Hello everyone!
Waycrest Manor is the dungeon that awaits at the end of the Drustvar questing experience.
For those that don’t recall the story of the zone, in a nutshell when they settled
here, they entered into battle with the Drust.
Their leader Gorak Tul was supposedly slain by Arom Waycrest, but that didn’t really
happen and by the time that we move into the zone which is many maaany years later, we
discover that they’re dealing with a dark uprising of cults and witchcraft.
Lucile Waycrest is placed on trial for being a witch, we prove that she’s not and together
we get to the bottem of the situation.
A ong the way we recreate the order of embers, an order that researched the drust magic and
stood against this darknes in the past and as it turns out, it’s actually her mother
that’s the cause of the trouble.
Lucile was completely unaware of this, but strong enough to stand up against her own
family.
Together with the members of the order of embers, Notley, Mace, Sterntide and Yorrick,
we enter the manor which truly looks and feels amazing.
When they say manor, they don’t kid around and I’d be probably gushing about the design
of this dungeon throughout the entire video so let me just get that out of the way....the
dungeon looks incredible.
Lady Waycrest is kind enough to leave us in the care of her servants and it’s very open
on where you want to go, what encounter you want to deal with first.
We checked out the banquit hall first where Raal the Glutonous is hanging out, feasting
all day long.
I have no idea how or when he got here.
Was he perhaps human in the past?
but man does he look good.
“Stay for diner”
When nobody is in melee range, he will start to consume everything around him so make sure
to stay on him.
He has a frontal cone attack called Tenderize which you’ll want to move out of and he
does Rotten explusion which is rancid food spewed out on the floor, leaving green pools
behind.
Make sure not to stay in the pools while also killing the servants that he summons.
Slowly but surely they walk towards the glutenous pig, not eating a thing in months.
If they reach him and he consumesthem, they’ll increase his damage done by 5% each.
“Such...delicious...agony....”
From the Banquit hall we moved outside where rain and lightning sets the mood while Matron
Bryndle is using the poor unfortunate souls to construct the Soulbound Goliath.
“Flee!
There is no hope!”
The lightning actually becomes your ally in this encounter as running the boss through
the fire it leaves behind will reduce its energy and the energy it gains over time increases
its damage done.
Next to that he will try to crush his enemies while pinning them down with soul thorns.
Our tank dc’d at this point but thankfully we were able to kite him around enough to
get him down.
“Finally free...”
Back inside we go to the gallery this time around where we run into the Heartbane Triad,
the witches that stood together with Lady Waycrest as we walked in.
They share a focusing iris between them, who ever has the iris needs to be smacked since
without the iris they have a shield that reduces their damage taken.
With the iris in their posession, they gain energy and if they reach their maximum, they’ll
cast a dire ritual which deals a whole bunch of damage.
Thankfully they do share it around aond sometimes they’ll even grab your tank and make him
dance like a little puppet, mindcontrolling him for a bit so make sure to stun while you
keep on bringing the paint.
The rest of their abilities were mainly just casting bolts.
Bramble bolts, ruinous bolts, soul bolts...all kinds of bolts that hurt but they went down
easy enough.
Of course this is on normal difficulty, i’m sure that on mythic you’ll have to deal
with a little bit more
“My roots will sprout again”
Lady Waycrest is quite impressed with how we slaughtered her entire household.
The carnage is dripping through the floor boards and we’re invited to join her in
the basement and marvel at death’s beauty.
It was a little bit tricky to actually find the door to the basement, but after wandering
the manor for a bit we finally found the right door near the gallery and went down into the
cellar to confront lord and lady waycrest.
This fight has me really exited for when they implement the music as the lady doesn’t
fight herself at first, she lets her husband do the heavy lifting while playing her organ.
I really hope that her abilities are going to be accompanied by some killer sound effects.
The husband spews out rot and smacks us around, but the mrs isn’t ready to let her husband
just fall to our blade and uses vitality transfer to keep him up and going.
This does take her health away, eventually forcing her to abandon the music and join
the fight, but both lord and lady go down revealing the true source of this evil.
Despite Lucile believing that the nightmare is over, Gorak Tul reveals himself.
For countless years he waited to enact his vengeance, until at long last her mother provided
him the means.
Lady Waycrest was merely a vessel for his power.
Destroying her opened the doorway for him into our world.
We cannot allow Gorak Tul to cross over so we quickly confront the ancient old leader
of the drust who comes with a whole bunch of adds.
the Deathtouched slavers are doable on their own, but the drust resurrcts them unless you
burn their corpse with fire provided by Yorrick.
He himself has darkened lightning that does a fair bit of damage, but all the same, Gorak
Tul goes down and the day is saved.
Drustvar can once more pledge its allegiance to Kul Tiras and aid the Alliance.
Still leaves a couple of questions though like why did Gorak Tul only start to rise
now.
How long has he been working on lady Waycrest and how come Lucile never noticed.
Is there a source behind the source and what about this realm that he’s trying to escape,
what’s that
all about.
His title is lord of the Blighted Lands and what’s interesting is that there’s a datamined
scenario in Thros, the Blighted Lands.
Apperantly, Jaina is there, dealing with the horrors of the past, the choices she has made
in her life and I assume we’re going in to get her out.
I wonder what else they have in story for this story and can’t wait to see it develop,
but for now this is the dungeon Waycrest Manor.
Beautifull designed and quite fun to play through.
The different routes seem to be designed with mythic plus in mind and can’t wait to see
the music added but man it’s gorgeous.
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