[Alliance] - This event takes awhile to start. I think the game waits on 5 to do it before it begins since we waited almost 15, then it started immediately after the 5th came in and talked to Wrynn.
The event is incredibly fun, put away your pet if you're a hunter - you won't need him and he'll just get dead.
It takes a while to start, if you've gone AFK and you return to see a message at the top of your screen that the attack has stared, you can just run forward into the tunnel, and a flag will pop up on your back, keep going down the tunnel till you catch up with the king. No need to restart.
Also, beware, this quest takes a LONG time to do, so don't accept it unless you can devote a good 5-10 minutes to uninterrupted play. The king keeps moving forward and attacking more mobs and running through the town and you need to keep up.
You talk to the king to prompt a 5 minute timer, after which the event begins.
It's improved now. You don't have to cool your heels waiting for four more players to arrive to do the quest. The quest/raid starts 5 minutes after the first (or only) player talks to King Varian Wrynn. It doesn't matter how many players there are; the system now makes up the number to five with npc troops.
At last Blizzard... I'm just lovin' the quest system in Northrend... In Outland, in a town, u took 35 quests and did them 1 by 1... but northrend, u take 3 quests, and when u complete them, 6 more appears, then 9 more... thats just what we want, excitement!.. also those diplomatic quests... and cinematics... <3 blizz, keep up the gj.
Would just like to say - BEST Q EVER!! :D
Check your stats when you're in Undercity - they're insane!
Okay, this is what you need to know about this quest, a lot of the above information is misleading, so just read this for enlightenment:
1. When you go throught the portal, if the king is not there, you have to wait it out, when you start the quest, you get a flag put on you, you can not complete the quest unless you have a flag on your back.
2. If the king is there, there will be a timer at the top of the screen, sit tight and wait, once the timer is up, he will put flags on everyone that is present, YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE IN GROUP!! (the objective of the quest is to assist the king, not to kill any boss, you are considered assisting as long as you have that flag)
3. Once the king goes into the Undercity, follow closely, him and his party will do most of the dmg, and keep you all healed, so just stay close, and don't worry, there is little to no chance of failing.
4. There is no loot from the bosses (at least none that anyone present in my run was able to obtain), and there are 3 bosses to face, first will be a giant worm, second will be Putress, and the last will be...THRALL!! And no, you don't kill Thrall, you get in combat, and soon after get ported to SW again, where you hand in the quest, fully completed!
I do not know how often this quest resets, it is a timed event though, so just be patient and wait for it to begin. The quest itself, once began, takes about 15 mins.
This questline was incredibly fun, best in the game to date, but I've only done Fjord, Tundra, and Dragonblight. So lets hope that Blizz decided to keep this as a teaser to the real fun!!
the instructions above are spot on...just a few extra pointers.
-this can be done solo (I did it lvl 72 rogue)
-wait for the King (and I don't mean Elvis) and speak with him
-you will then see a timer indicating when the battle will begin
-a few battles will go on while you are waiting (no need to join)
-the King is one heck of a tank and Jaina will keep you alive; just follow him and fight what he fights
Jodad
Sisters of Elune
Wow - What a questline -
Well done Blizzard!
Thrilling!
If I could re-write some the dialogue from this quest in my own words...
*Thrall yells something in Orcish from far off and the alliance forces hear him*
Varian Wrynn: Thrall...here!?
*Varian Wrynn looks around at everyone assisting him*
Varian Wrynn: All right guys lets do this...LEEEROOOOOOOOY JEEEENNNNKIIINNNSSSS!!!
*Varian Wrynn runs off after Thrall*
Jaina: Oh my god, he just ran in....stick to the plan!
Thats basically what happens :-D
Awesome!
To everyone who is asking if you can take this again if you fail / miss the final event / drop the quest...
If you go back to The Undercity sewer entrance where the battle first begins and talk to Bearmantle, (the night elf dude) you can re-aquire the quest.
Really good fun quest, so cool the way they are adjusting the content once you have completed certain quests. On my Hordie I love the Undercity so I found the whole storyline pretty freaky. GG Blizz =)
Sewer entrance's at 50-69
Indeed, this happened to me. I hesitated in deciding whether to stay with Jaina or follow the king, and then when I went to run after the king, he had already disappeared. After a fruitless search for him I eventually hearthed out and went back to see the king in Stormwind. The portal to Undercity was still there, but clicking on it did nothing. At this point I was getting a little upset, but I decided after reading this thread to go there on my own (took gryphon to western plaguelands, then ran the rest of the way.) This worked! Apparently the "state" of this area will remain frozen for your character until you complete the quest. In fact, it looked like it applied to the entirety of Tirisfal Glades. I ran around for a few minutes uncovering the map, and there wasn't a single mob in sight anywhere in the zone except for where the quest begins.
Anyway, I reacquired the quest as stated above. I can confirm the coordinates of the quest giver at 50,69.
NO thrall dosent die, noone dies, Jaina stops the fight by freezing everyone and then force-ports all to SW.
GREAT quest line btw, more like it pls, i loved it.
too bad about bolvar though....
If you had to abandon this quest you'll find you can no longer use the portal to go back. If you travel back the old fashioned way (i.e. Gryphon-back) you can pick up the quest again from Broll by the entrance to the sewers.
No wonder this is quest number 13377, because it's LEETT!
Alliance chain is as follows:
Part One
1) Into Hostile Territory - report to Report to Duke August Foehammer at Thorson's Post.
2) Steamtank Surprise - destroy 6 plaguewagons and drop the 7th Legion Elite at the Wintergarde Mausoleum.
3) Scattered To The Wind - pick up 8 Wintergarde Munitions
4) The Chain Gun And You - rescue 8 injured 7th Legion soldiers
5) Plunderbeard Must Be Found - find the gnome Plunderbeard in the Mausoleum.
6) Plunderbeard's Journal - find the missing four pages of Plunderbeard's journal
7) Chasing Icestorm: The 7th Legion Front - report to Legion Commander Tyralion at the 7th Legion Front
8) Chasing Icestorm: Thel'zan's Phylactery - retrieve Thel'zan's Phylactery from the frost wyrm Icestorm
9) Finality - take Thel'zan's Phylactery to Legion Commander Yorik
Part Two
1) And End And A Beginning - defeat Thel'zan the Duskbringer
2) To Forgragon Hold! - speak to Highlord Bolvar Fordragon at Fordragon Hold
3) Audience With The Dragon Queen - speak to Alexstrasza the Life-Binder at Wrymrest Temple
4) Galakrond and the Scourge - Speak with Torastrasza at Wrymrest Temple
5) On Ruby Wings - this quest
Part Three
1) Return To Angrathar - speak to Highlord Bolvar Fordragon again. Epic cinematic to follow
Part Four
1) Reborn From The Ashes - talk to King Varian Wrynn in Stormwind City
2) Fate, Up Against Your Will - speak to the Warchief of the Horde, Thrall
3) A Royal Coup return to King Wrynn
4) The Killing Time - report to Broll Bearmantle
5) The Battle For The Undercity
There are a few quests you need to do before the first step in Part One but some of them are just bread crumb quests to let you know where to go. Hope this helps.
got this off a comment on wowhead
heres the link
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13347
You don't have to wait for 5 people. I was the only one doing it but I think you just have to wait for the run to complete and it takes ~ 10 mins.
This may be the best WoW quest in history :)
Tailean - Suramar
For those of you who dropped the quest. You can pick the quest back up and we found this out the hard way lol. Go right back the old fashioned way to Southshore and back to where Wrynn is waiting to begin the battle. You can pick the quest up again from the night elf standing next to him.
So it turns out you can actually die doing this quest. No prob, your spirit goes to the portal, so just run back to your body and rez and you get all your buffs again. (I got pimp smacked by that giant worm as soon as it appeared.)
if yu droped the quest just go west of undercity and there should be a tower... quest giver is there
I'll admit it:
I DIED DOING THIS QUEST. :D
I'd worked overnight and wasn't particularly with it. Went in solo. Second boss when all the jelly experiments zerg you my priest kept spamming holy nova and I must have done something wrong because I croaked.
I logged out and went to bed.
I came back a day later (after Tuesday Maintenance, too), and rezzed at my body, still in the instanced Undercity. I rode around the place - completely empty. Walking back to the portal I ran into undercity guard fellers. I finally rezzed at the angel. There's no "!" you speak to the king as before to restart the questline moving.
This time I hit Power Word Shield each chance I had. Easy cake.
The end IS confusing though - the king is in combat with Thrall, then POOF! Back in Stormwind. I'm wondering if I hit a key and canceled a cutscene.
One last thing - if you're doing it solo and you get to the worm boss, get ready to be thrown around a lot. You'll be the only person the worm does it to.
If you neutral in Orgrimar, during this phase, can you fish undisturbed?
After Putress, he runs to the morning star shaped royal area to the south off the apothecarium.
Ur... so hopeful. Thank you so much.
By the way, if you cant find out where to go... and it takes you too long to figure out where to go. You will fail the quest and have to restart. So when the King runs for Thrall, dont stay back with the lady. You might get lost... yadda yadda yadda... and all that time wasted.
FYI: When fighting all the bosses, work on your weapon skills. Jaina will keep you healed no matter what, so this is a great time to work on your unarmed. Make sure you do it on the first two as the 3rd fight with Thrall is very quick and you'll be ported before you get two skill points worth in!!
That's the best advice I ever saw on Thottbot, but I can improve on it. BEFORE you do this quest, get one weapon of every kind that you can use from your bank (oh, and leave all your armor in the bank, because you won't need it and it may get damaged). During the fight, load a weapon that you need to increase your skill on (take the one with the highest speed because that affects the learning speed). Use only that weapon while fighting (it's a long fight). Then when your skill maxes out, switch to another weapon. One run of this quest was enough to raise my weapon skill from 80 to 300 (although the last 20 skill-ups are hardest). But DONT COMPLETE this quest. Abandon (before the Thrall battle/port!) and and restart it at the sewer entrance arming yourself with the next weapon you need to skill-up. It takes about one run for each weapon type you want to level up from low to high skill (maybe not max, but high). That's 30 minutes.
The heals by Lady Proudmoore are so strong that I basically tanked up to 20 mobs at a time even naked and with res sickness. But I was able to die if I tanked too many or stood in the BRIGHT YELLOW clouds that Putress can spew (the green clouds are harmless). Mind you I was naked and had res sickness. Whether you die or not you have the awesome opportunity to explore Undercity without any mobs to hassle you. However the elevators up to the surface don't work for you. So the only way up is the sewer entrance, but if you go that way when there are horde guarding the sewer, it will kill you (you may be able to res above ground if you are not too deep undergound when you die.)
BONUS HACK: you can explore all of the Tirifal zone while waiting, without meeting any mobs. Get the Tirisfal Exploration achievement while you wait for the run to start. Too bad you can't see and pick herbs or ore. Make sure to explore Deathknell which is hard to reach safely in normal circumstances.
Note that when you run above ground you can sometimes get close enough to Lady Proudmoore underground that you get her flag and her heals.
From what I can experienced through many runs, you don't have to "wait" for the King to return to start the quest. I've successfully just ran down into the tunnels and caught up with him. So ignore the advice here that says "wait". The moment you arrive, run down the sewer.
The cycle is 30 minutes between battles. The King waits at the sewer gate for 5 minutes (25 minutes per run). If other human players are on that quest at the same time, you will see them too. Be a good sport and tell them to use their least-skilled weapon.
Don't be caught in the tunnels when Thrall is "defeated" because the horde mobs will all reappear quickly.
Ignore the first boss (giant worm). It's fun to watch but doesn't help you skill-up your weapon (because you are usually hanging from his mouth). Instead, walk past him to the next group of mobs and skill-up on them while you wait for the King to catch up.
If you have them, bring Intellect scrolls, because they also affect your weapon-learning speed.
Another advantage to this strategy is you get to run this great quest all over again. It's very good.
The best trick while doing this quest is to cross the border into Silverpine. Look around for some horde. Have them chase you. When you cross back into Tirisfal, you disappear as if you have some super vanish ability. Reappear to them. Disappear. Reappear. Confuse them. If they attack, you'll be getting +9000 heals the moment you step into Tirisfal if Proudmoore is doing her healing gig at that time. You cant die! I'd like to see them fear me into Tirisfal!
Best Quest chain evar!!!!
Except for the fact that if your timing is off it can be majorly screwed!
Due to bad mission text I get there, talk to the elf NPC who questions my hero status, thanks female dog, and I head in, after all, there are alliance troops all along the tunnel!
Wait, they all disappeared in a puff of smoke!!
Oh, good, they have been replaced by traitorous undead including elites! Get splatted.
Hmm, can't see any enemy troops near my body. Resurrect. Ah, there there they all are again. Repeat 4 times slowly making my way out of the tunnel.
In hind site I should have rezzed at the angel. I ended up with more damage and it took about as long as rez sickness takes to wear off.
BE WARNED!! Wait for the king!!!
well... i used to consider the warlock quest for the epic mount the best quest ever... (the dreadsteed of xoroth) I now have a new favorite. and since the epic mount is now a trainable spell, i suppose nobody will know the joy of clearing dire maul, and the largest gathering of demons oustide of the burning legion ever again.
I love the quest chains in WLK i can only hope that this isn't the pinnacle since im only 73
if only we got xp for those kills :(
Read most of the posts didnt see anyone with this comment so here it goes...
*Am somewhat drunk, so sorryz for the misspells...* *Just did a thorough look thru the posts DID see someone posted this fact, sorry for reposting*
If you by any chance abandoned this quest for some idiotic reason (I did cause I started half way thru the quest and thought it was glitched) or just want to do the battle for fun again... Go to the entrance of the Undercity Sewer where the alliance force is and you can re-grab the quest there... If this was of any help you are welcome... Guess it always good to learn from your mistakes and share to others..
Føx - Death Knight 72
Khazrick - Warrior 75
Darkspear US - Alliance
This quest was the most fun quest I have played so far. It brings you back to the storyline and is really enjoyable in my opinion. This is the kind of quest that makes me want to play wow more. im hoping for more quests like this in future expansions.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know where jaina disappeared to? After the port back to SW she runs off.
Use this opportunity of somewhat invincibility to
max out your Unarmed!!! :P
do it as many times as it takes; just click back on the portal instead of turning the quest in.
If you care anyhow.
Yeah, this quest makes Wrynn look like a jerk. He should get out of the castle and spend some time with the Horde...see that they're not all bad people... :P
This is a VERY disjointed quest chain. I apologize if I’ve made any errors here. It took a little CSI to get the parts and order down. I think I have everything here. Something I’d like to mention is that there is one or maybe two quests that you’ll get where there is nothing above the guy’s head that you have to talk to. As you’re facing the Flighmaster in Wintergarde Keep, look to HIS right, there is a NPC standing under a tent-like structure. Talk to him. I did the first 5 quests in this series, went off and did other stuff when I found out about the Battle for Undercity. When I came back to this, it was difficult to find where I left off because the stinking NPC didn’t have a “?” over his head.
http://thottbot.com/q12157
Step 1: The Lost Courier
Step 2: Of Traitors and Treason
Step 3: High Commander Halford Wyrmbane
Step 4: Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde
Step 5: Flight of the Wintergarde Defender
Step 6: Return to the High Commander
Step 7: Rescue from Town Square
Step 8: Find Durkon!
Step 9: The Noble's Crypt
By this point if you haven’t done the following 2 quests (they send you into the mine), do them now. Somewhere in this quest chain, one of the follow up quests didn’t show up until I turned one of these. I suspect it was “The Bleeding Ore”. If for some reason you’re not able to get these yet, just keep checking back with the NPCs. I did these further down the chain.
http://thottbot.com/q12272
The Bleeding Ore
http://thottbot.com/q12269
Not In Our Mine
http://thottbot.com/q12312
Step 1: Secrets of the Scourge
Step 2: Mystery of the Tome
Step 3: Understanding the Language of Death
http://thottbot.com/q12321
A Righteous Sermon
http://thottbot.com/q12325
Step 1: Into Hostile Territory
Step 2: Steamtank Surprise
Step 3: Scattered To The Wind
Step 4: The Chain Gun And You
Step 5: Plunderbeard Must Be Found!
Step 6: Plunderbeard's Journal
Step 7: Chasing Icestorm: The 7th Legion Front
Step 8: Chasing Icestorm: Thel'zan's Phylactery
Step 9: Finality
http://thottbot.com/q12473
Step 1: An End And A Beginning
Step 2: To Fordragon Hold!
Step 3: Audience With The Dragon Queen
Step 4: Galakrond and the Scourge
Step 5: On Ruby Wings
http://thottbot.com/q12499
Return To Angrathar
http://thottbot.com/q13347
Reborn From The Ashes
Fate, Up Against Your Will
A Royal Coup
The Battle For The Undercity
????????????...what the hell does this have to do with the quest at hand??? i dont get it ...neway this is a wicked fun quest n easy to boot ..just do it...lol..lol...lol
after i have the fight with thrall and get ported to SW king varien wrynn isn't there. so f-ing annoying, plz help
Lolz..Awww..I wanted to kick Thrall's ass...Anyways its pretty like thing...
Thrall:-Random battle cry-
Varian:Thrall...Hes here...LETS GO!.-Runs off to Thrall-
Me:...Umm-Goes with Varian-I WANNA KICK ASS!!!!!!(And thats litarly what I said..)
Lady Jaina:...Wtf?...He left me..Oh wait im surpost to stop him from killing thrall...-Ran after Varian-
-10seconds later-(We finally got to Thrall..-
Varian:FOR DA ALLAINCE BITCH D<-Attacked Thrall-
Thrall:What the hell...
Me:<_< Imma kick your ass...
Lady Jaina:NO THIS ISNT HOW IT SHOULD BE-Freezed us all-
..Then we got ported back to SW..Kinda pissed me off...:o I wanted to kick that damned warcheif's ass...
to be pretty simple about it.. cuz me and my boyfriend messed this up!! make sure after u do the whole thing.. that u follow him when he runs to after thrall cuz if u dont.. he disappears and u have to do the whole thing over again!! which the quest is long to begin wih!!
I loved this chain, especially the undercity part. Just make sure you stay with the two of them, dont stray too far away from the healing
Ok so I read through all the posts to see if anything like this happened to anyone else, and as far as i can tell it hasn't...
I was sitting there waiting for the battle to begin, and an 80 DK came out of nowhere. I thought I was phased out and couldn't see anybody, but there he was, walking around wondering wtf was going on with all the alliance NPC's. The battle started and he tagged along. He got the buff and fought all the battles and was apparently just as phased out as I was. I asked him several times if he had the quest and linked it to him, and he insisted that he didn't and that he'd never done or even heard of that quest before.
So we get to the Thrall part, start to fight, and get ported to SW. I asked him a thousand questions trying to figure out what had happened, and even though it didn't help that he was a complete idiot (even for a DK), I got out of him that he was up there for the HH even, just ran across us, and jumped in.
Has anything like this happened to anyone else? Was this a glitch, or can any alliance see it and jump in? Does it matter whether or not they've done the quest? Seemed very weird to me since Blizz's phasing thing is supposed to be based on whether you have a quest, or have/haven't completed a quest. Any input would be much appreciated.
I'm having the same issue but the other way around, I've never accepted the quest (or been offered it as I recall) but when I went to Tirisal to boost a friend through SM I phase out and the the bods are at the entrance.
Waited about 50 minutes so far and the event doesnt actually start, just says "the enemy control the undercity".
As mentioned I have no quest in my log for this, if anyone has a workaround I'd be glad to hear it.
Cheers
I contacted a GM as I was having the same issue. It turns out that as soon as you start this quest line Undercity and Orgrimmar become out of phase until you complete the quest line even if you abandon the quest line.
I'm having the same issue but the other way around, I've never accepted the quest (or been offered it as I recall) but when I went to Tirisal to boost a friend through SM I phase out and the the bods are at the entrance.
Waited about 50 minutes so far and the event doesnt actually start, just says "the enemy control the undercity".
As mentioned I have no quest in my log for this, if anyone has a workaround I'd be glad to hear it.
Cheers
when u get teleported back to SW theres no npc there to talk to finish it and get the reward D:
The Alliance singlehandedly saves Undercity without help from that Johnny-come-lately Thrall, and that's the thanks we get?
Okay, so i made it this far. Was killing the worm. and then for some reason, deleted the Quest. And really want to start it and finish it. Where the hell do i start it? Alex dragon guy, no help at all. i have to keep watching the damned video of Lich over and over. And no success. Is there more quests that lead to Reborn from Ashes?
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