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Nightmare Egg
Dresaron - Darkheart Thicket
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Dresaron encounter in Darkheart Thicket.
Once a young green drake, tending to whelps in the shadow of the great world tree, Dresaron is now engulfed in nightmare, lost in a fog of hatred and fear. He lashes out with powerful wings and a withering breath, unleashing his rage on any who stumble into his clutches.
Encounter Facts
Instance Entrance: Val'sharah
Darkheart Thicket entranceThe Darkheart Thicket entrance is in Val'sharah, at 58.9, 31.0 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
Dresaron engages the players amidst of a clutch of corrupted dragon eggs. Occasionally during the fight Dresaron will use Down Draft to push the players back into the eggs, spawning whelplings.
Damage Dealers
- Avoid disturbing Nightmare Eggs and triggering Hatch Whelpling.
Healers
- Avoid disturbing Nightmare Eggs and triggering Hatch Whelpling.
Tanks
- Avoid disturbing Nightmare Eggs and triggering Hatch Whelpling.
Nightmare Eggs
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for Nightmare Egg, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Hatch Whelpling
Physical · Instant
Disturbing a Corrupted Dragon Egg causes a Hatespawn Whelplng to erupt and begin to feed.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Darkheart Thicket.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The Dresaron encounter lists 11 items in the dungeon journal, item level 50. Equip slots covered: Neck, Waist, Trinket, Shoulder, Wrist, Feet, Legs, Chest, Hands and Head. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Chain of the Green Flight Neck, item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 18g 33s for it.
- Greatbelt of Disruption Waist (Plate), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Mastery. A vendor pays 21g 43s for it.
- Nightmare Egg Shell Trinket, item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Strength. A vendor pays 14s 17c for it. Equip: Down Draft.
- Roiling Fog Gem, item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 37g 47s for it.
- Slipstream Shoulderpads Shoulder (Cloth), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 30g 95s for it.
- Thermal Bindings Wrist (Leather), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 22g 12s for it.
- Whelp Handler's Lined Boots Feet (Mail), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Haste. A vendor pays 30g 12s for it.
- Bramblemail Greaves Legs (Mail), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 35g 91s for it.
- Night Dreamer Robe Chest (Cloth), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 33g 31s for it.
- Nightsfall Gauntlets Hands (Plate), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 17g 21s for it.
- Tranquil Bough Hood Head (Leather), item level 50, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 25g 3s 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.