The Burning Crusade Progression Checklist

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This whole thing started on the WoW forums. Note that the document referenced there was incomplete at the time, and is now terribly out of date.

This is The Burning Crusade Progression Checklist. If you do every quest, get every faction and follow every step below, you will progress through all of the Burning Crusade content from solo to group to heroic to 10-man raid to 25-man raids in everything up to the final quests that lead to the fight with Illidan Stormrage. As of 2007-06-19, notes have been added below to indicate the progression changes that removed SSC and The Eye attunements.

Choosing a side: Scryers or Aldor

Scryers or Aldor progression is really just a simple choice

You must choose a faction in Shattrath city in order to eventually gain access to the Black Temple, the ultimate raid instance of the Burning Crusade expansion. For help, see the comparison of Aldor and Scryer rewards on WoWWiki.

A'dal (Wowhead)
City of Light (Wowhead)
- Allegiance to the Aldor (Wowhead) or
- Allegiance to the Scryers (Wowhead)

Karazhan

Steps to Karazhan attunement can begin at level 68

At this point, Karazhan is all about gear progression. You don't need to kill Nightbane anymore, though it doesn't hurt. The gear in Kara will get you to the point that you can do SSC (Kara + Gruul's lair + Magtheridon = full tier 4 gear drops), and if you haven't done 25-man raids, 10-man raids are a good stepping-stone for the coordination required. Minimum stats required for Karazhan can be acquired by running 5-man instances until you're full-up on blues and maybe even have a couple of rewards from heroics. After that, you should be able to drop the Huntsman, Moroes and the Maiden... you might even be able to do the opera house event, which is the roadblock between the low-end part of Kara and the higher-end. If you can't do opera house, then clear the basement (which most guilds skip over if they can progress beyond opera house). Once you have the opera events on farm status, the way is pretty much clear (other than learning the events) up to Shade of Aran, Netherspite and Prince (the three hardest events in Karazhan). Once you can do Netherspite and Aran with ease, you should be working Gruul's lair and getting your dps and coordination in line for SSC.

The Master's Key (Wowhead)
- Arcane Disturbances (Wowhead)
- Contact from Dalaran
- Khadgar
- (Group) Entry Into Karazhan (Wowhead)
- (Group) The Second and Third Fragments (Wowhead)
  - 2nd Fragment: Steamvaults
  - 3rd Fragment: Arcatraz
- Caverns of Time quests (this is essentially all group instancing in CoT, but involves many non-group turn-ins)
  - To The Master's Lair (Wowhead)
  - The Caverns of Time
  - Old Hillsbrad (Wowhead)
  - Taretha's Diversion
  - (Group) Escape from Durnholde
  - Return to Andormu
  - (Group) The Black Morass (Wowhead)
  - The Opening of the Dark Portal
  - (Group) The Master's Touch
  - Hero of the Brood (reward only, otherwise optional)
- Return to Khadagar

Shadowmoon solo quests

The Shadowmoon Valley quests. Optional

The Hand of Gul'Dan (alliance) (Wowhead) / The Hand of Gul'Dan (horde) (Wowhead)
- Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth
- Enraged Spirits of Water
- Enraged Spirits of Air
Oronok Torn-Heart (Wowhead)
- I Was A Lot Of Things...
- A Lesson Learned
- The Cipher of Damnation -Truth and History
- Grom'tor, Son of Oronok (Wowhead)
  - The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge
  - The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered
- Ar'tor, Son of Oronok (Wowhead)
  - Demonic Crystal Prisons
  - Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart
  - The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge
  - The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered
- Borak, Son of Oronok (Wowhead)
  - Of Thistleheads and Eggs...
  - The Bundle of Bloodthistle (Wowhead)
  - To Catch a Thistlehead
  - The Shadowmoon Shuffle
  - What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets...
  - The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge
  - The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered

And finally:

(Group) The Cipher of Damnation (Wowhead)

Various dungeon keys

Shadow Labyrinth Key

(Group) Run Sethekk Halls, kill Talon King Ikiss

Shattered Halls Key

Primed Key Mold (Wowhead) dropped by Smith Gorlunk
Entry Into the Citadel (Wowhead)
Grand Master Dumphry
Dumphry's Request
(Group) Hotter than Hell (can be soloed)

Key to the Arcatraz

Assisting the Consortium (Wowhead)
Consortium Crystal Collection
A Heap of Ethereals
Warp-Raider Nesaad (Wowhead)
Request for Assistance
Rightful Repossession
An Audience with the Prince
Triangulation Point One
Triangulation Point Two
(Group) Full Triangle
Special Delivery to Shattrath City (Wowhead)
(Group) How to Break Into the Arcatraz
- Bottom Shard (Wowhead) (Mechanar)
- Top Shard (Wowhead) (Botanica)

Heroic Keys and Serpentshrine

Note: Because of the removal of the SSC and The Eye attunements, there's no longer a need to get heroic keys. This vastly reduces the overhead of TBC progression, but there are still large rewards for those who do get keyed for heroics, including resist gear which may be essential for some classes in later raiding.

Flamewrought Key (Hellfire Citadel)

Neutral with Honor Hold (Wowhead) / Thrallmar (Wowhead)
Friendly with Honor Hold / Thrallmar
Honored with Honor Hold / Thrallmar
Revered with Honor Hold / Thrallmar

Reservoir Key (Coilfang)

Neutral with Cenarion Expedition (Wowhead)
Friendly with Cenarion Expedition
Honored with Cenarion Expedition
Revered with Cenarion Expedition

Serpentshrine: The Mark of Vashj

This is no longer required for access to SSC as of 2006-06-19, though a later quest will add a reward for those who have done the quest, or decide to do it in the future.

Heroic Slave Pens (quest giver is deep in this instance)
(10 and 25-man raid) The Cudgel of Kar'desh (Wowhead)
- (10-man raid) Blazing Signet from Karazan / Nightbane
- (25-man raid) Earthen Signet from Gruul's Lair / Gruul

Auchenai Key

Neutral with Lower City (Wowhead)
Friendly with Lower City
Honored with Lower City
Revered with Lower City

Warpforged Key (Tempest Keep 5-mans)

Neutral with Sha'tar (Wowhead)
Friendly with Sha'tar
Honored with Sha'tar
Revered with Sha'tar

Key of Time (Caverns of Time)

Neutral with Keepers of Time (Wowhead)
Friendly with Keepers of Time
Honored with Keepers of Time
Revered with Keepers of Time

Tempest Key (The Eye / Tempest Keep)

This attunement requirement was removed (see above for SSC attunement removal).

The Tempest Key (Wowhead) from Khadgar
(Group) Trial of the Naaru: Mercy (Wowhead) (Shattered Halls: Heroic)
(Group) Trial of the Naaru: Strength (Wowhead) (Steamvault: Heroic, Shadow Labyrinth: Heroic)
(Group) Trial of the Naaru: Tenacity (Wowhead) (Arcatraz: Heroic)
(25-man raid) Trial of the Naaru: Magtheridon (Wowhead) (Magtheridon's Lair)

Hyjal and The Black Temple

The final progression of The Burning Crusade: Gaining access to The Black Temple and Hyjal and ultimately killing Illidan

Almost all of this quest chain takes place in Shadowmoon Valley, and has a unique path for Scryers and Aldor factions.

Part 1:
- Friendly with either Aldor or Scryers
- Tablets of Baa'ri (Wowhead) (Scryers) / Tablets of Baa'ri (Wowhead) (Aldor)
- Oronu the Elder
- The Ashtongue Corruptors
- The Warden's Cage
- Proof of Allegiance
- Akama
Part 2:
- Seer Udalo (Wowhead) (Arcatraz)
- A Mysterious Portent
- The Ata'mal Terrace
Part 3:
- Akama's Promise (Wowhead)
Part 4:
- Kill Fathom-Lord Karathress in Serpentshrine Cavern and speak to the NPC behind him.
- The Secret Compromised (Wowhead)
- Ruse of the Ashtongue (Wowhead) - "Travel into Tempest Keep and slay Al'ar"
- An Artifact From the Past

Which, in turn, requires:

Hyjal Attunement

The Vials of Eternity (Wowhead)
- Serpentshrine: kill Vashj for Kael's Vial Remnant
- Tempest Keep: kill Kael'thas for Kael's Vial Remnant
Neutral with Scales of the Sand (Wowhead)
Friendly with Scales of the Sand

And then, you return to: