Blackrock Depths Dungeon

Updated : 12/03/2025

Blackrock Depths is the largest dungeon in the game and boasts 40 bosses, although the ghostly bosses ending 'Rel are all in the same encounter. The location for the dungeon is in Blackrock Mountain, the large mountain that straddles Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge. The dungeon, a cave system, is home to the Dark Iron Dwarf Emperor Dagran Thaurissan, who is also the end boss in the dungeon. In the Classic expansion, they are antagonists, but in later expansions, the Dark Iron Dwarves join the The Alliance.

Some bosses may be skipped if you know how. Moira, one of the final bosses, is one boss that does not need to be skipped. Moira is the daughter of one of the leaders of Ironforge, home of the Dwarves. In lore, after the Dark Iron Dwarf has died, a pregnant Moira assumes the throne of the Dark Iron Dwarves and falls back into line with the rest of the dwarves. However, although Moira has fallen into line, the Dark Iron Dwarves continue to cause problems for the adventures, both Alliance and The Horde.

If you follow the dungeon quest line during levelling, you must visit the dungeon numerous times to rescue Moira. Killing Moira with her Princess Leia hair buns do not affect the storyline, and when Emperor is killed, Moira cannot be killed.

When you first enter the dungeon, there is a drilling machine, an abandoned mole machine as it is called. You can skip some bosses using the machine to get it done quickly.

Access to the second part of the dungeon is a door if you are doing a full walk-through. Prospector Seymore, a dwarf, stands by the door, so if you see him, the door is next to him. In the first room, you will see a large cogwheel, and you need to kill all the dwarves around it and then click on the clog. The clog will release a door later in the dungeon. Otherwise, you will not be able to progress further.

A couple of non-mandatory bosses can give extra loot, but not killing them will not harm your advance. The optional bosses are Plugger Spazzring, Ribbly Screwspigot and Hurley Blackbreath.

Brewfest

During Brewfest, the annual Dwarven drinking festival, modelled on the German Oktoberfest festival, you can visit the dungeon through the Looking for Group finder to encounter the highest level boss for a chance of an epic trinket drop. The highest level means that when it was Lich King, the boss was 80. When it was Cataclysm, the boss was 85. In the second year of the expansion, the item level does not increase with the highest raid but stays as it was in the first year. The seasonal boss is Coren Direbrew, drunk, and you insult him and then fight him to the death.

How to get to Blackrock Depths

Entrance to Blackrock Depths

You need to go into the heart of Blackrock Mountain then if you can fly, you need to fly to the bottom of the middle but not go into the lava. You should see a lone Blood Elf enter the corridor beside him and head to the back of the room. The location of the entrance is straight ahead.

Accessing the Iron Hall from Lyceum

After killing the Seven, you enter the Lyceum, a massive hall with many dwarven adds. The dwarves are easy to kill. It is just that there are lots of them. Before accessing the next room stage, you must light the two forges. Shadowforge torches drop off red-coloured dwarves. You need to find the red-coloured dwarves, kill them, grab the torch and then light the forge fires to open the door to the Lyceum.

Blackrock Depths Location Map

Blackrock Depths Entrance