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Icecrown Honor Above All Else Curing The Incurable Defending The Vanguard Scourge Tactics If There Are Survivors... Into The Wild Green Yonder A Cold Front Approaches The Last Line Of Defense Once More Unto The Breach, Hero Once More Unto The Breach, Hero The Scourgestone The Restless Dead The Purging Of Scourgeholme The Stone That Started A Revolution It Could Kill Us All The Air Stands Still Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle The Crusaders' Pinnacle The Skybreaker Orgrim's Hammer The Broken Front Your Attention, Please Borrowed Technology ...All the Help We Can Get. Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Basic Chemistry Coprous the Defiled Sneak Preview Chain of Command Cannot Reproduce Retest Now Not a Bug Need More Info No Rest For The Wicked Raise the Barricades Bloodspattered Banners Get the Message The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards The Broken Front Takes One to Know One Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Coprous the Defiled Basic Chemistry Sneak Preview Chain of Command Cannot Reproduce Retest Now Not a Bug Need More Info No Rest For The Wicked Raise the Barricades Bloodspattered Banners Blinding the Eyes in the Sky The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards It's All Fun and Games It's All Fun and Games I Have an Idea, But First... Free Your Mind If He Cannot Be Turned If He Cannot Be Turned The Shadow Vault The Shadow Vault The Duke Exploiting an Opening Securing the Perimeter Set it Off! A Short Fuse Opportunity Establishing Superiority Blow it Up! A Short Fuse Parting Gifts An Undead's Best Friend Honor is for the Weak From Whence They Came Seeds of Chaos Amidst the Confusion Vereth the Cunning New Recruit The Vile Hold Generosity Abounds Matchmaker Stunning View The Rider of the Unholy The Rider of Frost The Rider of Blood The Fate of Bloodbane Eliminate the Competition The Bone Witch The Sum is Greater than the Parts The Art of Being a Water Terror Through the Eye Find the Ancient Hero Not-So-Honorable Combat Banshee's Revenge Battle at Valhalas Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn Battle at Valhalas: Carnage! Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge Where Are They Coming From? Destroying the Altars Death's Gaze Spill Their Blood Jagged Shards I'm Smelting... Smelting! The Runesmiths of Malykriss A Visit to the Doctor By Fire Be Purged Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton He's Gone to Pieces Putting Olakin Back Together Again The Flesh Giant Champion A Voice in the Dark Time to Hide Return to the Surface Field Repairs Do Your Worst Army of the Damned Futility Sindragosa's Fall Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Tirion's Help Tirion's Gambit A Voice in the Dark Time to Hide Return to the Surface Field Repairs Do Your Worst Army of the Damned Futility Cradle of the Frostbrood Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Argent Aid Tirion's Gambit A Tale of Valor A Hero Remains The Keeper's Favor Hope Within the Emerald Nightmare The Boon of Remulos Time Yet Remains The Touch of an Aspect Dahlia's Tears The Boon of Alexstrasza Hope Yet Remains The Will of the Naaru The Boon of A'dal Light Within the Darkness

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Comment by 13036

The entrance to the cave is at 34, 69.

Comment by butters

Above coords confirmed, at the bottom of the cave is Patches chained to a Metal Stake. Click the stake and the doctor will spawn. Patches will solo him so you don't have to do any fighting whatsoever.

Comment by 94418

Wowhead says that it requires level 78, but it only requires requires level 77.

Comment by 93130

Leads to Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton.

Comment by Envictus

If you are nearby when someone else completes the "Kill doctor Sabnok" part you will get credit. Still need to free Patches, but you don't even have to be grouped for the first part.

Comment by 73276

''Patches'' is at

You just need to stand and watch patches kill him to complete the quest.

Comment by 91278

This quest seems to have been implemented rather lazily. Patches will lose more health than, and he will only deal minimal damage to, Sabnok, yet the Doctor just ... falls over dead at 97%. Couldn't they have given Patches an Enrage or something to make it more believable? Anything would have done.

Just don't do what I did, which was to panic when I saw Patches dying and to run away, fearing that the good Doctor might come after me next. Had to repeat it to get credit.

Comment by Ssateneth

How do you get this quest? I've done all the quests up to killing embalming and blood orbs and she won't give the next quest to me.

Comment by Dougula

By aoeu 10 days ago (Patch 3.0.3)
I ran into the same problem. You must first complete the quests I'm Smelting... Smelting! and The Runesmiths of Malykriss to open this quest.

And to unlock those quests you will need to complete Jagged Shards

Comment by Diwtay

Hunters - You need to dismiss your pets or it won't work.

Comment by 150068

This two-part quest can actually be done in reverse. I went in to Patches following behind an Alliance character who was on the same quest. The Alliance character freed Patches, so I sat down close by and waited for the drama to unfold. At the end of Patches' bout with the Doctor I got a "Help Patches Kill Doctor Sabnok" complete message. So I waited about ten seconds for Patches to respawn, freed him, and completed the quest backwards.

Comment by 387865

I think mine bugged first. The chains didn't get Patches out, but still I got quest objective complete. The Doctor laughed, unattackable, but then I could attack him so I did. This didn't work though, but after some time I could free him again and now he's killing the doctor.

Comment by 412856

had to do it twice, didn't get credit the first time...

Comment by Whiterock

CITADEL FOOTSTEPS Quest Tree From Whiterock

N)Blackwatch<--The Shadow Vault {H}*-->The Duke*
| The Skybreaker(A)* | | Orgrim's Hammer(H)*
| | | | |
| 2)Exploiting an Opening(A) 2)Opportunity(H)
| 2)Securing the Perimeter(A) 2)Establishing Superiority(H)
| 2)Set it Off!(A) 2)Blow it Up!(H)
| |__________________________/
| |
| 2)A Short Fuse {H}--------->1)Parting Gifts
| 2)A Voice in the Dark {H} |->6)An Undead's Best Friend
| 2)Time to Hide {H} |->6)Honor is for the Weak /
| 1)Return to the Surface {H} 6)From Whence They Came / /
| 3)Field Repairs {H} \_____________________/__/
| 3)Do your Worst {H} | |
| 3)Army of the Damned {H} 6)Seeds of Chaos 6)Amidst the Confusion
| 2)Futility {H} \ /
| |->4)Sindragosa's Fall(A) 5)Vereth the Cunning
| |->4)Cradle of the Frostbrood(H) 5)New Recruit
| | 7)The Vile Hold
| 4)Where Dragons Fell {H} |->7)Generosity Abounds
| 5)Time for Answers {H} |->7)Stunning View /
| 5)The Hunter and the Prince {H} 7)Matchmaker / /
| 1)Knowledge is a Terrible Burden {H} \_________/_____/
| | \ |->7)The Rider of the Unholy
| 1)Tirion's Help(A) 1)Argent Aid(H) |->7)The Rider of Blood /
| | / 7)The Rider of Frost / /
| 5)Tirion's Gambit {H} \ / /
| 2)The Fate of Bloodbane
8)Where Are They Coming From?
| |
8)Death's Gaze 8)Destroying the Altars
|______________|
|->8)I'm Not Dead Yet!{H}
|---------------->8)Spill Their Blood
8)Jagged Shards /
|->7)The Runesmiths of Malykriss /
7)I'm Smelting... Smelting! / /
\_________________________/____/
| |
8)By Fire Be Purged 8)A Visit to the Doctor
/ /
8)Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton-->8)Let's Get Out of Here {H}
8)He's Gone to Pieces
8)Putting Olakin Back Together Again
8)The Flesh Giant Champion
Quest zones:
1)Unique zones_2)Icecrown Citadel_3)Valley of Lost Hope_4)Sindragosa's Fall_5)Icecrown Citadel(outside)_6)Weeping Quarry_7)Malykriss_8)Fleshwerks
N)Not-needed
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.

Comment by 358684

i'd recommend not using stealth. with my rogue, i went behind the doctor and stealthed, waiting for him to become attackable, but it never happened. got credit for freeing patches but not killing the doctor even though he keeled over pretty fast. tried again without stealth and it worked fine (i.e. doctor magically dies in about 15s).

EDIT: 2nd time, doctor became attackable.

Comment by Ghostgirl

I just tried to do this quest and I wasn't able to attack the Doctor until after Patches died. Part of the way through, Patches respawned so I stunned the Doctor to free Patches a second time. He began to attack with me but then I had to stand in place for like 15 seconds before I got credit for it. It was just very odd.

Comment by fai1

If you try to help Patches kill the Doctor, you will not get credit for the second half, "help Patches kill the Doctor." Just stand there and, I dunno, watch TV for a couple minutes or something.
Also, if you screw this up, just wait about 30 seconds and Patches will respawn; let him off the chain and he'll go after the doc again.

Comment by Vadel

as a hunter i figured i would see if launching an explosive trap would do anything well it did (either that or it was great timing) the trap didn't go off but the good doctor keeled over immediately

Comment by 920211

Do NOT attack the doctor. Although you will not be able to attack him, doing so will prevent you from getting credit after Patches kills him.

Comment by 1440987

A Visit to the Doctor http://youtu.be/boM-tlXi4RI

Comment by Tynael

This quest is kind of bugged. You have to try free Patches more than 1-2 times in order to succeed in completing the quest.

Comment by Boxofbeer

A Visit to the Doctor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S35Z2gYnIGE

Comment by allOf

A Visit to the Doctor https://youtu.be/AxHAmGujZng

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=lFoYeNn_fpk&feature=youtu.be

Comment by AdenAndrews

I entered the Sanctum of Reanimation and my screen went transparent and got kicked off the server. When i login i am still in limbo and get kicked off in seconds? If this happens, go to Blizzard site and do a Self Service option under support to move your character to a nearby graveyard. then you can log on again.

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A Visit to the Doctor

Darkrider Arly at Blackwatch wants you to destroy the Metal Stake imprisoning Patches in the Sanctum of Reanimation and help him get his revenge on Doctor Sabnok.

	Patches freed (1)
	Help Patches kill Doctor Sabnok (1)

Description

So they've been embedding these ghouls with broken shards of saronite down in the Sanctum of Reanimation? We must put a stop to this, before these ghouls can be deployed against our troops.

Find the entrance to the Sanctum of Reanimation in the flesh giant lab area of the Fleshwerks. There, the ghoul mastermind, Doctor Sabnok, keeps the most fearsome of his creations, Patches. Free Patches from his chains and help him take his revenge on the doctor. Let his own creation be his undoing.

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13152))