TheWoWDBBoss
Vordaza
Vordaza - Maisara Caverns
Found In
Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Vordaza encounter in Maisara Caverns.
Vordaza, the Vilebranch's master of souls, performs forbidden rites to extract the soul essences of the dead. She distills the suffering of her victims into raw necrotic energy to empower Rak'tul, her monstrous creation. Her vile magic and her monster must be stopped.
Encounter Facts
In the game's encounter order for Maisara Caverns, Vordaza comes 2nd of 3, after Muro'jin and before Rak'tul.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
Vordaza blasts players with necrotic energy while manipulating spirits with Wrest Phantoms to perform her bidding. As the fight progresses, Vordaza invokes a Necrotic Convergence, concentrating soul energy into volatile masses until interrupted.
Damage Dealers
- Vordaza summons Unstable Phantoms with Wrest Phantoms that chase players with Final Pursuit.
- Unstable Phantoms afflict all players with Lingering Dread when defeated.
- While Deathshroud holds, Vordaza is unable to be interrupted.
Healers
- Vordaza summons Unstable Phantoms with Wrest Phantoms that chase players with Final Pursuit.
- Unstable Phantoms afflict all players with Lingering Dread when defeated.
- Drain Soul inflicts heavy damage to Vordaza's current target and absorbs healing received.
Tank
- Vordaza summons Unstable Phantoms with Wrest Phantoms that chase players with Final Pursuit.
- Unstable Phantoms afflict all players with Lingering Dread when defeated.
- Drain Soul inflicts heavy damage to Vordaza's current target and absorbs healing received.
Unstable Phantom
Final Pursuit
Soulrot
Lingering Dread
Veiled Presence
In Mythic difficulty, Veiled Presence no longer causes Unstable Phantoms to lose health 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.
Deathshroud
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 1 min
Coalesced Death
Shadow · Instant
Vordaza's ritual forms masses of soul ichor that flow across the dais, inflicting Shadow damage to players struck.
Final Pursuit
Physical · Instant · Lasts 10080 min
The phantom seeks out a player until defeated. When it reaches its target or collides with another Unstable Phantom, it bursts, inflicting Shadow damage to players within 3.5 yards.
Haunting Remains
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 20 sec
Soulrot
Shadow · Instant
Upon defeat Unstable Phantoms leave behind a pool of necrotic residue for 20 sec, inflicting Shadow damage every 1.5 sec to players within.
Lingering Dread
Shadow · Instant
The phantom screams when slain, inflicting Shadow damage to all players.
Veiled Presence
Shadow · Instant
Unmake
Physical · 2.5 sec cast · Lasts 4.5 sec
Vordaza unleashes a frontal surge of soulflaying force for 4.5 sec, inflicting Shadow damage every 0.5 sec to players caught in the blast and pushing them away.
Drain Soul
Shadow · 1 sec cast · Lasts 4 sec
Vordaza siphons the life essence from her current target, inflicting Shadow damage and absorbing the next healing received every 1 sec for 4 sec.
Withering Miasma
Physical · Instant
A withering miasma saturates the cavern, inflicting Shadow damage to all players every 2 sec.
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 Vordaza encounter lists 7 items in the dungeon journal, item level 108. Equip slots covered: One-Hand, Shoulder, Feet, Back, Trinket, Hands and Legs. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Ceremonial Hexblade One-Hand (Dagger), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. Tooltip: “A blade used in the foul ceremony to raise and empower Rak'thul.”
- Enthralled Bonespines Shoulder (Leather), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery.
- Footwraps of Ill-Fate Feet (Plate), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. Tooltip: “The Vilebranch walk a perilous path between life and death.”
- Shroud of the Soulhunter Back (Cloth), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Critical Strike. Tooltip: “A relic of the twisted rituals secret to the Vilebranch.”
- Soulcatcher's Charm Trinket, item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect. Tooltip: “Vordaza's necromantic fetish is covered in inscrutable carvings and has a heavy, ominous aura.” A vendor pays 26g 58s for it. Equip: Echo of the Evercurse.
- Vilehex Bonds Hands (Cloth), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste.
- Wickedweave Trousers Legs (Mail), item level 108, requires level 78. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery.
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.