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Quest: Jail Break!
Attain: 54
Side: Alliance
at 80)
75 Objectives
Help Marshal Windsor get his gear back and free his friends. Return to Marshal Maxwell if you succeed.
Description
We need to get out of here, <Name>. Help me get my gear back from the supply area and free my friends. If we make it out of here, you are to proceed to Morgan's Vigil and speak with Marshal Maxwell. He will give you further instruction.
Completion
Amazing, <name>. Simply amazing. Windsor stormed through here not five minutes ago. He makes some grand claims but purports that they are supported by his evidence. He is on his way to Stormwind now to confront Bolvar and ... Lady Prestor.
Rewards
Choose one of:
Reputation
+125 reputation with Ironforge
+87 reputation with Gnomeregan Exiles
+87 reputation with Darnassus
+500 reputation with Stormwind
+125 reputation with Alliance
+125 reputation with Exodar
Additional Notes
This is the infamous escort quest that you have probably heard about at some point in guild chat or in your travels. This quest is actually extremely easy to do, provided you take the right precautions. Before ANYONE accepts the Jail Break! quest from Marshal Windsor, you must clear the path that he will be walking to retrieve his gear. There are two main areas you must clear, the first being the ring in which his cell is located, the other being the Ring of the Law. Make sure you clear out the cells along the way as well. Marshal Windsor gives off an aura that inceases attack speed, not everyone in the party will get it, it is broken so don't worry about it. Even if you clear out the path, there will still be enemies that spawn to attack you. Make sure your tanks are on their toes, you don't want Marshal Windsor dying and he is a pretty weak guy at this point in time. And no you cannot heal him during the fights, he will refill by himself after each one is over. After you are done, go back to Morgan's Vigil in the Burning Steppes and talk to Marshal Maxwell.
Reward: Item: Skilled Fighting Blade
Click here to view the quest guide by Filterspawn in detail.
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Edited, Jun 13th 2008 6:25am by AngelSwordAF
Not that it mattered...every time he spawned something, our 62 tank and 64 pally just shouted/consecrated all the mobs onto themselves, and Windsor never dropped below 90%, even nekkid.
So you don't even need to clear the Rings now. ^_^
clear all area before starting the escort, have a few health and mana potions just incase, and drink when ever you can.
Yes its possible so, good luck
57 Druid
60 Druid
57 Rogue
60 Mage
Total preclear. With the exception of the storage room. We forgot about it. Windsor got to the storage room, really quick wipe. =[
58 Mage
60 rouge
60 Warrior
54 priest.
roflmao, I was prepared for a nightmare quest but no, this is easy.
Now at the end of it all, do you understand?
Did it with:
60 Hunter
60 Priest
60 Warrior
60 Mage
60 Pala
We decided to clear the arena and the beast guy while we were clearing. The quest is quite boring
Paradise - 60 - Pet - Eyeless Boar
I got the popup and accepted and all i got was "Jail Break failed" maybe my quest log was full but the rest of the group did it and compelted it and I helped still and I am getting nothing for it. Blizzard will be @#%^ing hearing from me.
Are they masochists?
60 Warrior (who luckily brought a handful of FR gear)
60 Hunter (me...who didn't)
60 Priest
55 Priest
60 Paladin
I'm BM-specd in just my pvp blues so it was nice to be at the top of the damage meter for once, especially nearly x3 the #2. The priests cycled healing when needed and the 55 delivered a huge string of well timed mindflays to help with multiple runners. We had a couple of deaths (paly and priest who ran out of mana saving Windsor's suicidal behind) but with 3 rezzers someone always had just enough mana to get everyone up again before Windsor went out of range. None of us were epic geared and with only partial pre-clearing, respawns while we grabbed the jail key and no aoe I was a little sceptical but I can honestly say they were one of the best co-ordinated pugs I've been in. Great fun!
60 hunter
60 rogue
60 mage
55 pally
54 pally (me)
we where doing fine until we got to the stogage room when we opened the door a swarm of mobs jumped out at us the party wiped but windsor survived the attack and killed off the rest of the mobs it was hilarious because of the fact that we failed the quest but he still survived so really it wasn't us protecting him it was us protecting the gaurds FROM him.
el pollo diablo: the all powerful acrona chicken who soloed ragnaros, nef, onyxia, vael, and Allakhazam at the same time.....and won
"after posting something on the asylum I have decided that hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is my new favorite word"
(General FedEx)
because fedex screwed up our Emails pleas send all of my emails to fedex's address
FIRST... make sure NO ONE starts it early, untill everyone is ready.
SECOND... makes sure everyone has room in quest log for at least 1 quest.(had someone not get pop-up because of this)
THIRD... make sure everyone has completed 'A Shred of Hope' if they are completeing it right before starting Jailbreak... REMIND them to NOT start Jailbreak until all are ready.
FORTH... Make sure anyone who has Jailbreak! in thier quest log from a previous attempt, ABONDON it before starting this one. (This happened to me, even though quest in log did not say fail, put did not get update at end)
FIFTH... Make sure steps 1-4 are done... and be sure everyone is close to Windsor... DO NOT START before everyone is ready.
60 Warrior
60 Priest (me)
60 Hunter
59 Warrior
52 Paladin
It really was not difficult at all, and we didn't have a whole lot of DPS in our grouop. You have to clear out all the mobs from the entire prison loop and the entire ring of law loop. You also have to clear all the mobs in the big room that connects them. Marshal Windsor manages to wander almost the entire length of both loops. There are occasional spawns of mobs, but they weren't all that difficult for us.
You don't have to do the ring of law event, and you don't have to clear out the center rooms in the middle of the prison area loop.
what shall i do?
If you pre-clear the path (particularly the storage room), you won't have much trouble at all. If you don't preclear, you'll need to do it one of two ways: either with a very efficient party or by alternating healers every fight. If you have a rogue that thinks he can tank, that's a good way to fail. Tanking rogues suck down all the healers mana instantly.
The trick on pre-clearing is to make sure everyone is entirely ready to do jailbreak before you go in and start clearing. If you've run around doing the other pre-jailbreak quests, you run the risk of starting the run on what looks to be a nicely cleared area only to run into a full respawn on the way back out. If your group is not strong enough to do it without preclearing (it takes a skilled group with an ideal class mix to do it straight up), it's best to leave and reset the instance and start over clearing the entire path non-stop before starting Jailbreak! That way, you have a nice maximum time-gap before respawn.
I've done this quest about 10 or 11 times I'd say with both methods, mostly with preclear. Preclear is definitely the easiest, but if you have a skilled group just starting it and tearing everything up can be fun, too. I think we've failed two or three times. Every failure was on a run where we did not preclear.
The easiest and quickest non-clearing run was with a warlock and a mage both AE'ing everything we ran across; 5x60 for that group (war, priest, mage, warlock, hunter).
If you pre-clear the path (particularly the storage room), you won't have much trouble at all. If you don't preclear, you'll need to do it one of two ways: either with a very efficient party or by alternating healers every fight. If you have a rogue that thinks he can tank, that's a good way to fail. Tanking rogues suck down all the healers mana instantly.
Depends on the rogues. Did Jailbreak with 2 60 rogues tanking and it was cake. Priest was saying "pull faster, mispull, or something... I'm not working hard enough".
Clearing those dwarves makes the quest doable, and not too hard if your group knows what they are doing.
60 Holy Paladin
"You want to be President?"
"Well, yes."
"Put your hand on the book and say 'I do.'"
"I do."
"Fine, done, let's eat"
The above poster said it's not doable without clearing, and although last night proved him wrong, I would seriously suggest taking his advice, clearing first and give your healer a break.
Edited, Fri Jun 24 16:25:02 2005
i dont know if it can be done in a raid group. i've been told that it must say "(raid)" next to the quest for it to be possible as a raid, but attunement is doable in a raid group. if you know what you're doing, jail break isn't bad, easily done with a 5 man group.
Edited, Sat Jun 11 17:25:01 2005
FFXI (Cerberus)
Icha, level 52 white mage, retired
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?14650
That Windsor character really likes to fight. He won't stop for two seconds and doesn't seem to mind that the healer was screeming OOM!
Reminded me of bad instance runs at lower levels. :)
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?wquest=6402
This quest lign starts with the quest titled: Dragonkin Menace (found in Burning Steeps)
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