TheWoWDBIn addition to the regular cage keys, you can also get a key to the large cage as a random drop. Opening that cage frees all the prisoners in it, giving credit for five or so prisoners freed in one go.
Quest
Of Keys and Cages
A World of Warcraft quest in Grizzly Hills. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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When opening cages make sure you see what kind of prisoners they contain, to avoid accidently freeing a gnome.
I've just been doing this for the 5th time, 4th Horde and one time alliance and while I don't remember it being this way before, when I've had 1 key in my backpack, even though they're not marked as unique I've not had any more drop until the key is used.
I picked up a key and didn't realise, had to log out for a while, when I came back I killed 20-30 mobs with no key drop. As soon as I checked a cage and found I had a key I was able to get new key drops. I also did not get any of the big cage key drops during this time.
Having tested it further in game where I had a key and didn't use it, I continued to not get any more keys drop until I used the cage key, despite the key drop rate being around 28%.
I hope this saves you all some time.
Quest facts
Quest ID11265
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11265))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineHowling Fjord, step 129 of 162
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
From the little we know, the vrykul are conducting unnatural rites in an 'awakening' ritual to the west in Gjalerbron. They're using living sacrifices to fuel their rituals. {name}, you must stop this. It matters not who or what is in those cages, they must be freed. I would guess that the vrykul hold the keys. The last thing we need is more of those strange vrykul threatening us, or worse, them wakening something even more evil....
Where to go
Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #116 60.9 80.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inGrizzly Hills 60.9, 80.8
/way #116 60.9 80.8 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Grizzly Hills 47.3, 81.7
/way #116 47.3 81.7 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Grizzly Hills 47.0, 83.7
/way #116 47.0 83.7
Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Nearby on the Grizzly Hills map
- Honor the Flame about 100 yards
- The Damaged Journal about 1,180 yards
- Deciphering the Journal about 1,180 yards
- The Runic Prophecies about 1,180 yards
- Pounding the Iron about 1,180 yards
- The Overseer's Shadow about 1,180 yards
- Cultivating an Image about 1,180 yards
- Loken's Orders about 1,180 yards
- In the Name of Loken about 1,180 yards
- The Unexpected 'Guest' about 1,190 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Grizzly Hills, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Grizzly Hills:
- Camp Winterhoof, Howling Fjord
- Camp Oneqwah, Grizzly Hills
- Apothecary Camp, Howling Fjord
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.
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Reward details
Reputation: The Taunka +250
These hardy people are cousins of the Tauren and have become valuable scouts for the armies of the Horde as they march northward.
Reputation group: Horde Expedition.
Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward The Taunka reputation: Skorn Must Fall! (+10), Gruesome, But Necessary (+250), Burn Skorn, Burn! (+250), Towers of Certain Doom (+250), Stop the Ascension! (+350), The Conqueror of Skorn! (+350).
Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.
Storyline
Howling Fjord
Part 129 of 162.
Previous: Dealing With Gjalerbron · Next: Necro Overlord Mezhen
- 124Gruesome, But Necessary
- 125Burn Skorn, Burn!
- 126Towers of Certain Doom
- 127The Conqueror of Skorn!
- 128Dealing With Gjalerbron
- 129Of Keys and Cages
- 130Necro Overlord Mezhen
- 131The Walking Dead
- 132Sleeping Giants
- 133The Slumbering King
- 134Gjalerbron Attack Plans
- 135The Frost Wyrm and its Master
Showing steps 124 to 135 of 162.
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
Before this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Dealing With Gjalerbron
My longrunners that have lived to return have informed me that the vrykul have awakened at their main fortress to the west. It is a forbidden place known as Gjalerbron. The longrunners tell me that the vrykul are performing strange rituals. We cannot allow this to continue.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Necro Overlord Mezhen
The dead ones are at Gjalerbron and they have necromancers with them? We must eliminate the leader of these necrolords. Do whatever it takes, <name>, but see to it that Necro Overlord Mezhen, and whatever he's attempting to accomplish, is neutralized.
Other quests with this name
This one: Horde only · Howling Fjord · Level 10-30.
The storyline at a glance
Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Grizzly Hills map
- Grizzly Hills
- The Claws of Ursoc
- Wrath of the Lich King Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.