Siege of Orgrimmar (instance)
- This article is about the raid instance. For the lore of the battle, see Siege of Orgrimmar. For the patch, see patch 5.4.0.
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Location |
Vale of Eternal Blossoms (stage one, entrance) Orgrimmar, Durotar (stage two) | |||||||
Race(s) |
Orc Goblin Pandaren Mogu Mantid Jinyu Sha Yaungol Saurok | |||||||
End boss | Garrosh Hellscream | |||||||
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Type | Raid | |||||||
Level | 90 | |||||||
Player limit | 10-30 | |||||||
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The Siege of Orgrimmar is a raid instance released in patch 5.4, consisting of two major stages. The first stage focuses on dealing with the aftermath of the Sha contamination of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms caused by Garrosh Hellscream's revival of the Heart of Y'Shaarj, and a confrontation with the last Sha prime that has manifested inside the Vault of Y'Shaarj, the Sha of Pride. The second stage focuses on the fight in Durotar, where the Darkspear Rebellion and the Alliance army make a final push to the Horde capital city, Orgrimmar, in order to take down the Horde Warchief Garrosh Hellscream and put an end to the Alliance-Horde war, as well as Hellscream's intent to take over the world of Azeroth by force.
This is the first raid to implement the Flexible Raid system, which allow groups of anywhere between 10 and 30 players to raid the instance. Flexible raid was originally its own difficulty between Raid Finder and normal (now called heroic). With the release of patch 6.0, the difficulties were renamed and scaled to match the new standard.
The Raid Finder version (and the original flexible version) of the Siege of Orgrimmar is divided into 4 different wings, with each wing originally opening a week (or two) after the previous. See the list of opening dates for details.
Opening dates
Difficulties are listed as they were called prior to the launch of patch 6.0.
Date opened (US) | Mode | Wing/bosses | Required achievement |
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10 September 2013 | Normal | All bosses | None |
10 September 2013 | Flexible | [Vale of Eternal Sorrows] | None |
17 September 2013 | Heroic | All bosses | Downfall |
17 September 2013 | Flexible | [Gates of Retribution] | Vale of Eternal Sorrows |
17 September 2013 | Raid Finder | [Vale of Eternal Sorrows] | None |
24 September 2013 | Raid Finder | [Gates of Retribution] | Vale of Eternal Sorrows |
1 October 2013 | Flexible | [The Underhold] | Gates of Retribution |
8 October 2013 | Raid Finder | [The Underhold] | Gates of Retribution |
15 October 2013 | Flexible | [Downfall] | The Underhold |
22 October 2013 | Raid Finder | [Downfall] | The Underhold |
Description
Community site
Heroes of the Alliance and the Horde have tested their mettle against the might of the sha, the Thunder King, and each other, but neither side could have predicted the boundless atrocities the Horde's warchief would commit.
Garrosh Hellscream's reckless thirst for power has led him to do the unthinkable: from beneath the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, he has seized the desiccated heart of an Old God to use as a tool of war, unleashing horrors upon the sacred valley. The brazen warchief has also turned against other members of the Horde to create a purely orcish force of his own. Now this "true Horde" is amassing strength within Orgrimmar's iron ramparts. With Garrosh bent on total victory, he plans to demonstrate the potency of the true Horde by conquering not just the Alliance but the whole of Azeroth.
It is up to you to purify the vale and bring Garrosh to justice. Should you fail, the frenzied legions of his true Horde will raze all you have ever known and mutate Azeroth into a hellish new Outland.[1]
Adventure Guide
The tensions stoked by Garrosh Hellscream's arrogance have reached a boiling point with the destruction unleashed upon the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Leaders of the Alliance and Horde lay siege to Hellscream's capital in order to topple the ruthless Warchief once and for all!
Encounters
- Vale of Eternal Sorrows
Venture through the scarred Vale of Eternal Blossoms, exploring unearthed mogu ruins to discover the source of the destruction.
- Gates of Retribution
War has come to the gates of Orgrimmar, as Alliance forces and the Darkspear Rebellion seek revenge against Garrosh Hellscream.
- The Underhold
Within a secret Kor'kron base carved into the sweltering caverns beneath Orgrimmar, Garrosh is assembling his ultimate army.
- Downfall
Wielding the dark power that lay dormant beneath Pandaria, Garrosh seeks to bring a new order to Azeroth. He must be stopped!
Storyline
- Main article: Siege of Orgrimmar
Getting there
The actual instance entrance is located at the bottom of what was the central lake at [74, 42] in the Summer Fields of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. A meeting stone is situated outside, next to The Emperor's Burden - Part 8 at [69, 45] at the southwestern end of what was the lake.
In the Battle for Azeroth phase of the Vale introduced by patch 8.3.0, the Siege of Orgrimmar portal is located underwater at the same coordinates.
Added in patch 10.1.5, a Scroll of Past Deeds is visible next to Lorewalker Cho just inside the instance, which allows players to skip directly to Garrosh Hellscream.
Geography
Maps and subregions
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Denizens
Loot
In addition to the loot in the tables below, the first eight bosses (Immerseus to General Nazgrim) have a chance to drop a [Sigil of Power], [Sigil of Wisdom], [Secrets of the Empire], or [Titan Runestone] for players on the appropriate step in the legendary questline.
Vale of Eternal Sorrows
Immerseus | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Cloth hands | Spirit | |
Leather wrist | Spirit | |
Plate wrist | Strength tank | |
Plate wrist | Strength DPS | |
Plate chest | Strength DPS | |
Back | Intellect DPS | |
Plate hands | Strength DPS | |
Mace (1H) | Strength tank | |
Plate waist | Spirit | |
Leather head | Agility DPS | |
Cloth head | Intellect DPS | |
Cloth shoulder | Spirit | |
Neck | Agility DPS | |
Plate shoulder | Strength tank | |
Mail feet | Agility DPS | |
Trinket | Intellect DPS | |
Leather feet | Spirit | |
Finger | Spirit | |
Mail hands | Spirit | |
Plate feet | Strength tank | |
Staff | Agility DPS | |
Plate feet | Intellect |
The Fallen Protectors | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Plate shoulder | Strength DPS | |
Crossbow | Agility DPS | |
Plate head | Spirit | |
Back | Strength tank | |
Plate hands | Spirit | |
Mail hands | Agility DPS | |
Cloth wrist | Spirit | |
Finger | Intellect DPS | |
Plate waist | Strength DPS | |
Held In Off-hand | Spirit | |
Cloth chest | Intellect DPS | |
Trinket | -AoE damage | |
Mail feet | Spirit | |
Cloth feet | Intellect DPS | |
Plate hands | Strength tank | |
Mail shoulder | Spirit | |
Cloth shoulder | Intellect DPS | |
Leather shoulder | Spirit | |
Fist weapon (1H) | Agility DPS | |
Finger | Strength DPS | |
Leather feet | Agility DPS |
Norushen | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Cloth hands | Intellect DPS | |
Leather feet | Spirit | |
Plate wrist | Strength DPS | |
Cloth wrist | Intellect DPS | |
Mail wrist | Spirit | |
Leather hands | Intellect DPS | |
Back | Strength DPS | |
Trinket | Strength DPS | |
Leather hands | Agility DPS | |
Mail legs | Agility DPS | |
Shield | Spirit | |
Dagger | Agility DPS | |
Mail shoulder | Agility DPS | |
Plate head | Strength tank | |
Ring | Agility DPS | |
Cloth shoulder | Intellect DPS | |
Leather chest | Agility DPS | |
Cloth waist | Spirit | |
Mail legs | Spirit | |
Neck | Intellect DPS | |
Plate wrist | Spirit | |
Sword (1H) | Strength DPS |
Sha of Pride | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Chest | T16 token | |
Chest | T16 token | |
Chest | T16 token | |
Trinket | Agility DPS | |
Neck | Strength tank | |
Plate head | Spirit | |
Staff | Intellect DPS | |
Sword (2H) | Strength DPS | |
Plate feet | Strength DPS | |
Neck | Spirit | |
Trinket | Healer | |
Leather head | Spirit | |
Shield | Strength tank | |
[Droplet of Y'Shaarj] | Companion | |
[Gooey Sha-ling] | Companion |
Gates of Retribution
Galakras | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Plate wrist | Strength tank | |
Cloth feet | Intellect DPS | |
Mail waist | Agility DPS | |
Bow | Agility DPS | |
Mail wrist | Agility DPS | |
Leather wrist | Spirit | |
Staff | Spirit | |
Trinket | Strength DPS | |
Finger | Intellect DPS | |
Cloth head | Intellect DPS | |
Finger | Strength tank | |
Mail hands | Intellect DPS | |
Leather hands | Agility DPS | |
Plate shoulder | Strength DPS | |
Cloth wrist | Intellect DPS | |
Cloth shoulder | Spirit | |
Cloth feet | Spirit | |
Plate wrist | Spirit | |
Finger | Agility DPS | |
Plate head | Strength DPS | |
Leather feet | Agility DPS | |
Plate legs | Spirit |
Iron Juggernaut | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Cloth waist | Intellect DPS | |
Plate feet | Spirit | |
Cloth wrist | Spirit | |
Leather wrist | Spirit | |
Mail wrist | Spirit | |
Plate waist | Strength DPS | |
Plate chest | Strength tank | |
Cloth hands | Spirit | |
Trinket | Tank | |
Neck | Strength DPS | |
Held In Off-hand | Intellect DPS | |
Leather wrist | Agility DPS | |
Finger | Spirit | |
Cloth legs | Intellect DPS | |
Mail feet | Agility DPS | |
Mail hands | Agility DPS | |
Leather shoulder | Agility DPS | |
Mace (1H) | Agility DPS | |
Cloth chest | Spirit | |
Plate hands | Strength DPS | |
Mail feet | Spirit | |
Plate wrist | Strength DPS |
Kor'kron Dark Shaman | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Plate waist | Strength DPS | |
Neck | Intellect DPS | |
Mail waist | Spirit | |
Finger | Strength DPS | |
Plate chest | Strength DPS | |
Leather waist | Agility DPS | |
Leather head | Intellect DPS | |
Axe (1H) | Strength tank | |
Mail head | Agility DPS | |
Trinket | Agility DPS | |
Cloth head | Spirit | |
Mace (1H) | Spirit | |
Trinket | Intellect DPS | |
Back | Agility DPS | |
Finger | Strength tank | |
Leather legs | Agility DPS | |
Plate waist | Spirit | |
Mail shoulder | Spirit | |
Plate shoulder | Spirit | |
Cloth feet | Intellect DPS | |
Plate feet | Strength DPS |
General Nazgrim | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Hands | T16 token | |
Hands | T16 token | |
Hands | T16 token | |
Sword (1H) | Intellect DPS | |
Shield | Strength DPS | |
Mail head | Spirit | |
Mace (2H) | Strength DPS | |
Trinket | Healer | |
Dagger | Agility DPS | |
Mail feet | Agility DPS | |
Leather chest | Spirit | |
Cloth feet | Spirit | |
Leather shoulder | Agility DPS | |
Cloth shoulder | Intellect DPS |
The Underhold
Malkorok | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Cloak | Spirit | |
Plate wrist | Strength tank | |
Leather feet | Intellect DPS | |
Leather wrist | Spirit | |
Mail chest | Spirit | |
Trinket | Intellect DPS | |
Polearm | Agility DPS | |
Cloth head | Spirit | |
Gun | Agility DPS | |
Leather chest | Agility DPS | |
Plate legs | Strength DPS | |
Plate feet | Strength tank | |
Axe (1H) | Strength DPS | |
Neck | Strength DPS | |
Cloth waist | Intellect DPS | |
Finger | Agility DPS | |
Cloth chest | Spirit | |
Finger | Spirit | |
Plate chest | Spirit | |
Trinket | Tank | |
Shield | Spirit | |
Mail wrist | Agility DPS |
Spoils of Pandaria | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Mail chest | Agility DPS | |
Shield | Strength tank | |
Mail waist | Agility DPS | |
Cloth wrist | Intellect DPS | |
Mail wrist | Spirit | |
Mail waist | Spirit | |
Sword (1H) | Agility DPS | |
Plate head | Strength DPS | |
Wand | Intellect DPS | |
Leather hands | Spirit | |
Neck | Spirit | |
Leather wrist | Agility DPS | |
Cloth chest | Intellect DPS | |
Plate feet | Intellect | |
Plate feet | Strength tank | |
Leather feet | Agility DPS | |
Plate waist | Spirit | |
Finger | Strength DPS | |
Leather legs | Spirit | |
Trinket | Agility DPS | |
Plate waist | Strength tank |
Thok the Bloodthirsty | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Head | T16 token | |
Head | T16 token | |
Head | T16 token | |
Cloth chest | Intellect DPS | |
Polearm | Strength DPS | |
Finger | Strength DPS | |
Held In Off-hand | Intellect DPS | |
Neck | Agility DPS | |
Dagger | Agility DPS | |
Plate chest | Tank | |
Cloth hands | Intellect DPS | |
Finger | Intellect DPS | |
Trinket | Healing | |
Trinket | Strength DPS |
Downfall
Siegecrafter Blackfuse | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Shoulders | T16 token | |
Shoulders | T16 token | |
Shoulders | T16 token | |
Finger | Strength DPS | |
Neck | Strength tank | |
Leather wrist | Agility DPS | |
Mail wrist | Agility DPS | |
Plate hands | Strength tank | |
Trinket | Healer | |
Cloth hands | Intellect DPS | |
Staff | Intellect DPS | |
Mail feet | Intellect DPS | |
Mace (1H) | Strength DPS | |
Trinket | Agility DPS |
Paragons of the Klaxxi | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
Legs | T16 token | |
Legs | T16 token | |
Legs | T16 token | |
Leather chest | Spirit | |
Cloth wrist | Intellect DPS | |
Mail chest | Spirit | |
Plate hands | Intellect | |
Bow | Agility DPS | |
Finger | Intellect DPS | |
Finger | Agility DPS | |
Sword (1H) | Strength DPS | |
Axe (1H) | Agility DPS | |
Dagger | Intellect DPS | |
Trinket | Melee DPS |
Garrosh Hellscream | ||
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Item | Type | Description |
[Kor'kron Juggernaut] | Mount | Mythic only |
Cloth wast | Spirit | |
Trinket | Intellect DPS | |
Mail chest | Agility DPS | |
Plate chest | Spirit | |
Leather waist | Agility DPS | |
Mail head | Spirit | |
Trinket | Stamina/crit | |
Cloth head | Intellect DPS | |
Armor token | Paladin, Priest, Warlock | |
Armor token | Hunter, Monk, Shaman, Warrior | |
Armor token | Death Knight, Druid, Mage, Rogue | |
Plate head | Strength tank | |
Leather shoulder | Spirit | |
Mace (1H) | Spirit | |
Leather helm | Agility DPS | |
Staff | Agility DPS | |
Plate legs | Strength DPS | |
Plate shoulder | Spirit | |
Mail head | Agility DPS | |
Held In Off-hand | Intellect DPS | |
Leather waist | Spirit | |
Mail shoulder | Agility DPS | |
Plate shoulder | Strength DPS | |
[Tusks of Mannoroth] (M) | Plate shoulder | Strength DPS |
Axe (2H) | Strength DPS |
Achievements
- [Vale of Eternal Sorrows]
- [Gates of Retribution]
- [The Underhold]
- [Downfall]
- Heroics
- [Mythic: Immerseus]
- [Mythic: Fallen Protectors]
- [Mythic: Norushen]
- [Mythic: Sha of Pride]
- [Mythic: Galakras]
- [Mythic: Iron Juggernaut]
- [Mythic: Kor'kron Dark Shaman]
- [Mythic: General Nazgrim]
- [Mythic: Malkorok]
- [Mythic: Spoils of Pandaria]
- [Mythic: Thok the Bloodthirsty]
- [Mythic: Siegecrafter Blackfuse]
- [Mythic: Paragons of the Klaxxi]
- [Mythic: Garrosh Hellscream]
- [Ahead of the Curve: Garrosh Hellscream (10 player)]
- [Ahead of the Curve: Garrosh Hellscream (25 player)]
- [Conqueror of Orgrimmar]
- [Liberator of Orgrimmar]
- [Cutting Edge: Garrosh Hellscream (10 player)]
- [Cutting Edge: Garrosh Hellscream (25 player)]
- [Heroic: Garrosh Hellscream Guild Run]
- [Realm First! Garrosh Hellscream (10 player)]
- [Realm First! Garrosh Hellscream (25 player)]
Tom Chilton on redesigning Orgrimmar
WoW Insider had the opportunity to chat with Lead Game Designer Tom Chilton regarding the Siege of Orgrimmar:
The Siege of Orgrimmar marks the first time we've seen an endgame raid on a capital city. What were some of the challenges of putting that raid together?
- Certainly some of the biggest challenges were that Orgrimmar as a layout was never really designed to be somewhere that people fight -- same case with Stormwind or Undercity or anywhere else. We architected those way back ten years ago, there's not really a whole lot of thought that went into the layout as a raid zone.
I think with a raid in Stormwind, I'd spend most of my time falling in the canal.
- (laughs) Yeah, no doubt. So there were really two big challenges -- one of them was that the layout wasn't designed for raiding. And then the second challenge was that we wanted players to feel like they were sieging a capital city, yet at the same time we know that players want to experience new content. If the whole thing were literally just a romp around Orgrimmar, it would feel like, you know we hear a lot of that "Oh Blizzard's just lazy, they just wanted to re-hash content, they didn't want to give us new stuff, blah blah blah" -- all that kind of stuff.
- So we knew that -- and to be fair, players do want to see new stuff right, they want to see new environments, they want to be inspired by locations. It's really cool to have that epic dungeon crawl feeling in a raid. So we wanted to make sure we delivered on both of those fantasies -- both the raiding of Orgrimmar itself, and then also delivering a new section that they have never seen before, that felt really epic and awe-inspiring.[2]
Videos
Notes
- As of 18 March 2014, (or later in the week for non-US regions), the raid was made available for cross-realm groups with BattleTag or Real ID friends.[3]
Patch changes
- Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Players that have defeated Garrosh Hellscream in Siege of Orgrimmar may now skip directly to The Inner Sanctum on all characters on the account by reading the scroll hanging on the wall near Loremaster Cho[sic] at the entrance.
- Hotfix (2014-10-20): Raid Leader's lockout state will now always be used when entering a Siege of Orgrimmar Raid instance.
- Hotfix (2014-10-17): Resolved an issue that could cause Raid Finder, Heroic, and Mythic items from Siege of Orgrimmar to become Normal quality items.
- Hotfix (2014-10-15): Resolved an issue where an excessive number of items could drop at once from non-boss enemies in Siege of Orgrimmar when Personal Loot was enabled.
- Hotfix (2014-10-14): Auction house NPCs in Siege of Orgrimmar's should no longer be level 100.
- Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Heroic Siege of Orgrimmar achievements have been renamed to Mythic according to the new difficulty structure (e.g. "Heroic: Malkorok" will now be "Mythic: Malkorok"). Ahead of the Curve and Cutting Edge achievements are unobtainable.
- Hotfix (2014-03-18): Cross-realm raid groups have been enabled for Siege of Orgrimmar on both Normal and Heroic difficulty.
- Hotfix (2013-12-16):
- Cross-Realm raid browser (located in the Social Pane under Other Raids on the Raid tab) now has a minimum item level requirement for players attempting to list for Siege of Orgrimmar on Flexible raid difficulty.
- Vale of Eternal Sorrows requires a minimum item level of 510.
- Gates of Retribution requires a minimum item level of 517.
- The Underhold requires a minimum item level of 524.
- Downfall requires a minimum item level of 531.
- Hotfix (2013-09-17):
- Mages and Warlocks now have a chance to obtain Gaze of Arrogance (Sha of Pride) and Lever of the Megantholithic Apparatus (Siegecrafter Blackfuse) through bonus rolls on Normal difficulty.
- Non-boss NPCs in 10-player Normal difficulty should no longer incorrectly drop Flexible Raid quality items.
- Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Added.
References
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