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Comment by redandgray

Entrance to The Underhalls at 33,32

Comment by Nightseer

Finding Apprentice Osterkilgr:

Once you enter head straight forward till you see stairs on your right side.
Go down the stairs, turn left and go to the bottom of the staircase.
Look to your left (under the stairs) and you should see Apprentice Osterkilgr.

To complete the quest just beat him down to around 40%, then he'll give you the information needed, and you can simply kill him.
He will drop Dr. Terrible's "Building a Better Flesh Giant", which starts the quest The Sum is Greater than the Parts, which you should do before leaving The Underhalls.

Comment by ezesion

While here, be sure to pick up Revenge for the Vargul, at the upper north east wing.

Comment by Sarijy

I believe this could be a reference to the amazingly well done one hit wonder web show Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog.
The book he drops seems on par with Dr. Horrible's style of humor.

Comment by Toretty

My quest didnt work the first time i tried, before i walked into where he walks. If you kill him on too long distance, he might not tell u the information at 40 %.

Comment by geordiesi

I engaged him and he died easily, so I waited and the same happened again but it said complete on both accounts

Comment by largemanBB

Valhallas, the area where this quest takes place, is the area of the after life in norse mythology.

Thus having this the vyrkul undead area is pretty reasonable. Good job blizz.

Comment by Rawkster

Here is the sequence of quests that lead to the Final Challenge.
(A for Alliance, H for Horde)

1A It's All Fun and Games
1H It's All Fun and Games
2 I Have an Idea, But First...
3 Free Your Mind
4A If He Cannot Be Turned
4H If He Cannot Be Turned
5A The Shadow Vault
5H The Shadow Vault
6 The Duke
7 Eliminate the Competition
8 The Bone Witch
9 Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls
NOTE: You do not need to complete step 9, but you must be on the quest in order to loot Dr. Terrible's "Building a Better Flesh Giant", which starts step 10. I never handed in step 9, even after the Final Challenge, just to be sure.
10 The Sum is Greater than the Parts
11 The Art of Being a Water Terror
12 Through the Eye
13 Find the Ancient Hero
14 Not-So-Honorable Combat
15 Banshee's Revenge
16 Battle at Valhalas
17 Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes
18 Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master
19 Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn
20 Battle at Valhalas: Carnage!
21 Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow
22 Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge

Enjoy! :D

Comment by Blackboy0

He's a very stupid Undead... He tries to hide Nergeld from you, when he shouts it out that he's hiding it xD

Apprentice Osterkilgr says: You've come for the doctor's plans! You'll only find death!
Apprentice Osterkilgr says: The doctor entrusted me with the plans to Nergeld! I will not fail!
Objective #1 completed

Comment by RetributionHamma

Rogues can just gouge him at around 40% of his hp. It turns off your auto attack until you use an offensive ability on him. This may or may not be helpful to some people having trouble getting the info due to killing him too fast.

Comment by kakaruote

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Comment by alec5014

i have killed him the first time, my thorns killed him from auto damage, i waited 2 minutes the second time he said one thing, im gonna try again but this is frustrating.

Edit: 3rd time still said 1 thing

Comment by TimeTrap

Thank you so much, So many people post coords, but that does nothing for people without addons.

Comment by jxnboy007

These co-ords are right but for those not using them, you're looking for a cave entrance that is in the area Valhalas. The name "The Under Halls" didn't even show up until I was practically inside the entrance. On your map you can see the cave entrance located in NE Jotunheim and it's the first cave entrance SW of The Shadow Vault. Good Luck.

Comment by Mosher94

Valhallas, the area where this quest takes place, is the area of the after life in norse mythology.

Thus having this the vyrkul undead area is pretty reasonable. Good job blizz.
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Actually, Valhalla is the area for afterlife in VIKING mythology (including Norse) And it is a place of endless battles for the dead Viking warriors

Comment by Whiterock

SHADOW VAULT Quest Tree From Whiterock
Give + to 12/09/2008 Rawkster aswell.

1)It's All Fun and Games {H}
1)I Have an Idea, But First...
1)Free Your Mind
1)If He Cannot Be Turned {H}
|->Blackwatch*
|
Orgrim's Hammer(H)* 1)The Shadow Vault {H} The Skybreaker(A)*
| / | \ |
Opportunity(H)* | Exploiting an Opening(A)*
1)The Duke
| |
2)Eliminate the Competition 2)Honor Challenge---->2)Get the Key
3)The Bone Witch 2)Shadow Vault Decree 2)Let the Baron Know
|->3)Reading the Bones |____________________/
| R)Reading the Bones |->3)Vandalizing Jotunheim
| |->D)Leave Our Mark
|->4)Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls |->3)Crush Dem Vrykuls!
| | D)Vile Like Fire!
|->4)Revenge for the Vargul |
| N)Vaelen Has Returned
4)The Sum is Greater than the Parts 3)Ebon Blade Prisoners
| |->D)Shoot 'Em Up
3)The Art of Being a Water Terror |
| N)To the Rise with all Due Haste!
3)Through the Eye 6)The Story Thus Far...
| |->D)From Their Corpses, Rise!
3)Find the Ancient Hero |->7)Blood in the Water
| | 7)You'll Need a Gryphon
3)Not-So-Honorable Combat | D)No Fly Zone
| |->D)Intelligence Gathering
3)Banshee's Revenge +7)The Grand (Admiral's) Plan
| 7)In Strict Confidence
5)Battle at Valhalas 7)Second Chances
5)Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes 7)The Admiral Revealed
5)Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master
5)Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn
5)Battle at Valhalas: Carnage!
5)Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow
5)Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge
Quest zones:
1)Shadow Vault_____2)Savage Ledge_____3)Jotunheim_____4)The Underhalls_____5)Valhalas_____6)Death's Rise_____7)Onslaught Harbor
D)Daily_____N)Not-needed_____R)Repeatable
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.

Comment by sundboom

lol i killed him before he told me the information but i still got the quest done :P

Comment by MichaelCMiller

you should also list the Quest ... u]Revenge for the Vargul
It is a Quest to your Left opposite from the Staircase that you have to go down to do Deep in the Bowels of the Underhalls ,,,
Bethod Feigr ,,, is the Quest Giver ,,, he is a Big Ugly decayed VARGUL...
He gives you the Quest
Revenge for the Vargul

Comment by MichaelCMiller

Comment by Elien

Dr.Terrible 35.33

Comment by tripleaf19

i don't have coords and cant for the life of me find the enterance please help what does it look like?

Comment by MsPhelix

It's not a a cave; it is a building set into the mountains; it faces the pit in Valhalas on the side of the pit that does not have the Dragon Head Poles. I have submitted a screenshot which should be available by 4/29/12.

Comment by Blissa

Be careful not to kill him too quickly. My ret pally demolished him and I didn't get the "beat the info out of him" part of the quest, so I had to kill him twice. Lucky he respawns fast.

Comment by Gryms

As a 90 hunter, even having a belt on will make you one shot this guy. I took off all my gear and punched him, making sure to hit esc to stop auto attack.

When WoD hits, no idea how to do this at level 100 :s

Comment by Tantrevalles

Post-WoD patch, here's another "beat him up" quest where, if you're a 90, you'll need to suicide and take the Resurrectio Sickness before you'll be in a position to hit him without 1-shotting the guy.

Comment by ealdrich

As a level 90 warrior avoiding killing him by doing anything was difficult.

I ended up using a G91 landshark that drops from the Blingtron 4000 and one mass spell reflection on one of his fireballs. That left him barely alive, but that got me the beat him up part.

But I'm sure some of the lower level engineering bombs usable by everyone could be useful here.

Comment by Meifumado

Ran into the same problem as a lot of players below. (while trying to earn exalted status with Ebon Blade for those sweet sweet Death Knight garrison guards)

Tried res sickness. Red Rider Air Rifle. What finally worked was Misty Pi'jiu Brew Misty Pi'jiu Brew

Just let the panda run up and punch Apprentice Osterkilgr a few times, he will talk.

Comment by Dedmeett

I figured I'd finally get around to finishing northrend loremaster, smooth until this quest.
So, as a 100 you are ridiculously over-powered for this quest(hit/don't kill) this is how I did it-

Strip all your gear, die, rez at graveyard to take rez sickness, run to him and melee attack.
4 hits would have killed him, for me anyways, stopped at 3 and mission complete.
You're still pretty overpowered, as 100 with all your gear on, to continue questing without rez sickness affecting you too much. FYI

Comment by Jogama

Death knights can use control undead on one of the npcs nearby to get the info before killing him.

Comment by Magirock468

In order to beat the information out of him as a level 100 character you have to strip naked and suicide, then talk to the spirit healer so you can get the resurrection debuff. After that you can easily beat up Apprentice Osterkilgr to obtain the information the quest asks for.

Comment by Magirock468

In order to beat the information out of him as a level 100 character you have to strip naked and suicide, then talk to the spirit healer so you can get the resurrection sickness debuff. After that you can easily beat up Apprentice Osterkilgr to obtain the information.

Comment by GitGudGuides

Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls http://youtu.be/bak6KZoPa6U

Comment by Bannar

For any 90+, you can get this quest before finishing Ebon Blade Prisoners. By doing this, you can actually use freed ebon blade deathknights to wound the Apprentice Osterkilgr and get your quest completed without dying and resurrecting with sickness.

Comment by defqinait

As a ret pally, you don't need to ress with sickness, simply unequip all your gear and agro 2 mobs (one at a time) and melee hit one of them using seal of righteousness, the AoE provided by the seal twice will do enough damage to bring Osterkilgr's health down without killing him ;)

Comment by Boxofbeer

Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ2e8JvABGM

Comment by plantemarc

i try to remove all my gear and fight with my fist but he still dying after one hit so my solution was g91 landshark worked on the first try

Comment by sarahhh

Very easy to do as a level 100 Hunter. Taking off gear and auto-attack will kill him. Instead, just take Glyph of Mirrored Blades and when his cast on the first Fireball is about to end use Deterrence. He will immediately cast Fireball again, allowing you to reflect 2 with one charge. Each Fireball will hit him for 18% of his max HP. He will continue to cast Fireball, draining his mana, while Deterrence is on CD. Just interrupt, silence, stun him to keep him from going OOM. Ez.

Comment by kazana2

A tip for DKs trying to do Loremaster: you can Control Undead one of these guys Valhalas Vargul ( I actually dont know if there are other undead NPC around this is just the first i found) turn off his cleave auto cast and send it to slowly damage and kill the Apprentice Osterkilgr. It will be taking damage so be prepared to heal it with Death Coil - you can get Runic power by simple standing a bit away from the NPCs and spaming Blood Boil, Death and Decay, etc. No need to take off any gear - did it with 737ilvl . GL

Comment by blueclawMD

For those lvl 100 Druids out there, if you do this after the prisoner quest, you can kill yourself, get rez sickness and slowly damage him down with hurricane. let it proc once or twice and escape until you get the credit, then just kill.

Comment by Willemsii

For people who tries this quest on a level 100-toon. Here is what you need to do when you don't want to kill it in 1 hit.

1. Undress yourself from all your items.
2. Go to the entrance of the halls.
3. Mount up and fly up.
4. Dismount and kill yourself.
5. Get the ressurection debuff.
6. Go back to the entrance and fight against Apprentice Osterkilgr, kill him until aprox. 40% health.
7. When you have the information, kill him!

I hope this will help!

Comment by Ch1llp1llz

If you are hunter 90+ use Snake Trap Glyph!
I hope this will help you.

Comment by allOf

Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls https://youtu.be/2LlfugYATh8

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndz7Rey-skY&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Magirock468

Since the Legion pre-expansion patch you can just buy a Soft Foam Sword from Jepetto Joybuzz to easily complete this quest, without performing any frustrating workaround.

Comment by Carmada

As a level 110 naked with res sickness my punch was still killing him immediately. As a holy paladin I put down consecration and one tick of damage took him to about 40% health which instantly triggered the quest completion. So perhaps try some sort of weak DoT or AoE if you have one...

Comment by kimberelyfrost

I got naked on my Level 92 Resto Paladin, and after trying lots of things, including my fishing pole. I used a G91 Landshark, and it brought him down to the 40% needed immediately! Yeah!

Comment by glortook

As a 110 warrior I found that if I just use spell reflect, it got me credit for "beating him" after two of his own fireblasts.

Comment by CypherKick

As a 110 monk Soft Foam Sword helped me without a problem.

Comment by Zaekrael

If you're too high level to get the 'beat him down' part and you are also on the quest "Ebon Blade Prisoners", you can just let one of them beat the apprentice down to get credit once you aggro him.

Comment by THER0CK

As Druid go in Guardian Spec and use Talent Brambles. Let him hit you in your back (he will rarely hit you).

Comment by ShinJidaiNoKami

There is a way for high level Paladins to do it and its the following.

-Remove your artifact weapon
-Remove any Buffs you have
- Go Retri and Spec "Holy Wrath" Talent
-Jump off the staircase to get some damage (just a bit is enough)
-Buff yourself with Wisdom

You will slowly start gaining hp. Once you are only missing ~20k HP cancel wisdom and use Holy Wrath.
It will deal double damage of the Hp you are missing so it will deal a max of 40k.

Enjoy quest completion :)

Comment by NcJackson

This is very hard to complete on a high level as any damage (even naked punches) are enough to kill Apprentice Osterkilgr. As a level 110 Paladin I tried everything, but even with res sickness, knock on damage and being in holy spec - nothing prevailed!

Soft Foam Sword unfortunately no longer works either.

I luckily found another player on that quest (opposing faction and low level). I took aggro using Hand of Reckoning and let the lower level character beat him down to 40% - taking aggro when I could pop the spell. As he reached 40% the quest completed. Done!

Pop a message in general, award a little gold for that players time - my friend easily got her kill this way.

Comment by Furipuri

I did it on 110 after the BFA Pre-Patch (8.0.1) with the heirloom trinket "touch of the void" (Touch of the Void&bonus=0). You need to equip the trinket, aggro the questmob and attack him with something that is doing no damage (e.g. a stun or interrupt), otherwise the Tendrils will not attack the questmob.

Comment by cryllindra

As a level 120 character progressing towards loremaster, I find engineering low damage bombs is really helpful with these kind of quests. I crafted a https://www.wowhead.com/item=86607/goblin-dragon-gun-mark-ii and while it was more time consuming, it still worked and has 50 charges which is nice.

Comment by RosTo

If you are very high level and keep one-shotting the poor guy, just use Crate of Kidnapped Puppies. This little bunch will gently beat the crap out of him.

Comment by Togarofds

As enha shaman, spec Lightning Shield and let it do the trick. I did remove all the gear just to be sure.

Comment by voredor

//I did this quest just now (18/01/2019) on my lvl 102 shadow priest. Had to beat him down carefully with my bone fishing pole and accidentally killed him more than once with my Touch of the grave since I'm undead.

Comment by prancingpwnies

As a 120 rogue, I was able to use the toy "Soft Foam Sword" and he gave me the information I needed.

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Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls

The Bone Witch in Njorndar Village has asked you to beat information out of Apprentice Osterkilgr concerning what Dr. Terrible is truly up to.

You are then to slay the apprentice.

	Information beaten out of Apprentice Osterkilgr
	Apprentice Osterkilgr slain

Description

Deep in the bowels of The Underhalls to the northeast, a mad scientist known as Dr. Terrible is up to something befitting his name.

The doctor has been given dispensation by the Lich King to perform experiments upon the vargul -- the vrykul who fall in battle and are found unworthy, and then turned into Scourge.

We must put an end to his work, but my auguries have been unable to find him. He does, however, have an assistant.

Beat the information out of his apprentice, and then dispose of the body.

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250 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

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