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High Interrogator Gerstahn
High Interrogator Gerstahn - Blackrock Depths
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the High Interrogator Gerstahn encounter in Blackrock Depths.
The Twilight's Hammer cultist Gerstahn has always indulged in life's finer things: exotic foods, fine clothes, and gem-encrusted torture tools. Day and night, her prisoners' bloodcurdling cries echo throughout the Dark Iron clan's infamous Detention Block. Gerstahn proudly calls this horrific noise her symphony of screams, and she is always eager to add another voice to the chorus.
Encounter Facts
In the game's Normal encounter order for Blackrock Depths, High Interrogator Gerstahn comes 1st of 18, before Lord Roccor.
Instance Entrance: Searing Gorge
Blackrock Depths entranceThe Blackrock Depths entrance is in Searing Gorge, at 27.6, 72.4 on the Searing Gorge map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Mana Burn
High Interrogator Gerstahn inflicts Shadow damage to a player and drains a portion of their mana.
Psychic Scream
Shadow Word: Pain
High Interrogator Gerstahn inflicts a player with Shadow Word: Pain.
Shadow Shield
High Interrogator Gerstahn surrounds herself in a dark shield, absorbing up to damage for 30 sec.
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for High Interrogator Gerstahn, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Psychic Scream
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 4 sec
Shadow Shield
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 30 sec
Surrounds the caster with a shield woven of Shadow magic. The shield lasts 30 sec. and absorbs damage.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Blackrock Depths.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The High Interrogator Gerstahn encounter lists 4 items in the dungeon journal, item level 27. Equip slots covered: Back, Held In Off-hand, Feet and Shoulder. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Blackveil Cape Back (Cloth), item level 27, requires level 20. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 34g 30s for it.
- Enthralled Sphere Held In Off-hand, item level 27, requires level 20. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Haste, Versatility and Intellect. A vendor pays 39g 13s for it.
- Greaves of Withering Despair Feet (Mail), item level 27, requires level 20. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 35g 14s for it.
- Kentic Amice Shoulder (Cloth), item level 27, requires level 20. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 34g 4s 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.