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Comment by Hamen

To do this achievement, you have to do Memory of Scholomance first. Once Old Scholomance is unlocked, grab Argent Dawn Commission from your bank, the Argent Dawn Quartermaster in Chillwind Camp/Bulwark (depending on faction), or the cracked (easily repaired) version from Rattlegore's room in Old Scholomance (a bone pile somewhere on the floor).

Now, equip the Argent Dawn Commission trinket and kill Darkmaster Gandling in Old Scholomance. You may have to clear all mobs from the six rooms surrounding his spawn, not just the bosses. Darkmaster's Scourgestone seems to be a guaranteed drop, or the drop chance is high. The item starts a quest that you can hand in at Light's Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands.

Full guide: https://www.wowhead.com/news/unlock-secrets-within-naxxramas-how-to-start-looking-for-old-naxxramas-gear-333989

Comment by Eddafred

Once you complete Wards of the Dread Citadel, you'll no longer need to have Argent Dawn Commission equipped to receive Scourgestones in Memory of Scholomance, Stratholme or Naxxramas.
Any character on your account will automatically receive Empowered Argent Dawn Commission upon zoning into either instance.

EDIT: Blizzard recently hotfixed out the option to manually enable/disable the buff. This should hopefully fix the problem some people have with it not being enabled automatically.

Comment by calman

How to unlock Old Naxxramas the easiest way to craft T3 gear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM7RQ8Zvdto

Comment by Eddafred

Return To Naxxramas: A Comprehensive Guide

New to Patch 10.1.5 is the return of much of Classic WoW's Scourge themed content, along with some new content, and the the triumphant yet expensive return of Tier 3 Armor sets.
This quick guide will break down the steps needed to access the original Scholomance dungeon, as well as access the new content found in Stratholme & Naxxramas.

Step 0: The Prerequisites:
Before you can get the ball rolling and start the quest chain, there's a Toy you or someone in your party will need to have access to: Krastinov's Bag of Horrors
This Toy is a guaranteed drop from Doctor Theolen Krastinov in Heroic Scholomance. The catch, unfortunately, is that he's not guaranteed to spawn.
He has a chance of spawning after Rattlegore is defeated, and will /yell "The doctor is in!" and replace one of the trash mobs in the next room.

You'll also need to be at least Honored with the Argent Dawn, but Revered can be easily reached in about 15 minutes by doing some quests in Eastern Plaguelands. Click here for a simple guide.

There's also some item needed along the way to repair trinkets or complete turn ins. Keep in mind that players that completed the content back in the day won't need most of these.
If you've completed the old content and don't receive the trinkets, make sure to check your bank/void storage as they are unique.
It'll save you time buying these advance:

Depending on your standing with the Argent Dawn, you will also need:

Honored: Large Brilliant Shard x6, Arcane Crystal x3, Righteous Orb x1, 60 Gold
Revered: Large Brilliant Shard x3, Arcane Crystal x2, 30 Gold
Exalted: None

Step 1: The Forbidden Ritual
Once you have Krastinov's Bag of Horrors, or someone in your party does, you can begin your journey by zoning into Scholomance and clearing the entire dungeon to the end,
After defeating Darkmaster Gandling, enter the top center room and stand by the old bone pile while the Toy's buff is active to summon Eva Sarkhoff.
Removing the Toy's buff will make Eva interactable, and she will offer you the Inert Spectral Essence, which you can immediately repair if you gathered the materials beforehand.
Before you exit the dungeon, make sure to grab Eva's Femur from the bone pile beside the NPC, and backtrack to pick up Eva's Journal, which can be found on the bookcase in the Viewing Room.

With your now repaired Spectral Essence in hand, you will be able to do the next step, which is a series of fetch quests to buy candles for the ritual.
Make sure you have the trinket equipped, or you won't be able to see the NPCs!
You'll need to gather the following:
Artist Renfray (/way #22 65.8 75.4) - Trades The Road Ahead (/way #23 55.0 64.1) for Imported Candle
Magistrate Marduke (/way #22 70.5, 74.0) - Trades The Deed to Andorhal (/way #22 43.6 69.3) for Authentic Andorhal Candle
Joseph Dirte (/way #22 68.0 74.8) - Trades Caer Darrow Fountain Water (/way #22 68.8 78.9) for Stinky Candle
Sammy (/way #22 69.1 78.7) - Trades Trampled Doll (/way #23 35.7 83.7) for Ghost-Warding Candle
Rory (/way #22 63.4 75.5) - Trades Undelivered Shipment of Smokes (Found by the Live side of Stratholme's fountain) for Tobacco-Filled Candle

Once you have the Journal and all 5 Candles, make your way over to Scholomance, but take a right instead of a left, and head to the back room filled with bones.
Using the journal here will earn you Memory of Scholomance, and give you account wide access to the original version of Scholomance through Eva's Enchanted Journal.

Step 2: Back To School
You can safely bank/destroy Spectral Essence (You can get a replacement from Eva Sarkhoff outside the dungeon).

Note: Some veteran players might not be able to obtain Argent Dawn Commission in the dungeon. If you have your original, you can use it.
If you no longer have it, you can get a free replacement from Argent Quartermaster Lightspark, or Argent Quartermaster Hasana.
Old Argent Dawn Trinkets like Seal of the Dawn and Seal of the Dawn also work, if you still have them.

Newer players will need to make their way into Old Scholomance, down the the basement (Underneath the Great Ossuary) and kill Rattlegore and loot the Viewing Room Key.
If you examine the bone pile by the stairs, you'll be able to loot the Cracked Argent Dawn Commission, which you can immediately repair.
Make sure you equip the trinket before going forward, to spare having to run the dungeon twice!
Make your way back up to the viewing room, and unlock the door. Take your first left downstairs, and clear all 6 rooms of mobs/bosses to spawn Darkmaster Gandling.
If you have the trinket equipped he'll drop Darkmaster's Scourgestone, which can be turned in to Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff at Light's Hope, allowing you to obtain Invader's Scourgestone from bosses in Old Scholomance / Stratholme while the trinket is equipped.

Step 3: Race To Slap The Hand of Naxxramas
Note: Now that you can obtain Invader's Scourgestone from dungeon bosses, it should be noted that you'll need 20 of them to complete the quest in Naxxramas that unlocks the vendor, so if you want to take a look around Old Scholomance and grab some removed transmog/recipes, feel free to do so.

The third step of our journey lies in the depths of everyone's favorite bony pony repository: Stratholme!
After entering the dungeon through the front gates (not the side entrance!), patrol the streets until you encounter a stealthed Eye of Naxxramas. Killing it will yield Ward of Naxxramas, but don't use it right away.
As you make your way towards the Crusader's Square, loot any Stratholme Supply Crate you see until you have at least 2 Stratholme Holy Water. One for now, one for later.
In the Crusader's Square, use Ward of Naxxramas, then head to the Southern Gate until you spot the Dread Ward of Naxxramas.
Using Stratholme Holy Water on the Ward will give you the debuff Sleight of Hand, which will serve as the timer for what comes next: Stratholme Speedrun!

Living Side Route | Dead Side Route

You'll need to make your way from the Crusder's Square all the way to the end of the Slaughter Square, killing all 3 bosses in the Gauntlet, and even Lord Aurius Rivendare.
Once you've completed the run and slain the Baron, head through the South Gate of the Slaughter Square, and use the extra action button to slay the Hand of Naxxramas.
If you're successful, you'll need to return to Light's Hope, and talk to Archmage Angela Dosantos. Exhausting their dialog and completing the quest they offer will give you Wards of the Dread Citadel, unlocking account-wide access to the secrets found within Naxxramas.
Note: Access to Scourgestones also means access to Archived Crafting Techniques, which Crafters will want to get their hands on. They're purchasable from Quartermaster Miranda Breechlock for Argent Dawn Valor Token x6 each.

Step 4: Guess Who's Back, Back Again
Note: You should now no longer need to have Argent Dawn Commission equipped to loot Scourgestones, as Empowered Argent Dawn Commission should be applied automatically to all your characters when they zone into Old Scholomance/Stratholme/Naxxramas.
However some people are reporting not receiving the buff until they unlock the vendor in Naxxramas and manually enable the buff through a dialogue option, so make sure to check before you bank/destroy your Commision.

With your Stratholme completed, you can now make use of the new portal to Naxxramas located in Eastern Plaguelands at (/way #23 35.7 22.9) and finally make your triumphant return to the shadowed halls of Naxxramas.
In order to access the new hidden vendor, you'll need to channel your inner Zelda and fashion yourself a grappling hook: Makeshift Grappling Hook
You can find the components quite easily through the raid:

Faerlina's Sewing Kit: Drops from Grand Widow Faerlina in the Arachnid Quarter
Abomination's Chain: Fished from any 'water' in Naxxramas. The first room of the Arachnid Quarter has a pool you can fish from in it's center.
Construct's Hook: Located in the Construct Quarter's second room, on the vat to the right.

Note: Make sure to loot any bosses you kill in Naxxramas for Corruptor's Scourgestone. You'll need 5 for the vendor quest.
You can also now find Frozen Rune affixed to the walls of the raid. Don't forget to grab some for crafting!

Once complete, you're now ready to tackle reaching the new vendor, located at the final room of the Contruct Quarter.
Defeat Thaddius, and you should be able to see small grapple points that will lead up and across the room.
If you're having trouble spotting them, Neryssa released a handy video guide to help you reach the NPC.
When you reach Zackett Skullsmash, you can wake him up using your second Stratholme Holy Water, and if you've been following the guide so far, you can immediately complete Inconvenience Fee to receive Mutually Beneficial Transactions account wide.
Turning in the quest will unlock the NPC at the entrance of Naxxramas, where he will trade Scourgestones for a new currency: Death's Bargaining Chip
These can be traded for a variety of goods, including:

Slime-Covered Scroll - Used to learn new crafting recipes for Naxxramas gear/weapons.
Plagued Grain - New Toy that drops a crate of plagued grain on the ground.
Rotten Delicious - Used to obtain the Reins of Valiance mount.
Dented Raider's Spaulders - These armor pieces have a chance of containing armor tokens (Ie:Lamented Crusader's Spaulders) needed to craft Tier 3 Armor.

Step 5: Crafting Up A Storm
Your journey is almost at an end! For those that didn't receive Empowered Argent Dawn Commission before entering Naxxramas, you can now talk to Zackett Skullsmash to enable it.
As for what's left, there's still one secret left to unearth: Frost Resist Gear Recipes!
First you will need to located Omarion's Second Handbook, found in the first room of the Military Quarter in a cage.
Turning this in to Master Craftsman Omarion at Light's Hope Chapel will allow you to collect pages cleverly hidden throughout Naxxramas, which you can return to Omarion to unlock acccount wide access to the old Frost Resist Gear recipes, as well as Putting Wilhelm Out of Business.
Each recipe will cost Argent Dawn Valor Token x3, which can be obtained by exchanging 1 Corruptor's Scourgestone or 10 Invader's Scourgestone to Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff.

Map Markers of Page Locations
Wowhead also released a handy guide of the Page Locations.

And with that, you're done! All that's left is to take up the optional task of farming Scourgestones for recipes/mount/toy & the daunting prospect of crafting Tier 3 Armor! Good luck!

Comment by Tyrsenus

Completing this opens a portal to Naxxramas* in Eastern Plaguelands: /way #23 35.7, 23.0 Revealed Portal to Naxxramas

If you have completed this achievement and Tiny Terrors of Stratholme (from the Stratholme Pet Battle dungeon), you have a great shortcut to get to Naxxramas:

1. Dalaran Hearthstone
2. Walk in the pet shop, ask Manapoof to teleport you to Stratholme
3. Run/fly a short distance to the Revealed Portal to Naxxramas

By far the fastest way to get to Naxxramas now.

*The Wrath version of Naxxramas, which is still the only version of Naxxramas in retail.

Comment by Melandroso

If you do not know what to do after having turned in the Darkmaster's Scourgestone, go to the life part of Stratholme (entrance at /way #23 27.82, 11.56).

Kill an Eye of Naxxramas, loot the Ward of Naxxramas and continue as described elsewhere on this page, for instance Eddafred's comment.

Comment by Melandroso

You need to have completed the Memory of Scholomance in order to start the work towards this one. To get started from scratch for an old hat like myself, equip your Argent Dawn commission (you will need it later), equip your Spectral Essence, head to Scholomance (in Western Plaguelands) and follow the directions from the comments on the Memory of Scholomance page.

Comment by ShadowBrooks

Lessons Learned: I completed Steps 1-3 on my Main, failing the speed run the first time around I couldn't get the buffs to appear to trigger it again (not waiting for a reset or anything else I pushed ahead with an alt). On my alt I was able to get a Argent Dawn Commission from Lights Hope Chapel and proceeded into the dungeon. After completing the run "on time!" and following the rest of the instructions I went to speak with Archmage Angela Dosantos whom was not at Lights Hope (she was further south where she is normally a quest giver). When I went to speak to her I was able to get The Dread Citadel - Naxxramas knowing that its supposed to cost nothing if you are exalted I logged back onto my main and found Archmage Angela Dosantos sitting on the steps of the Lights Hope Chapel where she offered me The Dread Citadel - Naxxramas as I have exalted rep (no materials required) I was able to accept/complete the quest and received Wards of the Dread Citadel.

Hope this helps all those other players that screwed up their run the first go around.

Comment by jdoug30

If Archmage Angela Dosantos is not at the chapel. Go to /way 72.54, 74.86. You'll find her here and you can turn in the quest to complete the achievement.

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