WoW Summer Challenge: Karazhan
Every week this summer, we’re challenging you to get together with a few friends to explore a part of Azeroth that you may not have seen in a while, or perform a feat that you may have never done. We’re calling them World of Warcraft Summer Challenges, and we’re going to be playing along with you as we hunt down rare achievements, get screenshots of amazing bosses, and try to find some rare gear for our transmogrification sets.
This week’s challenge is: Karazhan.
Medivh, the Last Guardian, made his home in Deadwind Pass, in the bright tower of Karazhan. Though he was the greatest wizard of his day (and humanity's intended custodian) Medivh was secretly possessed by the dark spirit of Sargeras, the Destroyer of Worlds. Through Medivh, Sargeras opened the Dark Portal and allowed the orcs to wage war upon the kingdoms of Azeroth.
Originally opened for raids of 10 players at level 70, Karazhan is teeming with a dozen bosses, many with unique events, ending with Prince Malchezaar. There are a number of reasons to explore Azeroth's original haunted castle.
Notable achievements
- Karazhan -- Defeat Prince Malchezaar
- Karazhan Guild Run -- Defeat Prince Malchezaar while in a guild group of at least 8 people
- Outland Raider -- Complete this and the other seven Burning Crusade raids.
- Fiery Warhorse's Reins (feat of strength) -- Obtain this mount from Attumen the Huntsman
Desirable gear
- Arcanist Regalia
- Bold Armor
- Beast Lord Mail
- Bloodfang Armor
- Righteous Armor
- Aldor Regalia
- Big Bad Wolf's Paw
- King's Defender
- Sunfury Bow of the Phoenix
- Steelhawk Crossbow
- Legacy
- Despair
Other odds and ends
- Some bosses in this dungeon drop rare Enchanting Formulas: Enchant Weapon - Mongoose (Moroes), Enchant Weapon - Sunfire (Shade of Aran), and Enchant Weapon - Soulfrost (Terestian Illhoof).
- The rare Engineering Schematic - Stabilized Eternium Scope has a chance to drop when you kill Attumen the Huntsman here.
- Players seeking The Violet Eye reputation will want to kill everything in the zone, and complete the epic questline that starts with Arcane Disturbances or Restless Activity
As the war progressed, Medivh fought against Sargeras' control. The raging conflict within him finally drove the wizard irrevocably insane, until his childhood friend, Anduin Lothar, aided Medivh's young apprentice, Khadgar in storming Karazhan and slaying their former comrade. Since that day, a terrible curse has pervaded both the tower and the lands around it - casting a dark pall over Deadwind Pass and the region that is now known as Duskwood.
Please join us in this discussion thread, where we’re talking about this week’s challenge, and looking forward to your stories about how it went for you this week, your screenshots, and your suggestions for other fun reasons to take on Karazhan
Comments (346)
Xavius
Aggramar
Outland
I loved kara back in BC , and im sure there's loads of people who don't even know about it so it'd be good for them to go have a look
Turalyon
Bladefist
the only new idea here is that you want us to go do them without making it a challenge the idea that transmorg is a cool thing, OMG stop spending time with Dia-blows and work with keeping your bread and butter game current
Emeriss
Silvermoon
Thunderhorn
Twisting Nether
Alonsus
Tarren Mill
Runetotem
Runetotem
Kazzak
Kilrogg
Mazrigos
Azjol-Nerub
And hey, I have been running Karazhan for weeks on end! (^L^?)
Burning Legion
Twisting Nether
Oh and Karazhan, I love you :)
Bronzebeard
Steamwheedle Cartel
Argent Dawn
Regardless of the number of people who say, awh god pandas eurgh, the truth is, hardcore wowwers are gonna keep playing, and doing what they usually do, their only interaction with this new expansion being more pets for the stables and a couple more titles before they go back to raiding MC or Kara for fun. RP'ers are gonna rp, because its new and they can use the cross-realm zones now, pvp'ers will probably still pvp, just so they can kill pandas and not get done by the RSPCA/WWE or something. I dunno. It does make me chuckle though. MoP's gonna come out, the moaners will vehemently deny wanting to get it, then they'll get it anyways, as the time they've put in, and the potential to moan about MoP even more is there.
Personally, I don't like the panda thingy. Blizz got too cutesy, but I'll still get the expansion, level my toons, do the raids etc. I just won't make a panda. Simples. They have crappy racials anyways. It's no fun punting pandas if they only take half falling damage.
Rant over.
Karazhan
Argent Dawn
Sylvanas
Scarshield Legion
Al'Akir
Bronze Dragonflight
Sylvanas
Stormrage
Magtheridon
With the obscene profiteering from wow, blizzard could easily afford to spend some money on new or revamped content, but instead they spend the profits from one game, developing another and add 'new pets to the pet store'.
If you make people pay a subscription (and not a cheap one at that) it is reasonable to expect fairly regular new content, not a suggestion that we go have a nose around redundant raids.
Darksorrow
Now in cata it's not like that anymore i've been away from the game for 9 months and before 3 days i said to my self let me check back on wow and my guild, i started 370 ilvl and today i'm 380
My point is gear now is easy to get and we don't get to raid alot these days only one raid DS while the other raids are dead even my guild is not convinced to go to ToT4W or similar first cata raids not even for fun raid because it's pointless to most of them and i feel like i'm the only one willing to raid.
Now i don't want to complain only i want to give idea's that might help:
1- Why don't you allow us to raid the old raids in a cata difficulty? I meant like Black Temple or any other raid give us the option to raid it with a higher difficulty more suitable for a lvl 85.
2- For cata raids why the old raids aren't added in the LFR ? (like fireland or the other cata raids) and if the answer none will join make a special reward for the ppl finish the runs like gems, enchanting materials, gold or other items that you can think of i'm sure ppl will be motivated to join these rather than creating another alt because i don't have anything to do beside standing in Org/SW.
3- Old dungeons are forgotten and you can do the same thing for the raids to raise their difficulty according to lvl 85.
I'd like to add that LFR is really a very good add to the game for ppl who prefer the guildless type but having only 1 raid in it is not enough.
I hope Blizzard will read my post and hear our thoughts.
Turalyon
- If you wanted to raid and be one of the best, you had to spend hours.. Lots of hours, not just walk to the nearest AH and buy few pieces of Epic and afterwards being ready to raid! You had to gather up a team of 40 players, that required a good guild and good players who wanted to play like a team, sitting up most of the nights dieing in raids, and the booom.. Finally you downed a boss, and like 40 players were happy on VT/TS..
- Well.. Time for me to end this little reply, all I can say is; Listen to us blizzard, cause else this game is really going to die, maybe not in the next few months but it will die out slowly.
THanks for taking time, reading this :-)Cya around guys, and thanks so far for having such a great time together!
Turalyon
The Venture Co
Eonar
Nagrand
Scarshield Legion
Aerie Peak
Give Blizzard some credit for reminding all the narrowminded, bored and moaning players that they don't have to sit in Orgrimmar/Stormwind all day long while waiting for their weekly raid runs in said latest raid dungeon. Don't bring stupid discussions into this like what Blizzard does or doesn't care about, the new expansion (completely unrelated to Karazhan and the time that would be, right now) and miscellanious crap.
Either get in there and explore the world of warcraft, or go sit in your capital city with your epic flying mount, your awesome raid gear and your now-unobtainable-super-rare-title from two expansions ago and, with all due respect, shut up.
Blizzard, thank you. I WILL be visiting Karazhan again someday soon.
Trollbane