Quick Facts

Storyline
Klaxxi Daily Quests Kunchong Treats Culling the Swarm Eradicating the Zan'thik Dark Skies Dreadspinner Extermination Mistblade Destruction A Little Brain Work The Scale-Lord The Fight Against Fear Bad Genes Infection Sonic Disruption Free From Her Clutches Sampling the Empire's Finest Wing Clip The Matriarch's Maw Seeds of Fear Rampage Against the Machine The Warlord's Ashes An Ancient Empire Sap Tapping Putting An Eye Out Nope Nope Nope Debugging the Terrace Brain Food Shortcut to Ruin Ordnance Disposal Vess-Guard Duty Shackles of Manipulation Meltdown Specimen Request Fear Takes Root Quiet Now Kypa'rak's Core

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Comments

Comment by FatCheeseMan

I had a bit of trouble finding him because I made assumptions that were not true. He looks like the other mantids surrounding him, do make the folly I did and assume otherwise.

Comment by sorceressdee

This guy is hard to distinguish since they all look the same, so I just used /tar Vess. He is walking patrolling with another regular unnamed guard. He has 1.2 M health and hits pretty hard so try to clear around before pulling him. Map location is correct.

Comment by Lorri

Use the macro

/target Vess-Guard Na'kal
/run SetRaidTarget("target", 4)

to target and mark him

Comment by 928514

Might be a reference to Foo Fighter's song, Long road to ruin.

EDIT: Couldn't post links.

Comment by 243011

The most important things to know is that:

He is standing on ground level, not underground
He does not show up as a skull on the minimap
But he is a quest mob, so kills are shared even when you are not grouped

Comment by 974125

I found the best way to do this guy is to use the macro Lorri has provided, then clear the area except for the unnamed guard he's with. Then, get some range and use the Klaxxi "Master of Puppets" enchantment you get from Kaz'tik the Manipulator to enslave the guard he's with, then the guard will start on him and you can join the fight. Works like a charm.

PS> Much thanks to Lorri for that very useful macro!

Links

Shortcut to Ruin

Kill Vess-Guard Na'kal outside the Heart of Fear.

	Vess-Guard Na'kal slain (1)

Description

There is a champion among the loyalists, Vess-Guard Na'kal, whose strength comes not from experience or development, but from genetic modification. He was meant to be an example of the future of mantid - the sick idea that we can be born strong, without earning it.

He's a mockery of my work! Gene augmentation was meant for mature, post-swarm veterans ONLY!

End him. Perhaps it will serve as a lesson to Grand Empress Shek'zeer that taking shortcuts leads to ruin.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Cache of Infinite Treasure		Lesser Charm of Good Fortune

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

130 reputation with The Klaxxi

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(31503))

Guides

Mists of Pandaria - Faction Dailies Wowhead's Guide to the Klaxxi