Blackout

Quest Giver: Raegar Breakbrow — Prospector’s Point, Grizzly Hills [77, 49]

Objective: Use Raegar’s Explosives to destroy the Dun Argol Power Core in the basement of the main building at Dun Argol, then return to Raegar Breakbrow.

Quick Facts

• Level: 75
• Location: Dun Argol main building basement, Grizzly Hills
• Provided Item: Raegar’s Explosives
• Prerequisite: … Or Maybe We Don’t
• Pairs With: The Iron Thane and His Anvil (same basement) and Put on Your Best Face for Loken (same Dun Argol trip)

Walkthrough

• Enter the main building at the top of Dun Argol [76, 63]. Take the elevators down to the basement level. The Runic Power Core is on the bottom floor, surrounded by machinery.
• Use Raegar’s Explosives on the power core to destroy it. This is a single interaction, no combat required if you handle it correctly.

Overseer Disguise Route (Recommended)

• If you still have the Overseer Disguise Kit from Put on Your Best Face for Loken, use it before entering. The disguise makes all iron dwarves friendly, letting you walk straight to the power core without pulling a single mob. There may be zero combat using this method: walk in disguised, jump down, throw the bomb, done.
• Mount first, then disguise. You cannot mount while disguised, but the disguise persists if you are already mounted when you apply it.
• Taking any damage removes the disguise, so avoid environmental hazards on the way in.

Critical Warning: Roof Hole Death Trap

• The main building has a hole in the roof. Do NOT fly in through it. You will be forcibly dismounted and fall to your death. Always use the ground-level entrance at [76, 63].

Critical Warning: Elevator Golem Bug

• If you are also doing The Iron Thane and His Anvil on the same trip, do NOT exit your War Golem while standing on the elevator. You will fall into the shaft and get stuck with no way out except Hearthstone (or intentionally dying by re-entering and exiting the golem to clip through the world and resurrect at the graveyard).

Efficiency Tips

• Optimal Three-Quest Route: Complete all three Dun Argol interior quests in a single run. Apply Overseer Disguise and mount up.
• First, head to [81, 60] to activate Loken’s Pedestal for Put on Your Best Face for Loken.
• Then, keeping your disguise active, ride to the main building at [76, 63] and descend to the basement. Bomb the power core for Blackout.
• Then, while still in the basement, cancel your disguise buff, activate your War Golem, and fight Iron Thane Furyhammer for The Iron Thane and His Anvil. After the fight, re-activate the Golem Control Unit to look like an iron dwarf again for a safe exit.

Easter Egg

• The engine room of the Enterprise from Star Trek, with its central pulsing energy source surrounded by machinery. Given Blizzard’s fondness for sci-fi references embedded in their titan-forged facilities, this may well be intentional.

Lore Context

The explosives Raegar provides were originally issued to the Explorers’ League team for archaeological excavation work. Since Iron Thane Furyhammer’s aggression has ended any hope of peaceful research, Raegar repurposes them for sabotage.

Destroying the power core cripples Dun Argol’s infrastructure: no power means no more war golems, no lightning sentries, and no runic armaments. Combined with Iron Thane Furyhammer’s death in the companion quest, this represents the complete dismantling of Dun Argol as an iron dwarf military threat.

Explore Grizzly Hills’ hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Grizzly Hills Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.