Quick Facts

Series

1.	Warp-Raider Nesaad
2.	Request for Assistance
3.	Rightful Repossession
4.	An Audience with the Prince
5.	Triangulation Point One
6.	Triangulation Point Two
7.	Full Triangle
8.	Special Delivery to Shattrath City
9.	How to Break Into the Arcatraz

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Comment by 13008

Obviously, this is the "key" quest to enter Arcatraz, a level 70 instance. Only one person needs the key to enter or have a level 70 rogue with maxed out lockpicking. The Bottom Shard of the Arcatraz Key drops from Pathaleon the Calculator in The Mechanar and the Top Shard of the Arcatraz Key drops from Warp Splinter in The Botanica.

Comment by 252

The quest to get this key is a long quest line which starts with the quest 'Warp-Raider Nessad' (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10205)

Comment by 15938

Have tried running Mechanar to finish this quest several times, but the party runs into a bug where some members cannot interact or see the elevator leading to the second level of the instance. When party members reported this bug to a GM, they said the solution was just resetting the instance, but we have tried doing that several times with no sucess.

Comment by 3316

Guide on How To Properly Break Into The Arcatraz*
(*ARCATRAZ and not Alcatraz)

Notes:
* I don't know the exact mobs that A/H get the quest from, they're in Area 52 so if you know the quest name it shouldn't be a problem
* I didn't sum up the gold amount because I'm lazy, the XP gain and reputation are approx. accurate. I hope.

Assisting the Consortium, a 'go talk to' quest (1200XP/72s)
Consortium Crystal Collection, kill a dreadlord called Pentatharon and get a crystal from him
A Heap of Ethereals repeatable quest also for Consortium reputation.

1st chain ends here : 25800XP, 510 Consortium reputation OR around 15g at 70

4. Warp-Raider Nesaad : http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10205, a go-kill-him quest.
5. Request for Assistance : http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10266 , find Gahruj at 47,57
6. Rightful Repossession : http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10267 , get 10 boxes from around Mana Forge: Duro
7. An Audience with the Prince : http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10268 , Nexus-Prince Haramad at 44,35 or so in the Stormspire.
8. Triangulation Point One : http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10269 , use the Triangulation Device at 66, 33
9. Triangulation Point Two : http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10275 , same thing at 28,41
10. Full Triangle : http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10276 , Find Culuthas at 53, 21, 70 Elite demon.

2nd chain ends here: 1600 Consortium reputation, 71450 XP or around 60 gold if you're 70.

11. Special Delivery to Shattrath : http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10280 , pretty obvious.
12. How To Break Into the Arcatraz : http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10704 , the Bottom Shard of the Arcatraz Key : Pathaleon the Calculator in The Mechanar and the Top Shard of the Arcatraz Key : Warp Splinter in The Botanica. Pretty obvious if you know where they're located, huh.

The quest chain doesn't stop here, there's also
13. Harbinger of Doom after : http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10882

After this 3rd quest chain, you get around 40g and your Key to the Arcatraz : http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31084

Comment by patryk

Reward in gold for this quest is now 24g60s

Comment by hordy

Managed to do the Botanica part in 1 hour with a green/blues pug, just before a server restart. skipped all bosses except for the first and the of course the last one. Killed the Warp Splinter 1 min before the server shut down.

Comment by Bartur

OK - here goes. I did this for the x'th time so I took some notes.

I was friendly to Scryers and still neutral to Consortium.

You will be able to start this chain - just by doing the following:

1.) Consortium Crystal Collection

2.) A Heap of Ethereals

3.) Warp-Raider Nesaad

... and this gets you on the chain thats shown in the list under Warp-Raider Nesaad. Happy Arcatraz Keyhunting!

Comment by Blued

Yes, this quest can be completed on Heroic as well as Normal.

Comment by 87606

Arcatraz=Alcatraz
Arcatraz drops better loot imo lol

Comment by 128242

FYI: This questline and key are NOT required for the Keymaster achievement. Seems like a logical addition, but you're free to pass on this key for the achievement. As for 3.2.0 however, the Arcatraz is still locked and requires a key or the proper lockpicking skill to get in.

Comment by Zorrah

Just solo'ed both top/bottom parts in Mech/Botanica on my 80 lock, 5K GS with my VW and affliction specc'ed. Not too tough at all, just take your time and its easy.

Never had to use a cooldown or a stone.

3000 SP but I had a few PVP pieces on for some extra stam, 21K.

VW had 19K without the glyph and did just fine with my health funnel here and there.

Very doable solo for certain classes.

I was cleaning up old quests and going for Loremaster so I finally got this done.

Comment by 483335

Soloable by a mage with ~5k gearscore, frost spec. Like the 'lock says, take it slow. And as a mage, abuse that polymorph! Theres a few bits you can prolly skip with invis too, I only skipped the trash near 1st boss in Botanica though. I used a few potions, but I wouldn't say they're essential, but having some self-healing never hurts :)

Bosses/gatekeepers:
-All have ~110k hp or so
-Make your pet tank - mirror images makes it easy
-Nuke the bosses down with icy veins before they eat your pet/MI wears off

Mechanar boss
- The bridge after the lift is where the waves start. Don't go out until ready!
- 3 waves of mobs come
- Further on the bridge, same again (3 more waves)
- Combat breaks after wave 3, then the boss comes a few seconds after (I was back towards the lift eating and he still came)
Botanica boss
- He stuns sometimes, you can escape with blink (an extra escape might come in handy, trinket/racial/etc)
- Don't bother with the treants, focus on the boss. He won't be healed if he's dead.

Trash
-~20k hp usually
-At lv80, you can walk around a lot of it by sticking close to a wall/etc
-Abuse sheep
- Sheep the casters, others will just try to move into melee range. But with frostbolt snare and blink they won't succeed
-Pats won't link with a sheeped mob, so if a pat comes back to the sheep, just resheep and wait
-With 5k gs, most of the trash died quite quickly, so reapplying sheep was never a worry
-The humaniods generally explode quickly, but mechs that pat by themselves can take a beating sometimes

Overall, not too difficult, I'd say each took me about an hour, but I'm not a practiced soloer. Once the server shutdown messages popped up I hauled ass and managed the last half of one in under 15 min. You could also probably do it with lower gear without too much trouble. Hope this helps someone :)

Next up: Arcatraz (stupid kara key ><)

Comment by 318863

for lvl 80... (im a prot warrior 4.9k gs)
The Mechanar:
1. opening the elevator
u gonna need too clear trash, go left, first set of mobs u gonna range aggro unless u can stealth.
after u walk upstairs no need too get trash anymore: pull mini boss to the corner and nuke...
go down and right... u dont need to kill Big mechanial boss, but he easy.. Kill the other mini boss that pats up and down.. (u can wait for him too pat down and kill him without pullin any trash) the door is open now.
2.u can hug wall, so u dont pul trash upstairs, no need too kill this boss..
NOTE: carefull those mobs on the entrance of hall are gonna get aggro, and some do knockbacks...
so if u face the room, ur problably gonna aggro mobs inisde, if u face hall, u problably gonna start event which calls 3 waves of mobs.... advice,,, pull em and run fast too the west wall, and put ur back agaianst it.
halfway on the "bridge", another 3 wave event...
3.Boss, he will aggro by himself after last set of mobs , but does ive u time too eat if ur not too close

Botanica:
even bigger pain in the *ss, so much trash too clear /sigh

Comment by Jokiasus

Hello!
I killed the boss of the Mechanar and received the lower fragnebt of the key. But when I killed the Boss of the Botanica, he didn't drop the other half. I need it to proceed.
Thanks for your help!

Comment by Hamburgla

In case no one saw on the first comment. You need to go to the MECHANAR and BOTANICA for both of these. I just completed Arcatraz and found nothing expecting something.

Comment by amymicaela

Someone should let it be known if the difficulty matters.

Comment by Mowser

Is there a quest after this one? I got the key, went to Arcatraz and killed the Harbinger, but there were never any quests after getting the key.

Comment by CzechCloud

As of late WoD, you dont need to have the key to access Alcatraz, but you still need to do the quest line for Loremaster achievment.

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=g5fm-ksjJKk&feature=youtu.be

Comment by hotcore

This quest can be soloed at level 82 in 7.3.5 leveling revamp. No idea why but the dungeons are very easy.

Comment by angorashi

Confirmed as NOT being necessary to complete the Into the Nether achievement.

I have the quest in my log, completed and ready to be turned in, and yet I received the achievement when I turned in one of my other Netherstorm quests. I have not completed How To Break Into The Arcatraz.

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How to Break Into the Arcatraz

A'dal has tasked you with the recovery of the Top and Bottom Shards of the Arcatraz Key. Return them to him, and he will fashion them into the Key to the Arcatraz for you.

	Top Shard of the Arcatraz Key (1)
	Bottom Shard of the Arcatraz Key (1)

Description

A message was embedded in the ata'mal crystal that you recovered. Nexus-Prince Haramad has given us information vital to our campaign against Tempest Keep.

He tells us that there are two pieces, shards to a key, which, when combined, will unlock the keep's Arcatraz satellite.

One half is possessed by an ancient in the Botanica known as Warp Splinter. The other is held by Pathaleon the Calculator inside the Mechanar.

Bring both shards to me and I will combine them into the Arcatraz key.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Sha'tari Vindicator's Waistguard			A'dal's Gift
	Shattrath's Champion Belt			Naaru Belt of Precision
	Sha'tari Anchorite's Cloak

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

1,000 reputation with The Sha'tar

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10704))