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Commento di Predergast

Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on these feats of prestidigitation!

Commento di kwoo12

How do you unlock him as a follower? He isn't showing a quest for me.

Commento di Altorax

Might want to add his second ability to the tooltip:

'Hat-Trick: Chance to return from a mission with a random reward from inside the magic hat!'

No idea what sort of reward we'll receive as of yet though.
EDIT: Just levelled him up to green and unlocked the Hat Trick ability. Received Zampa di Lepre Portafortuna which is pretty dope. Received a piece of gray vendor trash Coniglio Sfortunato from his second mission. Appears to be a 50/50 chance to receive one of the two.

Commento di Cuddlebunz

Picked up the quest to unlock this follower today (NA realm). The quest is available in front of the mission board in the Mage hall.

The questline took only about five minutes to complete.

In the end you receive both the follower and a toy.

Commento di Rekka

Regarding The Great Akazamzarak as a combat ally:
His two primary abilities are : Carta Caricata and Coniglio Esplosivo!
Carta Caricata is a fast casting spammable single target damage spell. It was hitting for 90k non crit with a 1 second cast time
Coniglio Esplosivo! is TGA's AoE spell it hits for 200k non crit, but has a ~10 sec cooldown and a longer 3 second cast time

When ordered to fall back he will periodically appear to cast Scegli una Carta! which is a 4 second channel in which TGA pulses for short ranged AoE. The radius is small but the damage is terrific, easily killing the mobs I was testing on. Each individual hit was for 90k non-crit but it is able to hit each enemy over 40+ times for total dmg of 4mil+ per target after crits. I had some issues with the ability not spawning in an ideal location to hit all the enemies i was fighting, but that is common with most combat allies. The minimum cooldown on Pick A Card appears to be ~90 seconds, although I've also had it take longer for unknown reasons. Despite the cooldown, and unreliability of controlling when/where he appears this is definitely his best ability and his recommend usage.

His cast times and damage are affected by player gear and the numbers above reflect an 898 Arcane Mage's results.

Ultimately the question is how does he compare to other mage combat allies, especially the new hotness Aethas il Predatore del Sole. I think as an active combat ally TGA will do dmg more consistently with his fewer abilities, and faster cast times, but even so his dmg is pretty bad. Aethas on the other hand will spend a lot of time doing nothing as stuff dies before he lands a cast, but his Razziatore del Fuoco is miles ahead of anything TGA can do when it gets a good hit. On the other hand when ordered to fall back support. Aethas will do nothing if the initial target of his Razziatore del Sole dies, where as TGA's Scegli una Carta! will pulse dmg regardless of the circumstances ( except nobody being nearby), and as a result TGA will do more dmg more consistently as support, and his damage under optimal circumstances is higher than Aethas's. Note that the support abilities have significant hidden cooldowns, and can be difficult to trigger when you want them.

At the end of the day the decision may come down to which one you'd prefer to have running missions instead of protecting you. Aethas doesn't counter hazards and TGA suffer's because the other spell counter champions are quite good. In the end I Like Aethas as a Meatball esque champion more than I like TGA for missions so I recommend TGA for a Mage's combat ally used in the "support" role. A Combat Ally should have limited impact on your success in the open world, so don't feel like there's a "wrong" answer here. Ultimately your combat ally is there to generate you gold,resources, or AP while world questing, and its combat effectiveness is secondary.

Other notes: TGA rides a swanky carpet around both when flying and on the ground, but since you should have ordered him to fall back you won't see it.

Commento di Uroon

The solution to unlocking him seems to be: upgrade class hall to 7 followers and then the quest appears next reset. The quest appeared for me today with the EU reset, after having upgraded to 7 in the previous week.

Commento di DebbiD

I chose Guardians of the Kirin Tor as my tier 7 order advancement, and he was in my class hall today offering me the quest Chi cerca trova e chi trova tiene. My tier 8 order advancement was halfway through its research. Based on my experience and that of Uroon, who also posted today, it seems you can pick either tier 7 option and he will appear.

Commento di Boxofbeer

Before you be able up recruit this bro, you have to earn Campioni degli Spezzalegione and recruit Aethas il Predatore del Sole.
After weekly reset you'll find Akazamzarak il Grande in the class hall next to mission map.

This is a full quest chain below.
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Akazamzarak il Grande quest chain.
1	Chi cerca trova e chi trova tiene	Hall of the Guardian	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4h3agul1lU
2	Servo di nessuno	Hall of the Guardian	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Qth_DZGSM
3	Niente assi nella manica	Hall of the Guardian	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WycksdzrWk0
4	Nella tana del coniglio	Hall of the Guardian	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6te-Yu10Ww
5	Campione: Akazamzarak il Grande	Hall of the Guardian	Akazamzarak il Grande