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Into The Maw of Madness

Commander Mar'alith at Cenarion Hold in Silithus wants you to find his beloved Natalia. The information that you gathered points to Hive'Regal in the south as being the area in which you may find Mistress Natalia Mar'alith.

Do not forget to visit the dwarves at Bronzebeard's camp before venturing into the hive. They might have some additional work and advice for you.

And <name>, remember the Commander's words: "Do what you must..."
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The Fate of Mistress Natalia Mar'alith

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I need you to venture into Hive'Regal and find what became of my dearest Natalia, <name>. This will be no easy task for you. Before you dive headlong into the maw of madness, make sure that you go back and speak with those dwarves. They might be able to give you some tips on dealing with the silithid that inhabit that hive.

And <name>, if she truly is as mad as they say... do what you must.

<Commander Mar'alith turns away from you.>

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Reward

You will receive:
Corrupted Blackwood Staff
You will also receive: 1 80

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

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By Anonymous on 07/25/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
Here is a complete walkthrough I just created for my guild detailing the entire quest chain with pictures. Enjoy...

The quest line starts at Cenarion Hold in Silithus:

http://www.unifiedguild.com/downloads/pics/thecalling_map1.jpg

Talk to Commander Mar'alith and he will give you a quest called �Dearest Natalia�.

http://www.unifiedguild.com/downloads/pics/thecalling1.jpg

Then head south to the Bronzebeard Encampment:

http://www.unifiedguild.com/downloads/pics/thecalling_map2.jpg

Speak with the 2 dwarves there- Frankal Stonebridge and Rutgar Glyphshaper (also make sure you pet the monkey):

http://www.unifiedguild.com/downloads/pics/thecalling2.jpg

They will tell you a big story about how this lady went crazy, which completes the �Dearest Natalia� quest and unlocks 2 other mini-quests which you must also complete.

The names of these quests are �Breaking the Code� which will be given to you by Frankal and �Glyph Chasing� which will be given to you by Rutgar. *Note: Rutgar also hands you a �Geologist's Transcription Kit� which is needed to complete his quest, so if you accidentally delete it just abandon the quest and talk to him again to get a new one.

Now before you start these quests, return to Commander Mar'alith in Cenarion Hold and turn in the �Dearest Natalia� quest. He will give you a new quest called �Into the Maw of Madness�, which you will complete while doing the other 2.

Basically these quests are going to take you into the 3 hives of Silithus (Hive'Ashi, Hive'Zora and Hive'Regal):

http://www.unifiedguild.com/downloads/pics/thecalling_map3.jpg

It doesn�t matter which ones you do first, however I recommend a party of 5 to move through it quickly (although you can still do it fairly easy with 2-3 skilled people).

SUMMARY OF "GLYPH CHASING": In the middle of each hive that is a cave that you need to enter and explore until you find the final room. In this room there will be a small white crystal that you use the �Geologist's Transcription Kit� on to obtain the rubbing. This quest is completed once you obtain a rubbing from each Hive.

SUMMARY OF "BREAKING THE CODE":&nbsp Make sure you check the bodies of each bug you kill on the way to (and from) the final room of each hive. You are looking for a white quest item named �xxx Silithid Brain� (xxx being the name of the hive). It is a random drop so if you haven�t gotten it by the time you finished coming out of the cave then make sure you continue killing bugs until it drops. This quest is completed once you obtain a Silithid Brain from each Hive.

SUMMARY OF "INTO THE MAW OF MADNESS": Inside the final room Hive'Regal you will find a Night Elf priest named Natalia Mar'alithnamed. This quest is completed once you kill her and loot the item from her body.&nbsp (Don�t forget to obtain the rubbing from the crystal in that room).

Once you complete all 3 quests return to Commander Mar'alith in Cenarion Hold and turn in �Into the Maw of Madness�. Then return to the dwarves in Bronzebeard Encampment and turn in �Breaking the Code� to Frankal and �Glyph Chasing� to Rutgar.

At this point Rutgar will give you another quest named � Unraveling the Mystery�. This quest is simple, just take the �Glyphed Crystal Prism� that he gives you to Geologist Larksbane in Cenarion Hold:

http://www.unifiedguild.com/downloads/pics/thecalling3.jpg

She will then give you the final quest named �The Calling�!

At this point you will need a group of 25-40 people to kill the Emissary Roman�khan. If your guild is already raiding AQ-40 then it's prolly easiest to just wait until the next raid night and kill him prior to heading inside. Otherwise have fun spamming the LFG channel.

He is summoned at the Bones of Grakkarond:

http://www.unifiedguild.com/downloads/pics/thecalling_map4.jpg

Once he is dead check his body for loot and then return to Geologist Larksbane in Cenarion Hold. Once you turn in �The Calling� she will give you another quest that you instantly turn in to claim your reward and receive your +25 NR legs!
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By Anonymous on 10/06/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
found the entrance by 54,88 and natalie is by 43,37
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By Anonymous on 05/13/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)
Be careful when getting to her because the tunnel is filled with bugs.

Flying Bugs
+Melee attacks
+Nature dammage spells

Cloaked Walking Bugs
+Melee attacks
+DOT poison (nature dammage) that deals a lot of dammage in a little amount of time

Uncloaked Walking Bugs:
+Melee attacks
+2 minute poison that inflicts nature dammage every 5 seconds to all nearby party members (including infected one)
+'Poisoned Mind' ability makes a party member attack their teammates for 15 sec (bug continues to attack other teammates during this time)

It's nice to have a skinner there to make some gold.&nbsp (Need 305+ skinning because these are level 61 elites to be skinned, though 300 is fine for the half that are only level 60 elites.)&nbsp When your skinning produces a grey item, keep it and sell a stack of 20 to vendor for 1G.

Once you reach her in the circular chamber at the end, clear the room before fighting.&nbsp Watch out for bugs' knockback abilities.&nbsp You have to go fast or they will respawn a 2-person group was enough to clear it in time.&nbsp Natalia uses 90% of her mana to heal herself later in the fight (she casts several short heals that combined bring her back to full health).&nbsp Since she only heals when she is low on health it is easy to silence / stun / fear her at the end.&nbsp Even if she gets one of her heals off you'll be fine as long as you don't allow her to get off the 4 or 5 that she requires to reach full health again.

Natalia
+Melee attacks
+Power Word: Pain
+Fear
+Charmed Mind - make party member attack teammates for 15 sec (she continues to attack other teammates during this time)
+Self Heal

*Note that in 2 runs to kill Natalia, the Charmed Mind ability was used twice on a 3-member party but never used on the 2-member party.&nbsp Also during 2 trips all the way in and out of the hive, the Poisoned Mind ability was only used once on the 3-member party.
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By Anonymous on 10/12/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)
The elite 59-61 Silithids are tough, but a 5-man can power through them without major incident.

You want the SW entrance to Hive Regal. Wind your way back and you'll find her in the same room as the crystal you do the rubbing quest for.

She's a priest, so she can mind control and heal, but she is vulnerable to spell interrupts and silence.
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By Anonymous on 03/22/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
Soloable as a 70 rogue
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By Anonymous on 10/17/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)
Be sure to clear the room first. Silithid surround her, but she has a very small aggro radius, and if you stay back from her, you can kill off the silithid easily.
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By Anonymous on 10/06/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
I took ur advice but still wanted to be on the safe side so i got together a group of 4 (no healer) and ventured into hive regal.

Your right, we had no real problems until we got to the night elf priestess. in anwer to you question she's in the tunnel in the South West area of the hive, but shes a long way down. The tunnel shes in is the biggest one there.

I dont know what the other guy was taliking about when he said the preistess can be pulled cos she attackes via magic and will fear you right into other mobs.

She is a 62 elite and is very hard to conquer. Her damage is huge and she heals herself. Dont get your hopes up if your looking forward to doing this with 2 cos with 4 of us we killed her with all of us on low heath and and 1 death at the end of the battle.

You NEED to clear the room cos as said B4 she will fear u right into other mobs. Id say a Solid Party of 4 (like ours) will be able to do it but if u want to do it comfortably I would reccommend 5.

I hope this clears up yours and every1 elses queries about Hive Regal.

Orccheiften 60 Warrior, Kil'Jaeden
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By Anonymous on 01/23/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
Warning, if you die in the regal hive trying to do this quest, you will likely be sent to the Sentinel Hill Grave Yard. Happened to me 3 times, and my partner 2 times.

According to a GM it's a known problem they are working on.

If you don't die, no problem. If you do, it's gonna take you a while to get back.

Just in case it's server specific, I was on Alleria.
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By Anonymous on 04/06/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
sorry looked at it again - some1 has given some coords - i salute them!
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By Anonymous on 01/23/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
found the entrance by 54,88 and natalie is by 43,37
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By Anonymous on 10/31/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
Did it with 1 hunter 1 rogue, gouge, ks, kick and scatter shot.
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By Anonymous on 12/30/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
XP reward is 10550. Faction is 200 for Cenarion hold. (Values at L60.)
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By Anonymous on 12/05/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
I actually managed to find her just outside Bronzebeard's camp. Solo'd her as an affliction lock without major incident, since she's fearable.
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By Anonymous on 05/17/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)
Did tonight with 3 LvL 60's and 2 59's (Me as one of them).. Nice and easy as someone who knew where to go.. Now a LvL 60 becouse of this quest :) Nice
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By Anonymous on 11/18/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
Location of her?
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By Anonymous on 10/08/2006 (Patch 1.12.1)
i love you all
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By Anonymous on 02/06/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
We were able to find entrance to cave at 55,87 and Natalia was easy to find once we were in at 53,100. We picked up the Glyph Chasing quest so we could collect the rubbing at the same time.

The only problem we had was running around to find the cave entrance because we got separated and ended up wiping.

We did with 2 warrior, 2 shaman and a mage. No prob!
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By Anonymous on 03/13/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)
I just did this with my char, 60 druid, a 60 mage and a 60 rogue. No problems at all. The two last member in a 5-man raid would be waste imo :)
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By Anonymous on 06/02/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)
Soloed this as a 60 warlock. All mobs are fearable, so as a master demonologist you can just sacrifice voidwalker and fear + Curse of Doom + shadowbolt. The room was a pain to keep clear though - 2 tries were ruined because of respawns, but the 3rd time I cleared the room fast enough to avoid respawns, and she went down without major problems
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By Anonymous on 04/14/2006 (Patch 1.10.1)
Asked the guild for help with this one. Did it with one Hunter (me), one Rogue, one Shaman. No problems, mon!

Dang it was worth it too. Went in with 36g, came out with 50 :P

~Shetan, 60 Tauren Hunter, Bloodhoof
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By Anonymous on 10/17/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
Did with just a rogue (myself) and a warrior no problem. I just stunlocked her and interrupted heals while he DPSd. (Used recklessness)
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By Anonymous on 12/24/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
got up to her with myself and another mage, and then had a tank for killing her... i can see her being quite hard, she has a nasty SW:P and can do respectable melee damage and mind flay, i would take a healer.
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By Anonymous on 04/08/2006 (Patch 1.10.0)
Very Easy i say,

Did it with 1 Warrior 1 Hunter 1 Rogue.
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By rerunx5 on 12/15/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
Found the entrance by 54,88 and Natalie is by 43,37
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By Drumheller on 05/18/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
As of 5/18, the monetary reward at 70 is 3g30s, not 60s!
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By xurrent on 01/31/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
Oh my freaking God! That was a 18 minute fight as a Protection Pally! I pulled a second freaking mob while fighting her (about 5 minutes in) because of that stupid fear. I mean what is the cooldown on that?! And the Greater Healer was really stupid too. Required pretty much no mana and having to DPS as a Pally with a One-Hander it was just stupid. Along with the Mind Flay being uncleansable. That seriously needs to be reviewed by developers, haha.
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By saxon1971 on 02/12/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
She constantly heals herself and any other mobs in the room, I fought her for about 8 minutes till i gave up. unless you have a way of keeping her from casting, or can kill her in 2-3 strikes i wouldn't try more than once.
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