still spawn at the same place and pops through the western wall.
Ive currently killed 64 Drakes, 15 Maldyns, 21 Hastens and 3 Brother Z’s, with no robe drops so far. I can also verify the fact that if Brother Z is wearing the robe when he pops, he will drop it, and if not, he won’t. It’s also true that if you enter the zone after he has spawned, he will not have the robe graphics even if he really has it. I saw him pop once for me with a robe on, but another monk got to him first, and he dropped it, besides that I have also seen a monk kill him without the grafics on, but still dropping the robe, because I entered the zone after he had spawned.
And, last of course, spawn time on Brother Z and placeholders are all exactly 5:57 mins
I have been here for about 2 week on and off, a total of 21 hours tracking him, I guess ive been struck by a gust of bad luck, but it still beats camping raster, Sol ro, and the headband quest + having to spawn both Brother Quinn and Z to do the quest.
Hope this information will help anyone else trying to get the monk epic.

Brother Kyokoshinkai Kiminikaikoksiko
67 Monk of Tunare




Edited, Sat Jan 7 13:15:35 2006

Heh, I killed this mob the other week out of pure boredom (was doing the Jboots quest) with my 70 mage. I used the 66 air pet Child of Wind, and aside from mage pet-haste and ds, we were both unbuffed. It was a pretty tough fight in the fact that I was chain-casting pet heal and pyrelin skin. Had he not started walking away from me when he was 15% I woulda snuffed it (was OOM.) ...Dropped a robe of lost circle and a headband. The Monk who was with me and looking for him nearly screamed out of excitement. /shrug. Was fun to try killing something new.

Arch Mage Aiwendill - 70 Mage of The Rathe

Edited, Fri Dec 30 01:01:22 2005

As of October 27th this guy did not drop the robe. Took 69 monk and 70 shadowknight useing heal potions etc and we barely was able to take him. He just had a rune, torn training robe, and black headband.

Don't know if it doesn't always drop, or if they just removed the robe from his loot table

More info about these butt holes!

they all seem to spawn around the new HG area and can move THROUGH walls to get to other valleys! spawn timer is 5:57 (not 6 mins) so you can save yourself another 3 seconds...i have been killing drakes for a while now. saw 1 hasten and way too many drakes and now 1 maldyn. no brother yet /cry. good luck to all yall!

-Slashtail
60 monk
Xegony Server

Okay, so i have been camping this guy today for a few hours...killed 3 drakes and got no other pops. then i decided to map out the paths of each mob and this is what i have so far: I found A Drake at (+873,+157). He went straight towards the feerott to (+1134,-2372). next, i found Maldyn the Unkempt at (+873,+157). He was running in the opposite direction and went down through the bottom valley. He did not stop where the drake did. instead he went straight into the new HG valley and despawned at (+2697,-2621). Next i found Hasten between the drake's two locs. He went straight to (+1442, -2407) and despawned. Then i found another drake at Maldyn's spot and taking that path. I killed him and havnt seen anything since. ill update this post as i learn more, but it seems that sony decided to make Bro Z and his posse's pathing a pain in the @$$. anyway, hope this helps.
-Slashtail of Obsidian Ryders
60th monk
Xegony server

for all you new monks looking for this guy they have moved him.. he is now left of the zone in from feerrott, his PH's all run around in that opening. sometime they make there way out of the area and roam around the paths. or even high up the walls. I havent really found a good place to sit and wait for him. so may have to bring a tracker friend to help out some.

also you can turn in idol/sash in over and over. he doesnt despawn. I should know :x I turned my idol/sash in. and friend with me said why he wearing weird robes... so end the end I smoked him and got the robes off of him... go figure..

Edited, Tue Aug 16 13:56:37 2005

Can anyone confirm if Brother Z depsawns after you turn in idol / sash or can you do multiple turn ins before he poofs?

confirmed 6 min timer and those listed ph's. soloed with my ranger ~ lvl 70 Gavtron on BB sever june 10, 2005. took awhile to get spawned.. hard fight. without revamped heals and aa crit heals wouldn't of been able to solo. but got robe and onto next step. Jubei is monk alt.

70pal time/ep geared 850aas.. soloed Brother Zephyl. Easy fight.

Best spot to camp him is -800 + 500. Kill the Ph or named that is up, within 8 minutes it wanders through that chokepoint every time. The spawn seems to come from either right or left of that position but it comes that way immediately after spawning, everytime.

Just soloed em with my 66 mage, with only LDoN pet aug, lvl 66 spells, 30 aa's, pre elemental, but pet was buffed with virtue and lvl 60 shm buffs. Took me down to 10% mana and pet to 30% at the end, but still got em.

Lvl 4 iksar monk with robe now heh

Edit: dropped robe first time he spawned, so maybe drop rate was upped after his "tuning". Also, as someone mentioned before, robe shows only if he spawns and your in zone, otherwise no robe graphic shows (i had to gate first try killing him)

Edited, Mon Feb 7 18:29:16 2005

AS OF 29 OCT 2004 HE STILL DROPS IT AND MADE THIS MONKY VERY HAPPY, GOOD LUCK TO ALL WHO TRY THE QUEST OR THE KILL.