The Hoardmonger
Den of Nalorakk · boss 1 of 3
Driven by voracious greed, the gluttonous Hoardmonger fiercely defends the stashes of food and supplies he has stolen from nearby troll tribes. Nalorakk's first trial is to eliminate him before the tribes go hungry.
He powers himself up from whichever hoard he is standing next to, so the tank chooses which upgrade he gets. Then walk into his mushrooms before they ripen.
A positioning fight disguised as a damage check. At three health thresholds the Hoardmonger runs to the nearest pile and permanently upgrades an ability — bones, meat or mushrooms — and the tank decides which by deciding where he is standing when the threshold lands.
What actually kills you
Everything else is noise until these three are handled.
- Letting the mushrooms ripen. Every Rotten Mushroom that survives twelve seconds detonates into a Putrid Burst that puts Toxic Spores on the whole group. Walking into one gives the spores to you alone and destroys the fungus.
- Giving him the mushroom pile. Overflowing Supplies means more mushrooms per throw, which is more of them than five people can reach.
- Standing in front of him. Earthshatter Slam is a frontal cone, and once he has the bone pile it also leaves spikes on the floor behind it.
Your job
If you tank
- You pick his upgrade. Drag him toward the pile you want him to reach before he hits the threshold — meat gives Hearty Bellow, which is armour-ignoring raid damage on top of a knockback, and it is the one to avoid.
- Point the cone away. Bonespike Slam adds spikes to it that slow anyone who walks through.
If you heal
- Toxic Spores is Nature and it stacks. It is a poison, so anything that cleanses poison undoes the whole mechanic — bring that if you have it.
- Ravenous Bellow ignores armour and hits everyone. Hearty Bellow is the same thing with a bleed attached, which is what makes the meat pile expensive.
If you DPS
- Soak the mushrooms. One person taking spores is a debuff; a mushroom left to burst is spores on all five, and they stack.
- Spread while you do it. You want one mushroom each, not one player collecting four.
How the fight goes
| Part | What to do |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | Ordinary damage with Earthshatter Slam and Ravenous Bellow. |
| Step 2 | At each health threshold he runs to the nearest pile and gains a permanent upgrade. Where he is standing is the tank's decision. |
| Step 3 | At full energy he throws Spoiled Supplies. Twelve seconds to clear the mushrooms by walking into them. |
Higher keys
Heroic and Mythic
The encounter journal publishes no difficulty-specific text for this fight. We would rather say that than invent a difference.
Loot
Everything The Hoardmonger can drop, from the Midnight Season 2 item database.
| Slot | Item |
|---|---|
| Shoulder | Scavenger's Spaulders |
| Chest | Hoarded Harvest Wrap |
| Waist | Autumn's Boon Belt |
| Feet | Forgotten Tribe Footguards |
| Ring | Pilfered Precious Band |
| Trinket | Mycolic Medicine |
| One-hand | Grim Harvest Gloves |
Nothing matches that.
This boss drops a trinket. 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 Den of Nalorakk — the bonus roll guide explains what that changes, and the planner works it out per spec.