Echo of Varshan Boss Guide

Welcome to the Echo of Varshan Boss Guide. Here you will find all the information to gather summoning materials, summon the Boss, and successfully defeat it.

Basic Information

• Requires Torment 1 or higher.
• Activity Required: Complete Tree of Whispers, World Bosses, the Undercity, or slaying Elite Monsters on Torment Difficulties
• Summoning Material: 4x Malignant Heart.

• Element Type: Shadow / Physical
• Cosmetic Reward: Flesh-weld Rod Trophy

In order to summon Varshan, Defeat Grotesque Debtors while completing Grim Favors in Torment Difficulties. This has a chance to drop a Malignant Heart. When you turn in 10 Grim Favors to the Tree of Whispers, there should be a guaranteed Malignant Heart in the Collection you choose. You can also obtain these from the Undercity when you use a Tribute of Titans. Once you have the boss materials, you can travel to Varshan's area beneath the tree to summon him.

After gathering Malignant Hearts x4, head to the Tree of Whispers to confront the Echo of Varshan.

Before confronting Varshan consider stopping by the Alchemist to craft yourself either a Elixir of Shadow Resistance II or Elixir of Iron Barbs II to protect yourself from Varshan's Shadow and Physical damage respectively.

Each Boss's health bar has multiple breakpoints. Once a breakpoint is reached, the red arrow flips up and turn grey. This indicates that you are in the next phase of the fight, while also dropping multiple healing vials. Each phase is more challenging than the last.

Stagger Bar Mechanic

Immediately beneath the health bar is a stagger bar, which slowly fills when Crowd Control (CC) is done. Once full, the Boss is rendered helpless for a short window of time. Use this opportunity to unleash as much hell as you possibly can.

Pay close attention to the attacks used by The Echo of Varshan! The following section guides you through the boss's most dangerous abilities.

Echo of Varshan's

Throughout the encounter, Varshan uses 3 abilities, which don't change based on his health. Being hit by these mechanics gives you a stacking Tormented debuff that increases your damage taken, so avoid them at all costs!

• Tentacle Strike - From time to time, Varshan lashes out with his tentacle-like intestines while releasing several putrid projectiles.
  • This ability doesn't hit particularly hard, but can be avoided by using Evade or your movement skill to jump behind the boss.
  • Varshan restores a portion of his Barrier on hit.
• Putrid Dance - Varshan draws upon pure putrescence to cover the floor in a pattern of corruption. Different sections of the floor highlight pink and then explode after a short delay.
  • Move out of the pink areas, and follow the pattern to avoid damage.
  • The boss uses 3 different patterns for this move.
• Summon Malignance - After summoning 3 Malignant minions, Varshan attempts to absorb their power.
  • Focus your damage on the malignant minions, kill the one Varshan is targeting with his channel.
  • If you fail to kill the minion before his channel completes he'll gain dangerous buffs!
  • These include the following:
    • Wrathful: Varshan inflicts Daze and deals damage over time on hit.
    • Devious: Varshan drains resources on hit.
    • Vicious: Increased damage.

Each Boss has a different loot table of Uniques and cosmetic item(s).

Unique Loot table

The items listed below have an increased chance of dropping from this Boss. You can still find items that aren't on the list, and you are not guaranteed to find a Unique every time you kill the boss.

Mythic Uniques

Basic Information

• All bosses have a chance to drop Mythic Unique items.
• These items are very powerful and very rare.

Most endgame builds use one of these items. Thankfully, all of the bosses above have a greater chance to drop them. This means you can focus on any boss that has the regular Unique item you are looking to obtain or upgrade and still have a chance at a Mythic Unique.

• Check out our Unique and Mythic Unique Guide for more details and more ways to obtain these truly Mythic items.

Cosmetic Reward

You can unlock the following exclusive cosmetic reward when you defeat the Echo of Varshan.

Video

The Echo of Varshan boss fight video guide.

Summary

The Echo of Varshan boss guide covers everything you need to know about where to go, and how to complete this encounter.

• Defeat Grotesque Debtors while completing Grim Favors and other endgame activities to collect Malignant Hearts. Use 4x to summon Echo of Varshan within the Malignant Burrow.
  • This is located right next to the Tree of Whispers.
• Make sure your gear is the best it can be; Upgraded Armor and Gems.
• Varshan's attacks deal Shadow and Physical damage, so try grabbing Elixirs which increase your Shadow Resistance or Armor.
• You need to deal with the boss abilities and his minions to complete the encounter.

Credits

Written by Tenkiei
Updated by Avarilyn