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The new wing is open, it’s time to tackle the plagueworks and get back to work on the quest for Shadowmourne….

Finishing the Sacred and the Corrupt
With the Plagueworks now open, you are finally able to complete this quest. You’ll need to kill Festergut and Rotface however to get the Acidic Blood needed to finish.

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Festergut is the easier of the two, Rotface kept bugging out on us Tuesday night, but was hotfixed by Friday (those oozes not merging made for a real difficult fight, but we still got him to 10% Tuesday). The Acidic Blood is a 100% droprate, each boss only drops 1 at a time. But your guild should already have a pecking order sorted out, which should making doling these out a lot easier. After you get these, take the portal back to the entrance and go to the runeforge next to Darion Mograine on the left (as you enter the instance). Darion will show up, there’s more lightning, smoke, and fire thrown around than at a KISS concert… slowly a form appears hovering in the air between you and Darion, which becomes: Shadow’s Edge.

Shadow’s Edge
At this point, Darion gets a quest icon over his head and it’s time to accept the quest Shadow’s Edge, he tries to talk you out of taking the weapon (for fear of your immortal soul, lol pussy). Of course you accept, and claim your new axe.

A Feast of Souls
Now we begin the quest in earnest. Feast of Souls requires you to kill 1000 of the Lich Kings minions in ICC 10 or 25. Originally, it was thought these had to be undead, but not so. First, summoned adds count, such as those lovely Essences called by the Harbingers in Plague. Also, the opposite faction NPCs on the ledge before the Gunship count, as well as all of the adds on the opposing gunship. Even the zombies summoned by Precious count. After doing a run through 10m to Putricide, I found that there were about 200 kills that gave credit. So, don’t sweat this one too much. Tuesday when everything opens up again, you can even do like I plan to and run a few rep runs before raids to bump it up (and hopefully) finish it off, before you hit the instance for real.

P.S. If You Haven’t Guessed
I got my axe Thursday night, and as far as I know I was the first on Bloodscalp with it. Though a Paladin from Team Sportscoat was spotted with it the following day. So, I can’t say for sure. I do know however, that the axe looks sick and hits like friggin truck. And so far I’m loving it. I’ve gotten a lot of whispers about it (and not just from the Lich King) mostly from players who either know what it is and call me a waste of space for having it, or that have no idea what it is but wanna know how they can get it for their Altadin. So, good luck all who’re trying for it. And don’t let the haters get you down. A hater will always hate you, because that’s what they do. And they don’t really “need” a reason.

A Brief Note to My Guild, Face on Fire
I want to thank you, not only for choosing me to get this great weapon, and not only for killing these new mobs so quickly. But also for sticking it out, putting in the extra time and effort, and being quite honestly the best bunch of people I’ve ever had the honor to raid with. Thank you.