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The Bloodbound Horror
The Bloodbound Horror - Nerub-ar Palace
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for The Bloodbound Horror encounter in Nerub-ar Palace.
In the dark pits below Nerub-ar Palace, the blood of the Old Gods congeals in foul, black pools. The Bloodbound Horror rises from this vile ooze - drawing everything in its path into The Unseeming.
Encounter Facts
In the game's encounter order for Nerub-ar Palace, The Bloodbound Horror comes 2nd of 8, after Ulgrax the Devourer and before Sikran.
Instance Entrance: Azj-Kahet
Nerub-ar Palace entranceThe Nerub-ar Palace entrance is in Azj-Kahet, at 43.5, 90.4 on the Azj-Kahet map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
The Bloodbound Horror periodically manifests creatures into The Unseeming to aid its assault. When splattered by Gruesome Disgorge players enter The Unseeming and can attack the creatures directly. Upon reaching 100 energy, The Bloodbound Horror assails players with Goresplatter, inflicting deadly damage to those caught within.
Damage Dealers
- Gruesome Disgorge sends players in front of The Bloodbound Horror into The Unseeming.
- Forgotten Harbingers Manifest Horrors until defeated.
- Grasp From Beyond forms underneath random players.
Tanks
- Gruesome Disgorge sends players in front of The Bloodbound Horror into The Unseeming.
- A Spewing Hemorrhage coalesces on either side of The Bloodbound Horror.
- Lost Watcher's Spectral Slam inflicts heavy Physical damage.
Healers
- Gruesome Disgorge sends players in front of The Bloodbound Horror into The Unseeming.
- Crimson Rain absorbs a large amount of healing.
- Goresplatter inflicts heavy magical damage over time.
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.
Gruesome Disgorge
Shadow · 5 sec cast
The Bloodbound Horror vomits Black Blood in a cone in front of itself, inflicting Shadow damage and an additional Shadow damage every 2 sec for 40 sec. Players under this effect briefly peer into The Unseeming.
Black Bulwark
Physical · 3 sec cast · Lasts 10 sec
The Lost Watcher channels the essence of The Unseeming into The Bloodbound Horror, causing it to absorb damage, increasing every 1 sec for 10 sec.
Spectral Slam
Physical · 3 sec cast
The Lost Watcher slams their current target, inflicting Physical damage.
Manifest Horror
Physical · 4 sec cast
The Forgotten Harbinger manifests a Blood Horror out of The Unseeming that slowly moves toward The Bloodbound Horror.
Blood Pact
Shadow · Instant
Blood Horrors that reach The Bloodbound Horror explode, inflicting Shadow damage to all players.
Unseeming Blight
Physical · Instant · Lasts 1 min
Bloodcurdle
Shadow · 2 sec cast
Spewing Hemorrhage
Physical · 5 sec cast
Goresplatter
Shadow · 8 sec cast
Seeping Transfusion
Physical · Instant
The Bloodbound Horror transfuses the Black Blood into its body, increasing its damage done by 10%. This effect stacks.
Crimson Rain
Physical · Instant
The Bloodbound Horror coats each player in vile blood, causing them to absorb healing.
Grasp From Beyond
Physical · Instant · Lasts 12 sec
Black Sepsis
Shadow · Instant
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Nerub-ar Palace.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The The Bloodbound Horror encounter lists 13 items in the dungeon journal, item level 571. Equip slots covered: Trinket, Shoulder, Head, One-Hand, Legs, Feet, Chest, Finger, Waist and Wrist. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Aberrant Spellforge Trinket, item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect. A vendor pays 85g 38s for it.
- Beacons of the False Dawn Shoulder (Cloth), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 69g 44s for it.
- Beyond's Dark Visage Head (Leather), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 68g 92s for it.
- Blood-Kissed Kukri One-Hand (Dagger), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 140g 70s for it.
- Bloodbound Horror's Legplates Legs (Plate), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 93g 84s for it.
- Boots of the Black Bulwark Feet (Plate), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 70g 64s for it.
- Creeping Coagulum Trinket, item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect. A vendor pays 83g 90s for it.
- Goresplattered Membrane Chest (Mail), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Haste. A vendor pays 93g 49s for it.
- Key to the Unseeming Finger, item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 60g 10s for it.
- Lost Watcher's Remains Waist (Mail), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 49g 34s for it.
- Polluted Spectre's Wraps Wrist (Leather), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Haste. A vendor pays 46g 46s for it.
- Scepter of Manifested Miasma One-Hand (One-Handed Mace), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 135g 10s for it.
- Shattered Eye Cincture Waist (Cloth), item level 571, requires level 80. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 48g 62s 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.
Achievements for Defeating It
7 achievements list a victory over The Bloodbound Horror among their criteria.