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Comment by 6799

You can do this quest before or after u killed the boss, doesnt matter.

He stops at the first "lighting pole" and a bunch of mobs will spawn. (2 spellbinders and 2 theugists) and 2 mobs after a few secs.
(couldnt recall what kind)

anyway, this is pretty hard, since they come all at once.

sheep works, hunter traps work, just be prepared for a nasty fight....

And once u mess it up, u cant do it again...

Comment by 13105

Clear the entire instance before starting the escort, as they will add along with the additional mobs that appear throughout the escort.

Comment by 301

Btw, be careful with starting this quest, it's now the second time I've done tombs, and had this quest, and it just will not complete for me. First time I just had the first quest. When someone else started the quest, I didn't get the "XXX has started XXX do you want to also?" dialog. And second time, someone was able to share this quest with me, we do the escort, and no "comeplted" at the end.

Pretty hard to figure out what you need to do, I suspect only 1 can complete it at a time.

Comment by corvino

If you're around level 64, try to stand near the escort mob when he stops. The mobs will come from the front and the back, and being lower level, i happened to get half of the waves aggro'd onto me at once.

I also recommend doing this after you clear the instance, that way you can use fear, or possibly kite adds if they become a problem.

Comment by 18544

I wouldn't even attempt this until you are with a group of 68+, this quest is extremely hard and I have wiped in at least 5 groups. The most annoying part is that you can't redo this unless you redo the whole instance.

There are 3 sets of mobs (at least thats as far as I've gotten) with about 4-5 guys in each, and each guy summons 2 more. So you wind up fighting at least 12 at once, and they all aoe. Also, it doesn't matter where you are as mentioned in the above comment, I stayed in the direct center next to the npc & was stealthed and still all the monsters immediately went for me. I think they somehow know who is healing.

Anyway my suggestion is to bring a warlock, mage, and hunter, so you can poly, banish, and freeze trap...then potentially it will be a manageable quest.

Comment by htnikles

I didn't see to much of a problem with it being too difficult. I was tanking (druid-17k armor) with a 66 lock 68 mage and 65 druid. We 4 manned it. Our priest had to leave after the last boss

Comment by 19097

We did this last night with

65 warrior
65 paladin - healing
65 mage
66 hunter
65 priest - shadow

Warrior died reasonably early into the first room due to the healers getting interrupted a few times (pots and cooldowns used too on war), but they were able to recover, res, and resume the escort. The rest of it wasn't bad at all.

You don't have to out level it as long as you CC what you can, dps assists, and the tank / OT can grab whatever they can. The first room is the hardest imo, the rest are easier for whatever reason.

Comment by bl00mie

Very easy as long as the whole instance before it is clear.

My group was un-prepared for it, as the dps warrior along went ahead and started the event mid-instance. We lived through the first 2 or 3 groups, but not the last one, because of the mobs that we failed to clear on the way in. And, as stated above, you cannot attempt the event more than once per run.

Pretty good rewards for a fairly simple quest. If you have a group good enough to kill the Nexus-Prince, you should have no problem with this event.

Comment by 22805

Pre-req: Safety Is Job One
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10216

Comment by 23639

I can confirm the following, having completed this quest last night:

- all party members who have completed the pre-req quest will get credit for the escort quest, regardless of whether or not they initiate the encounter

- the event is *not* difficult if the group uses good crowd control, coordination, and focus fire (namely all the group tactics that allow you to finish mana tombs in the first place)

- it consists of 2-3 5 mob spawns in different areas as the NPC moves back to the entrance of the instance, followed by a relatively easy boss encounter (easier than any in the instance)

- the NPC will give you a 30 second break (without moving) before the final boss encounter, giving anyone who died during some of the trash mob spawns to run back if necessary

- ensure the instance is completely clear from the quest initiation point to the entrance of the instance; it will make things go a lot smoother

- as far as I can tell the boss at the end does not drop anything of note (i.e. a trash mob loot table)

- after killing the boss near the entrance of the instance, you will "complete" the quest, but you must leave the instance and talk to an NPC outside to turn it in

Comment by doombringer

If you have/had this quest and 'failed' it (it will not show Failed in your quest log), you can drop it and re-take it from the Cryo-Engineer.

Basically, I had this quest in my log but did not complete it (our group wiped on it). When I returned to the instance I was able to get the Cryo-Engineer to appear by using the teleporter cube before Shaffar's room. However, the Engineer did not have a quest exclamation over his head. When someone in my group started the quest, I did not get a "So and so has started this quest..." warning. So, I DROPPED the quest in my log and was able to get it again from the Engineer.

It's a very difficult quest. My group (high 60s, two 70s) cleared Tombs without a problem, but we wiped hard on this escort quest. By that time everyone was tired of Tombs and gave up... not that we could get the quest again without resetting the instance anyway. Blizz needs to tune this quest.

Comment by 24437

Have done this 3 times:
1st attempt failed. Essentially the mobs in the second fight spawned close and fast and we wiped. Was a very balanced group but once the priest went down ... fubar!

Quest remained as failed - I just removed it.

2nd attempt worked we were more prepared; as a feral druid tanking I managed to get all aggro on me so healer concentrating on me with MA peeling them off.

3rd attempt Failed.. For some reason the engineer in the middle of the infamous 2nd fight fight walked off! We think its because that we fought a little ways back from him and thus as with ll escort quests you get too far away from him and *poof* quest fails!

This quest has similar analogies withthe ways mob spawn as the escort quest from the "Shadow Tomb" http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10887. In other words, unlike *old world quests* having tramled a path through the mobs to get the quest would normally mean it's clear; thus that quest enforces mobs to spawn on the way out and in the open meaning that unless you go slightly ahead you have respawns and quest mobs to deal with.

I would suggest that
a) Always clear every mob! Personally I prefer to kill the last boss for those with the quest. Saves time, and no reason to enter after an escort wipe.

b) Be prepared - 2nd fight seesm to be the worst. Lay traps and have CC peeple ready. No time for Priest MC - they should be targetting the main tank who shoul dbe trying to keep aggro. Rest of group following the Main Assist.

c) Between fights ensure mana people drink!! If duid is in group get them to innervate after 1st fight as that has least time for drinking; also allowing recylcle before final fight.

Once second fight comlpete get ahead to fight 2 Nexus Terrors ahead leaving clear run through to final fight in the first dungeon room.

I love this quest! It has taken the monotony out of escort quests! You have to be prepared, you have to think and act on your feet.

This is a great dungeon for feral druids to cut their teeth as an MT. I was level 65 with ~12kAC and 1k AP; kit green and blue for TBC quests; nothing special. Resto shammy quite easily to keep me up.

Comment by pqzroc

This is by far the buggiest quest i have ever been on. I've done this quest 3 times and it has bugged each time.

the gm will not credit you for the quest even after you finish it. so remember:

1. you must start the quest at the same time as everyone else.
2. try not to die. our priest died in the middle, ss'ed back and was not accredited for the quest even after we finished.

i really want those damn shoulders it bothers me how buggy it is.

Comment by 31850

If he dies, he does not respawn unfortunately.

Comment by 46730

The comments posted here about the quest being bugged is incorrect.

After a lengthy discussion with a GM subsequent to my completing the quest several times and not receiving credit I was told that the quest was functioning properly and that the name of the quest reveals why not all members in the group will get credit. It seems that you are required to run this numerous times, unless you are lucky, to get credit for it.

My recommendation is to be the only person on this quest in your group. Terribly frustrating...

Comment by 38721

Then you're doing something wrong.

First he hands out one quest. Everyone pick up that quest AND complete that quest. The followup is the escort quest. Do NOT accept the escort quest, until everyone completed the prequest.

Comment by Ruben

Tried doing this after I we had cleared the full instance in Heroic.. Solo.. as a rogue :) Yeah, think I'm gonna bring along some friends next time :P

Comment by beemerider

LOL - I hadn't read up on the quest so I just fired it up while on a heroic run. Don't try this at home! We died quickly.

Comment by 34517

Tried this twice now on my druid alt, and let me tell you, in a ordinary pug you can forget about this. Clear the instance with them, get rid of them and then get your guildies and 70 friends to help you out with it instead. I've had two decent pugs, but this just isnt pug friendly. The NPC doesn't respawn, so you only get one shot at it every instance. Don't risk it with a group of 65-68s, it will most likely be too hard. Make sure you get it done with some help instead.

Comment by 68312

So let me ask this burning question:

1. You're in a PuG. You have Safety is Job One.
2. You complete that quest inside the instance and it gives you the option to start this one.
3. This new quest option comes up and one of the PuG members sees the loot, starts drooling on their keyboard, and accepts the quest in mid-instance clear when no one is ready.
4. You wipe.

Since you have COMPLETED Safety is Job One, is it even *possible* to come back on your next run of Mana Tombs and try this thing again?

Really hope the answer is 'yes.'

Comment by 42580

I guess they fixed it, we failed the quest and it won't allow us to pick the quest up again, so i'm thinking it's a one time only quest either u fail or you pass it..sorta sucks but it doesn't suprise me blizz would do something like this.

Comment by 105612

My group did this last night (all around lvl 64-65). The best advice I can give is to have a plan before you accept the quest. The first time I attempted the quest, our entire group was caught offguard and we wiped.

With seduction and sheep, we had an easier time handling the mobs that spawned. What we did was.. we feared the mobs, crowd controlled, then killed. The frustrating thing is that the npc you're helping will sometimes break cc.

Comment by 106019

This escort is bugged sometimes I think. Our complete group had the quest in their log, including me, and it showed the complete group was sharing it. For some reason though, me and another guy in the group did not receive any update or reward after completing, even though we did it flawlessly and always were within close range with the escorted guy. So I guess I'll have to do this again...

Comment by 110766

Just completed, entire instance. Hand in the q by the cube, spwans came, but never the seguel part of the q, couldnt started it, i think its bugged.

Comment by 102676

Did this instance tonight. Cleared the whole place. A party member accepted the quest, and he instantly despawned and we failed. No idea why, very pissed off.

Comment by 2672

theres a few bugs with this quest, most notably if a member dies and releases even if he is rezed or runs back quickly, he may or may not receive credit on completion.
I know several people this has happened to and the GM's have told all of them more or less tough luck

Comment by 116214

Just to confirm, in the event that is was not made abundantly clear by the above messages:

If you FAIL, you CANNOT pick the quest up again in the same run. You must RESET THE INSTANCE in order to have the Cryo-Engineer show up so you can accept the quest again.

Tough luck, huh :P

Comment by 123691

I did this quest long before I went Prot-Pally, not sure what I did with the reward but now I need these metal greaves, is there a way to reset quests or is there anything equivalent to these boots I can get through questing?

Comment by Galabriel

Learned it the hard way --> If you do try this on Heroic, the mobs spawning will be Elites that hit 1k+ just like the trash you've cleared within the instance...

Not impossible I guess, but wasnt worth trying...

Comment by 60430

Heroic Difficulty makes this quest almost impossible. Went in for a full Heroic clear, not too many problems, but the fact the the guy who comes with you is a regular 66 Elite, and the adds that spawn are Heroic 70 elites, mean he will be cut down within seconds.

Comment by 219351

I think this quest is bugged, as someone else in my group started the quest,i accepted from the toolbox, did the whole quest nice and dandy,stayed near npc the whole time. And after the instance was over i realized that it said 'failed' in my quest log. Jesus Christ it doesn't take a rocket scientist to make an unglicthy quest

Comment by 196076

I just cleared the whole dungeon. We were very close to the end when the top of my screen read " bla bla bla quest failed" The guy kept walking and when those adds came we did wipe. When we went back in we couldn´t get the quest anymore.

Comment by 223475

we escorted him all the way -was close to him all the way- none of the group died, I started the escort quest, rest of group completed the quest, I never received completed, dunno but I think it is bugged

Comment by 358756

Recently did this (failed, the group failed to clear the whole starting area before doing it) on my 65 DK. Had previously done it with another group, but was summoned into dungeon halfway through and did not complete pre-req quest so did not get escort done then either. Blizzard must have nerfed this, as I only recall 3 mobs spawning at a time, and with regular group ( I was the only DK in first run) and no CC, we blew through it without a problem. The only reason my second group wiped was we left 3 groups of ethereals with 2 of the Terrors and a pack of manwyrms in the Crescent Room... with 3 spawns, and approx 11 other elites and a handful of nons, it was over disgustingly fast!

1): ALWAYS clear EVERY mob up to the quest starting room.

2): ALWAYS make sure EVERYONE in group has completed and turned in the Pre-quest, and are ready to begin... might even want to suggest this at beginning due to the volitile nature of today's Dungeon Finder Groups.

3): GOOD LUCK!

Comment by Hoticehunter

Escort quests in dungeons really need to have both a repeatable xp reward and no pre-requisites. Getting this quest done now is a pain because people either haven't done the first part and thus don't want to do it if they're not going to get anything out of it, or have already done the quest and don't want to do it if they're not going to get anything out of it.

If there was a reason to do it each time besides helping the one or two people that need to do it each time, this quest could get done a lot more.

Comment by 451455

If you run into three mobs walking Sha'heen through the instance, he says:

What do we have here? I thought you said this area was secure? This is now the third attack? If we make it out of here, I will definitely be deducting this from your reward. Now don't just stand there, destroy them so I can get to that collector.

This is a lie. The reward is not changed at all by running into too many mobs.

Comment by 555745

First the good news : you can use the cube to summon forth Sha´heen, he will just stand there. You can then abandon and reaquirre the quest and he´ll start moving. You can do this solo at 80 if you can get by Tavarok.
Pretty good rewards from a lov level quest for an 80 and plenty of drops (bring lots of bag space)
WARNING : you will nead good gear to take tavarok solo, if he is to much trouble, bring a friend, there should be pleanty of drops for two people.

Comment by 447904

Soloed as a level 80 Shadow priest (on heroic difficulty). If you have cleared instance all the way to quest giver, you will have to fight 2 packs of mobs and 1 mini-boss. Fairly easy task...

+500 reputation with Consortium

Comment by SimonEddie

when you complete this quest, to hand it in. if you just go straight to where your questhelper takes you, he wont be there. you have to go into the centre of the big stone circle you see on your map, then once your at the meeting stone for auchindoun, turn northish into a big passage, they you will see the person who you can hand in to, and get the dungeon quest itself.

Comment by Gamesiarz

Bugged *!@#

Comment by Eillesthis

This was the followup to the old version of Safety Is Job One, which released Cryo-Engineer Sha'heen and some friends. The former was replaced with Safety is Job One, while the latter and this quest were removed and not replaced. The Ethereal Transporter Control Panel is still there, but now serves no purpose.

Comment by Titantwo

TBC Classic - We escorted the NPC after starting the quest. At two different points he stopped and summoned a group of mobs that died fast. Like everything else in the instance they put a magic debuff that can be dispelled.The third time he spawned a Nexus Terror mob. All of the mobs he summoned gave xp. Then he summons a boss 'Shadow Lord Xiraxis' that had ~64k health. Just nuke him down.

Final quest hand in gave 26k xp, hand in was right outside the instance. Took about 5 minutes. He walks slow. May as well clear the instance fully first because the escort brings you back to near the start of the instance.

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Someone Else's Hard Work Pays Off

This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Escort Cryo-Engineer Sha'heen safely through the Mana-Tombs so that he can gather the ether held inside Shaffar's ether collectors.

Report to Nexus-Prince Haramad located outside the Mana-Tombs at the Consortium encampment should you succeed.

	Escort Cryo-Engineer Sha'heen (1)

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Who were you expecting!? That idiot Morphalius was 'de-prioritized.' Now I'm here to clean up his mess. All I need from you is to watch my back as I go through Shaffar's ether gatherers and suck them dry of all that they have collected. If I successfully complete my mission, Haramad himself will reward you!

What do you say? Escort me through the Mana-Tombs and then collect some incredible treasure? You already did most of the work anyway! Nothing's alive back behind us, right?

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You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Flesh Beast's Metal Greaves			Consortium Mantle of Phasing
	Cryo-Mitts			Consortium Prince's Wrap

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with The Consortium

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10218))

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