Quick Facts

Series

1.	Mathias Needs You
2.	The Hammer of Twilight
3.	Skullcrusher the Mountain

Storyline
Twilight Highlands Twilight Shores Twilight Shores Welcome to Highbank! Burnin' at Both Ends Aiming High Kurdran's Waitin' Salvage Operation Naga Reinforcements Our Boys on the Shore Shredderectomy Siege Tank Rescue Scouting the Shore Landgrab Bird Down! Bird Down! Roots'll Do 'Er Wings Over Highbank The Perfect Poultice Any Portal in a Storm The Way is Open Firebeard's Patrol Welcome Relief The Only Homes We Have Small Comforts Honorable Bearing Clan Mullan Stubborn as a Doyle The Fate of the Doyles Firebeard Bellows The Fighting Spirit The Scent of Battle The Loyalty of Clan Mullan Death Worthy of a Dragonmaw Anything We Can Get Somethin' for the Boys Personal Request Dropping the Hammer The Lost Brother They Took Me Pants! Dunwalds Don't Die While Meeting The Family Sifting Through The Wreckage Donnelly Dunwald Eoin Dunwald Cayden Dunwald Finding Beak Anything But Water Once More Into The Fire A Steady Supply Home Again Doing It Like a Dunwald The Crucible of Carnage: The Bloodeye Bruiser! The Crucible of Carnage: The Bloodeye Bruiser! The Crucible of Carnage: The Bloodeye Bruiser! The Crucible of Carnage: The Deadly Dragonmaw! The Crucible of Carnage: Calder's Creation! The Crucible of Carnage: The Earl of Evisceration! The Crucible of Carnage: The Twilight Terror! Dragonmaw Takedown Fight Like a Wildhammer Never Leave a Dinner Behind A Vision of Twilight We All Must Sacrifice The Eyes Have It Eye Spy Tempered in Elemental Flame Hot Stuff Potential Energy Tear Them From the Sky! Last Stand at Thundermar Narkrall, The Drake-Tamer The Kirthaven Summit The Bachelor Rescue at Glopgut's Hollow Ogre Bashin' Find Fanny The Bachelorette Something Bold Something Brewed Something Stolen Something Stewed Words and Music By... Wild, Wild, Wildhammer Wedding Torn Ground Pushing Back Unbroken Simple Solutions Mercy for the Bound The Maw of Iso'rath Devoured The Worldbreaker The Terrors of Iso'rath Nightmare Warm Welcome Even Dragons Bleed Draconic Mending Life from Death In Defense of the Redoubt Encroaching Twilight Far from the Nest Breach in the Defenses Mathias' Command Easy Pickings Precious Goods Paving the Way If The Key Fits Pressing Forward Enter the Dragon Queen Battle of Life and Death And the Sky Streaked Red Blackout Shining Through the Dark Following the Young Home A Fitting End Last of Her Kind Victors' Point Ogres & Ettins Call in the Artillery SI:7 Drop Move the Mountain Signal the Attack Signal the Attack Four Heads are Better than None Four Heads are Better than None Up to the Citadel Just You and Mathias Just You and Mathias Dark Assassins Bring the Hammer Down Help from the Earthcaller Portal Overload Unbinding Spirit of the Loch The Elementium Axe Distract Them for Me Dragon, Unchained Fire the Cannon Coup de Grace Water of Life Mr. Goldmine's Wild Ride A Little on the Side While We're Here Rune Ruination A Fiery Reunion The Hammer of Twilight Skullcrusher the Mountain

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Comment by 31022

A reference to Jonathan Coulton's Skullcrusher Mountain.

Comment by Sallara

Welcome to my secret lair on Skullcrusher Mountain.
I hope that you've enjoyed your stay so far,
I see you've met my assistant Scarface
His appearance, is quite disturbing
But I assure you he's harmless enough.
He's a sweetheart. Calls me master.
And he has a way of finding pretty things,
and bringing them to me!
And, i'm, so into you, but i'm way, too smart for you
Even my henchmen think i'm crazy
I'm not surprised that you agree.

Comment by 708433

This was rather glitchy for me for some reason. Everything was fine til the quest guys with me died and I used the horn to call for help. Used it, nothing happened. He had about 735k health left at that point. After about 5 minutes I shadowmelded thinking I'd restart the event. Didn't restart but all my dead allies popped up from the ground and started fighting again but it was still going really really slow. So after about 5 more minutes he was down to about 730k and I shadowmelded again and about 20 people popped out from nowhere and knocked the crap out of him, which is prolly what was supposed to happen in the first place. If you get stuck for some reason try dropping combat and see what happens.

Comment by 260567

yea, was ressing the guys when they died, clicked the horns. had all the flying npc's but the ground npc's were all lying on the ground "Dead" but at full health and not attacking.

this happened at 110k health left, he got the damage reduction buff and it's been 5 minutes, waiting on his health to hit 0.

took 25 minutes to kill him with ths ridiculous 99% damage reduction buff he gets.

Comment by 79637

This is the last quest in Twilight Highlands - so take some time if you want those items.

Comment by 442287

Totally bugged out for me. No ground troops whatsoever(well, okay, there were 4 or so guys lying on the ground, full health but no activity), no clues as what to do except try and slowly whittle him down. Which I was doing, as I'm a 85 prot pally, but once he got to about 70%, he must have hit some sort of timer, he nailed me with a punch for 100k.

I tried reloading, I tried abandoning and starting over, even the few times I ended up dying and flying back and rezzing, nothing brought the guys on the ground into action

Comment by 450975

I can confirm a few of these bugs. I just mutilated him once for 13mil (combined MH and OH hits). Each Shaw/Garona applies a debuff that increases (physical?) damage taken by 20%. When 50 shaws spawn... well you get the picture.

Comment by 478371

Given the previous quest's text, I wonder if Mathias Shaw has been hanging out with our favorite trap-loving Admiral...

Where was Akbar this time?

Edit: Captcha was " enhates"...What the hell?

Comment by 647719

why can't I find the this quest anywhere? did quests for Matthias Shaw until he gave no more, led the assault up the mountain, now nothing. did I miss a quest or two somewhere?

Comment by Pher9999

Basically, You run around him. clicking on the altars activating them all, avoiding the shadow death and well him. This will start to rez and bring the others back to life to help kill him, after a bit, wildhammer horn will drop in one of the glowing circles, find it and click and more comes to help kill him.

Comment by 725333

Quest is bugged from this time onwards till fix. when i get to it, he backhands me, i get up, go there. everyone is dead Kurdran has a green arrow over him, not clickable. just can see his Health at a full bar. no altars to click. tried kiting, nothing just kept getting bashed and splatted. and yes i kept restarting. there is also gryphons apparently "hitting him" with something, but it isn't doing any dmg.

At a complete loss here. so the only conclusion is bugged quest.

Comment by lissianna81

This quest was bugged for me the first night I tried it. All the NPCs were lying on the ground and there were no altars to click, no horn, etc.

I went back the next day and noticed that all the NPCs were up and fighting. I tried it again and this time it worked. Start DPSing until you see the altars appear (over the rocks with candles). You'll get a message to start clicking on them, just avoid the one marked altar of shadows.

Periodically a NPC will go down and you will have to right click on them to revive him.

Near the end of the fight you will see a message that a horn has dropped & all your NPC helpers are on the ground again. Click on it to summon reinforcements.

Comment by 28900

Bugged for me too - I get punted, then fly back up there and see Skullcrusher standing still at 9.5% health left and my 2 NPCs are also standing still. I attack and it says evade. No clickable altars or anything. Abandoned and tried again - same thing.

Comment by cinadinstix

Same for me as well bugged get slapped come back and he is almost dead and npc's are standing still

Comment by darkthunder

Got this quest tonight on my Death Knight. Up until this quest, my game was running smoothly, no disconnects or lag whatsoever. As soon as I approach Skullcrusher (after the backhand bit), the game starts to lag out completely, to the point of getting disconnected. When I try logging back onto my Death Knight, the loading takes forever and eventually leads to getting disconnected again.

Waited for a while, logged in again, and as soon as I actually can see the area, it disconnects me again. Elsewhere in Twilight Highlands, the game runs smoothly. I've even been able to get my Death Knight out of the Skullcrusher-area, without being disconnected. But while i'm there, the game is experiencing alot of graphical lag (despite having been reduced to lowest settings), and if I stay too long I get disconnected. Thus, my current problem prevents me from completing the quest.

Comment by 739207

Right, here's a trick that worked for me. Just like most ppl here, it bugged for me too. It all went well for me till the point where your team dies and you have the click the horns in order to revive them and get reinforcements. (he still has 450k hp at that point)

The problem lies in the last horn. It's under Skullcrusher hoof (feet?) so you can't click it to get reinforcements.

You can do 2 things: either sit back and wait till the gryphion riders finish the job (they are the only ones that don't die or get incapacitated) which takes a long time (I suggest you go eat or fap or something else) OR abandon the Quest. I did this and immediately started the quest again. When I flew back to the platform (after you get knocked off) I noticed that the boss was still on 450k hp but that all the "heroes" (the wildhammer guy, Mathias Shaw, and the healing dude) where all alive and fighting (even tho their unconscious bodies where still lying on the floor). I abandoned again and restarted it, and when I came back there where 2 copies of every hero that where fighting (so 2 Mathias Shaw's, 2 wildhammer guy's and 2 healing dudes). I abandoned again and there where 3 this time. So I did abandoned/restarted a total of 6 or 7 times and in the end there was a whole clone army fighting for me which made it piece of cake to kill him.

I hope it helps. It worked for me anyway.

Comment by Ikaika

Bugged here, on Echo Isles. Same as the rest of you, fly back up, 3 NPCs are just standing there, and he evades. Nothing to click on anywhere. I've abandoned 5 times now to no avail.

Sucks cuz the gloves are a nice upgrade, and the achievement would be nice. I assume it also opens up further quest chains? So no gloves, no achievement, and no quest progression past this until it's fixed.

LAME!

Comment by redandgray

This is totally glitched so that Skullcrusher is stuck at 988K health with a blue aura, the helpers are just standing there (saying "hunh!" over and over while Skullcrusher moans).

Like the final quest in Vashj'ir, it seems Blizzard got a little too fancy without the in-game testing needed to back it up.

Comment by 567557

It's a trap!

Comment by BrokenDreams

I seem to have a really weird problem with the quest. I get knocked off, ride my drake over to him. Than the NPCs are sitting their with a blue aura around Skullcrusher. I dropped the quest multiple times. All the NPCs do is say 'Hunh!' repeatedly and I can't attack him or do anything. -.-

Comment by 744420

I don't get it. I go to where the quest is supposed to start but I can't pick it up. Nothing but enemies. And I need the chest piece reward.

Comment by valakivi

NPCs dont attack, no backup arrives, am i supposed to DPS 11kkk with that buff?

Comment by 727607

I have had him down to around 14% 5 times already and see no horn or anything, I keep getting "Low Health" and no npc heal and then die while npcs are still fighting...................so frustrating

15:28 edit............completed!

Comment by Vonara

After getting a GM to reset the boss, I was able to complete the encounter:

When you arrive, you will see Mathias, Kurdran, and Cassius fighting Skullcrusher at the Altar you were flung off of. When you land, you will need to simply damage Skullcrusher until several of the elemental altars around the platform activate.
Altar of Flame grants: Invocation of Flame.
Altar of Earth grants: Invocation of Earth.
Altar of Air grants: Invocation of Air.
Altar of Frost grants: Invocation of Frost.
A random altar will also become surrounded by shadow, so avoid it and instead activate the others.

Be sure to right click any fallen allies to revive them, and if you are targeted by Fist of Cho'gall say good night, or rush to get Invocation of Earth from the Altars of Earth near you.

Around 1,000,000 health, Kurdran will fall, leaving the Wildhammer Horn on the ground. Use it to summon reinforcements and defeat Skullcrusher.

Comment by coolyellow

Well, with all these comments on how it's glitched, mine went fine, albeit a tad long because I wasn't in a group.

I got backhanded away, just like others. A warning said to rush back and kill him. I got there, Kurdran Wildhammer was tanking him, with Matias Shaw and two others fighting (one would heal me for 35k every now and then). I commenced dpsing him as a hunter. Once he got to like 90% health, more messages appeared. They said to activate the altars to receive buffs, while avoiding the dark circle of death which tics for 10k damage.

These are the buffs
Air - Melee, ranged, spell casting speed increased 50%
Fire - Increases damage dealt by 50%
Frost - +50% crit
Earth - Damage taken reduced 50%

Sometimes, I do not know what causes this, I would get a running speed buff.

Every now and then, a warning would say to revive my teammate. It was always Kurdran, and I just right clicked him, and a second later he was tanking again.

The boss would sometimes do an Earthquake move where he would pound the ground, which would cause knockback on my cobra shot and about 3k damage every second.

When he got to like 10%, he grew bigger, with a force field around him. All my attacks only hit for 10-20 damage. Some guy talking said to use his horn, so I did (it was marked with a gree arrow on the ground where Kurdran was usually). Boss shrunk back down, and lost his force field. Reinforcements apparently arrived, but I didn't notice. He lost that last 10% pretty fast.

Went back to Victors Point to turn in.

Comment by 747525

I too had a glitchy encounter with Skullcrusher, he was at 997K, in a blue vortex and evading all attacks. Tried to abandon and retake te quest, but to no avail. When I decided to wait it out, suddenly the quest kicked in, he started at 100% and I could start slaying him :-D.
Then it hit me: I was queued in the dungeon finder upon taking the quest. After I was kicked from the queue, the quest fired up.
Hope this helps.

Comment by 747713

Still bugging... Evade all over... Abandoned, relogged, and now I'll see if that works :) But first a cup of freshmade coffee!

Comment by Lillycat

Tried this quest today, and it was bugged. Flew up after he backhanded me - he was evading at 1.1mil hp, and the npcs weren't doing anything. Flew out so I couldn't see any of them, flew back, and he was gone, the npcs were still standing there. I flew back out again roughly as far as he backhanded me (so I couldn't see any of them), and flew back. He was at full health in combat with the npcs, and the rest of the fight went fine.

So if he's evading, or not there, try flying out and back in again.

Comment by Oneknight1984

Tried to do this quest 20 min ago, but he evaded everything and there was nothing to click on anywhere near him. Guess im forced to abandon this quest untill they fix it.... :(

Comment by luxurybob

I had heard that this was bugged before I picked the quest up, and true to form, it was. Evade, evade, evade.

I just went elsewhere, without abandoning the quest.

A few days later, having read this thread, I went back and he was attackable. It all went smoothly until the horn dropped and he bubbled - the horn was under his foot. I could see the sparkles, but couldn't click it. I could target it via /tar but could not /use it.

A rogue showed up at this point, and managed to blow the horn. We downed him, and she flew off. I managed to click on her as she flew away, so I could ask her how she did it.

THE TIP: zoom in to first person perspective, and you can blow the horn, even if it is under his foot.

In addition, the rogue also got the credit and the achieve, and we did not group up for the fight, so don’t be afraid to jump in and help.

Comment by fizbyn

I wish i could get as far as some of you are saying. The 3 leaders just sit there having a grunting contest waiting for the baddie to give them a golden shower, while it is enveloped in the blue circle of goddness that makes me is useful as companion pet. Tried the whole well 2nd times a charm thing no luck. Good going blizz! No really! Especially since this is not some side quest that give you a few gold and a pat on the shoulder this one gives you a 333 blue and with one actually useful for a hunter and the quest line achievement for this zone >.<

Comment by 717711

Exact same problem. Have abandoned and started quest 3 times and no go. Also, backed well out of sight and returned many times and still glitched. Stuck at 915K and repeated "huh, huh, huh"

Comment by 91400

Still bugged, same problems as everyone else. Tried resetting the quest 4 times, same results.

This was first reported in these forums over 3 weeks ago. And, still no fix. Very disappointing performance by Blizzard.

Comment by Trample3

Same problems overhere, tried too abandon the quest, get out of side, left grp, regroup, but still nothing, so made a ticket. lets see what they have too say except huh huh huh ;)

Comment by 594471

He is still bugged, but is attackable now just finished it a few mins ago took awhile since your attacks won't do much damage least not till the last 1m or so of his health then he goes down like a rock afterwards.

Comment by superbob323

guys the problem is you have to wait their will be a spinny circle that is downloading the game data

Comment by 749234

Bugged for me too was. When i flew back the heroes were fighting him and i couldnt do anything about the shield and had like 66 dps

Comment by alisravynhawk

Not Attack-able on Eitrigg, Have a ticket in this is frustrating.
And Rather than resetting the NPC (I ended up having to Log out) they sent me an in game mail stating they are aware of the problem and did absolutely nothing else.

Comment by 465220

Here's the Horde equivalent

Skullcrusher the Mountain

Comment by mrbonesSTL

It's bugged for me, I get him all the way down, he goes to the blue vortex & then vanishes after I blow the horn. Then a min later he reappears @ full health & the cycle of taking him down starts again. Done this 2 times.

Comment by lordgreg

Still bugged. Tried solo, in group, relogged, abandoned and what not. Always the same fade-out at the end when horn is used.

Comment by 295513

The Bugging is a bit different for me. Seems like everything goes well til he is about 950k hp, goes into a bubble, I blow the horn, reinforcements arrive, then he disappears. Then a minute later he respawns, and the whole event starts over. very frustrating as I'm merely after the achievement. Hope Blizzard works something out soon. My vote- take out the altars, throw a damage increase debuff on him, and remove the whole stupid horn thing anyway, this quest has WAY too much going on to run smoothly. Afterall, it is a quest, and a solo quest at that, not a raid boss or other dungeon encounter. Creativity+1 Efficiency-1

Comment by TonyFox

The encounter seemed to work up until he does the blue aura thing, then when I click on the horn on the ground, the Wildhammer guys come, I get a Heroism buff, then everyone in the area phases out and resets. I've given up on this quest after four attempts.

Comment by 533487

Quest still not working, once i blow the horn and reinforcements arrive the boss disappears. Ready to give up on this one. Maybe one day it will get fixed properly

Comment by 756975

After checking with ingame help FaQ i found that this quest is not working properly. You can look up Skullcrusher the Mountain and get all the info you need from ingame help. good luck and have fun. 1-6-11 0600

Comment by 711752

bugged.. after i use the horn, no one comes and skullcrusher disappears and respawns with full health

Comment by 756105

I just tried Skullcrusher and he is bugged got him all the way down to blowing in the horn and the reinforcements coming then Skullcrusher disappears and then resets without giving credit for completing the quest. Opened a ticket haven't heard back.

Comment by Ocyla

Tried this repeatedly and had to put in a ticket. I get to the horn part, blow it, the riders show up, do a battle shout and everything vanishes and resets. Or I can't find the horn and have to abandon and restart. Tried it with a pet, without a pet, attacking a lot, attacking not at all, doesn't seem to matter. Had to put in a ticket.

Comment by blackblade

Hi all

I tried yesterday and today for 7/8 times failing as u describes, boss disappear slowly, the light hammer appears over my character and in some seconds, NPC respawn and again...

So, I asked to my guild and 2 people closed the quest abandoning and taking it again and playing the quest SOLO, with no help, no group, alone with NPC and big boss

I also tried 2 times solo but I didnt close the quest, so... it's really bugged?

BTW, I never put tickets... can someone tell me how?

Thanks

Comment by RappScallion

Managed to complete this quest with no issues with my paladin but it totally bugs out the second time around with my shaman. After blowing the horn, Skullcrusher suddenly despawns and nothing more happens until he reappears back at full health and we have to start again. We tried several times and every time we blow the horn he always despawns.

Comment by nagahide13

Quest is garbage. Fight goes completely fine for me until the horn drops. Horn is clickable, but the second I do SC disappears, then pops back up full HP about 5 seconds later. I've tried doing it about 15 times and it's no good. Tried it solo and in groups. Tried dropping the quest and getting it again. Nothing works.

I should mention that I had no problem a couple of weeks ago on my Druid. My rogue just can't seem to catch a break... and NO, I'm not dropping combat. Vanishing automatically restarts the event.

Comment by 746267

I have that the quest proceeds to the point that the boss only has 10% left, after which you get a message that you have to call reinforcements by using the drums. When clicking on them, I see a few orcs on some dragons appearing, after which the boss and the dragons disappear. The three allies just stand there and nothing ticks off and nothing happens. After 30 seconds or so, the boss respawns, at full health, and you can try it again but it'll just do the same thing. I've tried abandoning and relogging, won't work. Didn't get any reply on a ticket I posted either.

Too bad the only reply to a ticket I got was 'We're aware of this situation'.

Comment by devilbirdgrl

he keeps dspawning right after i blow the horn, thus no kill. up to that point it seems pretty straight foward and gives prompts as to when an npcs needs revived or the altars become active

Comment by 743490

Ok, it must be glitching.
I have fought it down to 10% when the horn drops and back up arrives, I click the horn and he grows bigger...freezes.....and disappears, only to respawn in a minute at full health. I did this 7 times same result.

Comment by Gemminie

Currently on Ner'zhul he's starting OK, but as soon as you blow the horn and the Wildhammer reinforcements appear, you get a Heroism buff from the NPCs and Skullcrusher immediately despawns without completing the quest. He respawns about 30 seconds later and the event resets. I've done this about 8 times tonight, in groups and solo. We tried some crazy things too -- tried doing one without clicking any altars; same result. Tried not clicking the horn after it dropped; the reinforcements didn't appear, but he still despawned shortly after. Abandoned and retook it; same result.

This is on my shadow priest alt. On my warlock main, a couple weeks ago when I first did this quest, he had the Blessing of Cho'gall buff on him the entire time, the one he normally gets at 10%, giving him incredible damage reduction. It took me and the NPCs, and occasional others who came to help, over an hour to get him down.

Really, Blizzard? Last regular zone quest in the game, and you just can't make it work right? After how long?

Comment by Preliatus

This quest bugged out for me, well the alliance version.

I had one of those rare bugs that fell into the player's favor, rather than causing nerd rage.

The bug I had involved 30 Mathias Shaws, and 40 Holy paladin healer helpers.. lets just say that Skullcrusher the Mountain went down quicker than a troll with ED.

Comment by Redhawk

"If reinforcements are not called after 60 seconds, Skullcrusher the Mountain will now despawn. When reinforcements are called, Skullcrusher ~~no longer improperly~~ despawns."

What the hotfixes should say.
US- Rexxar Alliance, its still not working. You use the horn, you get heroism, he despawns.

Comment by 752823

Bugged on Kilrogg|Alliance. Got him all the way to the reinforcements, and then he despawned. Tried one more time in a group, but got the same result.

Can't be bothered submitting a ticket. Moving on.

Comment by 731052

This is bugged, and I'm guessing at what is going on is that it is phased, and as more people arrive (enter the same phase) it sort of mucks it up because some are done, some are just starting, etc. I'm going to try to come back sometime when no one is there and see if I can just do it myself. I clicked the alters, i rezzed the guys, i clicked the horn, in the end the calvary and skullcrusher just froze then disappeared entirely leaving my quest unfinished. It restarts on its own, but more and more people keep showing up trying to "help" (or just get the quest finished for themselves as well), but none of us are able to complete the quest.

Comment by 758606

Still bugged...went about 3 rounds with skullcrusher, did everything it said, activated the poles, revived downed npc's that assist with killing him, and then when i get to the part where your to blow the horn for reinforcements and he is down to a sliver of health, he disappears...im left standing there with the NPC's that aid in the quest and it restarts after a few seconds...so frustrating. I quit until i hear it isnt bugged anymore! ARGH!

Comment by HaiLeX90

This quest is bugged as &*!@. The encounter goes fine until the point where you have to use the horn to summon reinforcements, and then everything just despawns. Moments later, the 3 are back, and Skullcrusher also respawns to start the encounter over again. I've restarted it 3 times and it's done the same thing. Stupid.

Comment by steeve

I can't get this to complete to save my life...

Dismissed pet, stayed below 100% threat, feigned death (resets it), left dungeon queue, abandoned and restarted, waited for prompts, didn't attack at all, etc, etc.

Nothing seems to work, as soon as I call for reinforcements, the encounter resets.

Comment by ullrapollo

Same here, blown on the horn, get the heroism buff and skullcrusher despawns. Tried 5 or 6 times today, in group and solo, tried abondoning the quest and starting from scratch. The same thing happens all the time. Very annoying this is the second quest to bug on me, the other being Penetrating Their Defenses

Comment by 405756

We tried this quest tonight. I did it myself, blew the horn, fight ended.

Another guy needed the quest, we tried again, blew the horn fight ended.

Again by myself, ended.

The same guy came back and this time we didn't blow the horn but kept fighting him. He despawned.

Each time the quest restarts on its own in a very short time. (<1min)

A very long fight for nothing.

Comment by Michieldev

i did it a few times. and today i tried again. Now as warlock when he was down and i needed to blow the horn i just melee dps'd him and stunned him right before he normally reset. this worked for me and i got the quest. so maybe this is helpfull for u guys :)

Comment by arleyramos

I am pissed off. I put a lot of time yesterday to get this final quest done, and then crushed.

Comment by brusko

I have bugged several times. I logged out and bugged again.

But when I completed this what I did. I blew the horn when I was warned to. I don't know if what bugged me when I blew it just as it dropped as I was doing earlier.

Comment by rbuffetta

Possibly fixed now. Worked first time and never bugged out once.

Comment by 760308

Tried it 18 different ways yesterday, all fail-bugged.
After a blizz rolling restart, I got it first try this morning.

Comment by devilbirdgrl

for those that wwere incountering a bug it has been fixed

Comment by 631714

Still glitched on Shandris, blowing the Wildhammer horn despawns Skullcrusher and the battle ends.

Comment by 750560

Just completed it on Alleria after about 18 failed attempts yesterday, only thing we did differently Do Not Blow The Horn. The reinforcements still show up, the damage reduction buff he gets will go away, and you'll get Heroism/Bloodlust from the reinforcements to finish him off.

Comment by 540984

Does anyone know where to pick up more quests after this turn in. I have completed 91/120 quests in this area so I know there is more out there. Just cant seem to find them.

Comment by 761567

WHAT WORKED FOR ME - The quest bugged out on me many times. Until I tred something different:

Go through the fight sequence (Click on alters to get a buff, avoiding the shadow alter. If a friendly player goes down, click on the friendly player. ) At 10% he gets a shield buff and all your companions become incapacitated. This is when your supposed to click on the horn that's on the ground (but don't click on it right away).

Instead, keep fighting! He does not fight back, so you'll be OK. Wait for his buff to wear off. Once its off, then click on the horn.

Comment by 758606

I treid this again this week after reading the patch notes, no longer bugged for me. Make sure you blow the horn within 60secs tho, cuz if u dont it will dismiss and start over. But I myself blew it as soon as it came up, got my achieve! WOOT! I was uber pissed when it was bugged! But now its not bugged!

Comment by 567793

This quest line is rich in Star Wars paraphrases, the origonal quotes are the following:

“The emperor's made a critical error and the time for our attack has come…But most important of all, we've learned that the emperor himself is personally overseeing the final stages of the construction of this Death Star. Many Bothans died to bring us this information.”

“It's a trap.”

“Our cruisers can't repel firepower of that magnitude.”

Comment by 744875

Was pretty easy... Didn't run into a single bug. Maybe it got fixed? =)

1) After being backhanded and momentarily stunned, fly back up and join the fight.

2) Kurdran will tank for you, so you shouldn't have to worry about your hp. Dps till a tip appears on your screen to activate the altars EXCEPT the shadow altar (the shadow altar has a large black circle before it, that has ticking damage if you stand in it). NOTE that the altars change position every few seconds.

Right-click an altar to activate (your cursor will change into the cogwheel). Activated pillars shoot beams, so they're pretty easy to spot. I believe there are 4 pillars to activate, one for each element...

3) Resume dps till Kurdran drops (a tip will appear, as well as the other characters shouting at you to get him back up... poor Kurdran!). Simply right-click on him (cursor will change into cogwheel), he'll be healed for full hp and be back tanking for you.

4) Resume dps, poking Kurdran awake as necessary.

5) A tip will appear when the mob's hp is low; your elite NPCs will be lying on the ground. Look for the Wildhammer horn lying next to Kurdran, and right-click it. Your NPCs will be back up, along with reinforcements. Resume dps.

In short, just pay attention and follow the instructions given. =)

Comment by ShadowDragoonFTW

As of January 18, a hotfix has been implemented to prevent Skullcrusher from improperly despawning when Reinforcements are called via the Horn. Will try this fight later today, and reply back as to whether the hotfix worked for me.

Comment by Sorean

I had this quest bug out on me a few times and couldn't figure out why. Once I dismissed my
ferocity pet to get a cunning one once he was low, despawn. Feigned death when I got high on agro, desapwn.

The one where it worked I pretty much ran around clicking alters the whole time. Didn't change my pet, kept my sting up, everything went through normally (took a while though).

Hope this helps other people.

Comment by cinadinstix

I just did quest so I think it is fixed

Comment by momratze

Ok, I've just done this achievement, so it does work. The trick is to stand right next to Kurdran Wildhammer so when he is knocked out that you can revive him and blow the horn for reinforcement when it's time. Also, you need to activate the altars around the boss when mentioned in chat log. Pay attention to chat log and you'll be fine. It was easy enough, you will get healed all the time.

Comment by Micros

Finished the quest today, bug free.

Comment by xSylvane

Did this yesterday and it was fixed.

Keep in mind that even with the NPCs fighting, anything you do to clear aggro/leave combat will result in everything de-spawning and you having to drop the quest and start over.

So no rogue vanish>ambush/other favorite stealth ability.

Comment by Talyda

I think that was the most anti-climatic ending to a fight ever =P

Everything just stopped, and after whacking at the guy for so long, felt like they coulda at least cheered or something when we finally killed him - I nearly did!

Comment by WowluVur

Did this quest a few days and thank god it wasn't bugged. I was doing it on Norgannon server.

Comment by 761754

Just keep on attack him after blowing the horn, and the quest will be OK.

If looks bugged, but it is not. I done it on 3 different chars.

Comment by 313909

*IF* you have a ranged attack you can stand at the eastern side where there is a pathway/bridge area that leads into the battle area. If you stand outside the battle area and attack from there you will take no damage.
When you are asked to use the altars for support just use one of the two by the path entry area- never using the shadow altar. Even when the shadow altar procs near you it will not be able to harm you. Once the request comes to aid fallen comrades just run in and activate the controls on the downed body and then run back out. This was effective for me although the battle does take quite a while. When he's down to about 10% you are told to use a horn (it drops by the Gronn) and must be activated-this was a bit buggy but finally worked. You will take no damage at that point because the Gronn is incapacitated. Once the horn is blown reinforcements show up to finish him quickly. I did this with both hunter and mage -do not cast misdirect on pet as they *can* pull aggro and will be pulped.

Comment by rah55

I got through it but didn't see any messages about the buffs so it took 4 tries and a long time to bring him down. I didn't have to blow the horn just pick it up and it blew. He gets very tough at about 10% health so burst him if you can.

Comment by Furydeath

Not sure why this was never said yet but:

It's a trap!

Comment by 299678

Did this tonight solo, 85 hunter, no problems. Use the altars, revive Kurdran when he goes down by right-clicking him, run to the horn in the center when it spawns and blow it to revive, people.

No bugs, lots of tension (when he hits you, he hits you HARD, and stay out of the shadow altar aura), but a fun quest and FINALLY finished with Twilight Highlands.

Comment by Ajfree

Just despawned for me.. I did this like 6 months ago on my main, but not working now.

Comment by Hanol

You can do this quest solo with any class. All you have to do is to hit the boss initially to start the ball rolling, then let the NPCs do all the job. All you have to do is to activate altars once in a while, revive NPCs and stay out of trouble. May be occasionally hit him. It takes forever though. But it works.

If you get killed, just to fly back on the platform and wait a minute. The boss will reappear. No need to cancel.

Comment by 293207

Rather annoying, but when the three NPCs get knocked out, if you can't seem to find the Horn, go in to first person mode and walk in to one of his feet. Recently did this and spent about 30 seconds running around like an idiot looking for the horn, only to discover that when he KOs the three and enlarges, his foot can hide Kurdan's entire body AND the horn, leaving you completely clueless as to where he is.

Comment by Yogilaw

Just to confirm, for those who are melee class, don't panic. You don't have to get involved in the DPS stuff (maybe right at the end for the hell of it). Simply follow the on screen instructions & activate the alters as often as possible (stay out of the dark patches on the ground) & heal your colleagues with a right click when instructed.

At the end when the 3 allies are dropped a green arrow will appear above 1 of the bodies instructing you to pick up a horn & summon re-enforcements. Simply right click & it will auto blow (handy that feature). By this time Skullcrusher will be down to very little health & you can all finish him off.

Pretty long winded fight, but not too tough on you if you stay away from the trouble zone & just whizz round the perimeter activating those alters.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Skullcrusher the Mountain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJfSqEgJN7k

Comment by Ignisse

As of 7.3.5 he has 6.3 million health for level 89, which makes him unkillable.

Comment by SaltLB

You need to have a working tanking spec to do this now. You MUST taunt him away from downed allies and the drums/horn, otherwise he will stand on top of them and you cannot target them. If you cannot use the horn/drums, he will despawn.

Comment by futureclint

Very tough and annoying, but doable. Took me about five tries. Do a little damage until it tells you to click the altars. Then avoid the shadow one. Then revive the allies. Don't do any damage once you start clicking altars. Clicking on the allies and the horn at the end is super annoying. Just be patient and try again. You'll get it eventually.

Comment by kittyleaf

post-squish, this is hectic but doable. 44 assassination rogue, prioritize the altars, spam click allies and hope that skullcrusher isn't in the way (that was my biggest issue) he went down faster than expected after two tries. good luck!

Comment by Borbarsa

Not sure if it's a bug or feature, but if you jump just as massive shockwave's cast ends, you won't be affected, which can be very useful to keep moving and reviving allies.

Comment by Thews

Wow crashed when starting the quest several times. Dismounting, and dismissing my hunter pets fixed the issue for me.

Comment by Clebinha

I came back to the game and I am playing classic cata at the moment.

It's safe to say, that was the worst quest I've ever completed. Totally nonsense, a lot of effects (really a lot, carefull you have tendencies to have seizures) that were not necessary at all.

I CREATED A COUNT IN WOWHEAD especifically to complain about this nonsense of a quest.

thanks!

Comment by Mowse89

How on earth do you complete this as a high level when the Soft Foam Sword doesn't work?

Comment by goadiroth

If you're like me and the server DC'd you as soon as you accepted the quest, you'll need to abandon and re-accept. "Survive Skullcrusher's backhand" is part of the cinematic that plays once you accept the quest, and when you log in after DC'ing, the fight will instantly start, skipping the cinematic, preventing you from completing the quest.

Also, after the cinematic ends and you return to the fight, the mob might take around 20 seconds to spawn (it did for me).

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Skullcrusher the Mountain

Survive and then slay Skullcrusher the Mountain.

	Survive Skullcrusher's backhand (1)
	Skullcrusher the Mountain slain (1)

Description

It was a trap! Cho'gall lured you in with the Hammer of Twilight so that his gronn could finish you off.

Survive and slay Skullcrusher the Mountain!

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Treads of Terror			Coulton's Crushers
	Shaw's Finest Leggings			Overly Intelligent Robes

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Wildhammer Clan
250 reputation with Stormwind

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27787))