Maw Farming Guide: Stygia and Ve'nari Reputation

Ve'nari is the name of a broker who has her hideout in the Maw and who will help you with most of your activities there. This includes farming the Maw itself for souls for your Covenant hub, rare profession materials, and sockets for your items, including legendaries!

She will also assist you with breaking into Torghast and sells multiple items that will make your Torghast runs easier, such as Vessel of Unfortunate Spirits.

By following your main story quest after choosing a Covenant at maximum level, you will naturally enter the Maw, meet Ve'nari, and learn how to break into Torghast in order to save Baine Bloodhoof in your introductory quest.

Afterward, it is back to the Maw where Ve'nari becomes available as a vendor who will sell you multiple wares for Stygia, which is obtained by doing just about anything in the Maw.

If you die in the Maw (even through PvP) you will lose 20% of your current Stygia. You do not become a ghost, but are instead resurrected at the nearest graveyard. If you manage to return to your corpse and loot it, you will recover all the lost Stygia, but if you die again, you will lose another 20% and cannot recover the first 20% lost anymore. Enter the Maw with Warmode enabled at your own risk!

We will detail Stygia and Ve'nari Reputation sources below but, first, here are the rewards available to you.

The name of each reputation level with Ve'nari is different than usual, but can mostly be mapped out to the usual levels:

• Dubious goes from 0/1000
• Apprehensive goes from 0/6000
• Tentative goes from 0/7000
• Ambivalent goes from 0/7000
• Cordial goes from 0/21000
• Appreciative is the equivalent to Exalted

You can gain 1000 reputation by trading 800 Stygia to Ve'nari once per week with The Cost of Death quest. You can also get Paragon boxes for every 10.000 reputation you earn with Ve'nari above Appreciative, which may contain the Soulbound Gloomcharger's Reins mount and Rook pet!

By using the Stygia you obtain while doing activities in the Maw, you can buy the following reputation items from Ve'nari. Take note that the Torghast upgrades below are account-wide and thus only need to be bought once!

Reputation	Item	Cost	Description
Dubious	Cypher of Relocation	60	This item can only be used when you are in the Maw and teleports you back to Ve'nari Refuge. It has 5 charges and a 20 minute cooldown.
Apprehensive	Broker Traversal Enhancer	875	This item allows you to use small teleport orbs next to dangerous paths in Torghast, such as Mort'regar chains, in order to cross them safely without the danger of dropping down to your death.
Apprehensive	Vessel of Unfortunate Spirits	527	In Torghast, you are allowed a limited amount of deaths before the Tarragrue shows to end your run. This item is a permanent Torghast upgrade you can buy to extend your death limit by one.
Apprehensive	Extradimensional Pockets	800	This item increases the amount of Obleron Armaments (buff you get from interacting with some souls) you find and can use simultaneously from 5 to 6.
Apprehensive	Soultwinning Scepter	205	This item has 10 charges and allows you to bond your soul with that of a nearby ally, increasing primary stats by 5% while within 100 yards of each other.
Apprehensive	Oil of Ethereal Force	165	This item has 5 charges on a 5-minute cooldown and grants you 150% increased movement speed and invisibility to most enemies for 15s while in the Maw.
Tentative	Bangle of Seniority	1135	Permanent Torghast upgrade that increases the chance of Broker vendors offering you uncommon Anima powers.
Tentative	Sigil of the Unseen	666	Permanent Maw upgrade that gives you immunity to The Jailer's Mark from Mawsworn Assassins when you reach Eye of the Jailer Level 3.
Tentative	Animated Levitating Chain	1050	Buying this chain allows you to quickly climb several places in the Maw through the use of Grapple Points, typically placed at the edge of cliffs.
Tentative	Animaflow Stabilizer	1650	Permanent Maw upgrade that activates teleport pads, allowing you to teleport quickly between multiple locations in the Maw.
Tentative	Maw-Touched Miasma	230	This item makes you deal area damage to Mawrats within 15 yds for 30 minutes while in Torghast.
Tentative	Sticky-Fingered Skeletal Hand	210	This item has 4 charges with a 1-minute cooldown and allows you to unlock locked doors, chests, and passages in Torghast.
Ambivalent	Soul-Stabilizing Talisman	775	Permanent Maw upgrade that grants you immunity to Soul Brand from Mawsworn Abductors that appear at level 4 in the Eye of the Jailer.
Ambivalent	Ritual Prism of Fortune	1025	Permanent Torghast upgrade that increases the odds of getting Epic Anima Power choices.
Ambivalent	Phantasmic Infuser	3760	This item is reusable and will empower you for 30 minutes while in Torghast, at the cost of 100 Phantasma.
Ambivalent	Memory of Jailer's Eye	4986	Legendary power that can be applied on head, shoulder, or waist slots.
Cordial	Loupe of Unusual Charm	1330	This item is a permanent Torghast upgrade that allows Broker vendors to sell you a 5 Phantasma Anima power orb.
Cordial	Rank Insignia: Acquisitionist	1575	This item is a permanent Torghast upgrade that will increase the chance of Broker vendors offering a Rare Anima power orb.
Cordial	Recipe: Crafter's Mark II	300	This recipe will teach you how to craft the Crafter's Mark II in order to increase the item level of the item you want to craft.
Appreciative	Possibility Matrix	1525	This item is a permanent Torghast upgrade that will expand your Anima Power options to at least two choices.
Appreciative	Stygia Dowser	1500	This item can be used to unlock the Bound Shadehound mount, as it allows you access to Stygia Nexus nodes across the Maw.

In addition, as of Patch 9.1 there is a mount and a battle pet that can be obtained by continuing to earn reputation with Ve'nari and receiving Mysterious Gift from Ve'nari. If you are lucky, it may contain the Soulbound Gloomcharger's Reins or Rook.

These collectibles are some of the 45 new mounts and 46 new battle pets also added in Patch 9.1. If you would like to learn more about the other items available to you from Shadowlands reputations, consult our collection guides below.

Here is a summary table of the reputation and Stygia sources in the Maw. With the launch of Patch 9.1, the Eye of the Jailer mechanic is quickly removed after the initial questing, or when using the skip on alts.

We still list how much Eye threat you would gain, for historical purposes.

The Wrath of the Jailer is an event that shows up on your map every hour. You can only get its rewards once per week, and they can include a random level 183 Epic gear item. Afterward, you get nothing of value, as the image below shows, and also no reputation.

Tormentors of Torghast is a similar event that shows up every few hours and grants 100 Death's Advance reputation, as well as 200 Stygia and 200 Ve'nari reputation, once per week. You can also get item level 200 gear from the event.

Once you unlock the Beastwarrens you can also do Hunts which are more efficient for rep and Stygia than the Wrath of the Jailer.

While the list above contains the easily repeatable sources, you will also come across some items that can be turned in at Ve'nari for extra reputation:

You will also gain a minor amount of Stygia and Eye of the Jailer threat level while using gathering professions in the Maw and there are a few Stygia chests and wells around that only give you Stygia and Eye of the Jailer, so be careful with looting those if you want reputation as well.

With the launch of Patch 9.1, you will be able to use any mount in the Maw soon after starting the new questlines. Regardless, if you have not done these quests then the information below will still apply.

When chasing Hunts in the Beastwarrens, look out for the Shadehounds Hunt, which can award the Mawsworn Soulhunter mount. This mount works in the Maw, but is a very rare drop from the event.

You can also get a mount that works in the Maw by completing Layer 8 of the Twisting Corridors of Torghast, or by completing the Bound Shadehound craft in the Maw, once you have maxed (Appreciative) your Ve'nari reputation.

This is your time limit, if you have not completed the quests that disable the Eye of the Jailer. As you do activities in the Maw, you will attract the Jailer's attention, and fill up your top screen meter. Once it hits Level 5, it will start glowing red and this is your cue to leave immediately.

You can track your exact Eye of the Jailer amount at any time with this handy weak aura, by Permok.

You will get two debuffs, as shown in the image above. One reduces your healing taken for 10% per stack and will cause you to take high shadow damage until you die when it hits 10 stacks. While this is deadly, the main reason why you should leave is because the other debuff will reduce your reputation and Stygia gains to 0, essentially making it pointless to continue farming the Maw.

Until you hit Level 5, you will go through several levels of increasing trouble:

1. Level 1 — Soulseekers are now hostile to you. These are flying eyeball mobs that roam the Maw and have powerful ranged attacks.
2. Level 2 — Towers will periodically attack your location, damaging you and chaining you in place. Grey swirls will appear under your character. If you do not move away from them in time, you are hit with heavy damage and chained in place. Click the chains near you to regain normal movement.
3. Level 3 — The Jailer will periodically send assassins after you. Whenever the Eye of the Jailer: Hunted debuff is applied to you, the next time you enter combat an Assassin will spawn and try to kill you. They use The Jailer's Mark, which deals damage and increases your Eye of the Jailer meter.
4. Level 4 — Stygian Abductors now seek your demise. Periodically, Stygian Abductors will spawn on you and slowly carry you upwards, as well as cast Soul Brand, which deals damage and increases your Eye of the Jailer meter. You can kill them in order to be freed before they have time to use Quietus Strike, which will likely allow you to survive the fall.
5. Level 5 — Your healing taken is increasingly reduced. When your healing taken reaches -100%, you suffer Shadow damage until you die. You will also no longer be able to loot Stygia or gain reputation with Ve'nari for the day.