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Nerub-ar Palace
Deep within the kingdom of Azj-Kahet lies Nerub-ar Palace, Queen Ansurek's seat of power. From this shadowed throne Queen Ansurek has tightened her grip on her Sureki followers, leading them along a dark path to a new future. As her paranoia grows, the members of the conspiratorial Severed Threads launch their final gambit against Ansurek's rule.
Ulgrax the Devourer
Driven mad by endless hunger, Ulgrax is the ravenous protector of Queen Ansurek's court.
- Overview - Ul'grax attempts to devour players with Voracious Hunger and uses Viscous Slobber to place pools of Syrupy Drool throughout the arena. At zero energy, Ul'grax goes mad with hunger and continually gains applications of Insatiable Rage until returned to 100 energy.
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- While a player is within Syrupy Drool they are rooted.
- Ravenous Spawn continually place applications of Disembowel on a player.
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- Ravenous Spawn continually place applications of Disembowel on a player.
- Coordinate with another player to manage applications of Tenderized.
- Slathering Maw - Ul'grax spews web fluid at his current target, inflicting 300 Nature damage divided between all players within 10 yards of impact.
Afterwards, all players hit are pulled closer to Ul'grax. Players within 45 yards after 4 sec are Devoured.
- Devoured - Ul'grax devours the player inflicting 90 Physical damage every 1 sec for 0 sec.
- Stalkers Webbing - Ul'grax shoots webs over random destinations, inflicting 75 Nature damage to players within 4 yards of impact and leaves behind Stalker Netting.
- Stalker Netting - REUSE traps players, rooting them for 12 sec. Players trapped suffer 7 Nature damage every 2 sec.
- Venomous Lash - Ul'grax whips around, inflicting 35 Nature damage on impact and an additional 4 Nature damage every 1 sec for 12 sec to all players. Players within 20 yards get knocked back.
- Digestive Venom - Your veins burn, inflicting 12 Nature damage every 2 sec for 6 sec.
Once removed venom erupts from your skin, inflicting 20 Nature damage to players within 7 yards and dissolving any Stalker Netting.
- Brutal Crush - Ul'grax crushes players in a cone in front of him, inflicting 115 Physical damage. In addition, the attack also afflicts players with 20 applications of Tenderized.
- Tenderized - Afflicted players receive 10% reduced healing. This effect stacks, but loses an application every 1 sec.
- Gnawing Frenzy - Ul'grax flies into a hunger induced rage.
- Ravenous Spawn - Emerging from Ul'grax, the ravenous swarm must feed.
- Disembowel - The beetle bites at the player's guts. inflicting 15 Physical damage and an additional 3 Physical damage every 2 sec for 10 sec.
- Chunky Viscera - On death, the beetles innards spill across the floor creating a tempting appetizer.
- Feed - Hurl viscera into Ul'grax's gullet to sate his hunger.
- Juggernaut Charge - Ul'grax tears across the field, leaving Stalker Netting in his wake and inflicting 90 Shadow damage to players in his path and knocking them back.
At his destination energy erupts from Ul'grax inflicting 100 Shadow damage to players within 20 yards and 20 Shadow damage on impact and 3 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 8 sec to everyone else. - Swallowing Darkness - Ul'grax emerges from under his prey, inflicting 95 Shadow damage to all players within 30 yards.
- Hungering Bellows - Ulgrax screams for food, inflicting 12 Nature damage to all players on impact and an additional 2 Nature damage every 1 sec for 10 sec.
Each time Ulgrax screams, he gains an application of Insatiable Rage.
- Insatiable Rage - With each Hungering Bellows Ulgrax grows angrier, gaining 25% increased damage done for 30 sec.
- Hulking Crash - Ulgrax smashes the ground inflicting 100 Nature damage to players within 300 yards, 0 Nature damage to players outside the impact zone and knocks all players back.
The Bloodbound Horror
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.
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- Hematemesis - The Bloodbound Horror vomits on their current target, inflicting 50 Shadow damage in a frontal cone. Players hit are afflicted with Baneful Shift.
- Baneful Shift - Black Blood seeps into the player, allowing them to briefly peer inside The Unseeming. The realm oppresses the player with the highest form of toxicity, inflicting 7 Shadow damage every 2 sec for 40 sec. Upon exiting the player is Hell-Shocked.
- Hell-Shocked - The Unseeming leaves the player terrified, increasing damage taken from Baneful Shift by 100% for 60 sec.
- Spewing Hemorrhage - The Bloodbound Horror spews concentrated blood around itself for 23 sec, inflicting 100 Shadow damage every 0.25 sec to players within.
- Bloodcurdle - The Bloodbound Horror draws in blood from around itself before letting out a bloodcurdling scream, inflicting 150 Shadow damage to players within 60 yards.
This roils the blood of all players, inflicting 10 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 10 sec. - Residual Membrane - The Bloodbound Horror's membrane sloughs off every 30 sec coating all players not in The Unseeming in its residue, causing them to absorb 40 healing.
- Grasp From Beyond - The Bloodbound Horror calls into The Unseeming to target multiple players, causing tentacles to begin to form at their location every 1 sec for 12 sec.
After 3 sec each tentacle erupts, inflicting 40 Shadow damage to all players within 4 yards.
- Black Blood - A river of blood seeps out of The Bloodbound Horror, inflicting 20% of maximum health as Shadow damage to players standing within every 1 sec.
- Black Sepsis - If no players are within reach, The Bloodbound Horror continually expels contaminated blood that inflicts 25 Shadow damage to all players every 2 sec.
- Phase Two: The Unseeming - Creatures of The Unseeming aid The Bloodbound Horror.
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- Black Bulwark - The Lost Watcher channels the essence of The Unseeming into The Bloodbound Horror, causing it to absorb 300 damage, increasing every 1 sec.
- Spectral Slam - The Lost Watcher slams their current target, inflicting 80 Physical damage.
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- Manifest Horror - The Forgotten Watcher manifests a Blood Horror out of The Unseeming that slowly moves toward The Bloodbound Horror.
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- Blood Pact - Blood Horrors that reach The Bloodbound Horror are absorbed, inflicting 20 Shadow damage to all players and increasing The Bloodbound Horror's damage done by 5% for 60 sec. This effect stacks.
Sikran, Captain of the Sureki
Born into a noble family, Sikran established himself as an arrogant duelist within Queen Ansurek's court. Never knowing the cut of an enemy's blade, Sikran dispatched his rivals one-by-one and was proclaimed Captain of the Sureki by the queen herself. This indomitable fighter now ensures that any who threaten the throne fall before its might.
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- Eldritch Wound - Sikran's spear leave a lingering essence from the cosmos that inflicts 20 Shadow damage every 4 sec for 40 sec.
- Rupturing Wound - Sikran's swords cut deep into his targets, causing them to bleed uncontrollably, inflicting 6 Physical damage every 2 sec for 40 sec.
- Cosmic Scar - The cosmos itself seals the wounds inflicted on the player, leaving behind a scar that inflicts 30 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 10 sec.
- Silken Shot - Sikran fires a shot imbued with webbing, pulling all players into where it lands, inflicting 4 Nature damage every 1 sec over 4 sec. After 5 seconds, the arrow erupts inflicting
- Silken Explosion - Sikran's arrow explodes after 6 sec inflicting 60 Nature damage to players within 8 yards.
- Rain of Arrows - Sik'ran fires a volley of arrows into the air, falling throughout the area inflicting 20 Shadow damage to players within 3 yds of impact.
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- Bladework - Sik'ran marks players and prepares a true display of swordmanship. He then lunges towards a marked target inflicting 50 Physical damage. With each dash he tethers subsequent targets with Surekian Tethers . Additionally, Sik'ran inflicts 50 Physical damage to players caught in between his lunges.
- Surekian Tethers - Sik'ran tethers players together, inflicting 8 Shadow damage every 1 sec. Moving 20 yards away from the player will snap the tether.
- Captain's Flourish - Sik'ran assails his target with a flurry of blows. The first two strikes inflict 0 Physical damage and increase Physical damage taken by 200%. The final strike inflicts 125 Physical damage and 100 Shadow Damage.
- Expose - Sik'ran slashes at his target inflicting 100 Physical damage and creating a weakness, increasing Physical damage taken by 200% for 12 sec.
- Exposed Weakness - Sik'ran exposes his targets armor, increasing Physical damage taken by 200% for 12 sec.
- Lunge - Sikran pierces his primary target, inflicting 100 Shadow damage, 125 Physical damage and applying Pierced Defences.
- Pierced Defences - Sik'ran's Lunge pierces through his targets defenses, causing them to take 500% increased damage from Lunge for 30 sec.
- Ravaging Steel - Sikran throws his swords into the ground, causing them to spin wildly outward inflicting 50 Physical damage, stunning players hit for 1 sec, and applying Rupturing Wound.
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- Despotic Devastation - Sik'ran marks a target to be detained, and subsequently decimated per the order of The Queen.
- Detain - Sik'ran hurls his spear at a player, inflicting 300 Shadow damage split between all players hit and applying Surekian Tethers pulling and tethering them to the targeted player. Getting hit by Detain increases damage taken from Detain by 0% for 40 sec.
- Surekian Tethers - Sik'ran tethers players together, inflicting 8 Shadow damage every 1 sec. Moving 20 yards away from the player will snap the tether.
- Decimate - Sik'ran swings wildly at his detained target, inflicting 80 Physical damage to all players in a cone in front of him. and applying an Eldrtich Residue.
- Surekian Strike - Sik'ran gathers silk threads around his spear, and smashes it into his primary target, inflicting 90 Shadow damage.
Additionally, the closest five players are pulled to the tank, and afflicted with Surekian Tethers. After 6 sec sec, the target explodes in a Localized Nova.
- Localized Nova - Sikran's spear leaves a festering remnant of the cosmos in his target, which explodes inflicting 70 Shadow damage and increasing damage taken from Surekian Strike by 500% to all players within 100 yards of his target. This effect stacks.
- Death from Below - Sikran empowers his spear with cosmic energy, and slams the ground causing copies of his spear to erupt underneath players inflicting 35 Shadow damage to players within 7 yards. The final eruption leaves spears lingering, inflicting 25 Shadow damage every 2 sec to players within 7 yards.
Rasha'nan
Twisted by Queen Ansurek's experiments, Rasha'nan was transformed from a proud nerubian into a monstrous, winged horror. Trapped within her new form, shattered memories of her former self drive Rasha'nan into an unquenchable rage.
- Overview - An error has occurred while parsing the description of this spell.
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- Savage Assault - Rasha'nan destructively smashes her target inflicting 0 Physical damage and 0 Nature damage. Unmitigated damage is inflicted as |5 Savage Wound.
- Savage Wound - Inflicts the unmitigated damage from Savage Assault as Physical and Nature damage every 1 sec for 18 sec. This effect stacks, adding to the effects of previous Savage Wounds.
- Rolling Acid - Rasha'nan blasts marked targets with a poisonous concoction splashing across the arena for 15 sec inflicting 439,785 Nature damage every 1 sec and reducing movement speed by 70%.
Upon creation players within the corrosive gain Acidic Stupor. Each period players remain inside additionally gain Corrosion.
Additionally this incinerates Sticky Webs inflicting 30 Nature damage to players within 10 yards and creates 1 |4Acid Pool:Acid Pools;.
- Acidic Stupor - Stunned for 1 sec.
- Corrosion - Corrodes for 15 sec, suffering 10 Nature damage every 1.5 sec. This effect stacks.
- Acid Pool - Forms a caustic zone which inflicts 25 Nature damage every 1 sec.
- Infested Spawn - Rasha'nan seeds new brood within marked targets after 5 sec. The marked targets then suffer 4 Nature damage every 1 sec for 15 sec. This effect stacks.
Additionally Infested Spawn birth casting Fixate on their marked target.
- Fixate - Fixates upon a target ignoring all others.
- Spinneret's Strands - Rasha'nan blasts webs at targeted players inflicting 30 Shadow damage to players within 10 yards, tethering the original target and creating Sticky Webs.
This tether inflicts 9 Shadow damage every 1 sec, pulling in the original target.
- Spinneret's Websnap - Spinneret's Strands' snap inflicting 10 Shadow damage to all players.
- Sticky Webs - Spinneret's Strands' tacky threads inflict 2 Shadow damage every 0.5 sec, reducing movement speed by 15%.
- Web Reave - Rasha'nan's strike enwraps a targeted location inflicting 700 Nature damage to players within 8 yards. Moments later she leaps pulling affected targets. The magnitude of these effects divide amongst targets.
If this spell fails to strike any targets all players suffer the full effect. - Erosive Spray - Rasha'nan spews acid for 4 sec inflicting 50 Nature damage to all players plus an additional 8 every 1 sec.
Each period this applies Lingering Erosion.
- Lingering Erosion - Erosive Spray jettisons globs of acid at effected players inflicting 1 Nature damage every 1 sec for 12 sec. This effect stacks.
- Caustic Rain - While flying Rasha'nan rains acid from above inflicting 20 Nature damage to players within 4 yards of impact locations.
Eggtender Ovi'nax
Deep within the bowels of the queen's palace, Eggtender Ovi'nax conducts abominable experiments with the black blood found in Azj-kahet. This corpulent horror lumbers through the palace's cavernous depths, regurgitating inky sludge onto hatchlings to observe its gruesome effects.
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- Volatile Concoction inflicts damage to the raid based on your missing health when it expires.
- Black Blood Overflow causes any eggs it touches to hatch, and mutates any creatures it comes into contact with.
- Colossal Spiders inflict increasing damage with Vicious Bite .
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- Black Blood Burst causes nearby eggs to hatch, unleashing the horrific experiments incubating within.
- Unstable Web inflicts Nature damage and roots players nearby when dispelled.
- Utilize crowd control to keep Blood Parasites from being able to Infest and multiply.
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- Black Blood Burst causes nearby eggs to hatch, unleashing the horrific experiments incubating within.
- Eggtender Ovi'nax inflicts increasing Shadow damage and healing absorbs as he receives more Black Bood Infusion.
- Heal tanks affected byVolatile Concoction to prevent heavy raid damage.
- Experimental Dosage - Eggtender Ovi'nax injects an Experimental Dosage in all players, afflicting them with either Poisoned Blood or Black Blood.
- Black Blood - Injected with Black Blood inflicting 2 Shadow damage every 0.5 sec.
Upon expiration Black Blood erupts inflicting 30 Shadow damage and absorbing 40 healing within 4 yards and causes nearby eggs to hatch.
- Black Blood Burst - Upon expiration Black Blood reacts violently, inflicting 30 Shadow damage and absorbing 40 healing received from all players within 4 yards and causes any nearby eggs to hatch.
- Poisoned Blood - Injected with Poisoned Blood inflicting 4 Nature damage every 0.5 sec.
- Consume Black Blood - Upon reaching full energy Eggtender Ovi'nax seeks out the nearest source of Black Blood to Consume Black Blood, inflicting 25 Shadow damage and absorbing 50 healing received by all players every 5 sec.
Consuming Black Blood from the container causes Black Blood to overflow from the source and grants Eggtender Ovi'nax Black Blood Infusion.
- Black Blood Overflow - Black Blood Overflow inflicts 3 Shadow damage every 0.5 sec and absorbs the next 6 healing received.
- Violent Reaction - Black Blood causes a Violent Reaction when it touches an egg, causing the egg to hatch and inflicting 15 Shadow damage to all players every 3 sec for 30 sec.
- Black Blood Infusion - Black Blood's power radiates from Eggtender Ovi'nax, inflicting 2 Shadow damage, absorbing 4 healing received by all players, and unleashing a Black Hemorrhage every 7.5 sec.
- Black Hemorrhage - Black Blood overloads Eggtender Ovi'nax's system, unleashing a massive Black Hemorrhage inflicting 30 Shadow damage on impact to players in the area.
- Unstable Web - Eggtender Ovi'nax covers several players with an Unstable Web inflicting 3 Nature damage every 0.5 sec and reducing movement speed by 70%.
When dispelled a Web Eruption is triggered.
- Web Eruption - Inflicts 30 Nature damage and roots all players within 10 yards.
- Volatile Concoction - Eggtender Ovi'nax injects his target with a Volatile Concoction inflicting 30 Nature damage and 15 Nature damage every 1 sec for 8 sec.
Upon expiration, inflicts Nature damage based on the target's missing health. - Colossal Spider -
- Mutation: Monstrous - Coming into contact with Black Blood Overflow mutates Colossal Spiders increasing health by 75% and reducing the cooldown of Vicious Bite by 50%.
- Poison Burst - Inflicts 50 Nature damage to all players within 100 yards.
- Vicious Bite - Inflicts 30 Nature damage and increases all damage done by 25%.
- Voracious Worm -
- Mutation: Ravenous - Coming into contact with Black Blood Overflow mutates Voracious Worms increasing all damage done by 75% and increasing casting speed by 150%.
- Consume - Voracious Worm attempts to Consume its target, drawing them in with a void web inflicting 5 Shadow damage every 0.5 sec. Run away to avoid being Consumed!
- Consume - Voracious Worm consumes its prey inflicting 70 Shadow damage and stuns for 4 sec.
- Web Blast - Inflicts 13 Nature damage to a random player.
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- Mutation: Unstoppable - Coming into contact with Black Blood Overflow mutates Blood Parasites increasing their movement speed by 125% and preventing crowd control.
- Fixate - Blood Parasite fixates on its prey, attempting to Infest it and consume its flesh.
- Infest - Blood Parasite burrows into its target, inflicting 10 Nature damage every 1 sec for 10 sec. Upon expiration, 2 Blood Parasites erupt from the player and seek new prey.
Nexus-Princess Ky'veza
Nexus-Princess Ky'veza arrived at Nerub-ar Palace only recently, quickly establishing herself as a confidante of Queen Ansurek. However, rumors abound within the inner court that she may harbor a dark and deadly secret. If discovered, the princess is prepared to dispatch all witnesses without mercy...
- Overview - Ky'veza marks targets for their Assassination while haunting Nether Phantoms emerge from her shadow to mirror the massacre.
Upon reaching 100 energy, Ky'veza invokes a Starless Night as phantoms slaughter her enemies in the darkness.
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- Stage One: The Phantom Blade -
- Assassination - Ky'veza marks several players for their assassination. After 6 sec, she rapidly shadowsteps to each target and eviscerates them, inflicting 50 Shadow damage within 5 yards and injecting Queensbane.
Ky'veza's shadowy figure resonates, creating a Nether Phantom at each location.
- Queensbane - A lethal void poison fit for royalty. Inflicts 8 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 10 sec. This effect stacks.
Upon expiration, the void infection bursts inflicting 25 Shadow damage within 2 yards.
- Queensbane - A lethal void poison fit for royalty. Inflicts 8 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 10 sec. This effect stacks.
Upon expiration, the void infection bursts inflicting 25 Shadow damage within 2 yards.
- Dark Viscera - Corrupted gore erupts outwards, inflicting 50 Shadow damage to any player hit.
- Nether Phantom - Spectral images of Ky'veza that mirror some of her abilities.
- Nether Rift - Ky'veza tears open a wormhole to the Twisting Nether, inflicting 200 Shadow damage within 5 yards.
The rift inflicts 2 Shadow damage to all players every 1 sec and pulls them towards the center for 6 sec.
- Atomized - The Nether Rift vaporizes players pulled inside, inflicting 80 Shadow damage every 0.25 sec.
- Nexus Daggers - Ky'veza flings regal knives in multiple directions, inflicting 70 Shadow damage to any player struck.
- Stalking Shadows - The phantom's haunting presence inflicts 2 Shadow damage to all players every 2 sec.
- Death Masks - Ky'veza erupts with a ghastly scream, masking several phantoms in a grim veil.
At the start of the next Starless Night, these phantoms will detonate in a haunting eruption inflicting 200 Shadow damage to all players.
- Death Cloak - Ky'veza consumes Death Masks from Nether Phantoms dashing through her to cloak herself with dark power for 10 sec. While active, she pulses 30 Shadow damage to all players every 1 sec. This effect stacks.
- Twilight Massacre - Ky'veza commands her Nether Phantoms to focus players. After 6 sec, they each dash and slice through their target, inflicting 40 Shadow damage and applying Queensbane to any player struck.
- Queensbane - A lethal void poison fit for royalty. Inflicts 8 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 10 sec. This effect stacks.
Upon expiration, the void infection bursts inflicting 25 Shadow damage within 2 yards.
- Queensbane - A lethal void poison fit for royalty. Inflicts 8 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 10 sec. This effect stacks.
Upon expiration, the void infection bursts inflicting 25 Shadow damage within 2 yards.
- Dark Viscera - Corrupted gore erupts outwards, inflicting 50 Shadow damage to any player hit.
- Nether Rift - Ky'veza tears open a wormhole to the Twisting Nether, inflicting 200 Shadow damage within 5 yards.
The rift inflicts 2 Shadow damage to all players every 1 sec and pulls them towards the center for 6 sec.
- Atomized - The Nether Rift vaporizes players pulled inside, inflicting 80 Shadow damage every 0.25 sec.
- Nexus Daggers - Ky'veza flings regal knives in multiple directions, inflicting 70 Shadow damage to any player struck.
- Reaper - When any player drops below 10% health, a shadow of Ky'veza emerges behind the target and attempts to execute them, inflicting 100 Shadow damage.
- Void Shredders - Ky'veza carves a series of deep lacerations into the current target. Each strike inflicts 55 Physical damage and 10 Shadow damage and creates a Chasmal Gash.
- Chasmal Gash - A gaping void wound that inflicts 8 Shadow damage every 2 sec and increases damage taken from further Void Shredders by 25% for 30 sec.
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- Starless Night - Upon reaching 100 energy, Ky'veza lifts into the air and pulses a flux of darkness, inflicting 5 Shadow damage to all players every 1 sec for 24 sec.
- Eternal Night - On the third Starless Night, Ky'veza channels infinite darkness until all players have faded into the night.
- Regicide - Nether Phantoms rapidly dive in and out of the shadows and slash through players, inflicting 50 Shadow damage to any player struck.
- Eclipse - Ky'veza veils sections of the room with waves of darkness, inflicting 150 Shadow damage to any player caught within.
- Reaper - When any player drops below 10% health, a shadow of Ky'veza emerges behind the target and attempts to execute them, inflicting 100 Shadow damage.
The Silken Court
Scarab Lord Anub'arash and Skeinspinner Takazj are among Queen Ansurek's most trusted advisors. Yet, these two powerful nerubians harbor a hatred for each other even more powerful than their loyalty to the throne. While unleashing their considerable strength onto their enemies, each is also fighting to ensure their counterpart does not survive.
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- Piercing Strike - The Scarab Lord pierces its target, inflicting 80 Physical damage and increasing damage inflicted by Piercing Strike by 250% for 40 sec. This effect stacks.
- Stinging Swarm - Anub'arash unleashes swarms of insects at 3 players, inflicting 8 Nature damage every 2 sec until removed. The damage taken increases 25% every 2 sec.
- Reckless Charge - Anub'arash unleashes a Spell #44,999,333 before he charges forward, inflicting 35 Nature damage and knocking back any player in the way. Anub'arash releases a shock wave if he collides with a wall, inflicting 110 Nature damage to all players.
- Web Ripping Roar - Anub'arash unleashes a violent roar, knocking back and removing Binding Webs from all players within 0 yards.
- Impaling Eruption - Anub'arash unleashes a cone of spikes erupting from the ground, inflicting 35 Nature damage afflcting all players in front of him with Impaled.
- Impaled - Anub'arash impales a player on a spike, inflicting 0 Physical damage every 3 sec. and stunning the player until the spike is destroyed.
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- Venomous Expulsion - The High Priest overloads 3 players with poison causing them to explode, removing Stinging Swarm and inflicting 10 Nature damage to all players within 8 yards every 1.5 sec for 12 sec.
- Web Bomb - Skeinspinner Takazj launches explosive webs at players, inflicting 20 Nature damage to all players within 10 yards.
If more than one player is in the area, they are bound together with Binding Webs, slowing movement by 30%.
If bound players move more than 25 yards apart or if Anub'arash charges through the webs, they will break and remove Binding Webs. - Skittering Leap - Skeinspinner Takazj leaps to a new location.
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- Shatter Existence - Skeinspinner Takazj shields himself, absorbing 2,000 damage.
While the shield holds Skeinspinner Takazj spins 8 cones of webs in succession . While in the webs, player movement is decreased by 30 and the take 2 Shadow damage every 1 seconds.
After 6 sec the cones of web explode, inflicting 2,000 Shadow damage and knocking back anyone on the web.
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- Web Vortex - Skeinspinner Takazj launches a web burst at a target, exploding and inflicting 30 Nature damage and pulling all players within 80 yards to the target's location and attaching.
If more than one player is in the area, they are bound together with Binding Webs, slowing movement by 30%.
If bound players move more than 25 yards apart or if Anub'arash charges through the webs, they will break and remove Binding Webs.
- Strands of Reality - Skeinspinner Takazj rips reality, killing all Seeking Swarms and inflicting 35 Shadow damage and knocking back all players in front of him for until cancelled.
- Void Step - Skeinspinner Takazj enters the void and exits at a nearby location.
- Shred Reality - Skeinspinner Takazj rips a hole in reality, creating a Void Tear and reopening Void Tear that have been closed.
- Entropy Bolt - The Void Tear launches energy from the void at 2 random players every 0.5 sec., inflicting 6 shadow. This occurs as long as there are no players close enough for the Void Tear to apply Devouring Void.
- Devouring Void - The Void Tear pulls the life essence from the player, slowly closing the Void Tear and inflicting 2 Shadow damage every 0.5 sec.
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- Raging Fury - Anub'arash erupts in anger, dealing 25 increased damage.
Enraged Ferocity is triggered upon expiration.
- Spike Storm - Anub'arash shields himself, absorbing 2,000 damage.
While the shield holds, multiple Spike Eruption erupt around Anub'arash.
- Stage Three: Unleashed Rage -
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- Burrowed Charge - Anub'arash burrows underground and charges at a players location, inflicting 120 Nature damage at the center of the impact and decreasing the further away a player is.
- Unleashed Swarm - Anub'arash unleashes a swarm of biting insect that inflicting 8 Nature damage to all players every 1 sec for 8 sec. The damage inflicted is increased by 30% every 1 sec.
- Spike Eruption - Anub'arash launches a series of 3 groupings of spikes, inflicting 35 Nature damage and afflicting the players in the area withImpaled.
- Impaled - Anub'arash impales a player on a spike, inflicting 0 Physical damage every 3 sec. and stunning the player until the spike is destroyed.
Queen Ansurek
After a revelation of traitors in her court, Queen Ansurek decides she must eradicate the palace's invaders herself. However, paranoia over whom she can trust gnaws at her psyche. With her allies dwindling Queen Ansurek may delve into dark powers to attain victory, even if that means her most loyal soldiers become her next meal...
- Overview - As the battle begins, Ansurek ejects Reactive Froth and attempts to detonate it with Venom Nova. Eventually, Ansurek tries to feed on her weakened enemies with Predation.
After players break her web shield, Ansurek begins ascending to her private chamber and calls reinforcements. They prepare to unleash Cosmic Resonance while Ansurek attacks players from afar.
When players breach her private chamber, Ansurek stops casting Acidic Resonance and initiates Aphotic Communion. Using heightened cosmic power, Ansurek intends to consume Acolyte's Essence with Frothing Gluttony.
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- Liquefy causes a large burst of damage to all players that mitigation reduces.
- Feast absorbs a signficant amount of healing.
- Infest creates Gloom Hatchlings that cause lethal damage if they reach Ansurek.
- Gorge causes several bursts of damage to all players that mitigation reduces.
- Stage One: A Queen's Venom - Ansurek battles with poison and web to show her mastery of traditional Nerubian power.
- Reactive Toxin - Ansurek afflicts players with a toxin, inflicting 12 Nature damage every 1 sec for 6 sec.
Upon expiration, the toxin ruptures into Reactive Froth, inflicting 20 Nature damage to players within 8 yards and knocking them into the air.
- Reactive Froth - Reactive Froth pulses 20 Nature damage every 1.5 sec to players with 8 yards. The froth stops pulsing and congeals in Venom Nova's presence, causing Reaction Vapor if the venom touches.
If a player touches congealed froth, it inflicts 8 Nature damage to players within 8 yards and knocks them into the air, applying Concentrated Toxin to the player and Diluted Toxin to allies hit.
- Reaction Vapor - Reactive Froth vaporizes, inflicting 70 Nature damage to all players and an additional 20 Nature damage every 2 sec for 20 sec. This effect stacks.
- Concentrated Toxin - Concentrated Toxin inflicts 5 Nature damage every 1 sec for 5 sec. Upon expiration, the victim receives Reaction Trauma.
The toxin disperses violently, inflicting 30 Nature damage to players within 8 yards and ejecting Toxic Waves. Additionally, Acid forms.
If nearby allies receive Diluted Toxin when this affliction occurs, the damage of this affliction decreases.
- Toxic Waves - Toxic Waves inflict 80 Nature damage to players hit and knock them away.
- Acid - Ansurek's acid inflicts 25 Nature damage every 1 sec to players within it.
- Reaction Trauma - The victim's organs corrode, increasing damage taken from Concentrated Toxin by 500%.
- Diluted Toxin - Diluted Toxin inflicts 3 Nature damage every 1 sec.
After 5 sec, the toxin dissipates, inflicting 15 Nature damage to players within 3 yards.
- Venom Nova - Ansurek unleashes a ring of venom, inflicting 500 Nature damage to players within 17 yards.
The ring expands, inflicting 25 Nature damage every 0.5 sec to players within it and slowing them by 99%. - Royal Condemnation - Ansurek forms silken spikes that drop onto marked players, inflicting 70 Nature damage to all players, reduced with distance.
The impacts form Royal Shackles.
- Royal Shackles - Web shackles connect to all players, pulling them inward and inflicting 2 Nature damage every 1 sec until the shackles are destroyed.
The shackles trap any player they touch in a Royal Cocoon. Destroying a shackle frees its cocooned players.
- Royal Cocoon - A cocoon fully envelops the victim, stunning them.
- Silken Tomb - Ansurek roots all players in web, inflicting 30 Nature damage to players within 2 yards of the web's impact and an additional 5 Nature damage every 1 sec while webbed.
When removed, the webbing forms Grasping Silk.
- Grasping Silk - Grasping web strands reduce movement speed by 40% and inflict 15 Nature damage every 1 sec to players within it.
- Liquefy - Ansurek injects her current target with digestive juices, inflicting 125 Nature damage and 50 Physical damage.
20% of the Physical damage done occurs to all players as Nature damage.
The injection forms Acid under the target and causes an Acid Splash.
- Acid Splash - Digestive juices splash to the ground, inflicting 80 Nature damage to players within 4 yards of the splashes and forming Acid.
- Acid - Ansurek's acid inflicts 25 Nature damage every 1 sec to players within it.
- Feast - Ansurek feasts on her current target, inflicting 200 Physical damage. Her vicious chomp rips away a chunk of flesh, absorbing 750 healing.
- Web Assault - Web strands pull dense masses of webbing towards the location of players, inflicting 50 Nature damage to players struck and slowing them by 95% for 3 sec.
- Acrid Presence - Ansurek radiates acidic fumes during combat, inflicting 10 Nature damage every 3 sec to all players.
- Intermission: The Spider's Web - Ansurek shrouds herself in web and feeds on her weakened enemies.
- Predation - Ansurek attaches Predation Threads to all players and gains a web shield that absorbs 4,000 damage.
While shielded, she assaults players with Paralyzing Venom and occasionally yanks players towards her with Wrest, devouring any players that get within 12 yards.
- Predation Threads - Ansurek's web threads grip all players, inflicting 5 Nature damage every 1.5 sec to players within 3 yards.
- Paralyzing Venom - Ansurek splashes venom, slowing all players by 3% and increasing damage taken from Predation Threads and Wrest by 3%. This effect stacks.
Additionally, each splash ejects Paralyzing Waves.
- Paralyzing Waves - Paralyzing Waves inflict 80 Nature damage to players hit, knock them away, and apply Paralyzing Venom.
- Wrest - Ansurek violently yanks her Predation Threads to pull in players, inflicting 40 Nature damage to them, reduced with distance.
- Stage Two: Royal Ascension - Ansurek calls reinforcements and ascends to her private chamber. She assaults pursuing players from afar to assist her forces.
- Queen Ansurek -
- Acid Bolt - Ansurek shoots acid at players, inflicting 10 Nature damage.
- Acid Bomb - Ansurek launches acid bombs towards players, applying Acidic Fallout and inflicting 80 Nature damage to players within 100 yards of each impact. This damage is reduced with distance from the impact location.
Acid also forms at the impact location.
- Acidic Fallout - Acidic Fallout inflicts 4 Nature damage every 1.5 sec for 15 sec. This effect stacks
- Acid - Ansurek's acid inflicts 25 Nature damage every 1 sec to players within it.
- Wrest - Ansurek connects Predation Threads to players and violently yanks them inward, inflicting 40 Nature damage to her victims, reduced with distance.
- Predation Threads - Ansurek's web threads grip all players, inflicting 5 Nature damage every 1.5 sec to players within 3 yards.
- Acidic Resonance - Ansurek melts players with burning acid, inflicting 100 Nature damage to all players and an additional 35 Nature damage every 2 sec.
- Ascended Voidspeaker -
- Shadowblast - Shadowblast inflicts 1,000 Shadow damage to a player.
- Radiating Gloom - The caster inflicts 8 Shadow damage every 2.5 sec to players within 45 yards and periodically forms Gloom Orbs.
The orbs eject after a short delay, inflicting 80 Shadow damage to players within 3 yards of the ejection's epicenter.
Upon the caster's death, Gloom Collapse occurs.
- Gloom Orbs - Gloom Orbs inflict 70 Shadow damage to players hit and knock them away.
- Gloom Collapse - The caster's essence destabilizes shortly after death, inflicting 25 Shadow damage to players within 45 yards and knocking them away.
This explosion causes Gloom to expand rapidly from the epicenter.
- Gloom - Dark energy inflicts 27 Shadow damage every 1 sec to players within it.
- Devoted Worshipper -
- Gloom Touch - Once engaged, the caster periodically afflicts several players with dark energy, inflicting 10 Shadow damage every 1 sec to the victims.
Upon removal, a Gloom Blast occurs.
- Gloom Blast - Darkness erupts from the victim, inflicting 30 Shadow damage to players within 100 yards.
- Worshipper's Protection - The caster exchanges its health for an absorption shield and protects Ansurek from all damage.
Upon death, the caster's dark energy leaks out, forming Gloom.
- Gloom - Dark energy inflicts 27 Shadow damage every 1 sec to players within it.
- Cosmic Resonance - The caster unleashes lethal cosmic power, inflicting 100 Shadow damage to all players and an additional 35 Shadow damage every 2 sec.
The explosion forms Gloom.
- Gloom - Dark energy inflicts 27 Shadow damage every 1 sec to players within it.
- Chamber Guardian -
- Oust - The caster inflicts 200 Physical damage and 100 Shadow damage to its target, knocking them away.
- Chamber Expeller -
- Expulsion Beam - The caster teleports away and then fires a cosmic beam towards a player, inflicting 80 Shadow damage to players hit and knocking them away.
- Caustic Skitterer -
- Corrosion - The skitterer's attacks corrode the target, increasing damage taken by 5% for 30 sec. This effect stacks.
- Stage Three: Paranoia's Feast - Ansurek embraces a dark power as paranoia takes hold.
- Abyssal Infusion - Ansurek afflicts players with dark energy, inflicting 10 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 6 sec. Victims also inflict this damage to allies within 10 yards.
Upon expiration, the energy erupts, inflicting a burst of 30 Shadow damage and begins to form an Abyssal Conduit.
- Abyssal Conduit - Void conduits tear open, inflicting 90 Shadow damage to players within 10 yards and launching Conduit Ejections.
The conduits teleport players between them when touched and inflict 25 Shadow damage. Players are unaffected by Frothing Gluttony while teleporting.
When these conduits destabilize, a Conduit Collapse occurs.
- Conduit Ejections - Conduit Ejections inflict 70 Shadow damage to players hit and knock them away.
- Conduit Collapse - The conduit collapses, inflicting 100 Shadow damage to players within 12 yards.
This destabilization launches Conduit Ejections and forms Gloom.
- Conduit Ejections - Conduit Ejections inflict 70 Shadow damage to players hit and knock them away.
- Gloom - Dark energy inflicts 27 Shadow damage every 1 sec to players within it.
- Frothing Gluttony - Ansurek attaches Glutton Threads to all players and draws in cosmic energy, inflicting 25 Shadow damage every 0.5 sec to players within it and slowing them by 99%.
Traveling through an Abyssal Conduit prevents damage from this ability and snaps Glutton Threads. The conduits destabilize when Frothing Gluttony concludes.
Froth Vapor occurs if the energy touches Acolyte's Essence.
- Glutton Threads - Web threads grip all players, pulling them towards Ansurek's frothing maw. This pull force increases over time.
Traveling through an Abyssal Conduit breaks Glutton Threads. - Froth Vapor - Acolyte's Essence vaporizes, inflicting 80 Shadow damage to all players.
Ansurek consumes this vapor, increasing her damage done by 500% for 30 sec.
- Queen's Summons - Ansurek lets forth a ghastly shriek, inflicting 20 Shadow damage to all players. Her umbral call compels Summoned Acolytes to assist her.
Upon death, they become Acolyte's Essence.
- Acolyte's Essence - The essence absorbs into a player when touched, inflicting 20 Shadow damage and an additional 8 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 12 sec before remanifesting onto the ground.
When removed by an Abyssal Conduit, the essence causes Essence Scarred and destabilizes the conduits.
- Essence Scarred - The acolyte's essence melds with the player, increasing damage taken from Acolyte's Essence by 1,000%.
- Dark Barrier - Dark Barrier absorbs 400 damage and prevents crowd controlling effects.
- Umbral Detonation - Umbral Detonation inflicts 5 Shadow damage to all players. Each successful cast increases the caster's damage done by 25%.
- Royal Condemnation - Ansurek forms silken spikes that drop onto marked players, inflicting 70 Nature damage to all players, reduced with distance.
The impacts form Royal Shackles.
- Royal Shackles - Web shackles connect to all players, pulling them inward and inflicting 2 Nature damage every 1 sec until the shackles are destroyed.
The shackles trap any player they touch in a Royal Cocoon. Destroying a shackle frees its cocooned players.
- Royal Cocoon - A cocoon fully envelops the victim, stunning them.
- Infest - Ansurek injects her current target with shadowy egg sacs, inflicting 150 Shadow damage and 50 Physical damage. The sacs nourish themselves with the victim's life force, inflicting 25 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 5 sec.
Upon expiration, the sacs erupt in an Infested Gloomburst.
- Infested Gloomburst - Gloom Hatchlings burst from the infested victim, inflicting 100 Shadow damage to all players within 10 yards
- Gloom Hatchling - Shadowy spiderlings rush towards Ansurek. If they reach her, she devours the stolen life force within them, inflicting 70 Shadow damage to all players and increases her damage done by 20% for 20 sec.
Upon death, these spiderlings leak Gloom.
- Gloom - Dark energy inflicts 27 Shadow damage every 1 sec to players within it.
- Gorge - Ansurek tears ravenously into her current target for 2.5 sec, inflicting 40 Physical damage with each strike and increasing Physical damage taken by 35% for 15 sec. This effect stacks.
Additionally, these strikes cause Gloom Splash and inflict 35% of their Physical damage as Shadow damage to all players.
- Gloom Splash - Dark energies splash to the ground, inflicting 85 Shadow damage to players within 4 yards of the splashes and forming Gloom.
- Gloom - Dark energy inflicts 27 Shadow damage every 1 sec to players within it.
- Web Assault - Web strands pull dense masses of webbing towards the location of players, inflicting 50 Nature damage to players struck and slowing them by 95% for 3 sec.
- Dreadful Presence - Ansurek radiates dreadful energy, inflicting 10 Shadow damage every 3 sec to all players. This damage permanently increases by 10~1% whenever Abyssal Conduits open.
Her cosmic energy overloads at 4 applications, causing all Gloom to rapidly expand and increasing her damage done by an additional 200%. She recasts Frothing Gluttony indefinitely while in this state.