Derakor the Vindicator met his well-deserved end last night at the hand of Zyerne (me) Goji and Kirah (both Midgen). Derakor was a much tougher fight than Zlandicar was; he hit extremely hard and even with the vastly superior gear and AA that wasn't available in the Velious era he was a major challange.
The first pull resulted in a wipe when both cleric mercs ran OOM. We discovered he brings 2 buddies with him.
The second pull resulted in me dying trying to feign split the two buddies.
We have up on that and tried our third pull. This time we concentrated on the two adds first, and we got a third, light blue add behind us in the process. This worked fairly well, but when big D was at about 50% with all 3 adds dead, the clerics were starting to run low again. At this point I decided to drop Harm Touch on him. This did considerable damage, but resulted in me going from rampage tank to main tank which resulted in my untimely demise. Thankfully since I didn't release my cleric merc stayed up. Unfortunately, however, Kirah then became rampage tank and died as the clerics began to run out. By this time, however, Derakor was at 4% health and Kirah's cleric merc was able to keep the tank merc up just long enough for Goji to burn him down! A smashing, skin of the teeth win by Goji!
Dropped a spell, his head, his heart, and the boots. Sadly, the boots aren't what they used to be but they did at least give me a new color to dye my armor!