Vanessa VanCleef (tactics)
 Vanessa VanCleef
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| Title | <Defias Kingpin> |
| Gender | Female |
| Race | Human (Humanoid) |
| Level | 87 Elite |
| Health | 4,149,700 |
| Wealth | 1 99 83 |
| Reaction | Alliance Horde |
| Affiliation | Defias Brotherhood |
| Location | Ironclad Cove, Deadmines |
Vanessa VanCleef is a the sixth (bonus) boss in the Deadmines, available only on Heroic difficulty.
She's voiced by Karen Strassman.
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Background
- For character biography, see Vanessa VanCleef.
Dungeon Journal
As a young girl, Vanessa witnessed the gruesome death of her father and former Defias Brotherhood leader, Edwin VanCleef. She has since taken up his mantle of leadership, plotting to exact vengeance on Stormwind from the dark corridors of the Defias's stronghold in the Deadmines.
Abilities
Backslash — Step through the shadows and slice the back of the enemy, dealing Physical damage over 10 sec.
Deadly Blades — Vanessa rapidly leaps from target to target, inflicting powerful wounds.
Deflection — When activated, increases parry chance by 100%, reduces the chance ranged attacks will hit you by 100% and grants a 100% chance to deflect spells. Lasts 10 sec.
Vengeance of VanCleef — Increases the caster's attack speed by 4% and Physical damage dealt by 4% for until cancelled. Stacks up to 40 times.
Strategy
Nightmare Gauntlet
Phase One - Glubtok
- The fight begins with your group being lowered into the forge. You must click the vent levers on all sides of the forge (they sparkle), so that you may escape to the ground. Fire will be all over the floor, and large circles will appear on the ground where frost rocks will fall, dealing damage. Avoid the fire at all costs, it deals massive damage, and dazes. The falling rocks deal significant damage as well, but they are more survivable.
Your group must make its way over to Glubtok, who is at the far end of the room. At the bottom of the ramp, the fire is impassable simply by continuing down the ramp - it may be avoided by jumping over the side. The rest of the room has small paths for you to navigate your way around the fire. Once you reach Glubtok, it is a simple tank and spank to defeat him.
Phase Two - Helix Gearbreaker
- Helix will spawn where Glubtok has died, with Nightmare Skitterlings and Chattering Horrors spawning all around the rest of the room. If your group stays close to Helix's spawn point, it is possible to aggro very few spiders. Should you have a group member aggro more spiders, the tank should pick them up. They deal significant damage, and should be avoided. Helix is another simple spank and tank.
Phase Three - Foe Reaper 5000
- You will continue through the door behind Helix into the tunnel. There are several rotating chains of sparks that you must navigate your way through (reminiscent of the slimes in Naxxramas). Do not touch the sparks - they are a one hit KO. There are a few places around the room, between the spark chains, where it is possible to stop and resurrect someone should one of your members fail. Once you reach Foe Reaper, it is as simple as the previous encounters to defeat him.
Phase Four - Admiral Ripsnarl
- In this phase, you will need to save the members of Admiral Ripsnarl's family, by saving them all from the worgen attacking them. None of them are allowed to die, or the encounter will be failed. The first to be saved is Emme Harrington, at the end of the dock immediatley ahead. Simply have the tank pick up the three Enraged Worgen attacking her. She will grant you a speed increase buff, which will continue to increase as you save more of the members of the family. Now you must continue straight down the dock to save Erik Harrington, who also has three worgen attacking him. After saving him, continue up to the ship. Take a right at the top of the ramp, and continue to the top of the path. Here, Calissa Harrington is being held over the ledge by James Harrington. You must kill James before he drops his wife. There is no tanking required here, so your tank can assist in DPSing him down. Continue up to the top of the ship after his defeat, where the nightmare ends, and the Vanessa encounter begins.
Vanessa VanCleef
Rest and pull Vanessa to continue the fight. During the fight, melee and caster adds will spawn inside the hut and aid Vanessa. Whenever she casts Deflection, stop DPSing Vanessa and focus on the adds since she will parry all attacks on her. When she reaches 50% health, she will flee and detonate explosives on the ship. Players must escape using the ropes that appear on the far side of boat (opposite where you entered). The ropes swing you back on deck and the fight against Vanessa resumes. This repeats at 25%. After you return with the ropes whilst she is 25% HP, you should use all your CDs since she gets the Vengeance of VanCleef buff and starts dealing a lot of damage.
At 1% health she commits suicide by setting off an explosion on the ship. If you want to survive this, just go to the edge of the boat.
Loot
Related achievements
Quotes
- Phase 1 Intro
You hear a noise from above the cabin door!
I've been waiting a long time for this, you know.
Biding my time, building my forces, studying the minds of my enemies.
I was never very good at hand-to-hand combat, you know. Not like my father.
But I always excelled at poisons.
Especially venoms that affect the mind.
Vanessa injects you with the Nightmare Elixir!
- Phase 1 nightmares--Trapped
Activate the steam valves to free yourself!
- Glubtok's Nightmare
The Nightmare Elixir takes hold!
Poor Glubtok. When his powers manifested, his own ogre mound was the first to burn.
Deep within his soul, the one thing he feared most of all was...himself.
You have entered Glubtok's Nightmare!
- Helix's Nightmare
The nightmare shifts!
Most rogues prefer to cloak themselves in the shadows, but not Helix.
You never know what skitters in the darkness.
You have entered Helix's Nightmare!
- Mechanical Nightmare
The nightmare shifts!
Can you imagine the life of a machine?
A simple spark can mean the difference between life...and death.
You have entered the mechanical nightmare!
- Ripsnarl's Nightmare
The nightmare shifts!
Ripsnarl wasn't always a bloodthirsty savage. Once, he even had a family.
He was called James Harrington. A tragedy in three parts.
You have entered Ripsnarl's nightmare!
Save Emme Harrington!
Save Erik Harrington!
Save Calissa Harrington!
Calissa Harrington says: James...please...I love you...
James Harrington says: Calissa...I am so sorry...
The Nightmare Elixir wears off!
- Phase 2 (Aggro)
I will not share my father's fate! Your tale ends here!
- Adds
Did you really think I would come to this fight alone!?
- Detonating explosives (50%, 25%)
Fools! This entire ship is rigged with explosives! Enjoy your fiery deaths!
You didn't honestly think I would only plant ONE set of explosives, did you?
Vanessa has detonated charges on the ship! Get to the ropes at the side of the boat!
- Killing a Player
The first of many!
- Defeated
ENOUGH! I will not give you the pleasure.
If I'm going to die, I'm taking you all with me!
MY FATE IS MY OWN!
Videos
How To: Vanessa VanCleef - Deadmines Heroic
LoD Vanessa Van Cleef (Heroic Only)
Patch changes
- Hotfix (2011-12-20): "Vanessa VanCleef's
[Vigorous VanCleef Vindicator] achievement should no longer break Stealth." 
Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): Vanessa VanCleef (Heroic difficulty) now has a sweet, sweet voice to accompany her dialog.- Hotfix (2011-01-03): "
[Divine Shield] prevents all damage from the Sparks in the Mechanical Nightmare." - Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08):
- The final rope swing while fighting Vanessa VanCleef has been removed. Players no longer need to swing off of the boat at the end of phase 3.
- Vengeance of VanCleef has been redesigned. It is now a stacking buff that increases damage dealt, size, and attack speed, and stacks up to 40 times. Vanessa will begin casting this as soon as she jumps back onto the boat after detonating charges.
- Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Added.
