What to do
Recover Lydon's Cage Key.
Objective by objective
- Collect Lydon's Cage Key item #63281
The quest's own structured objectives. How many of each you need is set by the game when you accept it, so it is not stored here – the sentence above is the quest's own wording.
The quest giver's words
This place is no farm! Stillwater has been experimenting on the humans of Hillsbrad. The monstrosities here are all his creations.
That's not the worst of it, <class>. The aberrations that have the key to my cage are former Forsaken. Stillwater's experiments have the side effect of turning Forsaken into mindless zombies. Why do you think he's so afraid of letting this get out? He knows that such a crime is punishable by true death.
Get me out of here! The infected sludge guards outside have the key!
Progress
Get the key!
Completion
<Lydon takes the key from you.>
I'll let myself out, thanks.
I have never been so angry! Stillwater won't get away with this. I will present his head to the Banshee Queen myself.
You and I will work together, <name>.
I don't know about this one over here, but I'd prefer he stayed behind.
Category: Hillsbrad Foothills.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Aberrant Vest
item #65673 · Uncommon · item level 21 · sells for 14s 36c
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Monstrous Shield
item #65713 · Uncommon · item level 21 · sells for 13s 47c
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Sludge-Caked Throwing Knives
item #65695 · Poor · item level 21 · sells for 5s 95c
- Money
- none
- and 10s 20c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,650
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at level 26 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 19–26 1,650 100% 27 1,300 80% 28 1,000 60% 29 650 40% 30 330 20% 31–89 170 10% 90 none 10s 20c more money The game pays the full figure up to five levels above the quest, then 20 % less for each level more, down to a tenth, and none at the level cap. A bonus of your own (a guild perk, a holiday) comes on top.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 1,650 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Undercity +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 21, requires level 19
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- A Lost Lad #28206 · any one of these
After this
- Protocol #28230
- Do it for Twinkles #28231
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Master Apothecary Lydon npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.404, 0.593
- Hand in to
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- Master Apothecary Lydon npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.404, 0.593
- pick up
- turn in
These two markers are the quest giver's and the hand-in's own positions – not where anybody was standing. The recorded positions are further down, under the community data.
Relevant locations
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Hillsbrad Foothills
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Master Apothecary Lydon
Starts the quest · 40.4, 59.3
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Master Apothecary Lydon
Hand the quest in · 40.4, 59.3
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Infected Sludge Guard
Quest objective · 39.8, 59.2
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The pins are the game's own map markers; the coordinates are the game's 0–100, as
/way takes them.
What players recorded
Everything below this line is a different kind of knowledge from everything above it. Above: what the quest is, the same on every realm. Below: what actually happened when people played it, uploaded by them, with the number of runs printed against every figure. It is an observation, not a fact about the quest.
This guide rests on 1 completed run. That is enough to show where people went and not enough to trust the timings – treat them as one player's evening.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 1 run by 1 player – low confidence. Every upload of this quest sharpens it: the hotspots tighten, the order and the timings settle, and the parts below unlock as the sample grows.
- Where to go – pick-up, objectives and hand-in available
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 1) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 1) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 1 from 1) not yet
Timings
Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 1 run; mean 3 min 8 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
12 tracked kills, typically 1,815 XP, done around level 23.
The route
An early route: drawn from the first runs and sharper with every upload. Pick-up, hand-in and the objective hotspots are where the quest is, so they are shown from the first run.
Map coordinates are the addon's own 0–1 zone coordinates (Hillsbrad Foothills), origin top-left, x to the right and y downward. Drag the zone map to pan, ctrl/⌘ + scroll or the buttons to zoom; the grid lines are tenths of the zone.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.400, 0.590 median of 1 recorded accept on Hillsbrad Foothills
- Turn in
- 0.400, 0.590 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Hillsbrad Foothills
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
Order published by the analyser from 1 run.
Objective 1 — needs 1
Players finish it about 2 min 48 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.390, 0.610 weight 1.00, 3 points
1 recorded position in Hillsbrad Foothills.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.