For those of you that are new to wow or just newer then Burning Crusade we're very used to the idea that when we want to raid all we have to do is get our team together and head into the instance but that wasn't the case back in the early days of Warcraft. In both the original Worlds of Warcraft and Burning Crusade you had to meet certain requirements before you could enter a raid. If a player beat a dungeon (for our purposes Blackrock Spire) You could enter the raid instance that was actually located within the dungeon it's self. It was like a reward for beating the dungeon. The problem with this is that if you died in the raid you would be sent outside the dungeon instance and would have to beat the dungeon all over again before you could re-enter the raid. Anyone who's ever been on a progression raid team or even done LFR can tell you why that doesn't work. So Blizzard came up with this "brilliant" idea called attunement. By completing a quest which included beating a
corresponding dungeon and locating a particular item in said dungeon they would be able to attune themselves with that raid and in essence be able to enter it from a separate location. This was before Blizzard decided that the better idea was to just let players go right into the raid (Thank you Blizzard). Somewhere in the past couple of patches Blizzard added new rare battle pets as loot drops to some old raids giving old and new players reasons to go back and see this old content. The only problem is that if you weren't around for these raids the first time you wouldn't have attunement, and the knowledge of how to get attunement is like a theremin, no one has a clue how to make it work. I tell you all this to give context to my story of failure and guide that I'm going to give everyone.
About a week and a half ago I decided that I would try and collect some of the new pets from the Blackwing Lair raid. Not having played during original WOW I didn't have attunement So I headed into Blackrock Spire thinking "Oh I'll figure it out". I was very wrong. As a point of fact I actually got lost in the dungeon for forty-five minuets and had to have a guildie come and tow me in to safety so to speak (Thanks Kell). They helped me clear the dungeon so that I could click the stone at the end and get attunement. Problem, I hadn't picked up the quest to get it so all our work was for not. Sadly she had to go and I was left on my own. I not being able to find the quest giver (Their isn't one for this particular quest. More on that later) was forced to look up this quest and where to get it online. Sadly the website I went to listed almost all the information about this quest incorrectly (costing me another forty minuets) it was around this point that one of my other guildies heard me using some four letter words and asked me what I was doing. You see the quest ( Blackhand's Command)
drops off Scarshield Quartermaster located outside the instance but inside Blackrock Mountain (right where my curser is in the image below)
Accept the quest and proceed into Blackrock Spire. Complete The upper Blackrock dungeon. After you kill General Drakkisath You will spot an orb behind him, click it to complete the quest and earn
attunement. This will allow you to enter the Blackwing Lair raid instance at the opposite end of the hallway from Blackrock Spire instance by clicking on the orb without have to go through any extra steps.
Remember always look before you leap, do your research before you try something your thoroughly unfamiliar with and enjoy.
Remember we're all noobs, Some of us just fly the flag a little higher.
-Morison
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