Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Human League
2.	Zedd's Probably Dead
3.	And Then There Were Two...
4.	The Depths of Depravity
5.	The Ring of Judgment
6.	Stunning Defeat at the Ring
7.	Return to Valgarde
8.	The Explorers' League Outpost
9.	Problems on the High Bluff
10.	Tools to Get the Job Done

Storyline
Howling Fjord Hell Has Frozen Over... If Valgarde Falls... Rescuing the Rescuers Prisoners of Wyrmskull Into the World of Spirits The Human League The Path to Payback The Echo of Ymiron Zedd's Probably Dead And Then There Were Two... The Depths of Depravity The Ring of Judgment Stunning Defeat at the Ring Return to Valgarde The Explorers' League Outpost Locating the Mechanism Anguish of Nifflevar Dragonflayer Battle Plans To Westguard Keep! Meet Lieutenant Icehammer... Drop It then Rock It! Harpoon Master Yavus It Goes to 11... Let's Go Surfing Now Tools to Get the Job Done Out of My Element? We Can Rebuild It We Have the Technology Iron Rune Constructs and You: Rocket Jumping Iron Rune Constructs and You: Collecting Data Iron Rune Constructs and You: The Bluff Lightning Infused Relics The Delicate Sound of Thunder News From the East The Clutches of Evil Mage-Lieutenant Malister Two Wrongs... Report to Scout Knowles The Dead Rise! Elder Atuik and Kamagua Grezzix Spindlesnap Feeding the Survivors Street "Cred" Arming Kamagua "Scoodles" Forgotten Treasure Avenge Iskaal The Staff of Storm's Fury The Frozen Heart of Isuldof The Lost Shield of the Aesirites The Ancient Armor of the Kvaldir Gambling Debt The Fragrance of Money Mutiny on the Mercy Jack Likes His Drink A Traitor Among Us Sorlof's Booty Dead Man's Debt Zeh'gehn Sez The Shield of the Aesirites A Carver and a Croaker A Return to Resting "Crowleg" Dan Return to Atuik Meet Number Two The Jig is Up Mission: Eternal Flame Mission: Package Retrieval Mission: Forsaken Intel Absholutely... Thish Will Work! You Tell Him ...Hic! Mission: Plague This! Operation: Skornful Wrath Gruesome, But Necessary Burn Skorn, Burn! Towers of Certain Doom All Hail the Conqueror of Skorn! Dealing With Gjalerbron Of Keys and Cages Necro Overlord Mezhen In Service to the Light Sleeping Giants The Slumbering King Down to the Wire The Yeti Next Door I'll Try Anything! Spirits of the Ice The Fallen Sisters Wild Vines Spawn of the Twisted Glade Seeds of the Blacksouled Keepers Keeper Witherleaf The Book of Runes Mastering the Runes The Rune of Command March of the Giants The Lodestone Demolishing Megalith See to the Operations I've Got a Flying Machine! Gjalerbron Attack Plans The Frost Wyrm and its Master The Cleansing In Worg's Clothing Brother Betrayers Eyes of the Eagle Alpha Worg

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Comments

Comment by 16962

A bunch of named mobs spawn in the ring 1 at a time. After you defeat 1 the next will spawn after a few seconds giving you time to eat/drink up. Prisoners also come periodically to help you fight. Finally Oluf drops the cipher rather than you looting it so it would appear that if you walk in on him already dead you can complete the quest without killing a thing. Can't say for sure though.

Comment by Neci

Stunning Defeat at the Ring
Salted Venison: 0/1
Cordnates: Center of the ring
Keep killing attackers in the center of the ring until Oluf shows up. Kill him and loot the Salted Venison. Turn in quest is outside at the camp. Don't bother searching inside. After this quest you should be done with inside and never to return again.

Comment by ssidunemaul

Coords:

10,500

(10,500)

-Ssi

Comment by 246808

You don't have to kill anything and you can help anyone. It is like a joint quest with whoever. Guys are super easy and the prisoners help a little. You turn in the quest at the entrance on the right when you are leaving

Comment by 251593

Guys, can anyone give coords to this quest?

Thnx

Comment by 267801

The 4 named mobs you have to fight are

Firjus the Soul Crusher (10,379 HP)
Jlarborn the Strategist (11,976 HP)
Yorus the Flesh Harvester (14,371 HP)
Oluf the Violent (15,968 HP, you can let NPCs to tank you till at least 85%)

And do not make the same mistake I did, do not loot with your bags full. Unlike other loot objects, where you can discard some trash and loot again, the Ancient Cipher on the ground would disappear.

I had to do it again, but it was easy for a 72 mage.

Comment by 324004

This quest appears to be bugged from time to time. I killed all the mobs twice and couldn't loot the Ancient Cipher.

Abandoning the quest and re-accepting it seemed to fix the problem.

Comment by 102695

DId it easyly as a lvl 68 preist, dont be scared, they spawn one by one in the middle of the cirlce and u get a lot of help from CPU's

Comment by 349253

DiD this Like 5 times first 2 same quest the other 3 i abandoned and took it .. the Ciphre dropped but i wasnt able to loot it... in all of the quests i waited in the middle of the circle and waited for theM to Come up... soloed most of them So...i Don't Know Whats Wrong... So i left it and didnt Do it

Comment by Spyrootjuh

Entrance is at 56, 49

Comment by 553534

there is no mob SPAWN for this quest...

Well not after 3.3.3 patch

the guy is straight ahead easy to kill and the item will drop 100%

Comment by 1440987

Stunning Defeat at the Ring http://youtu.be/HzV_Ls-RoSs

Comment by Boxofbeer

Stunning Defeat at the Ring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2hJ8-zbiBc

Comment by 423524

I read all of the notes and even watched the videos posted in the notes section on this quest and.... they're useful if you already know that it all takes place in Utgarde Catacombs but if you don't then they all suck!

You may inadvertently pick up this quest and for whatever reason while down in the Utgarde Catacombs doing other quests in the area and somehow did not complete this quest at the time you picked it up, if that happened and you are running around later trying to figure out how to complete the quest then these notes are what you are looking for... if not then you have already completed the quest.

Be aware there are lvl 68-69 regular mobs throughout the entire area. Be prepared for that...

#1 This quest is in the Utgarde Catacombs (underground cave area) the cave entrance is /way 56.66 49.57

#2 Go down the swirly cave like entrance, it will open up and start looking like the inside of Utgarde Keep instance. Just keep going straight until you get to /way 57.24 56.22 and turn towards the west direction and go down the first flight of stairs and through the opening into the next room to /way 55.75 57.25

#3 Now if you still have the quest in your quest log for the sake of a possible bugging of the quest just abandon it and retake the quest from the NPC Daegarn. Daegarn is in the cage just on your left.

#4 a. Now when the quest is selected you will notice that it highlights the location of the quest objectives at /way 56 59 which are not correct because that would be through the huge wall and in the mountain side and there is no possible way to get to that location inside of the Utgarde Catacombs. Completely ignore the blue quest objective highlighted minimap area.

b. The fighting ring is right in front of you and the mobs will spawn and then fight you in the general area of /way 55 57.47

#5 After killing two or three of the guys that spawn and fight you in the ring the Ancient Cipher drops on the ground. Pick it up and turn the quest into NPC Glorenfeld located back up the staircase at /way 56.88 53.81

Sumary:

#1 Utgarde Catacombs - Entrance: /way 56.66 49.57
#2 #2 Staircase you go down after you get through main entrance: /way 55.75 57.25
#3 NPC Daegarn (quest giver) location - /way 55.75 57.25
#4 Actual mob spawning location area: /way 55 57.47
#5 After getting item head back up the stairs - Turn in quest to NPC Glorenfeld located at: /way 56.88 53.81

Comment by Garlin

All comments are useless :D Just killl mobs infront of cage they are not taged or anything. U will kill 4 incoming mobs and artefact will spawn on ground.

Comment by IMissThottbot

When I arrived the friendly mobs were already fighting the first named hostile. I killed the four hostiles but no cipher dropped. I had to kill them all again for it to do so. It's a big grey stone with a glowing blue rune, too big to miss.

Comment by pcgneurotic

August 30th 2020 -- After taking the quest, had to cycle through the named gladiators twice before the Cypher dropped. Don't be fooled by the message in chat that it's dropped -- as others have said, it will be obvious when it appears. :)

Comment by Allindriss

Patch 10.0.5, still bugged. Dropped on the third kill of Oluf.

Links

Stunning Defeat at the Ring

Defeat the gladiators at the Ring of Judgment and face Oluf the Violent. Defeat Oluf and recover the Ancient Cipher.

Return the Ancient Cipher to Glorenfeld at the entrance to the Utgarde Catacombs.

	Ancient Cipher (1)

Description

Oluf will come out if you defeat the other gladiators. That's 'bout the only way we're getting' that cipher back. Put on your whompin' boots and get busy in the Ring of Judgment. If you do manage to get the cipher back, return it to Glorenfeld o'er near the entrance to these catacombs.

Me? Don't worry about me! We're on the brink of discovering the missing link to human-kind!

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11300))