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Breaking the Keystone

Find and kill Fozruk. Bring the Rod of Order to the Keystone in the Arathi Highlands.
Rod of Order

Description

Opening the Stones of Binding loosened much of my confinement, but a lock still holds me chained. It is the Keystone you see among this circle of stones. And the key is held by one of my captors, the stone watcher Fozruk.

You must obtain that key, which the stone watchers call the Rod of Order, from Fozruk and use it to open the Keystone.

<name>, you have done so much to aid me. Just a little more...and my gratitude will shake the very foundations of the earth!

Progress

The Keystone is charged with tremendous geomantic energy.

Completion

You place the rod in the keystone. And a shudder is felt beneath you...

Gains

Upon completion of quests, get:
  • 345 experience (20 70 at max. level)

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By XFGREAPER on 11/28/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
Killing Fozruk is fairly simple with a few 35-38's regardless of class. Kill/Fear/pettank his guards and concentrate on Fozruk. DOT's or a good pet can take out his guards. The Keystone is located with the Earth Elementals and is in the center. Use the Same group to complete and the elementals are nothin.
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By entropicdragon on 07/31/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
Completing this will unlock the next quest in the series, ""Myzrael's Allies"" (horde https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=688 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=688, alliance https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=653 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=653).
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By ZannRath on 10/31/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)
I must be a total newb, because I had a time and a half killing fozruk. &gt;_&lt;

No one in AH wanted to kill him, so I was stuck at lv 39 with 42 warrior and 37 rogue. It took a while, but we finally did it. Here's a neat trick that works will to kill his guards, but it requires a rogue, probably with improved sap. I don't know if this will work without.

Find Fozruk and his guards just as he's leaving one of the circles of binding. Sap one of his guards, and everyone will leave the sapped guard behind. Once fozruk is a short distance away, out of relative aggro range, kill the sapped guard. They will continue walking, oblivious. Do this for all of the guards, then you can take on Fozruk solo.

But you HAVE to be quick about this, because the guards respawn when he reaches the next circle of binding.
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By akmdw on 02/18/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
A lvl 42 elite spawns either after you complete the quest, or click on the shard to get the next quest, so be prepared.
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By Ripture on 10/02/2007 (Patch 2.2.2)
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By xiphias on 03/17/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
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By deathsub on 04/14/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
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By elaren on 05/19/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
The Keystone is located at the Circle of Inner Binding at 36.1, 58.1.
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By weetabix on 05/20/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
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By blupache on 05/27/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)
OK, maybe things have changed since the patch, but there's more to this quest then just killing Fozruk. With a 37 prot pally (me), 38 pally, 38 shammie &amp; 37 holy priest we snuffed Fozruk &amp; his little posse without too much hassle.

The holy priest &amp; I went back to hand in. As soon as I clicked on complete, a second 42 elite giant appeared and attacked us. We put him down, priest handed in the quest &amp; clicked complete - the same thing repeated itself.

From the comments on allakhazam, I was expecting a neutral giant to appear - I wasn't expecting him to appear *red* and immediately attack us. But apparently nowadays he is, so if you can't solo a 42 elite then be sure to take your group back to the hand in with you.

Oh, and do remember to click on the keystone again after the fight to pick up the follow on quest chain. We nearly forgot &amp; it's not readily apparent.
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By faen666 on 08/05/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
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By E0m3r on 12/07/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
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By Raptorg on 10/16/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)
since patch 2.3 no longer elite, however not to be underestimated

his caster adds have roughly 150 health(no kidding, i could 1-hit them) and his warrior add has about 200(i just couldn't 1-hit him)

however, Fozruk has 2.4k health and some nasty abilities and high armor, but weak melee, all in all not a tough fight, my suggestion is if you have aoe, focus on Fozruk and use aoe to kill the adds, if you don't have aoe, kill each add seperately, they aren't tough at all

watch out when completing the quest, a giant with roughly 1.5k health will pop up, i almost died because i was at low health
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By ljerez on 10/28/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)
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By Xion89 on 11/24/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
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By AlexiusGry on 11/25/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
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By Ethernal on 11/25/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
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By alarina on 11/27/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
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By moenbase on 02/11/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)
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By Keylord on 09/11/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
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By Kaynos on 12/12/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
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By andyf on 12/13/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
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By savagy on 12/15/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
The name of the mob that spawns upon quest completion is Thenan.
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By Sgtown on 12/25/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
Confirmed. In 2.3.0, you must kill him and loot him before killing his adds OR kill his adds before him.

When I killed him the first time, I kill the adds then tried to loot and it didn't work. The second time, I killed him then looted just fine, then killed the adds. For testing, I waited around and did it again. I was able to loot him if I killed ALL the adds before Fozruk.

The adds have 150-160 HP.
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By beastiaerotic on 05/01/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
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By bloodowl on 10/01/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
When you use the rod, Spawns a level 42 monster. Very easy. I was a lvl40 warrior (human).
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By Ghostun on 11/01/2008 (Patch 3.0.2)
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By Aundora on 02/18/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
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By Pronoob on 02/19/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
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By dbodinem on 03/18/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
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By Spyro1795 on 04/22/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
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By Spyro1795 on 04/22/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
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By Arcasel on 04/26/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
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By MrDuDe on 08/19/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
As of 2.4.3 he is at 61.2,48.1
he is not moving, and when I attacked him his minions didn't aggro me

For ppl without coords, go to the crossroads in the middle of the map, the one with the road that leads to Hammerfall, and go along the road to Hammerfall.
alternatively, go to Hammerfall, and go along the road outside.
eventually you will run into him.

BTW, he is neutral, he won't attack you unless you do first.
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By Priderage on 02/05/2009 (Patch 3.0.8)
""Just a little more...and my gratitude will shake the very foundations of the earth!""

God, Blizzard, at least try at some subtlety.
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By Gronhunt on 08/30/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
Sapping the minions then killing them when the giant walks ahead works well, I had to pop all my rogue CDs on the giant and the preparation and do it all over again but the giant is stunable so he can be stun locked ;D.
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By santokitoki on 03/10/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
found @ 48,57
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By Terbovus on 11/26/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
Struggled to find Fozruk today post Cataclysm - anyone know if he's still around and whether he follows the same path he used to?

EDIT: Finally found him, can confirm quest is still there, that it all works, and that you can do it again even if you completed it previously in vanilla (though its shorter than I remember it!)
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By AxellSlade on 06/06/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
This quest is deprecated, there's another one by the same name, here: https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=26042"">(Quest #26042)
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By cpdavngr on 10/11/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
The first parts of this quest are still playable. However, after you kill Fozruk you cannot loot the Rod of Order from him. Kind of a let down after doing everything else to get to the final part only to find out that you can't complete the quest. :/ Did this solo as a level 31 Rogue.

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