Nexus (instance)

This article is about the 5-man instanced dungeon. For the Borean Tundra sub-zone, see Nexus.

The Nexus
The Nexus loading screen
Location	Coldarra, Borean Tundra
Race(s)	Blue dragon  Human  Blood elf
End boss	Keristrasza
Level	10-30
Player limit	5
Cross-faction?
Bosses Kolurg (heroic ) Stoutbeard (heroic ) Grand Magus Telestra Anomalus Ormorok the Tree-Shaper Keristrasza (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) Other Nexus instances The Oculus (5) The Eye of Eternity (10/25)

The Nexus
The Nexus (5)
Commander Kolurg (heroic ) Commander Stoutbeard (heroic ) Grand Magus Telestra Anomalus Ormorok the Tree-Shaper Keristrasza
The Oculus (5)
Drakos the Interrogator Varos Cloudstrider Mage-Lord Urom Ley-Guardian Eregos
The Eye of Eternity (10/25)
Malygos

The Nexus bosses.

The Nexus is a dungeon in Northrend contained in the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion. To enter the instance before level 77 players must first do a quest line for a red dragon who then flies you to the entrance. The dungeon layout is very open. You can go into different "wings", but the final boss, Keristrasza, a captured red dragon, can only be freed from her ice prison when you kill the previous three bosses.

The overall area is composed of:

• The Nexus (Ice Caverns) for level 71-73 players
• The Oculus (Magical Rings) for level 80 players
• The Eye of Eternity, featuring Malygos as the final and only boss

Geography

To get there, you need to ride to Amber Ledge in the northwestern Borean Tundra. A dragon will then fly you over to Coldarra. The entrance to the dungeon is somewhat hidden at the bottom of the rifts in the middle of Coldarra. Just go down, and when you see the Arcane Serpents, you are there.

Maps

Instance map

Other versions

This section concerns content related to Cataclysm.

Legendary zone map

A special version of the Nexus exists for players on the quest to obtain  [Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest].

This section concerns content related to Legion.

During   [10-45] The Nexus Vault and   [10-45] The Nexus Vault, the area is referred to as The Beyond.

Official descriptions

Adventure Guide

In order to reestablish his dominance over magic, the blue Dragon Aspect, Malygos, has launched a ruthless campaign to sever the link between mortals and the arcane energies coursing through Azeroth. To this end, his blue dragonflight is redirecting the ley lines of the world to the Nexus, Malygos' towering lair.

World of Warcraft website

The Nexus War has begun.

The blue Dragon Aspect, Malygos, was charged ages ago by the titans as the guardian of magic. More than ten millennia ago, he watched in horror as Deathwing all but wiped out the blue flight. Maddened by grief, Malygos withdrew to his lair and paid little heed to the rest of the world, emerging only when it finally seemed possible to avenge Deathwing's terrible crime.

Only in recent times did Malygos fully return to his senses. Upon reviving, he quickly assessed the state of magical affairs in Azeroth and reached the grim conclusion that magic was running amok throughout the world. He blamed this dangerous development on the mortal races and their reckless pursuit of magical power.

Determined to forestall a catastrophe, Malygos decreed that the world's unbridled magic must be reined in by any means necessary. And so the great Aspect turned to the Arcanomicon, a map of the world's ley lines. Gifted to Malygos ages ago by the titan Norgannon, the Arcanomicon has been continuously updated and revised by the blue dragons over the long years of Malygos's seclusion.

Now Malygos uses the Arcanomicon to locate and tap into the ley lines, diverting the magical powers that course beneath the earth to his home base in Northrend, the Nexus. Once harnessed, the energies are focused through the Nexus' ascending rings and blasted into the Twisting Nether. Malygos's redirection of the ley lines has carried disastrous consequences, however, splintering the world's crust and opening unstable rifts: tears in the very fabric of the magical dimension.

Malygos' siphoning of the world's magic has not gone unnoticed by the mortal races. The weakening members of the Kirin Tor, the elite magi of Dalaran, have sworn to fight Malygos to the bitter end. In fact, the magi have used their waning powers to transfer the entire city of Dalaran to float above Northrend. From this vantage point, the magi prepare for the next step in their battle against the Lich King, and for the inevitable confrontation with Malygos.

However, not all of the Kirin Tor stand united. Several members have opted to side with the blue dragonflight in the hopes of retaining power. Transformed and bolstered by Malygos, these mage hunters are tasked with rooting out and, if necessary, destroying magical artifacts; killing or imprisoning individuals who practice magic without Malygos' permission; and aiding in the redirection of ley lines using massive constructs called surge needles.

The blue dragonflight's increasingly militaristic methods have been condemned by the red dragonflight. Charged with the preservation of life, the red dragonflight has vowed to neutralize Malygos at all costs. To this end, they have formed a council with the Kirin Tor, and the two groups have begun actively subverting Malygos's devastating campaign.

The sides have been chosen; the battle lines have been drawn. The only question that remains now is...

Who will win?

Dungeon denizens

• Ancients
• Arcane elemental (one, Anomalus)
• Blood elves
• Azure dragonspawn
• Azure drakes
• Blue drakonid
• Colossus (one, Ormorok the Tree-Shaper)
• Darkhounds
• Draenei
• Dwarves
• Forsaken
• High elves
• Humans
• Lashers
• Mana serpents
• Arcane wraiths
• Mana surges
• Night elves
• Orcs
• Red dragon (one, Keristrasza)
• Sparks
• Crystal spiders (critters)
• Treants
• Trolls

Bosses

•  Grand Magus Telestra
•  Ormorok the Tree-Shaper
•  Anomalus
•  Keristrasza

Heroic mode; Optional

•  Commander Kolurg (vs Alliance)
•  Commander Stoutbeard (vs Horde)

Encounters

Bosses	Monsters
Axis of Alignment  Keristrasza	Azure Magus  Azure Warder
Hall of Stasis  Commander Kolurg (Heroic/Alliance Only)  Commander Stoutbeard (Heroic/Horde Only)	Mage Hunter Ascendant  Mage Slayer Alliance Only  Horde Berserker  Horde Cleric  Horde Commander  Horde Ranger Horde Only  Alliance Berserker  Alliance Cleric  Alliance Commander  Alliance Ranger
The Librarium  Grand Magus Telestra	Mage Hunter Ascendant  Mage Hunter Initiate  Mage Slayer  Steward
The Rift  Anomalus	Azure Enforcer  Azure Scale-Binder  Chaotic Rift  Crazed Mana-Surge  Crazed Mana-Wraith
The Singing Grove  Ormorok the Tree-Shaper	Crystalline Frayer  Crystalline Keeper  Crystalline Protector  Crystalline Tangler  Crystalline Tender

Loot

Main article: The Nexus Loot

Quests

The Nexus quests
	Quest Name	Quest Giver	Subzone
	[10-30D] Have They No Shame?	Image of Warmage Kaitlyn	The Nexus
	[10-30D] Have They No Shame?	Image of Warmage Kaitlyn	The Nexus
	[10-30D] Postponing the Inevitable	Image of Warmage Kaitlyn	The Nexus
	[10-30D] Prisoner of War	Warmage Kaitlyn	The Nexus
	[10-30D] Quickening	Image of Warmage Kaitlyn	The Nexus

Achievements

•  [The Nexus]
•  [Heroic: The Nexus]
•  [Heroic: The Nexus Guild Run]
•  [Chaos Theory]
•  [Intense Cold]
•  [Split Personality]

Notes

• Jeff Kaplan first announced at the Games Convention that the Nexus would be composed of two 5-player dungeons and a raid with Malygos as a boss.

Patch changes

• Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): New Timewalking difficulty added.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

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