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The Soul Hunters

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BossThe Soul Hunters
Image of The Soul Hunters
Gender Both
Race(s) Blood elf, Night elf (Humanoid)
Level ?? Boss
Class Demon hunter
Reaction Alliance Horde
Location Wastes of K'aresh, Manaforge Omega[35.3, 70.7]
Status Killable

The Soul Hunters are a council encounter in Manaforge Omega.

Adventure Guide

Adarus Duskblaze is a demon hunter brimming with abyssal power, seeking to devour the void energy surrounding Manaforge Omega. Together, he and his deadly allies, Ilyssa Darksorrow and Velaryn Bloodwrath, will destroy all who oppose them.

Overview

  • Adarus tears open a rift to the void and brands players with Devourer's Ire. Adarus will focus his assault on the players bearing this mark.
  • Velaryn singes any who stand in her path with Eye Beam and lunges towards her prey with The Hunt.
  • Ilyssa cleaves her target's essence with Fracture and feasts on their rended soul with Spirit Bomb.
  • Upon reaching 100 Fury, the Demon Hunters unleash their true power and enter Metamorphosis.

Damage Dealer Alert Damage Dealers

  • Adarus continually casts Consume at the players bearing Devourer's Ire.
  • Fracture cleaves their target's soul into fragments which Ilyssa will attempt to consume with Spirit Bomb.
  • Adarus will Voidstep to new locations, summoning images which slice open the fabric of the void with Hungering Slash and leave behind Encroaching Oblivion.

Healer Alert Healers

  • Adarus continually casts Consume at the players bearing Devourer's Ire.
  • Fracture cleaves their target's soul into fragments which Ilyssa will attempt to consume with Spirit Bomb.
  • Adarus will Voidstep to new locations, summoning images which slice open the fabric of the void with Hungering Slash and leave behind Encroaching Oblivion.

Tank Alert Tanks

  • Eye Beam singes Velaryn's current target with Fel-Singed and blasts them away.
  • Fracture cleaves their target's soul into fragments which Ilyssa will attempt to consume with Spirit Bomb.
  • Adarus will Voidstep to new locations, summoning images which slice open the fabric of the void with Hungering Slash and leave behind Encroaching Oblivion.

Abilities

The Soul Hunters

  • Adarus Duskblaze
    • Spell nzinsanity shortsighted.png Devourer's Ire Important — Adarus hurls orbs of ravenous void at several locations, inflicting X Cosmic damage to all players if not intercepted. Adarus focuses his gaze upon players who intercepted these orbs, continually assailing them with Consume and increasing their Physical damage taken by 100%. Upon removal, Devourer's Ire transfers to a nearby player and inflicts Y Cosmic damage to all players.
      • Inv cosmicvoid missile.png Consume — Adarus drains the essence of players afflicted with Devourer's Ire, inflicting X Cosmic damage and absorbing the next Y healing received.
        • Warning In Heroic and Mythic difficulty, Consume also applies Unending Hunger.
        • Inv cosmicvoid debuff.png Unending Hunger Heroic Difficulty — Adarus withers their target, increasing the damage and healing absorb taken from Consume by 20% for 1 min. This effect stacks.
    • Inv netherportal.png Voidstep — Adarus tears open a path through the void and teleports to a new location, inflicting X Cosmic damage to players within 4 yards along the path to his destination. During this movement, Adarus manifests images of himself which cast Hungering Slash.
      • Inv polearm 2h titanargus d 01.png Hungering Slash — Images of Adarus slice open the fabric of the void around them, inflicting X Cosmic damage to players within 8 yards and coalescing a pool of Encroaching Oblivion.
        • Inv icon shadowcouncilorb purple.png Encroaching Oblivion — A growing expanse of void opens, inflicting X Cosmic damage every 1 sec to players within and increasing their damage taken by 30%. The void spreads over time, but players afflicted with Devourer's Ire can greedily consume the essence and reduce its size.
    • Inv cosmicvoid buff.png Eradicate Deadly — Adarus conjures a scythe-wielding shadow that dashes behind players and cleaves through them, inflicting X Cosmic damage to all players struck.
  • Velaryn Bloodwrath
    • Inv ability demonhunter thehunt.png The Hunt Important — Velaryn marks a player as her prey, charging towards them and inflicting X Chaos damage. This effect is reduced for each player standing within the path of The Hunt. Velaryn additionally strikes players along the path, inflicting Y Chaos damage to players within 3 yards of each player struck.
      • Warning In Mythic difficulty, The Hunt marks multiple players simultaneously and players in the path of The Hunt are afflicted with Weakened Prey.
      • Ability revendreth demonhunter.png Weakened Prey Mythic Difficulty — Velaryn exposes any players struck along the path of The Hunt, increasing their damage taken from standing in the path of The Hunt by 500% for 10 sec.
    • Ability demonhunter bladedance.png Blade Dance — Velaryn rapidly slashes at nearby locations, inflicting X Chaos damage to players caught in the effect.
    • Ability demonhunter eyebeam.png Eye Beam Tank Alert — Velaryn channels a torrent of Fel energy towards her current target for 4 sec, inflicting X Chaos damage and applying Fel-Singed every 0.5 sec to players within the beam and blasting them away. After the blast concludes, Velaryn will Felblade towards her current target.
      • Warning In Mythic difficulty, Fel-Singed also increases the damage taken from Felblade.
      • Spell fire felimmolation.png Fel-Singed Tank Alert — Increases the damage taken from Eye Beam by 10% for 36 sec. This effect stacks. Also Increases the damage Felblade by 15% for 36 sec. in Mythic difficulty.
      • Warning In Mythic difficulty, Fel-Singed increases the damage taken from Eye Beam by 15%.
      • Ability demonhunter felblade.png Felblade Healer Alert — Velaryn charges to her current target, inflicting X Fire damage and an additional Y Fire damage every 1 sec for 25 sec.
  • Ilyssa Darksorrow
    • Ability creature felsunder.png Fracture Important Tank Alert — Ilyssa rapidly slashes her current target, inflicting X Physical damage and applying Shattered Soul. This strike cleaves the target's soul into fragments which each maintain Frailty on the target until another player collects the fragment.
      • Ability warlock demonicpower.png Shattered Soul — Ilyssa shatters the target's soul, increasing their damage taken from Fracture by 125% for 36 sec.
      • Ability demonhunter soulcleave2.png Frailty — The fragment draws upon the target's soul, reducing their healing received by 33%. This effect stacks. Players other than the target can collect the fragment, suffering X Chaos damage every 0.5 sec for 20 sec. This effect stacks.
    • Inv icon shadowcouncilorb purple.png Spirit Bomb — Ilyssa explodes, inflicting X Fire damage to all players and applying Soulcrush. Ilyssa destroys any fragments still present from Fracture, applying Expulsed Soul to all players.
      • Ability demonhunter shatteredsouls.png Soulcrush — Spirit Bomb causes players to absorb the next X healing received.
      • Ability felarakkoa feldetonation green.png Expulsed Soul Deadly — Spirit Bomb explodes any splintered fragments remaining from Fracture, inflicting X Fire damage to all players plus an additional Y Fire damage every 0.5 sec for 20 sec. This effect stacks.
    • Ability demonhunter sigilofchains.png Sigil of Chains Mythic Difficulty — Ilyssa places a Sigil of Chains at their current target's location that activates after 2.5 sec. All players are pulled to its center and snared, reducing movement speed by 60% for 6 sec.
    • Ability demonhunter immolation.png Immolation Aura Healer Alert — Ilyssa engulfs themselves in flame, inflicting X Chaos damage to all players every 2 sec.
  • Spell shadow soulleech 1.png Unstable Soul Deadly — When any of the Soul Hunters are slain, their soul begins to pulse with power, inflicting X Cosmic or Chaos damage to all players every 4 sec. This effect increases in strength by 25% each pulse.

Intermission: The Ceaseless Hunger

Adarus enshrouds the arena in void and attempts to draw all players into a Collapsing Star.

  • Inv cosmicvoid nova.png Collapsing Star Important — Adarus manifests a Collapsing Star which begins to pull players towards its center. Stellar fragments rain down and are pulled towards the center of the star. The fragments explode upon contacting a player, inflicting 1686460 Cosmic damage. If the fragments reach the center, they instead inflict X Cosmic damage to all players.
    • Warning In Heroic and Mythic difficulty, stellar fragments apply Dark Residue when they are absorbed.
    • Inv cosmicvoid orb.png Dark Residue Heroic Difficulty — The stellar residue burns, inflicting X Cosmic damage every 1 sec for 5 sec. This effect stacks.
    • Inv nullstone cosmicvoid.png Event Horizon Deadly — The Collapsing Star inflicts X Cosmic damage every 0.5 sec to players within its mass.
  • Ability warlock soullink.png Soul Tether Mythic Difficulty — The casters bind several players together for 24 sec, causing them to snap towards each other and suffer X Chaos damage if they move further than 14 yards apart.

Intermission: The Demon Within

Velaryn scours the arena with Fel Rush.

  • Ability demonhunter felrush.png Fel Rush Important — Velaryn manifests echoes of herself for 24 sec which rush forward, incinerating anything in their path for X Chaos damage.
  • Ability warlock soullink.png Soul Tether Mythic Difficulty — The casters bind several players together for 24 sec, causing them to snap towards each other and suffer X Chaos damage if they move further than 14 yards apart.

Intermission: The Unrelenting Pain

Ilyssa rampages about the arena with Infernal Strike and annihilates her foes with Fel Devastation.

  • Ability demonhunter infernalstrike1.png Infernal Strike Important — Ilyssa leaps to a location, inflicting X Fire damage to all players within 18 yards and knocking them away.
  • Ability demonhunter feldevastation.png Fel Devastation Important — Ilyssa unleashes the Fel within, inflicting X Fire damage every 0.5 sec to all players within the effect for 4.5 sec.
    • Warning In Heroic and Mythic difficulty, Ilyssa applies Withering Flames to players struck by Fel Devastation.
    • Artifactability vengeancedemonhunter painbringer.png Withering Flames Heroic Difficulty — Ilyssa's torrent of Fel withers her targets, reducing their movement speed by 4% for 10 sec. This effect stacks.
  • Ability warlock soullink.png Soul Tether Mythic Difficulty — The casters bind several players together for 24 sec, causing them to snap towards each other and suffer X Chaos damage if they move further than 14 yards apart.

Related achievements

Quotes

Intro
Adarus Duskblaze yells: Look, some poor souls lost in the wastes...
Velaryn Bloodwrath yells: Ah, that's the thrill I need... I need bigger prey.
Ilyssa Darksorrow yells: Oh, I hope they try to run away! It's more fun when they do...
Aggro
Velaryn Bloodwrath yells: Face me. Or face the flames!
Devourer's Ire
Adarus Duskblaze yells: Submit to the Void!
Voidstep
Adarus Duskblaze yells: To ground. Like a beast.
Eradicate
Adarus Duskblaze yells: Is that all you've got?
Fracture
Ilyssa Darksorrow yells: Fracture your soul. And your mind.
Spirit Bomb
Ilyssa Darksorrow yells: Delicious. Mm.
Sigil of Chains
Ilyssa Darksorrow yells: It's only a little pain and misery.
The Hunt
Velaryn Bloodwrath yells: You won't escape. Ha ha ha...
Eye Beam
Velaryn Bloodwrath yells: Feel my wrath.
The Ceaseless Hunger
Adarus Duskblaze yells: I have you now.
Collapsing Star
Adarus Duskblaze yells: Now you know true power!
The Demon Within
Velaryn Bloodwrath yells: My glaive thirsts.
Fel Rush
Velaryn Bloodwrath yells: Run! Ha ha ha! Run for your lives!
The Unrelenting Pain
Ilyssa Darksorrow yells: Oh, I hope they try to run away! It's more fun when they do...
Infernal Strike
Ilyssa Darksorrow yells: Fear and despair for all.
Wipe
Adarus Duskblaze yells: Now your power is mine!
Death
Adarus Duskblaze yells: I see... nothing.
Velaryn Bloodwrath yells: My rage... fades...
Ilyssa Darksorrow yells: They... got me?

Loot

Patch changes

  • The War Within Hotfix (2025-08-26): Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause Adarus to fail to fall to the ground upon death, preventing the group from looting the corpse.
  • The War Within Hotfix (2025-08-19):
    • The Hunt damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Consume healing absorb reduced by 15% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Dark Residue damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Soulcrush healing absorb reduced by 15% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Immolation Aura damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
  • The War Within Patch 11.2.0 (2025-08-05): Added.

External links

Adarus Duskblaze Ilyssa Darksorrow Velaryn Bloodwrath