The storyline in The War Within is vast and intricate, with plenty of questlines that overlap with one another. To Kill A Queen is a lucrative and lore-heavy quest, but it’s not the easiest to find if you don’t know where to look.
Here’s a complete walkthrough of how to find the To Kill A Queen questline, including the Renown and campaign requirements for the first character in your Warband.
How to unlock To Kill A Queen
To start, you need to get through the Renown requirement of Renown level four with every main faction in Khaz Algar. This includes:
- Council of Dornogal
- The Assembly of the Deeps
- Hallowfall Arathi
- The Severed Threads
Once these are all at level four Renown or higher, you need to get your character to level 80. To Kill A Queen is a max level quest and it takes place in Azj-Kahet, so being max level is essential, especially for the combat sections.
When you have a max level toon with the right Renown level, you need to get through at least the first chapter of the max level campaign for The War Within. This isn’t the zone-specific campaign—it’ll appear in your quest log with the expansion name and the first chapter Against the Current.
The first chapter in the campaign is quick and easy. It starts with a quest called Surface Bound, followed up by Renown of Khaz Algar and leading into The Fleet Arrives. The rest of Against the Current is as follows.
| Quest name | Task |
|---|---|
| Embassies and Envoys | Place banners in your faction’s embassy |
| There’s Always Another Secret | Use the waygate to go beneath Dornogal and speak to Dagran and Brinthe |
| What’s Hidden Beneath Dornogal | Restart the console by solving an interlinking thread puzzle (essentially, make sure the strings aren’t crossed over) |
| Preparing for the Unknown | Return to Moira |
| Urban Odyssey | Go to the Delver’s Headquarters, crest exchange vendors, and Keepers of Renown |
Then, grab a quest called Our Chance to Strike from Webster (a small spider who will appear as a quest giver in Dornogal) and head to the Royal Apothecary to meet with the Vizier. Then, pick up The Beginning of the End—this involves “disrupting” the Umbral Bazaar.
The easiest way to do this is to destroy the propaganda holograms around the zone, but you can fill up the bar quickly by defeating guards, too. Just watch out for their stacking debuff which can remove you from the city.
This leads to A Spy Like Us, where you meet Gut’usul in The Cobwebs, an area close to the Umbral Bazaar.
Gut’usul gives two quests, Make Them Prey and Defense of the People, which both take place in The Burrows. You must kill abductors and rescue captives from webbed cocoons. There are only eight abductors required here, so it’s a relatively quick task.
After this, a simple kill quest called A Shot at the Top will follow, where you need to kill an NPC called the Master Abductor. This NPC hits hard, but has no overly remarkable abilities and is a breeze if there are other players helping you fight.
Finally, turning A Shot at the Top into Executor Nizrek will unlock To Kill A Queen, letting you access the story mode version of Nerub-ar Palace.
How to complete To Kill A Queen
Despite its complicated unlock procedure (and alleged bugs, according to community forums—ironically enough) To Kill A Queen is a simple quest.
The quest tasks you with slaying Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace, the Azj-Kahet raid. It’s important to note completing the raid in story mode is optional, so if you’re already tackling high level PvE content, keep doing what you’re doing.
Story mode is an exceptional way to get to see the latest raids without needing to worry too much about mechanics or getting yelled at in the chat. While some players may never touch this PvE mode, it’s perfect if you don’t have much time to invest into raiding but still want to enjoy the content.
Completing this quest gets you an Enchanted Rune Harbinger Crest and a Void-Touched Valorstone, along with a chunk of gold, making it very lucrative.
