Charonus
Voidscar Arena · boss 3 of 3
The overly confident and ostentatious owner of the Voidscar Arena, Charonus, is impressed by the fighting ability of Azerothians and demands them for his grand collection.
Your orb cannot be killed — it can only be driven into a singularity. The singularity is also trying to swallow you, so skim the edge.
A kiting puzzle with a hazard as the weapon. Every player gets a Gravitic Orb that follows them and stacks Condensed Mass — damage and a slow that compounds. Nothing you cast removes it. The only counter is leading it within six yards of one of Charonus's own singularities.
What actually kills you
Everything else is noise until these three are handled.
- Trying to outrun the orb. Condensed Mass slows you as it stacks, so the longer you kite, the less able you are to kite.
- Going too deep. Players pulled into an Unstable Singularity are Atomized — unable to attack or use abilities — while the orbs keep ticking on everyone else.
- Being knocked into one. Void Cascade knocks players away on contact; a knockback near a singularity is not survivable the way a knockback anywhere else is.
Your job
If you tank
- The singularities pull constantly. Hold him somewhere with room on both sides so the group has a route out after each orb is destroyed.
- Dark Waves are dodged rather than absorbed. They are damage on hit, not a tank mechanic.
If you heal
- Condensed Mass stacks on all five at once and only stops when each orb is gone. The healing check is how long the slowest player takes to reach a singularity.
- Anyone Atomized is out of the fight for the duration. Expect their orb to be uncontested while they are.
If you DPS
- Do not fight the orb. It has no health bar that matters — walk it to a singularity and let the hazard do it.
- Approach the edge, not the middle. Six yards is enough for the orb and not enough to pull you in.
- Go early. The first stacks are cheap and the slow makes every later trip longer.
How the fight goes
| Part | What to do |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | Charonus opens singularities near himself. They tick damage and pull everyone slowly inward. |
| Step 2 | Gravitic Orbs spawn, one per player, and begin stacking Condensed Mass. |
| Step 3 | Each player leads their orb to a singularity to destroy it, then gets clear before the pull finishes the job. |
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 Charonus can drop, from the Midnight Season 2 item database.
| Slot | Item |
|---|---|
| Head | Overseer's Diadem |
| Neck | Graft of the Domanaar |
| Chest | Manipulator's Vest |
| Waist | Gravitic Girdle |
| Trinket | Mindpiercer's Sigil |
| One-hand | Singularity Slicer |
| Two-hand | Charonic Crescent |
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 Voidscar Arena — the bonus roll guide explains what that changes, and the planner works it out per spec.