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Series

1.	Baron Sablemane's Poison
2.	The Smallest Creatures
3.	A Boaring Time for Grulloc
4.	It's a Trap!
5.	Gorgrom the Dragon-Eater
6.	Prisoner of the Bladespire
7.	Showdown

Storyline
Blade's Edge Mountains The Encroaching Wilderness Dust from the Drakes Protecting Our Own The Bladespire Threat Thunderlord Clan Artifacts Vision Guide The Bloodmaul Ogres The Thunderspike They Stole Me Hookah and Me Brews! Bladespire Kegger Grimnok and Korgaah, I Am For You! A Curse Upon Both of Your Clans! The Stones of Vekh'nir Trial and Error Ruuan Weald Understanding the Mok'Nathal Since Time Forgotten... Slay the Brood Mother The Totems of My Enemy Spirit Calling Gather the Orbs Inform Leoroxx! There Can Be Only One Response The Spirits Have Voices Whispers on the Wind Reunion On Spirit's Wings Baron Sablemane Into the Churning Gulch Baron Sablemane's Poison The Smallest Creatures A Boaring Time for Grulloc It's a Trap! Gorgrom the Dragon-Eater Prisoner of the Bladespire Showdown Culling the Wild Creating the Pendant Whispers of the Raven God Little Embers From the Ashes Damaged Mask Mystery Mask Felsworn Gas Mask Deceive thy Enemy You're Fired! Death's Door Harvesting the Fel Ammunition Fire At Will! The Hound-Master A Time for Negotiation... ...and a Time for Action Poaching from Poachers Whelps of the Wyrmcult Did You Get The Note? Wyrmskull Watcher Longtail is the Lynchpin Meeting at the Blackwing Coven Maxnar Must Die!

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Comment by virulence

Once you reach the northern ogre camp containing elites right outside of Gruul's Lair you can begin killing any of said ogres for the key for the cage. The cage can be found by walking straight forward into the camp and just looking up and to the left a little. On a side note, the raptors and ogres paired on patrol are not linked pulls; this leaves alot of possibilites open for solo kiting.

Comment by 18408

Coords are 64, 21.

Comment by 19693

(68 Hunter) I spent a good hour out solo killing enforcer after enforcer and couldn't get the key to drop. Maybe just bad luck on my side.

Comment by 19415

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31755 is the key, so you know what droprate to expect ;) 3-4% :o

Comment by 20486

Important to note that after you do finally get the key (took about 25-30 ogres for me), you have to climb to the veeeery tip of one of the nearby spikey-rock-things to open the cage. THEN you can summon Spirit.

Comment by slidewithme

Oh, augh. I tried to solo this as a 66 Warlock.. and it can be done, but it takes a long time. Chain fear + health funnel + 11 Felguards + 27 Ogres + 67 minutes later, I got my key. There's not much room to fear kite inside, and more than once I had to turn tail and 'git. I strongly suggest you take a group in the interest of preserving your patience and sanity.

Comment by 24125

Soloed this quest easy on lvl 68(mage) .. frost mages shouldnt have problems with this quest at all. But i dont know as fire.. GL

Comment by Oswald

This quest is Blizzard's idea of sadistic humor. They put you into a group, tell you to go kill some ogres and find a shiny key and save they day!! Little don't they tell you though, except for the fact that these ogres hit like trucks, and the key has about a 3% drop rate. So you will want to have some time on your hands. I spent an hour on this stupid quest when everyone else in my quest bailed out. Good game blizzard, I hope you have fun poking needles into your voodoo dolls.

Comment by briyan

You need to kill the elite ogres in the north east part of the valley (by Gruul's Lair) until you get the key to drop, then use the key on the hanging cage inside the camp, then use the whistle to summon Spirit. It's not entirely clear, but once you have the key, you right click the cage first, then after the door opens right click the whistle in your inventory to complete the quest.

Cage Location: 65.7, 20.1 (walk up the long spike to get to it)

I did this quest solo as a 70 hunter today (Feb 21, 2007) and the key dropped on my third elite ogre. In response to all the droprate concerns above, I am not sure if the droprate was changed, or if it just looks low on the stats because it only drops if you have the quest.

The elite ogres have approximately 25,000 health and hit for around 400-600 damage. They do a Thunderclap in melee range, and go berserk (with slow movement speed) when at low health so they can be kited with relative ease.

Comment by 24572

In response to the posts saying that you have to climb up to the very tip of the spike to open the cage ...

That may be true, but you don't have to open the cage. I went about 3/4 of the way up it, simply because it's safe in that spot. All you have to do is get close to the cage and use the whistle .. then Spirit will open it.

Aside from the drop-rate, piece of cale. ;)

Comment by 17378

Try 63, 18. That is where we found the altar.

Comment by 24920

if you are adament you want to solo this one there is a sweet spot behind a hut at 66,28. there are 3 easy to pick off ogres in the area, just kite them to safe area behind hut and do what you do, fear kite, pet tank etc.

Comment by 20422

We just killed 5 ogres and the key dropped good luck I guess.

Comment by 30341

** IMPORTANT **

You do not need 1 key per person. If everybody is near the cage, you all get credit for the release.

Tested on Lethon 3/15/07

Comment by 36842

been here an hour drop rate sucks

Comment by 31022

Soloed this with a 69 Paladin. I snuck into the area on the right side and found a 67 Bladespire Enforce on his own, killed him (using lots of healing and long-cooldown abilities) and got the key. Then I left, mounted up and made a dash for the cage. I managed to get out of combat behind the main building, but had two ogres to get past to get up the spike. I ran up it, died, and then spawned right by the cage and called the spirit to open it, quest done.

Comment by 16560

70 Combat rogue solo'd it got key on first drop. only stunlocked no cd's. and still was left standing with 3.5k hp.

And the NPC was DND.... Spirit 2 uses the key to open the cage.

Comment by 30464

It's really easy to solo with a shadow Priest 67. You just need the time. As soon as you get the key then go inside the camp on the left side there is a cave.. Just go close to it and just the whistle. The quest is completed well done. The drop rate is really really bad for me.. i did about 60-70 ogre kills..

Comment by 41292

I just spent 2 hours grinding solo for the key. 70 feral druid, it wasnt fun or easy but possible. You will question your sanity by the time this quest is done. I killed the repeated mobs over and over and finally at 63,19 a enforcer on the top of the tower dropped it. Gl, Blizzard dropped the ball on this one.

Dunebringer (garithos)

Comment by 502

I have been kiting the Ogres for about an hour. They are fairly easy solo kills, but the key has yet to drop. I estimate that I have killed at least 35.

Comment by 51684

Please can some one tell me how do get this Q ? need the leggs =) got my self a druid thats why ....

Comment by 32729

Not sure if things changed or not, but I want to correct a few people:

- The raptors and ogres ARE linked, whoever said they weren't is wrong.
- The Bloodmaul Ogres will NOT help you kill these guys, don't try.

Comment by 68938

Solo'd 69 feral druid. Got lucky with the key dropping off the 2nd enforcer.

Comment by Boney

The key drop rate is purely luck based, did this on my hunter solo and got it on my 4th kill, then again later on my mage and i was there over an hour and killed about 50 ogres

Comment by drstein

Solo'd as a 70 holy priest. If I save up all of my cooldowns I can just barely take down the elites solo. This was without kiting, did not find one I could kite safely by itself.

Comment by 24102

The ogres are crowd controllable(fear, roots, slowing effects), which means that they definitely are possible to solo for quite a few classes despite the fact that it will take some time.

Comment by Arodiel

This was soloable as a 70 protections paladin and I assumed I was going to get the key on the first few kills. 40 ogres later the key finally dropped, took a few deaths and wasted pots before I got the hang of it. About 3 minutes per kill adding up to 2 hours for a quest that cost me mluch more gold than the juicy 10g reward you get from this. The rest of the chain was simple and rewarding but I think the Blizzard developers feed on our torment and suffering. Why else would they have quests like this in the game? The beta testers can hardly say, yes, good job Blizzard, I really had fun mindlessly killing ogres for hours to become 10g richer. They are evil. Or this is just their way of making pointless things feel more rewarding as the satisfaction when that damn key finally drops is immense. That way they get us addicted to doing these pointless things. Either way they are evil sadists. My head hurts.

Comment by 5715

Solo'd as a 69 shadow priest on Ysondre.

Comment by 71039

Soloable for 70 prot warriors aswell, just have shieldblock up all the time and keep some rage in store when fighting against caster ogres to interrupt their flamestrikes with shieldbash or concussion blow.

Comment by 49229

This guys arnt that hard they are solo able ( 68 hunter marksman ) you just need to have mend pet on all the time and when your pet gets on low hp u just frezze trap the orges and heal your pet white bandadge and the kill the orge. Not very hard but take a wile . i solod theese guys for an hour but didnt get and then i was out of water =/ .

Comment by smittins

As far as the drop rate is concerned:

I got the key on my very first kill. While looking for help for the next quest (Showdown), I found a person that needed to do the key quest, so we started doing it again. It took us 38 ogre kills to get his key. So despite my getting the key on the first kill, the drop rate is not always good. I'm guessing the true rate is less than 10%.

Comment by 11863

The drop rate is terrible for these mobs. Be ready to farm for quite a bit if you're unlucky.

Comment by verethian

Nice trick I found out for soloing these as a mage. All I did was sheep the ogre and the raptor would keep on walking. Once the raptor was a decent distance away I could pull the ogre without aggroing the raptor.

Comment by Samas

Got the key on the first drop, on the ogre directly under the cage.

Comment by 27627

This is the key needed: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31755

Comment by 104098

Took about 40 minutes for us to get the key.

Comment by 43146

I got this key to drop on my first Bladespire Enforcer kill, Solo'd as a 70 rogue in T4/T5 without any cooldowns, leaving combat with 1k health remaning. I didnt read ALL of these posts but at 66,21 I had trouble finding the cage. It is hovering in the air next to the Hut there and leokk is a wyvern within the cage, after i got the key I flew up and landed on the top of the cage, used the whistle, easy gold. Hope this helps.

Comment by 73247

You get some priceless quotes from the ogres you kill if you are doing this quest after having completed the Ogri'la group quests from Mog'dorg the Wizened.

Comment by 102430

Attempted to solo, died in under six seconds.
Group IS required

Edit:
Level 67 Demo Warlock

Comment by 116315

Soloed on my 69 balance druid. Just rooted and dotted and repeated. Didn't have to drink in between. Dropped after my second kill. I killed mobs near the giant bonfire in the middle of the camp.

Comment by Mareko

Soloed it as a 67 frost mage. U don't need to get close to the chage, just use the whistle and the bird will fly and free the wyvern, but the drop rate for the key is bad, i had to kill 20+ elites :(.

Comment by gadeschaos

Got a loooot of luck and dropped the key on first kill, just below the cage ( flyed there in flight form ), used whistle and completed quest, 5 minutes with another druid friend helping XD

Comment by mouserinc

Drop rate indeed does suck on that key, I've been trying to get it for about 2 days now and still no luck

Comment by 117990

I must have some terrible luck with that drop rate...50+ kills before it ever dropped.

Comment by 95606

LOL. I got the key on first kill, guess someone upstairs likes me ;D

Comment by 76310

I have killed now over 60 of those and no key. Have they chanced the drop rate or am i just ridiciliously unlucky?

Comment by Tresjin

One easy way to separate the raptors out of the patrolling pairs. You need one person who is King/Queen of the Ogres. Have them run up to a patrolling pair and spam /dance (while targeting the ogre). The ogre will start dancing, the raptor will keep walking. Keep spamming /dance until the raptor is far enough away (they'll stop dancing a couple seconds after your last emote), then pull the raptor out of range to kill. Then, pull and kill the ogre solo.

Comment by alphamale

154 Mobs Killed. No key. Not in raid group...dropped group and remade group. No key.

Gg blizzard for making quest items with ridiculous drop rates.

Good luck to everyone on this horrible quest.

Comment by 70510

partially solo'd as a holy paladin(level 70)
6.2k health
10k armor
1.2k healing
555 spelldamage

just use the usual combo of seal of righteousness, judgement of righteousness, holy shock and consecration
heal with FoL and they'll go down pretty fast

however, i would suggest fighting the battle mages over the other, they can be taken head-on by a holy paladin and you'll require little healing

killed about 5 and then i teamed up with a resto shammy, with who i killed at most 10 and then the key dropped..

suppose we got lucky there? not sure, but i didn't think this had a bad droprate

a good tactic for resto sham/holy paladin team ups is having the paladin tank(regardless of health) and let the resto shammy keep earth shield on the pally(perhaps downrank to waste less mana) let the paladin bash away while the resto shammy nukes with lightning bolts

earth shield can easily keep a plate user of level 70 up since the mobs hit about 350 on 10k armor

Comment by 81231

right i tried to agro only the ogre but got both raptor and the ogre so i thought agro the raptor and guess what i got both again so the debate is still open as to weather they are linked or not but from my point of view they are so be careful

Comment by shinnyneko

solo'd (single pulls only) as a 70 shadow priest.
9.3k health/ 9k mana
1k +shadow dmg

didnt heal durring pulls, only after and had to drink up after each. mages are deffinaly easier then enforcers and the chef seems to have a ridiciously fast attack speed (couldnt get him down). deffinatly NOT the quest to pick as your last one to finish up before bed. been at it for probally 20 mins so far and no key. =<

btw, the beer doesn't work on these guys. it was worth a try though. too bad
but maybe taking a break to check if it would did help XD 2 pulls after i came back with the usless beer from the other end of the zone the damn key finally drops =3

Comment by 136931

Soloed this as a lvl 70 combat rogue. Dropped off the 4th or 5th ogre. Died once.

Comment by gummster

leokk is leokked up!

ahah

Comment by 16215

Soloable as a mage, and im assuming as a hunter, as you can easily kite them. They do about 600 damage per hit (on a mage) so they should be pretty easy to solo if you are 70. If you aren't 70, and are not a kiter, then you should get a buddy but it is still a pretty easy quest.

Comment by 16215

drop rate SUCKKKSSSS!! but is soloable with a 70 mage at least (they hit for 600-800 for a clothy) but drop rate is horrible. oh well. still trying to get it... >_> even sent a petition in.

Comment by 153909

Not very hard quest. I one 68 lvl hunter done this quest.

Comment by 96976

soloed as 65lv rogue. dunno for u but actualy it was hard.

Comment by CaptainColon

My experience is that the drop rate listed is pretty damn accurate...took me at least 30 kills to get the key :(

Comment by 147300

Solo'd this with little problems as a sub rogue. Drop rate does indeed stink. Killed probably close to 30 before getting the key to drop. There is a nice little area behind the hut that the cage is attached to, and to the right of the chef behind the hut, where you can easily pull 1 at a time. I cycled through the chef, and 2 of the enforcers. 1 enforcer spawns right in front of this lil safe area and the other just down the hill in front of a hut on your right.

Technique for the sub rogue was fairly straight forward, premed, ss, ambush, shiv, rupture. Always kept Ghost Strike up when the CD was down and used evasion when it was necessary. Kept crippling on my offhand for shiv and it allowed me to back away enough to bandage if necessary. Primarily racked combo points up with hemo/shiv always capping with a rupture when points were racked. Worked quite well. Think I used maybe 5 heal potions the entire time I was out there.

Comment by 154438

The Key never drops... I have killed over 25-30 with my druid friend and it never dropped.

Comment by 168391

Solo this as a 70 demonology warlock. I had just ding 70 so i didn't had any special gear. I simply pull back the group at the entrance (hadn't my flying yet), fear the ogre, kill raptor, while my Felguard was tanking. Use health funnel a LOT. Put curse on, maybe a drain life or two, then HEALTH funnel.

The raport have less life than the ogre, but i would say they hit a little big harder. not sure though.

After this pull i enter the camp and killing the ogre alone was a piece of cake. Got the key on 12th killed or more.

Good luck!

(didn't manage to solo the follow up, my dps didn't make it :(

Comment by toshi0220

Took me about 40 or so kills, but a member of the group I was in finally got it. Just stand under the cage you'll see that is raised pretty high and whoever has the key, clicks the whistle and you should all get credit for it.

Comment by 228378

i got it on my first org i kill pulled him with frost blot and he came with out his raptor and i'm a lvl 66 mage

Comment by kaze950

Solo'd easily as a BM hunter. Gorilladin tanked one elite without going below maybe 6k or 5k (at max HP of 7k) and got the key on first kill.

Comment by 227326

Soloed by a 69 hunter - The key dropped on the first kill. :)

Comment by molrad

Pretty easy to solo. I just killed one guy, got the key, ran to the cage, blew the whistle and ran out again.

Comment by 301719

Just did this quest on my own with my 68 Druid. I used flight form to get to a Bladespire Enforcer on top of the tower near the cage and beat him down with the help of my Treants. Dropped the key for me on first kill. Then i flew to the rooftop next to the cage and used the whistle. Done.

Comment by 267417

They must have buffed the drop-rate for this significantly because I just killed one battle-mage and got the key!

or am I just really lucky...

Comment by 311829

Solo'd as a 67 Hunter, here how
set out a freeze trap, single shot the rapator to pull into the trap
Bashed crap out of the ogre
had to freeze trap the raptor again
Killed the ogre, started bashing the raptor but my poor gorilla kicked it
Feign death.
Got lucky, key dropped
Jump on the mount and go to just below the cage
Feign death to loose all the followers
blow the whistle
Mount and got the hell out of there.
Note: i died a number of times before i got it to work, Bloody auto shot would break the trap.

Comment by 163506

Lvl 68 Demonology Lock. I Feared the Raptor and me and the Felgaurd killed the ogre relatively easy. when the raptor came back it was also an easy kill

Comment by 251762

I used my flying mount to fly from Ruuan Weald to the ogre camp. The key dropped on my very first kill. It was a tough fight and had to heal several times before I dropped the ogre and his raptor. Once he was down he dropped the key. I healed up and drank then got on my flying mount and flew to the rooftop of the tower where the cage is hanging. I landed on the rooftop with the cage just in front and below of my position. Used the whistle and got the message "Quest Complete". Mounted back on my flying mount and flew out. Completed as level 70 Prot Paladin.

Comment by 94144

Soloed as a level 69 ele shaman.

Don't ask me how, but pulled an ogre and the raptor just kept walking(just outside the gate) Pulled him up a ramp, droped FireEletot and let it get aggro, Lightingbolt away but be sure to heal the elemental, don't want the tank to croak now do we =P.

From there, I had to get through the 4 elites(two ogres two raptors) at the gate... Reincarnate....
Ghostwolf and run through, fast. If you have a free action potion, all the better, just get through far enough how ever you can be it pop a health pot something. reincarnate, and you shouldn't enter combat... Dance around the ogres, up the spike blow the whistle and get the hell out of there(my hearth is set to Thunderlord Stronghold so just ARecalled out)

Comment by 427363

I just solo'd this as a level 69 BM Hunter.
The key dropped on the first kill.
To complete this quest I only had to kill 1 mob (an elite for the key), then run underneath the cage. Simple, quest complete.

I'm sure any class could complete this if they use up any of their cooldowns.

Comment by ccmccoy

There are two ogres and a raptor at the NE edge of Gruul's Lair which can be individually killed. Kill the raptor first, then pull the ogre chef when the enforcer wanders away. If necessary, then kill the enforcer. The key dropped from the chef for me. Getting to the area is simple with a flying mount. I've not tried on foot, but it does appear possible to go north from the meeting stone to safely reach the raptor. The quest was rather straightforward for my level 70 hunter with a flying mount.

Comment by 490187

Solo'ed as a 66 BM hunter. Scare Beast'ed the raptor,then concentrated on ogre. Took 2-3 casts of scare beast before the orge was dead.took quite a bit of kiting.not extremely difficult, but not easy either. Key dropped on the first kill. coords

Comment by knerf

Easy peasy as a 67 BM Hunter..buff up your pet with some extra protection scrolls (if you have them) and go to the tower with loc 63-19. In my case there was only one elite Ogre and fairly easy to put down solo. Lucky for me the Key dropped at 1st kill. Fly to the cage, land on top and use the whistle....done. Repeat if the key doesn't drop the first time and watch the adds.....2 elite ogre's is way tomuch at lev 67 :-)

Comment by 303487

Just completed this quest as a 69 DK. Might have just been extremely lucky...the key dropped on first kill. Landed my flier on top of the cage and completed the quest in about 2 minutes.

Comment by omslemming

easy solo as a deathknight i soloed it with my 68 dk.....just pick on an ogre chef as they do the least damage even as an elite and you can easily take them down, then loot the key fly up to the cage and blow the whistle....quest complete! another group quest solo in the bag who needs 3 people when you have a dk! :P

Comment by 683750

just did this solo as a 67 Subtlety Rogue with average BC quest reward gear, and Deathblow X11s. I should note that I finished the fight with 187hp. with the new changes, I was amazed by my success with a simple stun lock, one super heal potion and some bleed effects with a wound poison on both blades. I didn't have any other buffs

Comment by 710827

Did it solo by 68 Rouge. Sap raptor, and kill Ogre - use Evasion, Blind him to bandage yourself, drop rate of the key is 100% now. And you don't need to use a key, just use at the cage.

Comment by 739219

Easy soloable for a retripala. Raptors and ogres are NOT linked pulls and droprate was okay(at least for me:))

Comment by 602250

Soloed as a 66 arcane mage. Just popped mirror image and got the key on the first try, flew up and blew the whistle.

Comment by 542362

Soloed this with a lvl 66 destro Warlock.

At the very back of the northern cliffs there is a lone mob. I just took this mob down, using my Voidwalker as a tank and got the key. Ended up with one third health left.

I then flew up to the top of the cage, because there was a mob underneath the cage, and blew the whistle. That dismounted me and the Voidwalker materialised on the ground, aggroed the mob and died. I couldn't mount and fly away because I was in battle. I couldn't hit the mob because he was under the cage I was standing on, but he could hit me so I died.

Might have been better going for the mob under the cage initially but I thought I would get adds there.

Comment by 807127

Just solo'd lvl 71 DK. If you go to 66,22 in the northeastern point of the camp, there are a few Ogres with no raptors. Thus, you can Solo these guys. But, they are pretty powerful for lvl 67 elites. I have beaten lvl 70 that were easier. They hit hard. Got Key on first kill!

Oh yeh, don't unmount on top of the cage. Something invisible attacked and killed me.

Comment by Minazuki

Soloed this as lvl 69 retributon paladin. Got the key from first mob, piece of cake!

Comment by 864063

The above post is the easiest way. Do not try to fight your way through the roaming elite pairs.
As a level 69 warrior, I couldn't take both elites down at the same time for two tries before checking in here.

If you go to the northeast next to the cave opening, there are several individual ogres that you can solo to get the key.

Once the key is obtained, fly to the top of the cage and blow the whistle.

That's it.

Comment by Ozrek

Soloed one of the mages as a 66 Sub Rogue. Opened with a cheap shot, then got 5CP up and hit him with a Kidney shot. When he went to cast his flame attack I interrupted it with a kick. He was down to about half when KS wore off, I then blinded him and healed up with first aid before finishing the job.

Comment by 707636

Easily soloable as a 68 frost mage. I got the Wyvern key on the first kill and then just flew up and landed on the roof of the hut that the wyvern cage is attached to. Summon the spirit and voila! :)

Comment by saeid

kill ogers loot key , use spirit's Whistle ( the quest item ) , it release a bird and it will be do rest of quest .

Comment by princessv

OK I just have to log on and post this...

Blizzard should consider how painful it is to kill them, these large ugly cumbersome ogres, as their queen.. ~>,<~

They died hailing me..

"Queen, me die now.."
"Me honored, queen kill me..."
"Queen think...there really is... Ogri'la?"
"Puny blood elf... you were a... horrible queen..."

I am a horrible queen indeed Q,Q..

(and I think everyone knows how many ogres you have to kill before you get the quest item.. IT'S RIDICULOUS!)

Comment by 512409

No longer elite, 6-7 K in health, low drop rate at this time July 2013

Comment by raistlyn

Alright, as of patch 5.4 this took me and another 68 20 minutes to find the key after clearing the camp twice. They are not elite anymore, like nearly everything in Outland, so unless you want to play with Gruul, don't bother looking for elites.

We finally found the key off a group that included a battlemage, an enforcer, a chef, a raptor, 3 small children, 5 golden rings, Velen, a partridge in a pear tree, and half of an eaten turkey leg.

Seriously, just kill everything until the key drops, you only need one for a group (thank the Light), then watch the bird save the wyvern, then wonder what other animal will work with you next, and hope if you're not a Tauren, druid, Pandaren, or shaman, that Rexxar will want you in his menagerie next.

Comment by Heimdallen

It's been mentioned here that only the Chefs drop the key, only the Battlemages drop the key, only the Enforcers drop the key, whatever whatever. Everyone has been misled, including myself, because at different times different mobs have had the quest info over their head saying they drop the key, and only that one type says it. For me, it was only displayed over the Enforcer's heads, leading me at first to believe that only they dropped the key.

Incorrect. Ignore all of those posts. Like I said, not their fault, they were misled like me, but incorrect just the same.

ANY of the Bladespire Ogres can drop the key. Just not very many like to. I decided after killing about the 25th Enforcer that it was getting lame and decided to kill them all since it's so quick and easy anyway, and a Battlemage dropped it for me, but that doesn't matter. I think they're all just as likely to drop it, except for the Ravagers maybe, since they don't have pockets and their arms are too short to do anything with a key, really.

Low drop rate thus leading to a lengthy bit of time spent on a quest that rewards nothing unusual or useful or valuable enough to warrant such a length of time spent completing it. Granted, the next quest rewards a blue, but it's pretty worthless at this point in the game, so overall still a pain in the butt.

Comment by 691522

Good thing is these mobs are no longer elites. I had to kill 38 of them before the key drops.

Comment by dj942001

Took me around 17 kills

Comment by 1440987

Prisoner of the Bladespire http://youtu.be/e3YyjQrScmE

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVKE0rvutSE&feature=youtu.be

Comment by jtrezzo

52 kills later...FFS

Comment by yalling

As of 2020, and the level squish, these ogres are no longer elites. It did take me a significant amount of kills to get the key - cleared the area twice on my 50 mage.

Links

Prisoner of the Bladespire

Slay Bladespire ogres to get the Wyvern Cage Key. Once you have it, go to the Wyvern Cage and use Spirit's Whistle to summon Spirit, who will unlock the cage to free Leokk.

	Rescue Leokk (1)
	Wyvern Cage Key (1)

Provided item:

	Spirit's Whistle (1)

Description

Shortly after my arrival in the mountains, I came under attack by a group of Bladespire ogres.

Though I fought free of them, and slew many, they took my wyvern, Leokk, captive. Spirit has found him, locked in a cage in the heart of the Bladespire encampment outside of Gruul's lair.

One of the ogres must carry his key. Find it and Spirit can use it to unlock Leokk's cage.

You will find the encampment at the north end of the Daggermaw Canyon down below.

Completion

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Gains

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10724))