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Comment by Ptomely

This means that Warlocks will have an easier time getting their epic mounts :D! Huzzah!

Comment by 1700

Hmm. No Achievement for a Tribute run? What happened to OLD-SCHOOL dungeon crawling? :P

Comment by 118126

It's only worth 10 points? that's 3 dungeons.....you gotta be kidding me. Oh well, earlier today I spent like...3hours total running all the non-raid dungeons between BRD and Ramparts....brought back a lot of memories.

Comment by 340

Remember to loot the shard on the floor after Alzzin is dead (red on floor near the right plant)

There's a quest in moonglade that rewards 1000 Cenarion Circle rep, you don't need the quest to pick it up

Comment by 273675

(Fixed for Cataclysm changes: 4.0.3)

Here is a vague but long guide on how to do this, as I assume there are many level 80's who mean to solo this but have never done it or can't remember it.

DM East: Alzzin the Wildshaper.
There is no longer a Crescent Key. You must kill Zevrim first, then run into the courtyard and talk to the tree, who will bust open the door. Corridor leads to Alzzin.

DM North: King Gordok
After you enter, run west to the next room. In the center of the circular platform there is a chest. Open it, there is a key there. You need it. Then just go west through the door you just picked up a key for. This (long) hallway is pretty linear and will lead to Gordok eventually.

Note: If you don't kill Cho'Rush while you're killing Gordok, you will be proclaimed king of the ogres and everything will be green to you as you run out. Its nice.

DM West: Immol'thar
There are five pylons in the instance that are powering a forcefield around Immol'thar. The five pylons are shut down by killing the elementals around it. One pylon is located in the Capital Gardens right where you enter the instance. When you continue on, you will see a doorway to your left (don't go down the ramp). Go through that door and up the ramp. There are two pylons on this top level of the Court of the Highborne. Clear them, then drop down to the level you were at previously, and go down the ramp now. The hallway will lead you to Immol'thar's room. Clear the pylons to the left and right, and his forcefield will disappear.

Comment by Yttrium

I would never have done it if it weren't for this guide - But I can see now why people don't run it. If you want to pick up an Ogre Suit which lasts for 10 minutes, remember to take 4 Bolts of Runecloth, 8 Rugged Leather and 2 Rune Thread. The quest giver is located behind a set of mobs in Dire Maul North, he is a small goblin that is chained up. The ogre tannin can be obtained in a basket on the first floor in a corner. Once you have received your tannin, just continue to kill King Gordok whilst Cho'Rush the observer is still alive - now you can run down to the quest giver and pick up your ogre suit, even though the mobs will not attack you anymore anyway!

Enjoy your free ogre suit!

Comment by 51777

I just did this achievement and to my surprise I got the tribute without the suit or activating the ice trap on Guard Slip'kik. From memory the whole point of the a Tribute Run was to get to King Gordok without killing any of the named ogres (with the execption of Guard Mol'dar for the Gordok Inner Door Key).

So basically what I'm try to say is that at 80 you don't need any of the materials for the suit (unless you want to be able to be an ogre) to do a Tribute Run, all you need to do is make sure you don't kill any of the named mobs.

Comment by 137993

Imao Blizz should track if a warlock got their Dreadsteed the old fashioned way, and depending on that give us credit for Immol'thar, since in order to do the ritual you need to kill Immol'thar.

Comment by 299735

Ok so just a little tip for anyone who is doing this the same way I did, and enters Dire Maul West from the door inside the library. When going backwards through the instance, you encounter a door while leaving the Prison of Immol'thar. After you go through that door, there is a rather large tree(ish) looking mob. If you kill him, like every other mini tree-looking-thing-of-a-mob in the instance will aggro and, well... they're pretty nasty. They took down my geared to the teeth 80 mage without a contest.

I suggest not entering this instance from the library. Rather come in from the courtyard.

Comment by 333374

lol...i guess you forgot to invis xD

Comment by Balstradan

Quite surprised that no one has said this yet, but the title of this achievement is actually a reference to the nickname Samwise Didier and Chris Metzen gave René Koiter.

During this time, I got to know many people within the different spheres of Blizzard's domain, albeit in a virtual space. Chatting about art and work, jamming out ideas, joking around...very much like the flow with Sammy and Metzen when my brother was alive. As the first level 60 in the guild, I had pretty much seen everything besides the high-end raids so I took it upon myself to share that with my fellow guildies. One has to understand that the process of working on the game usually does not equate to the experience of playing it. In order to enjoy the content the team had created, I set up daily dungeon runs during the lunch breaks. I would whizz through them together with any Blizzardite I could muster, just in time before the end of the break. My most illustrious of 'lunch runs' was the ruined dungeon of Dire Maul as its three halls provided entertainment and rewards in a bite-size chunk of one hour each. And thus, the team affectionately nicknamed me the 'King of Dire Maul', inspired by the ogre leader roaming its interior. Utter the name 'King of Dire Maul' in certain Blizzard circles and see them reminisce in nostalgia before you.

Comment by 174773

for dire maul east, just find ironbark ( a huge tree) and have him break open the door. then just follow that path and kill last boss.

Comment by 692108

I would prefer those ogres spirits to say 'Long live the new king' and bow before me after i had slain King Gordok

Comment by Jurre

This achievement is a reference to the René Koiter, twin brother of Michel Koiter (he of the Fallen Warrior Shrine in the Barrens).
When Michel founded SonsofStorm.com, he came into contact with Samwise and Chris of the Blizzard creative department.
They formed a guild on the World of Warcraft alpha, and later on the finalized World of Warcraft.
René, playing from the Netherlands, had to overcome a 9 hour time difference would he want to be able to play with his new found friends in California.

Blizzard employees used their lunchbreaks to explore dungeons, and level up their characters.
They also visited Dire Maul, every wing taking a full lunch break to complete. René and the Blizzard employees that joined his run cleared Dire Maul time and time again, and as a tribute he was affectionately nicknamed 'King of Dire Maul'.

It was not that this nickname was made eternal until achievements were introduced to the game.

Source: http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/memorial_twincruiser.html

Comment by 777827

Just finished Doing my solo run For the Achivement as a 64 hunter, mite take a bit longer at a lower lvl than that, but wouldnt try it and less then 60
Looking to get Classic dungeon master! have one more to do! Stormwind city which is a pain to get into By the way!

Comment by seahen

How come female players who get this aren't called the Queen instead?

Comment by sephiroth692

The thing I don't understand about the achievement is that the goal of Capital Gardens is Immol'thar rather than Prince Tortheldrin. You have to kill Immol'thar in order to even fight Prince Tortheldrin and when you use Random Classic Dungeon in Dungeon Finder the satchels, money and extra experience is given when you kill Prince Tortheldrin. Wowpedia, Wowwiki and Wowhead also list Prince Tortheldrin as the last boss.

Comment by louis2red

how many dire maul dungeon r there ?

Comment by ns88

dear god this instance is horrible. A real pain in the ass to get this achievement even at 90. Took me 8 hours running around in this *!@#ing PoS maze. $%^&ing obnoxious as &*!@.

Comment by layena

Yes this bugged as of 6.0.2. I put in a ticket about it and was told to check a fansite for info on how to do the achievement. Really? I don't see how wowhead is going to tell me how to fix my issue of the achievement greying out the boss that I killed when I move on to the next one. Then randomly giving me credit again for it but taking away the new one. Seems to me that is a blizz fix. But I guess they don't see the issue :( Oh well I guess I just won't be able to complete this line of achievements, which won't bother me at all.....

Comment by 1389576

lol, just soloed it XD roughly over level was lvl 52 at the begining and lvl 53 at the end... still got almost all bosses except for the last captain cuz heck was bored and the one on the freezing trap... still didnt get the achievement X'D still would ve tried it if i knew it was bugged but damn ... was hyped to get the achievement .... meh

Comment by 1387709

just ran it today, still bugged

Comment by Patriote

Still bugged

Comment by ShaunDreclin

Sent in a GM ticket, got a canned pre-written response blah blah read fansite.
Replied to the ticket and asked for somebody to manually credit me, two days later got a response and a GM credited me. c:

Comment by Shif

This achiev is still bugged as of dec 17 2014

i opened a ticket politely asking if i could get credit for the achievement because it kept bugging out and this is the response i got

Greetings,

Thanks for taking the time to contact us about your in-game issue. Please be sure to read the information below - this is our final answer.

The issue you reported is either something we are not able to assist with, or we are unable to verify that all of the criteria were met. At this time, we are not able to assist with granting progress or completion. The only way to get these achievement is to run through the criteria again.

I’d recommend checking out the criteria on one of our database fan-sites, such as (www.Wowhead.com). The comments section has a lot of helpful tips and information from other players, that can often times help clarify any missing details.

If you believe the issue to be caused by a bug in the game, please report in detail using the in-game Bug Reporting feature in the Help window to the developers and bug teams of World of Warcraft so that the issue can be fixed.

Thanks again for contacting us about this issue!

Comment by silveropal3

Received the cookie-cutter response as well from Terkinon, still bugged as of 12/22/14.
I even uploaded a screen shot of each of the bosses dead in the wings of Dire Maul but apparently that wasn't any sort of proof to them.

"Greetings,
Thanks for taking the time to contact us about your in-game issue. Please be sure to read the information below - this is our final answer.
The issue you reported is either something we are not able to assist with, or we are unable to verify that all of the criteria were met. At this time, we are not able to assist with granting progress or completion. The only way to get these achievement is to run through the criteria again.

I’d recommend checking out the criteria on one of our database fan-sites, such as (www.Wowhead.com). The comments section has a lot of helpful tips and information from other players, that can often times help clarify any missing details.

If you believe the issue to be caused by a bug in the game, please report in detail using the in-game Bug Reporting feature in the Help window to the developers and bug teams of World of Warcraft so that the issue can be fixed.

Thanks again for contacting us about this issue! "

I replied with a not-so-pleased response, will update with their response.

UPDATE 12/22/14

Received this response from Reparthis:

"Greetings,

Thanks for taking the time to contact us about your in-game issue. If you believe the issue to be caused by a bug in the game, please report in detail using the in-game Bug Reporting feature in the Help window to the developers and bug teams of World of Warcraft so that the issue can be fixed.

The issue you reported is either something we are not able to assist with, or we are unable to verify that all of the criteria were met. At this time, we are not able to assist with granting progress or completion. The only way to get this achievement is to run through the criteria again.

I would also recommend checking out the criteria on one of our database fan-sites, such as (www.Wowhead.com). The comments section has a lot of helpful tips and information from other players, that can often times help clarify any missing details.

Thanks again for contacting us about this issue! "

*UPDATE*
Response received on 12/23/14

"Greetings,

Thanks for taking the time to contact us about your in-game issue. If you believe the issue to be caused by a bug in the game, please report in detail using the in-game Bug Reporting feature in the Help window to the developers and bug teams of World of Warcraft so that the issue can be fixed.

The issue you reported is either something we are not able to assist with, or we are unable to verify that all of the criteria were met. At this time, we are not able to assist with granting progress or completion. The only way to get this achievement is to run through the criteria again.

I would also recommend checking out the criteria on one of our database fan-sites, such as (www.Wowhead.com). The comments section has a lot of helpful tips and information from other players, that can often times help clarify any missing details.

Thanks again for contacting us about this issue!"

***UPDATE*** 1/1/2015

"Heya Katherine, Game Master Ashuntorm here, I hope you're doing well.

I understand you're having an issue with gaining the achievement for Dire Maul.

Right now, I'm looking at all the reports we have going back and forth between our Quality Assurance Department, and it definitely seems like this may be a issue that other players are experiencing. This means you're not alone and this may be a bug that needs to be ironed out on our end here at Blizz. Luckily it looks like our QA team is already communicating with our Developers about the issue which means it's being looked into.

I can't say when this may or may not be fixed as all issues take different amounts of time to get resolved. We also are not able to offer any type of workarounds at this time as we can only perform the workarounds that are given to us directly by our Developers and those have to be approved first. If any workarounds are approved and provided to us, you should see an update posted on our Bug Report forums on our website at http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/

One of the reasons we're unable to grant the achievement for you is because it's not showing up in our logs as something that we're able to verify so we will have to wait until we have a work around provided from our dev team who are working hard to ensure this gets fixed so you can continue your adventures to complete achievements.

Before I go, I do want to thank you again for your time, patience, and understanding in this matter and we will hope to see much more of you in game as we continue to battle the Iron Horde! :)"

Comment by canderson1390

Still bugged it seems. I spent about 4 hours trying to get this last night (New Year's Eve) thinking maybe there was a time limit before I looked here; not pleased.

Comment by 1407437

I ran it today and wish I'd read these comments before. I got the message that I completed the dungeon (which should be something blizz could check?), which also means that I should have received the achievement.
You'll guess... I didn't.

I started with Alzzin, checked if I saw him checked in the achievement - which he was - and went on with Immol'thar and king Gordok. After completing the dungeon I was wondering why I didn't get the achievement and to my astonishment I noticed that Alzinn and Immol'thar were unchecked and only Gordok was checked...

I'm not sure, but I think the problem occurs because you leave the dungeon after running the first zone and have to enter it again (in totally other spots) for the two other zones...

Dire Maul is getting very annoying to me. First: there are two entrances to the east zone. If you take the wrong one, as I did, you don't get the quests, and the bosses you defeat won't count for the completion of the dungeon. I didn't realize this right away, so I had to start all over again. (You've got the right entrance if you hit npc's almost immediatly).

Next: it's pretty hard to find the entrances to both the west and the north zone, because if you run the dungeon as I did, you'll exit the east part "in the middle of nowhere". So I only found it after searching wowhead (which helped me a lot!)

It takes a lot of time to run the whole dungeon and due to the problems with the achievement, I've got to do it again! *Not happy* :-(

Comment by pfilias

I just ran this tonight... boy how I hate these old dungeons... they take forever, even at level 100.

I did not get this achievement. I'm pretty pissed I wasted the time on this. I just want to get my Classic Dungeonmaster achievement. Is that so much to ask?

Comment by TrollHunter57

Hello everyone.

I came here to look up this achievement, and saw many people seem to be denied getting it. Here are some tips.

First off, while in the dungeon (after you run it again) take a screenshot of you standing it it, showing it is completed, along with your achievement window open to the King of Dire Maul achievement.

I did this, along with filling out the petition under Achievement problems. Make sure you be as specific as possible on the date and time you finished the dungeon (make the ticket as soon as possible).

I did this, and got this response:

Hi there,

Game Master Nalimua here to tackle your issue! =D I would like to foremost apologize about this wait, we’re attacking the queues hardcore, and I really appreciate your patience! /hugs!

I am sorry to hear about your experience with the achievement: King Dire Maul. =/ This is a known issue our QA Teams are aware of and are working on a fix as soon as possible! In the meantime, I am able to fix this all for you! You should now find this achievement as complete the next time you log onto -----. =)

If there is anything else I can do for you, please don't hesitate to knock on my door! =D

Otherwise I hope you have a fantastic rest of the day! *Cheers*

Hopefully this is fixed soon for everyone!

Comment by 1439605

I saw a comment where this bug was going to be fixed in 6.1, though I did not see it in the patch notes. Does anyone know if it has been fixed? I'm going to try it later today, but thought I would check first and see if anyone else has already tried.

Comment by Orwell42

As of today I got this achievement! I guess they fixed the bug from previous comments.

A couple things of note that I didn't specifically see in other comments:

Dire Maul is in Feralas on the continent of Kalimdor
Dire Maul is broken into 3 different instances each with one of the bosses from the achievement inside
Alzzin the Wildshaper in the instance @ (64,30)
Immol'thar in the instance @ (60,30)
King Gordok in the instance @ (62,24)
There are more entrances than those 3 but those are the main ones. The other entrances are in tunnels around the area

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Defeat each wing of Dire Maul.

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	Alzzin the Wildshaper (1)
	King Gordok (1)

	Immol'thar (1)

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/npcscan add 11496 Immol'thar
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/way Dire Maul 56.6 28.8 Alzzin the Wildshaper
/way Dire Maul 34.9 57.5 Immol'thar
/way Dire Maul 31.9 22.9 King Gordok

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