Wards of the Dread Citadel

Return To Naxxramas: A Comprehensive Guide

New to Patch 10.1.5 is the return of much of Classic WoW's Scourge themed content, along with some new content, and the the triumphant yet expensive return of Tier 3 Armor sets.
This quick guide will break down the steps needed to access the original Scholomance dungeon, as well as access the new content found in Stratholme & Naxxramas.

Step 0: The Prerequisites:
Before you can get the ball rolling and start the quest chain, there's a Toy you or someone in your party will need to have access to: [item=88566]
This Toy is a guaranteed drop from [npc=59369] in Heroic Scholomance. The catch, unfortunately, is that he's not guaranteed to spawn.
He has a chance of spawning after [npc=59153] is defeated, and will /yell "The doctor is in!" and replace one of the trash mobs in the next room.

You'll also need to be at least Honored with the [faction=529], but Revered can be easily reached in about 15 minutes by doing some quests in Eastern Plaguelands. Click here for a simple guide.

There's also some item needed along the way to repair trinkets or complete turn ins. Keep in mind that players that completed the content back in the day won't need most of these.
If you've completed the old content and don't receive the trinkets, make sure to check your bank/void storage as they are unique.
It'll save you time buying these advance:

• Essence of Undeath x5
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• Dark Rune x6
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• Righteous Orb x1
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• Truesilver Bar x4
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• Black Coffee x1

Depending on your standing with the [faction=529], you will also need:

• Honored: Large Brilliant Shard x6, Arcane Crystal x3, Righteous Orb x1, 60 Gold
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• Revered: Large Brilliant Shard x3, Arcane Crystal x2, 30 Gold
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• Exalted: None

Step 1: The Forbidden Ritual
Once you have [item=88566], or someone in your party does, you can begin your journey by zoning into Scholomance and clearing the entire dungeon to the end,
After defeating Darkmaster Gandling, enter the top center room and stand by the old bone pile while the Toy's buff is active to summon [npc=206014].
Removing the Toy's buff will make Eva interactable, and she will offer you the [item=206365], which you can immediately repair if you gathered the materials beforehand.
Before you exit the dungeon, make sure to grab [item=206364] from the bone pile beside the NPC, and backtrack to pick up [item=206346], which can be found on the bookcase in the Viewing Room.

With your now repaired [item=13544] in hand, you will be able to do the next step, which is a series of fetch quests to buy candles for the ritual.
Make sure you have the trinket equipped, or you won't be able to see the NPCs!
You'll need to gather the following:
[npc=11936] (/way #22 65.8 75.4) - Trades [item=206363] (/way #23 55.0 64.1) for [item=206358]
[npc=11286] (/way #22 70.5, 74.0) - Trades [item=206362] (/way #22 43.6 69.3) for [item=206357]
[npc=11316] (/way #22 68.0 74.8) - Trades [item=206359] (/way #22 68.8 78.9) for [item=206354]
[npc=11283] (/way #22 69.1 78.7) - Trades [item=206361] (/way #23 35.7 83.7) for [item=206356]
[npc=11285] (/way #22 63.4 75.5) - Trades [item=206360] (Found by the Live side of Stratholme's fountain) for [item=206355]

Once you have the Journal and all 5 Candles, make your way over to Scholomance, but take a right instead of a left, and head to the back room filled with bones.
Using the journal here will earn you Memory of Scholomance, and give you account wide access to the original version of Scholomance through [object=403499].

Step 2: Back To School
You can safely bank/destroy [item=13544] (You can get a replacement from [npc=206035] outside the dungeon).

Note: Some veteran players might not be able to obtain [item=12846] in the dungeon. If you have your original, you can use it.
If you no longer have it, you can get a free replacement from [npc=10857][A], or [npc=10856][H].
Old Argent Dawn Trinkets like [item=13209] and [item=13209] also work, if you still have them.

Newer players will need to make their way into Old Scholomance, down the the basement (Underneath the Great Ossuary) and kill [npc=11622] and loot the [item=206371].
If you examine the bone pile by the stairs, you'll be able to loot the [item=206372], which you can immediately repair.
Make sure you equip the trinket before going forward, to spare having to run the dungeon twice!
Make your way back up to the viewing room, and unlock the door. Take your first left downstairs, and clear all 6 rooms of mobs/bosses to spawn [npc=1853].
If you have the trinket equipped he'll drop [item=206373], which can be turned in to [npc=11039] at Light's Hope, allowing you to obtain [item=206374] from bosses in Old Scholomance / Stratholme while the trinket is equipped.

Step 3: Race To Slap The Hand of Naxxramas
Note: Now that you can obtain [item=206374] from dungeon bosses, it should be noted that you'll need 20 of them to complete the quest in Naxxramas that unlocks the vendor, so if you want to take a look around Old Scholomance and grab some removed transmog/recipes, feel free to do so.

The third step of our journey lies in the depths of everyone's favorite bony pony repository: Stratholme!
After entering the dungeon through the front gates (not the side entrance!), patrol the streets until you encounter a stealthed [npc=10411]. Killing it will yield [item=206377], but don't use it right away.
As you make your way towards the Crusader's Square, loot any [object=181085] you see until you have at least 2 [item=13180]. One for now, one for later.
In the Crusader's Square, use [item=206377], then head to the Southern Gate until you spot the Dread Ward of Naxxramas.
Using [item=13180] on the Ward will give you the debuff [spell=413407], which will serve as the timer for what comes next: Stratholme Speedrun!

Living Side Route | Dead Side Route

You'll need to make your way from the Crusder's Square all the way to the end of the Slaughter Square, killing all 3 bosses in the Gauntlet, and even [npc=45412].
Once you've completed the run and slain the Baron, head through the South Gate of the Slaughter Square, and use the extra action button to slay the [npc=206148].
If you're successful, you'll need to return to Light's Hope, and talk to [npc=16116]. Exhausting their dialog and completing the quest they offer will give you Wards of the Dread Citadel, unlocking account-wide access to the secrets found within Naxxramas.
Note: Access to Scourgestones also means access to [item=206584], which Crafters will want to get their hands on. They're purchasable from [npc=11536] for [item=12844] x6 each.

Step 4: Guess Who's Back, Back Again
Note: You should now no longer need to have [item=12846] equipped to loot Scourgestones, as [spell=417391] should be applied automatically to all your characters when they zone into Old Scholomance/Stratholme/Naxxramas.
However some people are reporting not receiving the buff until they unlock the vendor in Naxxramas and manually enable the buff through a dialogue option, so make sure to check before you bank/destroy your Commision.

With your Stratholme completed, you can now make use of the new portal to Naxxramas located in Eastern Plaguelands at (/way #23 35.7 22.9) and finally make your triumphant return to the shadowed halls of Naxxramas.
In order to access the new hidden vendor, you'll need to channel your inner Zelda and fashion yourself a grappling hook: [item=206473]
You can find the components quite easily through the raid:

• [item=206472]: Drops from [npc=15953] in the Arachnid Quarter
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• [item=206471]: Fished from any 'water' in Naxxramas. The first room of the Arachnid Quarter has a pool you can fish from in it's center.
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• [item=206470]: Located in the Construct Quarter's second room, on the vat to the right.

Note: Make sure to loot any bosses you kill in Naxxramas for [item=206375]. You'll need 5 for the vendor quest.
You can also now find Frozen Rune affixed to the walls of the raid. Don't forget to grab some for crafting!

Once complete, you're now ready to tackle reaching the new vendor, located at the final room of the Contruct Quarter.
Defeat [npc=15928], and you should be able to see small grapple points that will lead up and across the room.
If you're having trouble spotting them, Neryssa released a handy video guide to help you reach the NPC.
When you reach [npc=206572], you can wake him up using your second [item=13180], and if you've been following the guide so far, you can immediately complete Inconvenience Fee to receive [spell=413989] account wide.
Turning in the quest will unlock the NPC at the entrance of Naxxramas, where he will trade Scourgestones for a new currency: [item=206576]
These can be traded for a variety of goods, including:

• [item=206577] - Used to learn new crafting recipes for Naxxramas gear/weapons.
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• [item=206565] - New Toy that drops a crate of plagued grain on the ground.
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• [item=208068] - Used to obtain the [item=206585] mount.
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• [item=206569] - These armor pieces have a chance of containing armor tokens (Ie:Lamented Crusader's Spaulders) needed to craft Tier 3 Armor.

Step 5: Crafting Up A Storm
Your journey is almost at an end! For those that didn't receive [spell=417391] before entering Naxxramas, you can now talk to [npc=206572] to enable it.
As for what's left, there's still one secret left to unearth: Frost Resist Gear Recipes!
First you will need to located [item=206449], found in the first room of the Military Quarter in a cage.
Turning this in to [npc=16365] at Light's Hope Chapel will allow you to collect pages cleverly hidden throughout Naxxramas, which you can return to Omarion to unlock acccount wide access to the old Frost Resist Gear recipes, as well as Putting Wilhelm Out of Business.
Each recipe will cost [item=12844] x3, which can be obtained by exchanging 1 [item=206375] or 10 [item=206374] to [npc=11039].

Map Markers of Page Locations
Wowhead also released a handy guide of the Page Locations.

And with that, you're done! All that's left is to take up the optional task of farming Scourgestones for recipes/mount/toy & the daunting prospect of crafting Tier 3 Armor! Good luck!

Completing this opens a portal to Naxxramas* in Eastern Plaguelands: /way #23 35.7, 23.0 Revealed Portal to Naxxramas

If you have completed this achievement and Tiny Terrors of Stratholme (from the Stratholme Pet Battle dungeon), you have a great shortcut to get to Naxxramas:

1. [item=140192]
2. Walk in the pet shop, ask [npc=121602] to teleport you to Stratholme
3. Run/fly a short distance to the [object=405367]

By far the fastest way to get to Naxxramas now.

*The Wrath version of Naxxramas, which is still the only version of Naxxramas in retail WoW.

To do this achievement, you have to do Memory of Scholomance first. Once Old Scholomance is unlocked, grab [item=12846] from your bank, the Argent Dawn Quartermaster in Chillwind Camp/Bulwark (depending on faction), or the cracked (easily repaired) version from Rattlegore's room in Old Scholomance (a bone pile somewhere on the floor).

Now, equip the Argent Dawn Commission trinket and kill Darkmaster Gandling in Old Scholomance. You may have to clear all mobs from the six rooms surrounding his spawn, not just the bosses. [item=206373] seems to be a guaranteed drop, or the drop chance is high. The item starts a quest that you can hand in at Light's Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands.

Full guide: https://www.wowhead.com/news/unlock-secrets-within-naxxramas-how-to-start-looking-for-old-naxxramas-gear-333989