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Vakan
The Zaqali Elders - Dragon Isles
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for The Zaqali Elders encounter in Dragon Isles.
Vakan and Gholna, powerful djaradin elders, are each a master over their respective element. Gholna with lava and Vakan with shadowflame, they are locked in constant conflict over who is stronger. Through devastation and chaos, each elder attempts to outdo the other until one of them is crowned victor.
Encounter Facts
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
Vakan and Gholna take turns gaining energy to see who can kill the most players. Vakan hurls Enveloping Darkness at random player destinations that summons a Blistering Cyclone. Gholna creates Lava Geysers at random player destinations that erupt and continually inflict Fire damage to several players. At full energy, Vakan unleashes Scorching Eclipse while Gholna casts Incineration. When one is defeated, the other declares victory reducing their spells recast time and increasing the rate they gain energy.
DPS
- Avoid Gholna's Incineration.
- Avoid Vakan's Scorching Eclipse.
Healers
- Gholna stacks Searing Touch on random players.
- Vakan stacks Burning Shadows on random players.
Tanks
- Gholna's Burning Strike applies an application of Searing Touch.
- Vakan's Umbral Smash applies an application of Burning Shadows.
- While Gholna and Vakan are close together, they gain Empowered Rivalry.
Vakan
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.
Empowered Rivalry
Physical · Instant · Lasts 1 sec
Umbral Smash
Fire, Shadow · Instant
Vakan smashes his current target, inflicting Shadowflame damage to players in a frontal cone and knocking them back.
Burning Shadows
Fire, Shadow · Instant · Lasts 36 sec
Inflicts Shadowflame damage every 2 sec for 36 sec. This effect stacks.
Blazing Pitch
Fire, Shadow · 2 sec cast
Enveloping Darkness
Fire, Shadow · Instant · Lasts 3 min
Blistering Cyclone
Fire, Shadow · Instant
The Vortex inflicts Shadowflame damage every 1 sec to players standing within it.
Gholna's Might
Fire, Nature · Instant · Lasts 10 sec
Scorching Eclipse
Fire, Shadow · 5 sec cast
Stygian Shield
Fire, Shadow · Instant · Lasts 24 sec
Shadowflame wreaths Vakan, reducing all incoming damage by 90%.
Burning Strike
Fire, Nature · Instant
Gholna strikes her current target, inflicting Volcanic damage to players in a frontal cone and knocking them back.
Searing Touch
Fire, Nature · Instant · Lasts 36 sec
Inflicts Volcanic damage every 2 sec for 36 sec. This effect stacks.
Stoking the Flames
Fire, Nature · 3 sec cast
Lava Geyser
Fire, Nature · Instant · Lasts 3 min
Molten Pool
Fire, Nature · Instant
Magma inflicts Volcanic damage every 1 sec to players standing within it.
Magma Burst
Fire, Nature · Instant
Magma erupts every 4 sec inflicting Volcanic damage to random players.
Vakan's Might
Fire, Shadow · Instant · Lasts 10 sec
Incineration
Fire, Nature · 3 sec cast · Lasts 20 sec
Smelted Bulwark
Fire, Nature · Instant · Lasts 20 sec
A fiery shield surrounds Gholna, reducing all incoming damage by 90%.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Dragon Isles.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The The Zaqali Elders encounter lists 8 items in the dungeon journal, item level 415. Equip slots covered: Chest, Feet, Wrist, Head, Shoulder, Legs and Waist. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Ashen Zaralek Cuirass Chest (Leather), item level 415, requires level 70. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery.
- Blazestalker's Smelted Cleats Feet (Mail), item level 415, requires level 70. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Versatility.
- Cavernous Foliage Wristbands Wrist (Leather), item level 415, requires level 70. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Critical Strike.
- Crown of the Twin Elders Head (Mail), item level 415, requires level 70. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike.
- Epaulets of Draconic Conquest Shoulder (Plate), item level 415, requires level 70. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste.
- Gholna's Lavaborne Legwraps Legs (Cloth), item level 415, requires level 70. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery.
- Heatbinder's Burning Slippers Feet (Cloth), item level 415, requires level 70. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Mastery.
- Vakan's Shale Greatbelt Waist (Plate), item level 415, requires level 70. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility.
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.