Attunement to the Core

Attunement to the Core
Start	Lothos Riftwaker
End	Lothos Riftwaker
Level	60 (Requires 55)
Type	Dungeon
Category	Blackrock Depths
Experience	6600 (39 at 70)
Rewards	Attunement to Molten Core

Attunement to the Core
Level: 60 (Requires 55)
Type: Dungeon
Lothos Riftwaker
Lothos Riftwaker
XP: 6600 (39 at 70)
Rewards:
Attunement to Molten Core

Attunement to the Core is obtained by speaking to the blood elf Lothos Riftwaker outside of Blackrock Depths. It is necessary to complete this quest so that you may enter Molten Core. Once Completed, Lothos Riftwaker will teleport you directly inside.

Quest text

Objectives

Venture to the Molten Core entry portal in Blackrock Depths and recover a [Core Fragment]. Return to Lothos Riftwaker in Blackrock Mountain when you have recovered the Core Fragment.

Description

Rifts stir, tear, and collapse all around us, <race>. Not two paces from where I stand is a tear leading through the depths of Blackrock Mountain, into the maw of the Firelord.

Surprised? Pity... The mortal races cannot comprehend that which they cannot see, touch, or feel.

I assure you, the portal is there and access is possible.

I've piqued your interest? Attunement is simple. Venture into Blackrock Depths and retrieve a core fragment. Return it to me and I shall attune your essence with the portal.

Completion

Upon completion, you will receive 6600 experience (or 39 compensation at level 70)

With a group

The entrance is just off the path to General Angerforge, and people will often do Attunement to the Core during A shred of hope, which is part of the  [Drakefire Amulet], better known as the Onyxia key quest line.

Solo play

Soloing Attunement to the Core, the Molten Core access quest, while not entirely straightforward, is doable. You will need:

• Though the quest can be obtained at level 55, it would be a good idea to be over level 60, considering the reduced Aggro Radius
• Several invisibility potions or the ability to [Stealth] / [Prowl].
• A way to get past the Shadowforge Door. Any of these will do:
  • The  [Shadowforge Key]
  • Lockpicking
  • A friend who can use their key or pick the locks. This is only for the three doors a the very start and won't take more than a minute.
  • A lot of patience and patrol dodging skills
• Some way to cross some lava and several mob packs without taking lethal damage. Any of these will do:
  • Fire Protection Potions
  • Power Word: Shield
  • Healing Potions

Getting past the Shadowforge Door

Without key or lockpicking

You can use an invisibility potion, [Invisibility], [Prowl] or [Stealth] to sneak past the guards toward the entrance, head up straight to the arena by avoiding the demon hounds (who see through stealth). Once done, step in the middle of the arena to activate the normal event, head back to the arena entrance and stick up to the iron gate that closed behind you. There are some random mobs that will come from the door on the right. These mobs will despawn after five minutes opening mysteriously the door on the left, giving access to the Garrisons. Use another potion/prowl/invisibility/stealth there to sneak up to the opening downstairs and you will be able to jump down onto the path to the bridge leading to Lord Incendius.

With key or lockpicking

From the entrance, turn left and open the door. Bypass or kill the patrolling elemental. Keep right and open the second door. Open the third door immediately on your left. There is a single fireguard patrolling the stairs on your right. Avoid the patrol and go up the stairs.

Your goal is the window in the hallway around the corner and down the hall to your left. You will have to run through three packs of mobs and you will aggro them. Quickly make a break for it, being sure to use any avoidance/damage mitigation measures you have, including fear. Run past all the mobs and down the hall through several doglegs. At the end, there will be a cannon and window on your right. Jump through the window on the right. As soon as you make it out the window, all the mobs will de-aggro you.

• If one finds this method difficult, consider using a lesser invisibility potion to stop the mobs in the hall from seeing you.

Keep to the center and all but the last pair will ignore you.

You will land just behind the shadowforge door, overlooking a bridge with a patrol near the middle and two elementals at the far end. Jump down, keeping to the edge, cross halfway between the patrol and the elementals, and then scoot to the middle of the bridge. You can walk between the first two sets of elementals. Pause before the last set of elementals and watch Lord Incendius doing laps around the Black Anvil. Wait until he is pathing away from you. Quickly run in and make an immediate left off the bridge and into the lava. Classes with levitate can use that to jump to the ledge without dropping into the lava. (When you reach parts later where you must go into the lava, the lava will terminate your levitate).

Repeatedly jumping up out of the lava as you move seems to save some damage, so try and do this whenever possible. Your next goal is the wall of the cavern, and it is only a few steps on your left. Follow this wall north around the cavern, passing one island, until you are on a small bluff overlooking a second island with Four Fireguard Destroyers. You will be able to see the destroyers only when correctly positioned on the bluff, so use that as a guide. The island is underneath the bridge to Molten Core that is your ultimate destination.

Getting to the Molten Core bridge

We're going to the island over yonder, behind which is visible the bridge to the Core.

Now you need to cross the lava and stand on the edge of that island. There are several Fireguard Destroyers patrolling around in the lava between you and the island that can be extremely difficult to spot. The best and easiest way to get past this is to invite a friend or guildmate so that you are in a party, tab target them, and then put a marker above their heads so that you can easily dodge their patrol path. If you don't have any friends, you'll simply have to use trial and error.

Our intrepid heroine demonstrates where to stand.

Once you have an opening, jump out into the lava and swim, while jumping, to the edge of the island, out of aggro range of the elementals there. Take a breather and heal up. Your final goal is in sight. Wait for the Fireguard nearest you to path to the right, and then jump back into the lava on the left side. Continue north through the lava until you make it to the ramp leading up to the bridge. Hug the right wall very tightly, as you come out very close to a front elemental which will be on your left side as you go up the ramp. You now stand before the bridge to Molten Core.

Getting past the bridge elementals

Some of Ragnaros's minor minions waiting to welcome you into the Core.

Use another invisibility potion to get past the three elementals and cross halfway across the bridge. At the far side are three more elementals. Wait 10 minutes for the cooldown on the invisibility potion to expire and use another to get past the second pack of elementals.

The core fragment is a stalagmite on the left next to the Molten Core instance entrance. Use it to get quest item.

After gaining the fragment, you can exit Blackrock Depths by inviting someone, converting to raid, then entering Molten Core and immediately exiting. It'll exit the instance and bring you right to Lothos Riftwalker where you can turn in the quest for your reward. You are now attuned to the Molten Core!

External links

• A step by step guide by Mirakuli on how to complete the attunement quest. Doable for any and all classes.
• A movie showing the beginning to end attunement process for a non stealth class.
• Another short movie showing beginning to end attunement with a mage.
• Mage Attunement Funny Movie A movie showing solo attunement as a Mage (Funny version)