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Commento di Ketho

If you zoom out to the Continental or World Map, you'll see purple skulls representing a necropolis on it. They wont show on the Zone map though

Commento di 191431

Go to various invasion places located on map, green item drops occasionally which is used for this quest. Uncommon rarity so if you're in a group you'll have to roll.

happy scourge hunting!

Commento di Assassinman

You must complete the Under the Shadow quest in order to purchase from the Argent Quartermaster in Light's Hope Chapel - Eastern Plaguelands. To purchase these items you will need Necrotic Runes.

Commento di Mauthus

What seems to be the case (at least for me currently) is that not all the zones stated in the quest description will be under attack at once. I made the mistake of flying all the way to Blasted Lands, just to realise, as the above poster rightfully said, a purple skull over Eastern Plaguelands, where I had just come from.

As far as I can see now there is only one Purple Skull for the entirety of Azeroth at a time, I could be wrong. The skulls can only be seen on the second or third degree of zoom out on the map.

So don't do what I did and run off somewhere else only to realise you've gone on a wild goose chase.

Commento di 53205

Didn't see anyone else mention it, but this quest and Shadows of Doom each gave me 150 AD rep.

Commento di tokaa

So how exactly do you get these? Tell me off if need be, but I don't seem to be able find a place which tells you basically.

I tried killing the mobs around the swirling pinky marks on the ground, but they just get 1-shot, and show loot, but don't give me anything :S

Are we meant to have the ardent dawn insignia on or? Trying to think how the heck we get these things :S I missed out on the tabard last year, so wanted a chance at this year before it goes.

Commento di tokaa

Okie, figured it out, and thankyou to Caffeine ^^

The mobs are about 66+ and have a good chance of dropping those Necrotic Rune's. They're bop, and you seem to be able to stack a lot of them. About 50% drop rate?

The shadow mobs for the other quest, have 30 on them, and I think (from memory) about 110k hp? They can be stunned too, which is helpful :D Specially if theres only a few of you, one can kite it if you don't have a healer with you.

Commento di 235579

We are waiting for 1 hour at summoning circle but nothing happen...There are no scourges and shadow of doom or something.What we need to do?

Commento di 61868

Spent an hour travelling around Winterspring looking for a floating necropolis. Found none. I only found 4 purple glowing spots on the ground and stood there for 10min, saw no scourge and I can now officially claim that this the most annoying event quest in the game. And also no purple skulls on my map.

Commento di 224110

The necropolis ships spawn in the zone that have a skull on them on the World or Continental map. There may be one or more of them in the zone. I'm not yet sure if they always spawn in the same spots but go around the map and watch the sky - they stand out and will shoot out 'shadow bolts' to nearby summoning circles.

The summoning circles are always nearby and the active ones can be found by watching the 'shadow bolt' animation that shoots from the necropolis ship. Follow the direction of the 'shadow bolt' to the summoning circle and kills the mobs in that area. If you do not see the shadow bolt shooting from the necropolis ship to a summoning circle, it means other players have already stopped the ritual and that area is no longer active. They have a high chance of dropping a Necrotic Rune - I got one about every 2 or 3 mobs.

Every so often (I was there for about 5 minutes before it happened), 4 mobs appear around the crystal in the summoning circle and speaking with them allows you to use 8 of the Necrotic Runes to stop the ritual. Once you do that, they spawn into a Shadow of Doom which needs to be killed for a quest. There was over ten people at our summoning circle and we just aoe'ed them down but with decent gear and being smart I bet they could be soloed. They can be feared, stunned, snared, etc so do what you can. Also when you summon the Shadow of Doom, attack it right away to prevent others from tapping it.

Hope that helps to anyone who is a bit lost for this quest.

Commento di 181764

i don't get this i had the purple skull mark over blasted lands went there found the necropolis found a summoning circle stood there near half an hour no mobs spawned the area still had the purple skull over it when i left cause ppl that were wait much longer than me informed me none had spawned while they were there is there some thing we all missed to get the damn guys to spawn or just a problem on the servers side

Commento di 22578

Making a targeting macro like:

/tar necrotic shard

could help searching in areas like Tanaris that there is too much dust and you can see clear.

Commento di 180315

There doesn't seem to be any zombie quests for THEM to complete (lower levels of assignments for the Argent Dawn) and many of them have been heard on the general channels complaining about "why did I sign up for this game if there's nothing fun for me to do and all I get is killed by zombies?"

There are actually a couple of quest for lower levels. The "Investigate the Scourge of..." quests are around level 8 I believe, although I may be wrong.

Here's an example of one of them:

https://www.wowhead.com/cata/quest=9265

Commento di 180315

Thinking of other people's circumstances is polite as a character trait... but should be a business necessity on the part of Blizzard.. unless they've made some kind of covert deal with Intel or Nvidia or someone... making it necessary to buy some big maxed out graphics card (ie revenue for the hardware company) because they've got so many millions of people playing now... this all could be $$$$ related... and it wouldn't surprise me, given all the gadgets and retail stuff popping up surrounding WoW... guild teeshirts, minis, key scramblers, etc....

I am going to make the assumption here that you are what could be referred to as a "casual" player. Therefore I think it is relevant to point out that it is clear that the game is becoming more and more tailored to casual players. Recruit-a-friend, PvP epic's, badge loot, daily quests and now 10 man raids for all.

Another example of how Blizzard tries to cater to all would be the way in which they are squeezing every last drop from the graphics engine they have so as to keep system requirement low. I know of people with horrendous systems that still run WoW well. Perhaps you should check if the new shadows are turned off, as I think they were auto-turned on with the patch? Dropping these out would most certainly improve performance.

Also, I believe the lag is server side and therefore nothing to do with whether or not you have a "big maxed out graphics card."

Commento di 165655

I have a mage, 59th level. He got the quest, found the circles, and ... couldn't do a thing. First, there were forty or so other people (mostly 70's) there killing everying in sight. And even when I was able to get a bead on an untagged mob, none of my spells worked. So ... why was I given this quest when it is totally impossible for me to complete at this level?

And yes, this event sucks if you're trying to level a low-level character. None of my alts is above 40. They can't do a thing. My mage can do a little, but still has a rough time turning in quests or going into a city. For higher-level characters, it's turned into Doom-style leveling ... forget about quests, just kill things, get rep with the Argent Dawn, and if you make it to an even level hope you can make it back to your trainer. (Mages have it a little easier, since their teleport takes them to the trainer ... other classes may have a bit more of a problem!)

All in all, I think Blizz geared this for 70's. Which is fine, but making low-level characters basically nearly impossible to level for almost a month was, IMAO, not the best choice. I can only hope that it'll get better, but I doubt it. I was happy to see some lowbie quests, though quite a few clueless 70's just stood around the circle one-shotting the mobs you need to kill for that quest. Is being a jerk a requirement for level 70? I may never make it then.

Commento di Vadelus

The invaded regions are prone to unbelievable lag. At the Necrotic circles themselves, don't expect to be able to see whats going on, even with a high end internet provider.

Commento di 235904

Whats the level requierment for this quest?
Hope 50 :D
can anyone confirm?

Commento di 235924

I would also like the lvl req confirmed please. I am lvl 35 and was going to have some friends of mine help me get runes for the event. I recently switched servers to play with some friends and rerolled, vet player, new char. Too bad it looks like I may have to miss out on this rather awesome event.

Commento di 64873

For the first few days, at least, this will be heavily overfarmed, often 15-25 people farming the same Invasion node. Most people might wanna just wait out the initial surge.

However... Some classes have distinct advantages. :)

For example, as a Moonkin, I can killsteal a whole wave of spawns with one cast of Starfall, and score 3-4 Runes off one spell. There's so many people crowded in so small a space, feel free to bend your ethics a little. (If ethics never bothered you, might wanna had a little tab/moonfire spaming).\

Players killing each other as zombies, and genuinly ruining the game for everyone? Use that to fuel your anger powered kill stealing, this event was clearly designed to @#$% PEOPLE THE HELL OFF!

Commento di 150475

This is a veeeery competitive quest! Basically, on your continental map (Eastern Kingdom seems to be the most popular) you'll see a PURPLE SKULL in one of the countries. That skull means that country is currently being invaded by scourge.

Fly to the country that is currently being invaded. (Let's say it's Eastern Plaguelands) and once you land ride roughly towards the spot in the country where the purple skill is located. (Or just follow the hordes of others running in the same direction) and you'll fine a big crystal with lots of pink magic circles around it. These spawn scourge. You want scourge. Try and beat as many players as you can to the scourge mobs because they drop NECROTIC RUNES! You need these runes to complete this quest and also as currency to get things like the argent dawn tabard.

This will probably take several tries. The drops on the necrotic runes seems to be alright, maybe a little less than a 50% drop.

**If there are no purple skulls on the map currently just wait a bit, more will pop up soon.

Commento di mikemil828

Can be easy or difficult to do depending on your class, magical classes can simply spam aoe and get themselves a whole lot of shards regardless of whether or not they kill anything, for melee classes it becomes a matter of who has the fastest reaction time, trying to beat the magical classes to the mob.

Commento di 171190

Just got in a group and hit out about 4 spawns. from this i was able to get 3k worth of AD rep from scourgestone handins, and enough necrotic runes to buy about 8 items form the quartermaster. The equipment for a holy priest seems to be on a lvl with D3 set items, threfore if your just hitting 70 these items will help take you to kara and heros, however the equipment does have another use if your a chanter, it is all disenchantable, from my 4 spawns I have got 13 void crystals from the DE, thats 400g on my server.
- recap, I think this is an easy way to move towards exalted with AD while (if your a chanter) making money.
To be able to DE the items you will need 300+ enchanting..

Commento di 157204

God stop complaining you only have to deal with this for a few more weeks, some people are actually having fun, if your a low lvl getting killed... well then go lvl, I don't pity you dying over and over, hit 70 then we'll see.

Commento di Nubtrain

When you port to Stormwind there's a scourge right besides the tower fighting a NPC, you can kill him for a rune, you won't get it everytime though and I don't know the respawn rate =/

Commento di vexis58

Because this page doesn't say, this quest is obtained from Commander Thomas Helleran at Light's Hope Chapel.

Since this event will probably be removed at or soon after the release of WotLK, a friend and I are picking up this quest on our level 50 alts just so that we can get the tabard feat. Having a friendly 70 to kill mobs for you makes it possible.

Commento di 56184

are these still useful after the WotLK came out?

Commento di Gammosh

Hello, Its 3.3 now, can i do this quest? Can i get the Argent tabard? I have the quest listed in my log...

Commento di Thottbot

I can't seem to find a sheleton to kill anywhere.. been under the necropolis, inside each of the three purple circle things there are also.. cant find anything!

Commento di Thottbot

I found this to be a very easy quest, as a level 60 Human Paladin with low-grade gear (Less than Tier 0). Probably doable at a much lower level. The mobs like to pack in tight, so the only danger is drawing aggro from 3+ of them on a bad pull. The mobs are all 59/60 non-Elites. I spent @ 30mins of actual grinding to complete. The drop rate on the stones is greater than 10%.

At Revered with the Argent Dawn, this quest grants you 50 reputation points with that faction (55 if you are Human).

This quest does not appear to be part of a chain.

The location where I did my grinding was in Tanaris, near Gadge close to the graveyard.

Commento di Thottbot

Does anyone know the location of the attacks are? I'm having a hard time trying to find them.

Commento di Thottbot

On my server, Shattered Hand, all the invasions are over, when do they respawn and is it at the same location as the first spawn?

Commento di Thottbot

They are at 22.84

Commento di Thottbot

They are at 22.84

What area? Tanaris, burning steppes, winterspring?

Commento di Thottbot

It was in Eastern Plaguelands at 22.84 1 hour ago,but i did not know that the location moves to another place after some time,so forget about 22.84.I dont know the latest location right now.sorry :)

Commento di Thottbot

TO find the scourge invasion, press M and then Zoom Out, then look on the map for this...

Commento di Thottbot

As said above, if you are looking for where the attacks are taking place go to the map and zoom out to the continent view. You will see skulls at any location where an attack is taking place.

Commento di Thottbot

The attacks are gone.. there is only 1 attack left in tanaris but its gone when i was there. Are they coming back? or is it to late?

Commento di Thottbot

Does anyone know the lowest level at which this quest can be taken?

Commento di Thottbot

Anyone got cords for this location?

Commento di Thottbot

At Revered it seems that you can no longer gain Rep simply by killing the mobs that surround the Crystals, I do believe though that you are still able to gain rep towards Exalted by doing Scholo/Strat. Ill be testing that out later today.

-CheerS-

Commento di Thottbot

The location may vary even within a single zone. For example in EPL I have seen the Necropolis appear close to Lights Hope Chapel, as well as near the entrance to EPL itself.

If you look at the Necropolis, you will see the large crystal..Pulse..when it does this, it then sends out what looks like glowing crystals to the locations that are spawning the Scourge. Follow the crystals, and enjoy.

-CheerS-

Commento di Thottbot

Like SW - in the Cath Sq and the Keep...

Commento di Thottbot

i am lvl 37 and i walk all the way to LHC and didnt pick up quest i got a 60 help me got the runes.

i cant find where to turn them in..am i too low?

Commento di Thottbot

I wonder what the actual "Obtained at Level" is. hrm

Commento di Thottbot

Ok, so I get the 10 Necrotic runes and go to LHC and I cannot find this Helleran guy anywhere, inside or outside the chappel. Is he like a spawn that only appears part of the time? Could Horde have killed him? I don't get it.

Commento di Thottbot

Wow that paladin talking about how he can get one with worse than tier 0... I got one like lvl 35 because I was in UC and I looted it when the pallid horror died BTW these suck for a shaman

Commento di Thottbot

anyone has the same experience?..

I completed these 2 quests like one week ago, and found that he has a "!" over his head again..

and yes, I do these 2 quests again..

dunno if the "!" will pop again :O

funny tho..maybe it could be repeated after a certain time?

Commento di Thottbot

I just finished this quest, and my group went to go kill another camp of scourge, and then we all get lag, and log off. When we get back, the scourge are gone.

After killing off the bosses, i go to Light Chapel and I cannot find the guy who i give the quest to. Is he gone forever? Because i really wanted to get the tabard from AD

Commento di Thottbot

Serious I can't find that guy...I dont know know i couldnt even find him when the invasion was at middle.

Commento di Thottbot

I have been looking at my map looking for the skulls but i have not seen anything at all, Is it still active or what?

Commento di Allakhazam

Nothing comes up on my map at all - anyone else having this problem?

Commento di Allakhazam

The quest givers I found were in Darnassus right by the bank. There are also quest givers at Lights Hope Chapel.

I was sent all the way to Tanaris only to find that they were gone when I arrived.
I went back to the Emissary and clicked and clicked but I couldn't find any attacks anywhere.
I think when they are all defeated they won't be seen again until the next day.

Commento di Allakhazam

Tenaris 36,58

Really easy quest. Killed about 30 creatures (Skeletal shocktroopers and Specral Soldiers) before all 10 dropped.

Remember to wear your AD token so you can pick up the scourgestones too!

Commento di Allakhazam

Winterspring, 44,43 and 42,37

Edited, Thu Jun 22 08:58:38 2006

Commento di Allakhazam

No experience given for hand in

Commento di Allakhazam

Those locations are for random invasion points. Anyone know where to get the "Under the Shadow" quest itself? NPC and coords? I spoke to Commander Thomas Helleran (I'm a 60 mage) but he didn't offer it.

Edited, Jul 10th 2006 at 3:49am EDT by PshychoDeath

Commento di Allakhazam

You cannot see them on the zone maps.

Commento di Allakhazam

anyone can tell where can i get this quest?
is that need any pre-quest or AD rep?
thx

Commento di sawier

so this only gives you some rep? waste of 10 shards imo

Commento di hemech01

Where do you get this quest? I have loads of Necrotic Runes and the vendor won't talk to me

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Under the Shadow

Check your map to find an area under Scourge attack. Go there and damage a necropolis by defeating the Scourge around them. Return 10 of their Necrotic Runes to Commander Thomas Helleran at Light's Hope Chapel in the Eastern Plaguelands.

	Necrotic Rune (10)

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The floating necropolises of the Scourge plague the lands of Horde and Alliance alike. Tanaris, the Blasted Lands, Winterspring and the Burning Steppes are blanketed in the shadows of the flying fortresses.

Only through our combined efforts will they be repelled.

Each necropolis is supported by nearby magical circles, and among each circle swarms a host of undead creartures. We have determined that destroying these mindless hordes will destroy the circle's defenses.

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	Blessed Wizard Oil		Consecrated Sharpening Stone

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75 reputazione con Argent Dawn

Puoi controllare se l'hai già completato digitando:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(9153))

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