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Comment by Azarim

The order is S, N, SW, SE, NW, NE.

Comment by 2338

In order to get this quest you need to do

https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=3444

Comment by 36923

After you have activated 5 of the statues, jump all down in the water, except one. Regain your life and then activate the final statue. Been in a couple of instances where everybody jumps at same time. It took about 1400 of my hp hitting the ground, which was when I was lvl 51. That´s about 70% of my entire hp, considering that I was a fully buffed priest.

And for got sake, remember to click on the "giant statue", which appear in the middle of the pool, after you´ve killed the boss. Had to do it twice, becuase I forgot.

Comment by 15428

In order to get to this quest, you need to get to the altar (from the zone in to the instance, go right) and then clear all 6 of the top platforms (second from the left after you zone in, go downstairs, not up).

Comment by Thottbot

1) South
2) North
3) Southwest
4) Southeast
5) Northwest
6) Northeast

You get all these rewards:
Mark of Hakkar
Hakkar'i Brestplate
Hakkar'i Shroud

Comment by Thottbot

For alliance, you have to go Feathermoon talk to Angele to get a quest, which ask u to talk to a goblin in Tanaris.

Comment by Thottbot

I've got the quest and am in the room with the water and the snake statues. i see tablets all over the place but i cant target any of them at all. i've been searching through this area for about an hour or so and reading the forums but cant find out why i cannot get this to work...

please if anyone has and help i appreciate it

thx

Comment by Thottbot

When you first enter the instance there are 4 directions you can take.

1.) I recommend you take the rightmost path down the stairwell and clear out the enemies in the pit (these are oozes/snakes/maggots, lvl 48-50). This will make it easier to kill the mini-boss that spawns after you activate the statues.

2.) Go back up the the main hall. Now take the path 2nd from the right.

3.) When you come to the stairwells, take the stairwells down. You will now be in a circle area where the balconies are.

4.) Clear everything out.

5.) Activate the statues in the correct order (see top post) and then a lvl 50 elite mini-boss will spawn in the pit below (the pit you should have cleared).

6.) Jump down, kill the mini-boss.

7.) Click on the giant snake statue in the middle (appears after activating statues) in order to complete the quest and get your three rewards.

8.) Breakdance.

Thanks Jestyr for posting the order of activation.

Comment by Thottbot

The temple is at the swamp of sorrows. Look at the Eastern part of the map. low left. there is a place called Stonard. Its horde and in the Swamp.

To get in the swamp go east from Duskwood

Comment by Thottbot

The portal is at the far end of the room in the Hall of Bones.

Comment by Thottbot

Where can I find the statues?

Comment by Thottbot

Stone circle is in ratchet

Comment by Thottbot

the posts above give some info but not enough...I started by going up the stairway into the circualr top chamber, decending to the balconies and killing off everything in each balcony...now looking down from the balconies is a huge area filled with dragon welpings and stuff that ive cleared out and killed Jammal'an. after which two huge dragons appeared (and i died and party disbanded).
anothe time we went in and did some of the lower balconies (to the 2:00 of instance opening) and died in there...
Do I need to kill all the dragons welpings etc.. or does the mini boss drop into the refuse chamber where the snakes , slugs are....Im sooo confused...please be more descriptive of how this quest is completely done...Im really getting sick of this low-drop instance

Comment by Thottbot

Right after zoning into instance, you see four paths.

The path on the right goes down to the lowest level. The "Altar of Hakkar" for the "Into the Depths" quest is there. Click on the Altar completes the quest. Also, the final objective for the quest "Secret of the Circle" is in the center of the lowest level. But you cannot click on the center object until you unlock the secret, which is to click on the 6 serpent statues on the balconies in the correct sequence (S, N, SW, SE, NW, NE). To go to the balconies, you need to start from the beginning of the instance.

The path second from the right leads to three different levels. After going up one small flight of steps, you can continue up or head down. Heading down will bring you to the balconies level with the serpent statues for the "Secret of the Circle" quest.

Comment by Thottbot

is the stone circle item required for the secret of the circle quest? cos i ditched it a while ago

Comment by Thottbot

Is that stone circle thingy u get from the box in Ratchet required in this at all!

Comment by Thottbot

Just soloed this as a 60 hunter, the statues were pretty simple to all activate using feign death. Interestingly you don't have to kill Atal'alarion the mini boss after activating all the statues. You can access the statue in the middle and get the reward without agroing him if you're high enough lvl.

Comment by Thottbot

im a level 50 pally and
hes not showing the quest
wut do i do?

Comment by Thottbot

this quest was a pain in the ass because my group kept dieing so it took over 4 hours just to complete this quest. But when we did we all disbanded... anyways u click on the snakes in this order
1) South
2) North
3) Southwest
4) Southeast
5) Northwest
6) Northeast

then u jump down and u clear all of the creatures and click on the huge idol and complete the quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

I did all the snakes (in what I thought was the right order) with my group today. I didn't complete this quest.

Do I personally need to activate the statues? Or did I just do them in the wrong order?

Comment by Allakhazam

Where is the sunken temple at and can a rogue sneak there to complete it?

Comment by Allakhazam

how do u get to the snakes? u guys talk of a stair but that doesnt help

Comment by Allakhazam

How do you get to the snakes to click since they are up on top of the alters?

Comment by Allakhazam

out of the container i got the following: Hakkari Shroud, Hakkari Breastplate, and Mark of Hakkar. yes i'm lazy and didn't link them, look it up!

Comment by Allakhazam

A rogue can sneak in and complete "into the depths" easy enough, if you position yourself on the stairs correctly and are higher enough level to not insta-aggro the mobs nearby while you activate the altar.
However, completing this quest is more difficult.
You'll have to fight 2-3 elites to activate the snakes (check thottbot on this quest for the right order).
So either be 55+ or take another rogue or 2 in with you.

Comment by Allakhazam

To get to the serpent statues above the altar, there is a (set) stairs that will lead you up to the upper area where the statues are. Activate them in the right order, and the boss from that altar will spawn. After the battle, don't forget to click on the giant serpent statue in the middle of the place to complete the quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

The sequence of the serpents (accurately described by Sealclubber) is S, N, SW, SE, NW, and NE. Did it wrong a couple of times before I read the post completely, and realized that I need to be looking over the water (facing south) which inverts the order.

Comment by Allakhazam

....like the price is right...

A box, guess whats in the box.

3 nice items. A ring, and two other armor pieces, shoulders and pants if i remember correctly.

Nice sell bait for a rogue who can't use mail or cloth, and a ring without agi on it.

Comment by Allakhazam

Here's what I've discovered might help while doing this quest.

At the entrance to the instance, go to the first hall on the right (the left may take you to the other side of the same place, I don't know). This will take you to the lower level where the altar is. Clear the area near the altar so it can safely be used, and also clear the water, the remaining creatures around the ring on this level don't have to be cleared. Use the altar at this time. (naturally, this requires the circle)

Head back up to the entrance room, take the next hallway directly to the right of where you just came up from and you'll go up to the top ring where the snake statues are. Clear EVERYTHING for this setup. The first balcony you come to is the north balcony, which is second in the sequence. It's easier if you draw a circle on a piece of paper, or have a clock. The positions of the balconies can be correlated to the even times on a clock. 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. (the notation of actual compass directions given by Annathor also works). The sequence while facing south (comparing to a clock) is 6, 12, 8, 4, 10, and 2. (also see the link provided by Axter which is wonderful). Beware there is a time limit...respawns will kill your party fast.

Having 4 people in the party who needed this quest helped my group. If you have all 5 it is even easier since fewer folks have to move to another balcony.

Have each person stand in their own balconies (open your map all the way and you should be able to see them). Provide each person with their number in the sequence, so that they know who is before them. When everyone is set start the sequence and sound off when complete. The next person will know to use their statue and so on. If someone needs to move, make sure they know where to go and when they are supposed to go again before you start so as to avoid confusion during the process. (In the case of our group, I was the only one who really knew the sequence, so I told each person when to go and to sound off when done. This minimized problems immensely and worked like a charm, well..minus the respawns..hehe) Start the sequence and the statue areas will light up with a translucent green glow.

Upon completing the final statue a larger snake statue (resembling the ones on the balconies) springs up in the middle of the water, along with a lvl 50 elite. You can either jump down or take the stairs (I suggest jumping as there is enough room to avoid the mob and prepare for the final assault without aggro if you stay away from the edges of the lower circle). When you're ready, take on the final mob. Upon his death, use the statue to gain the box and open it. Enjoy.

Comment by Allakhazam

The container for the quest reward is this:

Hakkari Urn

Comment by Allakhazam

Anybody about to start the series of quests, I tell you, dont bother. In same time you can run the instance through like 5 times and by then you got a lot better gear than the reward

Comment by Allakhazam

Is there something special that has to be done once I have the Hakkari Urn?

I open it but can't take the 3 items out. I click on each to loot, but nothing happens.

Thanks.

Comment by Allakhazam

You get a little gift item that can be opened for the reward items.

Mark of Hakkar:
Mark of Hakkar Breastplate:
Hakkari Breastplate Shroud:
Hakkari Shroud

Comment by Allakhazam

No point in guessing - Use this resource for this instance and for many of the others that exist. I found many of these maps to be quite exhaustive in both the diagram of the instance in question and in the location of mobs and drops. Enjoy :D

http://www.worldofwar.net/cartography/instances/atalhakkar.php

Edited, Sat Sep 10 00:43:25 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

I helped a friend of mine who needed to do this quest. she was a 48 rogue and i was a 51 rogue. we stealthed all way in with no problem into instance zone of ST. once inside we stealthed up and when she was rdy we went to each statue one by one in the proper order. when she was rdy i got close to the NPC close to staute and broke stealth(hit sprint before) and ran for it. i took all the npc's with me and when she got the statue done i vanished. we did this for every statue. I only came close to dying once due to waiting too long after she touched one of the statues. once all 6 statues were done we went down into middle of water below and i sapped the biggest guy there and got aggro from the others in area . same as before i would hit my sprint right before breaking stealth or sapping last guy. it was a piece of cake. we did not even once atttack anything. she got the chest with 3 green items in it. the only delay in doing this was waiting for my vanish to cooldown each time. this can work with any 2 characters who can stealth. the big thing to remember is bring enough flash powder.

Comment by Allakhazam

i did all the statues and the boss spawned, but apparently i didnt complete the quest ><

Comment by Allakhazam

Standing at the altar looking over the water, the order of the statues is 12 oclock, 6 oclock, 2, 10, 4, 8 oclock. Make sure you have the stone circle and place it in the alter BEFORE you start activating the statues. To get to the statue level go into the 2nd hallway from the left at the entrance.

Edited, Mon Feb 21 15:10:52 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

Just when you enter the instance there are 4 ways to go... lets call em 1,2,3 and 4... 1 is the one far left, 2 is the second one, from the left, and if you go through 3 you get to the snakes :) Good Luck questing!

Comment by Ranadicus

There is understandably a lot of confusion surrounding the Into the Depths and Secret of the Circle quests. This is understandable because Blizzard seems to have gone out of their way to make both the quests and the instance the quests are in as confusing as possible. I'm going to post this on both quest pages.

On the bottom of the Sunken Temple is the Altar of Hakkar. You will need to use this Altar to complete both of these quests, however before you can complete them you need to activate the statues on the level above in the correct order to set the next part of the quest in motion and summon the boss Atal'alarion. In theory you're supposed to go down here first to click the alter and learn the order to activate the statues, but I'm going to give you the order to do them so don't worry about that yet.

Upon entering the Sunken Temple you'll be able to choose one of four directions. If you turn 90 degrees to the immediate left and right of the entrance there will be spiral stairs going up and down respectively. The right stairs lead down to the altar but ignore them for now. In front of you there will be a fork, take the left side which should be guarded by an Atal'ai Witch Doctor and a Unliving Atal'ai or some other combination. Take them out, step around the corner and you will see another fork with stairs going up and down, go down. This will bring you to the Hall of Serpents, the ring with the statues that you need to activate in the correct order. The best way I've found to do this is to clear the ring, then go into each landing in order and activate the statues. You can see the room below from the landings with the statues if you get confused and need to reorient yourself (also, I have my view settings all the way up but I couldn't see the altar from the farthest statue and vice versa, don't panic you didn't break anything). The activation order is as follows with 2 being the statue above the altar:

1

4 3

6 5

2
(ALTAR)

Upon activating the last statue Atal'alarion will spawn in the middle of the pool of water below. However, if you look down you'll notice there are already plenty of other mobs down there with him. He does wander over to the stairs by the altar and it is possible to pull and tank him on the stairs without pulling anything else however you'll be really tight on space. One of his abilities is knocking you way up in the air. This isn't so much a knock back as you'll land only a few feet from where you started, however having a group of five flying around in such a tight space can get tedious really fast... especially if you have some lower levels with you. The easy way to do this is to hop down and clear the three mobs in the middle of the pool before activating the last statue to give yourself plenty of space, then make your way back up to activate it. There are a lot of mobs all around the pool looking to intimidate you but you'll find that Blizzard only hired them for their looks. Be sure to click altar and the statue in the middle of the pool to complete the quests. Good hunting!

Comment by Thready

Level 60 Rogue in WoW Classic, I am able to solo this - although it takes a long time. Each balcony / pack of mobs I have to wait for my CDs to come back up or I'll die - so far it has been 45 minutes and I am on the last pack of mobs . At least it's faster than finding a group for it.

Comment by PilsnerDk

Here is the order in which you must click the snake statues, oriented by what you see on your minimap (where north is up)

Click Order:

NORTH
2

5 6

3 4

1
SOUTH

Comment by Dathas

For SoD, there is a Stone formation with a red gem in the water, located at the back of the room after the first boss. Click on the stone formation to complete this quest.

Comment by Aviandan

For HORDE: You need the Pre-require "The Sunken Temple", just like Alliance, but instead of Feathmoon, you talk to the Witch Doctor dude in Camp Mojache The Sunken Temple#comments

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Secret of the Circle

Travel into the Sunken Temple and discover the secret hidden in the circle of statues.

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My memories are cloudy, but I will tell you what I can. The circle of statues in the Sunken Temple, while dangerous, I believe that they hold the secret to unlock an even greater treasure.

From the main altar, I was able to activate a series of lights. I think that if you can uncover what these lights mean, you might be able to unlock whatever secrets are hiding in this room.

I warn you though, <name>. Great evil lies in the temple. It's likely that anything valuable will be fervently guarded...

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The following spell will be cast on you:

	Burst of Experience

You will receive:

	Hakkari Urn

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(3447))

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