Buying Some Time

Quest Giver: Thassarian, Wailing Ziggurat [84.8, 41.6]

Turn In: Thassarian

Objective: Inflict 20 casualties against the Scourge inside the Temple City of En’kilah.

Quick Facts

• Prerequisite: Finding the Phylactery
• Follow-Up: Words of Power
• Chain Position: Quest 2 of 4 in the Last Rites chain
• Provided Item: Lurid’s Bones

Temple City Location

The Temple City of En’kilah is at approximately [83, 31]. The entrance is near the pool where you retrieved the phylactery in the previous quest.

Eligible Targets

Any combination of the following Scourge mobs count toward your 20 kills:

• En’kilah Abominations
• En’kilah Necromancers
• En’kilah Ghouls
• En’kilah Crypt Fiends
• En’kilah Gargoyles

Does NOT count:

• Brittle Skeletons
• Darkfallen Bloodbearers

How to Complete

1. Accept the quest and receive Lurid’s Bones.
2. Travel to the Temple City of En’kilah at [83, 31].
3. Kill 20 eligible Scourge mobs.
4. Return to Thassarian.

Tips

• Use Lurid. Thassarian lends you his ghoul companion via Lurid’s Bones. Summon him to help with combat, especially if you’re a squishy class.
• Extremely fast respawns. Mobs respawn within seconds (sometimes, spawns appear before the previous mob’s corpse hits the ground). You won’t have trouble finding targets.
• Camp the gate. Abominations spawn near the entrance. You can stand at the gate and let them come to you rather than pushing deeper into the city.
• En’kilah Abominations may use a hook ability that pulls ranged characters into melee. Be prepared for this if you’re a caster or hunter.

Lore Context

With Tanathal’s phylactery in hand, Thassarian can now force the lich to talk. But interrogating a captive takes time, and the Scourge in En’kilah will notice their lich commander has gone silent.

“It won’t take long for the Scourge in the Temple City to notice something’s up. I won’t be able to fend off a full scale attack here. Or maybe I would… but I’d rather not find out.”

Your job is simple: cause enough chaos in En’kilah that the Scourge focus on you instead of investigating their missing lich. Thassarian even loans you his ghoul companion: “Take Lurid with you, he might be of aid.”

Upon completion: “That should buy us some time. Isidorus has been cooperative, but I really needed that alone time with the lich.”

Reward Note: Death Knight’s Anguish

The Death Knight’s Anguish trinket is an excellent choice for melee and ranged physical DPS classes. It provides:

• +31 Critical Strike Rating (passive)
• Wracking Pains proc: On melee or ranged attack, chance to enter a state where each subsequent attack grants +15 crit rating, stacking up to 10 times. Lasts 20 seconds.

At full stacks, this grants up to 181 crit rating (31 base + 150 from stacks). The proc is frequent, making this trinket valuable for classes that rely on sustained attacks. Hunters in particular benefit from the synergy with their attack speed.

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