Ruins of Lordaeron

Ruins of Lordaeron Route & Boss Strategy

The Ruins of Lordaeron is an open city, not a corridor: streets and squares in a wide U, with sightlines long enough to pull packs you never meant to touch. Run it clockwise, right side first, and bring the fight back to cleared ground every time. Two bosses arrive only after waves of undead, so mana matters more here than in any dungeon of this level. Allow about an hour.

1. King's Alley

   • Go straight in from the portal. Spiders hold the first streets in tight groups, with fast patrols between them, and Shrieking Banshees walk the alley further on. Pull each pack back toward the entrance.
   • Alliance players take Abominable Creatures from Captain Truman just inside. Horde players collect Intact Limbs for Light's Justice from the undead throughout, and Alliance players loot Bloodied Insignias from the skeletons.

2. Witherfang

   Boss

   Leech Poison

   A poison on the tank that drains health.

   • The great spider patrols King's Alley on the right side of the map, where the spiders nest. Clear a stretch of his path and pull him into it.
   • Two spiders come with him. Kill Witherfang first, then the adds.
   • Horde players loot the Highly Toxic Strain for The New Plague.

3. The Baron

   Boss

   Knockout

   One blow that takes close to half the tank's health and stuns them.

   • Turn back and continue to the bottom of the map, right of center. Skeletal Soldiers and Mages guard the abomination in packs of three; clear them first.
   • When the tank is stunned he turns on the next player on his threat list. Have a second player ready to taunt: a warrior, a bear, or a pet with Growl. Without one, that next player is usually the healer.
   • Keep the tank near full at all times, and use stuns on him freely.
   • Both factions want his head: Abominable Creatures for the Alliance, Unending Torment for the Horde.

4. The Abandoned

   Optional

   Frost Nova

   Freezes players near him in place.

   Chilled

   Slows melee players who hit him.

   Life Drain

   Drains the tank's health. A stun at the start of the cast stops it.

   • Follow the U to the left side and into the small hall with a knight's statue. Rest and drink before you approach.
   • The statue flares violet and three waves of undead attack with no break between them. The Abandoned leaps out with the fourth.

5. Bjork

   Boss

   Knockback

   Throws the tank back.

   Anti-Magic Shield

   Makes him immune to spells for about three seconds.

   • He patrols the road along the upper left edge. Ghoul packs stand close to his path, three or four to a pack and close to each other, and they hit hard: clear them first and kill the Ragged Ghoul in each pack before the others.
   • Tank him with your back to a wall, away from everything else. Casters wait out the shield.

6. The Crest of Lordaeron

   • Each faction has a quest that starts from a shield glowing dull gold, and it does not always appear in the same place. Check behind the door near the Baron's area, the room beside Bjork's road, the pavilion and stairs in the upper left, and the end of the rooftop paths where the gargoyles roost.

7. Rath'mael

   Boss

   Flamestrike

   Fire on the ground. Step out of it, or stun him to stop the cast.

   • The necromancer stands on a violet circle under the domed building at the center of the map. For a final boss he is gentle: move out of the fire and he falls.
   • Edward Heartweaver's body lies in the graveyard beside him. Horde players finish A Frightened Request there, and Alliance players loot the letter that starts Remember That I Love You.
   • His death completes The Wrath of Rath'mael.

8. Viktor the Vile

   Optional

   Leech Poison

   A poison on the tank that drains health.

   • A hidden boss in the ruined house with a chimney in the bottom-left corner. Clear around the house, drink to full, then click the Warm Kindling under the chimney.
   • Five waves follow with almost no pause, and Viktor comes with the sixth. Spend mana carefully from the first wave.
   • He hits hard, so the tank takes him at once.

9. Lordaeron Captain

   • A rare spawn, absent on most runs. Kill him when you see him.