3 days now runing around and killing Icy shade's no luck so far, Starting to clean out everything and will see what happens. Or maby its broken nowdays.
Level 50 Necro on Yelinak, was able to solo Vhal`Sera. Rooted and used pet as a sacrifice to effectively eat all the Magi Curses. Darkness, Envenomed Bolt, Chilling Embrace, Scourge, Ignite Blood. Pet died when Vhal was around 10%. Probably could have kept pet alive but focused on burning Vhal down so much.
Just as others posted, I cleared and cleared level 6a and b. VahlSera did not spawn until one of the shades popped with a pet. No white on the sleeves, just like earlier posters said. As soon as I dropped the shade, I headed for the spawn point in 6b, and there was VahlSera.
Runs at low hp and has a decent amount of HP. For me he was at at the entrance of the big room on the Northwest side of the 6th floor. I am not sure of the PH since he was already up when I arrived. Added new screenshot.
I can confirm that the shade with the pet triggers the spawn, cleared the floor on both sides of mirror three times and he didn't spawn until I killed that specific shade.
Not all mirrors require a key. Once you've dealt with all those icy shades and the drolvarg model guards, click on through and to get to the watery area with VhalSera...
Edited, Jul 23rd 2013 7:02am by Temperance
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As of todays date I can confirm this spawn is broken, twice now I have killed the place holder "an Ice Shade" with the skelly pet and new models and nothing has popped. Have put in a petition
Update: Yes the mob was spawned inside the wall unaccessible so kind GM spawned him in the right place, also any ice shade can be a ph as it popped everywhere
an enraged vampire spawns after EVERY shrouded bat. This guy does not spawn after every vampire you kill... I was on my first clearing of the floor when I found him in the water room. Also Lucid spirit of Abrams spawned after I killed Incoherent spirit. Maybe that is the trigger? Can't be for sure since they both spawned on my first trip to this floor.
you DO need a key from him to get to the 7th floor. the floor he is describing is 6b-- on the map it is called g. g is 6b, h is 7 and you can hit that little red globe on 6b all you want but you won't get to the top floor without this key.
Edited, Feb 12th 2012 9:44pm by iyeni
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fought for hours before I realized that you dont need the key on the floor he supposedly has the key to get off of. Fought from the beginning of the zone to the 6th floor before I realized it, just click the mirrior to the next flor when you get to the floor with a horde of shades and the drolvargs. good luck guys.
I cleared the level 1 and a half times and saw that he was up on tracker. Did not notice what spawned him unfortunately, but I didn't fight any "old model shades" with a pet. Just the regular shades.
I confirmed tonight that the way to spawn him is to kill the old model shade with the skelly pet in the lower part of the sixth floor. This caused him to spawn immediately in the upper part of floor six. Clearing just the upper part of floor six would not spawn him.
Took him out a couple nights ago with a 48 SK, 49 cleric, 49 bard. Tough fight. He's a necro, threw lots of Boil Blood, Darkness, and occasional Infectious Cloud, Root, or Asystole. But he also has a couple special spells: Vampire Charm (insta-cast) and Magi Curse (spin-stun plus hp/mana dot). Note that Magi Curse isn't really a curse (remove curse won't work on it), and is listed as being unresistable, which I can believe given how often it hit us.
I hope we learned enough from that fight to take on Tserrina next week!
Me as tank 53 Ranger (Virtue, KEI, Storm Strength) and 62 Cleric on Heals (and blasts and oodles of clericy stuff). Cleric had problems with the big bugger before just needed someone to hit the sod.
I found that I couldn't land a hit until I had hit him with a Fire Spell, through out the battle blindness was used a lot and once he got a charm on me (which knocked my WALK on for some reason). The 2nd time he was surronded by two/three bats dropped same loot
(Large Key,VhalSera Earring, Crystalised Shadows)
With the Cleric on Heals there was not much bother as he conned Dark Blue to me, he is just a tricky sod.
I ported up into 6b and killed the bat in the room, then an enraged vampire spawned after its death. After I killed the enraged vampire, I went into the upper room of 6b and there was VhalSera. You might be able to kill random mobs. I did not kill all of the mobs in 6a.