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1.	Contrat de l'assassin
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Commentaire de 6851

The Assassin's Contract drops from Shadowy Assassins that randomly spawn and attack you in Southshore, be quick to 'tag' them before the guards do, or you won't be able to loot it.

Commentaire de Tankme

Southshore crier yells (zone wide apparently) about assassins in the hills. I ran to town, all the local guards were standing around the magistrate's house. I pouted. Checked the cemetary just in case. Boom, 2 shadowy assassins, high 30's. Quest underway...Hit them before the guards do so you can get the loot rights....

Commentaire de 24973

How often do these assassins spawn, is it all the time, or only after a certain quest is completed?? I have been trying to get my SW faction up with my Draenei to buy a horse. I need to find these guys for more rep. If you could let me know I would very much appreciate it.
Thanks

Commentaire de Thottbot

Rhag Garmason in Wetlands does not give it. Where do I get the assassin's letter?

Commentaire de Thottbot

Yeah, Rhag Gharmason is wrong. You need to loot the contract off of some "Shadowy Assassins" outside the town hall in Southshore.

However, I haven't figured out the way to get them to spawn yet and it seems to be random...

Commentaire de Thottbot

where did you guys find it?

Commentaire de Thottbot

The shadowy assasins are apart of a quest. But I don't know what quest. =\

Commentaire de Thottbot

The South Shore Syndicate guys showed up after I started the quest to warn the Magistrate that the Syndicate had war plans. You get the plans on the tables between the tents when you do the Signet rings quest. After you wipe out the Syndicate guys check the table between the tents for 2 documents. After you go back to South Shore you'll notice the Syndicate guys start attacking town, then they will drop the contract for this quest.

Commentaire de Thottbot

I have been in Southshore many times when no assassins were spawning. A few other times I was attacked by single assassins just outside of town behind the inn, in the graveyard, and in the field in front of the tower without the quest. Last night they were spawning two at a time in the middle of town at a rate of about once every 5 minutes. People were just standing around waiting to jump on them. I had 2 spawn right next to me while I was at the mailbox. They start out stealthed but they're still easy to see and they have a distinctive sound when they appear. One or two hits brings them to light. At lvl 42 I had no trouble taking both out and got credit for both kills even though other people and guards jumped in at the end. One of them had the quest.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Someone on the WOW message boards said that the Assassins only appear at night. It makes sense.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Actually, a bit of experiment shows that a) the assassins spawn near where you are, in pairs, every few minutes, but only if you're in or near Southshore proper, and b) they start spawning _once you accept the Syndicate Assassins quest_. So spend a little time in town after you take that FIRST quest, rather than (as one of my characters did) rushing out to immediately kill them all...

Commentaire de Thottbot

He's there for about a minute after he yells. The Assassins keep appearing for about half an hour after he yells, every few minutes. The -first- ones, this time, appeared in the spot down by the boats off the dock. And ... apparently you have to do at least half the damage to one to get looting rights, which is difficult with the guards all over town, so because of that I recommend down by the boats OR wait very patiently inside the Town Hall by the Magistrate - about the third or fourth spawn is inside the Hall, away from the guards.

And you don't have to have any other quests up to get the Contract ... luckily for my L43 warrior who didn't know about this quest the first time around (and who spent just now about a week trying to be there when Assassins were appearing).

Commentaire de Thottbot

The Shadowy Assassins make an all-out attempt to kill the magistrate once a day, and I believe it happens after nightfall in game time. For me the attack started around 11 PM. The assassins will spawn all over the town, some moving about and some staying still. I got the quest in the middle of a horde attack on South Shore so if you're around when the assassins begin their assault you should have no problem killing at least one, even with the guards and other players getting in the way.

Commentaire de Thottbot

As soon as I read the quest I went to southshore, and I went to investigate behind the stable,found the assassins and got the contract.

Maybe thottbot is the trigger :P

Commentaire de Thottbot

The assassins come in several waves. First at least one assassin appeared in the middle of Southsore, and just moments after two of them appeared inside the inn. When I went outside, two of them spawned again in the middle of town. There could have been more, but I saw at least three. I don't know how frequently they appear, but they are not triggered by any quests. You can kill them regardless of what quests you have or don't have.

Commentaire de Thottbot

The people here make it seem as if it is very hard to find assassains. I'm on rexxar, and I made a circle around the stable up and down the coast and behind town hall. I was attacked at least twice each time, however I had to attack 6 groups before I could loot one. This is because whenever an assassain or assassains appear, a group of two or three gaurds will show up and kill them before I could tap. Just got lucky that the gaurds happened to focus on one of the assassains while I damaged the other enough to tap him.

Commentaire de Thottbot

I found the quest by pure luck, as did my friend. We stood outside the town hall wondering what to do next, when I was attacked by a lone assassin. With me being in my low 30s and my friend being 28, we couldn't do much, but a guard pitched in to help. Oddly enough, although the guard did most of the work, we got a tiny bit of XP for it and found the contract. (We were grouped together.)

Funny how level 37 assassins think they can kill a level 60 elite mage, huh?

Commentaire de Thottbot

im horde n i found this quest while doin hekulars revenge!

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Any idea of how you get them to spawn so you can get this quest?

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Well, I waited for hours (literally) without success. I was killed by these guys a few levels back and only now realise what it was. I'm sure I haven't done this quest but it won't spawn for me now :(
I've tried the dockside and the Town Hall ... nada

Commentaire de Allakhazam

ok seems to be a lot of confusion over this quest... Im lvl 53 and whilst sitting in southshore after some horde thrashing i noticed some assassins attacking a guard and jumped in to help, purely out of boredom. from one I got the quest and next thing I know 2 more appeared. Killed them and another 2, and after killing them the yellow/gold dot appeared for the hand-in which led to the next quest. simple as that.

Dunno why people complain so much about quests. i dont imagine for one second that the game is designed purely for people to follow a set path, but to discover various things as they travel through the game. if u get the quest then complete it, if not then move on :)

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I was just happily fishing in Southshore (left of the wood platform, next to the two boats), when two of these attacked me. I actually managed to get one of them to 1% and the other to aroung 60% before I died (bad luck, i know). I then saw them twice being killed by the guards. While waiting for the fish schools to spawn again, I decided to go check out the herbs next to the griffons, and got jumped by them again. I managed to kill one, while a guard killed another. The thing dropped. I wonder if the quest is shareable?

I do wonder what kind of spawn there is for these guys as I have been just fishing (logging in for 10-15 mins every hour) for the past 4 days and it's the first time i saw them.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I'm very confused about how all this works

Commentaire de Allakhazam

How do you start this quest? I've search for the shadowy assassins for awhile and I have not been able to find them in the town at all. At first I thought they were invisible so I had my hunter friend help me, but we couldn't find them at all!

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Jibrille, it adds excitment to an otherwise boring visit to a town. At lvl 30 I was in the river hunting turtles for the recipe quest when I was just dead. Rezzed and saw them just before they (lvl 37) killed me again. Died 5 more times before I had enough turtle meat. Now I'm lvl 40 and this druid is looking for some payback. :)

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Wanted to do this quest for a good 10 levels, simply to pay the Baron back for killing me several times. Hunting skins for the war effort, I figured out how it starts. . .

Southshore crier yells (zone wide apparently) about assassins in the hills. I ran to town, all the local guards were standing around the magistrate's house. I pouted. Checked the cemetary just in case. Boom, 2 shadowy assassins, high 30's. Quest underway.

ps - I was there several hours in a row without seeing the call - maybe crier is on a longish random timer?

Edited, Sat Jan 14 19:58:04 2006

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I don't know what kind of time spawn are on these, but I was a lvl 35 (just hit) mage, doing the quest for the drunk soldier in the inn (kill the murlocs and stuff) - I had all kinds of quests sitting in my log I hadn't started yet, including Noble Deaths and Dark Council. I was standing on the hill after just killing one murloc (where the mountains part on the beach, there's a path between the beach and part of the forest behind town hall - coordinates 42,62), and heard a battle behind me - I turned around and a lvl 30 was being attacked by these 2 lvl 38 assassins. I jumped in and killed one, she was doing her best against the other. I finished mine off, but died before I could help her. I went back and got my body and the second one attacked me immediately. At least the guard was close enough to help this time. I got the contract no problem and turned it in, which obviously leads to killing the Baron (which I haven't even contemplated yet, as it's all red).

I hope this helps.

Edited, Jan 28th 2007 8:53am by Bpalencer

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Nobody knows a way to make them spawn? This is driving me nuts. I'm wondering what exactly Blizzard was thinking, making one of the Alterac quests only startable off an item drop from an (apparently) very rare spawn :(

Edited, Sun Mar 13 19:02:04 2005

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I think the Assassins may just be a random spawn. I spent about 10 minutes looking for them, and just ran outside of Southshore for a while. Eventually, I found them both stealthed a little east of the graveyard. Both of them dropped the contract for me.

Hope this helps.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

how's this for lucky -- i had just finished "noble deaths" and "dark council" and im less than 300 xp away from leveling. i walk away from the computer for a little bit and when i get back i see someone is trying to kill the magistrate! "how'd he get in here?" i ask... i kill him, level, and was surpised to find a quest which gives a gold in the end... wicked.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

i tried this, but when the guard helps me i never get to loot it, this is because the guard demolishes him right? so i dont get rights

Commentaire de Allakhazam

On my 36 Hunter, I was just sitting around Southshore half-AFK doing some reading for school, and the event with the Southshore Crier happened. A couple minutes afterwards, several sets of Assassins showed up. I was able to get the tag on one of them, and got the quest. I know I didn't trigger it, so I have to guess it's just a random occurrence - was right around noon server time. Good luck to all of you trying to get this one.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Have heard in involves having done the Foreboding Plans quest

- but have not tried that out yet.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

My poor 26 rogue was getting jumped by these guys 3 times :( It was most definately not triggered by a quest I did, I haven't done a single one.

Luckily for me, there were some nice people helping me every time I got jumped (Guards on the second time), and on the last one, which was in the inn( is there nowhere safe?), I fought back while another guy, much higher level, tanked one. I looted him, got the contract and no more assassination attempts anymore :)

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I am going to need more information on how to find them.

Are the rogues cloaked?, Are they always spawning from that tree? How far east do you need to go, past the river? If I am near the waterfal just east of the docks, have I gone too far then?

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I was in a horde raid of Southshore when these assassins were attacking and we were actually able to loot the quest item. I don't know if I can start the quest or not, because I'm not lvl 30 yet.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

everyone is saying how they were just sitting around and got attacked by them, but i've looked for them for ages and never have found them. not seen them once.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

You do not need to finish Noble Deaths first to get this quest. I repeat, you do NOT need to finish Noble Deaths first to get the assassins contract.

I went to IF to get the encrypted letter translated. Just for clarity, I also travelled to SW to return the books to Milton Sheaf. I then hearthed back to South Shore, gave the letter to to the magistrate, and began the quest to hunt down Nagaz.

I proceeded to the inn to log, and right when I stepped in, two assassins popped out at me and attacked me. One guard attacked one, but I quickly targeted the other one. Guards helped, they died, I received the contract.

I have Noble Deaths, Baron's Demise, and Shadow Council all in my quest log right now--proof that you CAN get this quest BEFORE completing Noble Deaths.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I was selling/buying stuff from the Superior Armorsmith behind the little house when these two assassins tried killing me. I killed them both and one dropped a this quest. Not sure why they were there or where they came from.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I was reading my mails outside the SS inn - got jumped by 2 assassin - killed em and got the Q.

1 min later another two came along - they dropped the Q too.

Maybe its because i joined the server in a "off hour" that i got to fight a lot of them (like 5 times in 15 min) - but they seem to spawn very often.

just make sure to tag em before the guards start jitting them.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

For the longest time, I thought I'd never see these two again after getting attacked one time awhile ago..

I started my search again recently and found them! Sadly guards got the first hit, therefor, no loot rights.. GRR. I ran around town, attacked AGAIN, guards got again.. Ran by the butcher shop, BOOM there they are again. Guards got AGAIN, annoying. I ran to the cemetery and yet again, got attacked.. this time, I got the hit! The guards came in so late I almost died, but I got my contract!

So I found them 4 times in about 5 minutes. As I'm typing this Farmer Kent just went bonkers and they appeared again next to the cemetery again..

I think they're always up somewhere, you just need to run around buildings and everything else. I found them, in between the river and cow field, in between the docks and inn, by the butcher shop, and by the cemetery.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I'm all for random quests to keep things in the game interesting, but this one is really unfair.

It's fine for those level 45-60 that are doing raids and happen upon these guys by chance, but when you're a level 33 PRIEST picking up some spices from the trade vendor, and 3 of these assassins suddenly run into the house, make a beeline for you, and gank you in 2 hits - it's NOT fun.

I was SO confused about this. I thought someone had triggered a quest for them and was laughing at me or something. I'd rez and they'd come back for me! This happened THREE TIMES! It's NOT fun when you can't even get a hit in yourself. It would be nice if I could tag one of the guys and get the quest or something, but it happens so quick and there's so many of them.

For those of you that can take these guys - it happened between 11am and 11:30 EST. I have no idea if they have a set schedule, but I hope that helps.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

New server new test.

1:15ish server time on Fenris. Here and on echo isle it was at 12:20~ local time CST (-2 hours PST since no daylight savings).

Time based I guess.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I sat down in front of the Magistrate's building in the doorway actually and decided to wait and see if anything special happened to trigger this quest. After a few minutes two of the guards in front of the building said "Protect the Magistrate at all costs! They could come from any direction. Get to your posts. Let no invader reach Southshore." At which time I followed the running guards behind the Magistrate's building. They stand around near this dirt spot among the grass. There are a fews trees close to the western wall (backside) of the Magistrate's building which is where the Shadowy Assassins spawn. Make sure to be there ready, it may take a few minutes, but if you are there when they spawn make sure to deal significant damage to at least one of the two assassins otherwise the guards that moved back there will eat them. After you finish yours off with the help of the guards, loot your Assassin's Contract and enjoy your quest.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Cloth, you need to 'tap' them to get looting rights, just make sure you've hit them before the guard does.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

The Assassins pop right after you complete the "nobles death" quest.

Well did quest yet again and they didn't pop this time but at exactly 22:20 pst the town crier can scooting into town and yelled about assassins. Will test tommorrow again at 22:20 to see if it is time, and the last 2 times was just a massive coincidence.

Of note I had completed the noble deaths quest about 30 min earlier heh.

Edited, Nov 4th 2006 at 10:31pm PST by pyrolight

Commentaire de romaneos

Event started at 2PM server-time on my server.

Commentaire de MudcrushDurtfeet

The event starts when you complete the quest Stormpike's Deciphering. I turned this in, immediately hearthed to Southshore and got involved in the attack right then, Mystery solved.

Commentaire de Lourss

I waited from 10 AM to 15 AM without anything happening.
During that time I tried doing the Ensorcelled Parchment and Stormpike's Deciphering because another poster said it triggered the event but nothing.

I then later tried picking up and accepting Foreboding Plans and Encrypted Letter - the other spy document - from the table in Soferas' Naze. I accepted both and headed to Soutshore. Upon entering and before I even turned in any of the 2 quests I got attacked by the Shadow Assassins.

Now, this might just be pure chance but it is plausible that accepting either the Foreboding Plans or Encrypted Letter starts the quest. I assume the first since it is signed by Baron Verdus (who you kill after this quest is turned in).

Hope this helps.

Commentaire de Rares

Saw an assassin corpse midtown and immediately went to patrol behind the Magister's Hall, the docks and between the farm field and the river I was ambushed by two assassins, drove one away, burst one down, the guards got the second one, but it did the job, as it can be seen in the picture, it dropped.

As someone posted before, once they spawn, they will soon respawn different groups around the farm, behind the Magister's Hall, around the graveyard and the docks.

Good luck getting the quest! :)

Commentaire de EdyG

Holy #$%^, alright so. After going thru literally every page that has to do with this quest, (the item itself, the NPCs, ect) Both classic and retail versions to see all comments (can't see comments past BC on classic version and can't see classic/other website comments on retail versions of the pages) I can, with 100% confidence, say that we, as a community, even after 16+ years, have 0 info on this item other than the fact that it EXISTS and what mob it drops from. The shear amount of time and effort I have put into this is nuts. I spent over 6 hours in hillsbrad/alterac mountains hoping to find it, some times riding around to the spots they have been confirmed to be at when they spawn and using my true sight racial (human) I even marked the farmer everyone agreed to follow with a blue box so I always knew where he was at all times. I managed to get my fishing skill up from 270 something to 290 while here just fishing in pools I had come across, as well as max out most of my weapon skills (paladin) on turtles, murlocs, naga and critters around town. I filled my bags with so much leather I had to vendor some just to loot this thing when they DID spawn.

I regularly kept track of how many people were in the zone with /who for hillsbrad, at the time they did spawn, there were 4 total alliance in the zone, one being me, who had done all other quests in the zone prior. There was a 60 warrior in town as well as a 38 palli, and a druid somewhere in the zone according to my /who at the time. I had gone AFK in the town center between the inn and the town hall to read memes on discord, but left my sound on, shortly after that I heard the sound of a male human die and instantly tabbed back to see the Crier was dead at my feet. I lept to my mount and spammed my target macro and instantly found assassins, they spawn out of stealth, in their set spawn points then enter stealth. The guards did not seem to attack them UNTIL they attacked others. I managed to get the tag on my first kill and helped the 38 palli get his in a group. In total I 'think' 6 died while I was there, 4 of which were from me. The drop rate is 100%, me and him both got our drops first kill. It says 80 something % on their page because you can't loot it after completing the quest.

I have no idea if it was that druid out and about that was questing that spawned the event, if it was a HORDE quest that does it, (they already have a quest to spawn an elite in our GY) Or if it really is just on a timer. But seeing as how it times are not anywhere near something that would seem.. uhh, based on time, (mine spawned at 6:10 AM. My chat logs say the Crier had said "Hear ye hear ye!" at exactly 6:10:33. The times I seen from other comments also seem to be completely random. I assume it has something to do with a quest but not in town, perhaps when someone picks up the stack of papers in alterac by the syndicate on their table it starts the event? But the player whom actually did would not be in town at the time. Or maybe it is something the horde did. There were people on both factions questing during the 6 hours I was there, I saw a 25 troll priest by the farms, a 33 troll hunter farming turtles up stream, and many alliance. But I still could not tell you what made the event spawn. The only way I think we will truly find out is if you get together several accounts/players and test it yourself, testing quests and other such things from both factions in a controlled experiment to see what may be the cause, or it might just have a random spawn early morning/afternoon. Or ask the devs directly.

TLDR Still no idea how or why the event happened but after 6 hours of camping I have it. GL to you all trying for this thing.

Commentaire de VigilantWatcher

This quest does not require another quest to trigger.

I basically waited in the centre of Southshore, in between the Inn and the Magistrate's building.

A town crier, yelled his proclamation, to save the Magistrate etc, waited a few more minutes then two Shadowy Assassins attacked me and I was able to loot the quest item.

It looks like the Shadowy Assassins spawn in mobs of two, had them attack me three more times after the initial attack.

You do need to do the most damage and kill the assassin otherwise the guards will take the kill and you will not be able to loot.

I waited around about 60 minutes; between 10:40 pm - 11:40 pm server time (Faerlina).

*** Can not confirm whether this happens every hour or how long it takes the town crier to spawn etc.

Commentaire de Driftwoodshore

Hello there guys. I'm actually here to shed some light for this quest. You will see Crieur de Southshore running into the town, shouting that the assassin's are coming to kill the Magistrate, after what they kill Crier. Wait for a few minutes then just lurk through the town and some stealthed assassins would attack you. They are lvl 38 and i got attacked by 2 of them. Be sure to do more damage to them than the guards do and you'll get quest item. Druid 38 lvl Anesthetized - Zandalari Tribe

Commentaire de Erunehtar

I am playing on a very low population realm (no one except me in Southshore for this entire span), and here's how it seems to have triggered for me:
Completed Syndicat d'assassins, Lettre codée and Documents d'annonce d'attaque. Then did Nobles morts and turned it in. A few minutes later this event happened:

Southshore Crier says: Guards to your posts! They must be after the Magistrate again. He must be protected! They could come from any direction!
The Southshore Crier grabs the back of his neck and his eyes go wide.
Southshore Crier says: Assassins... save... th... Magistraaa...

Then the corpse of the Crieur de Southshore was lying at the bottom of steps of the town hall. Afterwards, Assassin des ténèbres where hidden all over the town. Make sure to isolate them, otherwise if guards help you kill them, you won't get credits.

Commentaire de Crowbird

I see a yellow ! on my mini map, but I don't see a NPC that is giving the quest. So I started looking for maybe a poster that you click on or even maybe something on the ground.

Commentaire de Compact

The Shadowy Assassins spawn when someone accepts the quest "In the name of the Light" (Au nom de la Lumière). I assume the assassins might be after the quest giver since they send you out to kill the Scarlet Crusader leaders.

I was able to force the spawn of the assassins repeatedly via accepting and abandoning the quest till finally being able to outDPS the Southshore guards after like 5 or 6 attempts and I got the letter to start the quest.

Commentaire de alphasigmasigma

Did anyone spend a lot of time in Southshore during phase 1 of Season of Discovery? And did Shadowy Assassins ever spawn then?

If not, there is most likely a trigger that causes Shadowy Assassins to spawn, that was impossible to activate in phase 1.

Commentaire de Lurs

I waited for 70 minutes on 3/3 on US Lone Wolf Layer 5 from 4:50am to 6:00am server, but the event never happened and Shadow Assassins never spawned :-(

Edit: Waited another 70 minutes on 3/3 on Layer 7 from 2:50pm to 4:00pm server time.

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Apporter le Contrat de l'assassin au Magistrat Maleb à Southshore.

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Ceci est un contrat pour l'assassinat du Magistrat Henry Maleb. L'ordre a été scellé à la cire rouge, à l'aide d'une chevalière caractéristique.

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