this zone was mostly a 22-24 range. my team of 25's felt pretty over powered for the instance. I think it would have been more appropriate for a team of 22 or so.

is in Ashenvale at 14, 14

Or look at your big map of Ashenvale & it is the last MAJOR ruins north of the word " The " in The Zoram Strand. The entry point is in the ruins 2nd from the left, but the big ruins, not the small ones on the far left.

A couple of pots of 30min underwater breathing may come in handy, but are not really necessary. Also bring some Elixir of Defence if you are lower level.

This was the first instance I've run with people who were all at-level for it, and I really enjoyed it. It is long, but it is also interesting. I liked it a lot more than Ragefire Chasm (but Shadowfang Keep is still my favorite).

One thing I had troubles with that people might not think about when they're going to do an instance, is jumping. There's a point after you first get into the instance where you have to make a series of jumps. I fell in the water almost every time, until the warrior showed me another way to go. Unfortunately, I do not remember what it was. It does involve swimming under the place where you are jumping, and you get to a little path that goes up to a mountain and you kind of edge your way around the mountain.

Also, if you're not undead, be aware of your breath. You might want to consider an underwater breathing potion for the earlier parts of this instance. In the first run (before 2 of our party mysteriously decided to quit the instance), the mage died of drowning, not even while fighting -- just because he was with two of us undead and we weren't having any breath problems, so were just hanging out in the water for a moment.

We wiped once, due to too much aggro in one room: they saw me healing and suddenly there were 4 on me, so I couldn't heal the tank, who was managing 4 herself, and well... We were more cautious after that.

Most of the important points have been noted in earlier posts, such as only lighting one candle at once.

A couple notes to the people who update this, though:

1. Still missing Amongst the Ruins as a quest for this instance.

2. The Horde version of Blackfathom Villainy is on this site, but is not listed here, nor in the quests per zone area, leading to lots of Horde people posting on the Alliance thread, thinking it's the only one. The only way I found the Horde version was by searching for it specifically.

[b][/b]how do i get in here as a ghost, i walk on water so i cant reach my corpse

hahaha! im so lucky! the turtle boss at the beginning part... kinda... dropped a 19 twink item worth like 40 gold =D

and it was me 1st time =P

too bad i sold it... i couldve saved it for a twinked mage or something...

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Edited, Nov 14th 2006 at 8:27pm PST by SelmaktheOrc

there are at least 2 more quests here:
"Amongst the Ruins" and "Allegiance of the Old"