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Vault of the Incarnates Raid Guide

Vault of the Incarnates (VotI) is Dragonflight’s opening raid — 8 bosses, a titan prison, and Raszageth the Storm-Eater waiting at the end. Whether you’re here for the tmogs, the mounts, or the gear, here’s everything you need to know.

What is Vault of the Incarnates?

Once a titan prison holding the most dangerous beings in existence, VotI has been turned into a staging ground for the Primalist army. Raszageth has broken out and is working to free her proto-dragon siblings — together they plan to destroy all five Dragonflights and erase the titans’ legacy from Azeroth. Eight bosses stand between you and stopping her.

The raid also returned in Dragonflight Season 4 as an Awakened version with a special raid affix, harder mechanics, and the highest ilvl gear of the expansion.

Boss Order

  1. Eranog
  2. Terros
  3. The Primal Council
  4. Sennarth, the Cold Breath
  5. Dathea, Ascended
  6. Kurog Grimtotem
  7. Broodkeeper Diurna
  8. Raszageth the Storm-Eater

Weekly lockout skip: Pick up the quest Vault of the Incarnates: Break a Few Eggs and collect 3 Shards of the Greatstaff from Broodkeeper Diurna. The following week you can skip everything except Eranog, Terros, Diurna, and Raszageth. Separate quest versions exist for Normal, Heroic, and Mythic.

How to Get Inside

The entrance is in Thaldraszus, east of Tyrhold at /way 73.14 55.60. The platform is elevated — you need Dragonriding to reach it. There’s a flight point nearby if you haven’t unlocked it yet, but your dragon is faster anyway.

Boss Tactics — Quick Reference

Click any boss to expand the cheat sheet. These are quick notes for first pulls or alt runs, not a full guide.

1. Eranog

The fight alternates between a standard phase and a DPS-check intermission where adds form a ring around the raid.

  • Players hit by Flamerift stack together to drop lava pools compactly, then kite the spawned adds toward the boss for cleave.
  • The Molten Cleave target steps out and spreads — splash hits anyone nearby.
  • Healers dispel Incinerating Roar as fast as possible.
  • Tanks swap at 4–8 stacks of Burning Wound.
  • During intermission: everyone focuses one add to break the ring and run through the gap.
  • Heroic: dodge Molten Spikes on spawn and again when they explode.
  • Mythic: two concentric rings of adds — break the inner circle first, then the outer.
2. Terros

Terros doesn’t move. He sits in the center and slowly destroys the platform — at 100 energy a quarter of the floor disappears.

  • One tank must always be in melee to prevent Tectonic Barrage from hitting the raid.
  • Stack the group for Rock Blast to split the damage across players.
  • At 100 energy, move away from Resonating Annihilation.
  • Place Awakened Earth pillars in one spot so a single Concussive Slam destroys them all.
  • Dodge ground markers as usual.

Mount hunters: Terros drops Terros’s Captive Core. Hold onto it — combine it with Eye of the Vengeful Hurricane from Dathea and trade both to the Iskaara Tuskarr for the Iskaara Trader’s Ottuk mount.

3. The Primal Council

Four bosses at once — each with their own elemental ability set. The trick is using their own spells against them.

  • Tanks stack all four bosses. Raid spreads.
  • Conductive Mark: move away from other players, then use Earthen Pillar to remove it.
  • Clear Earthen Pillars off the floor using Meteor Axes.
  • Got Primal Blizzard stacks? Run through a Scorched Ground patch to burn them off.
  • Cleave all four bosses evenly and kill them at roughly the same time — any survivor buffs the remaining bosses.

The Primal Council drops the Whispering Incarnate Icon — an Omni-stat trinket that works well for almost every spec in the game.

4. Sennarth, the Cold Breath

A multi-platform fight against a giant spider who constantly tries to knock your raid off the edge.

  • Stay spread to limit the impact of Breath of Ice and Chilling Blast.
  • Move quickly through web patches; use spider add explosions to clear web stacks off players.
  • When Gossamer Burst fires, use a large rock as an anchor or position yourself on web to avoid being knocked off the platform.
  • Never stand in front of spider adds.
  • Track the blue plumes on the ground — getting pushed into one is an instant death.
5. Dathea, Ascended

A storm boss with constant movement pressure. Tornadoes are everywhere and the Raging Tempest keeps repositioning.

  • Stay spread for the first ~80 seconds because of Conductive Mark.
  • Track Raging Tempest — it moves and resets safe zones regularly.
  • Avoid tornadoes; plan your movement carefully during Cyclone and never stay in melee range when it’s active.
  • When Coalescing Storm adds spawn, kill them fast and interrupt their casts. They explode on death and knock players back.
  • Heroic: significantly more adds — interrupt priority becomes critical.

Mount hunters: Dathea drops Eye of the Vengeful Hurricane — the second piece you need for the Iskaara Trader’s Ottuk mount (pairs with Terros’s Captive Core).

6. Kurog Grimtotem

Kurog rotates between four elemental altars, changing his ability set each time. You follow him and adapt on the fly.

  • Storm altar: spread for Lightning Crash. Move to Flame at ~25 stacks on the boss, or wait for intermission.
  • Flame altar: can stack or spread depending on pull strategy.
  • Frost altar: ranged stack in the middle to make Absolute Zero soaks easier. Move to Earth at 16–18 stacks.
  • Earth altar: spread for Seismic Rupture. Ranged stay 10–20 yards out to have time to react to Erupting Bedrock.
  • First intermission: kill Thundering Ravager first, then Blazing Fiend. Second intermission: Frozen Destroyer first, then Tectonic Crusher.
  • Heroic: Primal Shift debuff prevents re-entering any zone you’ve already left — plan your rotation carefully.
7. Broodkeeper Diurna

Raszageth is trying to hatch an army from captured dragon eggs. Diurna guards them — and your job is to destroy those eggs before they hatch.

  • When Diurna drops Greatstaff of the Broodkeeper, a player picks it up and uses the action button to fire Greatstaff’s Wrath at eggs she’s incubating. Phase 2 version hits multiple eggs simultaneously.
  • If you miss an egg, a powerful add spawns. Don’t miss eggs.
  • Second tank kites all non-egg adds at least 50 yards from Diurna to block their buff aura.
  • Add kill priority: Juvenile Frost Proto-Dragon (interrupt Chilling Tantrum) → Dragonspawn Flamebender → Drakonid Stormbringer (interrupt Ionizing Charge). Interrupt Primalist Mage casts too.
  • Dispel Icy Shroud immediately, or have healers power through the absorb.
  • Spread during Wildfire casts and watch for fire puddles on the floor.
  • Mythic: the staff beam also creates void zones underneath — dodge those on top of everything else.
8. Raszageth the Storm-Eater

The first major Dragonflight raid boss. Three phases, two intermissions, and a platform that slowly falls apart. Kill her before Phase 3 destroys the floor.

  • Throughout: dodge Lightning Breath frontals, Lightning Strikes zones, and Lightning Devastation patches.
  • Static Charge carriers: one drops their mark directly behind the raid, others place theirs near the platform edges. Stay separated.
  • Normal: use Static Field to counter Hurricane Wing. Heroic/Mythic: use personals or consumables instead.
  • Spread to avoid chaining Volatile Current; interrupt the adds it spawns.
  • Tanks swap after every Electrified Jaws in Phase 1 and every Thunderous Blast in Phase 3.
  • Stormsurge: burn the shield within 25 seconds. Split the raid into Positive and Negative Charge camps — standing near players with the same charge gives a damage buff.
  • Phase 3: platform is deteriorating from Raging Storm. This is a hard DPS race — burn everything.
  • Both intermissions: pure add killing, nothing complicated.

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Item Levels

Regular VotI

Unlike previous expansions where only the final bosses dropped high ilvl, Dragonflight scales item levels progressively across the whole raid. Some bosses also have rare drop slots at +6/+7 above base:

Boss Normal Heroic Mythic Rare drop ilvl
Eranog 389 402 415 395 / 408 / 421
Terros 389 402 415
The Primal Council 389 402 415 395 / 408 / 421
Sennarth 389 402 415
Dathea, Ascended 395 408 421
Kurog Grimtotem 395 408 421
Broodkeeper Diurna 398 411 424 405 / 418 / 430
Raszageth 398 411 424 405 / 418 / 430

Awakened VotI (Season 4)

The Awakened version drops current-tier max ilvl across all difficulties:

Difficulty Item level
LFR 480–489
Normal 493–502
Heroic 506–515
Mythic 519–528

Notable Drops Worth Targeting

  • Neltharax, Enemy of the Sky (Raszageth) — rare bow, was Hunter BiS for most of the expansion. Still one of the cleanest tmog bows in the game.
  • Iskaara Trader’s Ottuk (mount) — collect Terros’s Captive Core from Terros and Eye of the Vengeful Hurricane from Dathea, then combine both at the Iskaara Tuskarr vendor.
  • Whispering Incarnate Icon (Primal Council) — Omni-stat trinket, one of the most universally useful items in the tier.
  • Seal of Diurna’s Chosen (Eranog) and Seal of Filial Duty (Broodkeeper Diurna) — rare rings that drop at higher ilvl than standard gear from the same boss.

Tier Sets

VotI drops the Primalist tier set. Collecting 2 or 4 pieces of the same set unlocks a spec-specific bonus. Gear doesn’t drop directly — you get a token that you convert at the Great Vault or use directly.

Token type Classes Slot sources
Dreadful Death Knight, Demon Hunter, Warlock Helm: Raszageth
Shoulders: Diurna
Chest: Kurog
Hands: Dathea
Legs: Sennarth
Mystic Druid, Hunter, Mage
Venerated Paladin, Priest, Shaman
Zenith Evoker, Monk, Rogue, Warrior

The Revival Catalyst (available from mid-January 2023) lets you convert non-tier pieces into tier. Direct drops from bosses are still the fastest path.

BoE Trash Farming

VotI still uses the old BoE system — Blizzard planned to change it but never implemented the new version for this raid. That means trash mobs can drop bind-on-equip gear you can sell on the Auction House or mail to alts. Available slots include cloth legs, plate helm, mail shoulders, leather chest, and bracers across multiple armor types.

The new BoE system would have restricted drops to named Lieutenant mobs only (once per week per character). Since it wasn’t implemented in VotI, trash farming here is unrestricted — run it as many times as you want.

FAQ

How many bosses are in Vault of the Incarnates?

VotI has 8 bosses: Eranog, Terros, The Primal Council, Sennarth, Dathea, Kurog Grimtotem, Broodkeeper Diurna, and Raszageth the Storm-Eater as the final boss.

Can I skip bosses in VotI?

Yes. Complete the quest Vault of the Incarnates: Break a Few Eggs by collecting 3 Shards of the Greatstaff from Broodkeeper Diurna. From the following week onward, you can skip straight to Eranog, Terros, Diurna, and Raszageth — bypassing the rest. The skip works separately for Normal, Heroic, and Mythic.

What mounts can I get from Vault of the Incarnates?

Two mounts are tied to VotI. The Iskaara Trader’s Ottuk requires combining Terros’s Captive Core (from Terros) and Eye of the Vengeful Hurricane (from Dathea) — both are neck-slot items you trade at the Iskaara Tuskarr vendor. The Embodiment of the Storm-Eater drops from Mythic Raszageth directly.

What is the best item level gear from Vault of the Incarnates?

In the original version the highest drops are 398–424 ilvl (Normal to Mythic) from Broodkeeper Diurna and Raszageth, with rare bonus drops reaching 430 on Mythic. In the Awakened Season 4 version the cap goes up to 519–528 on Mythic, making it one of the best gear sources at the end of Dragonflight.