The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj was Blizzard's first attempt at a massive event that required efforts from the entire server. When Patch 1.9 was released on January 3rd, in 2006, the two raid instances that composed Ahn'Qiraj, Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj and Ahn'Qiraj, were not immediately available to the general population. Instead, players had to undertake a. AQ40 full clear gives you 15k rep with brood of nozdormu (not counting the insignias you get for turn ins) as long as you're below 2999/3000 on neutral. After that you only get rep from turning in insignias which drop from all bosses except for cthun and give 500 each (meaning you get 4500 rep from insignias per full clear, twins give two), and from a random rep item that can drop from any.

• Aq Loot Republic
• Aq Rep Loot
• Aq Loot Report

Temple of Ahn’Qiraj (AQ40) is the new 40-man raid in Phase 5 of WoW Classic. And will be the next level of progression for any guild who has Blackwing Lair on farm status. It offers new class armor sets, as well as weapons, trinkets, and more. But much of the loot isn’t a straight drop. And many of the bosses are optional. This AQ40 loot guide will help you understand where and how to get your next set of upgrades.

AQ40 won’t be available until the Gates of Ahn’Qiraj event is completed.

Temple of Ahn'Qiraj is a 40-man raid dungeon located in southern Silithus. It was released with patch 1.9 during a massive server-dependent event called the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj. Players access this instance via the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj, an area before the instances with portals to both Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj and Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. The entrance to Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj, which is a 20-man raid instance. The Eye of C'thun and Head of Ossirian the Unscarred should award 1k or more rep with Cenarian Circle and 500+ rep with Brood of Nozdormu depending on your rep perks/buffs. Killing bosses in Ruins of AQ should award (with guild perks) Cenarion Circle rep +110 x3 (awards this amount three times) and Brood of Nozdormu +55.

Brood of Nozdormu Qiraji Mounts Tier 2.5 Non-tier Armor Weapons Bug Trio Eye of C’Thun Profession Recipes

Brood of Nozdormu

Before getting to the shiny new epics we need to cover the new faction tied with AQ40 in this loot guide. The Brood of Nozdormu. This is the same faction Scarab Lords had to grind for, killing over 36,000 bugs in the process. Luckily the rest of us won’t have to deal with that, once AQ40 is open.

Everyone starts at 0/36000 Hated. But don’t fret, reputation comes quickly from raiding. Just showing up to your raid each week will get you all the reputation you need.

How Much Reputation Do I Need?

Tier 2.5 pieces only need Neutral, Friendly, and Honored for their turn-ins. Honored is only for the chest, which comes from C’Thun. If your raid has difficulty with him some of you may be honored by the time he goes down.

The Brood of Nozdormu awards rings starting at Neutral. They are upgraded at each new rep level, all the way to Exalted.

Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight

Once Neutral with Brood of Nozdormu seek out Anachronos in Tanaris, outside the Caverns of Time. There you can pick up one of three rings, which can be upgraded as you gain reputation levels:

• Path of the Conqueror offers an agility based DPS ring
• Path of the Invoker offers an intellect based DPS and healer ring
• Path of the Protector offers a strength-based tanking ring

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For many classes, these rings are BiS at the Revered or Exalted levels.

How to Earn Rep with Brood of Nozdormu

• Run AQ40 (trash gives rep until Friendly, bosses until Exalted)
• Run AQ20 (small amount of rep)
• Turn in Ancient Qiraji Artifacts
  • Drop from trash, everyone in raid group can get one from the same body
  • Recommended to save these until Friendly, when trash stops giving rep
• Turn in Qiraji Lord’s Insignias
  • Drop from bosses, everyone in raid group can get one from the body
  • Recommended to save these until Friendly, when trash stops giving rep
• Turn in Head of Ossirian the Unscarred from AQ20
• Turn in quests for your Tier 2.5 armor pieces or Signet Ring upgrades

AQ40 Mounts

Likely the first loot you’ll see in AQ40 are special mounts for the instance.

• Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal – Lowest drop rate

These 100% speed mounts drop from AQ40 trash and are important to your raid’s progress. Once you enter the temple (after Prophet Skeram) you can no longer use your regular mount. But you can use these. AQ40 is large, so having everyone in the raid with a Qiraji mount reduced downtime. They are also useful for getting into place for the C’Thun fight.

Unlike regular mounts, these will desummon as soon as you take any damage.

You cannot use these mounts outside of the AQ40 raid instance. Sorry, no free 100% mount today.

The Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal has a much lower drop rate, so expect it to be fought over. But again everyone in your raid needs to have a mount, whatever the color.

The Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal awarded from the Scepter of the Shifting Sands questline will also work in AQ40. While it is a normal mount outside AQ40, it will also desummon when taking damage inside the raid instance.

AQ40 Armor Sets (Tier 2.5)

Each class has a 5-piece armor set referred to as Tier 2.5.

• Druid – Genesis Raiment
• Hunter – Striker’s Garb
• Mage – Enigma Vestments
• Paladin – Avenger’s Battlegear
• Priest – Garments of the Oracle
• Rogue – Deathdealer’s Embrace
• Shaman – Stormcaller’s Garb
• Warlock – Doomcaller’s Attire
• Warrior – Conqueror’s Battlegear

The armor is not a straight drop like Tier 1 and Tier 2 was in Molten Core and Blackwing Lair. Tier 2.5 uses a token system like ZG. There are rep requirements (like ZG). But you also need to turn in specific scarabs and idols, too. The scarabs and idols drop from AQ40 trash. And will likely be collected and distributed by your guild officers.

AQ40 Armor

Lots of non-tier gear drops in AQ40, too. They are regular drops from bosses, no messing around with turn in requirements. For some classes, pieces will be much better than their Tier 2.5 counterpart.

There are too many items to list for this AQ40 loot guide. So instead here’s a link to an organized list on Wowhead.

• Link is organized into tabs, one for each slot
• Includes relics for druids, paladins, and shaman

AQ40 Weapons

If your guild is like mine you’re still short some weapon upgrades. Especially for melee players. AQ40 provides many new weapons. Both as straight drops. And from two new tokens.

Physical DPS Weapons

• Ancient Qiraji Ripper – Sword
• Death’s Sting – Dagger, low drop rate from C’thun
• Silithid Claw – Fist Weapon
• Barb of the Sand Reaver – Polearm
• Dark Edge of Insanity – Two-handed axe
• Kalimdor’s Revenge – Two-handed sword

Caster Weapons

• Scepter of the False Prophet – Mace
• Sharpened Silithid Femur – Sword
• Hammer of Ji’zhi – Two-handed mace
• Staff of the Qiraji Prophets – DPS staff
• Royal Scepter of Vek’lor – Healer held item
• Sartura’s Might – DPS held item

Ranged Weapons

• Huhuran’s Stinger – Bow
• Larvae of the Great Worm – Gun
• Wand of Qiraji Nobility – Wand

Shield

• Wormscale Blocker – Healing shield for paladins and shaman

Imperial Qiraji Armaments

One of two tokens which award a selection of weapons. Turn in also requires Elementium Ore (3). You can turn it in twice to get two of the non-unique weapons.

• Blessed Qiraji Pugio – Dagger with hit, crit, and attack power (can dual wield)
• Blessed Qiraji War Axe – Axe with intellect, attack power, and crit (can dual wield)
• Blessed Qiraji Musket – Gun with ranged attack power
• Blessed Qiraji Bulwark – Tanking shield

Imperial Qiraji Regalia

One of two tokens which award a selection of weapons. Turn in also requires Elementium Ore (3).

• Blessed Qiraji Acolyte Staff – DPS caster staff
• Blessed Qiraji Augur Staff – Healer staff
• Blessed Qiraji War Hammer – Feral druid mace

Bug Trio Loot

The Bug Trio fight involves three bugs at the same time: Vem, Princess Yauj, and Lord Kri. They share some loot. But each bug also has its own loot table. Whichever bug is killed last determines the loot table. A combination of that bug’s look and the shared loot. Killing them in different order also changes the fight’s difficulty.

Folks at /r/classicwow on Reddit put together a great visual guide. It shows an individual bug’s loot, their shared loot, and the difficulty when killing each bug last.

My guild will be starting with the easiest kill order. Later we’ll put the kill order up to a vote by those in the raid.

Eye of C’Thun

The final boss, C’Thun, always drops the Eye of C’Thun. It starts a quest that leads to one of three rewards.

• Amulet of the Fallen God – Healing necklace
• Cloak of the Fallen God – Physical DPS cloak
• Ring of the Fallen God – Caster DPS ring

AQ40 Profession Recipes

Check out my Phase 5 Professions post for more details on new professional recipes release in and alongside AQ40.

Blacksmithing

• Plans dropped by The Prophet Skeram in AQ40
• Epic plate chest with a spell shield proc

Cloak Enchants

• Formula dropped by Bug Trio (shared loot, kill order doesn’t matter) and Ouro in AQ40
• Adds 1% dodge

• Formula dropped by Bug Trio (shared loot, kill order doesn’t matter) and Ouro in AQ40
• Also drops from Moam in AQ20
• Increases your stealth level by 5 (equal to one level)

• Formula dropped by Twin Emperors in AQ40
• Decreases threat caused by 2%

Glove Enchants

• Formula dropped by Bug Trio (shared loot, kill order doesn’t matter), Viscidus, and Ouro in AQ40
• Increases fire spell damage by 20

• Formula dropped by Bug Trio (shared loot, kill order doesn’t matter) and Ouro in AQ40
• Also drops from Buru the Gorger in AQ20
• Increases frost spell damage by 20

• Formula dropped by Bug Trio (shared loot, kill order doesn’t matter) and Ouro in AQ40
• Also drops from Moam and Ayamiss the Hunter in AQ20
• Increases healing from spells by 30

• Formula dropped by Bug Trio (shared loot, kill order doesn’t matter) and Ouro in AQ40
• Increases frost spell damage by 20

• Formula dropped by Bug Trio (shared loot, kill order doesn’t matter) and Princess Huhuran in AQ40
• Also drops from General Rajaxx and Ayamiss the Hunter in AQ20
• Adds 15 agility

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• Formula dropped by Twin Emperors in AQ40
• Increases threat by 2%

Quest Location:Cursed Antique Shop
Quests Begun From:Cursed Bust

Note: This quest can only be completed once.

If you want more information about the artifact you've got in the box, you'll need to talk to the shopkeeper. He is an expert on this sort of thing! Just head to the right and go into the Cursed Artifact Shop.

Items Required:

• Enter the Cursed Artifact Shop x1
  • Enter the door on Screen 2

Rewards:

• 500 Gold
• 500 Exp
• 100 400 Rep : Mysterious Dungeon

Thanks to Apus.

Quest Location:Cursed Antique Shop
Quests Begun From:Cursed Bust

Requirements: Must have completed the 'Dr. Darkwood's Robe' quest.
Note: This quest can only be completed once.

Uh oh - opening that dresser drawer seems to have gotten the attention of Darkwood's magical defense mechanism - it's sent something big after you! Better defeat it so that you can nab the robe and get the heck out of here!

Items Required:

• Darkwood's Robe x1
  • Dropped by Arcane Sentinel
• Robe Returned x1
  • Click on the ! on Dr. Dryden Darkwood

Rewards:

• 900 Gold
• 900 Exp
• 200 400 Rep : Mysterious Dungeon

Thanks to Apus.

Aq Loot Report

Quest Location:Cursed Antique Shop
Quests Begun From:Cursed Bust

Requirements: Must have completed the previous quest.

There's a lot more in that UnDresser, it looks like! Go bash it up a bite and see what falls out!

Items Required:

• Dressered Down x1
  • Dropped by UnDresser

Rewards:

• 600 Gold
• 600 Exp
• 100 Rep : Mysterious Dungeon

Items:

• Minion of Skudlyx10

You may also receive, at random:

Thanks to Apus.

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