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 " but do not require air or sleep or anything to maintain a normal creatures life . They eat because they can , that is all they know . Most Oozes are elementals that have fallen to corruption via fel magics or the power of the Old gods in mass quantity . Most likely they are earth elementals , as fire , water , and air elementals infected by fel or the Old gods tend to look like themselves but are green or purplish . They are " living " sludgy masses with only a few functions . Kill , absorb , and move . There are many various types of oozes and colored oozes . The basic forms of oozes are as follows ; Skeletal oozes as seen to the right , Bubble Oozes , ( where they look like a bubble blob with air bubbles inside of them , and face oozes . The face oozes are an interesting type . They have two eye like sockets and a gooey evil looking " mouth " that can ' t do anything but be there . They can not see in our sense , and yet they approach their prey with their face pointing in the direction they are going . That is not yet known why but it is assumed face oozes are somewhat more sentient than other oozes , though if so , it is a minimal increase in intelligence . How oozes truly gain their ability to do anything is a mystery , however , in spite of their less than good beginnings , it is speculated that the Life Magics coming from Azeroth gives these creatures life . Just like the Well of Eternity , also known as the life blood of Azeroth herself , brought the first trolls and the giant insect race known as the Silithids to life . Oozes are made of many different things , a quick list goes as follows : 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 weapon sinks into the ooze , the dwarf is sucked in . The dwarf is quickly dissolved before his fellows ' eyes . Oozes ( subspecies include slime s , primal ooze s , black ooze s , sludge s , or sludge beast s ) generally consume anything they move over , and have been known to consume small mammals and even gnomes . 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 , rogue s 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 .