Petrifin  

a rare creature
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This named Basilisk also comes with the breath weapon (stonebreath) that makes basilisks so annoying to fight.

  • Placeholder is: basilisks
  • This mob spawns at the southeast area of rathe and then path north out of the valley.
  • Respawn Timer: PH respawn 66 seconds

Categories: Templatized | EverQuest
This page last modified 2021-10-03 01:26:20.

Level: 40
Expansion: Original
Effects Used:Stone Breath
NPC Added: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
NPC Last Updated: 2020-11-22 08:24:00

Known Habitats:
  The Rathe Mountains

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hope this helps with spawning him
# Sep 16 2023 at 4:00 PM Rating: Decent
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method that seemed to work, was keeping all mobs but basilisk's dead in the basilisk hill area in about 30min he spawned for me. had the named Sergeant Herptol spawn (actually left him up) but ALL the other trash mobs.. including the orcs skeles robbers i was killing. also kept the few mobs that were up at the 4 way dead.. hope this helps someone
Dont Kill the Basilisks
# May 22 2023 at 10:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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So had been hunting this mob for over a year. I would pop in and out of the zone to see if I could find him up. The last week I decided to really focus on the last 4 mobs I needed for Hunter. I spent 2 days only killing Basilisks and I did not get a single spawn. I then decided to flip the script since I was not having any luck.

I left every Basilisk up and alive in the SE area, and ended up with 4 spawns that were not a Basilisk. Then I ended up leaving Sergeant Herptol and Initiate Xabbis up which left me 2 repeating spawns. I spent a half day clearing them but still did not get a spawn.

I am a ranger, so I also went through the Normal track setting and killed all mobs that started wtih an 'a' to clear out the longest spawned mobs.

After clearing out all those longest spawned mobs, and only killing mobs that were not a Basilisk Petrifin spawned and started attacking me right away on top of the hill in the SE area.

I hope this helps.
Finally
# Jul 10 2022 at 3:01 PM Rating: Decent
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I was standing in the intersection at 1035 -2293 for a solid 18 hours killing everything there. I saw the named orc a few times, a couple of Hasten Bootstrutters, and a couple of Maldyn the Unkempt, but no Petrifin and no Brother Zephyl.

I was at this location when I saw Petrifin on track and tracked him to 1704, -2437 (right where it says Maldyn the Unkempt on Good's maps. Needless to say I killed him, and it appeared to also give me the Mortificator Syythrak checkmark on the Hunter achievement.

Regardless, I saw him around 1704, -2437 and witnessed Brother Zephyl, Hasten Bootstrutter, and Petrifin in that same path on the east side of the zone, the one which goes north/south.

I did not witness Mortificator Syythrak there, but I did also get the named orc, and Maldyn the Unkempt at the eastern 4-way intersection which is at 1059, -2349.

Every mob that traveled that path went into the hill giant area/came out of it, appearing to de-spawn upon going into it. Hasten de-spawned within the path, about where I killed Petrifin, while only Brother Zephyl went Northeast, as opposed to NW into the hill giant area, into the dead-end tunnel and de-spawned there.

I stayed for several more hours, and saw nothing of note other than if there is that a cyclops and a grizzly bear PH will fight, with the cyclops winning of course.

So my conclusion is sit in that eastern path and kill everything going in/out of the hill giant area.

Edited, Jul 10th 2022 1:27pm by hotrod
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Finally
# Aug 27 2023 at 9:44 AM Rating: Decent
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Adding my data point:

I just stood at "1704, -2437 right where it says Maldyn the Unkempt on Good's maps" and killed anything coming or going as the post above advised.

I did this for 2.5 weeks a few hours a day and finally got Petrifin as he was walking north out the valley. It seems lizardman (warriors/mystic/scouts) and basilisk wanderers that come through this area could be the PH.

The drakes that come through this area might be a PH for hasten, maldyn, and zephyl . During all that time I also saw Mortificator Syythrak and the named Orc walk by once (maybe fire beetles, lizardman, orcs are the PHs for these mobs).

Edited, Aug 27th 2023 10:45am by Seeryinx
spawed Petrifin
# Oct 04 2021 at 5:09 PM Rating: Excellent
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Was working on trying to spawn Mortificator Syythrak in the south east of the zone.
I killed a lizzardman warrior and petrifin spawned.
Got em after an hour or so
# Sep 26 2021 at 1:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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Got him to spawn after killing lots of things SE, big focus on Basilisks.
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He does exist
# Jun 01 2021 at 9:42 AM Rating: Excellent
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Information provided below is correct. He spawns in the SE region and will path up. I stood in the valley on the south side of the crossroads at the Feerrott zone in and he eventually came by. PH seems to spawn after about 1 minute as said below but may take longer to fully path up.

I had a char parked there for a total of ~24 hours and saw him twice during double spawn weekend.
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# Jan 01 2020 at 9:58 AM Rating: Good
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ph will spawn in the se area of rathe and then path north out of the valley. ph spawn time is about 66 seconds.
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# Nov 10 2018 at 1:50 PM Rating: Good
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No set location that I know of. I sat at the bug monument at the center of the zone ( 1600 x 300) and killed anything that walked by for an hour. then had to run afk for 4 hours. When I got back from afk, track looked different by only 1 mob : Petrifin and he was beating on me. mostly hit for 12, but rarely got a big shot in for 60. I assume I spawned it by killing those pathers at the monument. I was trying for Mortificator
Spawninfo
# May 30 2017 at 3:10 AM Rating: Good
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Had him spawn in the southeasternmost section of Rathe in the area with a lot of basilisks. I believe his PHs are the roamers that roam from this valley up to the far North (where Hill Giants are).
Weak LIzard
# Aug 24 2004 at 5:17 PM Rating: Decent
Took this thing down with no prob on my 53 Necro today and i got a stupid eye that no one knows what is for he was DB just snared/feared/pet attack and DoTed and he went down in a bout 30-45 sec
Hmmm
# Feb 20 2004 at 7:17 PM Rating: Default
would he harm a Lv 54 BL Gosh i got RM all the time never ever seen him.. and i realy wnat those bracers...
Petrifin
# Feb 18 2004 at 8:19 AM Rating: Decent
I can only tell you he is tough....I ran into him at two different locations with two different Toons........I do not care if I ever see him again, but as much time as I spend there with each new Toon if mine, I am sure it is ineveitable....just hope that if and when you run across him, that you are in good health with lots of mana.....and if worse comes to worse....J-Boots or Sow is good to have on....lol.....This was not written to help...just to warn those that have not faced the wrath of this mighty little creature!
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# Nov 23 2003 at 7:14 AM Rating: Decent
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This pain in the a** ruined my day...broke up my group of upper 30's toons right when we were oom..killed 3 out of 4 of us...he was with some named cyclops...
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gloves of Rallos Zek
# Jul 04 2003 at 4:25 PM Rating: Decent
This guy almost killed my 35 druid. Hits pretty hard and stuns for a long time. Within a few seconds i was down to 28% HP and with no mana on, saw no other option to run. Little persistent guy though, but i reached zone line without getting stunned again.

Some higher level guy killed him and he also dropped the Gloves of Rallos Zek (hence the subject of this message). I believe these gloves are used in mage research, but don't flame me if I'm wrong here.

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suprised me
# May 05 2003 at 12:14 AM Rating: Decent
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i was just trying to pull some hgs when whack 'You are stunned!' and then i turn and i see a little basilisk, and i'm like you don't stand a chance.then, after a few seconds of not being unstunned, and getting hit by this little guy, i con him.yellow.then i say to my group 'help please'.by the time they get there, i have two bubbles of hp left, and i'm stunned.still.well, thank goodness for healers.he would probably be a royal pain in the patoot to solo as a tank.well, the bracer isn't too bad.and no one saw that i looted it, so i guess i'll have to decide what to do with it.anyone know a price range on it?
RE: suprised me
# Jul 18 2003 at 10:54 PM Rating: Default
I was with a 35 CLE friend of mine hunting RMs when someone shouts "Who the heck is this Petrifin guy?" I had not a clue in hell when they were talking about until I get stunned and see the eyes of a named basalisk staring at me (I am a 42 DRU in Wolf Form at them time, lol).

If you can root and dot this guy is not hard (so long as you stay out of his cast range). He/it was red to the 35 CLE and dark blue to me (42 DRU). Hope this helps... BTW: When his root broke and he stood there we was tough to get a hit on, so tanks beware soloing :o)
RE: suprised me
# Aug 14 2003 at 7:02 AM Rating: Decent
He was still dark blue to my 50 Druid.

Resisted all but one of the stuns and nearly killed me with that one stun due to the fact that he hits fairly hard.
Nasty MOB
# May 03 2003 at 9:14 AM Rating: Default
I was killing hg's minding my own business and he jumped on me. I ran. My husbands 45 lvl druid stepped in and died lol. He then pops back, roots it from a distance, dot's it and kills it. Nice bracer, got it in the bazaar for 200pp. We will see what happens.
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# Feb 02 2003 at 10:02 PM Rating: Good
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What is the Eye Of Petrifin for? There is no information on Alakazam about it. If you know, please e-mail me at drkdarin@juno.com.
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Not so hard
# Dec 30 2002 at 2:21 PM Rating: Decent
This guy suprised me when I was playing with my enchanter. He started stunning me back to back and hitting me. Luckily I was charm killing a hill giant with a hill giant so when he was done my giant pet came over and took him out easy. Giants are immune to stuns so it was the perfect against him.

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Petrifin
# Nov 07 2002 at 1:59 PM Rating: Decent
I ran across Petrifin by accident, and soloed him tonight. Only problem I had is that he casts Stone Breath which froze me in place for about 15 seconds or so. (MR is 54) I darked and feared him, then cast Scourge and Asystole and let my pet take care of business. Petrifin took about 3 bubbles of health from my pet counting my pet's lifetap spell. Dropped the Granite Bracer. I have been in Rathe on and off for three weeks, and this is the first I have seen of him. Not too many people seem to know this named basilisk exists, anyone know where is spawn point is or is it random?

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Edited, Thu Nov 7 13:43:43 2002
Lucked out
# Jul 31 2002 at 7:38 AM Rating: Decent
I was hunting In Rathe with my lvl 44 Wiz when I heard a shout go up 'Named Balsik at Med rock' I dashed over there just in time to see a lvl 52 drood choke on his last breath, dunno if he picked up aggro when he was low HP and mana? then a shaman took over from him and died in like 15secs again dunno if he joined in the fight in a poor state, as Petrifin starts walking off I click on him to see his con, DB to me and see he's also low HP, well I kinda felt a little guilty the other 2 guys dying but hey! <shrugs> you can bet if I'd joined in I would've been flammed for KSing. so one nuke later I get the exp and the Bracer, some guys get all the luck <sigh>.

Zappitt Plasmabomb lvl 44 Wiz

Edited, Wed Jul 31 08:27:26 2002
Hmmm
# Jul 29 2002 at 11:48 AM Rating: Decent
From the posts this guy looks like one tough ****...could a 47 monk with decent gear solo him? i got haste....
Pointers!!
# Mar 18 2002 at 5:18 PM Rating: Default
Hi, pointers:
Petrifin is double hitting for 97 damage, and hits with like 25-30 delay... His stunns can sorta be resisted if you got good magic resist (I had 54), he stunned me once, and thanks god only once. I was all alone and he started hitting me, OUCH! started kiting (as a bard, 3x chants twisting in Selo's Chorus once in a while and Amplification), he stunns for quite a while, I would say 6-8 secs... I didnt have a healer or anything and wasnt buffed so 6 secs getting hit for that hard is very dealy. Avoid him if you're alone... and IF you consider kiting, stay FAR FAR from him, at the range limit, you dont want him to cast a stunn in.

Anyways, I got Granite Bracer :-) Was pretty happy! HEHEHE!! Finally upgrading serpentine bracer.

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Killaz
# Jan 04 2002 at 1:56 AM Rating: Default
Could a 39 mage, along with a 30 paladin kill the thing? thinking about earth pet, my own stunn spells, and LoH to whoever is getting beaten on.
now on my must kill list
# Sep 21 2001 at 8:35 PM Rating: Decent
Was standing at entrance to HG valley talking to a friend when i see a basilisk approaching, no big deal, they are all over. WRONG, this thing starts whupping up on me with melee hits in the 90's and stonebreath, plus a nasty stun. I start running for the zone at half health when i realized i hadn't taken him down a half bubble. Well i never made it, called the closest guildy cleric for a rez, and added one more to my must kill list. Now that i know what this beast drops, i will defenitely look for him when killing giants for cash.

Flatten
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Bralamil
# Sep 05 2001 at 4:02 PM Rating: Default
could a 42 necro take him out?
RE: Bralamil
# Jan 04 2002 at 1:59 AM Rating: Default
I would think!

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