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Timewalking Dungeon Spotlight: Burning Crusade Attunements and Champion of the Naaru
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02.10.2015 um 12:23
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During the
Burning Crusade Timewalking holiday
, players get to revisit some dungeons which were considered the most challenging ones back in the day. They weren’t something you could skip either—every dungeon was required in some form for 25-player raid attunements.
Continuing with our spotlight series, we’re going on a nostalgia trip to Burning Crusade Attunements, showing how each Timewalking dungeon was integral to the process. The image below was from Blizzard's old website, helping players navigate each step, since it was so complicated.
The Tempest Key
Festung der Stürme
, located in eastern Netherstorm, was a Tier 5 raid with four bosses:
Leerhäscher
,
Al'ar
,
Hochastromantin Solarian
, and
Kael'thas Sonnenwanderer
who dropped
Al'ars Asche
. This instance also dropped tier chests and shoulders, as well as the distinctive weapons
Klaue des Phönix
,
Zwillingsklinge des Phönix
, and
Der Nexusschlüssel
.
Cipher of Damnation
To get attuned to The Eye, players needed to complete the Trials of the Naaru after the Cipher of Damnation questline in Shadowmoon Valley.
The Cipher of Damnation questline was an epic questline in Shadowmoon Valley covering the redemption of Oronok Torn-Heart. It started with The Hand of Gul'dan (
alliance
/
horde
) and finishes with
Die Litanei der Verdammnis
. This quest also had distinctive-looking rewards such as
Stab des Erlösers
,
Lohn'goron, Bogen des Herzeleid
, and
Herzeleids Axt des Kampfes
.
Oronok Herzeleid
shows up in the Draenor AU timeline as a Garrison Follower.
Trials of the Naaru
At this point, Khadgar will send you a mail telling you to visit Shattrath. Players then need to clear four heroic dungeons as part of the Trials of the Naaru.
Die Prüfung der Naaru: Erbarmen
: Complete a speed run of Heroic
Die Zerschmetterten Hallen
for
Unbenutzte Axt des Henkers
. While this may seem easy now, the large groups in the gauntlet, surprise assassins, and unusual threat tables from
Kriegshetzer O'mrogg
made this tricky.
Die Prüfung der Naaru: Stärke
: Complete Heroic
Schattenlabyrinth
(
Murmurs Essenz
) and Heroic
Die Dampfkammer
(
Kalithreshs Dreizack
).
Schwarzherz der Hetzer
’s room in Shadow Labyrinth was particularly bad with the Assassins and Shadow Priests; Steamvaults was bad for melee with the AoE cleave Sweeping Strikes.
Die Prüfung der Naaru: Zuverlässigkeit
: Complete Heroic
Die Arkatraz
and rescue Millhouse Manastorm—a familiar face from later expansions and a
Garrison Follower
in Warlords.
Herold Horizontiss
was difficult, requiring additional healing and gear with high stamina due to the
Gedankenwunde
which CCs the target and dealt damage. The trash was also difficult, with fire resistance gear helpful on Gargantuan Abysal to avoid his meteor.
Dungeon Keys
Working on heroic dungeons wasn’t a simple task. You needed to hit Revered with a related faction, so you could purchase a Heroic Dungeon Key. Several dungeons also had small questlines simply to acquire a key to the normal-mode version of the instance.
Die Zerschmetterten Hallen
:
Schlüssel der Zerschmetterten Hallen
is needed to access regular Shattered Halls, or a Rogue could open it with 350 Lockpicking. To start, players had to loot
Präparierte Schlüsselform
from
Schmied Gorlunk
, who was in a densely-populated area of Shadowmoon Valley. This started the following questline:
Zugang zur Zitadelle
,
Großmeister Dumphry
,
Dumphrys Bitte
, and
Heißer als die Hölle
. The final quest has players kill a Fel Reaver—-doable at 70 in a group but a terrifying figure when you first entered Hellfire at 60—and forge the unfired key mold into the key. To access the heroic version of Shattered Halls, each player needed to purchase
Flamewrought Key
which required Revered with
Ehrenfeste
/
Thrallmar
.
Schattenlabyrinth
:
Schlüssel des Schattenlabyrinths
is needed to access regular Shadow Labyrinth—it was from a chest after defeating
Klauenkönig Ikiss
in
Sethekkhallen
. (Or, a Rogue with 350 Lockpicking could open the gate.) To access the heroic version of Shadow Labs, each player needed to purchase
Auchenai Key
which required Revered with
Unteres Viertel
.
Die Dampfkammer
: To access the heroic version of Steamvaults, each player needed to purchase
Reservoir Key
which required Revered with
Expedition des Cenarius
.
Die Arkatraz
: Arcatraz is a floating prison in the sky, so players to purchase flying to access it. As it’s a prison, it also had its own key, obtained in
Wie man in Arkatraz einbricht
. This required players to obtain
Oberes Fragment des Schlüssels zur Arkatraz
from
Warpzweig
in
Die Botanika
and
Unteres Fragment des Schlüssels zur Arkatraz
from
Pathaleon der Kalkulator
in
Die Mechanar
. To access the heroic version of Arcatraz, each player needed to purchase
Warpforged Key
which required Revered with
Die Sha'tar
.
Magtheridon
After the dungeon trials, players need to defeat
Magtheridon
for
Die Prüfung der Naaru: Magtheridon
—a boss who was considered very difficult as it required players to click on cubes at the same time—often while being bounced around by debris. 5 players had to click on cubes at once to interrupt Blast Nova—and players were unable to click on a cube again for 90 seconds, so cube groups and rotations had to be set up. The trash here was also punishing, with 4 groups of 3 Hellfire Warders sometimes taking hours to learn due to all the constant fearing.
Rewards
For completing this questline, players were rewarded with the Fire Resistance item
Band des Phönixfeuers
(useful for
Al'ar
) and
The Tempest Key
.
Höhle des Schlangenschreins
Attunement
Getting attuned for
Höhle des Schlangenschreins
was more complex: players had to get attuned to Karazhan in addition to defeating dungeon and raid bosses.
Der Knüppel von Kar'desh
To pick
Der Knüppel von Kar'desh
up, players needed to access the quest giver
Nar'biss der Ketzer
in heroic
Die Sklavenunterkünfte
. This required players to clear the first boss and some additional trash. This would have to be done twice—once to pick up the quest and once to turn it in.
To access the heroic version of Slave Pens, each player needed to purchase
Reservoir Key
which required Revered with
Expedition des Cenarius
.
This quest sent players to defeat
Schrecken der Nacht
in
Karazhan
and
Gruul der Drachenschlächter
in
Gruuls Unterschlupf
. To further complicate things,
Karazhan
was a 10-player raid and
Gruuls Unterschlupf
was 25-player in addition to being very punishing.
Gruuls Unterschlupf
:
Erdensiegel
This was the entry 25-player raid in Burning Crusade, and the unique
Hochkönig Maulgar
encounter which required a Mage Tank was quite a challenge, on top of guilds reorganizing several 10-player Karazhan teams into a 25-player raid group.
Gruul der Drachenschlächter
, who dropped the overpowered
Drachenwirbeltrophäe
, was also tricky due to
Zertrümmern
dealing damage to nearby players (difficult for melee to position correctly),
Erde erschüttern
snaring players in place, and
Einsturz
bombarding the frozen players. In early Burning Crusade, some good pieces of gear were lacking in stamina, such as
Zauberfeuerrobe
, which made some classes very squishy on this fight.
Karazhan:
The Master's Key
Flammensiegel
drops from
Schrecken der Nacht
, but entering Karazhan required the
The Master's Key
and another lengthy attunement process.
The guide
How To: Quick and Full Karazhan Solo Rep Farm to Exalted
by Darkicon explains each step of the questline, but here are the highlights:
After completing an introductory set of quests outside Karazhan and Hillsbrad foothills, you had to pick up three key fragments from dungeons and enable the key:
First Fragment:
Nach Karazhan
from
Schattenlabyrinth
Second Fragment:
Das zweite und das dritte Fragment
from
Die Dampfkammer
Third Fragment:
Das zweite und das dritte Fragment
from
Die Arkatraz
Enable the Key:
Die Berührung des Meisters
from
Der Schwarze Morast
These dungeons did not require you to do them on heroic difficulty, but as mentioned earlier,
Schattenlabyrinth
and
Die Arkatraz
had their own sets of keys.
Der Schwarze Morast
has a lengthy series as well.
All players must visit Caverns of Time, complete an introductory tour of the zone, and then run Normal
Vorgebirge des Alten Hügellands
.
This unlocks Normal
Der Schwarze Morast
.
At this point, you’re attuned to Karazhan but you still need to summon
Schrecken der Nacht
. At the start of Burning Crusade, this boss did not spawn normally like the others; you needed a special item for it.
Schrecken der Nacht
:
Flammensiegel
Summoning Nightbane requires a quest series that starts when you have Honored reputation with
Das Violette Auge
.
The
Karazhan Guide
explains each step in detail, but here’s the highlights:
Kill Shade of Aran in Karazhan and complete
Arans Schemen
.
After completing quests in Karazhan and Netherstorm, you need to kill two heroic bosses for
Kalynnas Bitte
.
Buch der vergessenen Namen
is dropped by
Dunkelwirker Syth
in Heroic
Sethekkhallen
. To access the heroic version of Sethekk Halls, each player needed to purchase
Auchenai Key
which required Revered with
Unteres Viertel
.
Dämmerfoliant
is dropped by
Großhexenmeister Nethekurse
in Heroic
Die Zerschmetterten Hallen
. To access the heroic version of Shattered Halls, each player needed to purchase
Flamewrought Key
which required Revered with
Ehrenfeste
/
Thrallmar
.
From there, you’ll turn the items in and get
Schrecken der Nacht
to kill Nightbane. This rewards 3k Violet Eye rep and an epic BC gem.
Schrecken der Nacht
has two phases—a ground phase with usual dragon abilities like fear, tail swipe, and fire breath, and a trickier flying phase. In the flying phase, his aggro is wiped,
Knochenregen
falls on a target, skeletons are summoned, and Nightbane shoots fireballs at a player. It could be pretty chaotic when he landed if skeletons weren’t cleaned up and he aggroed the wrong target.
Nightbane dropped some distinctive items including
Drachenherzflammenschild
,
Nachtstab des Ewiglebenden
,
Schild der undurchdringbaren Dunkelheit
, and
Talisman des Schreckens der Nacht
.
Special Titles
Players who completed attunement to Serpentshrine Cavern (
Der Knüppel von Kar'desh
) and Tempest Keep (
Die Prüfung der Naaru: Magtheridon
) were awarded the title.
Players can work on the attunement quest lines currently, although there are no titles as rewards. If you’ve held onto the original quests for literally years, you can still turn them in and get the titles.
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