Wendigo

The Wendigo is the boss of the desert expanse. The player will need to befriend either the Brotherhood or the Pack in order to get the mission to access the dungeon. Regardless of whichever side the player picks, the mission begins with an uncontrollable attacker and a controllable medicine cat on your party.

Attacks
The Wendigo has 2 attacks:

Devour: hits each enemy 6 times and heals for damage dealt.(damage is severely reduced by picking up the Wendigo's skull before the battle)

Roar: Motivate the entire enemy party, causing them to deal double damage. (will only use at low life)

Boss Battle
Attempting to rush the Wendigo without clearing the dungeon is not advised as the battle is practically impossible to win due to each hit of cannibalize doing over a hundred damage.

Rather, the player should wipe out the crawlers wandering around the cave which will cause a skull to spawn in the top right part of the cave. Picking up this skull drops the damage dealt by each hit to a more manageable 20+ damage per hit.

The battle with the Wendigo is one of attrition, Thus, make sure the party is prepared with catmint or small feasts as your medicine cat's MP probably won't last the entire fight.

As the fight progresses, it will call a total of 4 crawlers in groups of 2 to help it. Letting it have all 4 out when it uses roar will result in large amounts of damage being dealt to the party so it is best to take out the crawlers as they show up. The Wendigo will keep using devour every turn, dealing damage and healing himself. As devour only heals the Wendigo for as much damage as it dealt, reducing damage received will cause the Wendigo to recover less hp each turn. The medicine cat skill 'Radiance' can be used to keep the Wendigo permanently blinded causing it to miss his attacks.

Warriors can use their attacks to inflict status ailments like infection(Bite rank 2), bleeding (Bleed) and poison(viper's farewell) onto the Wendigo in order to keep up damage to the Wendigo while they take out the Crawlers. While Medicine cats have to use their attacks to burst down their enemies.

Drops and Farming Tips
After a long fight, the player will be rewarded with a silver idol. On the first playthrough, the player has the option to ask starclan for help in order to purge the cave of evil. However, subsequent playthroughs of this dungeon will cause a secret boss to spawn.

When playing as a warrior, applying poison, bleed and infection to the Wendigo while it is blinded will often result in the damage over time itself out damaging the healing. As the only actions beyond cannibalize that the wendigo does is tied to its health, the player can time charging up a tiger bites on both warrior and apprentice and wipe out the enemy party all at once.

On defeat, the Wendigo has a chance to drop the trinket 'Lingering Hunger' which comes in two versions, the magic version provides 2 Magic attack and 2% decreased mana cost while the physical version grants 2 attack and 5% energy charge.

The dungeon is repeatable and is filled with crawlers and as such makes it a good place to farm cat claws.