I am a lvl 66 lock and I have been meaning to finish my epic dreadsteed quest for quite sometime, but I am a casual gamer you would say. I had a friend of mine run me through. He was a 73 Feral Druid in Bear form. No problem what so ever. But I digress, the first problem we had was to enter. The front door is locked and I didn't have a key and neither did he. So I was reading about the ghost trick and didn't think it would work.....I was wrong. What we did was duel outside the LEFT side of the building....very important. Then I jumped off the side there for a quick death. You come back and walk through the door. If you did it right, you can rez on the other side of the door and just click the torch nest to it to open. If not, you can still duel, run up to the top of the building real fast and jump down....ON THE LEFT SIDE. The reason why I said that is because that is the side with the door and best chance to get close to your body for a rez. Trust me, I go so much sh*t in there I am always looking for another run now. Hit me up on bronzebeard server. The name is Panthero

If you have sub-average gear (lvl 60), this might be for you.

The exact group composition we used was Warrior, Mage, Warlock, and Priest. This strategy may work with other group compositions.

Okay, to the point.

Clearing this zone is a waste of time. This trick can save you hours. Clear a path to the Chamber of Summoning and take down the mobs on the right wall (facing in when you first get there) as usual. Then as you enter the next room, take down the mobs behind the table and the first two groups (and the extra mobs if you want) on the opposite side walls - if you are very organized, you can skip the group behind the table and the group on the far wall. Get the roaming spider (this is required) and the immediate roaming mobs (this might be possible to skip), depending on how good your tank is, you might want to take down the group in the center of the room and the skeleton guard that roams behind them (this is not always needed).

Now, if you are at least in the entrance of the room after the Chamber of Summoning, have the warlock cast soulstone on the priest (if not already done), have the priest shield the tank, cast any buffs you have that help in this zone, and have the tank get a little rage. Everyone goes on autofollow on the warrior. The warrior runs straight for the staircase leading down to Rattlegore at the far end of the dragonling room, running right through all the mobs. As soon as aggro seems likely, the Warrior spams his AE shout spell to aggro any mobs that might go for the casters. Use Shield Wall to absorb damage when the mobs start hitting. Even with only 6000 AC, our tank was able to get all the way down the first set of stairs to Rattlegore. Obviously, the pile up will wipe you. If done right, the priest will die along with everyone else down the first flight of stairs - use soulstone and rez everyone up. Note: this staircase is safe, of course! Rattlegore does not aggro anything upstairs when you pull him. (I also posted a tip on how to pull Rattlegore solo - it's also on this site under Rattlegore.)

This will let your group farm the viewing room key. You can use this key in any copy of the instance as long as you have it; we usually let a caster loot the key, and then portal out (sometimes we call it quits if we get the key and reload the instance later). Then, to open the viewing room door, it's the same strategy. Clear the bridge (if you reset the instance) and notice there is a nice place to jump down at the far right end that lands you in front of the viewing room door. Send in the shielded tank (use shield wall if needed) and have him run to the opposite side of the room. If Rattlegore is dead, this room seems to have far fewer mobs in it - but even if Rattlegore isn't dead, the tank can get them all to chase him to the other side of the room; then whichever caster/player has the key opens the door. You will probably wipe, but who cares - just like before, have the soulstoned priest suicide a few meters inside the viewing room (those mobs don't aggro) and rez everyone back up (if the tank is too far away, have him take a trip to the graveyard and suicide again).

Enjoy the loot. (Tips for the bosses: Ras is the easiest boss in WoW, you won't need help with him. There is a Warlock eye trick to split Lord from his two guards, which I posted under his section.)


-Lacrimosa "Sen'Jin."


PS: Another tip for those with really bad gear (like us at lvl 58). Here's another way to use the Warlock eye. Go into Scholomance. Clear the bridge. Move everyone back to center of the bridge. Have Warlock cast his famous eye, and use priest to shield it - go to the group of four down the stairs to the left and aggro them with the eye, then run the eye to the same corner on the opposite side of the room (using the stairs) and hide in the bookshelves to the left. Then let the mobs kill the eye. 6(approx.) times out of 10 if the tank goes and stands at the entrance of the staircase after the intial group has killed the eye, only one of the running mobs will take the staircase as it resets; kill!

what level is good for a paladin to start going to this place?