The Arcway Guide

30-second TL;DR

Adventure Guide says

As vast as the city of Suramar is, the vast network of tunnels beneath the city spans an even greater reach.
Nightborne society has grown to depend on the power of the Nightwell, and the Arcway delivers that lifeblood throughout the city.
The Adventure Guide lists 5 encounters: Ivanyr, Corstilax, General Xakal, Nal'tira, Advisor Vandros.

Encounters

Ivanyr6 abilities · 11 dropsAs Ivanyr drains mana from the Night Crystal he grows increasingly powerful.

Corstilax6 abilities · 9 dropsCorstilax guards the Nightwell breach, attempting to limit players' exposure to Nightwell Energy.

General Xakal7 abilities · 12 dropsGeneral Xakal periodically summons Dread Felbats and causes the ground to erupt with Fel Fissures.

Nal'tira4 abilities · 9 dropsNal'tira weakens her enemies and attempts to draw them into her Tangled Web.

Advisor Vandros9 abilities · 16 dropsAdvisor Vandros uses the power of the Nightwell to influence time.

Mounts, toys, achievements, transmog

Only rows the journal loot table or an achievement title can prove for this encounter.

Item sets and transmog

Fortitude of the Nightborne · Jacin's Ruse · Journey Through Time · March of the Legion · Nightwell Arcanum · Traitor's Oath

Achievements

Heroic: The Arcway · Mythic: The Arcway · Mythic: The Arcway · The Arcway

Entrance and instance

The Arcway is a dungeon in the Adventure Guide. See the The Arcway database page for the raw journal, map, and loot grid. This guide does not invent coordinates or a walking path.

Player strategy

This page quotes the Adventure Guide. It does not add player strategy such as positioning, assignments, stack or spread calls, or cooldown timings unless that sentence is already in the journal.

Questions

How many bosses are in The Arcway?

The Adventure Guide lists 5 encounters.

What loot does The Arcway drop?

The journal lists 57 drops across its encounters. Open a boss guide or the database page for the per-encounter tables.

Is this the The Arcway database page?

No. This is the encounter guide. The encyclopedia page with the raw journal tree and the full loot grid is linked as Database on this page.

Where does this guide's text come from?

Quoted Adventure Guide sections come from TheWoWDB's retail datamine (client build 12.1.0.69587, ingested 2026-09-01). We do not invent positioning, assignments, or cooldown timings.

Source and build

This page quotes the Adventure Guide. It does not add player strategy such as positioning, assignments, stack or spread calls, or cooldown timings unless that sentence is already in the journal. Quoted sections come from TheWoWDB Adventure Guide datamine (client build 12.1.0.69587, ingested 2026-09-01). Ability names link to first-party spell pages. When a newer retail build is ingested, this page updates with it.