Hellfire Ramparts
Vazruden the Herald Guide
Vazruden the Herald in Hellfire Ramparts, quoted from the Adventure Guide. Database holds the raw abilities and the full loot table.
30-second TL;DR
Adventure Guide says
- Stages named in the Adventure Guide: Stage One: Your time is running out!, Stage Two: Nazan.
Encounter phases
Adventure Guide says
- Stage One: Your time is running out!
- Stage Two: Nazan When Vazruden reaches 40% remaining health, he calls for Nazan to land and aid him on the ground.
Boss abilities
| Ability | Adventure Guide | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Shield Slam | Vazruden slams his current target, inflicting Physical damage and stunning them for 2 sec. | |
| Revenge | Vazruden counterattacks, inflicting Physical damage. Revenge can only occur after Vazruden blocks, dodges or parries. | |
| Vazruden's Mark | Vazruden marks a player, causing Nazan to attack them for 6 sec. | |
| Fireball | Nazan inflicts Fire damage to a player, creating a patch of Liquid Flame at their location for 15 sec. Nazan inflicts Fire damage to a player, creating a patch of Liquid Flame at their location for 30 sec. | |
| Cone of Fire | ||
| Bellowing Roar |
Loot
Every name is a TheWoWDB item page. Hover the row for the first-party tooltip.
Mounts, toys, achievements, transmog
Only rows the journal loot table or an achievement title can prove for this encounter.
Item sets and transmog
Achievements
Entrance and instance
Hellfire Ramparts is a dungeon in the Adventure Guide. See the Hellfire Ramparts database page for the raw journal, map, and loot grid. This guide does not invent coordinates or a walking path.
Related bosses
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
What does the Adventure Guide say about Vazruden the Herald?
Stages named in the Adventure Guide: Stage One: Your time is running out!, Stage Two: Nazan.
What does Vazruden the Herald drop?
The Adventure Guide lists 24 drops. Each name links to its TheWoWDB item page. The full table also lives on the Hellfire Ramparts database page.
Does Vazruden the Herald change on Heroic or Mythic?
The current Adventure Guide text for this encounter does not include separate Heroic or Mythic sentences we can quote. If a later client build adds them, they appear here automatically.
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). Player strategy such as positioning, assignments, and cooldown timings is omitted unless that sentence is already in the journal.
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.