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Ruins of Lordaeron: WoW Forever Dungeon Guide

A levels 15–20 dungeon in the ruined capital above the Undercity, and the one new dungeon World of Warcraft: Forever pitches to the Horde.

Loading screen art of the Ruins of Lordaeron: a wrought-iron gate standing open under dead trees in a green haze
The loading screen of Ruins of Lordaeron. Art © Blizzard Entertainment, from the WoW Forever beta client (build 1.60.1.70450).

Levels are from Blizzard’s September 15 Kaivax post; the rest is checked against the What’s Next panel video and recap. Last reviewed: . The beta section follows Wowhead’s walkthrough of and the beta client, build 1.60.1.70790; reviewed .

What the beta shows in Ruins of Lordaeron

The beta client names 7 bosses, and Wowhead’s walkthrough found 9 quests worth 3,500–9,750 XP each, split between the factions. The dungeon isn’t linear and hides secrets; the trash is dense, so packs pull together easily.

Bosses

  1. 1

    Witherfang

    • Beast

    Clear the trash along his path first so he comes alone.

  2. 2

    The Abandoned

    • Undead

    Shows up in Market Street after three waves of adds. Frost Nova and a chill, but the one to stop is Drain Life: stun or interrupt it.

  3. 3

    The Butcher

  4. 4

    Lordaeron Captain

  5. 5

    Viktor the Vile

    • Beast

    Starts when you click the Kindled Flame after five waves of adds, so he’s easy to miss. He hits hard; let the tank hold him. On the beta he sometimes doesn’t spawn.

  6. 6

    Bjork

    • Undead

    Only a short Anti-Magic Shell cast: the easiest fight here.

  7. 7

    Rath'mael

    • Undead
    • Level 20
    • Final boss
    • Kill statistic

    Drops Flamestrike on the ground: step out and keep going.

Quests

  • 9 quests
  • 3,500–9,750 XP each

  • A Frightened Request

    • Horde

  • The Wrath of Rath'mael

    • Horde
    • Gnarled Necromancer's Staff Staff

    Live prerequisite: finish the chain that starts with Rear Guard Patrol from Deathguard Linnea in Tirisfal Glades before this quest appears.

  • The New Plague

    • Horde

    Live prerequisite: finish A Recipe For Death from Apothecary Renferrel in Silverpine Forest before this quest appears.

  • Light's Justice

    • Horde
    • The Stitcher One-hand mace

  • Unending Torment

    • Horde
    • Slain Baron's Signet Ring

    Picked up inside.

  • Crest of Lordaeron

    • Both factions

    Picked up inside, by either faction.

  • Abominable Creatures

    • Alliance
    • Slain Baron's Signet Ring

  • Bloodied Insignia

    • Alliance

  • Remember That I Love You

    • Alliance
    • Tarnished Locket Necklace
Where this comes from

Boss names and their order are the beta client’s own (DungeonEncounter, build 1.60.1.70790): seven encounters, fought in any order. Wowhead’s walkthrough counts six, among them a “The Baron” the client doesn’t name, and says nothing about The Butcher or the Lordaeron Captain. The client counts kills of Rath’mael, as it does for a dungeon’s end boss, so his card carries Wowhead’s level-20 final boss.

Quests, XP and rewards are from Wowhead’s walkthrough of September 28. The Horde picks up four quests outside — in the Undercity’s Apothecarium and Sylvanas’s chamber, at the caravan between Brill and the Undercity and at the Sepulcher in Silverpine Forest — and two inside. The Alliance gets all four of its quests inside, from Captain Truman, who is friendly to the Alliance and hostile to the Horde. Wowhead names only the notable rewards, so a quest without reward chips may still give something.

The quests show red at level 17, but the dungeon is clearable then. Wowhead gives it levels 16–23, where Blizzard’s table says 15–20. On live servers, The Wrath of Rath’mael and The New Plague now have the prerequisites shown on their cards.

What Blizzard has said about Ruins of Lordaeron

In the What’s Next panel, Blizzard set the dungeon in the ruins of Lordaeron: you help the Forsaken reclaim the city, clear out what the Scourge left behind, and deal with a necromancer who has moved in. The signs point at him preparing an attack on another city.

The Ruins of Lordaeron is the Horde’s counterpart to the Alliance-facing Hall of Thanes: Blizzard suggested the Alliance will have to find a way to sneak in, without saying how.

Kaivax’s September 15 post lists it at levels 15–20, right after the Hall of Thanes.

Where Ruins of Lordaeron is

The dungeon is in Tirisfal Glades, in the ruined city over the Undercity — the same courtyards Classic players run through to reach the Horde capital.

Wowhead’s dungeon overview guide adds nothing official about how the Alliance gets in; the comments there compare it to entering a hostile capital, which is guesswork rather than a Blizzard statement.

The other new dungeons

All nine in level order, and what changes for dungeons in Forever, are on the WoW Forever dungeons page.

Not announced yet

  • How many players the dungeon is built for
  • How the Alliance gets into the Ruins of Lordaeron
  • Who the necromancer is and which city he is aiming at

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