Quick Facts

Storyline
By Candlelight Into the Deeps Underground and Overwhelmed Getting Off Track Pomp and Dire Circumstance Cogs in the Machine Speaking to the Speakers Kobold Shoulder Leave No Stone Behind Death and Waxes Cracking Cogchewer Engineering Destruction Retaking the Mines Manifesto Destiny Ko-boldening Not Waste, Not Want Tackling Torchsnarl Wax On, Pot Off New Candle, New Hope Back to Gundargaz The Ringing Deeps

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Comments

Comment by Syrick

This was bugged for me as a level 76. I had to group with someone below level 75 and party sync to bring myself down before I was able to enter the dungeon.

Comment by sarahlogic

Use your extra action button to apply your kobold disguise. Move around the room avoiding the patrolling kobolds and make your way to each candle marked on the minimap. When you click on the candle, it will snuff the flame and leave a purple area effect on the ground that gives you a stacking debuff, reducing your max health the longer you stand in it. Just move away and it will drop off again.
The packs in the corner don't seem to move from the four candles, but you can stand on the edge of the sight rings and snuff them without being detected. If you do accidentally trigger the mobs, you just need to kill them and reapply your disguise.
To trigger Waximus, and later Drippear, just walk into their ring of sight or use the extra action button to remove your disguise, then reapply it with the same button once they are killed.
Loot Drippear and use the candle keys to loot the illuminated chests in the room. My candle crown was in the back left of the room.

Comment by melissam

I was in a low-level party and we needed to drop group for this quest to start working.

Comment by Monatoet

I had to use the kobold disguise again before talking to Skitter to teleport out

Comment by Lleyne

If you light the two braziers by the exit passed Waximus, you don't have to fight him.

Comment by Slania

Make sure to loot all of the chests in the room after opening the Candle King's chest; you get gold and grey flavour items you can vendor for more gold, including Candle King Diary which reminds me of a certain former President's tweets xD

Comment by mudplayerx

Quest is bugged like everything else in this expansion. If you loot any chest before the quest chest you don't get the crown and you are stuck.

Comment by Kinshippo

Was anyone else hoping you could keep the "Very Normal Kobold" title at the end of this?

Comment by Ehayen

If you're a hunter you can just stealth and walk right into the rings.

Comment by WTFmybacon

Since nobody else has mentioned it, if you are doing this quest as a Rogue, then you can skip killing Dripear the Waxy by instead using Pick Lock to unlock the chests (use the ability on them) around the throne room to acquire the crown.

I assume this works for a Mechagnome as well via the use of their Skeleton Pinkie racial, but I haven't been able to test that out.

Comment by nechin

The kobold disguise is a candle, of course, and the skin of a kobold which you wear! Gruesome.

Comment by entropicdragon

The additional treasure chests at the end of this quest each contained a gray flavor item. Here are the ones I looted; not sure if there are more:
Cloak of Beards
Chocolate Coins
Backup Candles
CANDLE KING DIARY
Well-Worn Doll
Crusty Chalice
Royal Nailpicker
Necklace of Kobold Teeth

Links

New Candle, New Hope

Recover the Candle Crown from the Darkflame Cleft.

	Speak with Skitter to enter the Darkflame Cleft (1)
	Candle Crown (1)
	The Candle Keys (1)

Description

We weaken Candle King's grasp. Still need symbol, rally my people. King has ancient relic: symbol of hope. Called Candle Crown. Heart of my people. Candle King threw away! Found new prize: Darkflame Candle. That crown? Still in hoard. Candle King should come out now. See what we did here! While he looks, we sneak in! Use old tunnels! Take what's ours! We smart.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Earthen Traveler's Staff

You will receive:

	Kobold Candle Trio

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(78642))

Guides

Decor Farming - TWW