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Comment by Laetand

KT items appear here because a younger version of him is present within this instance (albeit friendly). Is it possible to remove those drops from the item list?

Comment by nekoki

This is the first instance you can zone into at the Cavern of Times. It requires you to complete the quest "The Caverns of Time" to enter, which requires level 66.

Comment by Jakie

Here's the link: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10277

Comment by adamthemute

How do you unlock Captain Sanders' chest on his 'pirate ship'? I have max lockpicking and a pair of Dark leather gloves and it's red.

Comment by Satarus

Step 1: Blow up the interment camp.
One person needs to grab the explosives off the dragons at the beginning. Clear out the 5 lodges and then click the barrels inside. The first boss comes after you set them on fire so make sure you drink up and buff up before setting the last explosive. He is a warrior so melee DPS, watch for the whirlwind and run away (strafe, not back peddle) from it so you don't take a 2k hit. Priests, watch for the mortal strike and be ready on those shields if it brings your tank low on hp. If he fears and goes after a caster, drag him to your tank who will be immobilized.

Step 2: Rescue Thrall.
Go into the keep at the top of the hill and clear into the basement. Everyone turn in your first quest and take his second. Once you have buffed Thrall and everyone has his quest, talk to him again and start the escort. BEWARE, once you start Thrall doesn't stop. During each fight, casters, position yourselves between the mobs you are killing, and the ones you will be killing next and do NOT loot after the fight. Immediately start drinking when the last mob goes down. Melee, bandage up cause those casters aren't getting much of a break at all and need to drink. After about 4 waves, you will get to the gates and the next boss will come in. Enjoy your first break while he and Thrall chat, but its a short one. He comes with 2 adds that need to be killed first. The boss is a pally so watch for the stuns and heals.

Step 3: Go to Tarren Mill.
NOBODY TALK TO THRALL. Rebuff and heal and mana up before talking to Thrall. He will hop on the horse and ride off to Tarren Mill. He will first stop in the barn, then the chapel and finnaly the inn. You will have to fight a wave of mobs at each place. Remember, Thrall doesn't like to stop so casters again position yourselves between the stuff you are fighting and where you are heading so you can drink and not have nearly as far to run. Once you clear the inn, you will find Taretha. Again, NOBODY TALK TO THRALL OR TARETHA until you are all buffed, healed, and full mana. Talk to Taretha and start the final event

Step 4: The Infinity Dragon Flight.
Run back outside and in front of the chapel. You will have 3 waves of dragonkin and then the last boss. The first wave has 2 melee and 1 caster dragonkin. They come from in front of the chapel. The next wave will come from the left (facing away from the chapel). This will be an identical wave. Once the last one dies, you will get a wave of 4 from where the first wave spawned (3 melee and 1 caster). The Melee will mortal strike so priests, have those shields ready for when they get MSed. THe casters will cast corruption, shadow bolt, and a curse that increases damage taken. Druids and Mages need to decurse that ASAP. Hunters, you will want to be proactive in your traps to get one that is incoming. Go to where the mobs will be coming from and drop the trap before that wave even spawns. Priests, drop shields on your tanks just before the last thing dies in that wave. You will have little time to drink between these waves. Druids, you will most likely want to hibernate the caster mobs. Also if you aren't tanking, you need to go back by the chapel steps between waves. And finaly, fear is your friend here. Priests/Locks, you AE fear will be really nice when your tank is trying to pick up those 3 melee on the last wave. Do them a favor and fear them off so you can get a chance to get them under control.

The boss is also kinda tough. He has Garr's anti magic pulse that will eat your buffs, he has an Dot that deals shadow damage. He has a knock back so tank him up against a wall. And finally, like all dragons, he has a breath weapon, but since you are tanking him against the wall, nobody but the tank should be getting hit. I would highly recomend a warrior or druid tank over a paladin. Pallies will suffer from their righteous fury constantly being dispelled and so they will have a harder time holding aggro.

Comment by AGIofTM

We did this with a druid tank, rogue, hunter and 2 priest (1 shadow and the other Holy). Very easy boss, just healed through the curses. Straight tank and spank

Comment by Surtor

When we first tried to clear the bottom we started on the left building, however the sapped mobs in the back ran around to the right and agro'd the next building over and we wiped.

We came back and cleared the buildings left to right and had no problems.

There are also 3-4 pats in the bottom area that are easy to clear but be careful to pull them to you and don't let them agro the building guards.

Comment by virulence

His buff eater buff can be Spellstolen.

Comment by Dirrk

I was in a group earlier today where Thrall ran into the barn then the church but stopped in the Church and never moved on. We went and cleared all the guards but he never moved just stood in the church. Taretha was not in the Inn. I don't know if she spawns when he goes into the inn or what but we got bugged. Thanks blizz.
Submitted ticket.

Comment by Sta7ic

There is lots and lots of lore to check out whenever you're done with the instance so make sure to go check it out, you can even see all the folks from Scarlet Monastery inside the Southshore Inn!

Comment by BlackhandRogue

On heroic mode Lookouts spawn reinforcements. These mobs are not sheepable.

Comment by contentious

Interesting thing happened last night in Durnhold. We were getting ready to call the instance because most of us were exhausted and we were being sloppy. Our tank died, our healer died, our second mage died and everything went onto the Paladin. He bubbled me and ran back up towards the keep(we were on the bridge as you enter durnhold, having just finished burning the buildings)

I ran the other way to see if I could zone out. Now, I don't know Hillsbrad very well, having grown up on a PvP Server and avoiding it like the plague. So instead of running up to the Timeway, I wound up running past Kel'Thuzad. Now looking behind me I could see about 8-10 guardsmen closing on me. Couple wardens, some sentries...

So I went and jumped in the water and up onto the little boat right in front of Nat Pagle. I sat there waiting for death and suddenly <Leaving Combat> rolled over my head.

I lost aggro in the instance. lol.

Might be a useful trick for a rezzer non-MH to save from an aparent wipe.

Comment by koshi

If you head to "Old Southshore" at the docks you'll see Nat Pagle telling his fishing partner dreams that he has...those dreams are actual events that will take place in the future. 8)

Comment by siphon

HEROIC MODE:

It's not hard at all on heroic mode, just need some learning curves. There are 5 lookouts u need to burn down, and that place has 2 patrols (a wolf and a man patrolling around) once you pull them they will call 2 another adds making a total of 4 adds 3 human + 1 beast. The wolf is cc'able rest isn't. Just let ur tank get good aggro on all and nuke them 1 by 1 down. They respawn every 5 minutes or so, after u killed them make sure u burn 2-3 houses and then kill patrol again. Rinse and repeat till all houses are burned.

Boss comes, just make sure everyone stays max range, fearward/tremor totem on tank. Does mortal strike, whirlwind and aoe fear. Basically if u have a rogue tell him to move out fast on whirlwinds, make sure ur tank is topped all the time because the MS can kill him if he's low hp around 5k-6k. If the tank gets feared i'd suggest everyone to run as far as possible till tank gets unfeared and gets aggro.

This was the hard part of it, thrall event is pretty much the same but Thrall himself has around 100k hp now, let him do the tanking just make sure u kill the mages first they can easily 1 shot lowhp people. 2nd boss is easy pie, 450 consec aura, can dispel sheep on his party members. Just nuke the healer then the other add, then nuke the boss.

Last boss is pretty much the same, peridocally does mass dispel, just keep tank topped not hard.

Comment by Kasai

For heroic, scatter pull doesn't work ( anymore ) and the first pat we tried to pull we got the group in the house aswell. So wait for both pats to move away and clear the first house first.

Comment by Aristodamos

Find your way to the entrance of the instance: http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/6837/cotlv6.jpg

Comment by Fabricated

Concise Non-Heroic guide attempt from the perspective of a prot-spec Warrior.

Pull Difficulty 1/5: Note that I'm talking the difficulty of actually pulling the mobs to fight, NOT the mobs themselves. This instance neatly segregates all of the pulls for the first part of the instance, and then forcefeeds the rest to you via Thrall's event. It's pretty hard to foul up a pull here. The pats are obnoxious but there's almost nothing you can really do about them.

Mobs:

Tarren Mill/Durnholde:
Sentries - Two-hander swinging melee units. Hit for 450-750 a whack on plate. Become kittens when disarmed. Just keep them off cloth and you're gold.

Protectors: Annoying. Drops HoJ regularly, heals, hits. Adjust accordingly when your tank gets the hammer.

Riflemen: Holy Jesus I hate these bastards. Worst mob in the whole instance. Corral them into melee range or they'll perforate your whole party with multishot or scattershot your tank repeatedly. Oh yeah, they also sting, but that's not nearly as wipe-inducing as the damn scattershot. Cleanse cleanse cleanse.

Warden: Second worst enemy in the instance. Stun/kick/slam/silence these because they psychic scream and heal other units. They drop Power Word: Pain as well, but the psychic screams and heals are the real reason these need to go down first. Between scattershots from the riflemen and the screams here, it can be insanely frustrating to tank this place.

Veteran: Rogue or Fury Warrior type. Duel-wields and hits fast. I have no idea what class they're supposed to be since I don't recall them ever using any skills that I noticed. Nothing special.

Mages: Annoying but since mages telegraph all their spells like nothing else keeping them silenced/kicked/bashed/stunned is pretty simple. They also sheep, so watch for that.

Infinite Dragonflight Trash:
Slayer/Saboteur: Generic meleers. Same old same old. Keep off cloth, shield block, disarm, etc.

Infinite Defiler: Warlock, casts corruption, curses, etc. Dispell the curses and take these down ASAP while the tank keeps the melee tied up.

Bosses:

Drake: a souped up sentry. OG WoW players will find themselves screaming "BLADES OF LIGHT!" during this fight. He fears, uses Herod's trademark whirlwind, mortal strikes, etc. Hits harder than the sentries. If you're melee and not the tank, back off when the whirlwind starts. The fear is annoying, but the tank is rooted in place for it so drag drake back to him so he can reestablish aggro. Tank n' spank.

Skarloc: Souped up protector. Heals, hammers, cleanses, comes with 2 adds. Smoke the adds, then smoke Skarloc. Tank and spank all the way.

Epoch Hunter: A dragon, only without a fear and a pretty middling breath weapon that slows you down. To be honest I barely noticed this guy doing anything else. I just tanked and kept him turned away from the group and everything was just dandy.

Short Progression:
1. Grab explosives from NPC, fly to Durnholde
2. Do old-fashioned pulls to the pit, hop in.
3. Clear houses and plant explosives.
4. When the last one is planted, everything blows and Drake shows up. Mangle him.
5. Go back up to the castle, clear it, talk to thrall.
6. Chase after thrall while he barrels into several waves of mobs, swear profusely.
7. When you exit Durnholde, Skarloc shows up. Mangle him too.
8. Rebuff/drink/breathe. Chat up Thrall and follow him to Tarren Mill. Chat at Tarren Mill to start the last bit.
9. Again protect Thrall has he brings down an army on you in the barn, the church, and then the inn. Chat up the girl when you're good to go.
10. Go outside, kick over a few waves of Infinite Dragonflight, then show Epoch Hunter your extensive dragon slaying skills.
11. Fin!

Comment by xeljur

on heroic be careful of the lookouts...they will yell like the alarms in gnomer and pull more guys to you...i suggest clearing around the pats then taking the pats out from the pit on the northern side of durnholde

Comment by shadowmaru

any one know how much i get total rep from it ?
normal mode
heroic if any1 know it

Comment by TofuShop

Heroic Durnholde--Easy Mode Strat

If you've ever tried Heroic Durnholde, u know that it's a pain. Well, we figured out a super easy-mode strat today. Clear the couple of trash mobs on the way in.

Group composition:
1. Healer
2. Prot War
3. Mage
4. Mage
5. *Rogue (imp sap)

There are three pats that u need to mark with a symbol. One pat above, 2 pats below that go in front and behind the houses. The pat is a human and a dog. You can poly the dog, but the human cannot be CC'd. In addition, he summons two more adds that cannot be CC'd. If you trigger the pats, it = instant wipe.

This is what you do. The rogue has to carefully stealth around and set off all the bombs. When the houses burn, most of the trash mobs despawn. More importantly, the impossible pats despawn.

On the far left, there is one 4-pack trash mob you have to clear. Do it fast while the boss leaves. Now for the boss, he has a aoe cleave (9k whirlwind) and aoe fear. Tank tanks him from below, everyone else nukes from above. If there is another melee class, you're better off standing up top and tossing stuff at him.

Congrats, you saved yourself 2 hours trying to clear everything.

-Soysauce <NEDM>
Shattered Hand

Comment by imhuge

how do you open the locked chest by the coast at southshore i have max lpat lvl 70 and cant pick it?

Comment by AnXiYz

Heroic Durnholde:

Prot Warrior
Resto Shaman
Shadow Priest
Mage
Hunter

*Patrols (Human + Dog) spawn every 10-12 minutes.
*Scattershot pull all patrols to prevent adds
*Beast tracking for all locations of patrols

First Half:
Jumping down into the empty open space; we allowed the pat coming from the left to pass by (this patrol spawns on the opposite end of the area; by the fifth building). The hunter scatter shot pulls the 2nd patrol (that enters the empty area) and mage sheeps the dog. Quickly clear the first and second buildings. Drag each pull into the empty space to kill (wardens fear and dispel) Waited for the patrol to respawn (which is in the entrance of the empty area, so hug the back wall). Nuked them in the same fashion. Nuked the other ground patrol. Cleared the third building. Ran up the path killed the 4-pull. Depending on the timer for the first patrol either waited for the pat or took out the fourth building. Cleared the fifth building and killed the patrol that respawned in the area. Mana'd up and took out the boss (stayed at max range; tremor totem; tank + spank). Took us 30 minutes tops.

Second Half:
Thrall has 100k ish health. Let him tank. Mages need to die asap; their polymorphs were a pain. Wardens were cc'd or nuked; they heal and fear and dispel...

And then my healer dc'd and never came back.. so to be continued?

Comment by m4s4ki

On Heroic mode today, after my group killed 2nd boss, thrall stop and and we cant get him mountup , i try to agro 4 mob to thrall to get him killed, but when he at 1% he stop lose his hp and he not dead... so he killed all the mobs and still stay there like nothing happens, and we have to port back to sharath. It's happen before for anyone?

Comment by Andy123

For heroic, if you have a rogue. Have him/her stealth into the houses, sap 1 (distract other if needed) and plant bombs. Mark every pat there is.

Having LoS does not get you agro'd from the mobs at the doors of the houses when planting bombs. You can plant when the mob inside the house is at the opposite end, make sure they are distracted.

When all of the houses are burning, the boss will spawn. You can pull him when you are standing at the bridge (not on it), and he will not agro mobs when he runs to you.

Comment by guldbajer

So since you need all this distract stuff, I assume a druid isn't able to do it?
Havent really been in there yet, but it sure would be nice if I myself could place the bombs.

Comment by Zenrei

I've noticed that Durnholde gives more than 902 rep. Even though we skip the mobs to the sides of the entrance to Durnholde, and the mobs near the tower to the right of the building Thrall is in, I got 902 rep.

Not to mention, if you don't talk to Thrall after you get to Tarren Mill, you can kill another 5 mobs. Just run past the farm and you can see 2 mobs together, and another 3 patting by them.

That's another 40 rep. 4 from the both sides of the Durnholde entrance, another 32 rep. 4 at the tower next to the main keep building...another 32. So actually, just taking an extra 6-10 minutes on the run, another 106 rep could be gained, making grinding that much easier.

Also, if your guild is REALLY cool (not saying mine is, they won't run with me, lol), and you know you can do the instance without wiping, you can intentionally let Thrall die on the second boss twice, each time pulling the same 4 pulls 2 extra times. 256 extra rep, but more time consuming.

Add it all up, you can get a maximum of 1264 rep from Durnholde, and with a better success rate than BM (which requires a specific setup as well as all 70s), that makes it WAY better for grinding, and more than likely assures that all the boss drops get DE'd for shards. Booyah. Shards go for almost 20g a piece, so...

Comment by cocopops

on normal this instance is cake easy, managed to kill the first five on my own, (using trap ect) but i find it fun

Comment by syntax53

Video clearing lookouts, burning houses, and killing drake:

http://tinyurl.com/2qpt2z

Full Resolution version available at www.nrguild.org in our movies section.

Comment by omber

As said before, for the Heroic groups, it is possible for a 70 rogue with Master of Deception Rank 5 to blow up the buildings by themselves, saving the group time and pain if fighting multitude of enemies.

To rogues attempting this: watch out for patrols with dogs as the dogs have stealth detection and getting within 30 yards of one will mean your death.

If the barrel of explosives if closer to the back entrance of the building, then sap the single mob guarding it (the door) while the mob that patrols inside is walking away, apply the bomb, then go back into stealth, unless the sap breaks or the pat sees you, you don't have to waste vanish.

If the barrel is at the front where two mobs are guarding the door, sap the mob that is in line of sight of the barrel, while the pat is walking away. If you do this correctly the other guard wont see you as you will stay outside line of sight.

Comment by 7thPawn

Yea this is my new hated mission of all time. Our little monkey was nowhere close to getting smoked 3 times and when he died in the village he never appeared again. Good for us I guess. I love wasting so much time getting this done only to have everything bug up on us. Good times. It really is too bad you need this for BM or I would say don't touch this mission if you want to keep enjoying the game, cause my opinion of the company based on the moronic idea of some dev that needs to be smacked back into the real world went down a few notches. Avoid this mission unless you need BM and/or Kara.

Comment by Kilxer

If you have a shadow priest he can MC wardens they heal for 16-18k but a 7sec CD

Comment by Bubblebath

A note to those of you who dislike being ugly humans: The skeleton effect from the nogginfogger elixir will cancle human illusion when it ends or gets cancled, and you'll still be able to talk to the people in Southshore.

Comment by 1missing

Cleared it on heroic today. Group was

Prot warrior (me)
MS warrior
frost mage
marks hunter
resto shammy

were all epicd and some of the best players ive played with. We've cleared every heroic and this was actually quite an easy instance for us.

Comment by alexdaman65

why is there like no warrior loot in this place

Comment by Fearsome

Did u know that Mograin, whitmane and Vishas is there! (SM) And Caretaker smithers!!( the good old simpson joke!) Kel'Thuzad (naxxramas) and ofc u have Nat Pagle!! (greatest fisherman in the whole world) everyone of them is waiting for u in old hillsbrad, + many more funny ppl (like fairbanks, will come back with them one day), if u go to shouthshore! Awesome job by blizz=P

Comment by Moofin

This is useful and useless at the same time for the rogue class..Only two things worth while dropping lie in here for rogues

Cloak of Impulsiveness

Broxigar's Ring of Valor (For all the PvP buffs saving resilience gear for PvP @ 70)

and Karazhan attunement

The cloak is very worth it imo. because I used the cloak until I got the Sergant's Cloak in PvP, but the cloak will last you.

Comment by atomicvampire

I tanked this as a 68 prot paladin and had no issues with the last fight, despite having to recast Righteous Fury. It was actually really easy, since I could prepare for each wave with a Consecrate and Avenger's Shield.

For the first wave, target the caster (the one in the middle) as soon as they walk out, and after they change forms, wait a few seconds and drop a Consecrate. The two melees will start to run off, but the Consecrate should bring them back to you.

On the second and third waves, get in position and start spamming your tab key. As soon as you get one targeted, cast Avenger's Shield. If you have an AoE fear in the group, go ahead and use it on the melees after the AS so that they're not beating on your back as you run to get the caster.

For Epoch Hunter, I just pulled him off of Thrall and backed up against the house across from the inn. After that, it was cake. Just spam SoR/JoR, Consecrate, and Holy Shield, and recast Righteous Fury if it gets dispelled. He was actually easier to manage than the three waves of dragonkin.

Comment by ComputerX

As of 5th March 2007 a level 63 cannot start a summon from the CoT summoning stone, but CAN assist in summoning.

I found this useful with my alt engineer, getting the group there faster.

Comment by catspats31

Now with Patch 2.4, you will no longer encounter any patrolling Durnholde Lookout mobs that spawn Durnholde Reinforcements. The pulls there will be the same as it is on normal mode.

Comment by Huntermaster

Note that you must be level 66 to go in, as you must do the prequest, which requires you to be 66 before you can enter the instance.

Comment by Quadrophenia

I know the page says that the minimum level requirement for entry is level 66, but what is the actual level that most people can reasonably run this place without much suffering? Based on level, that is.

Comment by Marrn

It's so much easier without the patrols spawning extra adds. Just did the whole thing with a tankadin tanking everything; she even pulled two groups at one point and we were fine. Our mage did die a lot, though... the NPCs on heroic aren't very forgiving if you pull aggro.

Comment by Clopert

If you feel like exploring the place, you can easily do it without a group. Just go in the instance like normal, but don't go near Tarren Mill or Durnholde keep or the guards will chase you for an eternity.

You can explore all of the Hillsbrad Foothills zone, and when you get to the zone borders there will be either an invisible barrier or physical wall to block you getting further.

There are many little easter eggs around this place, some mentioned earlier in this page, such as:

Kel Thuzad: past present
Tirion Fordring: past present
Zixil: past present
Phin Odelic: past present
Frances Lin: past present
Chef Jessen: past present
Barkeep Kelly: past present

Comment by Mitokok

I found something... a little strange when going into Old Hillsbrad on my Tauren Druid, after listeing to all of the people talking i decided to see how far i could swim out, so of course i went into seal form and began to swim after awhile i got bored so i used my hearthstone (while still in seal form mind you) and to my suprise i lost the Disgused as a Human buff that you normaly have in OH, shocked i cancled the hearth and ran back to Southshore to see if i was still friendly with the NPCs there and truth be told i was... fairly odd and im not sure if it can be done all the time or if that was a glitch however if your a druid you should try it out, sure it doesn't really do anything but hey it's another thing to try out if your bored one day...

Comment by Kraylen

Don't forget to pickup http://www.wowhead.com/?item=22539 while you're in here from the Aged Dalaran Wizard wandering along the road. Even if you're not an enchanter it tends to sell reasonable well.

Comment by generalbildo

Down in Southshore the horses there popped up on my map when I was tracking humans. I went over to them and sure enough, the tooltip said humanoids.

Comment by Ghakor

Not sure if it was a bug, but as I went towards the outer walls in Old Hillsbrad to see how far the zone would go my screen would turn grey with a very thick fog. All I could see was the color of name plates and the glow on my blades. Made travel very tough.

Comment by Kaliem

As im sure most of you know most of the lore in southshore but one thing there rly caught my attention, i don't know if anyone has noticed this but if you go inside the inn you see magic brooms cleaning the place, only blood elves that i know of posses this spell as in SMC so how could a place set back 7 years have blood elf magic??? If anyone knows how the brooms got there i'd be interested and mabe a blood elf lived there long ago i don't know pretty interesting i thought.

Comment by mitro

where is don carlos?

Comment by Nichoo

Worth to mention, if you have a debuff from the ultrasafe transporter: Toshly's station , Like i had , the blood elf female form currently, and my characters real gender was male, I stayed as a female human during the run.

Comment by Delecti

A neat little bug for Moonkin I found: Take a dose of Noggenfogger Elixir and when you get the skelly buff, take another until you get it again (only way you will notice is you turn into your human form), at which point you will be able to shift into Moonkin form but still look human.

Comment by Slazrouge

I was a 43 rogue and i saw don carlos and i asked myself why blizzard would have 63 in Tanaris right by the graveyard? I never noticed Don Carlos in hillsbrad till i ran it the fifth time and it hit me. So go back to him in Tanaris and pick up the quest for his hat :D

Comment by Stenmk5

Also, I know this is less relevent to Instance itself, but, of what I have done, it's, with out a dbout, my favorite instance yet.

Comment by Spicebringer

Lol funny things happened for me when i entered alone..
At southshore, where they talked about the ashbringer, the barmaid came about saying:
"What'll it be?"
"The Ashbringer!"
"I'll come back later!"
XD

Comment by Idontmoo

Seems like my alt cant look for group for this and he is lvl 67

Comment by Grimshorn

I got a entire group ready for this and i was 65 at the time thinking i could go in. And right as we get in i couldnt go in since i couldnt get the quest required to go in... If your 65 dont expect to get a group since you cant even enter it.

Comment by varitek

Soloable by a level 80 protection paladin in quest blues, if anyone fancies seeing content they missed out on in BC. I used JoL, SoW, BoS, and a fair amount of consecration. Had to use Lay on Hands once, but no real trouble.

Comment by worthit

These are the Horde quests for Old Hillsbrad Foothills

Obtained in Gadgetzan, Tanaris:

Nice Hat...

Obtained in Caverns of Time, Tanaris:

To the Master's Lair
The Caverns of Time
Old Hillsbrad - dungeon quest
Taretha's Diversion - dungeon quest
Escape from Durnholde - dungeon quest
Return to Andormu
The Black Morass - quest for The Black Morass
The Opening of the Dark Portal - quest for The Black Morass
Hero of the Brook

Obtained in Shattrath:

Wanted: The Epoch Hunter's Head - daily heroic quest

Comment by Alpen

Soloable by a level 80 protection warrior

Comment by Lionheart29

Solo'able as a 80 DK. Just make sure to watch your health. Also noticed that they payed tribute to WCIII in here by putting one of the songs from the Frozen Throne! Good times good times!

Comment by Magemaster111

Lol the music here is the same as warcraft 3

Comment by TheeGuy

Comment by Draugen

Stupidest instance I've done. And here's why...

Every time I've tried to do it, people try to rush through it and get mad when you try to figure out what you need to do to complete the quest given along with it. I think this is because people are impatient, they want the reputation, and the instance is rather short. So they rush rush rush.

In itself, the instance is rather cool, but people can take the fun out of it.

So my advice is, unless you're doing this with friends (recommended if you want to enjoy it the first time), figure out what you need to do before going into this, otherwise it's very easy to miss the quest AND have a bunch of losers whining at you. I'm posting this because it keeps happening. Seriously :P

Comment by Ametrine

could a lowbie enter the instance? I'm curious if my mid-50's troll could go fishing alongside the young Nat Pagle...

Comment by MikeRussia

What melodie plays in village, where Barkeep Kelly is located? I mean outside, not in the Inn

Comment by Vothul

Soloed normal mode as a level 80 Ret Pally. In T7/T7.5 gear, mostly epic'd out. The fights were trivial at best. So if you're looking to solo this place for rep and/or achievement, it isn't too hard.

Comment by Zayva

I'm doing this for my Elixir Mastery quest (and trust me, I'm not happy about it). Since the 3.1 patch this week, alot of things have gone bonkers. Most of the week you couldn't even run most instances without getting stuck or lagged out, etc. So, finally we're able to run a few things pretty easily and we decide to hit this and get it out of the way. Everything goes wonderfully until we (with Thrall) get to the barn. We clear the barn, he runs out and we follow... but he poofs into nothingness.

The awesome write-ups here told us where he was headed, but he just didn't exist anymore. We continued to the Chapel...nothing. Inn, nothing... the girl (his friend we're supposed to "rescue") wasn't at the Inn either. We killed everything we could find, hoping he'd repop... but nope. After about half an hour of scratching our heads, we chalked it up to Patch bugs and logged. We'll probably abandon and try to pick it up again tomorrow... Now I'm wishing I would have done this a long time ago... patch weeks are *not* the time to be doing this crap.

Comment by olania

Soloed on normal as a lvl 80 Elemental Shaman in full 25 man epics. Went kind of slow, but was quite doable. Just make sure to heal yourself and eat/drink when you can.

Comment by Domcho

I rode in the book that there was a tree hit by lighting and Taretha told Thrall to put something (forgot what) in the tree if he needs help. Is that tree there?

Comment by Sgurt

I soloed a full clear of normal mode today and bosses gives 80 rep and not 150 :( got about 1050 rep for a full clear.

Comment by Plasteremiten

I went into Old Hillsbrad to buy me some alcohol when i saw one of my green skinned friends. And because i'm such a nice pirate, i killed him.

But really, since i killed him and his friends seven years after this, it seems odd that he was angry.

Comment by Carrion

I just soloed this whole instance as a lvl 80 Frost Mage wearing AH Epics.
Did it to be able to access Black Morass for the Alchemist Elixir Master Quest.
Using Thrall as a tank on Trash mobs and Water Elemental and Mirror Images as tanks on bosses proved to be quite useful. The only boss that was actually hard was Epoch hunter.
This Instance should be alot easier for other classes since i suck at Tanking and i can't Heal.
Hope this information is useful to someone.

Comment by MoreSpam

Being in Old Hillsbrand is funny. I went there and i found Kel´Thuzad and he was a human. I found someone named Herod the Bully, which might grow up in to Herod in SM. I found Nat Pagle and someone who looks like Mayor Quimby in The Scarlet Enclave :P

Comment by Elarieline

Can you even get to Ravenholme from this instance? I'm curious on the little easter eggs that could be hidden within the Ravenholme area.

I think it may be the grey fog area but I'm still curious.

Comment by zie909

did you know if you go to southshore you can see kel'thuzad

Comment by TehBlitz0r

I wish there was a mailbox so I could send myself some gold while leveling xD.

Comment by Almarsguides

I made a video of me soloing Durneholde for reputation and the achievement at level 80. To check out the video see the links below:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN9MwmLGRZg
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0eUYM3Dkcc

Comment by lichkingminion

i got in at lvl 65 on my death knight

Comment by Almar

Video of me soloing Durneholde at level 80 as a ret paladin. I killed pretty much every mob possible to maximize the money I made and my Keepers of Time reputation.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN9MwmLGRZg
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0eUYM3Dkcc

Comment by drahn

im not sure if anyone has posted on this or not, but i find this place to be a massive money maker, at least for a casual player who needs some fast gold and hates dailies, im an 80DK, naxx25-uld 25 geared, i dont AOE pull the place and takes me about 25 mins to do single pull at a time, if you clear it all, i make about 50g in coin, and another 75-100g in vendor per run(vendor everything) and i pay about4g in repairs as plate lol, i am enchanting so im not sure if D/Eing stuff would increase profit, but the way im doing is fine, so do 2 runs an hour, that equals me making 150g-250g(on regular lol, not sure about heroic) in one hour of grinding

also im guessing if you did pull faster and aoe pull without dieing its only like a 15 mins run

-drahn mal'ganis US

*edited for spelling/corrections*

Comment by shmog

hard to believe this is the past of a place that's now full of lvl 20ish weakies...

Comment by si1808

Using eagle eye shows up some interesting bits. Far north there are fishes swimming in mid-air.

Comment by Anmity

I find it pretty weird that some mobs in here drop netherweave cloth...

Comment by PilsnerDk

I managed to solo the dungeon on heroic mode as an 80 ret paladin. I had around 20k hp, 4500 AP self-buffed, and epics lvl 200-226 ish, with Greatness Card and a few other tidbits.

Start with clearing the huts and setting the bombs, easy enough, but make sure you CC and watch the healer mobs in each hut. Lieutenant Drake is a bit tough as he pumps out a lot of damage, so don't be afraid to use Divine Shield and LoH.

After you've released Thrall, you will throughout the rest of the dungeon be facing packs of 3-4 mobs. The general trick is to let Thrall tank, and then pick them off him one by one. As soon as you do any damage to a mob, they'll go for you instead of Thrall, so be careful with AE.

Captain Skarloc is quite easy, but use the same trick as before, let Thrall tank and pick off the two adds he has with him one by one.

Epoch Hunter was a fairly easy, he doesn't do much damage and doesn't have any special tricks to be aware of.

Comment by 0930715

I can't believe no one has posted this but if you go into south shores inn you can see a cut scene of high commander morgraine about ashbringer.A must watch for any lore fan.

Comment by McDeath

Easily soloed as a level 76 Retadin.. good fun as well!

Comment by KnownReason

I was able to solo this as a 78 Blood DK with not to much effort. The most difficult part is keeping the mobs off of Thrall during the last boss fight.

Comment by Flenop

This instance becomes 'available' to a character at level 64 via LFD, but you still must first do the quest to enter, which still requires 66.

Comment by mustangsami118

I just wanna let you know that this dungeon is solo able at lvl 80 for those of who need the achievement, want to grind rep for keepers of time or just missed doing this awesome instance during bc times. I soloed this is a prot pally on normal mode (not sure if this is possible on heroic as i am not yet honored with keepers of time). Warriors, dks, and druids should also have no problem with this. Other classes might want to bring at least one other friend. Also, quests having to do with this dungeon do count towards loremaster of kalimdor.

Comment by darom

theres a great scene concerning ashbringer in the southshore inn for u lore junkies :)

Comment by JGPenfield

There is a round tower beyond the keep where Thrall is imprisoned. It is guarded by 4 guards. The door is locked and you can't get in. But once while I was fighting the guards the door opened and then shut before I could enter it. I tried over and over to get it to open again but no such luck. Has this happened to anyone else? Has anyone ever entered this tower? If so what is in it?

Comment by Xeroth

This dungeon will show up in your dungeon finder beginning at level 64, however you will be unable to access it through the dungeon finder until you complete the prerequisite quest.

As the quest requires level 66, you will be unable to queue for this dungeon until level 66.

Comment by KurouRufu

Just ran through on Heroic.. counted 2,286 rep for a full run (killing all the extra mobs I could find as well that normally get skipped in a regular group).

Comment by blincolncanada

Easily Solo'able as a lvl 80 ret paladin with poor gear (GS3800ish). Just be sure to:

Keep Righteous Fury and Consecration up to keep the trash off of Thrall.

Use Seal of Wisdom and Divine Plea to keep your mana up.

Use Sacred Shield and Judgement of Light to stay alive.

If you do all that you should take very little damage and keep Thrall alive.

Comment by suzies

Is Old Hillsbrad soloable with a 72 DK? Just thought I'd check as PUG's can be so frustrating.

Comment by DrKazza

Easily soloable on Normal at Level 80. (shadowpriest 5.6k GS)
I timed it, it's about 25 minutes per run, and netted me almost exactly 900 rep. That's killing the main mobs on a normal route and not going walkabouts.

It would be hard to shave much more time off it than that because you have to wait for so much roleplay... maybe at a STRETCH you could get to 2,500 Rep in 1 hour

Compare this to Black Morass which gives you exactly 1100 rep at an 18 min run... again hard to be quicker since you have to wait for the extra 2 minutes after you kill the bosses at waves 6 and 12.
End boss on Black morass was marginally harder, but neither instance would be considered difficult at my level and gearing.

TLDR: KoT solo rep grind is quicker in Black Morass Normal than Old Hills Normal

Comment by Jetlok

It would be cool if you could get to Purgation Isle.

Comment by deathsilence

Do yourself a favor and kill everything on the way into Durnholde before escorting Thrall, otherwise you'll encounter double the mobs and possibly glitches galore

Comment by Ariandrose

I personally think that old Hillsbrad needs an in-game map. It would certainly reduce my getting lost, and constantly clicking over to normal HB is just as annoying, trying to pinpoint where you are. It would make questing easier in this area...

Comment by quicksliver

for a pvp ret pala what lvl is this soloable

Comment by socrates187

I can easily solo Old Hills and Black Morass on normal with my Hunter (have been able to for some time now) and discovered I can also solo both on Heroic without to much trouble with WotLK gear I have at this point (mostly 232/245+ gear). I was going after Heroic Don Carlos hat and after getting it easily in under 30 seconds I thought "I'm bored, might as well see if I can full clear and get some rep." After clearing Durnhold and doing bomb event I talked to Thrall and started that event. I was being a little greedy and was trying to loot before catching up with Thrall (I can easily loot and keep up with him on normal) and he kept dieing on me. After he died twice I was like "fine I won't be so greedy and I will just stick with him" and clear up to boss at which point he waits for you to talk to him before mounting up and heading to Tarren Mill for that event.

It got me to thinking though, how many times can you let him die and farm the same rep over and over again. My thought is this: kill the four mobs of four up to Captain Skarloc, kill the Captain and let the two adds with the Captain kill Thrall, rinse repeat until you go cross-eyed/get bored or reach exalted. 15 x 4 x 4 = 240 (+ 250 for Captain) = 490 rep in about 5 min. Haven't tried yet and I don't know if there is a certain number of times Thrall can die on Heroic before you get a fail or something, but it seems to me that this would be a good way to eek out a little extra rep per run.

Full clear took me about 30 minutes, so 6 extra runs at the Captain would net an extra 2940 rep and would only extend a full clear to an hour (assuming it takes you 5 min. to clear up to Skarloc and kill him and you can do it six times without any penalty of losing Thrall for the lockout period by letting him die that many times). The one problem with my theory would be does Thrall glitch like he use to in Tarren Mill before you get to Epoch Hunter or do the two adds with Captain Skarloc despawn if you kill the Captain first. Eventually I will try this when I get back around to another rep run when I am bored and post my findings.

Comment by socrates187

Tested my theory last night and you can repeat Thrall's Escape from Durnhold up to Captain Skarloc. I did not push it to see if there was a limit to how many times Thrall can die, but I did 3 attempts at this without the Dragon dude telling me he couldn't change time anymore (he always said the same thing: "I can turn back time to before Thrall blah blah blah but there is a limit to my power").

Some problems I ran into even with decent gear and buffed up a little bit are that Thrall moves fast giving you little time to recover between mobs and the mobs hit pretty hard even for a BC Heroic. I found it best to do the tricksy hunter things like CC and Misdirect to my pet and all that (pretty much anything you can do to keep agro off yourself so all you have to heal is your pet). If you keep the mobs from running into each other Thrall will return to full health in between, but if a mob runs away because of low health and they then agro the next mob you may be in for a tough couple of seconds which will either cause a reset of the event or you to be very low health with a full health Thrall charging of to next mob before you are ready. Frustrating to say the least, my advice is to not bother with looting unless you have someone with you (or a tough as nails toon like my pally who can just stomp right through and self heal in a flash) and burn the 4 mobs of 4 quickly to get to boss and his to goons because there is a longish pause after last mob at the bridge where you can kind of take a deep breath and make sure you are healed up and ready to go. Obviously, like I stated above in my parenthetical comment, depending on what class you are changes how easily you can flow through this. My Pally and DK treated it like a cake walk even though I don't have as good a gear on them as my Hunter (as a Pally you can Word of Glory your way through it and as a blood DK you can self heal while dpsing). The other tricky part to doing this over and over is burning down the Captain. One of his adds is a Warden which has priest style heals and the Captain is a Pally himself. I had to CC the Warden pretty hard all while trying to burn the Captain without agro'ing him to much (trickier than it sounds even at 80). On my 3rd attempt after 1 fail and 1 success (the fail occurred because I tried to straight burn the Captain without CC'ing the Warden) I tried killing the Warden so I wouldn't have to CC him. This made killing the Captain a piece of cake but then Thrall was able to kill off the other add mob (a Veteran i think) which ends this part of the instance. Overall, it is doable but would be easier with two people or on Normal. Of course on Normal you wouldn't be getting as much rep so on Normal it might be worth it to just grind as a regular rep grind (by which I mean full clear, exit, rinse repeat). The whole point of this little scheme of mine was to grab extra rep from Heroic mode which you can't reset. Good luck to any who try this (I know crazy rep grinders are few and far between) and I definitely recommend grabbing a buddy who needs Keeper of Time rep as well because the frustration of doing this right is not worth the extra rep. With one extra set of hands working toward the same goal it should be a cake walk.

Comment by HyGamma88

I believe this is how it goes:
Old Hillsbrad for the Quest Chain to unlock The Black Morass-Part 1 talk to Andormu in OHB for quest. Do Erozion's quest provided by Andormu. Start Raid. Then Help Thrall escape from Durnhold Keep at about halfway (Quest), then Return to Andormu. Once Raid is over head to the The Black Morass after speaking to Andormu for quest. Inside the Black Morass talk to Sa'at for quests, then head to blasted lands. Open the Dark Portal then return to Andormu.

Comment by mrgamer

Seems to me that LFD tool makes you zone in there, but if you don't do the "Talking quest" (The Caverns of Time), you can't trigger Thrall, so CAN'T complete the instance!

Bad stuff indeed! :-(

Comment by Leriss

Confirmed, if you don't have the Q you can't complete the instance via Dungeon Finder.

Comment by idrith

This, along with the Culling of Stratholme and the Black Morass, is one of the only zones in the game where worgen players keep their human form in fight. Worgen players (DK excepted) will also have some trouble to follow Thrall if they don't have a mount, Running Wild does not work here.

Comment by Merylyan

We'll miss you Southshore... *sniff*

Comment by DragonKira

Has ANYONE ... EVER listened to the music?
This is on!

Comment by Obolon

If you don't know how to do this dungeon just follow the second post in this thread. Then just solo it at level 85. Ignore everything about being cautious. Burn it. On heroic.

Comment by Ring0

Seems you are now able to get this instance without completing the annoying "Follow me around while I spew out lore for 20 minutes" quest.

Comment by Mikksmix

I decided to solo this as a prot pally to get from 60% at lvl 69 to 70. I didn't know if I could, but it was definitely a worthy challenge as the mobs are 66+. Everything is easy until the very end where you must fight the three packs prior to engaging Epoch Hunter.

Regarding the Three Packs:

Make sure you always silence the caster to force him to engage or use line of sight to your advantage. Always make sure to use Divine Protection when it's up and Ardent Defender if you need it. The trick is to make sure you always overheal using your . This means you should use Flash of Light to top yourself off prior to using WoG. Using this strategy, you can absorb large amounts of damage that make single target boss fights a joke, including Epoch Hunter. I also used and , which helped out considerably. Had to Divine Shield once during my successful attempt. Always focus one target down quickly during the three packs or you'll be overwhelmed. You can even try letting Thrall tank one of them for the third wave, but it's dangerous. I failed two attempts due to the fact that he died.

I'm not decked out in any special gear, so I'm sure it's possible for most lvl 69 prot pallies to solo this instance as well. Please let me know. It was a load of fun and it was very profitable. Good luck to others that attempt to solo at a low level. =)

Items to bring along:

1. Lesser Ward of Shielding <-- Will save you during the three packs if you put it on in between the fights.
2. Lesser Rune of Warding <-- Only need one for the entire run. It's pretty useful.
3. Super Healing Potion and Super Mana Potion <-- Just in case. I think I might've had to pop a mana potion at one point.

Comment by Tripster

Strangely enough, my draenie dk turned human upon entering old hillsbrad. I assume this was supposed to happen?

Comment by Iosephus

I haven't seen it listed here before, but for those (like me) who are perpetually confused about which entrance is which inside the central area - Old Hillsbrad Foothills is the light pink entrance.

Also, Anachronos (dragon on central platform) is facing the direction you wish to go.

GL

Comment by Shadowlocks

I'm not sure if the heroic version is bugged or not, but i was going solo as a lvl 85 destro lock. I have some trouble with my FPS from time to time and lag. When my FPS corrected, I had died and Epoch was stuck at 1hp and was wailing on Thrall. When Thrall got down to 1hp, they stayed locked in a unending fight till Thrall finally died. My dots were still active on Epoch so he should have died instead of staying at 1hp. When I released and tried to go back in, I got a msg saying that I was unable to zone in while an encounter was in progress. Anyone else experience this?

Comment by Mydge

Did a solo (85) rep run.

Kind of a pain because of how spread the mobs are. Otherwise pretty basic burn down.

When doing the Thrall escape section, I left him with one mob to kill while I looted all the others. This prevented him from getting himself into trouble while I was stuck looting.

Comment by zoebeagle

A full clear of Old Hillsbrad Foothills (non-human and all guild perks) earned me a total of 2429 Keepers of Time rep.

Comment by Ventas

On youtube you have a short video, which can be regarded as an intro to the instance ;) "Lore of WoW: Thrall in Durnholde Keep"

Comment by Coridius

Definitely

The BEST instance in the game

My favorite, anyways (:

Comment by pseup

Since the removal of the need to complete the quest chain to enter the CoT instances you only need to be 63 to zone in here.

Comment by SmashedBadgers

It is entirely possible that this is just me, my computer or my install, but since Cataclysm, when I come here
there is no water in the sea.

There are boats floating in the air, complete with fish swimming through nothing at all. Kinda creepy when you get there and see the underwater mountain range stretching into nothing.

Hopefully screenshots incoming, pending approval.

Comment by Adamsm

So, with the release of End of Time, it's finally obvious why the Infinite Flight was trying to stop Thrall from every escaping from Durnholde: Since Thrall is a part of the group that goes into the Future to kill Murozond to open up the pathways to the Past(its time travel, don't think to hard), we can definitely tell why they wanted the future world shaman dead before he gains his power.

Comment by whitedragon254

As of Patch 4.3, All Outland dungeons and Northrend dungeons will recognize Home Faction tabards added in Cataclysm. (Such as the Gilneas Tabard.)

Outland dungeons will continue to give the rep they gave before 4.3 in addition to whatever faction tabard you're wearing.

(An alliance character wearing a Gilneas Tabard in Hellfire Ramparts will receive 15 Gilneas faction rep per kill, and still receive the normal 5 honor hold rep per kill as well.)

Comment by BloodExe

Tourists Guide to Old Hillsbrad Foothills

List of NPCs
- All of these NPCs are changed later in the game.

Kel Thuzad
Tirion Fordring
Zixil
Phin Odelic
Frances Lin
Chef Jessen
Barkeep Kelly
Nat Pagle
Hal McAllister
Young Blanchy - This one is Located inside Tarren Mill's barn.
Stalvan Mistmantle
Captain Sanders

Scarlet Crusade NPCs

Sally Whitemane - High Inquisitor Whitemane
Herod the Bully
Renault Mogrine - Scarlet Commander Mograine
Little Jimmy Vishas - Interrogator Vishas
Abbendis - Lynnia Abbendis
Isillien - Grand Inquisitor Isillien

Events
- All of these events hold some sort of significance later in the game.

The Inception of The Ashbringer - Southshore Inn
Nat Pagle Talking about Ice Cream
Captured Critter
Reanimated Critter

Captured Critter

Sally Whitemane says: My champion, destroy this monster!

Renault Mograine says: The infidel shall be purified, milady!

Renault Mograine says: ARGH! It has struck a fatal blow! I have failed you...

*Renault Mograine staggers about as if he were mortally wounded.*

Sally Whitemane says: Mograine has fallen! You shall pay for this treachury! Arise, my champion! Arise!

*Sally Whitemane pretends to cast a healing spell on Renault.*

Renault Mograine says: At your side, milady!

Sally Whitemane says: We will attack as one!

*the captured critter dies*

*The children cheer.*

Sally Whitemane says: We are victorious!

Reanimated Critter

Minutes later Kel'Thuzad is talking with Helcular in the same area...
he shows Helcular the power of necromancy.
Kel'Thuzad revives the critter...
and then he says: "I control Life."

Kel'Thuzad kills the critter again and says:

"And death."

This post will be updated on an as-needed basis.

Comment by bravosierra630

Soloed last night as a 70 prot pally (since no one wants to do anything besides 4.3 Dungeons and i really want T6 gear). Nothing too special for gear: 2 epic 2.4 badge pieces, 4 Cobalt pieces, half/half blues/greens, seal of insight and Blessing of might (until third wave of Dragonkin), 12K armor, 12K health unbuffed, buffed Thrall with Kings for the extra health.

I had no problems with the instance until the infinite dragon flight. First two waves are no problem:

First wave: standing next to Thrall, target the middle dragonkin while Epoch is talking. When they attack hit him with an avenger shield to interrupt the spell casting forcing him to come attack in melee range, pop Consecration, stack divine protection and holy shield, pop holy wrath, and spam HoTR/Judgement/holy wrath off cooldown. Should burn the first three pretty easily. Use holy power on WoG and flash of light as necessary.

Second wave: re-apply divine protection and holy shield if off cool down, wait for the two melee dragonkin to reach you so that Thrall engages, then run straight for the caster and use Hammer of Justice to interrupt, Judgement, then the cycle described above to burn the second wave.

Here is where I failed several times either I died of thrall dies. On my successful attempt:

Third wave: Thrall runs back to the middle of Tarren Mill and the dragonkin attack him. Use this time to replenish your health/mana, re-apply Seal of Insight and switch to Kings (from Might). When Thrall is down to a couple Thousand health, cast Hand of Protection, stack divine protection and holy shield, run through the melee dragonkin and cast holy wrath and head straight for the caster, stun him, and burn down ASAP using the first wave strategy. Be ready to Ardent Defender and Flash of Light/WoG when needed. If you can do it without using your Bubble, it will be a big help with the Epoch Hunter.

Switch back to Might for the Mp5. If possible, let Thrall tank the Epoch and heal him as long as possible. When you can't keep up the heals, spam all your spells for the burst damage and threat, apply shields as described above, and bubble/ardent defend when needed, over heal as much as possible with Flash/Holy light... divine light if down to 3K health and can't bubble/ardent defend.

I know this is too long and no one will read it, or will down rate because I'm detailing a BC dungeon the morning after 4.3 releases but This is relevant to my level and my goals (getting T6 gear).

Comment by Lazurianis

As a side note as of Patch 4.3 we got new Rare Spawns that match some of the ones in Hillsbrad which include:

Optimistic Benj and Little Samras. Optimistic Benj resides on his rocky home the south of the River (Level 26 Rare) and Little Samras resides on the hilltop where he would normally spawn in Hillsbrad (Level 26 Rare) they are both Friendly however I was on my Paladin at the time so I could not beast lore them. Optimistic Benj is of a Orange Turtle Color and Little Samras is of a BearCubDefault Skin. I do hope Blizzard changes this to make them Neutral at the very least so we Hunters can tame them.

Comment by Astralon

Small detail:
If you enter during the Winter Veil there will be christmas trees in various places throughout the instance.

NPCs need to feel xmas joy too.

Comment by Poppanizdik

Soloed today on my 70 B.E. Pally Tank. Dealt extreme damage on mobs rarely healing making the run go smooth. Can be done with a little twinkness. My Stamina 21k. Did full run quicker than I've seen some groups. Still waited on Thrall overtanking him even though he had my back, so you could call it a duo if you want. Only had to fully heal back up once on Epoch Hunter. No deaths. I just did it for the self challenge. On normal.

Comment by rawryer

Did this several times on my alt. If you want to get the thrall quest completed in 1 run I suggest you run downstairs and talk to thrall when your group is fighting the 4 mobs. People are stomping this instance and you don't want to see him on the loose before you get the chance to talk to him.

Comment by Elladaow

Don't know if this has been mentioned but here goes:
After you rescue thrall and kill the captain DO NOT leave thrall by himself ... as the neutral patrols along the road will aggro to him and start attacking.

Edit** i have no idea why this has been downvoted, as the information here is true...

Comment by IdonaeofKilrogg

I have just ran through Old Hillsbrad Foothills/Durnholde Keep and wanted to mention, not only did I not have this achieve ( :[[ haha), I was able to collect 20 bolts of Netherweave cloth. This seems to be quite the efficient way of not only gaining rep with the Keepers of Time but collecting said material as well. I looted about 90% of mobs, running it as an 85 Belf Lock solo, quite easy and fast too!

I hope this has helped anyone out there who may be looking for a quicker way to get the cloth and rep! Kills two birds with one stone!

Cheers!

Idonae <3

Comment by Ellinna

If you're here for Don Carlos, he is only available on Heroic difficulty BEFORE the last boss is defeated.

Normal:

I did this dungeon on my Priest at 64 & 66. I was unable to accept the quests at 64, so I queued again and was able to receive the quests at 66. I am unsure if you're able to accept them at 65 as I did not go in there at that level.

When you enter, you are able to mount and at the end of the cave there will be a Blood Elf and a bronze dragon. You can either ride the dragon or mount up and run to the first pull. (I believe either takes the same amount of time.) In order to ride the dragon, you must have a set of bombs on you. This is automatically given to you from accepting the quest from the Blood Elf, or you can speak with the Elf to receive another set of bombs to enable you to ride the drake.

Once taking the drake, you will then proceed to kill trash where the Orcs are down below. In each building there is a crate where you will place the bombs. Once all five are lit, the buildings will set ablaze and the first boss will come out and down the stairs, or around (75.2, 65.8). Lieutenant Drake does a whirlwind to members in melee range. Easily avoidable, but also easy to heal through.

Once you defeat him, go up the stairs into the tower which imprisons Thrall in the basement. Note: If anyone is doing the quest, allow them to speak with Thrall first to turn in their quest! Once you set Thrall free, follow him and the second boss will appear outside of the Keep. Captain Skarloc has two adds with him. He will cast a heal onto himself and his adds once they begin to get low on health. He also stuns whomever is highest threat.

Speak with Thrall once he is defeated, and be sure to FOLLOW Thrall, in case any adds are walking among the path. They will defeat Thrall. Once Thrall scares off his horse, speak with him again. Four adds spawn outside of the barn. Once they're defeated, go into the town and on the stairs of the chapel, four adds will spawn. Defeat them then head into the upstairs portion of the house. Four adds will spawn there. Once they're defeated, speak with Taretha. Outside there will be three groups that will spawn in three different locations. Each group will have ~1 caster, the rest melee. Once those three groups are defeated, the final boss will come down from the sky.

Epoch Hunter does a spell in front of him that seemingly only affects whomever he's targeted (highest threat). He will also do a knockback. A buff he gets will remove and magic buff party members may have with each it. This can be dispelled off of the boss.

Once he is defeated, wait a few moments for your quest to be completed and you will be able to turn in your quest to the Blood Elf in the town.

Comment by itsjustnesS

If anyone loses Thrall during this, try looking for him at 52,41.

at some point in the road, after you cross a bridge (there should be a rare turtle to your left, friendly), Thrall will step off the road and go along the river up to Tarren Mill, and stop behind the hill that's next to the farm, so that he can infiltrate the city without being found out.

You'll have to speak to him again there before you proceed.

Hope this helps and solves the problem of " where did Thrall go? I lost him!" =)

Comment by warconz

Still to this day, one of the most amazing dungeons that blizzard ever made. I'm saddened we don't get to see much stuff like this in these days.

Comment by worthit

Just a little info...

Normal

You can enter this dungeon on foot at lvl 63.

You can queue this dungeon as specific dungeon lvl 64-73 as "The Escape From Durnholde".

In the specific dungeon finder, this dungeon is orange difficulty lvl 64, yellow difficulty lvl 65-69 and green difficulty lvl 70-73.

You can queue this dungeon as random dungeon lvl 66-67.

You have to be lvl 66 to obtain the quests.

Heroic

You can enter this dungeon on foot at lvl 70.

You can queue this dungeon as specific dungeon lvl 70-75.

In the specific dungeon finder, this dungeon is yellow difficulty lvl 70-72 and green difficulty lvl 73-75.

You can not queue this dungeon as random dungeon.

See more in this guide.

Comment by Merkilan

I made a guide to help direct new players to the dungeons and clear up a little misinformation. The level to enter heroic BC dungeons on foot is the same as to enter them in normal mode.

TBC Dungeon Guide

Comment by Random0225

A conversation between Commander Mograine, Fairbanks, Arcanist Doan, Isillien, Tirion Fordring and Abbendis in Southshore inn.

Commander Mograine says: Keep your voices down. There are strangers about...
Commander Mograine says: Brothers and sisters, I have called you here today to discuss the fate of Lordaeron.
Commander Mograine lowers his voice to a whisper.
Commander Mograine says: I hear things... Things that should not be.
Commander Mograine says: The dead rise... Undead, from the frozen northlands. Whole Cities have gone missing. I...
Commander Mograine says: I have heard that Northerend is lost...
Gasps can be heard throughout the room.
Commander Mograine says: We must stand at the ready. I have faced undead before. They are ruthless killing machines, devoid of any emotion or compassion.
Tirion Fordring nods.
Tirion Fordring says: Aye, I've battled them as well. We are ill-prepared as a kingdom to withstand such an assault.
Arcanist Doan says: What do you propose, Mograine?
Commander Mograine says: Propose? I propose that we prepare. That we prepare our loved ones, family and friends for the possibility of an undead holocaust.
Commander Mograine says: And there is this...
Commander Mograine unlocks the chest.
Abbendis says: By the light! What is it?
Commander Mograine says: I have had this object in my possession for 10 years. Since Blackrock Spire...
Commander Mograine says: I wrested it free from the remains of an orc lieutenant - a dark caster... It is from their homeworld.
Commander Mograine says: Do not get too close. I laid a hand upon it once... Only once and never again. The memories of that day still linger.
Commander Mograine removes the gauntlet from his right arm and shows everyone his mangled hand.
Commander Mograine says: I surmide that this object is the living embodiment of shadows... darkness... It is a manifestation. It is a void.
Isillien says: I do not see how evil artifact is relevant to the undead. We must destroy it!
Commander Mograine shakes his head.
Commander Mograine says: No, old friend, it is very relevant.
Comamnder Mograine says: Let me ask you this, brothers and sisters: Can good exist without evil? Can there be light without dark?
Commander Mograine says: And if that answer is no, then could it be possible that because this artifact exists, its polar opposite must also exist?
Commander Mograine says: Could you imagine what the material manifestation of the Light could do against the undead?
Isillien says: Nonsense, Mograine! It must be destroyed!
Shock then silence overtakes the crowd.
Commander Mograine says: It consumed the light!
Tirion Fordring says: Impossible!
Fairbanks says: Is... Is it getting lighter? Its coloration... It is changing.
Commander Mograine says: BY THE LIGHT! Could it be? Could this be it?
Commander Mograine says: I must know... I will know...
Commander Mograine reaches out to touch the light crystal.
Commander Mograine says: I... It... It is beautiful. What I felt when I touched it... The light coursed through me and I through it... It healed my spirit.
Isillien says: Your hand! It is healed!
Commander Mograine puts the crystal back inside the chest.
Commander Mograine says: Let us never speak of this day. Our enemies are many. They need not know we hold such artifacts.
Commander Mograine says: I have seen it... From this blessed crystal we will forge a weapon. This weapon will hold inside it a piece each of us... And when it is used against undead, it shall cast them down. And in its wake, it will leave only ashes...
Tirion Fordring says: The Ashbringer...
Isillien says: The Ashbringer...
Abbendis says: The Ashbringer...
Fairbanks says: The Ashbringer...
Arcanist Doan says: The Ashbringer...

Edit: spelling

Comment by Ikshuki1

Normal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhYBo6slcIg&list=PLDidDgmCn2MLP8zL7hZ4hNDzlhSrg4sx9&index=85

Heroic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIvB7cBaYfo&list=PLDidDgmCn2MLP8zL7hZ4hNDzlhSrg4sx9&index=86

Comment by Koalbree

OK this dungeon can be Farmed for REP with Keepers of Time. On Heroic once you get Thrall to Tarren Mill and clean out all the adds, when the boss Dragon attacks let him kill Thrall, then go back upstairs in the inn and start the fight over again and again as often as you want. within 3 to 5 minutes you can get about 160 rep (for Non-Humans, Humans get about 180) for killing the 10 dragon adds and can skin them for Knothide leather. and get a fair amount of cheap loot from them:)

Comment by rawwralicious

I would like to say that right now I am doing this instance and I am a dwarf. I have never seen this happen until this patch.

Comment by lycanhero7

As of pre-patch you now change in a Human,Dwarf or Gnome when in this instance.

Comment by Jojoyogn

If you are like me and are looking for the entrance to the dungeon, its not actually called "Old Hillsbrad" But Escape From Durnholde, you can easily find it on the map in the caverns of time.
Hope it help!

Comment by ItalianGoat

Anyone know how to change their appearance between Gnome/Dwarf/Human? I hate gnomes and dwarves..

Edit: Why was this down-voted? ;-; It was a general question :c

Comment by GamingTV

Complete Playthrough in 1080p HD (Normal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhYBo6slcIg
Complete Playthrough in 1080p HD (Heroic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIvB7cBaYfo

Comment by Elithe

Their levels vary. I saw 16 lvl one as well as 49 one.
There is a dialogue between the citizens:

Hillsbrad Citizen says: These damned taxes are breaking my back. King Terenas must be losing his grip if he thinks all this reconstruction will boost the economy.
Hillsbrad Citizen says: He hasn't been the same since the War. It's like he aged and became an old man overnight. That son of his, though – he'll make a fine king one day.
Hillsbrad Citizen says: Prince Arthas? Please. Spends all his time chasing after Proudmoore's daughter, from what I hear. Boy's got more on his mind than affairs of state, I tell ya.
Hillsbrad Citizen says: I'm not so sure. I've heard that he's being trained as a paladin. Terenas hopes the Silver Hand can teach him some discipline. If anyone can set Arthas straight, it'd be old Uther.
Hillsbrad Citizen says: Aye, that's true. Uther – now there's a real hero for the people.

Comment by Goodwinn

The MapID of Old Hillsbrad Foothills is 734. This is used for any WoW API function that requires a MapID.

For example, to set your current map to Old Hillsbrad Foothills you can type:

/run SetMapByID(734)

Comment by GitGudGuides

Old Hillsbrad Foothills Entrance: http://youtu.be/YK81LDGmCR4

Comment by Zidane3838

/way Tanaris 26.90 37.03 Old Hillsbrad Foothills Entrance

Comment by taifeng

If you ever lose Thrall on your way to Tarren Mill, he is waiting for you on the southeastern side of Tarren Mill at a hill (east of the barn there). Coordinates are 52.7 41.2

Comment by WoWGnGP

Old Hillsbrad Foothills Entrance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DhVLm-rBWA&feature=youtu.be

Comment by baneofturbulence

I'm surprised no one has commented on this yet but if you have your music turned on you can hear the music from the Orc Bonus Campaign from Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Just the little things...

Comment by Cr00xY

Aside from lore stuff, killing of course, or maybe even fishing - what could be useful to anyone in here is to get a bunch of shirts (really extremely cheap ones, can't really be any cheaper :p) from a patrolling NPC in here
Thomas Yance

Comment by delilama

For transmoggers / completionists, here is the approximate time to run from zone-in to last boss kill:

11mins 30 seconds to 12mins 30 seconds

this includes RP and flying from beginning to the hold.

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Old Hillsbrad Foothills

Caverns of TimeOld Hillsbrad FoothillsLieutenant DrakeCaptain SkarlocEpoch HunterThe Black MorassHyjal SummitStratholme PastTanarisCaverns of TimeOld Hillsbrad FoothillsThrall

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Lieutenant Drake – Lieutenant Drake was an ambitious military man, with his eyes set upon the glory of command during the Second War. His ambition was only matched by his hatred for the green-skinned orcs who had slain so many of his companions, a hatred which took form in his cruel treatment of the prisoners in the internment camps of Durnholde Keep.
Captain Skarloc – Fiercely loyal to Aedelas Blackmoore, Captain Skarloc rose through the ranks of the Durnholde military alongside his friend Aliden Perenolde. When Aliden decided to take up operations in the Alterac Mountains, Skarloc stayed with his Lord and mentor. He became Aedelas's most trusted comrade and advisor, earning the title "Blackmoore's Spear."
Epoch Hunter – The mysteriously-named Epoch Hunter is an assassin from the infinite dragonflight sent to alter the course of history by killing Thrall before he can escape from Durnholde. The shadowy drake has slain countless beings in service of his cause, but this will be his most important kill. He will summon every ounce of his strength, power, subtlety, and cunning to bring about the end of this timeline.

Old Hillsbrad Foothills

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