Quick Facts

Series

1.	Too Close For Comfort Nick of Time
2.	Prison Break
3.	Abduction
4.	The Borean Inquisition
5.	The Art of Persuasion
6.	Sharing Intelligence
7.	A Race Against Time
8.	Reforging the Key

Storyline
Borean Tundra Enlistment Day A Time for Heroes The Siege Death From Above Plug the Sinkholes A Soldier in Need Cultists Among Us Notify Arlos Enemies of the Light Further Investigation The Hunt is On Military? What Military? Pernicious Evidence Reference Material It's Time for Action Take No Chances Repurposed Technology Fruits of Our Labor One Last Delivery Weapons for Farshire Call to Arms! Thassarian, My Brother The Late William Allerton Lost and Found In Wine, Truth A Deserter Cowards and Fools Hellscream's Vigil The Defense of Warsong Hold The Defense of Warsong Hold The Defense of Warsong Hold The Sky Will Know Boiling Point Motes of the Enraged Return to the Spirit Talker Vision of Air Farseer Grimwalker's Spirit Kaganishu Return My Remains Taking Back Mightstone Quarry Cutting Off the Source Wind Master To'bor Magic Carpet Ride Tank Ain't Gonna Fix Itself Mobu's Pneumatic Tank Transjigamarig Super Strong Metal Plates! Tanks a lot... The Plains of Nasam Untold Truths Nerub'ar Secrets Message to Hellscream Reinforcements Incoming... The Warsong Farms Get to Getry Foolish Endeavors The Wondrous Bloodspore Pollen from the Source Karuk's Oath Gamel the Cruel A Father's Words The Trident of Naz'jan The Emissary A Mission Statement Help Those That Cannot Help Themselves Khu'nok Will Know Kaw the Mammoth Destroyer Nedar, Lord of Rhinos... Happy as a Clam The Abandoned Reach Not On Our Watch The Nefarious Clam Master... Unfit for Death The Culler Cometh The Assassination of Harold Lane Monitoring the Rift: Cleftcliff Anomaly Monitoring the Rift: Sundered Chasm Monitoring the Rift: Winterfin Cavern Prison Break Abduction The Borean Inquisition The Art of Persuasion Sharing Intelligence A Race Against Time Reforging the Key Taking Wing Rescuing Evanor Dragonspeak Traversing the Rift Nuts for Berries Keep the Secret Safe Basic Training Hatching a Plan Drake Hunt Cracking the Code Puzzling... The Cell Keristrasza Bait and Switch Saragosa's End Mustering the Reds Springing the Trap The Son of Karkut A Suitable Test Subject Not Without a Fight! Muahit's Wisdom Spirits Watch Over Us The Tides Turn The Mechagnomes What's the Matter with the Transmatter? Check in With Bixie Oh Great... Plagued Magnataur! There's Something Going On In Those Caves Rats, Tinky Went into the Necropolis! Might As Well Wipe Out the Scourge I'm Stuck in this Damned Cage... But Not For Long! Let Bixie Know Back to the Airstrip Dirty, Stinkin' Snobolds! Just a Few More Things... Hah... You're Not So Big Now! Plan B It Was The Orcs, Honest! Re-Cursive Lefty Loosey, Righty Tighty The Gearmaster Finding Pilot Tailspin A Little Bit of Spice Lupus Pupus Emergency Protocol: Section 8.2, Paragraph C Emergency Protocol: Section 8.2, Paragraph D Give Fizzcrank the News Scouting the Sinkholes Fueling the Project A Bot in Mammoth's Clothing Deploy the Shake-n-Quake! Learning to Communicate Winterfin Commerce Oh Noes, the Tadpoles! Them! I'm Being Blackmailed By My Cleaner Grmmurggll Mrllggrl Glrggl!!! Succulent Orca Stew The Spare Suit Surrender... Not! Keymaster Urmgrgl Escape from the Winterfin Caverns Surrounded! Thassarian, the Death Knight Finding the Phylactery Buying Some Time Words of Power Last Rites The Invasion of Gammoth Gammothra the Tormentor Trophies of Gammoth Hellscream's Champion Load'er Up! The Power of the Elements Patching Up Scouting the Sinkholes The Heart of the Elements The Horn of Elemental Fury The Collapse Sage Highmesa is Missing A Proper Death Stop the Plague Find Bristlehorn Fallen Necropolis The Doctor and the Lich-Lord Return with the Bad News What Are They Up To? Master the Storm Weakness to Lightning Souls of the Decursed Cleaning Up the Pools The Sub-Chieftains Defeat the Gearmaster Shrouds of the Scourge The Bad Earth Blending In The Fall of Taunka'le Village Across Transborea

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Comments

Comment by Moonfeather

Beryl Mage Hunters can be found around 42,40. They have a special attack called Frost Cut, which reduces attack speed, cast speed and movement speed by 5% per stack. Each successful strike will apply a stack. Debuff has a 1 second duration so if the attack misses or is dodged, the entire stack will wear off.

The drop rate of the keys is pretty decent as I got one after about 6 kills.

The prisons are located on the platforms. The one I used was at 41,42.

Comment by Magicwithin

the first one i've opened it said something like: it's too late for me, and didn't gived me q completition....at the next opening of the same one, a mage apeared so if you get the message, try some more.

Comment by 170010

This is labeled as Alliance only, but this is also a Horde quest.

Comment by Eveena

I found the mages at 41/39. You can see the blue glowing discs down in the valley from the cliffs of Amber Ledge. The mages look like mini dragons. The prisons are the boxes floating above the glowing discs. BTW Amber ledge also has a flight point and vendors including a repair guy.

Comment by 170332

Probably a reference to the Prison Break series.

Comment by pbij

Coolest boxes ever.

Comment by 227817

Got mine after 2 kills.
Confirmed that they drop quite often.

Comment by LittleUn

You can actually use the key on the same prison over and over until you get the freed one. I too, had the 'it's too late for me' but it does work....maybe after three tries.
I hope this helps somebody.

Comment by silentshott

when i first opened the box the quest didnt complete, so i thought id have to get another key so i killed about 20 things and never got 1, once you use the key the first time you still have it so if the quest doesnt complete when you open it first keep opening it

Comment by 135310

It's a really simple quest; First of all you have to kill Beryl Mage Hunters and get the Beryl Prison Key. Then, you have to right-click on the flying cube to release a prisoner. Congratulations! Go back to Libriarian Donathan to turn in the quest.

As "Moonfeather" said, Beryl Mage Hunters have a special attack called Frost Cut, which reduces attack speed, cast speed and movement speed by 5% per stack. They are really near to you. Just follow the path that leads down, and they are just a few yards ahead -easy to find them. Oh, and by the way, the quest's name rocks!

Comment by Rasmus0909

Got it on my first! XD

Comment by 446986

#$%^ty little quest i only got like 1 key and i killed over 30 and still got none... this is a horrible quest because of the low drop rate..... and the sorcerors get a little annoying when getting the key =/

Comment by 446986

*!@#ty little quest i only got like 1 key and i killed over 30 and still got none... this is a horrible quest because of the low drop rate..... and the sorcerors get a little annoying when getting the key =/
EDIT:HORRIBLE QUEST I KILLED 60 NO KEYS they have to fix this..
Edit2:I found out a trick to fix this you just gotta get rid of the quest and do it again o-O

Comment by 168988

Has anyone else noticed that the Prisoners hearth after being rescued? Why don't they hearth while they're in the prison and save us the trouble?

Comment by 336769

I wonder what this might be a reference to...

Comment by 172622

87 kills.

No key.
This is officially when I give up and move onto a more sensible quest.

Comment by Symby

i guess the key is eaten by t-bag

Comment by 164229

If you are having difficulty getting the key to drop try dropping your group. It appears to be a bug (?) in the current patch.

I killed every mob in the area - three times - and got no key. After dropping group I got it on my second kill. It's like the quest thinks you're in a raid group when you're just in a normal party group. At any rate - once one of your group gets the key just join up, open the box and all group members will get the quest completed :)

Comment by 634780

first kill, first key, first box, first mage.
i feel so lucky

Comment by 110580

I killed about 60 or so and ended up abandoning the quest and wen't to get it again. First mob I kill after drops the key. Maybe try that.

Comment by 619606

After opening the box and getting ported back in the tower, my quest log didn't update... Is this bug somewhat new?

Edit:

Nevermind, i was saving the wrong NPC. -_-

Comment by 784446

As a mage, the opening text of this quest made me scared.

Comment by Psylo

The drop rate varies dramatically. On my DK which i leveled recently I got it on the first kill, but on the mage I'm leveling now I must have killed over 50 with no luck. Even done a few random dungeons in between.

Comment by 804679

This quest is definitely bugged. Killed off 30-40 beryl mage hunters with no key drop. Dropped the quest and almost gave up, but after running another quest in the area I gave it one more shot. Key dropped on the second mob. So if you're running as bad a luck as me, try dropping and retaking the quest.

Comment by 883725

Yep same here. Killed a heap, dropped the quest, reaquired and key dropped first kill.

Comment by valorum

Once you get one key you can reuse it over and over again, you don't need to keep looking for more.

Comment by xoxnicole

I was having trouble OPENING the boxes and simply abandoned the quest and got it again- now it is working fine :)

Comment by pabadin

had the key the second kill, but the prisoner died and i got no credit. i then killed about 10 more, no key, was ready to abandon the quest, but then i checked my bags. the same key could be used again! had killed all those mobs and got angry and frustrated for nothing.

Comment by 1122042

After 4 tries, the box furthest west worked for me.

Comment by 1127193

ok so key drop on the 2nd kill, but went to the disc with loads of prisons ......all empty so walked down SW and found a disc with only one cube and bingo that the one, hope this helps

Comment by 1440987

Prison Break http://youtu.be/tIkyZmVRDvo

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=A7qSS3lWh8Y

Comment by Boxofbeer

Prison Break http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTtFQxJRfSw

Comment by TXSysgoddess

The drop rate for the key was always a bit lower than I'd like but this is the first time I've done this quest in years. I've cleared the area of Beryl Mage Hunters several times over and no key. I don't remember the drop rate being so frustratingly low.

Links

Prison Break

Librarian Donathan on Amber Ledge wants you to collect the Beryl Prison Key from one of the Beryl Mage Hunters at Beryl Point and use it to release a trapped mage from an arcane prison.

Arcane Prisoners Rescued (1) (1)

Beryl Prison Key (1)

Description

Greetings, <class>. I am Donathan, a loyal representative of Dalaran.

Forgive my abruptness, but we find ourselves in the midst of a crisis. Mages all across Azeroth are being abducted and I have been authorized to conscript anyone able to assist in the unraveling of this mystery.

The camp just south of ours is where our investigation begins. I call upon you to rescue one of the imprisoned mages held there. You must obtain a key from one of the mage hunters and use it to open an arcane prison.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Kirin Tor

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11587))