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Storyline
Nagrand Missing Mag'hari Procession War on the Warmaul Finding the Survivors Cho'war the Pillager The Impotent Leader Don't Kill the Fat One Success! Because Kilrath is a Coward Standards and Practices Bleeding Hollow Supply Crates Message in a Battle An Audacious Advance Diplomatic Measures Message to Garadar Vile Idolatry The Missing War Party Murkblood Leaders... Once Were Warriors He Will Walk The Earth... The Totem of Kar'dash Armaments for Deception Ruthless Cunning Body of Evidence Returning the Favor Survey the Land Buying Time The Master Planner Patience and Understanding Crackin' Some Skulls It's Just That Easy? Forge Camp: Annihilated WANTED: Giselda the Crone WANTED: Zorbo the Advisor WANTED: Durn the Hungerer The Ring of Blood: Brokentoe The Ring of Blood: The Blue Brothers The Ring of Blood: Rokdar the Sundered Lord The Ring of Blood: Skra'gath The Ring of Blood: The Warmaul Champion The Ring of Blood: The Final Challenge The Underneath The Tortured Earth Eating Damnation Shattering the Veil Gurok the Usurper The Howling Wind Murkblood Corrupters A Rare Bean Agitated Spirits of Skysong Blessing of Incineratus The Spirit Polluted Clefthoof Mastery Clefthoof Mastery Clefthoof Mastery Windroc Mastery Windroc Mastery Windroc Mastery Talbuk Mastery Talbuk Mastery Talbuk Mastery The Ultimate Bloodsport Matters of Security Gava'xi A Visit With the Greatmother Material Components To Meet Mother Kashur The Agitated Ancestors A Visit With The Ancestors When Spirits Speak A Secret Revealed Auchindoun... What the Soul Sees Return to the Greatmother The Inconsolable Chieftain There Is No Hope

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Comment by 13088

I've only seen this NPC spawn at (30, 44). The quest is only available once you kill the two Brutes next to him.

Comment by supernovah

The quest is rather easy, at one point you're assaulted by 5 guards, if you can keep them all off him, as a druid, priest, warlock or mage, you could solo this quest (i did at 65 - druid)

Comment by 14521

One of prereqs for:

http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10044 (A Visit With the Greatmother)

Comment by gargam

I can´t talk to the Mag'har Captive, even if I kill the 2 Brutes. Is there any prerequirement for this? Like a certain faction with The Mag'har ?

Comment by anteract

warlock at 65, regular picked up from quests gear, soloed this thing no problem. Make sure all the extra stuff on the road is cleared first, keep him in front of you as always. Hit everyone with corruption, then targetted the 3 big boys. they all fell quickly. worse part is the 2-3 that hit you just as you start the quest, wasn't ready for those. heal up after killing his guards before getting started.

Comment by dmaster

Fairly easily solo'ed as a 68 Warrior.

If you can take out 3 mobs at once, you should be okay since the Scavengers go down quickly. Focus on the Brute, then Raider and pummel the Putrifier if he gets tricky with spells. The fights only have 3 real mobs in them once you discount the Scavengers, so it's not that bad.

IMO don't clear the area before you do this or you run the risk of having adds spawn during the scripted fights. You can take down 1-2 mobs easy in their normal spawn spots and the script won't bring the 5-pack until you're done with the normal mobs and can heal up. Have bandages and good food, and this should be cake to solo, at least at 68. (and I only waited until 68 cause I didn't realize this was part of the long Thrall chain).

Comment by 19321

Very easy as a 68 rogue modestly geared. make sure u have full life when you start then bandage after each encounter. Focus on the brute by the time your done with them the npc will pretty much be done tearing through the casters.

Comment by 19634

Just as a note, this guy attacks alliance (as well as anything else that would be red to you). During my trip he attacked a rogue, who vanished, and a paladin that I ended up having to kill. If you're on a pvp server you may want to make sure there isnt a large group of alliance on the road out or else you'll be up for a hefty amount of pvp.

Otherwise, a straight forward quest. Solo'ed as a 69 druid in bear form the entire time. Just be ready for a fight as soon as you accept the quest.

Comment by 9388

Soloed as a Lv66 hunter. Just go after the scavengers first (they're squishy), then the casters, then the melee guy. The NPC heals the pet, so that makes it easy.

Comment by 12815

It was really easy for me (warrior lvl 69), with sweeping strikes, cleaves and whirlwind (talents 31arms-26fury-3prot at lvl 69)

I was lucky that all the path to the exit was clear as there were people around doing other quests.

Anyway, take care as the captive will atack all kind of enemies (mobs and allies)

Just be ready for the first wave, which is the hardest.

When you deliver the quest, it continues with the grandmother inside the hut who will ask you to collect some herbs (annoying travelling quest in 4 maps)

Comment by 16154

At the time i was questing in Nagrang i failed and dropped this quest. Now at 70 and decided to to it again and it is not available.
Wondering what is wrong.

Comment by Porter

The NPC will heal both himself and you. This lessens the difficulty of the quest.

Comment by Balkzardan

I am a 67 shaman and easily solo this quest... just nuke the mobs, drink and eat fast.

Comment by 45604

Kinda easy to solo for my class (67,hunter) Make sure to send the pet to the harder Murkbloods while hitting the scavengers with multi-shot, once they come to you lay an explosive trap and say bye bye. I dindt actually see the NPC heal my pet but he dindt drop from 2kHP. The npc goes for everything in the road so watch out for allies, they will probably kite him away. Only 2 waves of Murkblood poped to me, 1 at the start and the 2nd in the middle of the village, keep an eye on the Murkblood Raiders patrols, is gonna be a pain when fighting a wave and the patrol joins.

Comment by Byronn

Solo'd as a level 65 BM hunter at melee range, geared only with Quest rewards and early Outland instance gear. 6x Heavy Netherweave bandages, 1x Filtered Draenic Water, 1x Purple Raptor. The NPC seems to keep himself alive fairly effectively. Freezing traps to keep one from each wave/pack at bay. Nice XP/Rep reward and well worth the 7 minutes it takes.

Comment by 51377

The quest is very easy, the NPC nearly impossible to kill. I managed to pull two groups of mobs, one that had spawned and another that was patrolling the region, for a total of 6 mobs. I just spammed arcane explosion and somehow it worked out.
Easy quest, very fun.

Comment by 65151

If youre impatient like I am this quest will drive you crazy. You need to clear the hut completely before attempting the rescue and you must attempt the rescue as soon as possible after clearing.

The problem I ran into was that as I was leaving the hut things would spring up around me, and clearly more than were intended to spawn for the event. I was fighting between 8 and 12 mobs at once, and it was rarely pretty and always frustrating to see the NPC croak under ridiculous pressure. This kind of fight is fun when all that matters is you surviving, but with Weak-sauce McAggroThief it can get annoy to try to save him.

Comment by 59784

As of August 9th 2007

The quest seems to have been tweaked in a recent patch. It spawns as many mobs as before, but the escort won't heal himself anymore, is squishier and does a lot less damage with his chain lightning.

Whereas, 4 months ago, I could stealth next to him with my rogue and just let him deal with everything that came his way, I now need every resource available just to get through it alone. This quest can still be soloed fairly easily if you have some AoE, but otherwise, I'd recommend getting some help.

Comment by 78740

Super easy as a Frost Mage around 400 spell damage lvl 67.

Comment by 66167

Very easy as a hunter. The guy being escorted heals himself and your pet, making this easy as pie. Just send your pet in, and let it rip on the enemies.

Comment by Itachi89

This quest was really easy for me as a 64 fury warrior. Just whirlwind and sweeping strikes, he heals you really good.

Comment by 24102

Note that you have to kill the two brutes in order for him to give you the quest.

Comment by wingman

Currently bugged, the npc will despawn after the first ambush :(

Comment by 123668

As soon as i started this(PvE server) he helped me kill the first mobs and promptly started attacking two alliance.... make sure there's no one around during this.

Comment by 119179

At one point while charing a Lightning Bolt he says "Ride The Lightning, Filth!" which is a reference to Ky Kiske from the Guilty Gear fighting game series.

Comment by Rasztra

Very easy as a 66 pom pyro mage. Two sets of 5 mobs... some of which are the scavengers who are like half a mob. Go ahead and solo it.

Comment by 36554

be careful. People of the other faction can kill your escort. It is rather annoying.

Comment by 96478

Quest is gliched as of patch 2.4, NPC which starts this quest is nowhere to be found. i waited in this area for an hour and a half, and he didnt show up. got a good rep grind for it though, lol

Comment by 150538

i love how he yells "FROST SHOCK!" at the top of his lungs, it's a great reference to one of the best wow video's i've ever seen >.>

Comment by tobarstep

The first ambush happens before you even leave the hut but was only 2 mobs. The second ambush -- which was 5 mobs for me -- happens at the first intersection you come to. After that, the quest is pretty much over and you just follow him out of the village.

This was not bad as a prot warrior. I did it at 66. The quest mob can't take much of a beating, but he can dish it out pretty well. When the large ambush came, I used Challenging Shout to focus everyone on me, then went into my standard tanking routine while he cast his Chain Lightning. His little blurbs while fighting are pretty funny, too. Make sure you clear the area immediately around the hut, or you'll be fighting more than you can handle.

Edit: He does heal back to full after each ambush though, so if he's limping after the first one don't worry.

Comment by cawfee

I could've sworn he healed me during the quest. Which is amazing and makes it one of the most pleasant escortees ever. Other than that, easily soloable as a 70 rogue, one mob spawn in a group of 4, the rest is just scenery mobs you can dispose of ahead of time.

Comment by 188562

IF YOU CANT TAKE THE QUEST READ THIS...... I been annoyed like xxxx over this q and then it hit me.. maybe there are one npc for horde and one for allie.... So ig you find thje one that is red simply look up another house with the green one ;)

Comment by 182548

Suggested player of it are 2.
It is really easy q because this mob casts chain lighting and heal you for about 1600.
I soloed it as 65lvl rogue.

Comment by kaze950

Easy as cake for a hunter with a gorilladin. Gorilla (level 65) tanked the 5-mob spawns with no problems, aside from my mana.

Comment by Haelstrom

Easily the best Escort mission I have ever taken.

Normally in escort missions, if you see a fork in the road and one route's relatively clear while the other's filled with monsters, the escort decides ".. DEM 'DERE MONSTERS DA BEST WAY EVER!" Not this guy.

Hell, he even heals you - I was down to 1K HP and he full-healed my ass right back up to 7k. And he does decent damage, too; easily solo'd as a 66 Assassination Rogue.(##RESPBREAK##)16##DELIM##asakawa##DELIM##

Comment by Yraelcx

This quest can't be seen when tracking with the "lowlevel quests" tracking option. You have to kill the surrounding mobs before the quest exclamation mark shows up.

Comment by 338090

FYI, just tried this as a hunter, and my pet got stuck in the wall of the little round building the NPC is in right as I accepted the quest. The pet just sat there, ignoring all commands, until the NPC died, and I was out of combat. Then, miraculously, now that I didn't need him, the pet woke up and started obeying again. WTF blizz? lazy huntard code FTW.

Comment by 373008

Is this ncp bugged ? i have killed the brutes 10 times now and still no quest

--correection---
i was in the wrong hut .. take a look at the screen shot to see to correct captive

Comment by 372254

FROST SHOCK!

Comment by 462722

Totem of Kardashian, maybe?

Comment by Hoticehunter

Frost Shock!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5mD1n4v2JA

Comment by 570129

Pretty easy quest, soloed it as a lvl65 frost dk, without BoA gear, just be ready to pop AoEs and its easy enough, and also be ready for people in /1 saying "Wtf?" When they hear "FROST SHOCK!"

Comment by qwksilver

Level 64, Unfriendly, He won't give quest.
Level 64, Neutral, He will.

Comment by 481237

Is there a prereq to this one? I'm trying to do the loremaster quests and can't find anymore in Nagrand. I'm revered with the mag'har, but he doesn't want to talk to me.

Comment by 673525

I too have not been able to get this quest to start. My guess is that once they removed the mag'har/thrall quests with patch 4.0 this quest got broken too somehow. GMs, of course, will not help confirm.

Comment by 421626

You will need to kill the two guards surrounding him to activate the quest

Comment by 755641

He's now in a hut at 31 44. Kill the guards, etc etc.

Comment by 815663

Is this quest working for everybody? I've killed the two guards multiple times now...finished all the Mag'har quests that I could. Still can't get the NPC to give me the quest.

Contacted the GM's twice but their solutions were of no help.

Comment by JDLKY

This quest can no longer (imo) be soloed by non-tanks. The first pull is 3 mobs and the second was 5 once and 7 on the second try. I never quite made it to pull #3.

Comment by GothicDrkGrl

BTW, just as a notice, I did this quest of freeing the captive, on the horde side, and then talked to Garrosh. BUT you also need to kill the 3 Murkblood that patrol the road along towards Sunspring post to get "Murkblood Invasion Plans" to complete the questline. I only found it out because I talked to a GM about the problem. Hope this helps someone else who may be stuck on this quest line.

Comment by Rahaf

He is in the small Broken Hut kill the two guards and the quest gets activated .. Turn in the quest to Garrosh and you will be able to start with Chain.(##RESPBREAK##)2572##DELIM##MasterOfDisguise##DELIM##

Comment by 715853

Apparently this quest can be picked up and completed while in a raid group.

Comment by dayoodin

I went back to do this as an 85 while completing Nagrand for Loremaster, but could not find the quest. It is NOT marked with an exclamation point--you must find the hut containing him and kill the two men guarding him. Originally, it's easy to start it because you are killing most things in the village, anyway. You don't realize at the time that it's killing the two guys guarding him in the hut that actually begins the quest.

Comment by Oriforc

I spent hours trying to work out why the escort quest wouldn't start, I killed the 2 torturers over and over again, it was only later realised I had been trying to start the alliance quest, went and found the horde NPC and it started first time. Doh! >.<

Comment by Redead

You cannot start this quest until you are at least neutral with the Mag'har.

To reach neutral complete The Impotent Leader. Also, the hostile mobs around the captive must be dead or the quest will not be available.

Comment by 1440987

The Totem of Kar'dash http://youtu.be/PQMZnCCwiik

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=wWCFb8iIqHc&feature=youtu.be

Comment by raigoku

The NPC can annoyingly be killed by Alliance players, even with PVP turned off. Meaning that even at 110, you can only sit and watch as your quest NPC is oneshot mid-escort by another player.

Comment by jzkalika

He was at 31.37, 44.11 for me, inside a small round-ish abandoned building. This is for Horde side.

Comment by OptikRise

For the Horde, the quest giver is at Sunspring Post at /way 31.33 44.12. The quest will show up on the map (the exclamation point) but not on the mini map until you kill the two guards with him. The NPC is the Mag'har Captive and he's flanked by two Murkblood Brute. I targeted (/target) the Murkblood Brute originally to find him.

Links

The Totem of Kar'dash

Escort the Mag'har Captive out of Sunspring Post. Speak to Garrosh at Garadar if you succeed.

	Free the Mag'har Captive (1)

Description

Thank you, stranger. They would have surely killed me had it not been for you.

I was kidnapped by these Murkbloods 3 nights ago during a nighttime raid on Garadar. What I have since uncovered may very well shake the foundation of the Outland: these savages seek to recover the totem of Kar'dash! We cannot allow the totem to fall into the hands of the Murkbloods!

You must help me escape. And stranger, if I do not make it back to Garadar, you must tell Garrosh what happened here...

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with The Mag'har

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(9868))