Vorasius Raid Guide (The Voidspire)

Overview

• Vorasius walls off the sides of the room with crystals, then fires a sweeping Void Breath. The only way to make room to dodge it is to blow the walls open with exploding Blistercreep adds.
• Tanks: soak every Shadowclaw Slam and split them so one tank takes the debuff-applying hits per cycle.
• Everyone fixated by a Blistercreep: drag it to a crystal wall and let it die there.
• Everyone: read which hand is glowing before Void Breath and run to the opposite side.

Vorasius is one of the two mid-raid bosses of The Voidspire, the Midnight Season 1 raid. On Normal and above, after Imperator Averzian your raid can choose him or Fallen-King Salhadaar next. In Raid Finder he sits in the Weapons of the Void wing.

Vorasius

Abilities

• Shadowclaw Slam: a claw strike on the ground that must hit at least one player. If nobody is in the impact, the whole raid takes heavy damage instead.
• Smashed: the larger claw impacts add a long, stacking physical damage taken increase to whoever soaked, and those hits raise the crystal walls along the sides.
• Aftershock: rings ripple outward from each slam location. Step through the gap or stand where the slam landed.
• Primordial Roar: pulls the raid in, then deals raid damage and knocks everyone back. It opens the fight, so stack up for healing.
• Primordial Power: every Roar adds a stacking raid-wide pulse, so damage climbs the longer the fight runs.
• Parasite Expulsion: Vorasius sheds Blistercreep adds and sprays the room with impact swirls. Each Blistercreep fixates a player.
• Blisterburst: a Blistercreep explodes when it dies, hitting and knocking back nearby players, adding a damage taken debuff, and also damaging the whole raid. The blast is the only thing that can break a crystal wall.
• Creep Spit: living Blistercreeps spit at players for a stacking slow.
• Void Breath: a long beam swept from one side of the room to the other. Being in its path is lethal, and the beam radiates Dark Energy damage while it is active.
• Overpowering Pulse: punishes the raid if nobody is in melee range.

Phases

Boss phase. Stay in the center in front of Vorasius, because walls grow on the left and right as slams land. Tanks soak Shadowclaw Slam on a steady rhythm and everyone handles the Aftershock rings.

Add phase. Parasite Expulsion spawns Blistercreeps that fixate players. Fixated players run to the walls and the adds are killed against them, so the explosions crack the crystal. With the walls gone, Void Breath starts: if the right hand glows, run to the far left edge, and the reverse for the left hand.

Tank

• Only the first two Shadowclaw Slams of each boss phase apply Smashed. Tank A takes those two (use a major defensive on the second), and Tank B soaks every slam after that. Flip the roles on the next boss phase.
• The non-active tank is always fixated by a Blistercreep. Use that tank as a floater who reinforces whichever wall is short on adds.
• Keep someone in melee at all times so Overpowering Pulse never fires.

Healer

• Primordial Roar and Primordial Power make raid damage ramp over the fight, and every Blistercreep death hits the whole raid.
• Plan a raid cooldown for each add phase, especially when several Blistercreeps die close together.
• The Smashed tank takes much more physical damage. Watch them during the following slams.

DPS

• Kill Blistercreeps only once they sit against a wall. An add killed in the middle wastes its explosion.
• Grips, knockbacks and stuns help pin adds exactly where you want them. Blistercreeps pause briefly before exploding, so a late grip can still line up the blast.
• Move to the opposite side of the glowing hand early. Void Breath sweeps the whole room.

Difficulty notes

• Normal: one Blisterburst breaks a wall.
• Heroic: each wall needs two Blisterburst explosions.
• Mythic: each wall needs three explosions and every dead Blistercreep leaves a permanent Dark Goo pool that grows over time. Kill adds against the wall as far back as possible, starting with the farthest spot, and plan separate kill spots for each add phase so the room stays playable. Splitting the raid into two halves with even utility for each wall is the usual setup. One source notes that players fixated in the first add phase are not fixated in the second unless deaths change the pool. Method expects most geared groups to kill the boss before a third add phase, and the enrage follows soon after the third Void Breath.
• Mythic positioning tip: the raid can play in melee and step into the slam impact the moment it lands, which makes the Aftershock rings mostly irrelevant.

Loot highlights

• Hungering Nullcore tokens, which create a class tier set hand piece: Voidforged, Voidcured, Voidcast and Voidwoven, each for a different group of classes.
• Heart of Ancient Hunger: a Strength trinket whose proc raises Critical Strike.
• Inescapable Reach: a two-handed weapon with Agility.
• Hungering Victory: a one-hand weapon with Agility, Mastery and Versatility.
• Grimoire of the Eternal Light: an Intellect off-hand item.
• Signet of the Starved Beast: a ring with no primary stat.
• Plans: Bloomforged Greataxe: a crafting recipe.

Common mistakes

• Nobody standing in a Shadowclaw Slam, which turns it into a raid-wide hit.
• The wrong tank soaking the first two slams, stacking Smashed on one player across cycles.
• Killing a Blistercreep away from the wall, so the wall survives and Void Breath has no escape lane.
• Running toward the glowing hand instead of away from it.
• On Mythic, dropping Dark Goo near the middle in the first add phase. It grows, and the room never recovers.

Mechanics checked against: icy-veins.com, method.gg, method.gg, warcraft.wiki.gg, warcraft.wiki.gg. Ability names and spell IDs come from TheWoWDB's own client datamine.