Vorago

Vorago is a gigantic, rocky and extremely powerful boss monster created by the Anima Mundi, or as he refers to it, the "earth soul", billed as the toughest boss monster in RuneScape.

Vorago is found in the Borehole, a large cave north of Falador, and wishes to test his strength against challengers in order to prepare to defend Gielinor against future threats, such as the gods, should he deem them a threat. He was defeated long ago by a powerful weapon known as the Maul of Omens after using his power to destroy, but has since reformed, although he is more passive now.

If challenged, Vorago uses five stages of increasingly high-hitting attacks that change on a weekly basis. Rewards include level 90 Magic equipment - materials needed to make tectonic armour - and the seismic wand and seismic singularity.

Location
Vorago is located in the cave just north of Falador, east of Doric's hut. The fastest way to get there is by teleporting to the Falador Lodestone and running north, past the statue of Saradomin.

Starting a fight
There are two distinct ways to start a fight with Vorago -- with or without an instance.

With an instance, you can pay per hour, up to a maximum of four hours, to start your own fight, similar to how the God Wars Dungeon instances work. You can set the number of people allowed in the instance (from 1 to 50 players), the minimum combat level allowed to enter the instance, and an optional entry key that other players can use to enter the instance privately.

You could also use the one non-instanced Vorago spawn on each world, which costs nothing but is open to anyone. If Vorago's head is not visible (hence a rocky look on the wall), it means that a team is currently fighting him. If his head can be seen, then he is not in a fight.

Once inside the cave, there's a series of Agility shortcuts that can be jumped across to go to the northern area. Talk to Vorago, and go through all the choices that involve why he is here and challenging him. Once these are done, two coloured messages should show up saying that you are now eligible to fight Vorago.

Upon taking the challenge from Vorago, all nearby players will be given the option if they will want to fight with you or not. After 20 seconds, he unleashes a blast of 50,000 damage which is split between all players who accepted his challenge. Players who do not accept the challenge will not be harmed by the blast.

Fight Overview
In order to defeat Vorago, players must assemble the weapon that originally defeated him, the Maul of Omens, the pieces of which are inside his body, and are dropped during the fight during stages 1, 2 and 4. Only with this item in one player's inventory will Vorago be able to be defeated. In order to get the pieces of the maul, players must use the environment against Vorago and look for chatbox clues as to the weaknesses in his armour.

Vorago has many attacks, and they target multiple players like the Kalphite King. In phase 1, he uses standard magic and melee attacks, along with the occasional bomb that cannot be healed with abilities, and hits for 2,000, 3,000 or 6,000 damage. In phase 2, he attacks with devastating melee and magic attacks, and can hit up to 4,500+ unblockable damage onto players.

If a player dies in any of his phases, their grave will be in a separate "graveyard" room, where players can reclaim the items from their graves. The graveyard room can only be accessed by right-clicking on the cave entrance. If you die on any of the phases, you cannot rejoin the battle, and so, teamwork is a must when fighting this boss.

Players also cannot teleport from his arena, as Vorago will block your teleport if you do. The only way out is by victory or death (if you can get far away from Vorago or leave combat, you can log out which lets you leave the fight safely, though this is obviously frowned upon).

Vorago's attacks (all phases)
All of Vorago's attacks have a area of effect damage.
 * Melee: Vorago has three melee attacks.
 * Standard: Swipes his giant claw-like hand dealing lots of life points of damage.
 * Dismember: Deals around 400 damage with the correct protection prayer. Players can use Freedom to negate the bleed.
 * Special: An attack that deals 4500 damage to a single player that Vorago targets.
 * Magic: There are two magic attacks. Vorago will send these attacks onto multiple players.
 * Blue missile: A rock with a blue aura. This can deal up to 2500 or more damage, even through protection prayers. If other players are nearby when it impacts the player it is going for, it will damage nearby players also.
 * Red missile: A rock with a red aura. When this is launched, the game tells the player it is targeted on to run, although it is seemingly impossible to avoid taking any damage from it. Upon getting into contact with you, it will explode for 2,000 damage (more if there are nearby players, up to 7,000), and resets all defensive abilities to 0.
 * Rampage: Does heavy damage, only used at the end of his phases (except phase 5). Vorago jumps up into the air and lands on the ground three times, cracking it and damaging any players that are underneath him. This attack precedes the next phase in the fight.


 * Channeled: Vorago will select a player at random and start channeling everyones attacks into them. Players need to stop attacking Vorago at this point and wait 5 seconds before attacking him again. He uses this on phases 1, 4 and 5.

Phase One
Phase one is fairly simple, although to end it, one player must jump on Vorago's back by climbing the cliffside, having to get past 5 obstacles, while still enduring Vorago's attacks. Once Vorago is low on health, they must jump onto his back from the top of the cliff, although Vorago has to be in exactly the right position for this to happen (facing away from the cliff). After a player successfully jumps on his back, they will obtain part 1 of the Maul of Omens, and Vorago's remaining lifepoints mus tbe dealt with normally.

Once all of his life points are depleted, Vorago will start rampaging, jumping into the air and damaging any players that he lands on top of. After three rampages, the floor will collapse, and the fight proceeds to phase two.

Phase Two
In Phase 2, Vorago does massively damaging attacks to players. When Vorago focuses on a player, he will pound them, either causing the Dismember ability that hits much higher than normal (up to 1,000 without the right prayers) or hits for 4,500+ damage which cannot be blocked or healed by any means.

Vorago also summons gravity orbs. Getting him close to these orbs and "firing" them three times destabilises him, and results in a message telling you to bring him down. During this part, Players must click rapidly to attack Vorago, while constantly being dealt damage until it ends. The more players there are, the less damage is taken and the faster he stumbles. After this ends, Vorago will stumble for around 10-20 seconds, and enough damage needs to be done to him to loosen the second weapon piece from his body. Otherwise, the second piece of the maul will not appear and Vorago will heal to full health.

Once all of his life points are gone in this phase, Vorago once again begins rampaging and breaks the ground again, as he did in phase one.

Phase Three
In phase three Vorago will spawn two level 180 scopuli, which are very deadly (about the difficulty of Nex without special abilities), and very durable. In order for Vorago to be damaged, the scopuli must first be dealt with. When one of the scopuli dies, the other one will get enraged and hit much harder and have an increased accuracy rate. After both of them are dead, Vorago becomes vulnerable to damage.

Once all of his life points are depleted, he once again rampages and the floor once again collapses, starting phase four.

Phase Four
During phase four, Vorago periodically charges up to do a fire attack and spawns a waterfall in one of the corners. In order to avoid this attack, players must run behidn the waterfall before Vorago unleashes attack, which will kill any player that isn't behind the waterfall (although it is possible to survive by having over 10,000 life points). After doing this for the first time, Vorago will create some Stone clones of players he picks. This clone copies the stats of the player that it is a clone of, and copies all abilities that are used on it. While there are stone clones alive, Vorago gains a massive damage reduction (around 1/10th of the original attack will hit).

Once all of his life points are depleted, Vorago will begin rampaging yet again, and breaks the ground again, causing the start of phase five

Phase Five
Phase Five takes place on a narrow strip of ground. In this phase, Vorago continually attempts to push all the players off the edge of the strip. If Vorago successfully pushes the players off, they will die and the challenge will fail. In order to survive, Vorago must be pushed back, which can be accomplished by using bleed abilities such as Combust, Slaughter and Dismember while in melee distance. When he is near the edge of the land and below 5% of his total lifepoints, the player with the Maul of Omens must click it in order to finish him off.

The player who is using the maul will then use it to raze his body, then destroy his eyes with it, and finally smashes the maul of omens on his head, causing him to crash into the sea of water, and causes a red orb to emerge out of his body, with his drops appearing by it. Players can leave the arena via the orb.

Drops
Vorago drops 5 items at a time, and is dropped in two different tiles.

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Other items

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Trivia

 * Vorago is an English word, derived from Latin, meaning abyss, chasm, or gull.
 * Vorago is loosely based on the living rock creatures, as Mod Chris L says.
 * Vorago is the first boss, although second type of monster, that is capable of teleblocking players. The first monsters to do so were revenants.