Boss
Blood Parasite
Broodtwister Ovi'nax - Nerub-ar Palace
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Broodtwister Ovi'nax encounter in Nerub-ar Palace.
Deep within the bowels of the queen's palace, Broodtwister Ovi'nax conducts abominable experiments with the black blood found in Azj-kahet. This corpulent horror lumbers through the palace's cavernous depths, regurgitating inky sludge onto hatchlings to observe its gruesome effects.
Encounter Facts
Instance Entrance: Azj-Kahet
Nerub-ar Palace entranceThe Nerub-ar Palace entrance is in Azj-Kahet, at 43.5, 90.4 on the Azj-Kahet map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Broodtwister Ovi'nax injects players with Experimental Dosage which causes nearby eggs to hatch upon expiration, unleashing the horrors within. Upon reaching 100 energy, Broodtwister Ovi'nax will Ingest Black Blood, growing in power and causing the room to slowly fill with Sanguine Overflow
Tanks
- Volatile Concoction inflicts damage to all players based on how much health the target is missing when it is removed.
- Sanguine Overflow mutates any creatures it comes into contact with.
- Colossal Spiders inflict increasing damage with Vicious Bite.
Damage Dealers
- Experimental Dosage causes nearby eggs to hatch, unleashing the horrific experiments incubating within.
- Sticky Web immobilizes nearby players when removed.
- Blood Parasites Infest their target upon reaching them.
Healers
- Experimental Dosage causes nearby eggs to hatch, unleashing the horrific experiments incubating within.
- Broodtwister Ovi'nax inflicts increasing Shadow damage and healing absorbs as he receives more Unstable Infusions.
- Volatile Concoction inflicts damage to all players based on how much health the target is missing when it is removed.
Experimental Dosage
On Mythic difficulty, 2 simultaneous Experimental Dosage are required to cause a nearby egg to hatch.
Experimental Eggs
Colossal Egg
Colossal Spider
Squirming Egg
Voracious Worm
Quivering Broodcluster
Blood Parasite
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for this encounter, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Experimental Dosage
Shadow · 1.5 sec cast
Broodtwister Ovi'nax injects a reactive catalyst into several players causing them to erupt after 8 sec, inflicting Shadow damage and absorbing healing to all players within 4 yards. Experimental Eggs caught in this effect are hatched.
Mutation: Necrotic
Shadow · Instant
Vicious Bite
Nature · 1.5 sec cast
The Colossal Spider bites its current target, inflicting Nature damage. In addition, frenzy overtakes the spider, increasing its damage done by 25% until it is slain. This effect stacks.
Necrotic Wound
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 15 sec
Mutation: Ravenous
Shadow · Instant
Poison Burst
Nature · 6 sec cast
The Voracious Worm unleashes a blast of toxic slime that inflicts Nature damage to all players.
Mutation: Accelerated
Shadow · Instant
In addition, their inexorable desire to consume increases their movement speed by 10% every 1 sec until they are slain.
Fixate
Nature · Instant
Infest
Nature · 1.5 sec cast · Lasts 10 sec
Blood Parasite burrows into its target, inflicting Nature damage every 1 sec for 10 sec. Upon expiration, Blood Parasites erupt from the player and seek new prey.
Ingest Black Blood
Nature · Instant
Upon reaching full energy Broodtwister Ovi'nax charges towards a full canister of Black Blood and begins devouring it.
Unstable Infusion
Shadow · Instant
Waves of shadowy energy emanate from the Black Blood infused Broodtwister, inflicting Shadow damage and absorbing the next healing done to all players every 7.5 sec.
Vile Discharge
Shadow · Instant
Catalyze Mutation
Physical · Instant
Broodtwister Ovi'nax injects Black Blood into its Experimental Eggs, mutating the creatures growing within. Broodtwister Ovi'nax injects all eggs matching the egg associated with each Black Blood canister.
Sanguine Overflow
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 30 sec
The canister of Black Blood leaks its contents across the floor of the chamber, slowly growing in size. This pool inflicts Shadow damage and absorbs the next healing received every 0.5 sec from players within the effect.
Caustic Reaction
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 30 sec
Black Blood causes the rapid incubation of any Experimental Eggs it touches, causing it to hatch and inflict Shadow damage to all players every 2 sec for 30 sec.
Sticky Web
Nature · 1.5 sec cast
Broodtwister Ovi'nax covers several players with sticky webbing, inflicting Nature damage every 0.5 sec and reducing movement speed by 70% until it is dispelled.
Web Eruption
Nature · Instant · Lasts 8 sec
Sticky webbing erupts from the target, inflicting Nature damage and rooting players within 10 yards for 8 sec.
Volatile Concoction
Nature · 1.5 sec cast · Lasts 8 sec
Broodtwister Ovi'nax injects a cocktail of unstable substances into his target, inflicting Nature damage and an additional Nature damage every 1 sec for 8 sec. Upon expiration the chemicals react, inflicting additional Nature damage based on the target's missing health. This damage is reduced the healthier the target is.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Nerub-ar Palace.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The Broodtwister Ovi'nax encounter lists 14 items in the dungeon journal, item level 571. Equip slots covered: Waist, Feet, Hands, Held In Off-hand, Trinket, Wrist, Two-Hand and Finger. 1 of them can be traded and 13 bind when picked up.
- Accelerated Ascension Coil Waist (Mail), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 49g 25s for it.
- Assimilated Eggshell Slippers Feet (Cloth), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Haste. A vendor pays 75g 77s for it.
- Black Blood Injectors Hands (Plate), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Haste. A vendor pays 46g 47s for it.
- Broodtwister's Grim Catalyst Held In Off-hand, item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Versatility, Critical Strike and Intellect. A vendor pays 81g 99s for it.
- Dreadful Blasphemer's Effigy Miscellaneous, item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Usable by Death Knight, Warlock and Demon Hunter. Use: Empty Egg.
- Gruesome Syringe Trinket, item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Critical Strike. A vendor pays 85g 68s for it.
- Mystic Blasphemer's Effigy Miscellaneous, item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Usable by Hunter, Mage and Druid. Use: Empty Egg.
- Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg Trinket, item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 80g 51s for it. Use: Suspended Incubation.
- Sanguine Experiment's Bandages Wrist (Leather), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 47g 9s for it.
- Spire of Transfused Horrors Two-Hand (Staff), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility, Stamina, Versatility and Mastery. A vendor pays 172g 7s for it.
- Venerated Blasphemer's Effigy Miscellaneous, item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Usable by Paladin, Priest and Shaman. Use: Empty Egg.
- Writhing Ringworm Finger, item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Mastery and Haste. Tooltip: “Is it alive? Maybe. Is it fashionable? ...Maybe.” A vendor pays 60g 66s for it.
- Zenith Blasphemer's Effigy Miscellaneous, item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Usable by Warrior, Rogue, Monk and Evoker. Use: Empty Egg.
- Recipe: Sticky Sweet Treat Recipe, item level 70. Tooltip: “Teaches you how to craft Sticky Sweet Treat.” A vendor pays 5g for it. Lowest listed price right now: 75,000g 99s across 22 US realms. Use: Learning. Effect: Sticky Sweet Treat.
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
7 achievements list a victory over Blood Parasite among their criteria.