When the weekend came around again and we got together in WoW Classic, I already had a plan for what we ought to do. We had one remaining quest in Blackrock Depths. We had to go retrieve the Heart of the Mountain from the vault in Shadowforge City. That was the one thing left undone for us in the instance.
We had been to the vault twice in our many trips to the dungeon, but managed to wipe both times. Now, with all of us at level 59, we seemed formidable enough, even as a group of four, to wrap this up.
Blackrock Depths map
We had a short quest to wrap up in Searing Gorge first. Moronae, taking on the enchanting role in our group, was going to try and get himself up to honored with the Thorium Brotherhood, which would give him access to a couple of enchanting recipes. But to get on that path you need to finish the quest What the Flux?, which requires taking down three elites. And there was an Wanted poster quest for the named elite to do along the way.
I swapped out Viniki for my paladin, Wilhelm, because the former had already done the quests and the latter still needed them. Even if Wilhelm wasn’t going for Thorium Brotherhood rep, it was still a tidy bit of xp for turning them in.
However, somebody got there just ahead of us, so while we could just grab the plans for the first quest, we had to wait around for a respawn… which takes a while for these mobs… before we could finish the second.
Waiting Around
Once they spawned it was a quick fight and then back to Thorium Point to turn in the quests. Then I swapped back to Viniki and we headed off to the instance. Our group was:
- Viniki – level 59 gnome warrior
- Moronae – level 59 night elf druid
- Ula – level 59 gnome mage
- Skronk – level 59 dwarf priest
We all have less than a level to hit the cap now.
We were into the instance and up around to the Ring of Law where we found one of the Lunar Festival elders.
Greetings Elder Morndeep
This time around we got the worms again for the starter course… the poison is annoying but we were good… followed by Gorosh the Dervish as the boss.
Gorosh the Dervish attacks
By this point a level 56 boss without any tricks is a quick fight. But at least it was a change up from the Eviscerator, who I think we have drawn all but once on our previous ventures into the Ring of Law.
Then it was up through the audience and down the path to Shadowforge City and the location of the vault.
Gonna go down to Shadowforge City…
There, we put our learning from past mistakes to use. We cleared out everybody out in front of the vault area, then grabbed the group inside, then Warder Stigliss and his dog Verek. Then it was into the vault where only I opened up the first eleven vaults with my pile of relic coffer keys. On reaching the last one, everybody got setup in the next room, then I opened it and ran back. The constructs in the vault came to life and came to us in the other room for the fight.
The fight in the vault
After getting stomped by them when they surprised us the last time we were in the vault, this time we defeated them handily.
Then it was back into the vault to claim the Heart of the Mountain, the item for the final quest we had left for the instance.
Everybody got to grab their own heart
After that we were done with what we needed to do. But there was still the dark coffer left unopened. For that we needed to the key from one of the dark keepers. WoW Head says there are six of them, and they can spawn all over the instance. To spawn them you have to do the thing we regretted back in the day, you have to examine the portrait. So we got ourselves buffed up and ready, and I went and looked at it.
Viewing the Portrait
And, nothing happened. Last time we spawned the guy who walks right into the room. This time, not so much. So we set about looking for whoever spawned.
One of them was supposed to spawn down by Fineous Darkvire, down in the hall of crafting. So we made our way down there. We found old Fineous again.
We’ve killed you a few times now
Since we were there we went on and took low Lord Incendious, who was just up the way.
We were in the neighborhood, so why not?
After that we made our way the other direction. The domicile, through which we had come to get to the vault, was a possible spawn point. However, nothing was there. So we continued on back to the Ring of Law, where the stands above the ring are another possible location. And there, in the audience, we found Dark Keeper Zimrel.
The others keep clear of Dark Keeper Zimrel
The fight was short, and soon we were on our way back to the vault with the Dark Keeper Key. In the Dark Coffer was was a green item that went to Moronae to disenchant and the Eye of Kajal, part of a quest for a helmet enchant.
We had now finished the vault and had done about all you can do in Blackrock Depths.
The vault fully open
Instance complete. And nobody died on the run too, which I think might be a first.
Skronk suggested we go grab one more boss on the way out, Pyromance Loregrain, who was just off the path we took to get to the vault. It was a quick fight, but the drop was the fiery enchant recipe for Moronae, our group enchanter. Well worth the side trip.
A useful drop for once!
From there Ula opened a portal back to Ironforge and we took a flight to Morgan’s Vigil in the Burning Steppes, then rode on out to the encampment in the middle of the north end of the zone to turn in the final quest.
That done, it was time to recall back to Ironforge and call it a day.
Everybody hearthstone
That wraps up Blackrock Depths for us as an instance to run. We might have to go back again for recipes at the Grim Guzzler, but we can put a check next to it on our list.
As before, on finishing an instance, here is a rerun of all the posts about the instance group doing Blackrock Depths over the years.
- Dec 2007 – Blackrock Depths – Round 1
- Dec 2007 – Blackrock Depths – Round 2
- Dec 2007 – Blackrock Depths – Round 3
- Dec 2007 – Marshal Windsor and Lady Prestor
- Sep 2009 – Drunken Pirates at Brewfest
- Apr 2010 – Passing the Time in Blackrock Depths
- Oct 2020 – Preparations in the Burning Steppes
- Nov 2020 – Heading to the Detention Block in Blackrock Depths
- Nov 2020 – Blackrock Depths and Shadowforge City
- Nov 2020 – Punching Sheep with Marshal Windsor
- Dec 2020 – Touring with Marshal Windsor
- Dec 2020 – A Two Boss Day in Blackrock Depths
- Dec 2020 – Bar Brawl in Blackrock Depths
- Dec 2020 – Bad Day at Blackrock Depths
- Jan 2020 – Blackrock Depths and Love Potion Run Number Nine
- Jan 2020 – Recipe Hunt in the Burning Steppes
- Feb 2020 – Another Plan for Blackrock Depths
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