Ooze



An ooze is an amorphous or mutable creature, usually mindless. They are also blind. Some oozes have the ability to deal acid damage to objects. Oozes eat and breathe but do not sleep.

Background
Oozes are living blobs of slime that consume all that they touch. Oozes inhabit many places in the world of Azeroth, from Ironbeard's Tomb in the Wetlands to Maraudon in Kalimdor.

One of theory of their origin is that oozes are tied to the creation of the planet, as if they were a secretion of it. Chemist Fuely suggests that oozes may be connected to the Old Gods, a theory supported by the presence of Viscidus, a large ooze, in C'Thun-controlled Ahn'Qiraj. Another theory classifies oozes as magically-created beasts intended to keep empty dungeons and underground sewers free from rats, roaches and possible invaders - magicians would conjure oozes as guardians of such places.

In Night of the Dragon, a group of dwarves encounter an ooze in the Wetlands. The creature is attacked by one of the dwarves, but as the dwarf's axe sinks into the ooze, the dwarf falls onto it and is sucked in. Their leader Rom tried to save him, but in moments, the dwarf's head was already turned into a skull, and they could see the thick beard begin to wither and dissolve. The victim could only twitch once as he was being dissolved to death.

The mass of oozes apparently can douse flaming arrows, unless the flame is fueled by oil, which will turn it into an inferno and kill them. Its mass will then also feed the flames. When faced with such an assault, other oozes will try to escape into water.

Oozes (subspecies include slimes, primal oozes, black oozes, sludges, or sludge beasts) generally consume anything they move over, and have been known to consume small mammals, even gnomes and as mentioned above, dwarves. As such their bodies are usually peppered with items that they can not digest such as bones, arrow heads or the odd piece of armor. Though it is somewhat counter-intuitive, rogues can pickpocket oozes. Because oozes so readily absorb everything around them, they tend to closely reflect their environment. For instance, oozes and slimes that live in areas tainted by the Blight, often have the ability to pass on terrible diseases to those they attack. The most "pure" oozes that haven't soaked up too much foreign material are located in Un'Goro Crater.

Ooze loot

 * – level 53-62 oozes, usually contains potions, herbs, or the occasional Disgusting Oozeling
 * – level 45-53 oozes, usually contains potions, or herbs
 * – also dropped by maggots and worms
 * – also dropped by maggots and worms
 * – also dropped by maggots and worms
 * – also dropped by maggots and worms
 * – also dropped by maggots and worms
 * – also dropped by maggots and worms

Ooze types

 * Black ooze
 * Primal ooze
 * Slime
 * Giant slime
 * Sludge
 * Sludge beast
 * Gelatinous cube

Oozes by location

 * Ashenvale – Rotting Slime
 * Azshara – Forest Ooze
 * Dustwallow Marsh – Acidic Swamp Ooze, Corrosive Swamp Ooze, Swamp Ooze
 * Eastern Plaguelands – Living Decay, Rotting Sludge
 * Felwood – Cursed Ooze, Tainted Ooze, Vile Ooze
 * Gnomeregan – Corrosive Lurker, Irradiated Slime
 * Maraudon – Creeping Sludge, Noxious Slime
 * Naxxramas – Plague Slime
 * Razorfen Kraul – Blood of Agamaggan
 * Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj – Flesh Hunter
 * Stonetalon Mountains – Corrosive Sap Beast, Sap Beast
 * Temple of Atal'Hakkar – Fungal Ooze, Saturated Ooze
 * The Hinterlands – Emerald Ooze, Green Sludge, Jade Ooze, Jade Sludge
 * Un'Goro Crater – Cloned Ooze, Gargantuan Ooze, Glutinous Ooze, Muculent Ooze, Primal Ooze
 * Wailing Caverns – Cloned Ectoplasm, Devouring Ectoplasm, Evolving Ectoplasm, Nightmare Ectoplasm
 * Western Plaguelands – Devouring Ooze, Large Vile Slime, Vile Slime
 * Wetlands – Black Ooze, Black Slime, Crimson Ooze, Monstrous Ooze
 * Sludge Beast