Quick Facts

Series

1.	Escape From the Lost City
2.	Impending Retribution
3.	Al'Akir's Vengeance
4.	Minions of Al'Akir

Storyline
Uldum Easy Money Traitors! Smoke in Their Eyes Budd's Plan Kavem the Callous Escape From the Lost City Impending Retribution Al'Akir's Vengeance Under the Choking Sands Minions of Al'Akir The Prophet Hadassi The Prophet's Dying Words Colossal Guardians The Scepter of Orsis Send Word to Phaoris The High Commander's Vote The Weakest Link Shaping Up Salhet's Secret Salhet the Tactician Return to Camp The High Priest's Vote Trespassers in the Water Stopping the Spread The Defilers' Ritual The Root of the Corruption The Vizier's Vote Tanotep's Son Neferset Prison The Pit of Scales The High Council's Decision Nahom Must Hold The Secret of Nahom Punish the Trespassers The Cypher of Keset The Defense of Nahom The Curse of the Tombs Artificial Intelligence A Disarming Distraction Core Access Codes Hacking the Wibson Gnomebliteration The Push Westward Lieutenants of Darkness Bleeding the Enemy Salhet's Gambit The Fall of Neferset City Exploding Through Field Work A Strange Disc On to Something The Thrill of Discovery Be Prepared Lessons From the Past Be Prepared By the Light of the Stars Tipping the Balance After the Fall Just a Fancy Cockroach Do the Honors I've Got This Guy They Don't Know What They've Got Here Ignition Tailgunner! Eastern Hospitality A Favor for the Furrier The Desert Fox Fashionism Idolatry Angered Spirits Gobbles! Make Yourself Useful Crisis Management Battlezone Missed Me By Zhat Much! Lockdown! The Great Escape Sending a Message Firing Squad Meet Me In Vir'sar Friend of a Friend Two Tents Master Trapper Unlimited Potential Camelraderie Reduced Productivity Missing Pieces Stirred the Hornet's Nest Myzerian's Head Shroud of the Makers Schnottz So Fast Bad Datas I'll Do It By Hand Sullah's Gift Fire From the Sky See You on the Other Side! Fortune and Glory Harrison Jones and the Temple of Uldum Put That Baby in the Cradle! Three if by Air The Coffer of Promise

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Comments

Comment by 269502

I had probably the biggest /facepalm moment when I saw what Budd's plan was.

Comment by Lidmo

This plan would've saved George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's ass if they put it in the movie.

Comment by Deshala

LOOK AT ME! I'M A MANATAUR!

Best. Quest. Ever.

Comment by 609523

The details is the best part - even one foot in the air for tail :D

Comment by 117913

The list of Faction rep items if your wondering about the choice.

Ramkahen

Money's money, but rep can take time and effort.

Comment by 205401

Since you can champion this factions reputation (Ramkahem), one can discuss how much use 1000 rep is, compared to 200 gold.

On a side note, I can inform that the 200g fom this quest counts towards the "Got my Mind on my Money" achievements

Comment by 309491

IMO you'd be crazy not to take the rep. 1000 rep takes a while to get, even in heroics, while money practically falls from the sky in all the Cata zones. 200g takes about a half hour at most to get without even trying.

Not sure why this comment was downranked. What he said is true. 200g is nothing. If it was 2000g, hell take it. 200g I can make from quests or selling Cata mats like ore, cloth, etc. Those go in the AH for 200g+ a stack sometimes. And people do buy them. Rep on the other hand is more difficult to achieve. Sure you can slap on a tabard and do some dungeon runs, but getting that much rep takes time. Some people might be 1000 rep short of a sweet blue and they rather have the badge handy to instantly gain it than spending hours in a dungeon farming it.

edit: typo

Comment by 110805

Completing this quest opens up the Portal to Uldum in Stormwind. I would assume that the same is true for Horde.

Comment by 739231

If your guild has the 'Mr. Popularity' perk - it applies to the use of the token.

so you can technically get 1100 rep.

Comment by Rhonlynn

I chose the rep, and went to look at my reputation, and found I only got 945. But very happy to choose reputation. Then, eventually, I checked my bag, and found I had to click on the coin, and was awarded the reputation. Not a bad reward. Once exalted, one can get the camel mount.

Comment by 185830

Who needs info about this quest? You click accept, watch a cinematic, then turn it in to King Phaoris in a nearby room. My guess is most who come here are curious about public opinion on gold vs. rep. I know I did. That or give a shout out to our friend Budd.

MORE SHINIES!

Comment by 748432

Um hello why wouldn't you take the rep? I mean a camel mount! Pretty BA if you ask me.

Comment by 609015

Camel>Money

Comment by 676254

I accidentally clicked the wrong reward... Stupid Anti Virus popped up and tabbed me out of game. oh well... a week load or more of daily quests to make up for the fail.

Comment by 766394

Am I the only one who thought human centipede?

Comment by 100740

Took the money! Lots of quests give 275 rep and 8g'ish so to me 200g is a better deal.

Comment by Mondoblasto

Am I missing something, but it seems to me that for a non-human, doing the two dailies for 3 days would get you the 1000 rep easily? You'd actually get 1200 rep, even.

Comment by Elnaira

If you happen to search for the king, or any NPC for that matter, if they are simply not there, just fly away and back to the village to see all NPC's again. I had some phasing issue leaving me all alone.

And budd's plan was brilliant.

Comment by Kuyr

I took the money, My theory was that 200 gold would be big boost towards the bread winner achieve.
Sadly, it did not count towards it.

TL;DR --- Royal Reward does NOT count towards The Bread Winner

Comment by guatafu

If you think long term, taking the reputation is better, sure you can just tabard at lvl 85 to get exalted BUT... you could be using that item slot to gain rep with other faction instead of this one. AND if you take the rep you will also "make" money from it by saving it when repairing or shopping food, etc. whatever you might need from ramakahen.

Comment by Lostelf

I took the money because i dont need no camel mout XD

Comment by tpittma2

Either way the rewards aren't that special. You can make 200g in like 30 minutes doing Cata stuff, while by the time the next expansion comes out you will be exalted with every faction (most likely). So the choice is really up to you.

Comment by 673336

I normally despise "sit and watch a cinematic, get lots of xp" quests. If I wanted to watch a non-interactive video, wouldn't be playing an interactive game. >.< But! This is one of the coolest rewards ever. I wouldn't want every quest to be rep vs. gold, but some more not-boring-greens-useless-to-your-class quest rewards could be very interesting. Especially if they have this "no right answer" kind of feel to them.

Comment by Trich

The difference between the rewards really is long-term versus short-term. The reputation gain gets you the ability to purchase the reputation reward gear much sooner, so you get to use better gear longer before it becomes obsolete from heroics/raiding, as well as being able to use the arcanum earlier than otherwise. However, once your character gets to the point where they get better gear then the rewards are worthless save the arcanum, and because of tabard reputation gains you will get exalted eventually. Mostly though, when the next expansion comes out the reupation will be completely worthless, while you will always need gold.

That being said, I chose the reputation because I personally value time, which would instead be spent on reputation gain using lower quality gear, more than the additional purchasing power from the 200 gold.

Comment by 803095

if you want an awsome camel mount take the rep the money is nothing tbh i can earn that in about 30 mins

Comment by 660248

I wish all quests had rewards like this.

Comment by Forsakengirl13

In my humble opinion it is much better to choose the reputation. After completing the chain to get to the point of the quest turn in, my Ramkahen rep was 2090/3000 plus I received 30 rep with my guild while wearing an Illustrious Guild Tabard.

Just a heads up because if you are high enough to be questing in Uldum, chances are you are making a lot more gold than 200 measly coins. Farming ore/herbs/leather here will net you more than that. Since reputation is much more of a pain in the ass, I'd recommend that. The choice is yours however.

Comment by nortope

Look at it this way:
Choose the badge, +1000 rep with the big kitties.
Choose the shiny gold, +1000 rep with Budd.

That's how I made my decision.

Comment by 881202

Even if the plan was retarded...he succeeded XD

Comment by tnelav

Bloody hell, I can't stop laughing. 'Look at me! I'm a manataur!' XD
Baldrick's called, he wants Budd's autograph.

Comment by Catriona

If the plan is stupid but it works, it ain't stupid!

Comment by Charlieluke

Budd's Pan: It is such a STUPID plan it's BRILLIANT LMAO

Comment by 943216

I took the rep... 200g very easy and fast rep is not.

Comment by c0ch3s3

Ahem...

If you choose to take the rep, make sure that you actually use the badge that you get before you start freaking out because you didn't get the 1000 rep...heh. *redface*

Comment by 987495

This is the last quest needed to activate the Portal to Uldum.

I decided to take the 200g. I have found that hitting Exalted is quite easy with Tabards and Dailies. Especially this late in the game, the ilvl 359s are worthless. For me, the only reason to push the rep is for the BoA. But, of course, that doesn't even matter if you already have a toon exalted with Ramkahen. With account-wide mounts in MoP, it matters even less about the camel.

Comment by 202790

"What am I grabbing again?" lol

Comment by 835790

I know it was already said but BEST. QUEST. EVER.

I sat there and was like oh dear lord....then the cinematic ended and I thought....that's it. No I must have done something wrong. Budd...he's a special one alright ha ha!

Comment by IFKDURMTHR

I lol'd pretty effin hard.. I think blizzards been watchin way to much anime hahaha

Comment by tarc

Especially now in MoP, no real reason to take the rep token nowadays since you're going to forget all about the Ramkahen as soon as you hit lv 85.

As a wise man once said, go on take the money and run.

Comment by Valle

This quest is a reference to a design oddity present in Uldum during the early beta stage of Cataclysm.

Sometimes, the game's artists use a scale model of a human to judge where to place items, how big to make doorways, and so on. But the tol'vir have an unusual shape, so a regular human model wouldn't fit. Instead, they roughly jointed together three humans into a centaur shape. Amusingly enough, these strange things were named: "Wild Three Assed Mantaur"! When members of fan communities found these unique creatures, there was a lot of laughter.

The mantaurs were placeholders and did not last long, of course. But a reference to them lives on in this quest. To escape the city, Budd and friends form the same shape as a Mantaur, and Budd calls it a "Manataur".

Comment by Cierona

The quest chain you need to do before this becomes available is Easy Money, started at Adarrah outside the gates to Uldum in Tanaris (that has no pre-req, besides being level 83).

Comment by 1440987

Escape From the Lost City http://youtu.be/xvOGBcANHGA

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=nG5C9LkdBjw&feature=youtu.be

Comment by 1374013

Escape From the Lost City https://youtu.be/xPmTvKTgFgA

Comment by Boxofbeer

Escape From the Lost City http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQ0nq8TyB4

Comment by Mahina

Completed this today and the cutscene kept playing over and over again. But all you have to do is press Escape and cancel the cutscene, and you'll be able to turn it in.

Comment by Taurenmoo814U

You no longer get teleported to Ramkhen once the cinematic ends, got to fly there yourself.

Comment by Wraide

This appears to be bugged for me. The cinematic plays but when it's over I'm still standing next to the cages in the Lost City.

Comment by JDai

Not quite broken but not quite working, either. After the cinematic, my character was still standing in the same spot with all my friends imprisoned. However, if you look at your map, you'll see the turn in point on the map. Fly / run to it and turn in the quest.

Comment by xLunacyx

I was expecting to be teleported to Ramkahen after the cutscene, but nope, had to fly there manually.
Also, the 1000 rep token does not benefit from timewalking, you still get 1000.

Links

Escape From the Lost City

Free Prince Nadun and speak to King Phaoris at Ramkahen in Uldum.

Description

Everything is ready! Undo my chains and set your friends free.

We must move quickly before the Neferset scum realize we're up to something!

If we make it, see my brother, King Phaoris for a reward.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Royal Reward		Ramkahen Badge of Valor

You will also receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

150 reputation with Ramkahen

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28112))

Guides

Wowhead Tabard Guide