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Rak'tul
Rak'tul, Vessel of Souls - Maisara Caverns
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Rak'tul, Vessel of Souls encounter in Maisara Caverns.
An undead thrall bound to Vordaza, Rak'tul is grotesquely bloated with the essences of tormented souls and necrotic power. Drunk on his newfound power and driven mad by the souls' endless suffering, Rak'tul stands ready to break Zul'Aman beneath the crushing weight of his fists.
Encounter Facts
In the game's encounter order for Maisara Caverns, Rak'tul comes 3rd of 3, after Vordaza.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
Rak'tul batters players with Spiritbreaker and Crush Souls, forming totems that Soulbind his foes. As the fight progresses, Rak'tul unleashes a Soulrending Roar, casting players' souls into the Restless Masses and afflicting them with Withering Soul until they return to the realm of the living.
Damage Dealers
- Totems spawn at each Crush Souls target's location and cast Soulbind at a player.
- Soulrending Roar applies Withering Soul until players return to the realm of the living.
- Interrupting Eternal Suffering grants Spectral Residue.
Healers
- Totems spawn at each Crush Souls target's location and cast Soulbind at a player.
- Soulrending Roar applies Withering Soul until players return to the realm of the living.
- Deathgorged Vessel inflicts heavy damage to all players.
Tank
- Totems spawn at each Crush Souls target's location and cast Soulbind at a player.
- Soulrending Roar applies Withering Soul until players return to the realm of the living.
- Spiritbreaker inflicts heavy damage to Rak'tul's primary target, launching them into the air.
Crush Souls
Soulbind Totem
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.
Soulbind
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 10080 min
The totem ensnares a player, inflicting Shadow damage every 1 sec and pulling them toward the totem.
Chill of Death
Shadow · Instant
Spiritbreaker
Physical · Instant · Lasts 4.5 sec
Rak'tul pummels his target twice, inflicting Physical damage with each strike. He then delivers a final empowered blow, inflicting Shadow damage and launching the target high into the air.
Spectral Decay
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 40 sec
Deathgorged Vessel
Physical · Instant
Volatile Essence
Shadow · Instant
Released soul energy bursts upon impact, inflicting Shadow damage to players within 2 yards.
Soulrending Roar
Physical · 3 sec cast
Cries of the Fallen
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 3 sec
The soul cries out upon contacting a player, inflicting Shadow damage and rooting them for 3 sec.
Eternal Suffering
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 10080 min
Spectral Residue
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 40 sec
Released essence empowers players, increasing their movement speed by 25% and increasing their damage, healing, and absorption effects by 25% for 40 sec. This effect stacks, but does not refresh its duration.
Withering Soul
Shadow · Instant
While in an incorporeal form, the target suffers Shadow damage every 1 sec. This effect stacks every 4 sec. Returning to the realm of the living removes this effect.
Soul Expulsion
Physical · Instant · Lasts 45 sec
Souls periodically erupt from his form, inflicting Shadow damage to players within 4 yards of each impact.
Shattered Totem
Shadow · Instant
Rak'tul's roar shatters each remaining Soulbind Totem, inflicting Shadow damage to all players for each totem shattered.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Maisara Caverns.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The Rak'tul, Vessel of Souls encounter lists 9 items in the dungeon journal, item level 108. Equip slots covered: Shoulder, One-Hand, Chest, Head, Two-Hand and Trinket. 1 of them can be traded and 8 bind when picked up.
- Pattern: Hexwoven Strand Recipe, item level 1. Tooltip: “Teaches you how to craft Hexwoven Strand.” A vendor pays 50g for it. Lowest listed price right now: 49g 94s across 75 US realms. Use: Learning. Effect: Hexwoven Strand.
- Amalgamation's Harness Shoulder (Plate), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Haste.
- Berserker's Hexclaws One-Hand (Fist Weapon), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Critical Strike.
- Decaying Cuirass Chest (Mail), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike.
- Fetid Vilecrown Head (Leather), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. Tooltip: “It appears sewn from the decaying corpses of many animals.”
- Liferipper's Cutlass Two-Hand (Two-Handed Sword), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike.
- Soulblight Cleaver One-Hand (One-Handed Axe), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery.
- Vessel of Tortured Souls Trinket, item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Mastery. Tooltip: “Don't tap the glass. They don't like that.” A vendor pays 7g 20s for it. Equip: Vessel of Souls.
- Amani Warding Hex Item level 1. Bind on Pickup. A vendor pays 1g for it. Use: Collect Amani Warding Hex.
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
7 achievements list a victory over Rak'tul among their criteria.