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Elerethe Renferal
Elerethe Renferal - The Emerald Nightmare
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Elerethe Renferal encounter in The Emerald Nightmare.
Elerethe, once a mighty druid and adept shapeshifter, was led down a dark path by the belief that she was betrayed by her closest allies. Her consciousness now resides in the nightmare, damning her to an existence of fear, confusion, and hatred.
Encounter Facts
In the game's encounter order for The Emerald Nightmare, Elerethe Renferal comes 5th of 7, after Ysondre and before Cenarius.
Instance Entrance: Val'sharah
The Emerald Nightmare entranceThe Emerald Nightmare entrance is in Val'sharah, at 56.3, 36.7 on the Val'sharah 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, Elerethe swaps between the nightmarish forms of a spider and a roc. When she takes to the skies as a roc, she moves to a different platform, forcing players to weather her Dark Storm as they make their way towards her. On Mythic difficulty, Elrethe uses an additional ability depending on what platform she is currently on. On the first platform she uses Tangled Webs, on the second she uses Violent Winds, and on the third Nightmare Spawn.
Damage Dealers
- During Spider form, stand apart from the raid during Necrotic Venom to place venomous pools.
- During Roc form, place Twisting Shadows away from the raid.
- Kill Venomous Spiderlings.
Healers
- During Spider form, heal allies connected by Web of Pain.
- During Roc form, the raid takes ramping damage from Dark Storm until they reach the eye of the storm.
Tanks
- During Spider form, take turns tanking Spiderlings to manage applications of Dripping Fangs.
- During Roc form, quickly taunt Elerethe after Raking Talons.
- During Roc form, pick up a Shimmering Feather to speed your way across the webbing.
- Keep Venomous Spiderlings away from the boss or they will grant her stacks of Swarm.
Elerethe Renferal
Spider Form
Takes the form of a nightmare spider.
Roc Form
Takes the form of a nightmare roc.
Surging Egg Sacs
Running into these egg sacs releases a swarm of Skittering Spiderlings.
Skittering Spiderling
These tiny spiders burst forth and attack in numbers when released from their egg sacs.
Venomous Spiderling
Venomous Spiderlings appear from the web during the encounter.
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for Elerethe Renferal, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Web of Pain
Nature · 1.4 sec cast
Elerethe connects two targets with a web of pain. 100% of damage done to the linked source is reflected to you. Reflected damage is increased after the targets separate beyond 20 yards from each other.
Pain Lash
Nature · Instant
Targets that run through the Web of Pain beam are inflicted with Nature damage and are knocked back.
Feeding Time
Physical · Instant
Elerethe ascends into the web and calls her children down to feed. While in the web, Elerethe positions herself to drop onto her unsuspecting prey with Vile Ambush.
Vile Ambush
Physical · Instant
Drops from above onto her prey, inflicting Physical damage and knocking back all targets. Damage decreases the further targets are from the point of impact.
Necrotic Venom
Nature · 1.5 sec cast
Hurls necrotic poison at random enemies that inflicts Nature damage every 1 sec and places a debuff on the target that inflicts Nature damage to nearby allies each tick. Also, each pulse leaves behind a venomous pool.
Tangled Webs
Physical · Instant · Lasts 75 sec
Quickly covers the ground with a tacky web. When enemies are on its surface for more than 2 sec at a time, they summon additional Venomous Spiderlings. The web lasts 75 sec.
Nightmare Spawn
Physical · Instant · Lasts 3 min
Continuously summons egg sacs around her location that grow over time. Fully grown egg sacs release Venomous Spiderlings when popped. Elerethe will pop all grown egg sacs during Vile Ambush.
Gathering Clouds
Physical · 2.5 sec cast · Lasts 8 sec
The boss flings quills at all targets for Physical damage every 1 second and pushes everyone back. Gathering Clouds inflicts additional damage the further the target is from Elerethe Renferal.
Shimmering Feather
Physical · Instant · Lasts 25 sec
Shimmering feathers fall from Elerethe's wings, granting the bearer increased jump height and the ability to leap onto spiderlings, instantly killing them.
Dark Storm
Shadow · 4 sec cast
Conjures a dark storm and flies to another platform. The storm inflicts Shadow damage every 1 sec and the damage increases 5% every 1 sec until targets enter the eye of the storm.
Twisting Shadows
Shadow · 1.3 sec cast
Venomous Pool
Physical · Instant · Lasts 10 sec
Twisting Shadows suck up the venomous pools and hurl poisonous blobs at random enemy destinations, inflicting Nature damage to all nearby targets.
Razor Wing
Shadow · 4.5 sec cast
The bird buffets its wings, hurling razor feathers that inflict Shadow damage to targets in a cone in front of the boss.
Raking Talons
Shadow · 2 sec cast · Lasts 10 sec
Rakes her talons across her current target, inflicting Shadow damage and increases damage taken from consecutive Raking Talons by 100% per stack. She repeats this cast multiple times in rapid succession.
Violent Winds
Shadow · 6 sec cast · Lasts 8 sec
Elerethe channels violent winds at her target, pushing them away and inflicting Shadow damage every 1 sec to enemies in a line in front of her. The amount of force pushing the targets away is reduced for each player in the effect and reduces the amount of stacks of Wind Burn that are applied directly to the current target.
Wind Burn
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 45 sec
This effect increases damage taken from Violent Winds by 15% per stack.
Dripping Fangs
Physical · Instant
Dripping fangs poison the current target and inflict Nature damage every 1 sec. This effect stacks.
Swarm
Physical · Instant
Elerethe draws strength from her minions, increasing her damage dealt by 25% and attack speed by 25% when they are close. This effect stacks.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in The Emerald Nightmare.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The Elerethe Renferal encounter lists 15 items in the dungeon journal, item level 50. Equip slots covered: Feet, Trinket, Back, Head, Chest, Waist, Legs and Wrist. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Black Venom Sabatons Feet (Mail), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 44g 54s for it.
- Cocoon of Enforced Solitude Trinket, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect. A vendor pays 28g 35s for it. Use: Solitude.
- Fel-Bloated Venom Sac Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 50g 2s for it.
- Gossamer-Spun Greatcloak Back (Cloth), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 44g 38s for it.
- Mask of Multitudinous Eyes Head (Leather), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 41g 6s for it.
- Patient Ambusher's Hauberk Chest (Mail), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 54g 22s for it.
- Pliable Spider Silk Cinch Waist (Cloth), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Intellect, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 29g 39s for it.
- Ragged Horrorweave Leggings Legs (Cloth), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Intellect, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 57g 63s for it.
- Scything Quill Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 46g 77s for it.
- Shrieking Bloodstone Gem, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 46g 59s for it.
- Storm-Battered Legplates Legs (Plate), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Strength or Intellect, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 57g 62s for it.
- Stormfury Diamond Gem, item level 50. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 49g 11s for it.
- Twisting Wind Trinket, item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect. A vendor pays 18s 69c for it. Equip: Tormenting Cyclone.
- Venom-Fanged Barbute Head (Plate), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Strength or Intellect, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 42g 97s for it.
- Wristwraps of Broken Trust Wrist (Leather), item level 50, requires level 45. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Agility or Intellect, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 28g 87s 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
8 achievements list a victory over Elerethe Renferal among their criteria.