Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom

Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom
AK, Kahet, Old Kingdom
	File:Ahn'kahet Loading Screen.jpg; The Ahn'kahet loading graphic
Location	Underground Northrend, main entrance located in the Pit of Narjun, Dragonblight
Race(s)	File:IconSmall Nerubian Small.gif Nerubian; File:IconSmall FacelessOne Small.gif Faceless ones
End boss	Herald Volazj
Advised level	73-75
Player limit	5
Bosses
Elder Nadox; Prince Taldaram; Jedoga Shadowseeker; Amanitar (heroic); Herald Volazj	(lore); (lore); (lore); (lore); (lore)
	Loot

Azjol-Nerub
Azjol-Nerub (5)
Krik'thir the Gatewatcher Hadronox Anub'arak
Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom (5)
Elder Nadox Prince Taldaram Jedoga Shadowseeker Amanitar (heroic) Herald Volazj

Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom (also referred to simply as Ahn'kahet or The Old Kingdom) is an instance located in the Dragonblight on the icy continent of Northrend. The huge underground city serves as home to remnants of the once magnificent Nerubian Empire.

Ahn'kahet is one of the sections of Azjol-Nerub, the others being the Inner Kingdom and the Upper Kingdom. The city is controlled by Undead nerubians and Yogg-Saron's faceless ones.

The area known as the Old Kingdom lies deep below the surface of Northrend, and is the original location of Azjol-Nerub. The nerubians preferred to stay well below surface level. This area has not been well maintained because the Scourge had not descended this far until very recently. By the same token, that meant they hadn't looted as much either. It was easier to avoid the Scourge by staying to these lower levels. Most of the nerubian rebels lived down here,Template:Cite though with the recent Scourge incursion it is unknown if they still survive.

On heroic, it awards approximately 2300 reputation.

Geography

Subregions

Befouled Terrace · The Desecrated Altar · Fallen Temple of Ahn'kahet · Hall of the Conquered Kings · Shimmering Bog

Dungeon denizens

Bosses

File:IconSmall NerubianVizier Small.gif Elder Nadox - An undead nerubian vizier serving the Lich King.
Prince Taldaram - A darkfallen prince.
Jedoga Shadowseeker - A Twilight's Hammer cultist.
File:IconSmall FungalMonster Small.gif Amanitar (heroic mode only) - A fungal monster.
File:IconSmall FacelessOne Small.gif Herald Volazj - A Faceless One.

Mobs

Creature Name	Abilities and notes	Heroic Mode
Deep Crawler (beast)	Glutinous Poison (Increases the cost of spells and abilities by 10%)	Unknown
Ahn'kahar Slasher (undead)	Nothing special	Unknown
Plague Walker (undead)	Aura of Lost Hope (reduces max health by 3%. Stacks seemingly an infinite amount, max stack seen is 11) and Contagion of Rot (Disease, Reduces attack/cast speed, and has a chance to spread to allies when hit)	Unknown.
Bonegrinder (undead)	[Fear], [Trample] (AoE damage), [Stomp] (AoE knockback) and Enrages at 10% health.	Unknown
Frostbringer	[Frostbolt], and Icy Winds	Unknown
Eye of Taldaram	[Shadow Shock]/ [Shadowfury] (Shadow dmg), and Eyes in the Dark (a debuff that auto-counterspells. Counterspell is called Dark Counterspell which also causes shadow dmg on hit)	Unknown
Twilight Worshiper (mage)	[Fireball], and [Flamestrike] (fire AoE)	Can be sheeped
Twilight Apostle (shaman)	[Lightning Shield], [Bloodlust], and [Healing Wave]	Can be sheeped
Twilight Darkcaster (warlock)	[Corruption] (shadow DoT), [Shadow Bolt], and [Curse of Tongues] (cast speed reduced by 50%)	Can be sheeped
Bound Air Elemental	[Lightning Bolt], and Forked Lighning (Lightning dmg, multi-target)	Unknown
Bound Water Elemental	Water Bolt, and Water Spout	Unknown
Bound Fire Elemental	[Scorch] and Fire Nova (Fire AoE)	Unknown
Savage Cave Beast		Unknown
Ahn'kahar Spell Flinger	Shadow Sickle and Shadow Blast	Shadow Blast hits for 50% (normal)/80% (heroic) of the target's max health, and should be interrupted or (better) reflected.
Ahn'kahar Web Winder	[50WQ] Tangled Webs (snares you in place for ~6 sec)	Unknown
Plundering Geist (non-elites)	Plunder Health (steals health on hit)	Unknown
Forgotten One (humanoid)	[Psychic Scream], and [Shadow Crash] (fires a shadow blast mortar towards a ranged attacker, you can run out of its way when you see it coming. Hits for ~4-5k)	Unknown
Twilight Initiate (non-elites)	Nothing special	Unknown

Quests

There are two quests and two level 80 daily.

[76D] Funky Fungi
[76D] The Faceless Ones
[80D Heroic Daily] All Things in Good Time

Loot

Main article: Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom loot

Videos

All Bosses - Paladin Tanking Perspective

[How to] Heroic: Ahn'kahet: Old Kingdom.
More guides here

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Patch changes

Patch 3.3.2 (2010-02-01):
- Elder Nadox now only gets one Ahn'Kahar Guardian during the encounter.
- Jedoga Shadowseeker now only ascends once during the encounter.
- Several enemies between the Befouled Terrace and The Desecrated Altar have been removed or had their pathing altered.

External links

World of Strats 5-man instance guide

Wowpedia