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Lord Waycrest
Lord and Lady Waycrest - Waycrest Manor
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Lord and Lady Waycrest encounter in Waycrest Manor.
Stricken with grief due to her ailing husband, Lady Waycrest called out to any power that could save him. Gorak Tul answered her cry and promised that death would never part the couple, for a price.
Encounter Facts
In the game's encounter order for Waycrest Manor, Lord Waycrest comes 4th of 5, after Raal the Gluttonous and before Gorak Tul.
Instance Entrance: Drustvar
Waycrest Manor entranceThe Waycrest Manor entrance is in Drustvar, at 33.7, 12.2 on the Drustvar map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
Lord Waycrest engages the party directly, with Lady Waycrest assisting by using her organ to attack. When Lord Waycrest is defeated, Lady Waycrest casts Vitality Transfer to bring him back at the cost of her own life. At 10% remaining health, Lady Waycrest joins the fight.
Healers
- Virulent Pathogen can be cleansed off party members.
- Move to avoid Discordant Cadenza.
Damage Dealers
- Focus damage on Lord Waycrest until Lady Waycrest enters the fight.
- Move away from your party to avoid spreading Virulent Pathogen.
- Move to avoid Discordant Cadenza.
Tanks
- Putrid Vitality increases Lord Waycrest's damage over the course of the fight.
- Move to avoid Discordant Cadenza.
Lady Waycrest
Lord Waycrest
Wasting Strike
Virulent Pathogen
On Heroic Difficulty and higher, Virulent Pathogen also leaves behind Contagious Remnants.
Putrid Vitality
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.
Wracking Chord
Shadow · Instant
Strikes the target with a bolt of unbearable pain, inflicting Shadow damage.
Discordant Cadenza
Physical · 2 sec cast · Lasts 5 sec
Lady Waycrest plays an ear-splitting cadenza for 5 sec, inflicting Shadow damage at each of the impact points.
Vitality Transfer
Physical · Instant · Lasts 2.5 sec
Transfers a portion of the caster's health to the target, healing them to their maximum health.
Wasting Strike
Nature · 1.5 sec cast · Lasts 5 sec
Claws at the enemy with rotten claws, inflicting Nature damage and additional Nature damage every 1 sec for 5 sec.
Virulent Pathogen
Nature · 1.5 sec cast · Lasts 5 sec
Infects the target with a highly infectious plague, inflicting Nature damage every 1 sec and reducing movement speed by 50% for 5 sec.
Contagious Remnants
Nature · Instant
Putrid Vitality
Physical · Instant
Transferred vitality empowers the target, increasing damage done by 3% and haste by 3%. 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 Waycrest Manor.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The Lord and Lady Waycrest encounter lists 7 items in the dungeon journal, item level 59. Equip slots covered: Waist, Trinket, Finger, Feet, Hands and One-Hand. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Belt of Undying Devotion Waist (Cloth), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Mastery. A vendor pays 25g 97s for it.
- Lady Waycrest's Music Box Trinket, item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect. A vendor pays 22s 79c for it. Part of the Waycrest Legacy set.
- Lord Waycrest's Signet Finger, item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 32g 94s for it. Part of the Waycrest Legacy set.
- Moss-Covered Wingtip Shoes Feet (Leather), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Haste. A vendor pays 37g 54s for it.
- Risen Lord's Oversized Gauntlets Hands (Plate), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 26g 83s for it.
- Soulcharmer's Bludgeon One-Hand (One-Handed Mace), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility, Stamina, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 75g 69s for it.
- Waistguard of Deteriorating Grace Waist (Mail), item level 59. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 24g 83s 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.