Guide to the Shadowlands Pre-Patch Event - Death's Rising and Scourge Invasions

By DiscordianKitty Updated: 2020/11/22

ShadowlandsWhen is the Shadowlands Pre-Patch Event?Death's Rising CinematicsCause for DistractionAlliance LeadersHorde CouncilThe Banshee's ChampionScourge InvasionsCapital City InvasionsStormwind CityOrgrimmar

Mangle! (standard melee attack that applies a damage taken debuff

Retch! (throws bile on the floor that reduces movement speed)

Beckoning Groan (beckons zombies to fight with you)

Lurch! (increases the movement speed of yourself and other nearby zombies)

Zombie Explosion! (explodes your own corpse, killing you and dealing high damage to enemies in the area)

New RecruitDeath Rising QuestlineWeek 1Advancing the Effort

Quest Order

Important Info

An Urgent Request/An Urgent Request

Auto-begins as you log in.

Cause for Distraction/Cause for Distraction

Includes a cinematic.

Return of the Crusade/Return of the Crusade

Introduces players to the Argent Crusade presence in their capital cities, including the Argent crusade Quartermasters.

Field Reports/Field Reports

Damned Intruders

Return of the Scourge

Unlocks the quest Nathanos Blightcaller

The Banshee's Champion/The Banshee's Champion

Includes a cinematic.

A Message from Icecrown/A Message from Icecrown

Initial Icecrown dailies are now accessible.

Securing the Area &
A Valiant Effort/A Valiant Effort

First non-daily quests to reward Argent Commendation.

Scouting from a Safe Distance

Unlocks the first set of dailies in Icecrown via Icecrown Effort.

Week 2Argent CommendationRead our walkthrough of this questline here.Cult CoutureFighting for AttentionSecrets in ShadowsBursting the BubbleA Message from AboveOnly Shadows Remain

Quest Order

Important Info

A New Foothold

Unlocks additional daily quests with Continued Effort.

With Hope in Hand/With Hope in Hand

Opens a portal to your capital city and rewards the Feat of Strength Death Rising.

Pre-Patch DailiesIcecrown DailiesIcecrown Effort

Combat Nullifier 07-X

Cultist Captors

Delaying Their Efforts

Evacuation Effort

Fungal Feeding

The Deathspeaker's Devout

Too Many Whelps

Darkened ScourgestonePitch Black Scourgestone

Strange Scourgestones
(Completing this quest for the first time unlocks the repeatable quests, Darkened Scourgestones and Pitch Black Scourgestones)

Continued Effort

Careful Creations

Cleaning Out the Vault

Defending the Rampart

Argent CommendationsArgent CommendationSources

The main questline rewards a total of 18 Argent Commendation.

The quest Nathanos Blightcaller rewards 5 Argent Commendation.

Completing all available dailies should reward a total of 11 Argent Commendation per day in the first week, and 17 Argent Commendation per day in the second week.

Most Scourge enemies in Icecrown drop Darkened Scourgestone and have a smaller chance to drop Pitch Black Scourgestone. Bosses drop multiple Pitch Black Scourgestone. These can be turned in to Veteran Crusader Aliocha Segard for Argent Commendation.
Darkened Scourgestones rewards 1 Argent Commendation per every 25x Darkened Scourgestone

Pitch Black Scourgestones rewards 3 Argent Commendation per every 25x Pitch Black Scourgestone.

Veteran Crusader Aliocha SegardDarkened Scourgestone

/script C_GossipInfo.SelectAvailableQuest(1)
/script CompleteQuest()
/script GetQuestReward()

Pitch Black Scourgestone

/script C_GossipInfo.SelectAvailableQuest(2)
/script CompleteQuest()
/script GetQuestReward()

QuartermastersQuartermaster RenickQuartermaster LungrenCrusader Adevald IronbeardVeteran Crusader Aliocha Segard170 Argent Commendation

Item

Cost

All Gear

15 Argent Commendation each. A full set of 9 items would cost 135 Argent Commendation in all.

Anti-Doom Broom

15 Argent Commendation.

Putrid Geist

20 Argent Commendation.

The sets these Quartermasters sell share the same tint as the Dread Gladiator sets but the helms, shoulders, gloves, and belts are less elaborate.

Dressing Room Link

Dressing Room Link

Dressing Room Link

Dressing Room Link

Dressing Room Link

Dressing Room Link

Dressing Room Link

Dressing Room Link

IcecrownChilling Winds and BonfiresChilling WindsLingering WarmthCozy BonfireIcecrown Bosses

Papa's Mint Condition Bag references Papa's New Bag from the Forge of Souls.

Minuscule Abomination in a Jar references Tiny Abomination in a Jar from Professor Putricide.

Keleseth's Influencer references Keleseth's Seducer from the Blood Princes.

Today in WoW

NPC

Noth the Plaguebringer

Patchwerk

Blood Queen Lana'thel

The Prophet Tharon'ja

Novos the Summoner

Trollgore

Krik'thir the Gatewatcher

Prince Taldaram

Elder Nadox

TomTom

Blood Queen Lana'thel
Professor Putricide
Lady Deathwhisper
Skadi the Ruthless
Ingvar the Plunderer
Prince Keleseth
The Black Knight
Bronjahm
Scourgelord Tyrannus
Forgemaster Garfrost
Marwyn
Falric
The Prophet Tharon'ja
Novos the Summoner
Trollgore
Krik'thir the Gatewatcher
Prince Taldaram
Elder Nadox
Noth the Plaguebringer
Patchwerk (Cave Entrance)

Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake from Skadi the Ruthless

Papa's Mint Condition Bag from Bronjahm

Accursed Keepsake has a small chance to drop from any boss. This item is an upgraded version of the Haunted Memento. It is a unique item that can be traded with other players or sold on the Auction House. Every 10 minutes, it will spawn a transparent soul that will follow you for 10 minutes. As it seems to be tied to the event, this item has the potential to become extremely valuable in the future!

Blood Queen Lana'thel is originally from Icecrown Citadel and drops:

Professor Putricide is originally from Icecrown Citadel and drops:

Lady Deathwhisper is originally from Icecrown Citadel and drops:

Skadi the Ruthless is originally from Utgarde Pinnacle and drops:

Ingvar the Plunderer is originally from Utgarde Keep and drops:

Prince Keleseth is originally from Icecrown Citadel and he drops:

The Black Knight is originally from Trial of the Champion and drops:

Bronjahm is originally from Forge of Souls and drops:

Scourgelord Tyrannus is originally from Pit of Saron and drops:

Forgemaster Garfrost is originally from Pit of Saron and drops:

Marwyn is originally from Halls of Reflection and drops:

Falric is originally from Halls of Reflection and drops:

The Prophet Tharon'ja is originally from Drak'Tharon Keep and drops:

Novos the Summoner is originally from Drak'Tharon Keep and drops:

Trollgore is originally from Drak'Tharon Keep and drops:

Krik'thir the Gatewatcher is originally from Azjol'Nerub and drops:

Prince Taldaram is originally from Icecrown Citadel and he drops:

Elder Nadox is originally from Azjol'Nerub and drops:

Noth the Plaguebringer is originally from Naxxramas and drops:

Patchwerk is originally from Naxxramas and drops:

World Boss: Nathanos BlightcallerNathanos BlightcallerEastern PlaguelandsNathanos BlightcallerArgent CommendationNathanos BlightcallerSentinel Equipment CacheDeathguard Equipment CacheDarkshore Warfront Transmog

Comments

Comment by loudskies

No new transmog/recolors, or show-offy toys, and the undead invasion is nerfed into the ground? :( damn this event went from looking like it might be the best to one of the worst.

Comment by Zachen

Do we know of any major changes after week 2? Has that been tested on PTR at all?

Comment by LarryRui

The loot of Prince Keleseth and Prince Taldaram has a mistake.

Royal Crimson Cloak is not correct but Royal Sanguine Cloak

Comment by LarryRui

I have got one Serrated Blade of Nadox from Elder Nadox a few days ago but not include in the list.

Comment by babbles2102

Do we have any idea at what level you need to be to participate? The quests seem to require level 50 (max) and the gear bought also requires 50. But the article mentions some of the dropped gear only requires 30. If I level my babies to current level 60-70 where they are able to go to Northrend, will they be able to participate in some of the prepatch content?

During the legion prepatch there were all the invasions that were awesome for leveling alts - Id love to be able to do something like that again.

Comment by Phoenyxphiyre

Having missed both prior Scourge events, I'm a little concerned - is this all confined to a set location and/or time? Or are we going to end up with zombies everywhere across Azeroth, making it impossible to play? (I wish I could say I trust my fellow players to be thoughtful about such things, but... :P)

Comment by 84Witte

If you buy the xmog set for one faction, do you get the counterpart as well? For exemple if I finish the entire alliance plate set, do I have the horde one as well, or do I have to farm that seperatly?

Comment by Cattywompusx

How often are those random workd bosses spawning? Some of that loot is dope! I love the nostalgia!

Comment by antorickle

Will this be a viable way of speed leveling like pre-patches of the past or is this pretty much a gear catch up to get ready for Shadowlands leveling?

Comment by Isamyr

I am mainly looking forward to explore the new areas, and learn about them in the Lore <3

Comment by whereswaldo333

No mount for this prepatch?

Comment by Garnth

Ok most important is spawn time for Bronjahm and drop rate of Papa's Mint Condition Bag - that is what I want to get for ALL my chars.
Other Rares and their drops too, but there I will camp those for mog reasons of one piece of each needed an likely not with every armor type chars.
For mog sets I should have enough fresh & not-geared alts.

Comment by Nessahelyan

How many of you/your friends have ever scheduled a vacation for a new xpac launch? lol. Friend of mine did..It was when we still got *world server first* achievements. I tried for the first fishing but missed by seconds literally ..last fish would have done it ..so when that was over i followed him around and brought him supplies..He got world first Pally on BwR

Comment by Perpantaq

will this events award xp too or we have to wait for SL to start leveling, usually these pre patches are mostly for catching up and getting gear for the new xpac( something I'm gonna do for my alts) but not leveling.

Comment by the9tail

Why couldnt this by like other releases and sell ensembles of other sets of gear so you can farm usable gear or just appearances.

Comment by Rezzelyn

How "fresh" from Exile's Reach do you have to be to become excluded from the scourge event?

I'm worried that if I have to come back to orgrimmar to access the bank, AH, and profession trainers that I'll be killed repeatedly. That's what happened to me during the WotLK event. Back then, if you were not near the max level, you'd die. It was frustrating to the point where I left the game until the event was over.

Comment by BlinkmasterGoA

none of the new bosses seem to be dropping a hunter ranged weapon..... cool....

Comment by bluedenim20

Genuinely excited for this. Horde plate will look good on my Tauren Warrior.

Comment by schoaf

What is the spawn timer between Icecrown Boss purple skull spawns?

Comment by NatPaggleIsaPOS

can we bonus roll the world bosses?

Comment by Taillevent

Are there any prereqs? Do I need to do any BfA on the alts that I got to 50?

Comment by wowrior

So to get all the sets, do I have to do it with 4 characters with different gear types? Will we even have enough time for that?

Comment by Miniegun

I would love to know what models Nathanos is going to drop for the weapons. Will they be the same as the Honorbound weapon models? Or unique models I'm going to have to try and farm?

Comment by Syrlin

Mostly wondering if these helms/shoulders/chests are worth using over Azerite gear.

Comment by Nysrogh

Can you just farm the rares all day or will they have a chance to drop once a day?

Comment by Taillevent

What time of day does it start?

Comment by DagonDx

Would be nice if we could purchase WotLK Argent Champion Seals with BFA's Argent commendations.

Comment by Galahfray

This prepatch really sucks in rewards. Hardly any xp, 1 pet, Nathanos Blightcaller is a weekly boss that drops ONLY 5 commendations, nothing else. Yeah... This sucks.

I got downvoted but not sure why. I get upvoted a LOT on reddit for saying the same thing.

Comment by ikechi

This event happened only twice in the history.

Now it will happen twice within a month. And it's just after a third undead-themed event. And it's in 2020. I really doubt it's a coincidence...

Comment by Valethar

I really wish they'd get out of that tired and worn out mentality that all cloth has to look like a dress.

Comment by vinicabral

Just checking. So the event is lvl 50 chars only? Is there nothing granting xp for levelling alts?

Comment by deathrot

Can anyone confirm if there is a way to get bonus rolls on nathanos loot?

Comment by edwallols

What you have listed as "Week 2" was available immediately in Week 1.

Comment by Arkanis8

Would it be possible to make a list of all the gear that drops off of the Icecrown bosses?

Comment by Belegon

I killed Nathanos for the weekly and didn't receive the weapon, is this a bug or is it not guaranteed?

Comment by kurio1990

Killed him on my ENHANCE shaman, who has only ever been Enhance, had to rewarded loot show up as a mace. Yet instead I got a lovely 2 handed staff. I have never healed on this character ever. So definitely seems like a bug. Even double checked my loot and it was set to current spec.

Anyone else have this happen?

Comment by Kaelei

Skadi drops the mount in the invasion, btw.

Comment by pocketkitty

pleaase, does anyone know where and how to unlock Nathanos quest? i unlocked dailies but quest didnt pop up anywhere

Comment by ShadowKissed

6 hours and 40 minutes to do all the rares? Is this a bad joke? Does Blizz still think people have that kind of time to just toss into the game play? I dont even get on for a few hours satraight because of kids and family unless I am on for raid!

Come on Blizz! you got to work with us! people have real lives!

Comment by SaltLB

So are any of these unique appearances or colors or is the only difference in item stats and the name of the actual item?

Comment by DirtySyko

Are any of the revamped boss drops unique appearances? I’m interested to know what all is important to farm that’s going away after the event ends, like limited time Toys or unique transmogs.

Comment by Bloodrain2782

rares on a timer that takes almost 7 hours to complete the loop - guess im not doing any of this on alts

Comment by Railander

anyone knows the droprate for the accursed keepsake? haven't seen anyone get it yet.

Comment by Finanses

Do we know the actual boss rotation? Just want to make a spreadsheet that will help me realize when what boss available)

Comment by maiiku

Just going to casually drop this in here cause it seems this is part of the loot table of Skadi https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/659739379115491341/775805091210985483/unknown.png

Comment by datgrl

Please include coordinates or maps with the all the boss locations.

Comment by googs

The Simple and important stuff. Numbered for easier cycle tracking and the loot I'm interested in

/way 49,7, 32,7 1 polearm
/way 57,1, 30,3 2
/way 51,1, 78,5 3
/way 57,8, 56,1 4
/way 52,4, 52,6 5 2h axe
/way 54,0, 44,7 6 fist
/way 64,8, 22,1 7 int dagger
/way 70,7, 38,4 8 Bag
/way 47,2, 66,1 9 shield
/way 58,6, 72,5 10 2h mace
/way 58,2, 83,4 11
/way 50,2, 87,9 12
/way 80,1, 61,2 13 int shield
/way 77,8, 66,1 14 mace
/way 58,3, 39,4 15 2h sword
/way 67,5, 58,0 16 dagger
/way 29,6, 62,2 17 fist
/way 44,2, 49,1 18
/way 31,6, 70,5 19
/way 34,4, 68,5 20 entrance
/way 36,5, 67,4 20 2h mace

Comment by Drathmar

Not sure where else to ask this and haven't seen anything. Was going to run ToC for some mog stuff but it wont let me in, did they turn it off during the event?

And yes I am at the entrance outside the tent, both it and the dungeon seem to be unable to be entered

Comment by Thromash

Gear ilvls

Vendor Gear ilvl - 100
Ice Crown Rare Gear ilvl - 110
Nathanos Gear ilvl - 115

Comment by Samaramon1

The "unique rewards" are so underwhelming compared to the first Scourge invasion. A pet? Really?

Comment by Bravejohn

Wowhead does not sync with local time, so in the front page where it shows the rare spawns time, its 1 hour ago for me and since it only show 3 rares, I cannot see whats next :( can you just show more than 3 rares? or add a setting to chose local time? (+1 or +2 etc)

Comment by glacialhawk

Just a fun note: it takes 5 days for the boss rotation to come around to the same time again.

For example, Lady Deathwhisper spawned on my server at 12:20am tonight Nov 11. She will continue to spawn when it is her turn in the rotation (every 6hr 40min), but the next time that she will spawn at 12:20am will be on Nov 16, five days later.

Comment by Happii

I can confirm, you can kill and loot each boss more than once per day. I killed a boss and got scourgestones, killed the same boss 6 hours 40 min later and got scourgestones and a piece of 110 gear. I also have multiple of the same piece of boss specific gear so unless I somehow time traveled, I got 2 pieces from killing the boss multiple times.

Comment by Gaab

EU can enjoy EU SPAWN TIMES. Good luck on mount and bag!

Comment by prophet001

Why did they get rid of the players turning into zombies part?

Comment by ScorchTGD

so I'mma just go ahead ask what the HELL is blizzard SMOKING? a SEVEN HOUR ROTATION for all the bosses? you'd think they'd learn after 16 years that disrespecting your player's time is a great way to piss people off.

Comment by datgrl

This is the same list as above, with decimals.

/way 49.7, 32.7 Blood Queen Lana'thel
/way 57.1, 30.3 Professor Putricide
/way 51.1, 78.5 Lady Deathwhisper
/way 57.8, 56.1 Skadi the Ruthless
/way 52.4, 52.6 Ingvar the Plunderer
/way 54.0, 44.7 Prince Keleseth
/way 64.8, 22.1 The Black Knight
/way 70.7, 38.4 Bronjahm
/way 47.2, 66.1 Scourgelord Tyrannus
/way 58.6, 72.5 Forgemaster Garfrost
/way 58.2, 83.4 Marwyn
/way 50.2, 8.,9 Falric
/way 80.1, 61.2 The Prophet Tharon'ja
/way 77.8, 66.1 Novos the Summoner
/way 58.3, 39.4 Trollgore
/way 67.5, 58.0 Krik'thir the Gatewatcher
/way 29.6, 62.2 Prince Taldaram
/way 44.2, 49.1 Elder Nadox
/way 31.6, 70.5 Noth the Plaguebringer
/way 34.4, 68.5 Patchwerk CAVE ENTRANCE
/way 36.5, 67.4 Patchwerk

Comment by Svandir

Can anyone confirm if Nathanos drops armor? I've got nothing but weapons so far, just want to know if I can actually get the armor

Comment by Kisses

Honestly, probably not worth grinding for your alts. As you will get better gear in shadowlands's quests anyways. A 7 hours rotation which you should do with all your alts you want to gear. Sure....

Comment by drkvoid

I put together a small website which shows the next rare rotation for both EU, NA & OC realms in your local time:
https://the-darkvoid.github.io/scourge-invasion/

It also copies the mappoint, announce or waypoint in the Icecrown zone directly to your clipboard to use in Warcraft.

Comment by DefilerTia

So I am finding zombies and such in the cities, but getting infected is next to impossible when a guard spawns out of the blue to draw aggro and kill it before I can even get a stack. :(

Comment by Smuel2

Is there even an achievement tied to the event?

Comment by MarcusTorrent

Hi,

It might be helpful to have a page that shows Nathanos' loot drop table with the filters so people can quickly see what spec and class they need to be if they want to force a specific weapon to drop?

Comment by CommanderAmaro

There where literally so many people with mounts on the NPC's yesterday that I had no idea there even was a Nathanos fight till today and went back and saw the quest with an Alt

Comment by timeuz

Will we have achivements for this event?

Comment by Unholytaint

Bosses can be farmed. I received Pitch Black Scourgestone from Skadi the Ruthless, Annhylde's Band from Ingvar the Plunderer, and Keleseth's Influencer from Prince Keleseth after killing these rare mobs consecutively in about a one-hour period.

Comment by hakty

Message to OP, i just recieve the Cinch of the servant from Krik'thir the Gatewatcher, you may wanna add that to the loot <3

Comment by Astrocreep2k

Drop from boss combinations I have got and are not listed here:
Geistslicer from Falric
Skittering Vestments from Krik'thir the Gatewatcher
Serrated Blade of Nadox from Elder Nadox

Comment by Blondina

Happy about the pet - took me an hour :o)
Have the mount from back in WotLK.
Don't care to grind for hours for a possible drop of a couple of more bagslots (Blizz will fill it with crap anyway).
No gear better then I already have.
If I wasn't into transmog I would be finished long ago.
And they didn't even make it a set in Appearances :(

Comment by Anukai036

Is there a chromie or anything for this event? I can't get into the trial of the champion dungeon or raid, nor do the argent training grounds or whatever it is called up there for the toys and mounts.

Comment by 9mmx19

So it doesnt look like of the transmogs are unique? Just the pet is new and unique?

Comment by Sol18

It seems that transmogs if you get them are not account wide.

Comment by ne0nex

Seems like this guide is wrong. The Safety of Others isn't being offered. Currently have a ticket open with blizzard for confirmation. There's no zombies attacking org and the daily isn't offered so the wording "available immediately" and "The daily The Safety of Others unlocks from the beginning of the event" should be corrected or better information about how one picks up this quest should be given.

Comment by Mengot

https://i.gyazo.com/cf8afbbb9f3f43be7b111af4b0eebff1.jpg

Comment by glacialhawk

In case anyone was wondering, the Argent Conscript gear that is purchased with the new commendations can be both disenchanted and scrapped, granting the usual BFA materials. Items dropped from Icecrown rares can be disenchanted (again for BFA materials) but cannot be scrapped.

Comment by Sindella86

Currently on Frostmourne, the rares start spawning it at 01, 21, 41 past the hour REALM TIME, the fight usually starts at 03, 23, 43 past the hour REALM TIME. Unsure if it is the same on other servers, but this holds true for Frostmourne.

Comment by yocozome

Hello, I have noticed that during this pre-patch event, you cannot farm Champion's Seal anymore, does anyone knows if you will be able to do it again? I was grinding that in order to get all the mounts, had like 60 more days out of 100+ total, I hope that you will be able to continue farming for all the Argent Tournament mounts and pets. Does anyone knows if it will be resumed and when?
I have spent so many days trying to get all the mounts and now it looks like I am stuck. Does anyone have any idea if we will be able to resume farming these? It will be a shame if not. Feels like my work for 1+ month was in vain right now. Hope Blizzard will do something about it.

Comment by Argus00

Talk to an Argent Healer for a 60m buff: Mark of the Crusade.

Comment by Deathhighelf

In case anyone is wondering: you can loot all the rares once every time they're up. So yes, you can loot the same rare 3 times in one day.
The ONLY restriction seems to be that you can't kill the same rare twice in one spawn by realm hopping.

Yesterday I:
-Looted no gear on 1st kill, but a piece of armor on 2nd kill of one boss (You can also get the bag on 2nd kill of the day, confirmed)
-Looted the exact same item both on 1st and 2nd kill of one boss
-Got 2 gear items from a single boss kill

Comment by Navyr

Taking damage interrupts casts, and it occurs often enough to prevent using your Hearthstone, forcing you to stand next to a Bonfire if you want to hearth while the debuff is up.

What? the debuff hasn't affected any of my characters doing anything, its just a stupid thing that says "can't be used inside" during patchwerk lol

Comment by Garlaen

Where are all of the daily quests located? I only seem to have 3 available to me for a total of 11 commendations. Where are the other 4 for the other 6 commendations? Are we actually supposed to be able to get 17 per day (after the intro quests) not counting the repeatable one?

Comment by Anariashola

I don't see any cloth boots or magical trinket in the drop table of bosses. Am I blind or something? :D

Comment by matt4077

What am I missing about the zombie invasions in the capital cities? I found one zombie in Org that drops a partially digested Argent Crusade item that starts a quest but then goes nowhere. Do they start week 2?

Comment by kigiri

I made an interactive map listing the boss and drops in realtime (~~in french but can still be helpfull~~)

edit:
- not just in french anymore
- fixed timings + added US and EU times
- you can also filter only selected bosses example ?boss=174058,174062 will only show mount and bag bosses

Comment by Lawlesz

Do Capital City invasion zombies drop any loot?

Comment by KnirpsLyn

Wow, this is so fun with my notepad filled with time slots and characters and hopping around to position and feeling like I can't leave Icecrown for the next two weeks and alarms. Wooweee what an event.

Comment by Valectri

I especially have Shadowlands, but my friend not. Does he need tu buy it to start these quests?

Comment by Punkee

Ok, I'm having some fun with this event so far, BUT .....
I would LOVE to see the 34 slot bag with a little bit better drop rate- EVERYBODY wants the bag- I for one really wanted it on a couple toons I plan to play in SL but at this point killing him 6 times on one toon and waiting almost 7hours to spawn for another chance and not seeing it once is discouraging- it would be the only thing I actually would keep going forward into SL until we are able to make them ourselves .....

EDIT: I've killed him 9Xs on one toon and haven't seen it, tried my SPRIEST it dropped on first try- go figure LOL

Comment by 1396855

Ok, I got the bag, the pet and the sweeper...is there any point to doing this any further?

Comment by Leobentobox

Is it confirmed that this will all disappear on Nov 23/24?

Comment by Melixach

Can confirm that unfortunately you need to be lvl 50 to farm the rares in Icecrown. It appears to be phased and tied to the quest chain that eventually points you to the tournament grounds. RIP alt leveling.

Comment by LESTAT45559

wonder what the gear drop rate is, just did a full cycle of the spawns and only received stones, 6 and half stacks.

Comment by AlexL1118

It's "full loot tables", not "full lot tables".

Comment by zoomies

If you die while fighting Blightcaller and he is taken down while you are running back to your body you might get the completed quest, but not get he weapon that he drops. Fight him a second time and it will drop for you. Also, if you stand near him while in ghost form while everyone else burns him down you will still get the drop. I had to do this for two separate toons.

Comment by Ehayen

You really need an updated RareScanner addon for this event.

Comment by alex0

So much horde here it is impossible to get any of the rare spawns.... gg blizz, rip 34 slot bag.

Comment by PhishTahkoh

Can anyone confirm if getting the Argent equipment transmog does or does not unlock it for the opposing faction?

Edit: It seems like some stuff carries over and some doesn't? I got Argent cloth boots and chest on my Alliance toon and found the Horde version on Horde toon. But my Alliance leather feet did not carry over to Horde...

Comment by Khronic

Is there an Achievement for doing all 20 bosses?

Comment by deerave

I'm really enjoying this event. I especially love the rare delay that allows everyone to get there. My realm is 2/1 horde/alli and there are times I would have missed it without that delay. Thanks Blizz!

Comment by jayjay1121

Just wondering why there isn't an off-hand frill in the boss drops in Icecrown, everything else but this :( :(

Comment by nirvanadeath

Hey all,

here is a video with location and kills on all Icecrown bosses, hunter pov and also with CPU/GPU utilization while running Ryzen 7 5800x + GTX 1080 :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM_fIg362N4

1 boss spawn every 20min -ish, you need aproximate 7 hours in order to kill them all

in order to get their spawn timings, ask in /1 when next will spawn, go kill 1, then you will see who is next using the addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/rarescanner

/way 49,7, 32,7 Blood Queen Lana'thel
/way 57,1, 30,3 Professor Putricide
/way 51,1, 78,5 Lady Deathwhisper
/way 57,8, 56,1 Skadi the Ruthless
/way 52,4, 52,6 Ingvar the Plunderer
/way 54,0, 44,7 Prince Keleseth
/way 64,8, 22,1 The Black Knight
/way 70,7, 38,4 Bronjahm
/way 47,2, 66,1 Scourgelord Tyrannus
/way 58,6, 72,5 Forgemaster Garfrost
/way 58,2, 83,4 Marwyn
/way 50,2, 87,9 Falric
/way 80,1, 61,2 The Prophet Tharon'ja
/way 77,8, 66,1 Novos the Summoner
/way 58,3, 39,4 Trollgore
/way 67,5, 58,0 Krik'thir the Gatewatcher
/way 29,6, 62,2 Prince Taldaram
/way 44,2, 49,1 Elder Nadox
/way 31,6, 70,5 Noth the Plaguebringer
/way 36,5, 67,4 Patchwerk

Comment by Dannell

Love my new one-handed sword from Blightcaller, it's 'way better than my current staff... except that, without an off-hand drop, it's useless. Guess I'll have to hold onto it for a while, taking up bag space...

Comment by SprightlyHippo

So, I was doing the rares, as horde, in ICC and when going to Brojahm, I was suddenly in a full alliance shard, only 2 other hordes I spotted and we were like "this is awkward". I lolled and raged at the same time as I did almost the complete rotation to get a try a the 34 slots bag :'-)

Comment by mufossa

if you get Horde Item A for Gear Type 1, do you unlock the Alliance equivalent?

Comment by FuryusSvetlo

Why did Week 2 start on a Monday and not on a Tuesday after reset like Week 1? Just curious, seems like odd timing.

As such, you can no longer do Advancing the Effort, which I was using to track character progress on pre-patch activities.

Fortunately, it seems you can still take a character that didn't complete Week 1's Advancing the Effort through Week 2 activities and get credit for With Hope in Hand / With Hope in Hand and Death Rising.

Comment by Starlynk

If you use the following macro's, it will show the number of each type you have. As well as using it for the turn ins.

#showtooltip Darkened Scourgestone
/script C_GossipInfo.SelectAvailableQuest(2)
/script CompleteQuest()
/script GetQuestReward()

#showtooltip Pitch Black Scourgestone
/script C_GossipInfo.SelectAvailableQuest(2)
/script CompleteQuest()
/script GetQuestReward()

Comment by tick

All epic loot from all Icecrown Rares

Comment by Mondoblasto

So with the Plagued Roaches up, as with the last invasions if these are killed you'll become either become infected and can be purged, or be transformed IMMEDIATELY the second the roach dies (although it's possible I was infected while I was turned away from the game and didn't notice). If you help kill an Infectious Zombie player, they'll drop Partially Digested Cloth for Ally and Partially Digested Leather for Horde for a quest.

If you get infected, you'll have one minute to click on an Argent Healer to get auto cured.

As before, combat pets can kill roaches on behalf of pet user classes without the player having to worry about infection.

Comment by Varagar76

Looks like Phase 2 just started in NA. The spawn timers are +5 minutes early, and my wife just got obliterated by zombies while AFK in Stormwind. Good luck everyone!

Comment by tcrivers

spawns messed up, now. out of order and timing is completely off. Dalaran - US.

Comment by ItsJustARide

spawns are now 10 minutes apart. keleseth up at 20:10 black night @ 20:20 bronjahm due at 20:30 (EU)

Comment by Tntdruid

Rare spawn after 10 min now on EU!

Comment by bajerman

Is there any way to know when the scourge invasions happen?

Comment by mambakzn

It seems that the timers have gone from every 20 minutes to every 10 minutes now

Comment by Amatheiya

At noon, Monday Nov. 16th, the rares started spawning strangely.
It went;

Krik'thir the Gatewatcher
Prince Taldaram
Krik'thir the Gatewatcher

Then about 7 minutes after Elder Nadox was meant to spawn, he finally spawned.

Noth the Plaguebringer through Lady Deathwhisper have all been about ten minutes apart.
Skadi spawned at 1:12pm PST
Which would put Bronjahm at 1:52pm, PST. I think.

Comment by OldManRico

Spawn time on these rares seems to be 10 minutes now

Comment by Lilyoptra

Guide is great but needs to be updated: I have all 4 alliance mog sets and have just confirmed I also have all 4 horde mog counterparts (just have to wait the 2-hour timer)

Comment by Boold

There are four ways to be infected in an invasion: kill a Plagued Rat in Stormwind or Plagued Roach in Orgrimmar, open a crate that has a green gas around it, die to an Infectious Zombie, or be infected by a Zombie Explosion and not seek treatment.

Comment by Dogmarx

Where's the button to opt out of the open world undead bs?

Comment by tick

Icecrown Rares' Epic Loot by Armor Type HandsHeadMailWeapon

Cloth
Chest	Robes of Rasped Breaths	Noth the Plaguebringer
Feet	-
Cold Sweat Mitts	Bronjahm
Head	Sightless Capuchin of Ulmaas	Marwyn
Cowl of the Rampaging Troll	Trollgore
Legs	Rimewoven Pantaloons	Scourgelord Tyrannus
Shoulder	Frayed Flesh-Stitched Shoulderguards	Marwyn
Shoulderpads of Corpal Rigidity	Elder Nadox
Waist	Cinch of the Servant	Krik'thir the Gatewatcher
Wrist	Bracer of Ground Molars	Falric
Leather
Chest	Deathwhisper Vestment	Lady Deathwhisper
Drake Rider's Jerkin	Skadi the Ruthless
Skittering Vestments	Krik'thir the Gatewatcher
Feet	Taldaram's Supple Slippers	Prince Taldaram
Hands	-
Bag of Discarded Entrails	Professor Putricide
Legs	Fringed Wyrmleather Leggings	Scourgelord Tyrannus
Breeches of the Skeletal Serpent	The Prophet Tharon'ja
Shoulder	Shoulderpads of the Notorious Knave	The Black Knight
Waist	Cinch of the Tortured	Patchwerk
Razor-Barbed Leather Belt	Ingvar the Plunderer
Wrist	-
Chest	Chestguard of Siphoned Vitality	Blood Queen Lana'thel
Frostsworn Rattleshirt	Marwyn
Feet	Skadi's Scaled Sollerets	Skadi the Ruthless
Hands	Handgrips of Rime and Sleet	Lady Deathwhisper
Drake Stabler's Gauntlets	Prince Keleseth
Head	Gaze of Bewilderment	Bronjahm
Legs	Leggings of Disreputable Charms	Trollgore
Shoulder	Regurgitator's Shoulderpads	Patchwerk
Waist	Blood-Drinker's Belt	Prince Taldaram
Wrist	Necromantic Wristwraps	Novos the Summoner
Plate
Chest	Chestplate of Septic Sutures	Professor Putricide
Cuirass of Undeath	Novos the Summoner
Feet	Etched Dragonbone Stompers	Noth the Plaguebringer
Hands	Veincrusher Gauntlets	Blood Queen Lana'thel
Grieving Gauntlets	Bronjahm
Head	Helm of the Violent Fracas	The Black Knight
Legs	Legguards of the Frosty Fathoms	Forgemaster Garfrost
Shoulder	Valonforth's Marred Pauldrons	Falric
Waist	Skadi's Saronite Belt	Skadi the Ruthless
Wrist	-
Intellect Dagger	Phantasmic Kris	The Black Knight
Agility Dagger	Webrending Machete	Krik'thir the Gatewatcher
Serrated Blade of Nadox	Elder Nadox
Agility Fist Weapon	Keleseth's Influencer	Prince Keleseth
Agility 1H Sword	Geistslicer	Falric
Strength 1H Mace	Summoner's Granite Gavel	Novos the Summoner
Strength 2H	Severance of Mortality	Patchwerk
Ingvar's Monolithic Skullcleaver	Ingvar the Plunderer
Garfrost's Two-Ton Bludgeon	Forgemaster Garfrost
Troll Gorer	Trollgore
Agility Polearm	Bloodspatter	Blood Queen Lana'thel
Ranged	Zod's Echoing Longbow	Lady Deathwhisper
Jewelry
Amulet	Reforged Necklace of Taldaram	Prince Taldaram
Rings	Hailstone Loop	Noth the Plaguebringer
Annhylde's Band	Ingvar the Plunderer
Ring of Carnelian and Sinew	Forgemaster Garfrost
Phantasmic Seal of the Prophet	The Prophet Tharon'ja
	Elder Nadox
Trinket	Minuscule Abomination in a Jar	Professor Putricide
Other
Cloak	Royal Sanguine Cloak	Prince Keleseth
Shields	Protector of Stolen Souls	Scourgelord Tyrannus
Tharon'ja's Protectorate	The Prophet Tharon'ja
Mount	Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake	Skadi the Ruthless
Bag	Papa's Mint Condition Bag	Bronjahm

Comment by Kyunei

Here I was worried I almost missed out on new transmog gear... Nope. Same old @#$% getting reused. Why put effort into events that are supposed to hype up releases, its not like this is why people sub early or anything.
Acti-blizzard doing what it does best - the bare minimum.

Comment by Coriam

Note: Unlocking a transmog set on one faction sadly does not unlock its counterpart on the other faction.

I don't know when they changed it (or if it was ever actually the case), but once you pass the refund timer this is absolutely not the case--Alliance plate bought with a paladin unlocked the Horde plate on my warrior. The only thing you have to buy multiple times is the cloak, which is faction-specific as well as locked to specific classes.

Comment by Tdminial

So where's the argent healer in the Crossroads!

Comment by Epoch

Just a quick thanks for putting together, and maintaining this Guide.

Cheers,

TheStormLord

Comment by Emeran

Dear Blizzard! Where is the mount? The proper one, not the Blue Proto. Like in the previous pre-patch event. I got confused because of my CE, cuz' its contain less than ever, and we couldnt get a mount by the pre-patch as well? Whats going over there?
PS: The most disappointed step was that, bring back the MoP CE's mount into the game shop. I just lost the value of my CE... and the others CE thoo.

Comment by shawngo

This had me confused:
"earn a lot more Argent Commendation that we are able to turn in for reputation."
After running around trying to find out where Argent Commendations can be exchanged for rep, I realized that they might mean the act of exchanging scourgestones is what gives you rep, not Argent Commendations.
Am I correct or can Argent Commendations be turned in for rep?

Comment by Kunchu

Is there any other special mounts we gonna get by the end of this event ? other than Skadis Mount

Comment by matt4077

Finally have zombies in the Capitals. Just spent two hours in a raid group of fellow zombies absolutely destroying the Portal Room in Orgrimmar. I am curious though as to why the infected crates phase out for a while then come back. Anybody know?

Comment by DELmitche

I'm hoping the WoWHead braintrust can help me out here. If I do the weekly Blightcaller world quest, and I get his loot, is it always going to be the ilev 115 weapon? I'm a prot warrior, and I got the sword ... but I'd really like to get a shield. I see that the Sentinel's Cache container is supposed to have a shield, does anyone know if the Blightcaller world quest has a chance to drop that shield?

Comment by mahoni

Still not seeing any Scourge in captital cities AT all. Not even 1 or 2 and no infected crates. Why hasn't there been any official word considering this was supposed to be the main event?

Comment by Wickedjayc

Note that timers have changed to 10 minutes between each spawn in the 2nd week of Death Rising.
Also, lag has increased to 300%.

Comment by Mondoblasto

If you have an alt that has out-of-season buffs, like DMF or Hallow's End, and you get infected, when you turn into a zombie your buffs will be lost, along with the rep and XP boosts with them.

The solution is if you get infected and are nowhere near an Argent Healer, EXIT THE GAME RIGHT AWAY, BEFORE THE TIMER EXPIRES. Hell, use Alt-F4 if you have to, just get WoW closed down any way you can. Wait out the timer, then start up the game. When you login, your character will be at the closest graveyard, and PvP will be enabled, but most importantly is that you'll still be alive, not be infected, and have your out-of-season buffs.

Comment by Netspook

I arrived late to this party. And frankly I didn't miss anything at all. Imo, this prepatch is the worst in the game's history, absolutely horrible. Guess I'll continue with other stuff till the expansion is out.

Comment by Kiria16939

I am having trouble, my leather and plate sets have conveyed from alliance to horde both but my mail and cloth from horde to alliance have not, according to all information they are supposed to, I've contacted blizzard but they aren't answering me

Comment by Rahxe

So just making sure I'm on the same page; there aren't any special achievments or titles with the pre-patch event this time? Just a bag and a mount?

Comment by Lajex

Killed a lot of Icecrown bosses today and 5 of them didn't give any loot

Very disappointed.

Comment by Ollegaard

So I killed Nathanos Blightcaller and got a nice weapon, but my mage and warlock got a one-hand sword. What's up with that?

Comment by TheShox

When is the last rare spawn? at what time?

Guide to the Shadowlands Pre-Patch Event - Death's Rising and Scourge Invasions

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