Rav'i
Altar of Fangs · boss 1 of 3
This ravenous hydra has survived this cursed place through scavenging the meat of the fallen. That doesn't mean it is not a fearsome combatant, eager to add some fresh temple explorers to its otherwise rotting diet.
She stops fighting to eat, shielding herself while she does it. Every second the shield is up, stacking Nature damage lands on everyone, so break it fast.
Delete her absorb shield the instant she runs to a Carrion Pile, because Carrion Burst only stops stacking when the shield drops. Between meals she is not idle: dodge Regurgitate's acid lines and Fetid Roar's falling stalactites, and catch the meat chunks she flings so they don't explode.
The spells that matter
The handful you actually react to. Hover for Blizzard's own text; click through for the full tooltip.
Ssscavenging
Feeding Frenzy
Carrion Burst
Messy Eater
Fetid Roar
Triple Shot
Regurgitate
Hydrastrike
What actually kills you
Everything else is noise until these three are handled.
- Letting the shield live. While she Ssscavenges or is in a Feeding Frenzy she applies Carrion Burst to everyone every second and it stacks; it only stops when her absorb shield is removed.
- Feeding Frenzy. If the pile she runs to holds Fresh Meat she eats twice as fast, so the same shield costs double the stacks. Fresh Meat comes from her Ravenous Stomp and from Fetid Roar skewering the flying Twinfangs.
- Dropped meat chunks. Messy Eater flings rotting chunks across the pit; each chunk no one catches explodes into another Carrion Burst.
Your job
If you tank
- Hydrastrike is her three heads striking your target at once. Ordinary melee, no swap mechanic.
- Her Ravenous Stomp drops Fresh Meat onto Carrion Piles. Track which pile got it, because that pile turns her next meal into a Feeding Frenzy.
If you heal
- Carrion Burst is the whole healing check. It ticks every second and stacks while she eats, and only ends when the shield breaks, so spend cooldowns on the eating, not on a timer.
- Triple Shot hits three players with venom that keeps ticking in an area around each. Spread so the pools don't overlap.
If you DPS
- Everything onto her shield the moment she starts eating. Nothing else matters as much; the longer it lives, the more Carrion Burst on the group.
- Catch the meat chunks. A caught chunk is damage to one person; a dropped one is a Carrion Burst on everybody.
- Fetid Roar drops stalactites, so leave the marked impacts, which deal Nature damage and stun. Regurgitate throws three lines of acid at a player: step sideways out of the lines, since they also slow you and cut your damage.
How the fight goes
| Part | What to do |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | She fights with melee, Triple Shot and Regurgitate, and cracks the ceiling with Fetid Roar, until she runs out of energy. |
| Step 2 | Out of energy, she runs to the nearest Carrion Pile and eats behind an all-absorbing shield (Ssscavenging), applying stacking Carrion Burst until the shield is broken. |
| Step 3 | Break the shield to send her back to fighting. If the pile held Fresh Meat it is a Feeding Frenzy instead, where she eats twice as fast, so break it even faster. |
Higher keys
Heroic and Mythic
The journal publishes no key-level-specific text; higher keys scale health and damage. We would rather say that than invent a difference.
Loot
Everything Rav'i can drop, from the Midnight Season 2 item database.
| Slot | Item |
|---|---|
| Feet | Poison-Proof Stompers |
| Wrist | Hydra Scale Wristguards |
| Trinket | Vile Vial of Volatile Venom |
| Trinket | Coiled Fangstone |
| One-hand | Hydraspine Twinblade |
| One-hand | Venom-Etched Crescent |
| Chest | Primordial Robe of Rites |
Nothing matches that.
This boss drops 2 trinkets. Trinket value varies enormously by spec — see the simulated trinket rankings.
Worth a bonus roll?
You cannot roll this boss on its own. A dungeon roll is against the whole instance, so this table is one part of a pool that includes every other boss in Altar of Fangs — the bonus roll guide explains what that changes, and the planner works it out per spec.