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Comment by TheOnyx

This key will allow you access to the entirety of the Blackrock Depth instance. The chain to obtain this key starts with the quest called Dark Iron legacy, which you must obtain while dead. The person who gives this quest is a ghost located partway down the center pillar in which you journey on your way to the bottom of Blackrock Mountain.

Comment by 8805

To obtain the quest for this key you have to be a ghost and the quets giver is standing on a coffin of some sort in the middle of Blackrock Mountain after you cross the chain and go into the room above the lava.

Comment by 9133

As you talk to Franclorn Forgewright (in the center column of BRM between the entrance level and the Blackrock quarry) for the first time, be a good boy or girl and be sure to follow the instructions given that you probably didn't read. Pick up the initial quest, then click on the man and go through his dialog. Then turn in that first quest and then he'll give you another one. This second quest is the first step that involves BRD.

Someone I took through BRD got the initial quest and assumed that was all they needed.

Comment by Blazecore

Is there a way to get this key again if you destroyed it?

Comment by 37145

Where can i return the Q ?

Comment by Dobmiestre

I'm unsure if this is intended by Blizzard or just coincidence, but the 3 initials F.F.F. of the questgiver produce 666 when the letters are converted into their position in the alphabet. And we all know what 666 means...

Comment by 99150

i just soloed whole q with my warrior..

Comment by 87752

Is this key needed if you are just trying to get the Onyxia attunement?

Comment by 156306

Do you have to be a ghost to finish it and get the key?

Like, after I put Ironfel in the statue do I have to die and go talk to Franclorn Forgewright in ghost form?

Comment by 156306

Nevermind, got my answer doing it. You get the key from the statue in BRD, if anyone else wanted to know.

Comment by Thottbot

You cant make it obsolete. To do the whole instance, you will have to have this key. It opens up a new area.

Comment by Thottbot

Die, and head torwards portal to BRD, as u pass the coffin, and ghost will be standing there, he give u the starting quest.

Comment by Thottbot

I took this from http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?wquest=3802

Posted by Zero260 on 2005-03-16 00:36:28
Obviously as stated so far, get the quest by being a ghost and visiting the tomb to talk to the questgiver.

* Once you have the quest, enter the instance and clear the large room with the 3-dog patrols and dwarves to make your way straight across.
* Make your first left in the next hallway to enter the arena. You will fight several Kodo-type beasts (sheepable) and a named insect/arachnid. Once this is complete, you will have turned the mobs above non-aggressive.
* Go through the west tunnel and up the stairs.
* At the top, turn to your right and you'll see another flight of stairs to you right.
* Go up those stairs and you'll enter the spectator area of the arena.
* Go around the arena and exit the other side.
* In here clear your way to a small flight of stairs that lead down and proceed out (don't go up the other flight).
* Ahead, take a left (to the right is the statue that you turn in Ironfel to) and cross a bridge where you'll be ambushed by 2 dwarves.
* Kill the remaining 2 fire elementals and proceed.
* To the right is the vault (if you have 11 Relic Coffer Keys in your party you can complete "Heart of the Mountain").
* The 2nd right is where Fineous Darkvire is. He walks around so kill the golems and dwarves until you make your way to him. Loot him for Ironfel.
* Now backtrack past the vault, across the bridge, and go straight. You'll run into two camps of mobs and see the statue ahead.

Gratz! You now have the Shadowforge Key.

Comment by Thottbot

Maybe I missed it in another post, here is the name of the quest. Dark Iron Legacy
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=1230

Comment by Thottbot

This outlines how to do the first couple of quests in here and gets you the key to the next part so you don't have to repeat this section unless you're doing the Marshal quests.

There might be a more efficient way, but this is what we tried and worked. Comments/corrections/suggestions welcome.

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Getting To the Instance

NOTE: You can pick up a LOT of quests for BRD from the little camp in Burning Steppes right near Redridge.

To get to Blackrock Mountain, go to Searing Gorge either from Loch Modan through the tunnel (if you have the Searing Gorge key) or running through Badlands. Enter the mountain in the southwesternish area (around 35,84 if you have Cosmos) -- there are wooden slats leading up a stone ramp. You'll see large iron doors, with one partially open. Welcome to the mountain.

Once you go in the door, there's an entrance on the right, which is the only way to go. You follow the path down and are in the central part of the mountain, with large chains going across the lava.

In order to get the quest for the shadowforge key, you need to die and travel as a ghost to the tomb in the central pillar. To do this, first you need to know that there's a ramp up out of the lava right near the doorway you came in from. There's a pillar just to the right near the archway that is close to it. To kill yourself, you want to jump down as near to that ramp as you can, so when you resurrect you don't keep dying.

So, jump on in.

OK so run back to the mountain from the graveyard. Now when you come in don't resurrect, turn left and head toward that huge chain that goes across the lava. Run up the rock ramp to the chain and go across it to the central platform. Take the first door on the right, and then the next door on the right which is kind of kiddy corner. Go around the corner and you should see the ghost NPC standing on the tomb. Talk to him and get the quest. There's a door in the back left corner, go through it and follow the path down to a ramp by the lava. It ends at another chain that leads down to near where you jumped into the lava (hopefully). Rez on the ramp (which is on the right of where you came down the chain).

Now go up the ramp, back to the chain, and head left. You should see a door at the top of a small set of stairs. Stop at the top of those stairs and turn right, there's another door there. Go in it, and follow it down. Congrats, you just took the shortcut to get into the instance.

You want to go left along that wall for a little bit, but there's a center path you can see up ahead. Head that way, and on the right is another quest NPC Overmaster Pyron who is part of the quest www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=1206/jarl-needs-eyes. If you can, finish this, turn it in and get the follow up which is inside.

The door should be just ahead on the right.

Welcome to Blackrock Depths.

Guide to the Instance

Once you're inside, you can see a gate to your left, a path in front of you, and a dead end to your right. Buff up, it's game time.

Head straight. There are going to be a couple on the way up, and a couple sets of roamers to deal with here. Once the way is clear, you want to take a right. There are groups along the walls and some roamers along here as well, usually you can take the groups alone without getting the second on engaged. Clear your way up, these are the Halls of Law.

As you are going up, there will be a room to your left with a few elites in it and High Interrogator Gerstahn. You want to kill this NPC to get the Prison Cell Key which is used in quests later. FIRST clear the things that are across the hall from the door if you can, the Interrogator casts fear and you might end up running into them. It drops one bind on pickup key, so you'll have to roll for it.

Take your first right into the Detention Block, and go into the Ring of Law. A NPC will spawn, a dwarf in robes (Name I can't recall) that start shouting. Ignore him, you can't kill him, but he summons a wave of monsters from the door on the right. Try to keep your casters away as much as you can, occasionally bats spawn and they cast silence. Once you kill this wave the door to the north (straight ahead from the door you came in) will open with a boss-ish mob. Med in between if you can.

After this, go through the left door up the ramp which is the East Garrison. Stop at the top of the ramp! There are mobs nearby that you don't want to aggro if you can avoid it. There's usually a fire elemental type walker and a handful of dark dwarves to kill. Once they are down you want to take a very hard right, the door you want to go through is right next to the one you came up. You will be above where you just fought, in the upper part of the Ring of Law again. Don't talk to the spectators, they will aggro and you'll have a mess on your hands. Head left, and take the door over there.

So down the ramp is a cluster of 5-7 guys and there is a fire elemental walker. There's usually a couple of casters in the group, so while your tank is on one of the fights, the damage dealers might want to take them out first. Try not to let them run to the right, there's another group over there. Pulling them up the ramp to fight on it is probably easiest.

Once they're clear, take a left. You'll be heading towards a bridge. There are two fire elementals on each end on either side of the doorway.

Welcome to Shadowforge City.

On the other side of the bridge, pull the group in the room onto the bridge to keep them from aggroing the others in the room. Once cleared, hug the left wall and go into another sub room. This is usually a group of 5-7, usually with a healer and a caster.

You'll turn the corner and straight ahead of you see a doorway. Head through that and there's a group right there. As you continue around the circle, there's a group by a door on the right. It looks like you can pull just the two by the door, but you can't, the whole group is linked. You want to go through the second door on the right, and if you hug the wall you can usually avoid dealing with the group at the end of the circle.

Once through the doorway, there are a couple of golems and dwarves to fight. This is the area where you kill the named dwarf, Fineous Darkvire level 53/54 elite, for Ironfel to get the Shadowforge key. He wanders around, so you can likely stay at the top of that ramp down for him to come to you. He hits like a truck, so this is a pretty tough fight.

Loot him for Ironfel. Gratz.

If you keep going down the ramp through the golems, you'll run into Lord Incendious (and the black anvil for you armor/weaponsmiths). Kill him for that quest.

Now go back the way you came, to that ramp down from the circle (Ring of Law, upper part). You want to take the right from that ramp, which should be straight ahead from where you're facing now. Take out the group on the corner, usually 5-7 (detect a trend?) with a couple of casters.

Around the corner, at the end of the hall, is a statue with a few mobs in front of it. Occasionally there is a named monster that drops a flame weapon enchant amongst other things. Wipe them out and put Ironfel into the statue.

Congratulations, you now have the Shadowforge Key.

Comment by Thottbot

Lock is 250 skill.

Comment by Thottbot

what if you lose it can you get it back?

Comment by Thottbot

Once you have Ironfel from Fineous Darkvire, it is possible, if you are a rogue or druid to complete the quest and get the shadowforge key without another single fight. I would estimate that this can be done even lower than L60.
Did it with a L64 druid.
Stealth past the mobs on the way to the statue where you have to 'hand in' Ironfel. Once you reach the statue in stealth, you can jump onto the platform that the statue is on. It may take a few tries, but it's completely possible.
Squeeze in behind the statue as far as you can. If you're high enough level you will be juuuust out of aggro range of the 3 mobs standing in front of the statue. Hand in your quest, and stealth out again. Simple.

Comment by Allakhazam

What skill lvl is required to lockpick the doors in BRD? At 238 I couldn't open it.

Comment by Allakhazam

How do i get this kep so i can do my MC pre quest? Thanks

Edited, Jul 13th 2006 at 11:01am EDT by WurrzagTalnivarr

Comment by Allakhazam

skill 250 is minimum

Comment by Allakhazam

its in my keyring:P

Comment by Allakhazam

You get the key as a quest reward from the quest Dark Iron Legacy. To get the quest you have to be in ghost form. While a ghost make your way to BRD and in the tomb on the way to the instance just below and after the meeting stone, there is a Dwarf Ghost standing on his tomb, Franclorn Forgewright. Speak with him and start the quest. Follow what the quest says and you are in good shape. The quest and shrine is in BRD. Obtain the hammer from Fineous Darkvire. Once you have Ironfel Hammer, take it to the Shrine of Thaurissan. The shrine is guarded by Pyromancer Loregrain. Place the hammer upon the statue and quest is complete and you get your Shadowforge Key! Have Fun and Good Luck you you all!

Edited, Mar 11th 2008 8:11pm by Psysix

Comment by alphasigmasigma

According to Josh Greenfield in the interview at https://screenrant.com/world-warcraft-classic-hardcore-interview-challenge-level/ it is possible to get the Shadowforge Key in Hardcore:

Yeah, there's a couple of things like the Videre elixir quest, where you have to drink the potion in Tanaris graveyard, and it kills you, so you can talk to the dead person. We've retooled that so it doesn't quite kill you, it like reduces you to low health. So, it's a little dangerous, but it's not a guaranteed death, and you can still progress that. There's a few other situations like that, like the Shadowforge Key in BRD, that's one that we have a kind of cheeky workaround for as well that players can discover.

I look forward to seeing what this "cheeky workaround" is.

Comment by Rtemisia

I tried this in 2023. I jumped into the core, died, and rezzed right next to Franclorn Forgewright in his tomb with a Spirit Healer to my left. He didn't give me the quest - only the talking. Not sure how to proceed.

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