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Comment by Calesta

The Ardenweald's a Stage achievement is earned by completing each of the plays held in the Star Lake Amphitheater of Ardenweald.

If you are a member of the Night Fae covenant and have unlocked the first tier of the Anima Conductor within the Sanctum, then activate the stream to the Dreamsong Fenn and talk to Dapperdew to start one of the following special encounters.

/way 41.50, 44.82 Dapperdew

She starts with a funny introduction that's yelled to all of the theatergoers.

Attention fellow lovers of the arts! Through the generous patronage of Calesta, I am pleased to announce a new performance shall begin shortly in Star Lake Amphitheater!

In this brilliant display of theatre, one of our own players will transform before your very eyes into a mighty foe from another realm, ready to do battle with any brave enough to challenge them!

Remember, it is through the support of our patrons and viewers like you that we have anima enough to pursue the creative arts! And now, without further ado...

The adversary is then revealed and appears on stage.

Comment by varenne

Related to the Star Lake Amphitheater event in Ardenweald located between Dreamsong Fenn and Heart of the Forest.

Players with Night Fae covenant can speak with Dapperdew and activate the fight.
You need to activate Anima Conductor link of the day to the Star Lake Amphitheater area.
Anima Conductor is located in the Hear of the Forest main Night Fae covenant base. MORE INFO HERE
Can just ask a player with Night Fae covenant to summon the rare, you will still get score after kill.
After you speak with the Dapperdew he summons one out of 7 rares
/way 41.46, 44.83 Speak with Dapperdew (Star Lake Amphitheater)

Astra, As Azshara
Dreamweaver, As N'Zoth
Glimmerdust, As Jaina
Glimmerdust, As Kil'jaeden
Mi'kai, As Argus, the Unmaker
Niya, As Xavius
Senthii, As Gul'dan

Each rare is available whole day and you can re summon it.

So after you kill all 7 rares of Star Lake Amphitheater you get the option to buy the Silky Shimmermoth from Master Clerk Salorn veondor
/way 42.75 46.03 Master Clerk Salorn (Reward vendor)
Master Clerk Salorn location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Ek4oH3z8A

Other loot:
Winterwoven Branches
Mistcaller's Aria
Mistcaller's Ballad
Mistcaller's March
Mistcaller's Dirge
Theater Ticket
Book of Tickets
Moose Soul

Ardenweald's a Stage minigude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQonxU4IzRM

Comment by Sipder2

To get Ardenweald's a Stage you need defeat the all 7 rares in the Star Lake Amphitheater.

You just can summon one rare a day.

How to summon a rare in Star Lake Amphitheater:

be a member of the Night Fae Covenant
do the First Chapter in the Night Fae Campaign (For Queen and Grove!) until unlock the Sanctum Reservoir
speak with Zayhad, The Builder in Heart of the Forest to unlock the Anima Conductor rank 1
speak with Sesselie to grab the quest The Roots Thirst
use Anima Conductor and channel anima to Dreamsong Fenn
go to Star Lake Amphitheater and speak with Dapperdew to start the event and summon a random rare

Master Clerk Salorn sells cosmetic items for Star Lake Amphitheater participants. /way 41,5, 44,8 Dapperdew

/way 38.6, 55.3 Zayhad (lower level)
/way 50,4, 63,8 Sesselie (lower level)

/way 41,5, 44,8 Star Lake Amphitheater

Video guide: https://youtu.be/nfWolB7ztdc

Comment by Aedifex

I know that you can only summon one of these rares per day, but do they appear on a set schedule (like, if it's Saturday you'll spawn Kil'jaeden), or do you get a random rare each day?

Comment by Brasso

The title of this achievement is a reference to the phrase "All the world's a stage," from William Shakespeare's "As You Like It."

Also referenced in the song Limelight by Rush ;)

Comment by lucka23

A strange reference to Starlake Ampitheatre outside Pittsburgh PA.

https://www.wpxi.com/news/once-called-star-lake-its-now-st-bank-music-park/ICIP5IZD5NDBHPBWV6YBY7LRTI/

I used to work there, quite surreal to it in game.

Comment by Hibs

So, I've been doing this the past week and today I thought I would get Xavius to spawn and complete the achievement. However, Gul'Dan spawned today who if I am not mistaken I killed at some point this week again. Anyone can confirm?

Comment by Niixten

Seems to be random and not a set rotation...

Comment by Tarispere

I've never been so upset. I just need N'zoth to get my moth. I was looking so forward to getting my moth :(

Comment by ady292

Currently these rares won't reset regardless of how far you take them away from the Amphitheater. I kited Gul'dan to the Heart of the Forest and the guards took care of him without breaking a sweat.
Not really any point of doing this, unless you're having a hard time soloing it or if no one else is around to help you.

Comment by Jigglypuff

Gul'dan two days in a row. It's either not on a set rotation, gets to the end and goes backwards, or starts at a different spot with the weekly reset.

Comment by Vavriel

The rotation does seem to be random *OR* the rotation changes with every weekly reset. I have done it every day since Thursday, 11/26/2020 and my rotation has been the following:

Jaina>Argus>Azshara>Kil'jaeden>Gul'dan>Xavius>Gul'dan>Jaina

6/7 six days in a row and then three days with no N'zoth...thanks Blizz!

I did submit a ticket to get clarification but got the canned response. Good luck, everyone...hang in there.

Edit: Our fears have been confirmed :( As of the seventh day of this rotation, 12/7/2020, I got Jaina...again. Therefore confirming that the spawn rotation is in fact random.

Comment by zhira

Does this event follow the daily reset?

Comment by Vladul

So has no one seen N'Zoth? I started this only about a week and a half ago and I also only need him as of yesterday. I am really hoping they bring him in tomorrow, I have about 7k anima and 92 Grateful Offerings, if it doesn't come I'll have to buy the Armored Tauralus from the vendor instead and wait for 5k again...

Comment by pepsipwns

Complete this achievement today after finally getting nzoth to spawn. It costs 5k anima to buy the mount still, so this is almost pointless as you can get the same mount for 25k from exalted, which most of us probably almost are by now. 5k Anima is a week+++ of constant world quests grinding, 25k is an hour of gold grind. You make your choice ;)

Comment by Kerosus

N'zoth is the rare for today on NA servers 12-16-20

Comment by Durf

If anyone is wondering, you can complete this achievement on one toon and purchase it with 5000 anima on another toon. I earned the achievement on my hunter, and purchased the mount on my warlock.

Comment by Tequima

Here's a useful macro to send a message to General chat identifying your currently targeted mob (not necessarily a rare) with a map pin to your current location:

/run a=UnitName('target');b=C_Map;c='player';d=b.GetBestMapForUnit(c);e=b.GetPlayerMapPosition(d,c);b.SetUserWaypoint(UiMapPoint.CreateFromCoordinates(d,e.x,e.y));SendChatMessage(a..' at '..b.GetUserWaypointHyperlink(),'CHANNEL',_,1);b.ClearUserWaypoint()

Comment by Hasherino

N'zoth up today

Comment by Sciura87

So apparently the Argus boss can cast Death Fog clear out into the stands affecting the exposed boggart world quest. Invisible outside of the stage but will kill you.

Comment by Anukai036

There is a star lake amphiteater in pittsburgh, pa

Comment by Lona

I'm not really fancy with the achievement on first hand, but the trinket which is dropped by Gul'dan. Now I had it in ilvl 171, but I would like to get a 184. Is it possible that I can't get it more than once? or I'm just unlucky with the drops lately?

Comment by dawn22868

I got this achievement in a week. Got all bosses one day after another. Don't know if I was lucky or it's supposed to be that way.

Comment by Oblivious

These fights (as so many in Shadowlands) are absolutely trivial to solo on any class with self-healing or a pet, and virtually impossible to solo on classes that have neither (mage, rogue, etc.), at least until you match or surpass the level of the rewards, because the enemies are immune to most forms of crowd control (stuns, freezes, etc.), most of their abilities are uninterruptible, and there aren't even any buffs to steal.

It feels like either Blizzard didn't bother to test these encounters at all with some classes, or forgot they removed most self-healing from those classes with the 8.0 pre-patch, and what little there was left with the pre-patch for Shadowlands. A Legion mage would have been fine; a Shadowlands mage just gets chased down and destroyed by enemies that can't be stunned, can't be stopped, can't be interrupted, hit so often that they dispatch all mirror images in two seconds, and don't have a single buff that can be spellstolen to even things out. And, of course, forget about using stealth as part of your rotation or strategy, or the enemy instantly resets and heals back to 100%, because I guess coding a delay of a few seconds (ex., to let rogues use their abilities that require stealth) was too much work.

Switch to a hunter or a paladin and /yawn through it.

I guess that would be fine (or still stupid, but at least "fair") if some encounters were the other way around, but this applies to pretty much everything in Shadowlands. It's either trivial for everyone, or trivial for classes with pets and healing and impossible for the ones that have neither.

What's the idea behind redesigning classes so their survivability depends on being able to counter enemy attacks... and then making enemies immune to those counters? Back in vanilla (and to a lesser extent in the first couple of expansions), the lack of survivability was somewhat offset by higher damage output. If a mage or a rogue did 40% more damage than a hunter / paladin / warlock / druid, I could understand making them so vulnerable, but when every class is balanced to do the same DPS, it makes no sense to design encounters to screw the "squishy" classes even more than they are already screwed by their own current design.

TL;DR: Do these with a class that can either self-heal, has a pet, or both. It will be boring, but it will save you time and a repair bill.

Comment by di3di3di3

Looking for Astra for the staff but it seems totally random ouf

Comment by sinvalds

is it no longer possible to obtain this achievement?
when I go to chat with "dapperdew" it no longer brings up the option to start fights Dapperdew

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Ardenweald's a Stage

Participate in the following plays at the Star Lake Amphitheater:

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	Xavius (1)
	Kil'jaeden (1)
	Jaina (1)
	N'Zoth (1)

	Gul'dan (1)
	Argus, The Unmaker (1)
	Azshara (1)

NPCScan

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/npcscan add 166146 Xavius (Niya, As Xavius)
/npcscan add 166140 Gul'dan (Senthii, As Gul'dan)
/npcscan add 166139 Kil'jaeden (Glimmerdust, As Kil'jaeden)
/npcscan add 166138 Argus, The Unmaker (Mi'kai, As Argus, the Unmaker)
/npcscan add 166142 Jaina (Glimmerdust, As Jaina)
/npcscan add 166135 Azshara (Astra, As Azshara)
/npcscan add 166145 N'Zoth (Dreamweaver, As N'Zoth)

TomTom

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/way Ardenweald 41.4 44.6 Xavius (Niya, As Xavius)
/way Ardenweald 41.2 44.4 Gul'dan (Senthii, As Gul'dan)
/way Ardenweald 41.2 44.4 Kil'jaeden (Glimmerdust, As Kil'jaeden)
/way Ardenweald 41.4 44.6 Argus, The Unmaker (Mi'kai, As Argus, the Unmaker)
/way Ardenweald 41.2 44.4 Jaina (Glimmerdust, As Jaina)
/way Ardenweald 41.2 44.4 Azshara (Astra, As Azshara)
/way Ardenweald 41.4 44.6 N'Zoth (Dreamweaver, As N'Zoth)

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