Escape from Durnholde Keep is the escort dungeon inside Old Hillsbrad Foothills, the first of the two Caverns of Time 5-mans buried under Tanaris. Normal is tuned for level 66-70; heroic needs a level 70 and the Key of Time bought from Alurmi at the Caverns. A clean clear runs 20-30 minutes and one run here is $19.04.
What the run actually is. Andormu points you at the instance and Erozion meets you at the end of the tunnel with a pack of incendiary bombs. The dungeon opens on Taretha's Diversion: plant 5 charges in the internment lodges scattered around Durnholde. Burning them wakes Lieutenant Drake, an optional boss almost every group kills for loot. Then you free a young Thrall from the basement cell and walk him out in three legs - through the keep gates past Captain Skarloc, across the hills into Tarren Mill, and finally to Taretha, where three waves of Infinite Dragonflight adds land before the Epoch Hunter drops in.
There is no clock on the run - Thrall is the clock. He tanks, he pulls ahead of the group, and he happily stands in Skarloc's Consecration. If Thrall dies the escort resets, which is how a 25-minute dungeon turns into a whole evening in a bad pug.
What it pays. The two in-instance quests, Taretha's Diversion and Escape from Durnholde, are worth 1,000 Keepers of Time reputation each, and the mobs add more on top: a normal clear lands somewhere around 900-1,300 total and a heroic clear around 2,000-2,800, depending on which community count you trust. Finishing the chain back at Andormu is what opens The Black Morass. On heroic, Wind Trader Zhareem in Shattrath's Lower City repeats Wanted: The Epoch Hunter's Head daily for roughly 24 gold plus 350 Keepers of Time and 350 Consortium reputation, and the heroic bosses drop the Bloodskull Destroyer, Aran's Sorcerous Slacks and the bind-on-pickup heroic gems such as the Dazzling Chrysoprase.
One unit is one full run with the questline turned in. A single clear completes the chain, so most buyers take exactly one. Extra runs are for the reputation bar and the Key of Time, which sits at Revered today and drops to Honored when the Phase 4 changes land. If the standing is all you care about, our Keepers of Time reputation listing prices the tiers directly rather than by the run - this page sells the dungeon and the quest chain. No attunement is involved anywhere: Blizzard pulled the Karazhan, Serpentshrine and Tempest Keep attunements off the Anniversary realms on August 27, 2026. Piloted by default, self-play if you want to be in the group, US realms first with EU on the region switch above, booked through timesaver.gg.
