
Launching acid pools around the area and rapidly spitting fireballs at the player that must be dodged or they will deal high damage very quickly. Freezing the player in place and summoning a Zombified Spawn that will approach the player and explode violently if not killed, resulting in up to 60 damage. Occasionally (after six normal/dragonfire attacks), he will use one of two special attacks and alternate between them: The final common attack is a fireball he launches high in the air that must be dodged or it will deal substantial damage. His dragonfire is stronger than other dragons' and requires more tiers of protection to block. He can also use three types of dragonfire: regular, venomous, and prayer-disabling kind. Vorkath uses a variety of attacks, primarily range and mage attacks, as well as melee if standing next to him. However, it does not stack with the Slayer helmet. As Vorkath is also undead, the Salve amulet and its variants will work on him. Vorkath is considered a blue dragon for the purpose of a Slayer assignment. In addition to this, Torfinn's holding capabilities do not stack with others (e.g Zulrah, Grotesque Guardians), so if players have items being held by one of these fights and dies to Vorkath, the items there will be lost.
If the player dies elsewhere before reclaiming their items, their unclaimed items will be permanently lost. Both the quest and post-quest fights take place in an instance if the player dies battling Vorkath, they can pay 100,000 coins to Torfinn to reclaim their items. After the quest, a stronger variant of Vorkath may be fought. The quest variant of Vorkath is significantly weaker than his post-quest counterpart however, both share the same attacks. Despite its phenomenal strength, he notes that it lacked the aggression he desired, and abandons it to guard the fortress from invading human forces as a "little distraction".Ī player poking Vorkath to awaken him for battle. Created by Zorgoth during the Fourth Age's Dragonkin Conflicts, the blue dragon is one of his subjects that have survived his experiments in the laboratory beneath the dragonkin fortress on Ungael. Vorkath (roughly translated as pathetic failure/weakling/runt in the dragonkin's language) is a draconic boss-monster first encountered during the Dragon Slayer II quest as the penultimate boss.