Quick Facts

Series

1.	Mogu Incursions
2.	Surprise Attack!

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Comments

Comment by Sere

I believe you must become exalted with Shado-Pan to open this quest, since I could not see it until after I was.

Comment by npmusicftw

I believe you have to be revered with the Golden Lotus to start these quests.

Comment by Rebby

This is the final quest from the Shado-Pan when your exalted.

Comment by ajt10193

Prerequisites for the quest rep wise as follows
#1 Order of the Cloud Serpents (exalted for the learning of the mount itself,not required to complete but to use the mount you receive.)
#2 Revered with the Golden Lotus (this unlocks multiple quest chains for the august celestials aswell)
#3 Exalted with the Shadow-Pan

So its a decent enough grind i'm not a huge farmer took me 3days for cloud serpents, took me about a week an a-half for the Golden lotus, and Shadow-pan almost as long because of the daylies you grind (i'm also trying for their achievements :D)

this is the quest you must complete to start grinding the shadow pan daylies Understanding The Shado-Pan

Once completed through it should make alt grinds much easier with the new commendations such as Shadow Pan and Cloud Serpent wich can be purchased once you hit Revered with the specific pandaren rep you are grinding.

Comment by Tharama

I just finish this quest now and... wow. Just wow. I wrote up what happens across the quest and will hide it for those not wanting to be spoiled. Enjoy.

As you accept this quest, hundreds of Mogu appear and start besieging Niuzao Temple as well as the bridge across to it. You can easily fly over them but can also help relieve the emotionless NPC fighting them for no benefit ever then feeling better about yourself.

Waiting for you on the south east side of the temple, on the path, are all nine of your daily quest companions and Ban Bearheart. After briefly speaking to him, he and the other nine companions will start advancing up the steps and into the besieged temple and find Shan Bu, safely inside a bubble channeling a dark looking spell into Niuzao who is acting stunned on the spot.

Once he notices you, Shan Bu goes into this (fully voiced, like the rest of the quest) speech:

Shan Bu yells: Ahahaha, the Great Niuzao, strength of the west, divine celestial, protector of the weak...
Shan Bu yells: Your charge, the sha of fear, has escaped.
Shan Bu yells: The mantid besiege you from all sides.
Shan Bu yells: You wield the powers of a god, but you are beaten!
Shan Bu yells: You bear the burden of an entire people upon your shoulders. And how have they repaid you?
Shan Bu yells: You are forgotten. This is what you fear, is it not?
Shan Bu yells: Lay your duties aside and rest.
Nizuao yells: I will NEVER yield!
Shan Bu yells: When you are dying, beast, remember that I gave you a choice.
Shan Bu yells: Shan-ze! Hei Feng! Kill him!

After this, waves of Shan'ze Brutalizer will come down from the north and west stairs to attack you. Meanwhile, Hei Feng a heavenly wind serpent will bombard you from the air with Shadow Detonation. This does a moderate amount of damage and marks the ground with a red circle that you're supposed to step out of.

After several waves of Shan'ze Brutalizer and several emotes (Hei Feng prepares to land! and Hei Feng is landing!) Hei Feng himself with land with the shout:

Hei Feng yells: The storm will consume you!
Hei Feng yells: I shall show you TRUE strength!

After this, you and your band of heroes will fight the now grounded wind serpent in a rather easy fight. He will almost constantly use Serpent Sweep which is an interruptible AoE knock for minor damage and, like most dragon, a deep breath. Hei Feng's deep breath is emoted before hand with "Hei Feng takes a Deep Breath! Move behind him!" and hits in a very small frontal cone in front of him. I would also like to add he has the coolest breath I have ever seen. Ahem. Once he reaches 1% he'll become untargetable and goes:

Hei Feng yells: No. NO!
Hei Feng yells: Master, I have failed you...

And then dies, allowing you to loot him. I got 1xSharp Fangs :D.

Afterwards, Niuzao returns to normality and thanks you:

Niuzao yells: Thank you, <Name>. You have saved us all.
Niuzao yells: Remember, it is at the darkest moment that light shines the brightest.
Niuzao yells: Well done, heroes.

Then he just stands there until you leave. Once you return to the Shado-Pan Garrison, your nine daily companions, Master Snowdrift and Ban Bearheart are standing in a half circle. After turning in the quest they induct you into the Shado-Pan formally:

Ban Bearheart says: Today, we welcome you into the Shado-Pan.
Ban Bearheart says: Your perseverance strengthens us. Your courage leads us. Your honor inspires us.
Ban Bearheart says: From this day forth, you walk as one of our brotherhood.
Yalia Songwhisper says: We knew you could do it!
Ban Bearheart says: Welcome <Name>, as a member of the Shado-Pan!
Lao-Chin the Iron Belly says: Good job. Guess you learned a little something from me.
Taoshi says: Let's go for a drink!
Fei Li says: Drinks!

And that's that. I hope you enjoyed writing this as much as I lost slept writing it and happy hunting to you all! :)

Comment by 296015

One note: When you finish this quest and the RP ends, you remain in the RP phase and are unable to see the quartermaster or other normal NPCs at the Shado-Pan Garrison until you leave (just flying until you see the name of the area change) and return.

Comment by Freezy3

For anyone who was excited to get exalted like I was half way through dailies, and became sad when I couldn't find this quest at all. Make sure to finish the daily quests, the quest giver then was letting me start this chain. Hope this helps.

Comment by Esoth

Feign death seems to cause everything to despawn.

Comment by Atratzu

Tip for the quest:

For those of you who are aggro shy like myself. Do not feign death or vanish or any other method to lose aggro on NPC's. You'll just need to eat the damage because. (At least Feign death) resets the whole event.

Comment by mismj1

Hunter DO NOT feign death. You reset the event and have to go to Ban and start over.

Comment by 242387

For any warlocks having issues with Hei Feng coming down and attacking early. It is because you have archimonde's vengence talented. And when he attacks from the sky It pulls aggro and results in him coming down to bite you face.

Comment by 911677

Just did this one myself. When I flew over, the Ox was standing out in the square, with a drake flying around, and absolutely nothing else. I flew onto a tower to get in range to attack the drake. Killed him and event finished just fine.

Kinda wish I could have seen the real event, but at least things ended fine.

Comment by tale

If you are impatient you can just engage Hei Feng before all of the RP, but the fight is somewhat more difficult without your Shado-Pan allies.

Comment by 713221

Is it just me or does Hei Feng's breath attack have the greatest animation in the entire game!

Comment by Reignac

So uh... cool quest and all, but where was Taran Zhu? You'd think the leader of the Shado-Pan would show up in the big exalted finale.

Comment by 744104

I am having trouble finishing this quest as a demon warlock. I would like to skip it, but have lost access to the three quartermasters. Any way to get them back without doing the quest? I have tried abandoning the quest and flying away. Does not help. Short of that, how can I complete this without getting killed? Tried the solo idea from a tower and got him down to about 90% before I died. I'm using the felguard, would a different demon be better? Thanks.

Comment by piraka810

I just confirmed, you CAN receive/complete this quest even if you are not revered with the Golden Lotus, you also do not need to have done Understanding The Shado-Pan. This is important if you used faction championing, Rep coins that drop off Zandalari Warscout / Zandalari Warbringer , or used Hozen Peace Pipes. You can also access the quartermaster (Rushi the Fox) and purchase all the items he sells.

Comment by sbripple

I completed the quest 3 times and it just resets.no rewards.must be bugged.

Comment by sbripple

i did it 3 times and niuzio says ty but the quest shows only the first half is done.

Comment by Malkinius

I entered a report on this and a Game Master told me that people are having problems with it not completing. I tried resetting the whole quest three times and it never completed. According to the GM, Blizzard Q&A does have a report on it to fix it. No time frame on the fix but it has been reported multiple times so I don't know if it is every time or everyone who can't do it or just some. But it does seem that if you can't do it once you can't do it later.

Comment by 1063702

Please note that killing Hei Feng on your own as suggested by several posters above seems to get around the bug. I was stuck after attempting to complete with group as per the quest text three times before I gave up and tried to kill him on my own. It worked. (took me forever with my prot pally)

Comment by 1102672

For those having trouble completing the Quest, be sure to LOOT Hei Feng!

I tried 3 times to finish the quest but it never completed the second objective.

On a 4th try, I was close enough to loot the beast (before he actually dies) and the quest completed normally.

Not sure if this is the end all/fix all but it worked for me.

Comment by eihort

This quest is annoying as ! This bug is irritating, as the questgiver is phased and abandoning it, means youhave to fly out of the zone to get it back.
Even though this is an end-quest for a whole faction that is bugged for countless people, Blizzard do not seem to care at all...

IF they ever answer my ticket, I'll report back... (EDIT.: Suprise! they didn't)

EDIT: Never heard from Blizz, but I got it done. As some say - tank it on your own, it does get the quest done.
I suspect the bug lies in who gives the killing blow, that's why some people have gotten it done the intended way.

So, to tank the Dragon down by yourself, as a prot tank:
1. If you still have the quest at 0/1, go outside the temple and talk to Ban, to start charging in again.
2. You must at some point engagae in at least 1 ground enemy, or the dragon disappears.
3. Stand on the first rooftop over the entrance from Shado-Pan
4. Throw your weapon at him
5. Either tank him down on the roof top, or take a consoderable amount of fall damage (as I did) and hang on by the skin of your nose until he is down

He wont do ice breath when you are 1-1 with him, but does electric charge on the ground that is easily avoided.
This will take a very long time without the helpers, but it will get the quest finished.
Be sure to use potions wisely, as this is a long fight if you are iLvl 460ish or below.

Comment by Thair

Not only did I destroy Hei Feng, I skinned him as well(##RESPBREAK##)2060##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##

Comment by Magneith

I completed this today. But I encountered a bug. I spoke to Ban Bearheart to start the attack. After defeating the waves of Mogu and having Hei Feng land, then defeating him too, nothing happened! I tried it again, defeated the Mogu waves and then Hei Feng again, and again, nothing happened!

I noticed Hei Feng flying above the area after I had defeated him. So I decided to cut to the chase and just attack him. I stayed mounted on a flying mount just at the top of the stairs. When He came past, I threw my Avenger's Shield at him and pulled him down. I sat at the top of the stairs and slowly worked down all 8.7 million of his hit points until the last few hundred thousand then kited him down to in front of Niuzao and finished him off.

This enabled completion of the quest.

(tl;dr)- If this bugs out for you after defeating Hei Feng, pull and kill Hei Feng seperately without talking to Ban Bearheart.

Comment by etactics

After completing Surprise Attack!, I wasn't able to turn the quest in because the quest wasn't giving me credit for defeating the Mogu Invasion. After trying this in a couple ways, the following was the way that seemed to work the best.

Aggro Hei Feng by using a ranged ability from one of the towers and walk him to the Shado-Pan fighting in front of Niuzao.

If you engage Hei Feng this way, he won't use his Serpent Sweep or Deep Breath.

At this point you just need to DPS him down and stay out of the Shadow Detonation, which is a small electrical circle that is placed underneath you and is on a 1.5 sec cooldown.

Comment by 102945

Okay, so I did this today, which was awesome btw, and it glitched, less awesome. Stupid dragon wouldn't come down or do his emotes. Just finished the waves and sat for 10 minutes waiting for something to happen.
Solution to the bug: Get on the statue of the bull and wait for him to come into range and hit him with any ranged attack, throw, or spell. Pull him into the pack, and stay as close as you can to as many pandas as possible. They heal you when they hit him, but only if you're close by. Watch your health. And good luck.

Comment by littleartemis

Important to note; if you tag Hei Feng too late, the quest will bug and you won't get any credit. You have to tag him early in the fight or it won't register.

I went AFK during the rp, came back after all the mogu were dead and Hei Feng was 3/4 down and it was too late. I had to do it another time to get my credit. (4 attempts, 2 failed because of feign death, eesh.)

Comment by Tarkovsky

Major warning: Feign Death (and I would assume other aggro wipe abilities) breaks this quest to the degree that you have to abandon and start over.

Comment by TegoZanduba

Completing this quest awards the Defender of Gods achievement.

Comment by Anok8

During this quest's phase, the Valor Points vendors won't be spawned, nor the August Celestial daily NPCs.
You exit the phase by completing Surprise Attack!.

Comment by mstreddie

Killed that damn creature three times, no quest complete.
Finally teamed up with a Paladin, killed it and quest was complete.
so, try a small group.

Comment by Unholysergeant

For those of you not yet Honored with The Black Prince, killing the Mogu during this quest will grant you roughly 1000 rep with him. Nice little bonus... because you know... a mount wasn't enough.

Comment by Yogilaw

Treat this a bit like Crumbling Behemoth for the Golden Lotus dallies, with 1 major exception.

Hit, move, hit, move, just the same, but make sure you tag the serpent asap when it comes down into the temple grounds. As others have said in previous posts you won't get the credit if you do this too late (unlike behemoth quest where you can show up when the guy is down to v. low health & still get the credit when he dies).

You also need to be involved with the mogu battles as well. Can't just fly around saving health waiting for the serpent. Do this & the battle disappears & you have to start over again.

Comment by Informant

Ok so here's the scoop. You have to tag him as he comes down 1st so watch the script to know when he's decending. Always stay behind him as much as pssible says in the script. when he takes a deep breath be behind him. Nothing else or anything else below helped me at all just a lot of useless gabbing as always..

Comment by bakadevil

when it saying this: you don't have meet the Requrements for this quest. what is it i need ? i have try to look it up but can't find anything, so anyone here there can help me?

Comment by jahf

If, like me, you're doing these late in the expansion and got to Exalted with Shado-Pan without doing most of their quests (warbringers/warscouts + tiller's rep farming, pun intended) then you might wonder what all you really need to do.

First, I wasn't exalted with Golden Lotus and have done none of those quests. I am Revered but not Exalted. I don't know if you need any Golden Lotus rep at all anymore.

Second, just go to Master Snowdrift and complete "Mogu Incursions".

Last, you get this quest. Complete it as per other comments and you are done.

Getting Exalted is the longer part. Once done it is only 2 quests to get the mount.

Comment by Balthana

You can actually skip all of the waves of Mogu and the RP nonsense if you just stand on top of the temple and pull Hei Feng as he flies around. Kill him, and the quest will be completed.

Comment by Tropulus

When I get to the temple, Ban Bearheart is already inside, he's not outside waiting. Therefor, when I complete the second part of the quest through entering the temple, his chat bubble disappears which makes me ineligible to complete the quest. I've tried to abandon the quest and try again with no success. Would appreciate help.

Comment by 1455460

I went to Ban Bearheart and completed the first set of daily quest he gives than I went back after completing them but he wont give me the surprise attack quest that drops a rare mount im a level 100 DK can someone please help me?

Comment by Zylostout

You must complete Mogu Incursions before you can get this quest.

Comment by JSMaTT

When I tried to do this, nothing happened for about a minute...then I saw a black wind serpent flying in the distance. Figuring the quest was bugged, I mounted up and pulled it. Killing it completed the quest.

Comment by Dreadalous

I just decided I will hand in some Tattered Historical Parchments which I got from my rogue's Lei Shen treasure event scenario from the Rogue Order Hall and stumbled across this at Shadopan Garrison in Townlong Steppes TOTALY by accident. Didn't even know you could get Onyx Cloud Serpent just by a simple single quest HAHAHA. 4 years later better late than never :D

Comment by stormhales

Just did this quest to get the mount as of Legion 7.1, after using TW badges to buy rep tokens an having done no Pandaria questing - To find the quest to do Surprise Attack, you must first do 3 quick quests after reaching Exalted with Shado-Pan reputation; The Challenger's Ring: Chao the Voice, The Challenger's Ring: Lao-Chin the Iron Belly, and Mogu Incursions. Once done, the quest giver will give you the quest Surprise Attack.

Comment by eiym

Lol accidentally skipped nearly all of this quest because i aggro'd the heavenly drake out of the sky and my pet instakilled it. Ah well

Comment by 69eatolecheeto69

If you want to skip all the stuff that goes on and just get the quest completed, just fly to the temple after accepting the quest, and kill hei feng and it'll give full credit. No rp or waiting for him to fly down. I landed on the pillar and death gripped him over

Comment by djphonic

im fully exalted with this faction and can not for some reason obtain this quest, ive tried all the usual fly out of zone and back reloaded ui and logged out and back in but no he simply does not have the quest for me to obtain this mount, such a pain cos i grinded ages for the rep and no quest for the end result

Comment by xLunacyx

Hah I just flew up, attacked a named serpent in the air, and Niuzao is all like "you have saved us all" pretty anti-climatic when you just rush it.

Comment by Bigpapa420

In the year of 2022, you do not need to be exalted with the Order of the Cloud Serpents in order to use the mount reward. I'm currently sitting at exalted with the Shado-Pan, but only honored with the OotCS and I was able to blow through the quests and immediately add the mount to my collection AND use it.

Comment by favebook

If you meet all requirements but do not see this quest offered by Master Snowdrift, just complete the Mogu Incursions quest and Surprise Attack quest will pop up.

Comment by datgrl

I'm currently playing Pandaria Remix. The Shado Pan NPC's that are supposed to help aren't here in the courtyard where the map marker is. If Mogu mobs spawn they kill me instantly. There are just too many for me. I tried going up to the tower but that didn't work for me. Instead, I went to the top of the big arch and pulled him there, jumping down once he landed. I pulled him to the outside of the arch and the NPC's who are supposed to help, showed up. Pulling him to the outside of the arch, instead of fighting inside the courtyard area prevented the extra Mogu mobs from spawning and attacking. I just stayed on the stairs with Hei Feng under the archway.

Comment by berr3tta

So for those doing this quest again in remix:

The first time I flew over I went straight to the courtyard, where it shows on the map, and got immediately smoked by a ton of adds.

It turns out your ally NPCs are waiting by the stairs by the bridge. You have to talk to them first to get them to join the fight. Once you do, they will start running towards the courtyard. Stay with them. If you wait a sec and lag behind, they will disappear, and you will have to go back and talk to them again.

Once you get in there, the fight is pretty easy. Afterwards, you have to fly back over the bridge to the Shado-Pan camp to turn it in. This will reset Niuzao to the top of the stairs so you can complete/start the other quests.

Comment by Peribreeze

REMIX PANDARIA HERE WITH SOME FAQS:

THIS IS THE ONLY CLOUD SERPENT WITH A SPECIALTY LOOK THAT YOU CAN TAME IN REMIX WITHOUT PRE-REQUISITES THAT ARE FROM OTHER EXPANSIONS, MAKING THIS A GREAT "BACK TO THE GAME" PET.

The Shado-Pan Monastary "Azure Serpent" is elite and will always scale with your level.

Unless you have a N'Zoth toy which was done in PVP in another expac, you can't tame the other unique appearance "lesser dragonkin" found in wow-petopia

-If you do a premade group that is "mixed faction" you can have a mixed faction group and take turns taming the Heavenly Onyx Serpent. Use party sync in your quest log.

-Stand on the Archway right where the "party" spawns to help you fight

-You can abandon the quest and repeat it over and over.

-You only need to do about 10 quests realistically to get exalted with the Shado Pan. Also the Cloud Serpent tomb is account-wide, to include timerunners. I had done all of the raids one time, did a few quests in Jade Forest and was honored. Took me about 30 minutes to get exalted. Total play time: 18 hours. 0-70. Stopped questing in my 20s and only did dungeons.

-You can tame multiple times on one quest loop and respawn rate is almost instant.

Be courteous and let people know that you can do this for this :)

Comment by PunktualPenguin

If you are a hunter and accidently completed the quest but didn't tame Hei Feng or forgot to take a second one, you can party sync with someone that is on the quest and tame it.

Links

Surprise Attack!

Meet up with Ban Bearheart outside Niuzao Temple in Townlong Steppes, and put a stop to the Mogu Invasion there.

	Join the Battle at Niuzao Temple (1)
	Defeat the Mogu Invasion (1)

Description

Those damnable Mogu... Those scouts were a distraction! While we were hunting their spies, the main force moved on Niuzao Temple. Corrupted serpents, Mogu everywhere... this is a disaster! Thankfully, Ban was able to make it past their lines with the most elite members of our order. If you can slip past, too, meet up with him. We need to put a stop to this!

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Reins of the Onyx Cloud Serpent		Cache of Infinite Treasure

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

1,000 reputation with Shado-Pan

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(31277))

Guides

The Littlest Mountain: A collector's overview of EVERY Mount and Pet in the game! Wowhead's Guide to the Shado-Pan