The Violet Hold

The Violet Hold is a prison complex located in Dalaran. It is the third instance to be located within the bounds of a capital city. The quest [75] Discretion is Key, obtained from Rhonin just putside the instance at level 75, grants you The Violet Hold Key which is required to unlock the door to the instance. You can enter without the key so long as someone opens the door for you. The quest itself does not need to be completed in order to keep the key.

As you enter, Kirin Tor prison guards are fending off invaders of the blue dragonflight. Under orders from Malygos, the blue dragonflight are using magical portals to enter the hold in an attempt to enter the city by breaking through the hold's defenses.

As you talk to Lieutenant Sinclari, the guards leave and your group is left on their own to defend the hold. Similar to the Black Morass instance, there will be 18 portals opening one after another. These portals spawn either a portal guardian which continuously spawns non-elite adds from the portal or a squad of elite dragonkin who do not spawn adds. Killing the guardian or the squad closes the portal. On the 6th and 12th portal, an unattackable dragonkin will spawn and open up one of the magically sealed prison cells, each containing a different boss. After you defeat the boss, you will get a small break to catch your breath before the event continues.

On the 18th portal, you will fight Cyanigosa, the blue dragon in charge of the assault on the prison.

Upon Death, one must fight through all waves, including the bosses, again. However, in Heroic mode, bosses that have already been defeated are replaced by mobs that are the same but differently named, and provide only 250 Reputation and no loot. In Regular, bosses which have to be fought again will drop loot normally.

Note: if you are having trouble downing the mobs, there are 5 switches located on the walls around the room. Activating one of these switches will disable the switch and damage all the mobs that are up.