wow Eye of the Jailer Mechanic in Shadowlands

[Stan 5,037]

Eye of the Jailer is a mechanic that limits the time you can spend in the Maw, so we're looking at it in more detail.

When you complete the Maw intro quest that involves Broker Ve'nari in Shadowlands, who is the only friendly vendor in the endgame zone, the Jailer will notice your presence and affect you with the Watched debuff - Your loitering in the Maw has not gone unnoticed. Your Eye of the Jailer rating is slowly increasing.

Ironically, you will receive The Eye of the Jailer as a quest reward.

From this moment on, completing quests, opening treasures, and defeating rare enemies in the Maw will incur the Eye of the Jailer, who will torment you with punishments of increasing deadliness.

The Eye of the Jailer icon appears in the middle of the screen with a loading bar that activates a new threat whenever filled to the maximum.

In total, there are five threat levels with increasing severity. The first one is easy to deal with, whereas the final one is hardly manageable, and you do not want to die in the Maw, because you will lose half of your collected Stygia and be forced to return where you dropped it.

Therefore, careful management of your time in the Maw is key to succeeding in the new endgame zone of Shadowlands.

Next, we're looking at the individual threat levels in more detail.

Tier 1 Threat

• Eye of the Jailer: Soul Beacon - Soulseekers are now hostile to you.

Enemies that were previously neutral when you entered the Maw now start attacking you. This threat is easy to deal with, but the mobs hit like a truck, so it is best to interrupt/stun them whenever possible.

Tier 2 Threat

• Eye of the Jailer: Soul Surge - Towers will periodically attack your location, damaging you and chaining you in place.

If you get hit by this, five Shackle Pins that slow your movement spawn, and you must click on them or move at least 20 yards away from them to free yourself and regain movement speed.

You can avoid the bombardment if you don't stand in the swirlies on the ground.

Tier 3 Threat

• Eye of the Jailer: Hunted - The Jailer will periodically send assassins after you.

An assassin will strike whenever you enter combat (Hunted), so you will have to deal with an additional NPC.

Tier 4 Threat

• Eye of the Jailer: Kill Order - The Jailer will periodically send Elite assassins after you.

It's getting more serious now, and you must deal with Elite Assasins instead of normal NPCs when you enter combat.

Tier 5 Threat

• Eye of the Jailer: Immediate Extermination - You will take increased damage and will be increasingly slowed until you leave or die.

At this point, you have no option but to leave the Maw through the Oribos Waygate, as you will be taking increased damage by 3%  and slowed by 5% every 3 seconds until you leave or die.

There are unfortunately not all the debuffs that you get while in the Maw. The individual zones have similar debuffs to the Horrific Vision wings/quarters. For example, entering Beastwarrens afflicts you with a periodic fear (Otherworldly Screeching). Ve'nari informs you that you are not equipped to enter the Beastwarrens, so with time, we may be able to somehow get around the debuffs.

Entering Perdition Hold increases your damage taken by 50% (Exposed Anima).

You can clear the Eye of the Jailer debuff for Anima (Artifact Power 2.0) in your Covenant Sanctum.

The Maw is a dangerous place, and we are looking at the various debuffs that limit your stay there.

[Bobbis 208]

Great, so visions on steroids? yaaaaaaaaay

[miggfo 12]

These sound fun. Thank *filtered* for open world zones that are actually dangerous while also having a lot going on. The area-specific debuffs also remind me of a certain region in Guild Wars 1.

[Teufel 331]

Now all it needs is a "And now, the true test. Hold fast, or expire." message on lvl4-5 of the debuff.

[PraetorFerix 0]

On 7/14/2020 at 8:50 AM, Stan said:

You can clear the Eye of the Jailer debuff for Anima (Artifact Power 2.0) in your Covenant Sanctum.

How can this be done? Cause I haven't found any NPC to talk to in order to reset the debuff