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Comment by 1966

This is a very simple and straightforward escort quest. If you are able to fight your way to Akuna, then you'll definitely be able to fight your way out. There is only one pair of mobs that will suddenly spawn when doing this quest, and they appear shortly before you walk up the ramp that leads out of the 'tomb'.

Comment by auiotour

Priest MC'd me when i got this quest and it totally bugged me.

Comment by 14292

Was kinda buged for me the first time i tried it. We got outside, and he appeared to run away and despawn as if i completed it only i never got credit.

Comment by 20

Just tried to do this as a 64 priest with a 63 rogue. At the time we did it no one was farming outside the camp when you come up above ground, so there were easily 10 adds that came when we got up top. For some reason I was not able to heal the NPC to keep him alive through this and we failed.

Although not difficult per se, the quest can go 'wrong' if people arn't keeping the up top clear.

Comment by Illimin

I was able to solo this as a 64 mutilate rogue - incredibly challenging. You can't let him tank one as he dies within ~15 seconds of doing so, so tank and kill both as best you're able. If you clear from him to outside and run back, you can just get him to skip the first spawn.

Mobs you need to clear:
2 - Interrogator next to him and the mob closest to the Interrogator (pull it carefully so you don't get its neighbour)
2 - the mobs in the next (second) room (one patrolling, one next to the doorway)
1 - the mob in the third room
2 - outside, the mobs on either side of the entrance

This is as far as I could clear and still have time to get back to him and get him to walk and not snag the newly-spawned. Then, walking with him, you fight:

0-2 mobs in the first room, depending on whether you get back fast enough
2-4 mobs in the third room, depending on whether he aggroes the ones on the sides (two spawn here)
2-5 outside - two more spawn here and there are 3 patrollers in the area as well. How many you fight depends on their pathing.

Good luck! This is extremely gratifying to solo, especially if you overcome unexpected adds.

Comment by DJTyrant

To maximize time spent in this area do this quest along with The Shadow Tomb (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10881). Just pick up a couple friends to make it easier on yourself and you have some quick experience and some decent quest rewards.

Comment by Geezmo

If the Horsemen are outside, there will be trouble as you'll have them, plus the two that he calls out, and sometimes other patrolling mobs join the fight. I cleared the mobs outside for a hunter doing the quest alone, figuring he'd return the favor....nope, lol.

Comment by 1202

Soloed tonight as a 66 shadow priest. In the middle of the tomb and outside are the hardest parts, where he calls out two adds. Do this quest when other people are farming the mobs outside to make it easier. ;)

Comment by 34198

Done it with 64 undead worriar with help of nightelf worriar 70 :P.I used /point on the mob and then /beg on the elf and he helped me xD.But hard to solo it so Goodluck.

Comment by redfenix

Soloed as a 65 shadow priest. If you're a caster, be sure to drink between fights, or you're probably toast.

Comment by 34251

Soooooo I was happily soloing this quest on my 66 Shaman, no troubles.... until we got outside. He walked into a patrolling mob, okay, no big deal. 2 more spawned, okay, I can handle it. And then out of nowhere, another mob comes running to us.

It's gonna be tough, but I can handle it, still. So I proceed to lay down the totems, start whaling on them, took 2 down.... and I hear the dreaded 'Quest Failed' sound. I check to see what happen, and find out that Akuno, the silly broken Draenei, has been beat down.

Moral of the story: Keep the silly broken alive! ;_;

Comment by 35923

Don't bother with this unless someone is farming and has cleared everything up top. After exiting the tombs Akuna will walk in a path designed to pick up the skimishers that ride by every minute, as well as several of the regular mobs and the 2 that spawn just for the quest.

Either be prepared to handle 5+ level 64 mobs at once, or skip it.

Comment by 40967

Soloed this pretty easily as a 65, average-geared rogue. I had a trinket (forget where it was from) which had basically the same effect as Evasion.

Overall I had to use Blind once, Blade Flurry 2x, Evasion/Dodge 2x, and one "super" hp pot.

1. Clear immediate area around questgiver. Get quest.
2. Two mobs will spawn at the ramp leading out of the tomb.
3. Akuno will aggro one or two mobs at the top of the ramp.
4. About ten or twenty steps outside the tomb, two more mobs will spawn.
5. Akuno will run to one or two more mobs nearby--there is a very short time between these fights.

Note that he -cannot- take much damage. Be sure to keep aggro off him. The most you should have to fight at a time is two, three if you happen to run into pats.

Comment by 45855

Did this quest as a 64 warlock. Doable if you just take out your VW. Make it consume shadow every chance you get and use first aide on yourself every chance you get.

Comment by Ullis

Just soloed as a level 62 Holy Priest.

Quite easy.

Comment by 28074

Really annoying. It was easy until he got outside. 2 casters were in range, 2 horseman patrols, and he spawns 2 adds... so that is a total of 6 and they all aggro to him first. He dies within 10 seconds and cannot be healed. So frustrating.

Comment by 72048

Don't know what everyone is talking about, but i found this quest to be kinda easy.
Didn't had the horsemen, but got 3 mobs aggro'ed when going outside, the 2 guards not included.
Little bit annoying to keep aggro because he hits multiple mobs at the same time.

Didn't clear anything, just did the shadow tomb quest and pick this one up on the way back. He does pretty decent damage, so the fights don't last very long, atleast not when i did it.

Lvl 66 Full prot warrior DW.

Comment by 35072

Whether this quest is incredibly frustrating or not is largely the luck of the draw. I had few problems with my Mage, but my Druid was a different story.

One thing which caused problems which no one else has really mentioned is the fact that the mob you're escorting will periodically cast a Chain Lightning spell which does about 2k damage. While one's initial reaction may be something like "awesome, that's like 40% of a mob's life per hit", it also means that chances are he will draw aggro on every mob you're fighting, and if the mobs aren't killed or controlled quickly he'll die, since he's pretty squishy. This happened a few times, and the worst part is that he'll have done so much damage to the mobs you've killed on the way that you'll get 0 exp for most of them, meaning that you don't even get consolation loot/exp if you fail. Pretty aggravating, although it certainly makes for an escort which isn't run-of-the-mill.

Comment by 64664

Wasn't too hard for my hunter to do this quest.
But at times the NPC almost died, so it's best to tank them up yourself, even if you're a cloth wearer I suppose.
The groups that spawn aren't hard to take down but they do quite some damage on the NPC.
It didn't happen to me, but I guess if he or you don't watch his steps he or you can lure large groups which makes it very hard.

I didn't get a complete message in the end, he just sorta vanished. But it was completed anyway.

Comment by 102153

I can't understand why people said this quest was hard. I didn't clear any mobs on the way in except those physically in my way (so maybe 3 or 4 total). Once the quest began he only pulled a couple mobs, not including the 4 that spawn on him (2 each time) during the quest. His chain lightning hits the mobs HARD, so the fights don't last long.

The only thing that might give you trouble is walking out of the tomb itself, with the potential to pull 6 mobs if you don't attack one side first. I just kicked the casters and cleaned up one side, he worked on the other. He'll the run a short ways, get ambushed, run a bit more, then thank you and vanish. Done. I'd give it about a 3/10 on difficulty soloing.

63 Gnome/Combat Mace/Rogue and all of my gear is either self crafted or quest rewards from Outlands.

Comment by 72043

You dont need a group for this quest... You need an army!

Comment by 45703

Soloed this quest quite easily with my 67 feral druid. Really straight forward; cat form for the single/dual pulls and bear for the one time he managed to pull 3-5 mobs. As Wildhorn mentioned, Akuno's Chain Lightning does insane damage - 40-45% of the mobs HP and I've seen it jump twice (damaging three mobs in all). So while I was in bear form tanking, he basically killed the mobs for me. But as a reminder - just like most damage dealers, he got very little hp so make sure you always got aggro on as many mobs as possible.

Comment by 115996

Annoying quest...that's for sure

Comment by Olpol

This was incredibly easy for my 66 hunter, as has been every single quest in TBC so far. I absolutely love this expansion and I'm glad I came back after a year off. Being in 5/8 T2 and 3/8 T1 probably helps a bit but so far I've been able to solo every single quest without an ounce of trouble, even the ones recommended for groups.
=]

Comment by 64664

Completed this quest without too much trouble on 6 chars or so. Now I just had to redo it three times because the escort guy didnt regen fast enough between battles outside, just at the point he starts running.
For some reason he sometimes also regen very slowly when he's not in combat anymore.

Comment by 130884

Soloed this quest with a 63 frost mage, very easy quest, no problems. Just clear a little bit before you start the escort.

Comment by Catoria

Solo'd on my 64 rogue. He died the first time due to the patrolling horsemen, but easy run second time through.

Comment by 150793

The nice thing about this quest is that his chain lightning spell (which he casts every 10 seconds or so in my experience) does about 2,000 damage, which is an awful lot for an escourt mob. Although it did me no good, at the end the scripted mobs spawned right where the cabal outriders patrolled by, so all four of them came, he pulled aggro with his chain lightning, and died. :(

Comment by Znuff

Did this as a level 65 Shadow Priest. Extremly easy quest.

I just waited untill he casted chain lightning then hit a fast Mind Blast and a Shadow Word: Death on the mobs. Also, when you're done with the mobs, he starts running like crazy :-)

Btw, he's unbuffable... so you can't cast Power Word: Fortitude on him, or heals...

Comment by 166855

Soloed this easily as lvl 63 Frost mage.

Comment by LightningBlade

I had an interesting escort with him, I cleared the whole path and in the middle of the hallway and turns around and Chain Lightning's one of the mobs in the other room for no reason.

Yeah, I couldn't heal, buff, or do anything to help him. He can however handle one mob alone succesfully with his overpowered Chain Lightning.

Comment by 145919

Very frustrating to solo, even if you clear out some of the Tomb before you start the quest. His chain lightning will break CC, and if you don't have a Taunt you can't really pull aggro off of him

One thing I found helpful was to go ahead and aggro something once outside so he wouldn't walk into the ambush while the patrol was nearby. If you just pull one mob, it doesn't drain you much in terms of mana or health, and if that avoids the patrol add it's well worth the 15~30 seconds it takes. If you can grab the attention of the ambush quickly enough, it's possible to pull them out of range of the patrol, even if Akuno pulls aggro back onto him.

After the ambush is out of the way, the patrol isn't hard to handle. Boom, quest complete.

Comment by tavis1

Honestly, I'm not sure why everyone is having such a tough time with this. Was able to solo as a 64 Rogue. Mobs died very quickly.

Comment by Yofi

I hate this quest. So far I've tried it twice, and each time we leave the tomb I am faced with two horsemen and two skirmishers. As a Shadow Priest I don't have any way to pull four attackers off the NPC after he does Chain Lightning, and the only way to *delay* damage to him is to fear them, which inevitably brings me one or two more mobs…this sucks.

Comment by Paddyjack

Disc/Holy priest here.

Here is what I did to solo this quest (65). I came outside the tomb ahead of Akano and quickly aggroed the 2 guards, which brought Akano to me to help. When this was done I noticed the 2 horsemen were there, so what I did is aggroed them at the same time as the 2 mobs spawned on Akano, so all 4 were hit by chain lightning, then I spammed Holy Nova in the group. They went down quickly.

Comment by adamb10

Soloed very easily as a level 64 ret pally.

Comment by chinmi

very easy to solo as 65 druid, i just make sure the mob is attacking me first by running toward them, 1 - 2 swipe to gain agro and damage him. and this guy hit them with his chain lightning that hits about 2000 - 2400 damage to the cabals...

Comment by maciok

easy as 64 fury warrior.
i just let him tank and hit as hard as i could - mobs died very fast.
good luck

Comment by 146819

Pretty easy for an escort quest IMO. Akuno's Chain Lightning hits like a truck (can easily blast off half a mob's health bar), and you rarely get more mobs than you can handle. He does have low health though, and since you can't heal or buff him you need to make sure you can down the mobs before he dies (odd that a Shaman-type NPC wouldn't have at least a Lesser Healing Wave...). He also falls into the group of NPCs involved in escape-type escort quests who don't seem to understand that escaping is easier if you RUN instead of WALK....

Up until the ramp leading out of the tomb, you only have to worry about respawns. Once you get to the bottom of the ramp, two mobs spawn (both were Cabal Skirmishers (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=21661) for me, but they might be random); kill them and leave the tomb. The two Skirmishers by the entrance probably respawned by now, so take them out. After you get a certain distance away from the tomb (30-45 yards, I'd say), there's another ambush of two mobs. You might run into a problem here, since you might aggro the patrol (the 2 mobs riding Felsteeds that for some reason constantly run back and forth between Auchindoun and the Shadow Tomb). If you don't run into them, you should be fine.

Comment by 197899

Solo'ed as a 62 combat rogue, pretty easy it was for me, was a little hard with the last 3 mobs, they dealt Akuno more that 80%, but it was ok. Combat rogues, just don't forget to use Flurry Blade...gl

Comment by bariskur

easy solo with aff lock (lvl64)

Comment by 251686

Also able to solo very easy on 63 frost DK

Comment by 427484

I just don't understand.. why blizzard but 2 of the same rewards (Mekeda's Gift) and (Unearthed Orb).. they do have the same attribute.

Comment by 478718

soloed as lvl65 Demonology Warlock
easy fight

my advice is, that before accepting quest, kill first 2 closest mobs in the room where Akuno is, or he will attack them and may even attract other mobs too

never ever seen anyone so much hating orcs/shadow council
have in mind, that he will attack any hostile mobs nearby, even if they are not attacking you, so be on guard

Comment by 606764

Wow, I'm surprised nobody has pointed this out yet... He appears to be a reference to the character Akuma from Street Fighter, what with the devastating energy attacks and the topknot and such.

Comment by lectrick

Level 62 prot warrior came looking for the shield with his thorium shield spike ready to slap onto it. (I didn't want to do the Sporeggar rep grind for their blue shield this time.) Anyway, with decent gear for my level, I easily soloed this post-4.01.

Comment by 768077

When i picked this quest up, i saw the names of the escort npc, Akuno, and the turn-in npc, Makeda, and immediately thought of the Lion King song...."hakuna matata".

Comment by 680985

For those of you who don't care how many people "Soloed him as ___!, yay!" The entrance to the tunnel you find Akuno in is at coords 31.2, 52.6, the Shadow Tomb. As soon as you exit the hallway to the main room he is to the left.

Comment by Takata

Not going to mention that I soloed him, but, going to say that it was a bit annoying because he seemed to want to attack everything that was in "view" of him even if they didn't aggro him first.

Comment by BigZZZ

He attacks people in Crowd control states (Polymorph, Wyvern sting, Frost trap.....)

Comment by WokkaD

Be warned : do not leave him until it says "quest completed".
There are several more who will attack him after he starts running !

Comment by 1440987

Escaping the Tomb http://youtu.be/afDQa0UzOp0

Comment by Boxofbeer

Escaping the Tomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTN6oP3Q_lU

Comment by Aurleis1

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJULpkFjitY

1. Escaping the Tomb
• Accept the quest, Escaping the Tomb, from Akuno at coords 30.6, 49.30 (Shadow Tomb).
• Escort Akuno through the Shadow Tomb, to the surface, killing any enemy forces that get in the way.
• After you get to the surface and escape the Shadow Tomb encampment, travel east, to coords 37.2, 50.6.
• Turn in the quest to Mekeda.

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLD-jrlP5r4&feature=youtu.be

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Escaping the Tomb

Help Akuno find his way to the Refugee Caravan. Speak to Mekeda after you've completed this quest.

	Akuno escorted (1)

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I appreciate your help, <name>. I was certain I was going to be killed.

Let's get out of here with a hurry. It won't be long before more cultists come after us.

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You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Akuno's Blade			Ancient Draenei Crest
	Mekeda's Gift			Unearthed Orb

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Lower City

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10887))

Escaping the Tomb

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