Quick Facts

Series

1.	Clan Mullan Firebeard Bellows
2.	The Fighting Spirit Death Worthy of a Dragonmaw
3.	The Loyalty of Clan Mullan Somethin' for the Boys
4.	Personal Request
5.	Dropping the Hammer

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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Comments

Comment by 55543

I was unable to complete this as a hunter in current build 4.0.3.13117. I defeat them numerous times but no credit. Could be one of those issues common with pet classes where your pet can't help or make the kill. I put my pet on passive the final 10% to make sure I got the kill but no luck.

Comment by splunge

As a hunter i was able to complete this by dismissing my pet and using traps, concussive shot and wing clip to keep at range. Don't move too far away from the duel flag tho, or it will be canceled.

Comment by Inciter

another way for hunters to complete this q is to dismiss your pet before you win over the gryphon rider

not sure how this affects other pet classes

Comment by Rouen

Confirmed: The workaround for the bug that prevents hunters from completing this quest is to dismiss your pet before starting.

If you dismiss your pet you will receive credit.

Comment by Aoir

This is still an issue with the live version, currently. I had to dismiss my pet eventually to get it to complete properly; I felt like I was in the Benny Hill show running from the damn mob.

Comment by USMCDiablo

Had this same problem as a warlock. Dismissing fixes though.

Comment by Adysia

I can't complete this as a frost mage, with or without my pet. Not sure why, but I thought I'd let you mages know.

Comment by Diwtay

Yes defiantly dismiss the pet. It works once you do this.

Comment by 726149

This is easy for a hunter. Use your pet to fight, when they're nearly defeated, dismiss your pet and fight the rest by hand. If you keep your pet out you will not be able to complete the quest. Possibly the same for all other pet users.

Comment by rapidan

hard for a hunter who has never melee'd... but i kept my pet out and on passive, and followed comments above, meaning, traps, concussive, wingclip, and of course, the jumpshot FTW!

Comment by 295018

Same issue of not being able to complete the quest as a priest when using shadowfiend. Completion was possible without using the little critter.

Comment by brokensorrow

confirmed this is not just hunter. this happened to me on my lock. so before i started the duel i put pet on passive and didnt let him fight. quest complete.

so i dont know about hunters but for lock at least you dont need to dismiss just passive and dont let it fight.

Comment by Simsarah

As a lock, do not fear these guys unless you are glyphed, as they will run far enough to be out of range and despawn.

Comment by bluesteel17

I am a hunter and this quest was bugged for me. To get credit I had to dismiss my pet and kite the mob.

Comment by Batches

you can summon your pet in the middle of the fight and use it. i did and completed the quest

Comment by LoqueNahak

I'm sure no one said that before but... as a hunter you should dismiss your pet.

Comment by 563471

Yup, it works THIS way!

USE your pet - UNTIL you have the Gryphon Rider down to about 25% health - then, promptly DISMISS your pet and KEEP wailing on the dude!

Once he is DOWN to about 10% health the 'duel' is over - and YOU WIN!

Just REMEMBER: DISMISS your PET once the Rider is down to 25%...

Comment by 221404

Easily done and completed by a level 84 Holy Paladin. I'm guessing melee classes shouldn't have any problems with this quest.

Comment by Scubagal

Wish I'd ready these posts first before dueling every dwarf there, abandoning and picking up the quest a dozen times, logging out of the game, and rebooting my machine. Dismissed my pet and died twice trying to do this w/o my faithful wolf. I then sortta cheated and asked one of my healer friends to keep me alive while I fought. Since we were grouped, not only did I complete the quest, but my friend got credit for it too, though she never hit the NPC. AND, once this quest is completed it opens more quests in the zone.

Comment by Jordanaxdkx

Dismiss my pet with mob at about 20% remaining and finished him off myself.....got it completed.

Comment by supergirl3000

It took me 3 tries for some reason. And I'm a fire mage, so there were no pet issues.

Comment by 743677

putting yer pet on passive and kiting worked too..not sure about letting yer pet stay on guy first and then putting him on passive..but I know putting him on passive to begin with worked and I got the quest completed

Comment by 252061

Did this on my hunter and we both died at the same time. I got credit for quest but..WTF? I thought it was a DUEL. I actually died and took armor damage. That has to be a bug.

Comment by 35151

If you're wondering where the Mullan Gryphon Rider actually is... he's right behind the quest giver. I searched up, down and sideways with humanoid tracking for a hostile gryphon rider, but he's actually neutral. There's nothing discernible about him, but you're able to talk to him.

Comment by 737837

I fight him about 10 or 15 hits then call ur pet out to finish

Comment by 748811

If you're a hunter, don't bother faffin about kitin' the ryder,
set ya pet to passive
challenge the ryder
set pet to attack and take aggro
ranged dps down to about 20/30%
dismiss pet
melee dps to defeat
Pick up credit - job done!
Have fun.

Comment by 751730

as a hunter start with your pet and drop your traps start the duel take a few steps back let the pet beat him down when he is at 33% dismiss your pet and you can finish him and get credit

Comment by devilbirdgrl

thank to all who told of the dismiss pet when the rider is at 25% health it was the only way i was able to beat him as a unexpereinced at kiting hunter

Comment by Cobra101b

Confirmed: You can use your pet as a hunter. I just did this and dismissed pet at about 50% damage. I still got credit for the win.

Comment by clarky1976

dismissing my pet when he was nearly dead and then kill shotting him when the pet was gone worked for me :)

Comment by rtkiefer

Confirmed that if you dismiss your pet before the fight ends, you'll get credit!

Comment by Turicus

It seems that if an entity other than the player damages the dueling mob, you don't get credit, so Fire Mages, switch off your Molten Armor. Worked for me.

Comment by 760644

I just did this quest on my Hunter... I won't QQ about why I hated it, but when I dismissed my pet, the dwarf I was fighting pulled an EVADE and full-healed as a result. Just another thing that can happen in this quest.

Comment by 760673

I sent in a petition to a gm to understand why we need to dismiss our pets as hunters or not use them at all.

Apparently its a bug in the quest and they are trying on solving it as soon as possible. So for anyone who hasn't been able to do it with no pets or didn't get any credits, just hang in there. Hopefully it will be solved quickly.

Comment by 728207

Keeping your pet on passive works as well, too. I didn't have to dismiss him to get credit, he just couldn't participate in the fight. I didn't try the get-him-down-to-25%-before-dismissal route, but I imagine it probably works similarly; have your pet out and attacking until that point then just set it to passive.

Comment by 767683

got him down to 50% and then dismissed my pet... it worked for me.

Comment by 148868

I had a problem completing this as a protection warrior, too.
Looks like the quest bugs if the rider is stunned, disarmed or fleeing when he hits that 10% mark.

Comment by 266900

Any hunter with this quest has Aspect of the Fox.

Just dismiss your pet and kite the guy. Between Concussive Shot, Wing Clip, Disengage, and Ice Trap kiting this guy is a joke. It's never been easier for a hunter to kite, hell I'm Marksman so my Chimera Shot dazes, too.

Comment by Afflictzia

I had the same issues as every other hunter has, i tried dismissing pet and didnt use snaketraps, tried kiting him, but as soon as he runs more than 20yards he declares himself the winner lazy doorf that he is, also, dont be in a party with members being around you, for some reason it bugs for that also

Comment by 779660

Just so you know, rogues will not get credit if you use poison.

Comment by 377016

I had a hard time doing this as a feral druid. Pop barkskin halfway through, backup when you have full DOTs on him, and switch to bear at 25% health and do frenzied regen. That should allow you to survive long enough to get him to 10%

Comment by Gizeeh

this whole info is horrible, im not hunter so it does not help at all

Comment by thegrayfox117

When you start the duel, the Mullan Gryphon Rider says

"Now THEM's fightin words!"

Considering the several other Yosemite Sam references in the area, I'd add this one to the list.

Comment by FuryWar

As a Hunter, I was able to dismiss my pet, challenge the Mullan Gyphon Rider, start fighting him, hen summon my pet, let pet aggro him, then gun him down. Easy peasy. :-D

Comment by 818594

I chose the Gryphon rider at the small stand of trees a few steps behind Duglas Mullan, left my tiger out , started the fight , shot the rider while my tiger smacked it and next thing I see is the Gryphon rider stating I won.

Comment by iard

this whole info is horrible, im not hunter so it does not help at all

as a rogue quest was bugged for me two times.then i dropped quest and take it again.while fighting i wanted to be sure ,and i dropped my companion too.try the quest again with no companion .

Comment by Catoria

Feral druid. I can't attack them.

I had to hit her with moonfire, then flip to cat.

Comment by serenityrick

As a fire mage, I wasn't able to complete it either. Read some comments and noticed the one about stunning. So I didn't use my procced fireblast and was able to complete it.

I still had molten armor on so I think the issue is with stuns.

Comment by bobbigmac

Took me 3 tries to get this on my rogue, eventually resorted to not stunning the mob during the fight and got the win at last.

Comment by namyegob

OMG! ev1 talking like this is a hunter only quest? how about some coords? no brag, just fact... THIS priest can't seem to find the target!

Comment by 1070025

The Killing Tree - Them's Fighting Words :D

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Fighting Spirit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbSsv_hQy68

Comment by kerrywano

As a warlock, I had to dismiss my pet and make sure I landed at least one physical attack on the rider.

Links

The Fighting Spirit

Challenge and defeat one of the Mullan Gryphon Riders.

	Mullan Gryphon Rider defeated (1)

Description

Keegan wants the Mullans to take wing with'm eh? If there's a dwarf I'd fly for, he'd be it. Still, I don't get why he'd be sendin' an outsider to be recruitin' me - not right polite by my standards.

I'm guessin' ya don't last 20 seconds with any of my boys, at the bar or in the battlefield. Prove me wrong. Take one of'm down in a fight and then I'll think about flyin' with ol' Keegan.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Wildhammer Clan

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27810))