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Crystal Shard
Skarmorak - The Stonevault
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Skarmorak encounter in The Stonevault.
The High Speaker spent countless years attempting to restore the Awakening Machine. One failed attempt resulted in a new horror: a golem infused with skardyn corruption. Crystals augment its elemental configuration. Though it barely communicates its alien mindset, its hatred for all creation is undeniable.
Encounter Facts
Instance Entrance: The Ringing Deeps
The Stonevault entranceThe Stonevault entrance is in The Ringing Deeps, at 42.7, 8.1 on the The Ringing Deeps map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
Skarmorak assaults players with Crystalline Smash forming Crystal Shards. Occasionally, Skarmorak unleashes Unstable Crash sending Unstable Fragments hurtling towards players. Upon depleting its energy, Skarmorak bolsters itself with Fortified Shell.
Damage Dealers
- Skarmorak draws power from Crystal Shards, bolstering Fortified Shell.
- Unstable Fragments increases healing, and damage dealt to Fortified Shell, but also inflicts Shadow Damage.
Healers
- Unstable Fragments increases healing, and damage dealt to Fortified Shell, but also inflicts Shadow Damage.
- Void Discharge inflicts Shadow damage until Fortified Shell is broken.
Tanks
- Skarmorak inflicts heavy Physical damage to its current target with Crystalline Smash.
- Unstable Fragments increases healing, and damage dealt to Fortified Shell, but also inflicts Shadow Damage.
Crystalline Smash
Crystal Shard
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for Crystal Shard, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Fortified Shell
Physical · Instant · Lasts 6 sec
Crystalline Eruption
Shadow · Instant
Upon Destruction, Crystal Shards fragment violently, inflicting Shadow damage to all players.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in The Stonevault.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The Skarmorak encounter lists 7 items in the dungeon journal, item level 437. Equip slots covered: Hands, Waist, Head, One-Hand, Trinket, Feet and Two-Hand. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Corpseleecher Grips Hands (Mail), item level 437, requires level 68. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 16g 48s for it.
- Crystal-Fissure Girdle Waist (Plate), item level 437, requires level 68. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 16g 42s for it.
- Guise of the Construct Head (Leather), item level 437, requires level 68. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 25g 29s for it.
- Skardyn Mercybringer One-Hand (Warglaive), item level 437, requires level 68. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike, Haste and Intellect. A vendor pays 48g 78s for it.
- Skarmorak Shard Trinket, item level 437, requires level 68. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength. A vendor pays 59g 38s for it.
- Tainted Earthshard Walkers Feet (Cloth), item level 437, requires level 68. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 25g 38s for it.
- Wardbreaker of the Fractured Two-Hand (Two-Handed Mace), item level 437, requires level 68. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 60g 76s 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.