Krol'dok Stronghold
No tactics yet · beta day oneAn ogre fortress in the Riverglades, taken over by a Shadowhammer cult. Blizzard called it a large outdoor dungeon - and gave its level range, the only one they did.
Where it lies
In the Riverglades, one of Forever's four new regions. Unusual among the nine: it is described as an outdoor dungeon, so the instance is a place in the open and not a door in a hillside.
What it is about
A clan holds the stronghold and takes travellers off the roads. At night there is chanting from inside - which is the part that says what the prisoners are for. Blizzard framed the dungeon openly as the alternative to running Scarlet Monastery for the fifth time, and that is a design statement as much as a location: this bracket had one obvious answer for twenty years.
What it is built for
Levels 40 to 45. This one is worth being precise about: several places carried 40 to 55 after BlizzCon, and Blizzard corrected it by name on 15 September. If you are planning against an older guide, check which number it shows.
What the beta can show of it
Out of reach. At 40 to 45 this sits ten levels above where the beta ends, and it lies in the Riverglades - a region the beta does not open at all. Two reasons, either would be enough. What is on this page comes from the reveal and from Blizzard's own correction of the level range, not from anyone who has been there.
What is not known yet
Who holds it is clearer since October. Blizzard's video of 19 October says the Twilight's Hammer has seized the stronghold, and its overview of 20 October describes ogre outrunners kidnapping travellers across the Riverglades - so ogres in Twilight's Hammer service, not trolls. Nearby, the Bolder'ok clan of ogres broke away from the Twilight's Hammer and lives in its shadow. Encounters and loot are unpublished.
Not a single encounter in this dungeon has been named. The page will grow the moment one is.