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Storyline
Saga of the Shadowblade Rise, Champions Champion: Vanessa VanCleef Champion: Garona Halforcen A More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy The School of Roguery The Big Bad Wolfe What Winstone Suggests A Body of Evidence Spy vs. Spy The Bloody Truth Mystery at Citrine Bay Time Flies When Yer Havin' Rum! Searching For Clues Dark Secrets and Shady Deals Convincin' Old Yancey Champion: Lord Jorach Ravenholdt Fancy Lads and Buccaneers Champion: Fleet Admiral Tethys Throwing SI:7 Off the Trail Blood for the Wolfe Noggenfogger's Reasonable Request A Particularly Potent Potion Champion: Marin Noggenfogger Maw of Souls: Ancient Vrykul Legends The Raven's Eye Off to Court In Search of the Eye Eternal Unrest Black Rook Hold: Into Black Rook Hold Deciphering the Letter Champion: Valeera Sanguinar Where In the World is Mathias? Pruning the Garden The World is Not Enough A Burning Distraction The Captive Spymaster Picking a Fight A Simple Plan Under Cover of Darkness The Imposter Champion: Taoshi Champion: Master Mathias Shaw One More Thing... A Hero's Weapon The Pirate's Bay The Pirate's Bay What's the Cache? What's the Cache? False Orders False Orders Loot and Plunder! Jorach's Calling Jorach's Calling A Bit of Espionage Rise Up Rise Up This Time, Leave a Trail This Time, Leave a Trail Meld Into the Shadows Meld Into the Shadows Fit For a Pirate

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Comment by lordanubarak

Note that you go into actual stormwind with actual alliance players in it.

Comment by EuphoricJacks

Detheroc can be found in the side SI:7 building where the rest of your crew is, Mathias Shaw is fighting a clone of himself. Hope this helped someone because for whatever reason it took me a long time to find this out

Comment by Hvatum

During this you can pickpocket Topper McNabb. He has 1 copper.

Comment by Zuxsa

Today I learned that you're actually able to kill the guards and other npcs that are outside of the main areas you go, meaning if you want to go kill vendor npcs or the auctioneers, you can, although you will be called a jerk.

No clue of it's a bug or intended, if it's reportable or not but it's funny to see.

Comment by 27402

Ok so I followed the map up until I was in Old Town. There's one last bail of hay there (to hide in if you needed to, but I didn't need them). Anyway you won't /target Detheroc since he's actually one of the 2 Master Mathias Shaw(s) fighting each other upstairs inside the SI:7 Building. Which building is the SI:7 building? Good Question on the map of Stormwind it's the orange building in Old Town directly below the T & O in Town. (Entry at 80.02 62.74 if using TomTom):

/way 80.02 62.74 SI:7 Entry (If already in Stormwind).

If you don't have TomTom, when you pass that last bail of hay make a left, the Target Dummies are all over there now between you and a building. Go to it and upstairs.

Once you fight him a bit he'll bubble and actually become himself (dropping the cover) and you'll see Detheroc to fight. Defeat him and then Shaw will offer you the option to get out of there. He returns you Hall of Shadows (Rogue Class Hall) to go turn in the Quest.

Cheers.

Comment by Fijji

During the quest there is a 'wanted' poster outside of the headquarters declaring Taoshi and yourself as conspirators. I thought that was fun and made the quest seem more interesting.

Comment by Elyseon

Now I kind of wish there was a wrist blade skin for the Assassination or Subtlety artifact weapons.

Comment by Started

Notice for people who love being wanted in Stormwind City.
Don't finish your class quest if you want to stay hated. There is no way to become wanted after the quest is complete.

However.. if you dont finish it, you will never get any further either... So for alts I suppose this is a cool little thing

Comment by 1630886

You're actually able to use your Survivor's Bag of Coins and pickpocket the guard to get coins. The SI:7 agents won't shoot you down and the guards aren't able to easily detect you flying over them.

Comment by Doloria

Master Mathias Shaw says:

Grapple up the Lion's Rest cliffs, sneak through Stormwind City to the SI:7 courtyard, and then kill Detheroc.

We'll split up and stealth in. Keep moving - Use the hay bales if you need to.

1. Grapple Hook #1 is to the left of the waterfall at 36.6, 56.4.
Grapple Hook #2 is across the waterfall near the tomb of King Varian Wyrnn at 38.5, 62.0.
(The Grapple Hooks disappear when the quest is completed.)

2. Use any route to Old Town. Travel in stealth, Sap guards if necessary.

3. Locate the fountain in Old Town. To the right will be the Hall of Champions. Rogue Trainer Osborne the Night Man stands between 2 entrances to the grass courtyard. Check out the hanging signs. One says "Command Center" and the other says "SI:7". Head to the building closest to the training dummies, not the Riding Trainers.

Here's a good YouTube video by TravelingMaggie, Rogue Campaign Ending, which covers the 3 Alliance quests related to "saving" the Alliance/Horde/Azeroth from the disguised dreadlord Detheroc:

Comment by jturnergame

I died at the very beginning of this quest and when I released it put my ghost back on the boat where it started with Taoshi. I have no way of getting back up the cliff (can't use the grappling hooks while dead), and there is no spirit healer here (or anywhere nearby that I can tell.) I have submitted a ticket asking for assistance with this and will update when I hear back.

Edit: My solution was to submit a ticket and wait, it didn't take them very long. They simply set me back on the boat with the quest un-started, and I could go from the beginning. I'm not super familiar with Stormwind layout (Horde-only player) so trying to make my own way back up would have driven me crazy.

Comment by kodora1316

Note that you don't have to have the grappling hook talent selected, just use the grappling hooks provided (similar to Stormheim).

Comment by Boxofbeer

This is a final quest of Rogue class hall campaign, you'll earn A Glorious Campaign after the quest. Follow guys and make your way to SI:7 courtyard, sap any npc's if needed. Also, there everywhere Hay Bales, seems that's the reference to Assassin Creed. I dont know if bugged, but when guards charged me once, stealth didnt work and i had to re take the quest.
When you reached SI:7, go to the second floor and assist Mathias fighting against fake SI:7 leader. Few seconds later Detheroc will jump down, chase him and defeat. Get back to your Class Hall then and turn in the quest.

The Imposter — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWJBU-LyOTU

Each class in Legion has a long class hall quest chain — campaign. During that chain you'll raise your power and power of your class hall.
Rogue class hall campaign quests are under the spoiler.
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Rogue class hall campaign
1	98	Call of The Uncrowned	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQi03LnZ3qM
2	98	The Final Shadow	Uncrowned Insignia	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTBs1SQh0PM
3	98	A Worthy Blade	Artifact Chosen	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVuiFm_eY1w
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The Kingslayers quest chain
	98	Finishing the Job	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWRQ14Ujafs
	98	No Sanctuary	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0rxTK8fpds
	98	Codebreaker	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEGq10_lCU8
	98	Cloak and Dagger	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuAdDCF4qpg
	98	Preparation	https://youtu.be/TZUsY6UAIQg
	98	The Unseen Blade	The Kingslayers	https://youtu.be/sh-wqIQI91Y
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The Dreadblades quest chain
	98	A Friendly Accord	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ZFn3OqOr0
	98	The Dreadblades	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNMHDFTiAOs
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Fangs of the Devourer quest chain
	98	The Shadows Reveal	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_snez58-K0
	98	A Matter of Finesse	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNGw5asX1yM
	98	Closing In	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfPa4LwuhK8
	98	Traitor!	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kyk6ofTak0
	98	Fangs of the Devourer	Fangs of the Devourer	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eUQXriPGNk
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4	98	Honoring Success	https://youtu.be/tzkNsLQDqR8
5	98	Right Tools for the Job	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85-dYgtA8X4
6	98	Injection of Power	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G67XUn4j0o
7	101	Return to the Chamber of Shadows
8	101	Rise, Champions	300 x Order Resources Garona Halforcen Vanessa VanCleef	https://youtu.be/CN90ZPG-Jz8
9	101	A More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy	100 x Order Resources
101	The School of Roguery	100 x Order ResourcesGang of Bandits training
101	The Big Bad Wolfe
12	101	What Winstone Suggests	500 x Order Resources Glory of the Order
101	A Body of Evidence	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z61NIypDo4
14	101	Spy vs. Spy
15	103	The Bloody Truth	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx974IkR0S8
16	103	Mystery at Citrine Bay	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hEplPfduSU
17	103	Searching For Clues	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKqdOxAAlts
18	103	Time Flies When Yer Havin' Rum!	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvj3txvk-yE
19	103	Dark Secrets and Shady Deals	1000 x Order Resources Bandit Wanted Poster Glory of the Order	https://youtu.be/qFf4BAgKMl4
20	103	Champion: Lord Jorach Ravenholdt	Lord Jorach Ravenholdt
103	Convincin' Old Yancey
22	103	Fancy Lads and Buccaneers	Crew of Pirates training
103	Champion: Fleet Admiral Tethys	Fleet Admiral Tethys
103	Throwing SI:7 Off the Trail
25	103	Blood for the Wolfe	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DijclYZr-8c
26	110	Maw of Souls: Ancient Vrykul Legends	250 x Order Resources	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2g_CU6EJUs
27	110	The Raven's Eye	https://youtu.be/kGcZeeaqlPc
28	110	Off to Court	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNWMViE3JMk
29	110	A Sheath For Every Blade	Mask of the Uncrowned
110	Noggenfogger's Reasonable Request	5 x Draught of Raw Magic
110	Hitting the Books
32	110	A Particularly Potent Potion	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkngKGm5uD8
33	110	Champion: Marin Noggenfogger	Marin Noggenfogger
110	In Search of the Eye	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3Ig3hiG9A
35	110	Eternal Unrest	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuuFHajX3PM
36	110	Black Rook Hold: Into Black Rook Hold	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeyduA4sQrk
37	110	Deciphering the Letter	1500 x Order Resources Wristbands of the Uncrowned Greater Glory of the Order	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFmcZpPTJIw
38	110	Champion: Valeera Sanguinar	Valeera Sanguinar
110	Where In the World is Mathias?
40	110	Pruning the Garden
41	110	The World is Not Enough
42	110	A Burning Distraction	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=053m67h-bXs
43	110	The Captive Spymaster	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd8S1FYYurg
44	110	Picking a Fight	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqNPOIGroDA
45	110	A Simple Plan
46	110	Under Cover of Darkness
47	110	The Imposter	5000 x Order Resources A Glorious Campaign Chestguard of the Uncrowned Greater Glory of the Order titleRelic to choose	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWJBU-LyOTU
48	110	Champion: Taoshi	Taoshi
110	Champion: Master Mathias Shaw	Master Mathias Shaw
110	One More Thing...
51	110	A Hero's Weapon	Heroic Weapons3rd relic slot

Comment by chrnaf

Couple of problems with this quest:

1. Each hay bail is one time use. Ever. There are 15 total, so don't have illusions of grandeur thinking that you've found a way to spend the rest of your days ganking guildees and sapping/pick-pocketing the king/guards.
2. Life expectancy is very short AFK. If the wife comes in and needs to talk while you are mid quest, you WILL find your spirit back at the:
3. Completely USELESS spirit healer at the boat. If you die, ghost run across the bay and take the steps, since the grappling hooks are as useful as a football bat in the afterlife.
4. There are no friendly NPCs. Not even the ones I brought with me on my mammoth work to vendor or repair in here.
5. Kids are red text, you still can't kill them.
6. Vanish, shadowmeld, and all other forms of stealth are useless when you run out of hay. Hay is THE ONLY WAY to regain stealth after it is broken in combat.

Comment by FlamePenguin

Alliance players flagged for PvP can kill you during this quest...

I learned it the hard way.

Comment by ForgetflDory

If you're having trouble spotting the first grapple point, just swim left to /way 32.52, 55.1 to climb out of the water and then run up the side of the hill to your right to the first grapple point at /way 36.49, 56.36. From there you should have a good line of sight to the second grapple point.

Comment by Mischief004

So if your like me and do this quest out of order and just kill Detheroc. (Not using the grapple and just walks to SI:7) Then the quest will bug. Sorta. Basically all you have to do is go back and just click on the grapple hook, go back to SI:7 and wait like 30 minutes for Detheroc to respawn.

Comment by selkie47

apparently blizz thinks all rogues enjoy being flagged and pvp. This quest wouldnt have annoyed me nearly as much if it wasn't in bloody SW >>AND<< right next to a busy place (target dummies)! Why isnt this instanced? This whole thing irks me something fierce. Knowing I have to do something similar later on just to get the mount... uggggggh, the hell blizz. >:[

Comment by asloversgo

In case you wondered: yes, you can attack Anduin even if you're Alliance. And no, it wasn't a good idea because he has a ton of health and you'll most likely die from all the guards.

Comment by Superdude312

You can attack the guy on the mount players get when they have enough heirlooms too !
good lord, i can't end this quest

Comment by lolablerants

During this quest you are in the real stormwind, you can attack alliance players who are marked for PVP, AND THERE ARE HAYBALES SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAT GRANT IN COMBAT FULL IMMUNITY AND ESCAPES.

aka, gank a bunch of alliance, troll about, then when a group comes to kill you, click a haybale and spam /lol at them until they give up aoeing the area and leave.

you can't be damaged by DoTs, AoEs, or anything while inside the haybale, however you can only use each bale once. You can stay inside for as long as you like, however all targets become neutral and you cant attack anything when inside. I don't want to ever hand in this quest as it makes such fun PVP, and im assuming if i drop and restart the quest i can reset the haybales.

Comment by lolablerants

I abandoned the quest as alliance, but have kept the debuff and can't interact safely in stormwind anymore!

Comment by jfoobar

Key point so you don't have to scroll all the way down to find it. Go into the building at /way 80.02 62.74, right next to the target dummies. Go upstairs just one flight and to your left you will see a friendly Master Mathias Shaw fighting an unfriendly "Master Mathias Shaw". Attack the unfriendly (sapping the other unfriendly first if you want) and this guy will bubble and turn into Detheroc. Kill him, accept the port out from Shaw and you are all done.

Comment by Tawahachee

Entered the auction house, killed all auctioneers (as a player of Alliance!), got killed by an "allied" hunter right in the middle of the district and threw a knife into a poor lvl 6 dude's back. Damn, this is one of the best final quests ever.

Comment by cupofjoe

Gordon MacKellar can be killed for Doomsayer's Robe toy by alliance when on this quest.

Comment by daBuck

You will get flagged and get killed.
I just did.
Any other npc sees you, and you kill them, people hear the citys under attack, and they come.

Comment by staron

There is certainly something wrong with Rogues and certainly this is one of the quests that proves it. Blizzard developers are having fun with masochist players "look what we will make them do". You enter SW and are attackable by every moron on sight when the only thing you want to do is your quest and be out.

Then you die and you resurrect on a boat with no means of going anywhere. Spirit healer is there but you cannot resurrect. So you quit the damn quest but no you are still a spirit on a boat and you cannot resurrect. You cannot fly anywhere either. 2018 and you cannot fly over SW.

And you'd think for getting Rogues into so much trouble compared to other classes they'd be some God Almighty class with super powers. No, not that even. My Monk for example DPSes better, can tank, can heal, and never, ever had to do anything as ridiculously stupid as this quest... And all my other classes too, except this Rogue.

Anyway, for those unfortunate players that are attempting this quest, try not to die. You cannot quit this quest it does not seem. You will be attackable by anything on sight, other players, who have nothing better to do, so I suppose better do that quest in the early hours of the morning when the little d*cks are in bed. Otherwise you have to run to your body, and even with dropped quest, still impossible to fly over SW or go anywhere, so use the HS and be out of there, and THEN at last the game understands you did not like that particular quest and leaves you in peace...

So to do this quest you must make your way across SW and know that you will be attackable by other players happily going about their quests, visiting the AH, or the bank, whatever... The quest way points are well laid out in your (mini)map and the route I followed was through the Cathedral area then Dwarven District and then to the Old Town past the target dummies, luckily there was just one player there and not 100 players practising their rotations. You go past the dummies into the SI:7 building, run upstairs where Mattias Shaw is fighting the imposter, you attack it, ill it in two blows, unlike the dozens of players that were in your way before, and then you speak to Mattias again and you are ported out.

Comment by shazzan

Don 't Forget you are on this quest and try to do something like "A found momento" and end up trying to kill the king and asking a GM wtf

Comment by Deatheyes

As of Battle for Azeroth, the Guards are all level 120 and you cannot Enable War Mode while in this hostile Stormwind. Which is sad, I keep my rogue on this quest on purpose but now it prevents me from using War Mode. In addition, it is impossible to do the Battle for Lordaeron, making it impossible to obtain your Heart of Azeroth or start Kul Tiras. If you want to stay on this quest forever, begin the expansion BEFORE doing the order hall campaign!

Comment by DeadlyBanana

Some very cheaty thing you can do. In the SI:7 building you go in, you actually get phased into a different area. This means that you instantly lose any players chasing you. I was going in and out of the building and killing any player in the damage counting courtyard. When a DH and a Warr showed up to kill me that greatly out-geared me, I ran in and out and watch them frustratingly try to kill me. Eventually I saw them writing on chat that they would report me for cheating so I gave up. Use at your own risk. Was a lot of fun though having Stormwind up in arms running against me.

Comment by lectral

This quest actually bugged for me today. I was playing on warmode off as Ally but I could actually attack any player and kill them and they were not able to attack me. It was funny but everything got back to normal once i've completed the quest.

Comment by MoarHeroisms

If you're trying to complete this before leveling to 120, I recommend going outlaw spec as Grappling Hook can be used in stealth to help you avoid the high-level guards. Then you can swim through the canals and grapple up the ledge closest to the Old Town district.

Comment by 1249193

Mathias looks kind of sus.

Comment by Wren

Dropping this quest does nothing. You will still flag in SW for some reason as alliance

Comment by Funkyrunky

When the rouge is sus 😳

Comment by LostDrewid

This quest is more than a little infuriating in Shadowlands. Most likely you get the quest at 50 because of Timewalk-leveling, but because it takes place in I Can't Believe It's Real Stormwind™, all the guards have significantly higher stealth detection than they're "supposed" to have. Don't even get near regular guards, and treat the circle around stealth-detecting guards as if it were twice as wide or more. The corpse run is not fun, but as long as you're extra careful you shouldn't have to run more than once... unless you're me -_-;;

Comment by TerribleAtGames

Funny enough when attempting to mount up Traveler's Tundra Mammoth for repair, neither of the mount vendors are interactable and you get dismounted immediately.

Comment by Palawot

Easier than the very similar assassination rogue quest for The Kingslayers, which was a nightmare for me. For this quest just swim the canals as soon as you get to them, you can go almost the whole way in the canals.

Comment by Amashelle

Though this was a ‘low level’ quest for my lv 51 rogue (not in timewalking), all of the guards were still lv 70, which meant insta kills, and they can see through your stealth because of the level difference. Easier to fly over the guarded passages and take the hits from the snipers than to try to get past the guards (can’t even get close enough to sap them before they attack you).

I ended up swimming the canals to the corner of Old Town, hopping a flying mount to get into Ot’s courtyard. From there, it was just a matter of letting the patrols pass before running into the training grounds. Died 3 times. It doesn’t seem fair that the guards don’t scale, though I see how people could abuse it if they did. It should just be an instance, like everyone else’s final class quest…

Comment by Atiel

This quest really should be a solo instance or something, because it's practically impossible now with guards and players at level 70 and being PvP flagged. I don't think this add 'flavour' at all. Not everyone that plays a rogue does so to grief other players or sit in PvP.

Comment by Vexikuri

I took a somewhat easy way out lol

Since I got killed quickly by over-leveled guards, I mounted up and flew southwest then south around the city and landed on the east side. Stealthed down near the water, walked past the fisherman, past the training dummies, hung a left, and went into the building for the final fight.

Comment by lllbearlll

so... i just have the title on my old rogue (50), on a dead server, to use on my new one (70) do i need to re do all the quests?

Comment by Spilledstars

Updated for Dragonflight: Not quite zero work, but easier solve than the original intended path
TL;DR
Accept Taoshi's teleport to Tethys' boat out of town

Go to two required grappling points and don't aggro anything

Find a sneaky way to the very edge of town instead of direct to SI:7

Fly to the approximate coordinate in Elwynn Forest

Complete the sneak-fest and kill that demon!

Details
Alliance

Set hearth at the new elf-tree Bel'Ameth. The building "the silver feather" is large and a couple buildings over from your arrive point via whichever portal put you here.
Prep however you are going to
Accept the quest
DO NOT use your own method to go to Stormwind, because they now hate you, and Fleet Admiral Tethys plans to get you there via pirate boat.
pal who did this during her Hall Campaign got pasted flat by guards in the gate-room. Seriously, if your hearth is in this town, DO NOT use it until you're clear of all charges. Dal is OK. Various portal-tokens to towns in Broken Isles or faction zones in Shadowlands are OK. But this place, no. If you have come to Wowhead and are reading this because you are in this particular pickle - the walkway area in front of the transmog shop is not phased, and your Alliance party member can trade with you there. They can hand you replacement gear and enchants and runes and buff food and phials (or flasks for your level range if you aren't max level yet). We haven't checked if auto-hammer works since DF dropped. I think the biggest deal is there are no guards real close to there.

Horde

Leave your hearthstone set as you bloody well please, the Alliance don't want you in their capitol per usual. It's even normal-phased and players are going to be able to see you. Save the planet anyway, it's kind of important, the other one's a wreck.
If you're Vulpera I recommend setting your Camp in Elwynn Forest after getting there by other methods.
Prep however you are going to
Accept the quest
You don't have to plan how to get to Elwynn Forest, because Fleet Admiral Tethys will use a pirate boat to get you there.

Either.

Talk to Taoshi, get your boat ride.
Grapple to Point 1 It's on a hill toward the left as you face the city and upward, the NPCs head up there first, as the hint what direction to go. But they only do it once and it's kind of quick. Wave the cursor at the hills, it should show a gearable grappling hook. (you HAVE to do this, the quest checks it for credit.)
Grapple to Point 2 It's over at the upper edge of the park where the big memorial to slain Varian stands tall. This arrival point is not within aggro of a patrol. (you HAVE to do this, the quest checks it for credit also.)
make sure Sap is on your action bar. (Ideally you won't need it, but the in the quest as originally written, it was the only thing you needed.)

Optional, either faction.
switch to Outlaw spec if it isn't normal for you, so both Sap and Grappling Hook are available to you. Grappling Hook as a power works very much like Venthyr door of shadows did in Shadowlands or like Heroic Leap for warriors - a short teleport to a line of sight location, driven by a reticle (bright green circle) to drop at the destination.

Vulpera.
Return to Camp if you set it in Elwynn Forest.

Alliance

Now that you have these two check boxes out of the way hearth to Bel'ameth (The Silver Feather).
Head past a few buildings and around a corner, go into the building with three portals in it, go to Mount Hyjal.
Arrive at Earthshrine. STEALTH IMMEDIATELY. The shaman NPC there does not immediately react.
Do not attempt to fly. Sneak your way along the north end of SW and the edge of the waterfall.
If in your sneaking you get to a spot that claims you are in Elwynn Forest stop and use the directions below
Use your favorite method to jump down the waterfall, there's a fisherman's boat down there.
Probably have lost about half your HP unless this was Grappling Hook.
I didn't try Shadowstep behind the fisherman but you'd probably kill him and set off alarms. If you did, HURRY NOW
Stealth

Horde (or Alliance who prefers/succeeded at going around)

Sneak to the edge of town until it claims you are at Elwynn Forest. Localdefense there might not notice you until you kill something, so don't.

Anyone who managed this.

Mount up and fly to /way Elwynn Forest 35.70 34.08 Behind SI7 HQ
This location is on ground level.
Stealth

Either faction.
AVOID RUNNING INTO a patrolling woman NPC draenai who kills battlepets. You don't need to sap her, she doesn't stay long.

Either position yourself around the fisherman's side of the building until you can Grappling Hook to the roof
and then Grappling Hook onto SI:7's doorstep
Or (esp if no players are using training dummies at this time)
sneak around past the fisherman and one set of dummies to the front door.
Go inside (this triggers quest credit, but you aren't done)
Go upstairs (if you pause long enough, a rogue NPC announces some hint at that)
Turn left and continue along the railing
Two Matthias, one friendly, one not. Do whatever damage you like any style you like. (Him being dead gives you quest credit)
Real Matthias is grateful and offers to get you out.
? ? ? (You are at this point still phased that SW hates you, but other player comments suggest your face and Taoshi can be found on Wanted posters. I didn't see one close enough to get a S.E.L.F.I.E. with)
Profit :)
When you talk to him, get portaled to the rogue class hall (and your phasing to SW gets unstuck).

Important to everyone over-level for all this:
They aren't lying about mounts getting shot down. It didn't kill me but it didn't help.

Go ahead and one-shot the faker Shaw. It doesn't change the quest credit. I guess the dreadlord bleeds green ooze or smells like Revendreth or somesuch.

Preparations
All these were notes I made before heading in, they're all valid, I'm not deleting them.

If you're into RP choose your transmog before heading into your class hall. If you've been running dungeons, make sure you have yourself repaired and whatever you prefer as potions, etc. Your OWN mount vendors won't talk to you while hostile in SW. (Only tested mammoth and yak. Don't have a bronto to be checking that)

For those fond of Coordinates and would like to see about coming around the backside of the building from Elwynn

There is a tiny portion of the area behind the HQ that counts as Elwynn Forest instead of SW. hat-tip to Vexikuri as this is what they described to do.

/way Elwynn Forest 35.70 34.08 Behind SI7 HQ
/way Stormwind City 79.91 62.66 Entry door to SI7 HQ

I didn't use a colon (:) in the thing in case it might bug. I know this isn't language-safe, but the zone number is 12 for Elwynn and several phased versions for Stormwind on wowhead and trying to use the Elwynn one didn't work in TomTom, so if someone is able to find me the right ID values, I will update this entry.

There's an entire mountain ridge along there behind it.

As you face the back of the building, if you come around the left side there are TWO sets of training dummies before the door. Whilst if you come around the RIGHT side there is a fisherman (same level as you whatever it may be) and his boat, and only ONE set of training dummies that players might be busy at.

The named NPC Sh'dorana (also same level as you) patrols into the building occasionally, so you might want to have a /tar Sh'dorana macro so you don't get caught by her.

yeah, I'm scouting ahead, my Order Hall already knows something is sus about that guy

I did consider setting hearth to the Old Town inn (The Pig and Whistle) but the arrival location will be by your hearthstone provider, a patrolling extra waitress, the bartender, and 7 patrons. Yikes. That's not counting whether the recipe vendor and two more patrons, or the cooks in the back, come running out to fight you. I'm pretty sure Mr. Burlguard would be sufficient.

To be honest, if you're Alliance, then BEFORE ACCEPTING THIS QUEST I recommend setting your hearth at the new planted-in-the-Dream world tree, Bel'Ameth (in the arms of the goddess) which you can reach from a portal in the core town of Val'sharah. Bel'Ameth has portals back to there, Hyjal, (a capitol city), Darkshore, and Feathermoon Stronghold. Rumor has it soon it may have a boat to reclaimed Gilneas as well. You are on this quest, so you're fully phased to Dalaran Broken Isles and should be able to use a Dalaran hearthstone. Why hearth to Amirdrassil? Because .... while Bel'ameth's own portal to the capitol goes to the mage tower....

...the Hyjal portal back to Stormwind does not. It puts you at the Earthshrine, where the only NPC is a (same level as you, but Elite) quest giver.

The way I see it, I should be able to do this, set my hearth early, continue the questline without paying attention, facepalm a little when our dreadlord notices my antics endanger his war plan, and then accept, and transport, but then USE AT LEAST ONE GRAPPLE POINT (thank you Mischief004 for the warning) (update: BOTH grapple points, one isn't good enough) then hearth to the new Tree, and come through from the North. Ideally you won't have had to kill any NPCs yet, so the city players won't be on alert.

According to several other commenters, the city phasing to Hostile for you happens at ACCEPT time, not arrive time, and will remain so even if you abandon the quest, until you complete it.

Comment by xLunacyx

Always thought Mathias was a little Sus.

Comment by estarianne

As level 70 I had no trouble stealthing through Stormwind to the event.

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The Imposter

Grapple up the Lion's Rest cliffs, sneak through Stormwind City to the SI:7 courtyard, and then kill Detheroc.

	2nd Grapple Point reached (1)
	SI:7 Courtyard reached (1)
	Hay Bales (15)
	Detheroc slain (1)
	Speak with Mathias Shaw (1)
	Meet with Taoshi in the Chamber of Shadows (1)

Description

Detheroc has SI:7's finest snipers on all of the rooftops. We can't mount up and we can't fly. There are grapple points above so that we can move up the cliff. We've also setup hay bales to hide in along the likely routes to SI:7. We just need to stealth in and kill Detheroc. Once we get up there, we'll separate to increase the chances of at least one of us making it through the city. Good luck, <name>.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Light of the Order			Arcanum of the Order
	Heartbeat of the Order			Fel Ward of the Order
	Flame of the Order			Icy Core of the Order
	Iron Will of the Order			Prosperity of the Order
	Dusk of the Order			Gale Wind of the Order

You will receive:

	Chestguard of the Uncrowned		Greater Glory of the Order
	Order Resources

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

You shall be granted the title "Shadowblade"

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(37689))

Guides

Class-Specific Toys, Mounts and More! Legion Class Hall Mission Guide