Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Light of Dawn
2.	Taking Back Acherus
3.	The Battle For The Ebon Hold

Storyline
The Scarlet Enclave In Service Of The Lich King The Emblazoned Runeblade Runeforging: Preparation For Battle The Endless Hunger The Eye Of Acherus Death Comes From On High The Might Of The Scourge The Power Of Blood, Frost And Unholy Report To Scourge Commander Thalanor The Scarlet Harvest If Chaos Drives, Let Suffering Hold The Reins Grand Theft Palomino Into the Realm of Shadows Tonight We Dine In Havenshire Abandoned Mail Death's Challenge Gothik the Harvester The Gift That Keeps On Giving An Attack Of Opportunity Massacre At Light's Point Victory At Death's Breach! The Will Of The Lich King The Crypt of Remembrance Nowhere To Run And Nowhere To Hide Lambs To The Slaughter The Plaguebringer's Request Noth's Special Brew How To Win Friends And Influence Enemies Behind Scarlet Lines The Path Of The Righteous Crusader Brothers In Death Bloody Breakout A Cry For Vengeance! A Special Surprise A Special Surprise A Special Surprise A Special Surprise A Special Surprise A Special Surprise A Special Surprise A Special Surprise A Special Surprise A Special Surprise A Special Surprise A Special Surprise A Sort Of Homecoming Ambush At The Overlook A Meeting With Fate The Scarlet Onslaught Emerges Scarlet Armies Approach... The Scarlet Apocalypse An End To All Things... The Lich King's Command The Light of Dawn Taking Back Acherus The Battle For The Ebon Hold Where Kings Walk Saurfang's Blessing

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Comments

Comment by Falrinn

Leads to Where Kings Walk for alliance characters or Warchief's Blessing for Horde characters.

Comment by 219645

If you're soloing this quest and there are no other Death Knights around to help, you can pull Patchwerk next to the teleporter. There are 4 respawning portal guards that can take turns tanking him while you do damage. You don't have to worry much about adds as well.

Even though you have the super damage and health buff, it's possible that Patchwerk can still get some lucky string of crits on you and kill you but the with guards, he'll constantly switch targets so you should be safe.

Comment by 111155

not sure if it is true for all but for me it worked

there were 2 other dk's killing him and i helped out and i got credit even though they were killing him

Comment by 259248

I don't know if they'll read it here or not, but kudos to whoever did these quests. I'm loving the lore and don't mind having to wait a few minutes through dialogue to finish the quests because I'm enjoying the story so much. So far it has been the little things in WotLK that have made it my favorite WoW experience so far.

Comment by 220202

This Q is EPIC I looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooved this Q. I'm actually thinking of deleting my DK and make a new one just for the this Q and just keep abandoning it than doing it again and again and again and again till I get bored :).
Oh, dont be worried that you will die because you wont :D

Comment by Legendary231

The only part of this quest I hated were the abominations. Most of the time while you're fighting Patchwerk or any of the other things in there, one of them will waltz over and Scourge Hook you over to a group of them, causing them to play "Hook Volleyball" with you.

Other than that, awesome quest. Lets you feel like a Heroic-mode raid boss for a few minutes.

Comment by 179079

made my 2nd dk but unfortunately i had to solo him because there were no other dks around.....pretty easy solo cause your god....but when he hits the 5% mark...jesus christ.....he enrages doing double dmg at twice the speed....never died but i dont think your able to on this quest as the healing mechanism went into overdrive when patchwerk did. As the commenter said above VERY fun quest because you feel like your soloing on heroic mode :)

Comment by 45715

I wonder why no one have mentioned the paradox of Patchwerk being killed here, yet being a boss in Naxxramas.
A tiny bit of explaining is really due here.

Comment by 326026

its possible to die... kinda sucked, seeing as how just about everyone else who posted said it was impossible to die... you just have to really watch out for the scourage hold chains being thrown around. get in the mix of those and your health drops rapidly. and for some reason, the other DKs provided disappeared for a minute, which left me fighting him on my own. maybe i was too far away from the entrance.

either way, this quest can be very easy, or really tough.

Comment by Rankkor

well, finished it, loved it, and wanna doit again :P

I'm really gonna miss that buff "migth of mograine" pufff during the light of dawn, I was hitting for 3k, and crit for 7-8k here the crits where lower, but still, pretty awesome.

due to the fact that u get healed by +5000 each second I don't really see how u can die, I guess is posible if you go to the oposite side of where the guards are, tottaly alone, and agroing the whole room and patchwerk, and still even then I'd take them a loooooong time to kill you (after all +5000 heals per sec are hard to top)

If u're scared and don't wanna die, just swich to frost presence, that'll net u almost 9k armor, 5,5k HP, and reduce magic dmg by 15%, add to that the mega-heals, and the guards and is really imposible to die, even if you want to.

must amusing part is that u actually dont have to "DO" anything, u can pretty much pull the mobs to the guards, then sit down, grab some popcorn and watch the show. (of course, joinin in is a lot more fun)

gratz to blizz for this amazing experience Ive actually made 2 more DK's on diferent realms to enjoy this epic questline once more.

Comment by SpitefulCrow

I didn't care much for this quest. Patchwerk takes a while to kill, even with the help of the guards. So if you're alone in there plan on hacking away for a while.

But by far the most annoying thing is those damn aboninations playing catch with you.

Comment by 304583

Everyone complains about the abominations and their hooks, but I haven't seen this solution posted: Fight Patches down in the pit with the target dummies and put your back right up against the wall. They can't lift you up out of there. You'll get moved side-to-side a bit anyway, but it's much less annoying.

Comment by Forhekset

Frost stance is a must. The heals end up being about 5.4k every 3 to 5 seconds. And be sure to use that blood move that heals you when it does damage. When it crits it'll bring back about 2.4k hp. Which is a must when he frenzies.

Clear out the area in front of the four guards and try an icy touch to draw him to you. Run back just behind the guards and basically just use everything you've got.

I didn't get any help from the guards at all when I did it. I had to try several times to finish him. It took about 7 minutes of continually unloading on him to finally bring him down. I think it may have had something to do with the new patch. Things were buggy all afternoon.

Cool quest.

Comment by 326715

I encountered a bug while doing this quest. I got Disconnected while doing the quest, and when I got back in, I was lvl 57 again! And the NPC's stopped helping me. What should I do! (I'm not restarting my DK)

Comment by Harpst3r

Do the guards not work anymore?

I cannot complete this quest alone.

Comment by KrazyCalvin

WHOEVER made this needs to be shot... this quest made me never want to play a god damn death knight again... why in the hell do they put a huge mob that agros to hell and pulls you all over the place like some ragdoll. Then when you get down there to god damn patchwerk those blanking angels up above come attack too when they respawn... The only reason i have to do this is because i sent something god damn important to this alt by mistake and i dont want to wait 30 days to get it back... SIGH

Comment by KrazyCalvin

Oh.... and the four guards dont care whether you live or die anymore...

Comment by 121904

I'm having the same issue. I finished all my other DK quests and I finally got to this one and I've died about 4 times now, trying different approaches. From other people I've talked to who did this quest prior to the 6.0.1 patch, it was pretty simple (mainly because you could pull Patchwerk into the 4 Knights of the Ebon Hold and they'd assist). I have a ticket open to talk to a GM and see if this is happening to everyone, if this is a patch issue, or if it's just me epically failing. I'll edit once I get ahold of someone.

Edit: Still waiting for a GM to respond. I tried Ziranae's advice. I switched to Frost Presence and pulled him back past the 4 Knights and started to go nuts on him. I managed to get him down to <10,000hp (It's over 9,000!) and then he raged. Dead. Tried it again, got him <10,000hp, this time casting Mark of Blood and popping a Noth's Special Brew potion and he still managed to kill me, with no help from the 4 guards nonetheless (I think I actually saw one of the guards /golfclap).

Soooo, yeah.

Comment by 353150

RAWR im about to lose it. been working on this quest for a while now, about to go on my fifth try, and its official the guards do not help at all. i dont have any problems getting to patchwerk i just pull him towards the entrance like it has been suggested, and all goes well, until he gets enraged and then im dead. i dont know what to do about this, the portal to stormwind wont let me thru so idk if i have to finish this first or if its bugged. either way this is aggravating.

is there any way to bring other dks with u to the battle? or was it meant for u to do it alone and just have the guards help? cuz if thats the case they really screwed it up when they made that patch, cuz the guards are about as worthless as they come.

Comment by Kelticfox

Here's some advice though.....

Even though the 4 other Deathknights are now just glorified Target Dummies, it's still a damn good idea to pull Patchwerk to behind them.
The other abominations respawn very fast and you could end up fighting Patchwerk + goons.

Comment by 353797

well, the quest seems indeed bugged, probably due to the latest patch, but it is still easily completable, it just seems no one was frost spec >.<
done it today without any help from the dummy-guards, i tried a few times before remembering i haven't trained lv 57 skills yet, and i was missing frost presence.. put my frost presence on, pulled patch a few yarde behind the dummies and killed him, he never managed to get me below 80% while normal, never below 50% while frenzied, i popped unbreakable armor to be sure, but even after the effect expired he didn't hit me dramatically, not that hard indeed..
if i can advice a rotation, it should be to keep the disease placed to increase the damage and healing from death strike, and to keep runic power for frost strike or death coil or whatever you can use to add some dps, when you'll get him around 6-7% start saving up runic power till maximum and start nuking when patch goes frenzy, but don't forget the healing rotation or he will reduce you to dust :P

hope this will help^^

farewell!

sylin of crushridge

Comment by 335007

does anyone know if you can do these DK quests with a linked refer-a-friend account to get the triple EXP?

Comment by adrianworthy

If you're having issues with the NPCs not helping, Blizzard suggests contacting an in-game Game Master. Apparently they can despawn the guards and replace them with a new batch that will be more responsive. Hopefully this is fixed in 3.1.1.

See http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=8797811078&sid=1

Comment by 335405

... I SWEAR TO GOD IT TOOK ME < 1 hr AND GOT HIM TO 9K THEN HE KILLED ME ALMOST BROKE MY COMP!

Comment by 346958

Completed without NPC assistance on third try. I was lucky to only pull two adds and spamming Pestilence took care of them fairly quickly. So long as the dice are in your favor, the quest can still be solo'd.

Comment by 355654

After some tries in Blood presence, I could easily kill him in Frost presence. NPCs did not help to me neither.

Comment by Taif

Just to cover my findings from earlier today.
Playing my second DK character now (different realms, obviously), I noticed a difference between when I originally made a DK and leveled them and now. On the original DK the four guards that stood between the teleporter and the mobs aggroed onto anything you brought near them, making Patch obviously a cakewalk.
In today's play I found that he was unkillable in Blood (at least on my attempts), following this discovery I swapped into Frost and tried again. The battle was extremely slow but with the aid of some mini patchwerks I was able to get diseases onto patch to get some decent damage ticking and could quite happily tab out otherwise due to the Regen buff.

So to sum up, if you're doing this and have the same luck as me and can't find anyone to do it with you, get in frost presence before starting and enjoy the 5minute wait to kill him.

~Taif

Comment by 356900

other dk's can help you if they are doing the quest aswell and the gaurds used to work until a patch and then they work like once in a million goes :( as for the sw portal u cant use it till patchwerk is dead you cant go anywhere at all till hes dead i also am on my 7th try and i cant do it cos the gaurds dont give a ****

Comment by xepherk

I just died when he had 6k left. I was soloing with guards...

Comment by 159005

Well i soloed this about 1 month ago with another DK now i did another1 and the quest bug thingy appered: Dk npc´s doesnt work, so i readed thath u can kill it with frost peasence so i tried it and Got him to like 2% and then he evade bugged and came back with 100%hp and killed me x2 . So now ALL my gear is red and i cant repair them unless i completet the qeust (and i cant use a weapon cuz its broken) so i think i need to wait for another #$%^ing patch to fixs it up :(

Comment by 359127

Just completed this on April 29th 2009, the "guards" did not care for the abominations or anything and I had to solo this the hard way too. So I cleared the way, aggroed Patchwerk and "tanked" him with my back against the wall in the first room so that other aboms' wouldn't pull me back or anything.

Thankfully I had specced full Frost before reaching this point with Lichborne and Unbreakable Armor that I used when Patchwerk got into Frenzy. I made sure Plague Strike was up at all times and kept throwing Blood Strike, Icy Touch and Frost Strike whenever I could. Death Strike came in handy when he "enraged". The fight took about 10 minutes, but it was rather safe as Frost spec. Needless to say you have to be in Frost Presence.

If this issue is not resolved soon you might want to completely start over and spec like a tank.

Comment by greg1martin

Boy, was I unprepared for this! In the anticipation and excitement of Light's Hope Chapel, I neglected to repair my equipment. All I wore was either red or broken. Since death knights have so many bag slots, I had been a pack rat. I was able to re-equip from my stocks.

When I first tried Patchwerk, I was the only death knight facing him. I died. I read here that Frost Presence would allow you to solo him. Oops. I had forgotten to keep up with my training too. I did not have Frost Presence. I thought I was going to have to abandon this death knight and start the game with a new one.

When I returned to Ebon Hold, there were two other death knights starting to attack Patchwerk. I joined in. We felled him in less than 5 minutes. We encountered 6 or 7 adds, but they were no trouble.

I am now properly equipped with repaired gear and properly trained. I hope I never again dig that deep a hole.

Comment by 299187

I would recommend keeping your old armour and using them to fight patchwerk in case you destroy all your stuff

Comment by 71161

As someone who have done the quest before, and not really care about the "epicness" of the fight, it's very simple.

Pull patchy to somewhere just behind where the guard stands when you enter. Kill any adds you have brought with you. Start autoattack Patchy. Go afk.

As you are doing very low threat, and npc's respawn quickly, you have just about time to make some coffee and a sandwitch.

Comment by greg1martin

On Tuesday, May 12, 2009, I started a new DK on the Durotan realm. Unlike my last post, this time I was totally prepared. When I death-gripped the mobs to the NPC DKs, all of the DKs helped me kill them. My health never dipped below 75%. Most of the time it was near 100% even after I engaged Patchwerk. To get Patchwerk near the DKs, I had to use death grip on him and run. The DKs helped with him too.

When Patchwerk was nearly dead (I could barely see the health bar), the game crashed. When I got back into the game, Patchwerk was dead and the quest was successfully completed. The NPC DKs had finished the job. Way to go DKs!

Comment by Noobheal

I did this by myself and it was easy all u have to do is pull patchwork to the other dks by the entrance to the battle then the 10 scourge just come and try to attack u and by the time u killed patchwork ur done

Comment by 331789

Just something I thought I would add, This part of the ebon hold is phased during this quest, so you cannot have your friend to hop on his Death Knight to come help you.

Comment by 161218

First try, I took him in the middle of the room, which was annoying because randomly the trashies would get aggro'd and try to join in. Also, it was very very very slow. Took like 10 mins. Got him to like 5% health, and was very happy... then he went into a rage, and his damage was amped up enough to kill me.

Second try, I did what others suggested, and pulled him to the guards, and he rarely tried to attack me, just the guards.... bingo. 3 mins later, and I had myself a killed patchwerk. :)

Comment by 275927

As of 3.2, the guards will help you again.

Comment by 465528

HELP PLEASE
Hello , I`m 59lv but all mu stuf is DURABILITY 0!
how to beat Patchwerk? He kills me every time :(((
10x ;)

Comment by mbuhtz

Just completed this and the April '09 issues seem to be fixed. The guards helped and (with Frost Presence) Patchwork never got me below 90% except one or two crits that were immediately healed through. Looks like the quest is again completely soloable.

Comment by zayres29

i am having trouble with this quest i can kill Patchwerk easy its killing the 10 scourge i have killed everything in the entire room but i nothing says taht i have killed any scourge what am i supposed to kill 10 of

Comment by 488520

It's possible to kill Patchwerk without any gear on (mine was completely broken)

Frost Presence + Kiting with Frost Chain / Death Coil over and over again. Battle took around 15 mins with no assistance.

If I stand still he out-DPSs the max heal I can get though, so kiting is advised.

Comment by 497048

Sono 3 giorni che provo a killare pachtwerk,ma nn ci riesco a farmelo segnare nella quest lo killo insime ai guardiani ma nulla nn me lo segna cm mai?

Comment by darkllord

Soloed this with partially broken starting green equip, because my blues were smashed to the ground after a few failures and I was getting crits like hell despite the blessing. Little advice here for those, who have the same problem. Just pulling the patchwerk and running in the circles from Ebon blade knights to the outside terrace and back, hitting patchwerk just with spells. Guards were sometimes running behind patchwerk, also hiiting him. This took me 10 minutes to kill him and he didnt hit me even once. So, if you hav broken equip, try this! Definetely worked for me!

Comment by yorkiemum

I've done this quest 4 times. 2x on another server because I have friends there and 2times here-often because I wanted to have a DK on both sides.

This last time was the most difficult with Patchwork. I just don't remember it being that difficult. Then there is the problem of not being able to repair no matter how bad gear is. No way to switch to frost if you'd like to.
At least they should allow you to repair. I don't understand that. If this was my first try at this quest I'd be sure it was just me, but something is different. The guards didn't seem to do much at all as PW life was staying steady. It was sheer luck I believe that each time I died and went charging back PW was still in battle with the guards. However, it took 4-5 times to get them involved.
For sure this is my last DK- I'm surely done!

If you're having problems with it, ask for help, most people will. Or stick it out,lol.

Comment by 500018

Maybe the mobs are overpowered now but when I did mine sometime in the first week WotLK trial accounts were up and I could have hit auto-attack on Patch and afked...

Comment by natt39

Was a little worried about this bit after reading the comments but it really was quite simple. After being tossed around the room by the smaller abominations I pulled one of them into the guards and then went for Patchwerk the adds and the guards both followed and Patch aggroed them instead of me... They tanked him for a while before dying and then I just wittled him down for the rest... CC the adds, keep an eye on your health when he enrages and make sure you stay in the middle of the room to avoid further adds and get back there sharp if you get hooked and you'll be done in less than 5 mins. (Patch 3.3.3)

Comment by DoKZ

I was killing him, but 4 guards last-hitted him. Objective is not complete =((

Comment by 567346

I just soloed patchwork in the center of the ring. took a good 7 min. to do it, dont stop attacking afterwards because your bound to have val'kyr battle madens fighting you also.

Comment by 610886

My friend told me that you get a buff that heals you for 5000k HP a second

Comment by Luk1

The Might of Mograine will be cast on you,so this quest is simple to complete...

Comment by 629471

The quest actually became grey for me at level 65

Comment by 894686

thats is nice

Comment by Mormolyce

Don't worry, there's no strat, Patchwerk style fight.

Comment by 1440987

The Battle For The Ebon Hold http://youtu.be/BEkG4rQ4VB0

Comment by 1374013

The Battle For The Ebon Hold https://youtu.be/68WgBOFyUb0

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=hIzn4gXuRwU

Comment by WoWQHelps

HD Video Tutorial for this quest : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3vMag3WdB8

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Battle For The Ebon Hold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIVJBCibURw

Comment by Elistrasza

Patchwerk yells: Why you want hurt Patchwerk?
Patchwerk yells: Lich King say Patchwerk "on loan" from Naxxramas. Loan make Patchwerk ANGRY!
Patchwerk yells: Patchwerk miss Naxxramas. Maybe kill you all fast so Patchwerk go home?
Patchwerk yells: Come play with Patchwerk! Patchwerk lonely!
Patchwerk yells: Death knight come play?
Patchwerk yells: What... happen to-

Never thought I'd feel bad for Patchwerk.
(Edit: Missed a line.)

Comment by StirlingDC

The scaling on Patchwerk seems to be broken with the new leveling changes, even with Darion's buff you only survive maybe 15-20 seconds, not nearly enough to kill him. The only way I could complete it was to drag him back to the guards near the portal.

Links

The Battle For The Ebon Hold

Slay 10 Scourge and help kill Patchwerk. Return to Highlord Darion Mograine should you succeed.

Patchwerk slain (1)

Scourge slain (10) (1)

Description

The Hall of Command has been secured, but the Lich King has left us a little present in the Heart of Acherus. The stitched terror, Patchwerk, and a horde of abominations have taken over the second floor.

Use the teleporter to get to the second floor and destroy the Scourge forces that remain. Do not engage Patchwerk alone! You must fight the monstrosity with other death knights of Acherus!

Go, <name>. You have my strength to carry you!

Progress

Completion

Rewards

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13166))