Go to various invasion places located on map, green item drops occasionally which is used for this quest. Uncommon rarity so if you're in a group you'll have to roll.

happy scourge hunting!

You must complete the Under the Shadow quest in order to purchase from the Argent Quartermaster in Light's Hope Chapel - Eastern Plaguelands. To purchase these items you will need Necrotic Runes.

What seems to be the case (at least for me currently) is that not all the zones stated in the quest description will be under attack at once. I made the mistake of flying all the way to Blasted Lands, just to realise, as the above poster rightfully said, a purple skull over Eastern Plaguelands, where I had just come from.

As far as I can see now there is only one Purple Skull for the entirety of Azeroth at a time, I could be wrong. The skulls can only be seen on the second or third degree of zoom out on the map.

So don't do what I did and run off somewhere else only to realise you've gone on a wild goose chase.

We are waiting for 1 hour at summoning circle but nothing happen...There are no scourges and shadow of doom or something.What we need to do?

Spent an hour travelling around Winterspring looking for a floating necropolis. Found none. I only found 4 purple glowing spots on the ground and stood there for 10min, saw no scourge and I can now officially claim that this the most annoying event quest in the game. And also no purple skulls on my map.

i don't get this i had the purple skull mark over blasted lands went there found the necropolis found a summoning circle stood there near half an hour no mobs spawned the area still had the purple skull over it when i left cause ppl that were wait much longer than me informed me none had spawned while they were there is there some thing we all missed to get the damn guys to spawn or just a problem on the servers side

Thinking of other people's circumstances is polite as a character trait... but should be a business necessity on the part of Blizzard.. unless they've made some kind of covert deal with Intel or Nvidia or someone... making it necessary to buy some big maxed out graphics card (ie revenue for the hardware company) because they've got so many millions of people playing now... this all could be $$$$ related... and it wouldn't surprise me, given all the gadgets and retail stuff popping up surrounding WoW... guild teeshirts, minis, key scramblers, etc....I am going to make the assumption here that you are what could be referred to as a ""casual"" player. Therefore I think it is relevant to point out that it is clear that the game is becoming more and more tailored to casual players. Recruit-a-friend, PvP epic's, badge loot, daily quests and now 10 man raids for all.

Another example of how Blizzard tries to cater to all would be the way in which they are squeezing every last drop from the graphics engine they have so as to keep system requirement low. I know of people with horrendous systems that still run WoW well. Perhaps you should check if the new shadows are turned off, as I think they were auto-turned on with the patch? Dropping these out would most certainly improve performance.

Also, I believe the lag is server side and therefore nothing to do with whether or not you have a ""big maxed out graphics card.""

I have a mage, 59th level. He got the quest, found the circles, and ... couldn't do a thing. First, there were forty or so other people (mostly 70's) there killing everying in sight. And even when I was able to get a bead on an untagged mob, none of my spells worked. So ... why was I given this quest when it is totally impossible for me to complete at this level?

And yes, this event sucks if you're trying to level a low-level character. None of my alts is above 40. They can't do a thing. My mage can do a little, but still has a rough time turning in quests or going into a city. For higher-level characters, it's turned into Doom-style leveling ... forget about quests, just kill things, get rep with the Argent Dawn, and if you make it to an even level hope you can make it back to your trainer. (Mages have it a little easier, since their teleport takes them to the trainer ... other classes may have a bit more of a problem!)

All in all, I think Blizz geared this for 70's. Which is fine, but making low-level characters basically nearly impossible to level for almost a month was, IMAO, not the best choice. I can only hope that it'll get better, but I doubt it. I was happy to see some lowbie quests, though quite a few clueless 70's just stood around the circle one-shotting the mobs you need to kill for that quest. Is being a jerk a requirement for level 70? I may never make it then.

The invaded regions are prone to unbelievable lag. At the Necrotic circles themselves, don't expect to be able to see whats going on, even with a high end internet provider.

Whats the level requierment for this quest?
Hope 50 :D
can anyone confirm?

I would also like the lvl req confirmed please. I am lvl 35 and was going to have some friends of mine help me get runes for the event. I recently switched servers to play with some friends and rerolled, vet player, new char. Too bad it looks like I may have to miss out on this rather awesome event.

For the first few days, at least, this will be heavily overfarmed, often 15-25 people farming the same Invasion node. Most people might wanna just wait out the initial surge.

However... Some classes have distinct advantages. :)

For example, as a Moonkin, I can killsteal a whole wave of spawns with one cast of Starfall, and score 3-4 Runes off one spell. There's so many people crowded in so small a space, feel free to bend your ethics a little. (If ethics never bothered you, might wanna had a little tab/moonfire spaming).\n
Players killing each other as zombies, and genuinly ruining the game for everyone? Use that to fuel your anger powered kill stealing, this event was clearly designed to @#$% PEOPLE THE HELL OFF!

God stop complaining you only have to deal with this for a few more weeks, some people are actually having fun, if your a low lvl getting killed... well then go lvl, I don't pity you dying over and over, hit 70 then we'll see.

When you port to Stormwind there's a scourge right besides the tower fighting a NPC, you can kill him for a rune, you won't get it everytime though and I don't know the respawn rate =/