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Moroes
Moroes - Return to Karazhan
Moroes is a boss encounter in Return to Karazhan.
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Encounter Facts
In the game's encounter order for Return to Karazhan, Moroes comes 3rd of 8, after Maiden of Virtue and before Attumen the Huntsman.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Model
Background
Instance Entrance: Deadwind Pass
Return to Karazhan entranceThe Return to Karazhan entrance is in Deadwind Pass, at 46.4, 70.7 on the Deadwind Pass map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
As the fight progresses, Moroes uses Garrote to continously spread damage across the party. Moroes casts Ghastly Purge at 60% health, making all his dinner guests immune to crowd control abilities.
Damage Dealers
- Kill the additional dinner guests before Moroes uses Ghastly Purge to make them immune to stuns and bonds.
- Use Ghost Traps on Moroes' dinner guests.
Healers
- Tanks take increased damage when effected by Coat Check.
- Moroes uses Garrote to spread damage throughout the party.
- Use Ghost Traps on Moroes' dinner guests.
Tanks
- Use cooldowns when effected by Coat Check.
Ghost Trap
Spell detailsMoroes
VanishMoroes' Dinner Guests
Dinner Party
Spell detailsBaroness Dorothea Millstipe
Arcane Blast
Spell details
Mana Drain
Spell detailsLady Catriona Von'Indi
Smite
Spell details
Healing Stream
Spell detailsBaron Rafe Dreuger
Iron Whirlwind
Spell detailsLady Keira Berrybuck
Empowered Arms
Spell detailsLord Robin Daris
Whirling Edge
Spell detailsLord Crispin Ference
Will Breaker
Spell detailsAbility Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for Moroes, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Ghost Trap
Physical · Instant · Lasts 70 sec
Hurl a trap at the feet of a ghostly dinner guest in order to trap them within it, incapacitating them for 70 sec.
Garrote
Physical · Instant · Lasts 1 min
Appears behind the target and garrotes them, inflicting Physical damage on impact and Physical damage every 1 sec. This effect stacks.
Coat Check
Holy · 1 sec cast · Lasts 10 sec
Strips the current target of their armor reducing their protection by 75%. Moroes then provides his target with a complimentary robe, because its not "that" sort of dinner party.
Ghastly Purge
Physical · Instant
At 60% health, Moroes purges his dinner guests of all stuns and bonds and makes them immune to these effects for the remainder of the encounter.
Mana Drain
Arcane · 2.5 sec cast · Lasts 6 sec
Drains and inflicts Arcane damage every 3 sec to the current target in addition to stunning them for 6 sec.
Iron Whirlwind
Physical · 1 sec cast · Lasts 8 sec
Spins violently, inflicting Physical damage every 1 sec to nearby enemies for 8 sec.
Empowered Arms
Holy · 2.5 sec cast · Lasts 30 sec
Increases Moroes' attack speed by 75% and damage done by 100% for 30 sec.
Whirling Edge
Physical · 1.7 sec cast
Throws an enchanted blade towards a random player. Upon landing the blade begins to whirl inflicting Physical damage every 2 sec to all enemies within the zone.
Will Breaker
Holy · 3 sec cast
Lord Crispin Ference swings his weapon, inflicting Holy damage to targets in a line in front of the caster.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Return to Karazhan.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Moroes encounter in Return to Karazhan.
Moroes, the steward of Karazhan, dotes upon his master's dinner guests within the grand Banquet Hall. Eternally devoted to the care of the tower, he dispatches impolite party crashers with cruel efficiency.
What Each Drop Is
The Moroes encounter lists 9 items in the dungeon journal, item level 50. Equip slots covered: Trinket, Chest, Head, Finger and Legs. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Bloodstained Handkerchief Trinket, item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Strength. Tooltip: “Marked with a raven silhouette.” A vendor pays 8 gold85 silver for it. Use: Cruel Garrote.
- Breastplate of Obligation Chest (Plate), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 56 gold91 silver for it.
- Castellan's Blinders Head (Mail), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 41 gold17 silver for it.
- Jagged Emerald Gem, item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 47 gold57 silver for it.
- Perfectly Preserved Apple Gem, item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 51 gold4 silver for it.
- Robes of Wicked Modesty Chest (Cloth), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Haste. A vendor pays 57 gold75 silver for it.
- Seal of Darkshire Nobility Finger, item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Versatility and Mastery. A vendor pays 21 gold64 silver for it. Equip: Arrogance.
- Willbreaker Legguards Legs (Leather), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 56 gold90 silver for it.
- Illusion: Mongoose Consumable, item level 1, requires level 24. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 3 gold 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.
Achievements for Defeating It
5 achievements list a victory over Moroes among their criteria.
Where to Find Moroes
Quests in Return to Karazhan
- Fragments of the Past
- Return to Karazhan: High Stress Hiatus
- Return to Karazhan: In the Eye of the Beholder
- Return to Karazhan: Master of the House