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Comment by Xozus

A very strong contender for the worst designed dungeon ever award.

Comment by Beneeeh

Another dungeon that requires hours of serious research even before you go inside...

Comment by Etsio

Final phase on final boss- No path error when trying to use Dancing Rune Word on BDK :-\

Comment by Nightrez13

I came straight here after finishing this to give everyone a heads up because it was just THAT BAD. The whole dungeon from start to finish was completely unorganized and going in blind was an awful mistake. Even ppl that had done it before in my group said they still don't know exactly how they made it through. Our healer glictched into the inside of the ship and couldnt get out. They ended up leaving. Half the party was replaced before the final boss because ppl were completely lost and didnt know where to go. You have to fly... not entirely sure why.. she just tells you to get off the ship but doesn't tell you when to come back. You fly to other ships and the ground and back to the ship and back to the ground.. there are mobs EVERYWHERE but not because you need to fight them.. they are just there. RIGHT AT THE START that aggro but are skippable. They also respawn almost instantly so if someone pulls them you might spend a minute trying to get away and getting everyone off the threat list. SMH.. whoever gave the final approval on this place needs to be canned.

On the plus side, when it wasn't confusing and chaotic i did enjoy some of it.

Comment by jax999

I dont mind hard but it is very confusing this dungeon even if you know what to do and getting the quest with followers is super bad i mean you dont even get heals standing on top of the healers :P
After wiping a couple of times its obvious my gear is to low for the quest since the followers has sad pathing and healer doesnt seem to be able to heal enough.

So ill try this again when i have better gear prob , not tried the dungeon with ppl since this is a follower quest dungeon

Comment by Zerukai

Confusing for sure but I must say that this was an AWESOME experience. Non-traditional isn't bad and this was super interesting to go through. I hope that they can tweak it a little bit to streamline it a bit more but I am all for this kind of interesting new mechanic.

Maybe it's just a little bit of a learning curve and after a handful of runs then we've all got it down and it's just the fun dungeon that has the unique mechanics.

Edit: Nevermind harsh crowd I guess. Not allowed to say nice things it seems.

Comment by wye43

Something crucial for druids in The Dawnbreaker: you can't use druid's Flight Travel Form because of a bug with Radiant Light.
If you are a druid and regularly use the instant cast flight form, you might want to change your shortcut to a regular flight mount for The Dawnbreaker.
If you don't you will find yourself stranded in ground travel form during the fights on the boats, and not being able to flight.

Comment by Pavilon

hands down the worst dungeon in the game. Whoever designed this and thought it was a good idea should leave the gaming industry......

Comment by KaijaShadowsoul

Not as bad as I feared from these comments. Ran as a follower dungeon, bm hunter, ilvl 561. I am probably a little off on some of this, so please correct me if I am.
- Clearing the initial everyone when you enter the dungeon seems impossible as they keep respawning. As a gnome, everything is out of sight for me unless I go right into that square. Steelstrike will tell you to head to the Dawnbreaker (straight and to the right up some stairs near the bell). I am not sure how much I had to clear to have this happen.
- When they tell you to free the Dawnbreaker, you need to go to the two ships webbed to it. Once that's done the Shadowcrown will spawn on the deck of the Dawnbreaker and you can fly back.
- With Shadowcrown be ready to take off as soon as the world starts going dark and head straight to one of the lights that's floating not far off. You'll survive the "explosion" and can go back to kill it. I had to do this twice before it died.
- The next fight is in the town, you have to fly down. Clear as many of the npcs as you can as they will come and assist Anub'ikkaj who seemed to wander into town while I was clearing.
- Go back to the Dawnbreaker to find Rasha'nan. He drops bombs and you can grab them and blow them up by him (expect a brief stun). Once he hits about half (I think), he flew off. You can find him down by town again.
(edit to add I had the followers in follower mode, not leading)

Comment by TAZZY4315

doing this as a follower dungeon and honestly the dude is just standing there? I dont even think he knows where to go. Idiot followers!

Comment by Sethilnee

As a tank it wasn't possible for me to do this dungeon with the followers. On the last boss the followers are not moving away with the acid lines, they damage other followers with it and the follower healer is not able to heal it through. There is definitelly something wrong with followers following the tactics on this one.

Comment by Zarac

WARNING: Motion Sickness

This dungeon makes me dizzy. I don’t get lightheaded with normal skyriding, but I do every time I enter this dungeon.
The worst part is the fight on the two ships, but trying to follow the rest of the party during the city fight is also challenging.

Comment by BlooMunKy

This is actually quite simple. Here is a step by step guide.

The first thing to say is don't use druid flight form in this dungeon, it causes problems so just use regular flying mounts.

Go straight ahead, kill the couple of mobs that turn up.

Take a right up the steps at the end to get on the Dawnbreaker airship.

Kill the mobs in the middle and to the left. Wait for the Dawnbreaker to get webbed.

Fly over to each enemy ship (2 of them) and defeat the mobs, leaving a bomb on each, then go back to the Dawnbreaker.

Attack the 1st boss, then when she creates the shadow bubble, mount up and fly away, return after it explodes, this happens 2 times.

When she is dead fly down to the town and kill the 2nd boss, dont worry about the other markers on the map unless you are struggling with this boss, he gets weakened when you defeat them but he's not too hard anyway, just go for the boss IMO.

When it's dead, fly back up to the Dawnbreaker (a prompt appears at the top of the screen), kill mobs and the last boss will show up.

Attack him and also use the bombs that get thrown onto the ship, at around 50% HP he will fly down to the town.

Go close to the small zeppelin (Skiff) that spawns at the side of the Dawnbreaker and mount up. You will see a beam of golden light that protects you from the shadow.

Fly alongside the small zeppelin (keep close to it) so the beam stays on you to avoid dying, it involves using simple Dragonriding skills at times to keep up, there are globes everywhere that boost your vigor so it shouldn't pose a problem. You will end up back in town where you will see the last boss again.

Mow that sucker down.

The end, hope this helps.

Thanks to Alleynah and originally Wye43 for the druid tip.

Comment by Hawkyyy

Didn't see it mentioned here but wanted to say if you spawn into the dungeon & the main ship hasn't spawned for you, restarting the game fixed this for me, i didnt try relogging as alt+f4 was faster. Maybe just announce it in chat so you dont get kicked.

Comment by Vavona

i think the most confusing part about this Dungeon, is that you can actually fly to Ships nearby, and everywhere else to get places.

Comment by Tdminial

Why is this suddenly a leveling dungeon? I don't want to be here

Comment by Zds0

When she tells you to do to the next ship, if you don't see any, restart the game. They should be right there, next to the Dawnbreaker, no need to fly to them.

Comment by Turbochucky

I'm very surprised to see such an amount of negative feedback because I absolutely loved the dungeon. Especially was excited about both novel and creative level design, and boss fights that incorporate skyriding. I would like Blizz to continue experimenting and stepping away from traditional patters of design of dungeons and raids.

Comment by FLambda

Many of the dungeons have quests associated with them. Some of them are campaign quests, so you'll need to do the associated storyline to do them:

The Rookery	Calling the Stormriders (Third chapter of The Isle of Dorn campaign)
Cinderbrew Meadery	Mergers and Acquisitions
The Stonevault	Daily Diagnostics
Darkflame Cleft	N/A
Priory of the Sacred Flame	Priory of the Sacred Flame: A Brother's Grief (End of the Priory side storyline, starting with The Brothers Braunpyke)
The Dawnbreaker	The Dawnbreaker: The Christening
Ara-Kara, City of Echoes	Ara-Kara, the City of Echoes: Harvest's End
City of Threads	City of Threads: Splice the Splicer

Script to check which Dungeon quests you've done:

/run for _,i in ipairs({80022;83099;83108;79650;83322;83166;83164}) do print(format("%s (%d): %s",C_QuestLog.GetTitleForQuestID(i),i,C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(i) and "\124cff00ff00Yes\124r" or "\124cffff0000No\124r")) end

Comment by Vannor

This can be a pretty rough dungeon until you know the mechanics. I've seen tanks and healers quit as soon as the group zones in. I'm surprised we can't run it as a follower dungeon to learn the mechanics until L80 but can get it as a normal dungeon at L70.

Comment by Bolerro619

Follower Dungeon
Do NOT attack the enemies on the sides before going on the ship. This will put you in a never ending combat until you restart the game.

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Speaker Shadowcrown – The new leader of the Order of Night, Shadowcrown forged an alliance with Azj-Kahet and masterminded an audacious plan to steal the flagship Dawnbreaker. A former ardent from the Priory, she has become consumed by the darkness of Beledar's Shadow.
Anub'ikkaj – Anub'ikkaj is one of Queen Ansurek's most brilliant tacticians. A meticulous planner known for creative use of indigenous resources. His soldiers are fanatically loyal.
Rasha'nan – A winged horror from the depths of Azj-kahet. Rasha'nan is Queen Ansurek's secret weapon to destroy the Arathi should her armies fail to conquer Mereldar.

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