Blackrock Depths
Profondeurs de Blackrock
Levels 52-60Blackrock Mountain5 players
- levels
- 52-60
- players
- 5
- bosses
- 21
Access
No key
No key or attunement found: level only.
Not confirmed yetPart of the Onyxia attunementAlliance chain
A whole dwarf city under a volcano. Prisons, forges, a pub. Twenty-one bosses, if you believe the count. Bring snacks.
Blackrock Depths is not playable in the beta (level cap 30). The description below comes from pre-launch data (game files and guides) and the original game's version of this dungeon; we check each point in game at launch and update this page.
Who it's for
- Groups of 5.
- Both factions: quests for Alliance, Horde and both. Sources disagree on how many quests there are (27 in Forever data, 38 on a Classic page).
- Time: a full clear takes several hours in the original game.
The route, in plain words
In the original game:
- Detention Block: High Interrogator Gerstahn, who drops the Prison Cell Key.
- Halls of the Law: Lord Roccor and Houndmaster Grebmar.
- Ring of Law: an arena event. Two waves, then one random boss.
- The outer depths: Bael'Gar, Lord Incendius, Fineous Darkvire, Warder Stilgiss, Pyromancer Loregrain, General Angerforge and Golem Lord Argelmach.
- The Grim Guzzler: a tavern, with Hurley Blackbreath.
- Further in: the rest of the 21 bosses, which our Forever data doesn't name yet.
The Shadowforge Key opens the Shadowforge Gates and the East Garrison Door, and lets you skip the Ring of Law. We check the route in game at launch.
The bosses in one line each
Our sources give no tactics yet. Where each named boss stands in the original game:
- High Interrogator Gerstahn: Detention Block. Drops the Prison Cell Key.
- Lord Roccor and Houndmaster Grebmar: Halls of the Law.
- Ring of Law: an event, not a single boss.
- Bael'Gar: Dark Iron Highway.
- Lord Incendius: Shadowforge City.
- Fineous Darkvire: Hall of Crafting.
- Warder Stilgiss: the Black Vault.
- Pyromancer Loregrain: Shrine of Thaurissan.
- General Angerforge: West Garrison.
- Golem Lord Argelmach: the Manufactory.
- Hurley Blackbreath: the Grim Guzzler.
Quests to grab before you go
Take these before entering, or you'll run it twice:
- Burning Steppes (Alliance): Overmaster Pyron (Jalinda Sprig). Pyron is an elite just outside the dungeon.
- Ironforge (Alliance): Kharan Mighthammer (King Magni Bronzebeard, after a chain from Royal Historian Archesonus). You need the Prison Cell Key to reach Kharan.
- Badlands (Horde): Lost Thunderbrew Recipe (Shadowmage Vivian Lagrave).
- Lava pit outside the dungeon (both): Dark Iron Legacy, from the ghost Franclorn Forgewright on his tomb. You must be dead to talk to him, or have the quest shared. It gives the Shadowforge Key.
- Molten Core attunement: Attunement to the Core (Lothos Riftwaker). Take a Core Fragment at the Molten Core portal inside Blackrock Depths. Molten Core has no date in WoW Forever: the developers call it "revamped" and hinted on the official podcast (episode 5, Oct 22, at 77:17; our summary) that its fights will not be the same, without details.
- Inside the dungeon: Jail Break! (Alliance, Marshal Windsor, an escort that is part of the Onyxia chain) and The Love Potion (Mistress Nagmara).
Apart from the attunement, these quests come from pages about the original game: to verify.
Watch out
- No key to enter, but keys inside: the Prison Cell Key (Gerstahn), the Relic Coffer Key (for the Relic Coffer Doors in the Black Vault) and the Shadowforge Key. One source says Lockpicking 250 opens the same doors as the Shadowforge Key.
- Ring of Law: the final boss of the arena is picked at random.
- Long run: several hours for a full clear in the original game.
- Experience: dungeon quests give much more experience than before, mobs give less (general Forever rule).
FAQ
- Where is the Blackrock Depths entrance in WoW Forever?
- Inside Blackrock Mountain, between Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes. One source puts the instance portal at 27.6, 72.4 (Searing Gorge map). In Classic you go down the chains in the lava pit, then take the passage on the right. To verify.
- What level should you be for Blackrock Depths?
- Dungeon lists say 52-60. Entry from level 42 (one source says 40), Group Finder from 48.
- Do you need a key to enter Blackrock Depths?
- No: entry is by level only (one source). Inside, keys open shortcuts and doors: the Prison Cell Key, the Relic Coffer Key and the Shadowforge Key. (Classic data, to verify.)
- How many bosses are in Blackrock Depths?
- 21 in the Forever client data. Only 12 are named so far, so we list those and add the others once confirmed.
