The Venomous Abyss · Boss 4
Vashnik the Malignant
Watch for: 0 spells to interrupt, 1 effects to dispel and 2 spells to avoid, then every spell of the fight, role by role.
Effects to dispel
These effects come off with a dispel of the right type, or are soothed when the enemy enrages. The type tells which classes can handle it.
| Spell | Removed by | Cast by |
|---|---|---|
 Exploding Infection | Magic | Vashnik the Malignant |
Avoidable damage
Blizzard classifies these spells as "avoidable" in its own damage meter: ground effects, frontals, leaps. Every hit counts, the first one included, and Wipe to Win holds no other against you. How they're counted.
| Spell | Cast by |
|---|---|
 Plague Wave | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Stygian Burst | Vashnik the Malignant |
Every spell of the fight
Every spell of the Dungeon Journal, in game order, with its markers: the role it targets, whether it's deadly or important. A spell marked Heroic+ or Mythic doesn't show up on lower difficulties.
| Spell | Watch for | Cast by |
|---|---|---|
 Imbibe | Important | Vashnik the Malignant |
 MalignanceMythic | Deadly | Malignant Totem |
 Blood Infusion | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Hemo Expulsion | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Sanguineous Fortitude | DPS | Clotting Venom |
 Splitting Clot | - | Clotting Venom |
 Shadow Infusion | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Gloom Expulsion | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Miasmic Coating | DPS | Shrouded Venom |
 Umbral Ejection | - | Shrouded Venom |
 Flame Infusion | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Conflagrating Expulsion | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Burning Presence | Healers | Burning Venom |
 Caustic Surge | - | Burning Venom |
 Hardened Venom | - | Burning Venom |
 Toxic Vapor | Healers | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Malignant Burst | Deadly | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Malignant CatalystHeroic+ | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Catalytic BileHeroic+ | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Plague Froth | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
| Plague Wave | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Dripping Fangs | Tank | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Adaptive Infection | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Siphoning Infection | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Siphon Blood | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Thinned BloodMythic | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
| Exploding Infection | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Caustic Explosion | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
 Stygian Infection | Healers | Vashnik the Malignant |
| Stygian Burst | - | Vashnik the Malignant |
