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Can be mined once slayed
Elite
Norvakess
Terror of the Dread Wastes
Norvakess (Terror of the Dread Wastes) is an Elite Beast of the Shale Beast family, level 25 to 35, hostile to players.
Details
Norvakess at a Glance
ReactionHostile
FactionThe Mantid Swarm
Faction groupother monsters
Level and Map Tracking
The game data tunes Norvakess for levels 25 to 35, Mists of Pandaria content.
In the Client Files
Standing toward playersHostile
Also The Mantid Swarm in the current client data
Background
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Hunter Pet: Shale Beast
Norvakess belongs to the Shale Beast creature family, which Hunters can tame; its pet specialization is Cunning. The Shale Beast diet in the client data: Meat, Fish, Raw Meat, and Raw Fish.
The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.
This is the first MOB that Wowhead has failed to help me on. What is the strategy? I am a mage. I burn him down to half-health, and he dives underground. He returns with full health. What should I do? How do I prevent this?
It respawns after 1 minute and does indeed net a rather huge amount of experience. Killing it repeatedly, however, is only worth it if you can kill it fast enough not to submerge.
On my DK, I managed that several times (85k DPS), but other times I had up to 3 submerges (30k DPS). So in the end it might not really be viable.
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Game Data
Creature ID62324
Display ID44508
Faction template2558
Content tuning61