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Before

Franclorn Forgewright's spire

Blackrock Spire was designed by a master Dark Iron mason to be the symbol of dwarven power in this mountain. Hordemar City is built inside the husk of it. The walls around the orc tents are carved out of volcanic rock — dwarf work, not orc work. The orcs pitched campfires in somebody else's stone rooms.

Nobody notices thisIt is a ten-man dungeonNever five, in vanillaBlackrock Spire launched as a raid instance. Patch 1.3.0 capped it at fifteen players, patch 1.10.0 at ten, and there it stayed.The five-player cap arrived with Cataclysm.The LBRS everybody remembers is a later game.

The telling

Dungeon · Eastern Kingdoms

Lower Blackrock Spire