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Comment by Deihjan

Quite possibly a reference to everyone's favourite Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, Queen of Mereen, Princess of Dragonstone and Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen.

But that's just me, hoping.

Comment by Akcope

Freeing the alliance slaves does not give credit. Broken?

Comment by caboosed

During the Garrison Daily Quest "Assault on the Stonefury Cliffs" you can get Shackle Keys to free them, they don't seem to have a great drop rate and once the assault is over you cannot get them until you have the quest again so it does not look like this can be grinded.

Comment by Virulent0

Freeing the captives in the cages gives credit.
~~Freeing the working, chained slaves does not.~~(##RESPBREAK##)16##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##

Comment by psir

You have to be on the daily quest for Bloodmaul Stronghold.

The keys drops from "Bloodmaul Taskmaster" and "Bloodmaul Brute", they are not 100% droprate. 1 Key = 1 prisoner saved. So this is a grind quest.

Tips:
1. There's a bug now where saving the working slaves doesn't counts towards the achievement. So only save the caged one's.
2. Currently not doable for Horde, as it only counts if you free HORDE npc's! And I havn't found a single horde npc around.
3. When you've got 100% done on the daily quest, you abandon it and retake it and go back and do it all over again untill you've got 50 prisoners saved :)

Enjoy, this takes time!

Comment by Sarthorius

If this is kinda broken for hordies (no credit) since there may be only draenei in the cages, I may presume there's a similar daily in shadowmoon valley for hordies then? Doesn't make sense to me, if there isn't.

This IS doable as horde, you'll see the cages flashing as you get close. The only problem is that there are more draenei around than orc slaves.

Comment by Ozzayel

Got this daily today and its bugged for alliance this time. There are only horde (frostwolf) prisoners in cages and i've looked all over. Meh...

**EDIT**
I even went server hopping trying loads of different servers, didn't find a single alliance caged prisoner.

Comment by 1251621

So luckily we got the same daily two days in row. It is a bit broken for servers with either more horde or alliance. After yesterdays rolling restarts started this and got 25, I spent all day but like 0 horde came out to release their orcs. Their about 10-20 minute re-spawn timers. Sadly you have a 50/50 of re spawning as the faction you need. Today we had another set of restarts so i headed out there and got my final 25. Also so you don't have to read all comments on this page. Only caged ones work the others DONT COUNT!. Don't forget the little isle to north has two spawn points.

Comment by 1410477

So here's the deal with this achievement and it's many bugs...

First of all, you must be on the Apexis Crystal daily, "Assault on Stonefury Cliffs". The area is correctly called this, but the achievements are listed under "Bloodmaul Stronghold". However, if you made it this far searching for the achievement then you've probably already realized that...

In the area there are three types of slaves:
1) Slaves in a cage
2) Slaves shackled
3) Frozen slaves

Slaves in a cage are freed by simply clicking on the cage.

Slaves that are shackled must be freed using one of the keys that drop from Taskmasters. One key opens one shackle and then disappears from your inventory. The keys last one hour, or if you leave the quest area.

Frozen slaves are freed simply by breaking them out.

Currently, freeing only the the first one, slaves in cages, will count towards the achievement. Unsure if this is intended, but judging by the sheer number that you have to free for the achievement (50) I'm guessing it is not.

Slaves in cages spawn in set locations throughout the area. It seems as if only so many cages can be available at a time, as I have sat in a known spawn location and sometimes they will spawn frequently and sometimes they will take quite a long time to respawn, but there will be many others up in other locations.

When a cage spawns it has a 50/50 chance of either being an Orc or a Draenei. You can only free the slaves that correspond to your faction, further complicating this achievement. Therefore, slaves of the opposite faction need to be freed to despawn and have a chance of respawning for your faction. If no one on the other faction is freeing their slaves then eventually all the spawns will be for their faction and none for yours.

In conclusion, this achievement IS possible, but it is very tedious and it appears like it is subject to several bugs.

Good luck!

Comment by Unholypriest

Another Achievement which is doable with the x-realm pre-made groupfinder tool.

Simply keep switching servers and its pretty easy :)

Comment by Juvy

Each slave freed from a cage counts as 2% of your quest fill bar.
If you aren't on the quest you can't open the cages.

Comment by xmysticpandsx

I must add along with all the other comments based on this achievement that it is due-able in 1 day. Simply grab the "Assault on the Stonefury Cliffs" daily, and head over to the location. Open only the caged slaves (do not need a key for this) and try to avoid killing any hostile NPC's. (Yes this will take a some time due to the cage spawn rate and other players being in the area doing the daily). When you get to about 90-97% completion on the quest simply abandon the quest, head back to your garrison, pick it back up and repeat. Along with this achievement you may also be able to complete Delectable Ogre Delicacies

Comment by iceth

This achievement is undoable for Horde side right now. Since we can't free Dranei ones and if we free orc slaves it doesn't count for achievement, its impossible to do. I opened ticket for it. A GM told me it's reported as bug from several players and it's being researched.

Comment by Bastiecats

Looked all over. I found about 17 cages. To confirm, only caged prisoners count towards achievement. Here are the coordinates I could Find. There are two that are not on the list due to character space issues, but they are close enough to another to be able to find them.

/way 51.38, 16.57
/way 44.18, 9.12
/way 49.86, 15.56
/way 44.67, 20.73
/way 44.86, 14.94
/way 45.41, 15.84
/way 38.16, 18.67
/way 37.54, 17.96
/way 39.20, 15.98
/way 39.92, 16.50
/way 41.28, 12.49
/way 40.89, 11.73
/way 47.37, 13.14
/way 46.24, 12.15

Comment by Bynun

I have worked out a number of things about this achivement which i though i should share.

There are 2 type of cages, horde and alliance with about 15 to 20 of each.
They DO NOT share spawns locations, this means you can have all alliance and horde available at the same time.
The respawn time is around 10 to 20 minutes if only one faction is freeing them.
The respawn time can be shorter if both factions are freeing them (probably related to the number of available objects).

So if you are running around and can't find any it's simply because you are just unlucky. The best advice i can give is to wait until 3am realm time when the dailes reset, grab the quest (if it's the right one) and go open the cages. You'll find only a few other people there and cages everywhere!

Comment by Mormolyce

Either let both Alliance and Horde free either Draenei or Orc prisoners, or fix the chain gang NPCs so that they count. Preferably both.

Comment by 1421243

First : You do not need any key fir cages,
Second : Do not camp cages like ive did b4 . Wasting 10 hours for nothing.
Best way to do it its just roam all the time , this will take you not more than 2 hours.
When u free the slave from cage , cage random re spawn in 5 sec max. Good luck hunting.

Comment by MrPixxel

How to do it a way more easier than farming Shackle Key during Assault on Stonefury Cliffs.

Wait for Garrison Campaign: The Search for Shadow Hunter Bwu'ja. Complete quest and take next one (Out of the Chains). Kill mob called Rugrum the Pit Boss inside the cave and loot Bloodmaul Slave Key from his corpse. With this key you can free EVERY slave in Stonefury Cliffs, so DO NOT complete the quest now, because you lose that key.

Now with Bloodmaul Slave Key run around Stonefury Cliffs and free every caged slave of your fraction. The key has no expiration limit or whatever. Keep it until you complete achievement and then finish the garrison campaign.

Hope it helps you guys :-)

*** EDIT ***
For each prisoner freed you gain 4% towards Assault on Stonefury Cliffs. You'll need to take the Assault multiple times (at least twice).

Comment by 826041

Currently on Sargeras - there are no alliance cages.... only horde.

None of the cages are clickable... I fear until they make the chains a part of the achievement, this one will be fairly difficult.

Comment by Sarcisspvp

Method of getting this:

Since faction cage spawn rates depend on how heavy the server factions are you will need to server hop to get onto servers with opposite factions being heavy.

What I've done is camp next to: Nub the Torturer

He has 10 cages next to him.

Server hop to different realms using LFG and free slaves when they pop up while phasing into the realms.

It can be fast, no running around and saves a lot of headache on this achievement.

I hope this helps everyone!

Comment by Burnay

This achievement would be more accurately be named "Opener of cages" since the cages are the only ones that count currently...

Comment by ilostmahbucket

Fastest way to get this achievement until it is hotfixed:

1. Use a website to see which realms have the highest faction population opposite yours (I'm horde so I wanted Kel'Thuzad which is almost 90% alliance).

2. Have a friend add your btag, make a level 1 and get yourself invited to that server. ... You do have one friend right?

3. Tons of cages should be available IF Stonefury isn't that realms' apexis daily. Your buddy can log off. If you see a bunch of people running around in that area, try a different realm.

I got 34 cages in 3 passes ~10 minutes. I had to abandon the daily and pick it up again to get more cages.

Comment by cheesemonster

Many of the previous commenters lamented the lack of horde slaves to free; clearly the horde soldiers of their servers are superior to those on Arathor because ours are all filled with miserable, crying orcs.

Hordies of all origins, come to Arathor and shame your brethren by letting some of these poor, wretched souls out of their pathetic cages. With a bit of luck they will be replaced by Dranaei for us to release!

Comment by Roininish

Can we get a ss of map locations? my coord seems to be off...by alot

Comment by Mindymadango

Hi all, i just created this profile to comment specifically for this achievement and i think this is the EASIEST and FASTEST way to get it done.

First of all, you need to be on the daily quest "assault on the stonefury cliffs" you pick up from your garrison. The whole quest is happening at northern frostfire ridge. When you get there you need to free slaves of your faction that are INSIDE a cage. Chained slaves don't count towards the achievement. Now, 2 things :

1) You simply DO NOT NEED any keys to unlock the eligible cages

2) The eligible cages ARE HIGHLIGHTED, which makes them clearly visible even from quite long distance the same way you can see in draenor areas trees you cut down for timber for your garrison lumber mill, so you don't really need to pay much attention as your eye will guide you with not much effort.

Here is the trick to find huge amounts of eligible cages in short time : You just keep switching servers and make a circle around. When you finish your circle you join another server. How you do that? Simply you join a premade group that is searching for more members to accomplish its goal by using your 'DUNGEON FINDER' tool and you just look around for eligible cages. You don't even care what the group's goal or location is, you only care the leader's server to be different than the other servers you already searched. Aiming in low population servers or balanced ones with close range on horde/alliance ratio will provide you with better results.

I completed this achievement this way myself getting the remaining 31 cages i needed in less than 1 hour. Take my advice and enjoy your 10 achievement points plus on your account !

Comment by thebl4ckd0g

my server is alliance heavy, but there seems to be an abundance today of alliance prisoners, yet no horde prisoners in sight. as opposed to yesterday, where there was a ton. not sure what the respawn time is on the cages, but its' pretty horrible as far as I can tell. 3 loops in a 20 min. time span, and none respawned.

Comment by MindHunter

I just finished this in record time. What I did was, went where the daily is (coordinates (38,18) & (40,21)) these two spots have a bunch of frozen slaves, you can free them even if you aren't on the daily quest. After I freed all of them on my realm I jumped to another realm and did the same.

Edit: Added a link to more coordinates.

Comment by Shirana

you can free those slaves without cage too which you need key for, they gives credit now

Comment by hatman555

In Patch 6.1 Frozen Slave now count towards the 50 slaves freed needed for Breaker of Chains. This makes the achievement super easy, as the Frozen Slave are always around even when not on Assault on Stonefury Cliffs. Damage only means no farming for Shackle Key either. Woot!(##RESPBREAK##)16##DELIM##asakawa##DELIM##

Comment by 1210820

Funny that no Chains are broken in this achievement considering all the chained prisoners in the area :)

Comment by Volleynova

Epic Victory. Slaves can be freed anywhere in the cliffs now. Happy happy happy!

Comment by Softcore

A very fast way I found for this was to go to:
/way 40.87 20.81 for those with cords
just north of where it says daggermaw ravine on the map for those without

in that area there are 5 frozen slaves you can break out that each count towards your total of 50. i used group finder to just server hop around joining garrison vendor groups and grabbing the 5 on each one, was able to complete achievement in ~10 min.

enjoy :)

Comment by TheZoog

I'm not sure what to make of these posts. Pre 6.1 I tried several times to get this cheev. I never freed slaves in cages, only shackled ones, and it always gave me credit. However, killing 3 guards to get 1 key eventually maxed me out 100% on the daily after which I could no longer get credit for freeing slaves.

Here was the other problem: dropping the quest and re-acquiring it also RESET my freed-slave counter. Also, you can only get credit for freed slaves while on the apexis crystal daily, and if you wait until the next time the daily comes up, your freed-slaves counter RESETS.

So, basically, the only way I'm going to be able to do this buggy cheev is to do as you guys suggest and just free the caged slaves, no matter how long it takes, and hope that its like punting goren eggs in that each freed slave only gives 1% credit towards the daily. I'll update this post to confirm.

Comment by whyzzim

As of 6.1 the working slaves and iced slaves now correctly counts towards the quest progress.

Comment by Windfang

As of 6.1 all 3 types of slaves give credit: Slaves in cages, shackled slaves (for which you need a key) and frozen slaves. The frozen slaves CAN be freed while NOT on the apexis quest, however they only give credit towards the achievement if you free one from your own faction.

Comment by 165964

At 37,18 I found a group of 3 Frozen Slave as well as some cages. Gave me 6 freed slaves in one go. Additionally a bit further down 40,20 the way to the cave involved in the Garrison campaign contained lots of Frozen Slaves as well.

Both groups respawned after about five minutes. I was there on a day it wasn't the daily.

Also, at 44 slaves freed I was done with my quest, yet freeing Frozen Slaves still counted towards the achievement! So you can finish it outside quest. However, to maximize it during the quest I did not kill any mobs. Meaning I also did not go after the Bloodmaul Taskmasters for their keys. I only did cages and frozen slaves. Being a caster made it easy to not kill extra mobs around frozen slaves (sorry melee folks).

Again, killing frozen slaves for the achievement can be done without having the quest!

Comment by blizzarius

yey for Blizzard for fixing things.

was doing my garrison apexis daily, and as a little testing, i tested all three slave types for the achievement, and as of patch 6.1.2, all three slave types now give credit for the achievement. as a little more testing, i have also found, that the Frozen Slaves, can still give credit after the daily quest has been completed, while the caged slave and the chained slave still require the daily quest.

good hunting to you all who still need this. i need to go visit my local priest for some R&R. :P

Comment by DebbiD

As of the newest patch today, I can confirm that using keys to free slaves, and breaking the frozen slaves from their icy tombs does count toward the completion of this achievement!

Comment by Sentro

Important note: You don't necessarily need the related quest to obtain this achievement. Slaves which are freed from the icetombs scattered around the area will always count towards this achievement here (as long as they belong to your faction - a freed Draenai will increase the counter by one for alliance players while frostwolf orcs do so for horde players). I just got the achievement this way on a day without the related quest up.

Comment by wisedada

You can grind your way to 50 just picking upAssault on Stonefury Cliffs (or with Scouting Missive: Stonefury Cliffs) and joining a premade group through LFG. This will put you in raid, being unable to complete quest (or gaining progress for it).

Without this "trick", you'll complete the quest before being able to reach 50 or even 25 prisoners freed,

Comment by Slaythar

Best way to do this achievement is:
* get on Apexis quest
* go 40.21
* free frozen slaves
* check LFD and join any raid group for realm hop and in raid you don't get % towards completition
* free frozen slaves
* repeat

:) Done in 10 mins

Comment by duranox

Just go to 40, 21 and join a raid to keep you progress from increasing, there are around 7 frozen slaves here and if you server bounce between raids you'll finish it in a few min.

Comment by Beatrice

A person trying to find answers here, in these comments, might be misled.

So let me state it with bold letters:
You DON'T have to stop your progress by joining a raid group.
You DON'T need to have the daily from your garrison.
You DON'T need to have the location as 'bonus objective'

All you need is to come there and kill those ice tombs - they will increase the count for the achievement in any situation.

Please stop saying about raid groups and stuff, these aren't needed for this achievement.

Comment by Melandroso

Great spot at 37, 18. Two cages and three frozen slaves and very few mobs. Add some server hopping and you will be done in no time.

Comment by katrick528

I did the achievement last night.

I already had some progress from when I just did the dailies regularly months ago.
I started a custom group and I had changed to a raid group.I kept declining people that wanted to join.
I kept running around opening every cage I saw spawn, and killing every frozen tomb I found. (At one point, I had 10 of the opposite faction within the frozen tomb in a row which I was not happy about.)

At one point, I decided to actually progress the daily because I wanted to go to bed and at least finish the daily.

The chained people that take shackle keys to free now count towards this achievement.

I had read through many of the comments on here and went looking for just cages and frozen people, but the chained people work!

I was not able to loot any keys when in a raid group, so if you are trying to do a raid group to prevent daily progression and get the achievement then you would have to stick to cages and frozen (of your faction).

(I also got Delectable Ogre Delicacies achievement while working on this one. While running around, I paid attention to where food was, and when I knew where each of the 3 type were at, I would clear the area of mobs in spot closest to 2 of them, grab those 2, mount and run to get the 3rd. It is easy if you are already running around looking for the cage spawn locations.)

Comment by Jaydeetoo

Gotta love how after you "save" the frozen ones, they run about ten metres and drop dead.

"Yay, thank you I'm free, I'm .... *gasp *arghh ...." Dead

Comment by banchieeb

several frozen slaves spawn around 40,20

Comment by BirdKiller

Don't use your pet to attack the Frozen Slaves if you can help it. If they get the finishing kill, then you won't get the credit for the achievement. That, and the pets will aggro nearby mobs while your ranged attacks to the Frozen Slaves won't.

Comment by ChronoAS

Go to a cave (coords 40,20). Kill ice on frozen slaves there. Use Server Hop addon to change realm. Kill ice on another realm. Repeat to win.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Breaker of Chains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjRmnsuXqs8

Comment by alterecho

The respawn time on the frozen slaves in Frostfire Ridge at 40, 20 is fairly quick. Getting 3-5 slaves every minute or so.

Comment by Matzuek

As Alliance, I cycled between 2 spots of frozen prisoners for a reasonably fast completion. I will list both spots below.

/way #525 40 20 Spot 1
/way #525 38 17.7 Spot 2

Frozen slaves count regardless of any quest being active, only cages prisoners require the daily.

About 700 yards away is Nub the Torturer, surrounded by about 10 cages, though only 2 were usable for me when I checked, it's possible there could be more for you. May be good to check at least once.

/way #525 49.8 15.6 Nub the Torturer

There are a couple other frozen prisoner locations nearby you can hit while waiting for respawn if you are in a rush.

Comment by jlandeen

NOTE - you have to be on the missive quest (bought for 200 garrison resources in your garrison) "Missive: Stonefury Cliffs." Once you start it will change it's name to "Missive: Assault on Stonefury Cliffs."

You can click the cages, or use keys on the guys with foot fetters. Or you can do as I do, just go around and hit the guys locked up in ice.

Few important things:

You cant finish the achievement with 1 missive quest, as you will hit 100% and end the quest before you save 50.
You can get another missive right away, or even in advance... but you will have to either abandon the quest (or fly to garrison and turn it in) before you start another.

Happy hunting.

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