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Margrave Stradama
Margrave Stradama - Plaguefall
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Margrave Stradama encounter in Plaguefall.
It was believed that Margrave Stradama was destroyed in the explosion that brought down her house. In truth the explosion transformed her into a monstrous new form, driving her mad, and leaving her at the heart of the fallen House of Plagues.
Encounter Facts
In the game's encounter order for Plaguefall, Margrave Stradama comes 4th of 4, after Domina Venomblade.
- Globgrog
- Doctor Ickus
- Domina Venomblade
- Margrave Stradama
Instance Entrance: Maldraxxus
Plaguefall entranceThe Plaguefall entrance is in Maldraxxus, at 59.5, 65.1 on the Maldraxxus map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
Stradama sinks beneath the ooze at health thresholds of 66% and 33%, unleashing tentacles that assault the party with Plague Crash.
Tank
- Touch of Slime inflicts heavy party wide damage upon striking no players.
- Avoid the tentacles during Plague Crash.
Damage Dealers
- Defeat Malignant Spawn before they overwhelm the party with Touch of Slime.
- Avoid the tentacles during Plague Crash.
Healer
- Infectious Rain inflicts increasing Nature damage to the party.
- Avoid the tentacles during Plague Crash.
Malignant Growth
Malignant Spawn
Plaguebound Devoted
Summoned at health thresholds 66%, 33%, and continually crawl from the floor while Margave Stradama is under 33%.
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for Margrave Stradama, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Plague Crash
Nature · Instant
Stradama sinks beneath the slime and causes tentacles to erupt in a pattern, inflicting Nature damage to players caught in the blast.
Touch of Slime
Nature · 3 sec cast
If this attack does not hit any players, it inflicts Nature damage to the party.
Infectious Rain
Nature · 1 sec cast · Lasts 6 sec
Margrave Stradama unleashes a torrent of plague every 2 sec for 6 sec coating all players in filth for Nature damage. This disease additionally inflicts Nature damage every 1 sec for 6 sec. This effect stacks.
Plague Rot
Nature · 1.5 sec cast
Margrave Stradama infects all players, inflicting Nature damage every 1 sec for 30 sec when not engaged in melee combat. 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 Plaguefall.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The Margrave Stradama encounter lists 27 items in the dungeon journal, item level 158. Equip slots covered: Back, Hands, Trinket, Legs, Feet, Shoulder and One-Hand. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Memory of a Darkglare Medallion Quest, item level 1. Bind on Pickup. Use: Restoring Memory.
- Memory of Death's Certainty Quest, item level 1. Bind on Pickup. Use: Restoring Memory.
- Memory of my Crystalline Reflection Quest, item level 1. Bind on Pickup. Use: Restoring Memory.
- Blighted Margrave's Cloak Back (Cloth), item level 158, requires level 60. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 44g 30s for it.
- Gloves of Obscure Rituals Hands (Leather), item level 158, requires level 60. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 29g 99s for it.
- Infinitely Divisible Ooze Trinket, item level 158, requires level 60. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect. A vendor pays 20g 16s for it.
- Leggings of the Erudite Scholar Legs (Cloth), item level 158, requires level 60. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 62g 19s for it.
- Muckwallow Stompers Feet (Plate), item level 158, requires level 60. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 44g 12s for it.
- Plagueborne Shoulderguards Shoulder (Mail), item level 158, requires level 60. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 47g 6s for it.
- Poxstorm, Longsword of Pestilence One-Hand (One-Handed Sword), item level 158, requires level 60. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. Tooltip: “The taint of Stradama's machinations linger on the blade.” A vendor pays 84g 22s for it. Equip: Poxstorm.
- Sludge Feeler Miscellaneous, item level 1. Bind on Pickup. Tooltip: “Teaches you how to summon this companion.” Use: Learning.
- Bone Marrow Hops Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Brooding Pool Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Brutal Grasp Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Evolved Swarm Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Fatal Decimation Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Festering Transfusion Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Fury of the Skies Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Gift of the Lich Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Infernal Cascade Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Necrotic Barrage Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Rabid Shadows Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Righteous Might Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Sudden Fractures Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Tumbling Waves Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Veteran's Repute Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
- Withering Bolt Consumable, item level 145. Bind on Pickup. Use: Learning.
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
4 achievements list a victory over Margrave Stradama among their criteria.