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Zanazal the Wise
The Council of Tribes - Kings' Rest
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for The Council of Tribes encounter in Kings' Rest.
There was once a time when no single emperor could rule Zandalar. After a period of civil war, the heads of three families formed an uneasy coalition and tried to rule the empire together. Though they did not often agree, there was peace in Zandalar.
Encounter Facts
Instance Entrance: Zuldazar
Kings' Rest entranceThe Kings' Rest entrance is in Zuldazar, at 37.3, 39.5 on the Zuldazar map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
The battle will begin with Kula the Butcher. When a councilor is defeated, they will return to their urn and the next will join the encounter. However, the defeated councilor will periodically rejoin the battle to use a single ability, and then return to their urn. When all three councilors are defeated, the encounter ends.
Tank
- Debilitating Backhand inflicts Physical damage to Aka'ali the Conqueror's current target player, knocks them back, and applies Shattered Defenses, increasing the target's Physical damage taken.
- Barrel Through causes Aka'ali the Conqueror to charge a targeted player, inflicting heavy Physical damage that splits among all players hit.
Healer
- Barrel Through causes Aka'ali the Conqueror to charge a targeted player, inflicting heavy Physical damage that splits among all players hit.
- Severing Axe inflicts Physical damage over time to random players.
Damage Dealers
- Barrel Through causes Aka'ali the Conqueror to charge a targeted player, inflicting heavy Physical damage that splits among all players hit.
- Poison Nova inflicts Nature damage over time to all players.
- Call of the Elements summons three elemental totems with powerful effects.
Kula the Butcher
Aka'ali the Conqueror
Zanazal the Wise
Heroic and Mythic Difficulty Only
Kings' Rest is not available in Normal Difficulty.
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for Zanazal the Wise, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Arc Lightning
Nature · 1 sec cast
Zanazal strikes target player with a lightning bolt that arcs to other players, inflicting Nature damage to each player struck.
Poison Nova
Nature · 4 sec cast · Lasts 12 sec
Creates a burst of poisonous gas, inflicting Nature damage to all players every 2 sec for 12 sec.
Call of the Elements
Physical · 2.5 sec cast
Zanazal the Wise calls forth his reinforced elemental totems.
Torrent
Frost · Instant
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Kings' Rest.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The The Council of Tribes encounter lists 8 items in the dungeon journal, item level 59. Equip slots covered: Feet, Back, One-Hand, Ranged, Waist and Wrist. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Boots of the Headlong Conqueror Feet (Mail), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Mastery. A vendor pays 38g 10s for it.
- Cloak of the Restless Tribes Back (Cloth), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Mastery. A vendor pays 37g 58s for it. Equip: Restlessness.
- Crackling Jade Kilij One-Hand (One-Handed Sword), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 73g 1s for it.
- Crossbow of Forgotten Majesty Ranged (Crossbow), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 95g 30s for it.
- Girdle of Pestilent Purification Waist (Plate), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 26g 93s for it.
- Jeweled Dagger of Subjugation One-Hand (Dagger), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 70g 30s for it.
- Kula's Butchering Wristwraps Wrist (Leather), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 26g 46s for it.
- Sandals of Wise Voodoo Feet (Cloth), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 38g 81s for it.
Read from the current game build's item data. Listed prices come from our latest US Auction House scan; a drop that binds when picked up never has one.
Recent hotfixes for Zanazal the Wise
- August 25, 2026 Dungeons and Raids › Kings' Rest › The Council of Tribes
Aka'ali the Conqueror and Zanazal the Wise now wait briefly before attacking players.
- August 18, 2026 Dungeons › Kings’ Rest
Encounter now ends immediately after defeating Zanazal the Wise.
Blizzard Entertainment's official hotfix notes, shown in full at the hotfix tracker.