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Comment by xunil

Not all the items listed are available w/o performing a "full" tribute run. This means that you can't kill any of the guards, the captain, or Cho'Rush and you must somehow unlock the inner door w/o killing the first guard who holds the key. The door can be picked by a rogue, opened w/ a blacksmith's key, or blasted open w/ an engineer's charge.

Comment by Wedmark

Does it exist any Tribute guide?
I'd really like one since I have never done all the preparations needed for one and so on. :-)

Comment by 3209

Bring Frost Oil + Thorium Widget, as well as the mats for the Gordok Ogre Suit (a Tailor can make this, or the Goblin inside the instance.)

A Rogue with 300 LP or other means to open the inner door are also required in order to obtain full loot from the tribute chest.

Comment by 4274

This is probably one of my favorite instance runs so far. Great loot, and quick.

The way I take this, which seems to work really well(we can run in about 45 minutes) This run requires a rogue, 1 frost oil, 1 thorium widget, 1 godok ogre suit(can be made by a tailor, leatherworker, or the goblin inside: mats are 2xbolt of runecloth, 4x rugged leather, 1x Ogre Tannin, 1x Rune Thread - note this can also be made by the goblin Knot Thimblejack inside the instance for twice the mats):

Boss 1 and 2: after coming in the instance door, clear the first pat and start heading left. Head into the next room(do not go down into the courtyard) where the boss pats around. It's pretty easy to keep an eye on the boss, and put a raid icon over his head to keep track of him. Have your rogue sneak into the center of the pavilion where the boss pats and snatch the key out of the chest. This takes some careful timing but isn't too hard. You should be going along the south wall, pull everything back to the southeast corner of the room as you make your way west, keeping an eye on the boss. Once you've cleared the south wall walkway, let the boss pat down the stairs in front of you. When he goes back up everyone run to the southwest corner. You don't have to clear anything between here and the door. Head to the door in the middle of the west wall - watch out for the boss because he pats down here as well - if he does just run back untill he goes up the stairs then run thru the door.

Boss 3: Slip'kik is easy enough to avoid. After opening the door from the second room and heading down into the hallway, you'll find a group of ogres. Clear it out. As you move on to the next room you'll aggro a bunch of spiders and other insects. This is easy enough with AoE and you'll see it beforehand. Clear the entrance to the room. Now you should see a goblin in the far corner. We want to watch the timing on Slip'kik and the Eye of Kilrogg that pats through this area. When they are both patted away, line-of-sight pull the two warlocks and the two deathguards that are standing around the bonfire in front of you. You want to pull them around the corner between the two pillars at the beginning of the room. Take them out as fast as you can. Once it's clear, wait for the Eye and Slip'kik to pat away again. Have the person who brought the frost oil and thorium widget go right click the broken trap in the center of the hall, then wait for the Eye of Kilrogg to come back. If the boss pats back before the eye back off and let him walk over the trap. He'll be frozen in place for the rest of the instance. Now, kill the eye. Go use the shackle key on the goblin to get his cache(which has a good chance of dropping an epic boe pattern but can also drop some really nice bop blue patterns for Tailoring and Leatherworking - must have Gordok Shackle Key, which drops off the ogres in the area)

Getting to the fourth boss: Now hug the wall to the next hallway where there will be two reavers. You can sheep the far one to pull the close one and fight him back by Slip'kik(CAREFUL OF AOE) then go into the hall and kill the other one. To the right side of the ramp you'll see 2 warlocks and 2 deathguards; take them out and head up the ramp. From here you pull the right side of the platform, and can fight them on the ramp to be sure you don't aggro the left side. Head up the next ramp and clear the group immediately on the right(They'll aggro as soon as you get to the top of the ramp, yes even at 60) Now head along the wall to the left and take out the two standing astride the doorway. Dogpile into the door and have your rogue open it.

The fourth boss: In the next room you'll find 2 reavers, a doomguard, and a warlock - down them and don't move any farther. Have the person who brought the ogre suit use it and go talk to the guard up ahead. He'll run off screaming about the prisoners. From here you're only 2-3 pulls from the King.

Comment by 4274

The King!: Through the door as you enter the courtyard, take out the group on the right(A reaver and captain, don't worry the captain isn't a boss). Then move on into the center of the courtyard. There are 9 dogs in total I believe, including the pat. You can wait for the pat to be in the center or just pull it seperately. Once it's clear, mana up and make sure all your buffs are good. You'll want someone to offtank his observer - I prefer a voidwalker or Hunter's pet. Now, come to the center of the king's platform once your tanks have their targets and aggro, then DPS the bajoodles out of the King. Ignore the Observer. They have a knockback, but from the center you shouldn't get thrown into any mobs. Kill the king. Good.

It's good to be king!: An ogre runs up onto the platform and the observer sits back down. Talk to the one who ran up. He'll name you King of the Gordoks! Talk to him again and he'll give you your tribute. You should get 2 greens and 3 blues, or roughly that. Have people roll on the pieces they want and then let them open the tribute for it. I tend to DE what isn't needed and roll on the shards.(between the boss and the tribute you should get 1 blue for everyone in the party)

Now, walk back the way you came. On the landing between the top floor and the bottom floor is an Ogre Tannin, which you need to make the suit. Grab this if you're a tailor or leatherworker, then enjoy the movie reference.

Go talk to all the bosses to get your buffs(3% crit with spells, +15% total stamina, +200 attack power, all for 2 hours) also, talk to Stomper Kreeg(in the first room opposite side of the courtyard) to get free booze(if this is your first time) or buy some. He sells Volatile Rum, which is used for Goblin Rocket Fuel and can be sold for a good deal of money(at least on my server).

There's also a quest you can pick up from one of the ogres in the second room, to go kill the Prince in the Library. You'll need to also get a quest out of DM West, kill the Prince, then make another tribute run to turn it in. All in all though, a fun run. Good luck!

Comment by 75865

Witch DM are we talking about? East, west or north?

Comment by Thottbot

Wtf is this?

Comment by Allakhazam

You DO NOT kill any guards, the drunk AND Captain Kromcrush. YOu can do this buy avoiding the guards in the instance. It is eash to get around them.

When you reach Guard Slip'kick, you need 1 Thorium Widget and 1 Frost oil. YOu then loot the trap and apply the 2 reagents i just listed. When the guard walks over the trap, he gets frozen and unkillable.

To get past Captain Kromcrush, you need

8 rugged leather
4 bolts of runecloth
2 rune thread
1 Ogre Tannin

You get the ogre tannin inside the instance itself. On the NorthEast side of frozen Guard Slip'kik is a goblin NPC that you talk to about the ogre suit. You get the tannin abit after in the instance that is in a little barrel guarded by 2 Ogre Warlocks and 2 demons. After you loot the tannin, you go back down to the NPC and finish the quest for the ogre suit. After you get the suit, DO NOT USE IT RIGHT AWAY!

Wait until you clear the mobs up to Kromcrush, then the person with the suit uses it and you change into an ogre. You then(EXCLUDING YOUR PARTY) go up the kromcrush and talk with him. He then runs away and he is untaggable. You then go ahead and clear up to the king.

When you fight the king, i do it with the following party:

Warrior to tank the king
Pally to offtank Cho'Rush the Observer(HE MUST NOT DIE IF YOU WANT FULL TRIBUTE!)
Mage to dps
Hunter to DPS
Priest to heal

The pally heals himself while offtanking the observer, and the normal flow of the warrior tanking the king and mage/hunter gnuking him is needed. CHO RUSH CAN NOT DIE. When the king is dead, Cho'Rush changes friendly. An NPC from the south starts running to the king's arena, you and youre entire party must now talk to him and you receive the "King of the Ogres" buff. You are now friendly to the entire instance. After everyone talks to the NPC, the tribute chest will appear with some mana/hp pots, some BoP greens and 3 RARES. It also has a chance to drop Treant's Bane(I saw that drop 5 runs ago). In total, 5 Rares will drop on this Tribute Run.

After everything is looted, go and talk to all the guards you bypassed and you will receive some nifty buffs:

-3% chance to crit with spells
-15% overall increased stamina
-200 attack power

Now, go get your tribute!

Comment by Allakhazam

just soloed perfect tribute run as feral druid, used a powerful seaforium charge on king's door. Other than the wandering eyes of kilrogg it was a joke to do.

Comment by Allakhazam

Yesterday, me and 2 friends of mine did a full tribute run with just the 3 of us... guess we will be farming DM north a bit the next few days ^^

Comment by Allakhazam

Because of the fact that DM was indeed so easy, they have Increased the Stealth Detection on the Dogs, Increase HP of Bosses, Increased Armor and HP of all Mobs, Increased Patrol Range of certain mobs, and so on and so forth... I've seen a Priest and a Hunter do all of Tribute Run by themselves. It was sick... however this was before BWL had been introduced, so there have been many changes since.

I would NOT reccomend doing DM as a 3 man, as the instance itself has been very heavily twinked due to famers and Cocky overpowered Hunters. I've done it 4 man (A little rough, but a good run) and w/o any problems at all from your basic 5 man. It is much harder than it was when first introduced. Please keep that in mind.

There ARE more Blues in the Chest if you kill LESS Bosses. I wouldn't even reccomend killing any bosses unless a particular boss drops an item you want, because they have a higher chance of dropping that one item, so on and so forth... just remember a frost oil for the Broken Trap, to make sure you don't have to kill the one boss (name slips me at the moment).

Cheers, and Good Luck on your Tribute Runs!

Comment by Allakhazam

A mage on my server (Mal'Ganis/EU) solo'd DM North in 2 hours. Not a Tribute, but merely a Boss run.

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=29256

Comment by Allakhazam

is it possible to do a tribute run even with killing the guards if you dont need the buffs? or does it make the tribute 'despawn' ?

Comment by Allakhazam

Edited, Sat Jan 21 17:00:29 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

So basically it is best to do a tribute run for some different loot, then zone out, disband the part, regroup go back in and keep kiling?

Comment by Allakhazam

just let a pet offtank, not a problem, got a shield, renew, another shield by that time King was down.

Comment by Allakhazam

as above.

Comment by Allakhazam

Sorry this may be a dumb question but how exactly do you do a Tribute run? Thanks for any info.

Comment by Allakhazam

How do you avoid killing the first guard (in teh courtyward) for the key that lets you into the final door? The key in the chest apparently doesn't work for that. Can a rogue pick it?

Comment by Allakhazam

did it yesterday on my priest and with a guildie hunter

both in mc/bwl gear wasent to tricky. just gota make sure you master which ones to mind control and the kill orders for bigger groups.

the king boss was tricky we wiped once but it can be done. we got the cloak and druid mace :P

Comment by Allakhazam

you need a truesilver-skeleton-key :)

Comment by Allakhazam

http://www.wowwiki.com/Dire_Maul_Tribute_Run

Comment by Vulkanian

RIP Hunter solo. Blizz ratioed Tribute but left Maraudon untouched and Mages can still one pull all of it.

Blizzard hates us so much.

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