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From Wowwiki:

The air above the middle tier of the Elemental Plane looks much like Azeroth's sky at first glance. A yellow sun, immobile and persistent, hovers in the air, surrounded by drifting clouds and other, more violent storms. Birds and much stranger creatures flit about.
Above the sun, invisible from the ground, lies the fortress of the air elementals. Thick stone walls, fashioned of rock stolen from the earth below, hang suspended by permanent cyclones in the shape of pillars. Lightning and strong winds constantly swirl about the Skywall, making natural flight in the vicinity all but impossible.
Inside the fortress, Al’Akir the Windlord holds court, ruling over his elemental kin. He enjoys watching over the rest of the plane, traveling in the guise of a thundercloud.

We'll probably be going up against Al'Akir and his lieutenants in this dungeon.

评论来自 554624

I'd love to see Al'Akir dropping his cloud to be used as a mount. Players floating aorund on a cloud,would be awesome!

评论来自 157501

Looks a bit like Sanctum, the Elyos capital in Aion.

评论来自 627933

So.. High Priestess Azil is in this and The Stonecore?

评论来自 LoKHor

It looks absolutely breathtaking. Skywall is a very beautiful area!

评论来自 405835

MOONKIN AIR RAID

评论来自 620067

i think that skywall should be the new sanctuary, like shat and dal. wouldnt mind having this as a teleport spot for mages, and a new hang out place for alliance and horde.

评论来自 567653

This instance seems more Greek, something of a mythological Mt. Olympus theme.

评论来自 imb4lund

al akir is not in this instance. hes in the trhone of four winds(the raid in ULdum/skywall)

评论来自 fakeh

Normal Tactics as of 12857:

Grand Vizier Ertan
He summons cyclones which move around him in a circle. They spark anyone near them for lots of damage. So you run to the centre. At some point he'll emote draw the cyclones in. I imagine you're meant to get out of the middle at this point on live, but at the moment it's better to stay in the middle - for some reason it's less damage. Healing here is *difficult*.

Altarius
Summons the forces of WIND! That is, he summons a gale from some direction which changes sides every time he emotes. If you're on the side of him where the gale is coming from ("upwind") you get a +damage debuff, if you're the other side ("downwind") you get a -damage debuff. There's a small trade off though - he does a conal aoe on the side that is currently upwind. It's easily healed.

Asaad
Nothing to it. Medium tank damage. Occasional chain lightning that isn't anything major even if everyone gets hit by it. However, he'll turn away and spend ages creating a pyramid (like you've seen before!). If you don't stand in the pyramid you'll take massive damage which is highly unhealable on more than one target - and pretty serious on just one.

Nice mechanics all round though right now they feel under tuned.

Enjoy :)
Dan.

评论来自 Vlad

The tactics for Vortex Pinnacle from my perspective:

Boss 1: Grand Vizier Ertan

Stay at the boss to avoid lightning from his thunderstorm clouds.
When he pulls the vortexes into himself, spread out around in a circle -evenly, at least as well as you can. Not too far as healer has to reach all. Once they go back out, run inside once more and repeat.

Boss 2: Altairus

Stay relatively close to the boss but in a circle if possible.
He breathes at a random target and hits people in cone, not too hard to heal.
There is a constant wind on the platform, you should position yourself so that the wind hits your back. This gives you while if you fail at it you get .

Boss 3: Asaad

Spread with a 10 yard range between each player.
He randomly casts Chain Lightning on a random target, it will jump but not fatal as long you spread.
Usually right after a Chain Lightning he will do Static, a spell that can be avoided if you jump in half cast, otherwise you get rooted to the ground.
When he constructs a force-field you will see orbs on the ground starting to appear and forming a pyramid. Boss will only channel and not deal any damage, use this time to run at the pyramid structure and stay in the middle of it.
NB: If you fail you will most likely die.

Trash itself have various mechanics but nothing too hard to figure out. I'll let you enjoy that part at least, it's fun and a beautiful instance! :)

Edit: Uploaded a video on Youtube showing the bosses, as this is beta and normal mode I am sure the fights will be slightly different in some aspects.

评论来自 664823

The.Most.EPIC.Instance.In.WoW. O.O thats all i can say.

评论来自 Nashiira

This instance is high in the air in the southeast part of the zone, over the ocean.

评论来自 360224

When you jump off the edge of the zone, perhaps hoping you'll be ported to some location over the ocean in Uldum, or just feeling suicidal, you'll be picked up by a blue-and-white whirlwind effect, then thrown (seriously, thrown) back onto the centre of the closest platform.

Sometimes the throw doesn't work! And you'll get stuck in a loop. Have fun with that.

I've submitted a screenshot of the effect.

评论来自 338087

Somehow, everyone missed the fact that Vortex Pinnacle is a sub-zone of Blade's Edge Mountain.

评论来自 425699

Please don't make this beautiful zone Occ V2...

评论来自 Kazi12

Reminds me of LoZ's Twilight Princess city in the sky. That's a good thing tho, loves that and love this =D

评论来自 690342

From Miyari's screenshot with the two dragons, it looks like the Infinite Dragonflight is back. Can anyone confirm this?

评论来自 328998

With a high level of archaeology, a player can activate a zone wide buff just before the first boss using a Tol'vir Hieroglyphic to grant +1% HP and Mana every 3 seconds for the duration of that lockout.

评论来自 Nameplate

What iLvl does it require to enter this instance?

评论来自 713550

I'm surprised fanboys haven't chimed in on mentioning the similarities to Cloud City this instance looks like lots of fun.

评论来自 eltrov

Short Video Guides (Heroic):

Trash / Overview

Grand Vizier Ertan

Altairus

Asaad

评论来自 110805

For those of us that don't already know where the entrance is.
76,83
way up in the sky.

评论来自 Ilovemuffins

The Tempest Lurkers are Boos, from Mario Bros.

they will only attack you if you do not face them

评论来自 696340

Just did this one as my very first cata instance, but now I am the only one left in the group and need to hand in the quests from this instance.

How do I get back to the entrance?

There are no wind to move me there...

评论来自 723514

Got to see an epic flying mount drop in normal mode today :/ not sure where that came from would of thought it would be only in heroic but no it dropped in normal i didnt win it though lol :(

评论来自 RedFatDragon

5 mins ago we, one of the Russian realms, got epic dragon from Altarius...
Is it Bug? or Its like Blue proto from Utgard?

评论来自 mercellr

How do you get out of the instance?

评论来自 Apolo11

Map Location:

https://www.wowhead.com/cata/uploads/blog/2010-11/10/vortex-pinnacle.jpg

评论来自 Euphy

I get Epic mount from normal at 1st day cataclysm.
Chance around 1%.
Mount drop from 2nd Boss (look like dragon)

http://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot121010102924.jpg
at russian his name
a guess at english or i dont know...

Юфемея - EU - Ясеневый лес

评论来自 Seeathis

Any other Paladins having their Aura's removed on the early fights? Working as intended or something broken?

评论来自 crunchybran

My first impression on finding it....OMG its the Palace of the Childlike Empress from the Neverending Story. 2nd impression, if thats the case, I WANT A RACING SNAIL MOUNT!

评论来自 27187

It appears that if you collect the Golden Orbs it may reduce the magic damage from the sparks.
Anyone else notice or try this in heroic?

评论来自 436173

The trash packs in Vortex Pinnacle are perhaps even harder than the bosses. The ones that deserve special care in handling are:

Skyfall Star

You're going to wipe on these guys your first time, probably the first few times.
They have a wide aggro radius and quickly launch a devastating ranged barrage on your group.
Everyone has to rush them at the exact same time!
They can't be tanked.
Pick a kill order and mark them.
Pre-shield everyone if you can.
Rush in as a group, blow your defensive cooldowns, and focus them down quickly.
If you have good ranged classes in the group, everyone should stack in the middle where the healer can spam AoE heals or Power Word: Barrier.
If you have more melee, then move as a pack to each target and focus it down quickly before moving on to the next.

Temple Adept

Found in the packs of Tol'vir, these are the healers, usually two per pack. You can deal with the Adepts in a variety of ways depending on their placement and your preference. Their placement in the pack seems to vary, so you may not be able to use the same approach every time.
You should either CC both Adepts while you kill the rest of the pack, or CC one of the Adepts and focus the other one down first, then kill the rest of the pack.
If you fail to CC them, they will spam Greater Heal (heroic Greater Heal) every few seconds, making it almost impossible to take down the rest of the pack.
In a pinch, you can interrupt/silence/stun them to buy some time, but this probably won't be enough to save you if both are up. If you have a mage in the group, you probably want to Spellsteal their Desperate Speed buff.

Lurking Tempest

More trouble than it's worth to kill (due to constant health regen), but watch out when you walk away!
Will use Feign Death when anyone in your group is facing it.
When you turn away, they will pop back up and cast 6K-8K Lightning Bolt (heroic: 14K-19K Lightning Bolt).

Howling Gale

Don't bother trying to kill these. They have an absurd amount of health. Just hit them a few times as you move past to disable their knockback.

Young Storm Dragon

Not especially dangerous, but you'll want to pull it out of the healing circle in order to kill it.

评论来自 Euphy

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Drake in dalaran if you arent belive me.

评论来自 42102

Instance entrance is at 76.8, 84.5

评论来自 616859

wowhead, cant you do a little better in the description than "located in the skies of uldum" ? wtf?

评论来自 Kalaaleq

In vortex pinnacle I've looted some Golden Orbs in the air. (Took me some time)
When my party left after 1 wipe in hc.
I wonder what are these for? Any1 know that?
The golden orbs are to the left on the circling thingys that pushes you back if you don't hit.

评论来自 536000

The big question is...if you go to the dungeon, and don't que up.....
after you defeat the dungeon....how do you get out? (mage ports or hearth's don't count).

You can't run out, because of the air portals.
You can't jump off the edge.

----- EDIT ------
Upon most recent patch blizz made it so jumping off the edge ports you to the entrance rather than just taking you back to where you jumped off.

评论来自 Seeathis

After finishing the instance, how does one get back to the entrance to turn in their quests?

评论来自 711821

don't know if that works in general, but doing that once the dungeon is complete makes for the quickest return to the quest giver at the start of the instance.

评论来自 clarkeyboy

Vortex Pinnacle Heroic Boss Guide

Grand Vizier Ertan

All run in together (to avoid the lightning from the cyclones) to the centre of the bosses hitbox.
Form a small circle facing each other to keep the elementals asleep (They wake when not being looked at).
Stay in this position for the entire fight. Heroism/Bloodlust/Time Warp/Ancient Hysteria after first move in phase is completed and the cyclones are back out and moving around.
Avoid the cyclones when they are moving around, away from the boss, for the entire fight, and healer can heal through anything with ease when they move in to where you will be DPSing, Tanking and Healing from.

Altairus

Tank goes in first to turn it facing out the window, everyone then begins DPS from either side of the boss.
Cyclones will spawn everywhere, they move slowly, but when they hit you, you get bounced up in the air and take small amounts of damage. More of a pain for the healer as you get knocked away and sometimes way out of range of the tank.
Uses Chilling Breath which can be avoided by staying to the sides.
You want Upwind of Altairus on your group at all times. Avoid Downwind of Altairus by moving so the wind is blowing through you, into the boss.
Use Heroism/Bloodlust/Time Warp/Ancient Hysteria at any point if needed, but with the Upwind buff, you most likely won't need it.

Asaad, Caliph of Zephyrs

Spread out to avoid Chain Lightning (Has a huge range).
Dispel Magic on Static Cling to un-root people. Usually casts this just before his massive attack.
When he starts casting a small triangle of lightning on the ground, you need to all run inside the triangle, before he uses Supremacy of the Storm. Anyone outside the triangle will get deep fried in seconds by this ability.
Use Heroism/Bloodlust/Time Warp/Ancient Hysteria as soon as everyone is back out of the triangle and spread around, following the first cast of Supremacy of the Storm. No enrage and a very easy "Tank and Spank" boss.

Side note: Be on the look out for large Golden Orbs as you travel through the Heroic Instance. Collecting 5 (Usually involves some well timed or risky jumps off the sides of the platforms, or scary maneuvers on boss fights) in one visit to the instance awards Extra Credit Bonus Stage. A funny nod to the many collectable bonus rounds from games of yesteryear.

评论来自 731892

I'm a paladin, and when i get cycloned in here, it REMOVES, my AURA, soo annoying, i just been in the dungeon less then 5mins, and they removed my aura 4 times so far. Idk what mob cyclones tho. Any one else having this problem? Check your aura next time you get cycloned paladins.

评论来自 650005

Kind of reminds me of the ancient Wingly Capital City "Kadessa" from the game "The Legend of Dragoon". It's a lesser known game, albeit, much beaten in popularity by Final Fantasy.

http://www.freewebs.com/icydreams/kadessa.jpg
Is an image link, sadly I couldn't get an image of it before it was being attacked by the Humans and Dragoons, but you can still see the similarity.

Really good game if you haven't played it, Playstation one. Emulate it though, to hard to get a hard copy now.

评论来自 740677

Is there a certain way I am supposed to jump off the platform? Every time i get sucked into the vortex thing it ports me right back to the beginning of the instance. /:

评论来自 603979

WoWhead says you can catch fish here lol.

评论来自 469943

As I became extremely bored, I thought it'd be a good idea to whip open paint (Yes, PAINT ;D), and produce an actual path of the zone.

When first observing the map, I found that the actual root taken was different than what I expected; some lines being stairs, some being ramps, some being walls.

Hope this extremely professional image helps.

http://i52.tinypic.com/eiuycn.png

评论来自 semperfi

Here is a little trick I tried yesterday.
The human mobs near the end can be mind controlled over the edge which can help a lot since those groups can be tough. I did it on normal but I guess it works on HC also. It is probably a mistake from Blizz so I can imagine it will be changed soon.

Edit 13-2-11: This still works. Tested it on HC today.

评论来自 Gnoktish

I must know the music scripts for this area! I fell in love with this place for it's music and I need the scripts which no website can provide!

评论来自 Nobbel

A video guide on how to solo this instance as a protection paladin:
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auNZJ4i3HXU
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGlx3_kFv70

or a quick guide to farm the mount:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6pASZj3Ing

评论来自 220018

The teleports are called 'Slipstream'. A Stargate reference?

评论来自 adashiel

Not being a level 84-85 dungeon, the normal version of Vortex Pinnacle gives no Cataclysm tabard reputation. Unfortunately, both it and Stonecore – which also doesn't give reputation – are possibilities if you choose to do a non-heroic Random Cataclysm Dungeon in LFD at 85.(##RESPBREAK##)2056##DELIM##adashiel##DELIM##

评论来自 771700

Wonder if there is ANY way to farm the Voliate Air here..even on normal I dont see a way though : /
would need a group

评论来自 296015

Fun fact: If you have a priest in your group, they can mind control the Tol'vir trash after the second boss.

More fun fact: You can run said mind controlled trash mobs off the edge and they die.

评论来自 Jaromor

Traps within the electric triangles don't work.
If the mobs are static and hunter doesn't respond to "freezing" mark it doesn't mean he's sleeping, it means he will trap after the pull.

评论来自 ugmuck

For everyone trying to find the place for the first time.

The Vortex Pinnacle is a set of floating towers that are in the skies above the sea a short distance from the shoreline of Uldum. It is located a touch south and east of the City of the Tol' vir which is on the southern coast of Uldum in the river delta with the lush greenry.

If you are looking at the map in Warcraft, you will find The Lost City of the Tol' vir at the mouth of the main river in the delta. And slightly south east of that (looking at the map in Warcraft it would be a touch lower and to the right) is the Vortex Pinnacle floating in the air off the coast.

It is almost directly south of the Halls of Origination.

The Throne of Winds is to the other floating towers complex. It is to the south of the Ruins of Ammon. It is where a raid is located and not the instance of the Vortex Pinnacle.

The entrance to the instance is on a platform near the top of the center tower.

评论来自 156604

For those with rep tabards on, I received 1,748 (Tharazane) reputation for clearing this on Heroic.

评论来自 587964

Rough guide through the insance
NOTE: Some of the trash stratagies may be out of order sorry if they are.

Pretty much youll start out with some cloud princes and adds that do mediu damage; these do some knockbacks and the adds are casters so nontankable at a location of ur choosing unless u interupt them. Watch out for Lurking Tempests: dont kill them, but when you turn your back they'll fire lightning bolts at you. Also, howling gales, or little orbs that knowck you off the platform if you come too close, need to be dps'd a little to temorarily deactivate their knockback.

First Boss-Grand Vizier Ertan
So pretty much he will summon whirlwinds that circle around him. You gotta be inside the circle of whirlwinds, and try not to touch them, or you'll get a debuff. When he pulls them in, get out of the circle or you'll get lots of damage. On heroic mode he also summons lurking tempests, just adds a bit more dps on the group members

Take the whirlwind to the next platform. Later you will encounter a large amount of mobs lined up a spiraling staircase. Take one side and stay out of their aoe, and dps down the assasins first (if there are any). When you meet stone drakes they will cast a healing well that is on the ground below them; the tank or ranged group members must pull them out of their well and then dps them down (group members can stand in the well to get healed!).

Second boss-Altairus
This is a drake boss that can drop a real nice and rare flying mount. Pretty much try to avoid his beth but if you can't its all good and its pretty easily healed through. Stay on the side that gives you a speed increase buff...if not it will be a speed decrease debuff. Thats pretty much it, but in heroic he also summon a bunch of hurricans that will move around constantly and will toss you up if you make contact...just a bit anoying for the healer and casters.

Tke the whirlwind to the next platform. Next you'll meat a group of mobs with some nonmana npc's and some with mana. The temple adepts that have mana should be CC'd as they provide HUGE heals at little expensive to their mana, and there are usually 2 per group. When you encounter mobs within a type of electric triangle, the tank must pull one and LoS using the orner that is up the stairs. If the group is in the triangle, all spells cast against them will be redirected, and therefore CC's will be useless; CC the mobs as they make their way upth stairs. You will then encounter Skyfall Stars, or a swirl of arcane type orbs: they are nontankable and do a good amount of damage, so just burn em down quickly with your dps.

Third and Last boss-Asaad
This boss is pretty much a tank and spank up to the point where he starts casting a grounding field which looks like an electrical triangle, get under it asap. After the triangle forms, he will port up to it and chanel an aoe that will kill you in like 2 seconds if your not under the triangle. Also, during the fight, he will cast a chain bolt that can do serious damage if the group isnt spread out. He also casts a snare type spell ( i think its called static something lol) that you can avoid by jumping before he casts it, but it is dispellable, so its not neccesary to avoid.

A fun and a bit chalenging instance if you have a good group. Enjoy :D

评论来自 mclaren1141

There is a video that shows how to find the entrance to The Vortex Pinnacle and how to get back in if you die! I hope it helps. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn3wf7F3AJU

评论来自 Jessrond

Even though the drops here and in Stonecore are rare/blue/Superior, they are not as good as Ilvl. 318 quest items you will find in Uldum/Twilight Highlands. In Cata, it seems that the color coding for gear is not about quality as much as it is about whether it came from a quest/instance/raid.

Quest = Green (rarely blue)
Instance = Blue
Epic = Purple

Thus, don't hold on to any drops from here if you find a 318 green that is better... the color doesn't mean anything for gear quality anymore.

评论来自 973043

Rogues can sap the add that is near the edge on 2 group of adds that took shielding under the static spell shield. Allowing the whole group to sneak throught. Save u couple minutes and a lot of pain.

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