Full Guide: The Maw | World of Warcraft GamePlay Guides

In the Maw, you will find an NPC, called Ve´nari.

You will meet her for the first time when leveling in Shadowlands.

At max level, you will get to know her even more.

This NPC will have a vendor for you that you unlock just by doing the first quests hat sends you to the Maw at max level.

The currency to buy stuff from her is called Stygia.

To access all the stuff from the vendor, you need to increase the reputation with this NPC, Ve´nari.
The reputation is NOT the basic Neutral/Friendly/Normal/Honered/Revered/Exalted.
The reputation is about her Opinion of you.
This is ranked in

Dubious
Apprehensive
Tentative
Ambivalent
Cordial

Her opinion of you is increased the more tasks you do for her.

The higher opinion she has of you, the more items are unlocked for bying in the vendor.

The vendor sells two main items, add a socket on gear and buy or upgrade a conduit.

The other things she sells are Legendary power memory, and stuff that makes life easier when in the Maw.

How to gain reputation with Venari

In the early stage after unlocking the vendor, you will get some main quests that unlocks the reputation with her.

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She will provide you with a Soulkeeper, an artifact that is capable of storing souls found within the Maw. Accepting that Soulkeeper is accepting a contract with her.

The main thing she wants from you is to share valuable information you discover within the Maw.

You increase the reputation with Venri by:

Bonus Objective	40
Rare Kill	80
Elite Rare Kill	100
Daily Quest	75
Weekly Quest	850
Daily Quest (Perdition/Beastwarrens)	100
Weekly Quest (Perdition/Beastwarren)	1100
Wrath of the Jailer	250
Beastwarrens Hunt	525

You start at Dubious which requires 1000 points to reach next level, Apprehensive.

The levels are:

Dubious 0/1000
Apprehensive 0/6000
Tentative 0/2000
Ambivalent 0/12000
Cordial 0/21000
Appreciative - highest level.

You need to reach Cordial in order to unlock the item to add a socket and the item to get or upgrade a conduit.

How to farm Stygia in the Maw

Remember, if you die in the Maw, there is a high chance that you will loose a lot of Stygia.
This can be prevented by making them into orbs (Mysteriously Thrumming Orb) that you make from Venari vendor.

Daily Quests from Venari
You can do 2 daily quests per day-
Rewards 50 Stygia per quest
Rare mobs
Loot Stygia after killing rares
Objectives
There are quests that you cannot see on the map:
They are objective quests that you find when running around in the Maw.
Rewards 100 Stygia
Torghast 1
The Twisting Corridor zone rewards Stygia when completed.
Each Layer will reward Stygia starting at 120 Stygia when layer one is completed.
There are 8 Layers in total.
Torghast 2
Killing the last boss in each layer will let you loot Stygia from it.

What you can buy from the vendor

The two main reasons you will use this vendor for is to

Name	Function	Opinion Rep	Costs (Stygia)
Cypher of Relocation	Teleports the caster to Venaris Refuge. 5 charges.	Dubious	25
Mysteriously Thrumming Orb	Shatter the orb, taking the Stygia from it to yourself	Dubious	250
Soultwinning Scepter	Bond your soul with that of a nearby ally, increasing all stats of your ally and yourself by 5%. This bond will break if you and your ally move more than 100 yd from each other. 50 Charges	Apprehensive	50
Oil of Ethereal Force	massively increasing your movement speed and rendering yourself invisible to most enemies. 3 Charges.	Apprehensive	50
Oublion Cipher	Enhance your defenses against the Gorgoan Lament in the River of Souls, Reducing its frequency by 80%.	Tentative	50
Animaflow Stabilizer	Unlock the Animaflow teleporter in Venaris Hovel, allowing you to travel quickly to the Tremaculum.	Tentative	250
Memory of Jailer´s Eye	Restore this memory to the Runecarver: Third Eye of the Jailer	Ambivalent	2500
Possibility Matrix	Come to a better understanding og the infinite possibilities of Anima, expanding your selection of powers within Torghast. You will always see at least two choices when using an Anima Hoard.	Cordial	500
Spatial Realignment Apparatus	This adds a socket to a Shadowlands item that does not already have a socket. Can be used on Helms, Necks, Bracers, Belts or Rings.	Cordial	2500
Manifest Aethershunt	Add a Conduit you do not have, to your collection. - Upgrade an existing Conduit by one rank (your lowest-rank Conduits will always be selected first, after that it is random).	Cordial	500

How to move faster in the Maw

Kill mobs riding on a mount.
When the enemy is dead, you can hop on that mount and ride it for a minute.

The zones in The Maw

The Maw is divided in different zones.
Some zones give you a debuff when you are in that area.

The Beastwarrens

This gives a debuff that you have all the time when you are in that zone.
The debuff makes you fear for some seconds periodically.

Perdition Hold

This gives a debuff that you have all the time when you are in that zone.
The debuff makes you take 50% more dmg from all enemy dmg.

Desmotaeron

This gives a debuff that you have all the time when you are in that zone.
This debuff does frost dmg every second when you are there. At the moment, you survive just some seconds in that zone.

Gorgoa River of Souls

This river puts a stacking debuff.
Gorgoan Lament: Dmg taken increased by 5% and dmg done increased by 5%.

Unlock the debuff to be in a zone

The higher reputation you have with Ve'nari , the more zones will be unlocked to be in and you will have more things to do. Unlocking a zone removes the debuff from that zone.