Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Book of Runes
2.	Mastering the Runes
3.	The Rune of Command

Storyline
Howling Fjord War is Hell Reports from the Field The Windrunner Fleet Ambushed! Guide Our Sights Landing the Killing Blow Report to Anselm Let Them Eat Crow Sniff Out the Enemy The Dragonskin Map The Offensive Begins A Lesson in Fear Baleheim Bodycount Baleheim Must Burn! The Ambush Adding Injury to Insult The New Plague Spiking the Mix Test at Sea New Agamand The Dead Rise! Elder Atuik and Kamagua Grezzix Spindlesnap Feeding the Survivors Street "Cred" Arming Kamagua "Scoodles" Forgotten Treasure Avenge Iskaal The Staff of Storm's Fury The Frozen Heart of Isuldof The Lost Shield of the Aesirites The Ancient Armor of the Kvaldir Gambling Debt The Fragrance of Money Mutiny on the Mercy Jack Likes His Drink A Traitor Among Us Sorlof's Booty Dead Man's Debt Zeh'gehn Sez The Shield of the Aesirites A Carver and a Croaker A Return to Resting "Crowleg" Dan Return to Atuik Meet Number Two The Jig is Up A Tailor-Made Formula Apply Heat and Stir Field Test Time for Cleanup Parts for the Job Warning: Some Assembly Required Mastering the Runes Suppressing the Elements Making the Horn Mimicking Nature's Call March of the Giants The Book of Runes The Lodestone Mastering the Runes Skorn Must Fall! Demolishing Megalith The Rune of Command Gruesome, But Necessary Burn Skorn, Burn! Towers of Certain Doom The Conqueror of Skorn! Dealing With Gjalerbron Of Keys and Cages Necro Overlord Mezhen The Walking Dead Sleeping Giants The Slumbering King Gjalerbron Attack Plans The Frost Wyrm and its Master The Artifacts of Steel Gate The Cleansing Spirits of the Ice The Fallen Sisters Wild Vines Spawn of the Twisted Glade Seeds of the Blacksouled Keepers Keeper Witherleaf In Worg's Clothing Brother Betrayers Eyes of the Eagle Alpha Worg

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Comments

Comment by 182651

Binder Murdis is at 72,24. There are plenty of yellow-name giants around to tame. Make sure your giant hits Binder Murdis before you attack.

Comment by rkrymer

Make sure that you don't have a pet active when you use the Rune of Command. If you do, it will burn the 5 minute cooldown on the item but you will not gain control of the giant. So hunters and warlocks, beware!

Comment by genza

The Enthralled Stone Giant lasts 5 minutes, so after slaying Binder Murdis, I took him up north to help slay Megalith for http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?quest=11367

If you keep this in your questlog, you may be able to use Enthralled Stone Giants to slay more things around the zone...

Comment by Googla

The rune is placed north from the "giants run"

Comment by 246674

I was looking for like a giant thing or something, had no idea what he looked like.
But he is at the same hight as the other dwarves and therefore hard to notice.
So look for a regular dwarf looking mob and look closley at their names.
Hope that helps and you don't have to look for like 15 minutes as I did.
Coords: 71,24
GL!

Comment by moonasha

Be prepared to stare at a giant's butt for the next 5 minutes. It literally takes up the whole screen, and you can't see anything unless you zoom way out.

Comment by 119272

As a holy priest I found that doing this quest at the same time as the quest that asks you to kill the 4 Runed Giants makes that quest easily soloable. Your companion Giant will stun the Runed Giant, allowing you to run and dot and get a few casts off before kiting him around until your Giant stuns him again.

Comment by 158559

I just wish there was some way to dismiss these guys early without burning a hearth or taking a flight, they're so large that they block the screen and make navigation a real pain.

I mean the quest you need them for takes a whole 30 seconds if you're heal-spec, 15 or less if you're dps/tank. Then you're stuck with 5 minutes of having 1/4 screen or looking straight down to see anything.

Not to mention they stand right on your character so any gathering requires careful positioning.

Just my QQing, downrate if you must.

Comment by 86392

Does this guardian attack against hostile players? It would be a nice aid, if I want to gank someone :)

Comment by 491794

As of 4.0.3, the Captive Stone Giant that is being channeled into by Binder Murdis is shown to be the second objective of testing the Rune of Command by Blizzard's objective tracker. However, this is NOT the NPC you should be targeting. The correct NPC to target is the surrounding Stone Giants. These giants are neutral.

Comment by MrMonK

this quest is pretty broken, the marked arent good. as said above, search for neutral stone gaints

Comment by righteous

So I highly suggest that you do this quest first, then move on to demolishing megolith quest, this guy will help take him down...Demolishing Megalith

Comment by 892753

patch 4.2 hunter 85 lvl- dont know but i cant do nothing, ill dismiss pet,killing mob and targeting giant,but still nothing-invalid target,so i just abandoned quest,taking again,and still invalid target,dunno why,maaybe is bugged?,but i need this quest for loremaster (( anyone can help me?:))

Comment by 898547

yeah. it says invalid target. :(

Comment by 895227

The easiest way I found to do this quest is kill Binder Murdis first - he isn't anything special.
Then, before you convert the Stone Giant (NOT the captive one that Murdis is working on) make sure you remove all the surrounding mobs otherwise they will aggro and start a fight that the stone giant joins in, and boy are you in trouble!

Comment by 945326

To use the rune, you need to target "a stone giant that the dwarves have not altered."

That means not the one that Murdis is working on, and not any others that have the green sphere looking thing around them.

The stone giants you are looking for are neutral (yellow) to you.

My suggestion: kill all the regular mobs in the immediate area around Murdis. (You don't need to clear a wide swath. Murdis is not tied to any other mobs. Just the ones that you think might wander into aggro range during the fight.) That way you don't end up with extras joining the fight. Then kill Murdis. He's nothing special and if you're high enough level to be questing in the area, he shouldn't give you any problems.

Then look for a big tree-looking thing whose name is yellow for you. (I found mine just by turning around after killing Murdis.) The rune is effective from quite a distance, so just target the giant and click on the rune. No need to go stand on top of it.

The only downside -- as previously stated -- is that you're now going to get some "guardians" that are immense and are going to take up your whole screen.

Since most people questing in this zone have at least got their flying mount, I would suggest you mount up and fly over to turn the quest in. Then alt-tab out of the game and go check your e-mail or something until your "guardians" expire. You're not going to get much done with them filling up your screen.

Don't worry about using your giant to go kill Megolith or whatever. As with virtually all quests like this, the named mobs you're asked to kill are no longer elites, and if you can't easily solo them, then perhaps you should quit this game and start playing Hello Kitty Island Adventure or something.

Comment by 1440987

The Rune of Command http://youtu.be/eTbWQRLDnXk

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Cpt1WdpDs&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Ramlo

As of 8.0.1, I don't see any neutral stone giants around. Only the red "Runed Stone Giants", and the one neutral one next to the boss, but that one doesn't work for the quest.

Comment by Mixedblood

As of 12/16/2018 The quest is bugged. Tried to open a ticket, the reply said they didn't have time to look at my problem and I should go to Wowhead for a solution! WTF! 14.99 that's an extra six pack a month I could be drinking!

Comment by Asisya

Just an fyi: found mine at 70:24

Comment by Vath

Note the quest is telling you to use the Rune on the giant Murdis is channeling. It doesn’t work, it’s only telling you too because that giant is neutral to you. You have find another neutral giant. It took me almost 10 minutes of flying around before I found one. Just keep looking.

Links

The Rune of Command

Longrunner Pembe at Camp Winterhoof wants you to test the Rune of Command and defeat Binder Murdis.

	Test Rune of Command (1)
	Binder Murdis slain (1)

Provided item:

	Rune of Command (1)

Description

Can you feel the power emanating from the runes I've carved on this tablet? They're smaller versions of the runes that the Iron Dwarves are using. We'll use it to shut down their operation.

Take it to Giants' Run and use it on a stone giant that the dwarves have not altered.

The giant should obey you, but I've tailored the runes to restore it to its natural state after a time. The giant may prove a valuable ally in the battle against Binder Murdis, the leader of the Iron Dwarf forces at Giants' Run.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with The Taunka

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11352))