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Comment by 364

In order to summon an Abyssal Templar you need to collect a complete Twilight Cultist armor set. Once you do, you should be able to summon the necessary templar at one of the lesser stones found by the Twilight Cultist camps when you wear the items. The Templar doesn't aggro right away when you summon it, so you should be able to switch back to your normal armor before starting the fight.

A complete Twilight Cultist set of armor consists of a cowl, mantle, and robes. All of these items have a chance of dropping off the various Twilight Cultists at the camps, although the mantle (shoulder pieces) seem to have a lower drop rate than the other two pieces.

Because the Twilight Cultists armor do not bind when picked up, you can usually find them on the Auction House in abundance.

Comment by 89288

As of 2.2 the reputation gain has increased to 500.

Comment by 64664

Also, the set dissapears upon using it to summon the bloke.
Interestlingly, the set doesn't appear to be Soulbound when you equip it.

Comment by 29978

As a small bonus in 2.3, all of the templars have lost their elite status and are now only the equivalent of a level 60 mob in Outland. No one should have any problems soloing these anymore.

Comment by omnom

Some or all parts of the set will be destroyed after the summoning has been done.

Comment by 191356

I had trouble getting more sets of Twilight Cultist armor set after I sold some of it. You may be limited in the number of sets of the costume you can get. I have not tried to log out and log back in yet so it may be a temporary limitation.

Comment by SannaSK

The first time I turned this in, it DID count for Kalimdor Loremaster. Will edit if subsequent turn-ins count as well, but I suspect not (that would be too kind of them).

Comment by 325077

Killed many of these and still no mantle.
The robe has dropped many times. Another BS quest that takes way longer than it should! (they obviously all wear a mantle!)

If you want to do this quest, buy the shoulders (maybe the cowl as well) at the auction house before going all the way to Silithus.

Comment by xhugglesx

I think I figured out the drops on the twilight cultist clothing you need for this quest. When you get pieces of the clothing, put it on right away. I farmed for 45 minutes for a cowl without getting one. I decided to put on what I had and I got one on the next mob.

Comment by 511981

It seems like the stonecallers drop most frequently - also seems like the avengers rarely drop these armor pieces.

Comment by 518699

I don't understand. I have the quest and I'm wearing all 3 items but it still won't summon. It keeps saying, "A thunderous voice bellows from the stone... What is this? I sense a little cultist scurrying about! Run along, vermin, or face the wrath of the lords of the council."

Comment by paraffin

I've been grinding for a long time but all I get are twice the mantles and twice the cowls. =(

Comment by Nebina

Counts towards 3000 Quests Completed.

Comment by Marintha

Just for future questers: Every camp of twilight cultists has all THREE stones. Don't wander around the desert looking for the lesser or normal wind stone.

They're kind of set up at triangle points in each camp. Hope that helps anyone!

Comment by Thottbot

The Templar is a random elemental. The Fire one can cast a rather nasty DOT. I did several of them in groups of 3. It's rather comfrotable that way even with adds. Which can spawn right on top of you at every moment.

Cowls seem to be a lot less common than the other set pieces.

Comment by Thottbot

I've reached revered so far, ugh....
Summoning the Lesser Wind Stones requires the full set of Twilight Gear (Mantle, Cowl, Robe) and at least friendly faction with Cenarion Cirlce. The Stones are located at three of the camps, two in each camp. The loc of the 3 camps are: (39,44) (26,33) (18,84).

The mobs at these 3 camps give 1 faction point until half way through friendly if I recall. The Abyssal elementals from the Lesser Wind Stones give 5 faction up until half way through honored.

There are 4 types of elements that can be summoned randomly from any of the 6 Lesser wind stones. Air, Fire, Water, and Earth/Rock. They all do MAGIC based damage, so armor doesn't help here. Fire is Immune to Fire based, Water is Immune to Frost based ect... Though all can do a nature based root spell. Some can do an Earth shock that will cancel a spell, also it does damage (like Shaman spell). They are all soloable mobs with experienced players or easier with some perfessions, though suggested duo so you don't waste your twilight set which you lose on summoning. If everyone that is in combat with the mob dies, or goes out of range, the mob disappears and the Lesser Wind Stone is gone until respawn. As a frost mage, all are easy solo's except the Water based mob, which is Immune to frost, though constant arcane missiles with ice barrier and cold snap does the trick.

The first turn in is only 1 Abyssal Crest which is always given by the Lesser Wind Stone kills. The second Turn in requires 3. Both of these give 50 faction points even with revered faction.

This goes for all the rest of the quests with this particular NPC, all the way through even the Abyssal Scepter. First turn in requires 1, the rest require 3.

Good luck, I hope this explains anything that hasn't been posted.

Comment by Thottbot

1. The Templars:
In Silithus kill Twilight Cultist people in their camps and collect a full set of Twilight Trappings ( https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=52000/satchel-of-helpful-goods ), which consists of Mantle, Cowl and Robe! When you have a full set, go to one of the two Lesser Wind Stones around the Twilight Cultist camps. Put the Twilight set on and rightclick the Lesser Wind Stone.
Now you can spawn a random one of the four Templars (Azure Templar, Crimson Templar, Earthen Templar, Hoary Templar) and kill him. (He is soloable, but maybe you'll need to get one friend to kill him.
When you have killed the Templar, loot him and you will get an Abyssal Crest and maybe some green BoE item and if you're really lucky a blue BoP. Search for the name of each Templar on Thottbot or Allakhazam to find out which one drops which BoP item. Bring the Abyssal Crest to Bor Wildmane in Cenarion Hold and you will get a Bag of Spoils ( Bag of Spoils content: https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=52026/protectors-mark-of-sanctification ) and 90 Silver. This quest is not repeatable.

2. The Dukes:
For the next steps you will need at least a Friendly reputation with the Cenarion Circle.
Get the Aurel Goldleaf quest from Huum Wildmane and go talk to Aurel Goldleaf. For the following quest you will need another 3 Abyssal Crests from Templars and 1 Large Brilliant Shard. Collect those 4 items and give them to Aurel Goldleaf. Now you will receive a Twilight Cultist Medallion of Station. You will need it and another set of Twilight Trappings to spawn one of the Dukes (Duke of Cynders, Duke of Fathoms, Duke of Shards, Duke of Zephyrs) at a Wind Stone (a normal one, not lesser, not greater). For these bosses you will need a good group of 5-7 people. The Dukes drop an Abyssal Signet, which you can give to Bor Wildmane to get 1.85 Gold and a Sack of Spoils ( https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=52153/perfect-veiled-nightstone for content ). The Dukes also drop other nice stuff such as blue BoE pants and other blue items.

--Everything below this line is unconfirmed, since i haven't got that far yet--

3. The Bosses:
For the next steps you will need at least an Honored or Revered reputation with the Cenarion Circle.
Get the quest Goldleaf's Discovery from Huum Wildmane and go talk to Aurel Goldleaf. Then you will need another 3 Abyssal Signets from Dukes and 5 Large Brilliant Shards. Collect those items and give them to Aurel Goldleaf. Now you will receive a Twilight Cultist Ring of Lordship. You will need it plus a Twilight Trappings set plus a Twilight Cultist Medallion of Station to spawn one of the big bosses (Baron Kazum, High Marshal Whirlaxis, Lord Skwol, Prince Skaldrenox) at a Greater Wind Stone. For the big bosses you will need a group of 25-40 people. The bosses drop an Abyssal Scepter and epic stuff. Again, give the Abyssal Scepter to Bor or Humm Wildmane to get a Chest of Spoils (content: https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=52296/ember-shadowspirit-diamond ) and 2.8 Gold.

How to get reputation with Cenarion Hold:
To get reputation farm Twilight Cultist guys and Templars and finish repeatable quests such as https://www.wowhead.com/cata/quest=8318/secret-communication for which you will need Encrypted Twilight Texts which drop from Twilight Cultist mobs.

Comment by Thottbot

Great post with solid info! Thanks!

Comment by Thottbot

These are EXCELLENT posts...very detailed and clear to follow.
Thanks to all contributors, you have made these quests very 'do-able'.
I like that earlier suggestion regarding writing up all other quests in the same manner(lol).

Comment by Thottbot

In order to summon, you have to change to the Twilight Cultist chest, shoulders and head

Problem is, you'llbe in combat real quick when you summon and basically without your gear (which you cannot put back on in combat). So, don't sick your pet on the guy until you have your gear back on.

I had the fire guy at about 30% with my pet neading a heal (lots of mana) when a stupid worm knocked me down and interrupted my heal. Definitely soloable with a 60 hunter and blue gear with only 1 epic (beastmaster gloves).

Oh yeah, and forget about FD, if you do, the thing de-spawns.

The robes sell for about 1g buyout in the AH (well on my server at least). So it's basically 3g an attempt unless you like killing the same mobs over and over and over and over and over and over and over... again.

Comment by Thottbot

The summon quests can be perfectly combined with the tactical quests given there also.

Be sure to get all the 4 summon quests: fire, earthen, azure, hoary templars simply by doing the field marshall quests over and over again. (tactical assignments) U have better changes of getting the right templar u need for summon (change of 100%, 75%, 50% and 25%)

Do the same thing for the combatquests in the hives...be sure to get quests that involve killing all 4 types of mobs in the hive. Saves you a lot of time and gives 4 combat quests at once, simply by redoing the marshall quests over and over again. Cause lemme tell you: killing 30 after eachother for over 20 times: NOT that fun:)

Cheerz

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Comment by Thottbot

when u dress up to spawn a mob u will loose the set, but u will not be automaticly in combat...so u have 5secs tops to dress up...make sure u put all gear one next to another, keep the bag opened and dress up quickly

Comment by Thottbot

Use outfitter or itemrack to quickly change gear. outfitter works with 1 click.

Comment by Thottbot

I got a translated text that mentioned that one of the mobs had to be killed before you could use the stones. Forgot which one (not a keeper), but need to kill him/her/it, then try the pylon.

Comment by Thottbot

Since patch 2.0, this quest has been bugged. This is a recognized bug which multiple GMs have told players is in the process of being fixed. But for now, there is in fact a way around the bug!

To get around the wind stone bug of patch 2.0, you must take the following steps:

1) Join a group.
2) *Possibly* you may need to be leader of the group.
3) Put all three pieces of the Twilight Cultist set on.
4) Log out.
5) Log back in.
6) Touch a lesser wind stone.
7) Kill the templar that appears out of the wind stone.

Comment by Thottbot

just tryed this got shocked like 100 times tried rebooting re loggging leaving area and coming back nothing helps this really sucks cause i need to get friendly with them and this is fastest way.....
Shadow priest Medexx Thunderlord

Comment by Thottbot

did it 3 times last night and did not get shocked. maybe newest patches fixed problem. not to bad of a fight and dropped some loot and crests. Just make sure you clear out any cultist around so you don't get ganged during fight. Not many people farming out here since release of BC.

Comment by Thottbot

If you don't want to install an add-on to help you with this quest, you can write a very simple macro. Like this:

First, I'll create a macro to put the Twilight gear on. This will be the same for everyone. It's not so important, but it will help test the real macro.

Open your character window and bags. Make sure you have all 3 Twilight Cultist items with you. If not, go get them and come back.

Push the return key to open your chat window, and enter:

/macro

This will open the macro window. Also open your character window, and the bag containing the cultist gear.

Select New, and create a macro called ON. Choose an icon and press Okay.

In the "Enter Macro Commands" box, type:

/equip (followed by a space)

Now, hold SHIFT and click on one of the cultist items. This copies the name into your macro, so you can't mis-spell it. You should get, e.g:

/equip Twilight Cultist Cowl

press Return to start a new line, and repeat twice for the other two items, giving you:

/equip Twilight Cultist Cowl
/equip Twilight Cultist Robe
/equip Twilight Cultist Mantle

Now you just have to drag the macro icon onto one of your toolbars and the macro is working. You don't have to save the macro or close the macro window. Just press the new button on your toolbar and you should be instantly outfitted in the latest TC style.

Now you know how to do that, writing the important macro (the one that gets your real armour back on again in a hurry) is easy. Make another macro called OFF, and drag it to another button. Use the same click-to-copy method with your real armour. In my case, that gives:

/equip Nexus-Strider Helmet of the Bandit
/equip Felstone Spaulders of the Falcon
/equip Nexus-Strider Breastplate of the Wolf

...but that won't work for you unless you have exactly the same gear.

Now, spamming the 2 macros should swap you between your TC gear and your Glimmering Thingies of the Sludgerat, and/or whatever.

This trick can also be adapted for parties, but it needs to be THAT sort of party.

Comment by Thottbot

Approached, solo, with caution, after reading posts saying it was difficult, but water elemental went down in about 10 seconds. Perhaps they've made it easier or other types may be harder. 61 hunter.

Comment by Thottbot

Kill enough cultist to become friendly with Cenarion Circle. Each cultist gives 10 points. Do the math, it will take awhile.

Put on Twilight Cultist items (robe, mantle, and cowl). You get them from the cultist. Different ones will give you different things (got 4 robes before I figured that one out).

Right click the Lesser Wind stone then kill the Twilight Geolord.

Shadow priest and soloed this at level 60 with no problems.

Comment by Thottbot

once you start the sequence at the windstone, switch on your normal gear and the council gear wont be destroyed

Comment by Allakhazam

you need the twilight cultist medallion of station to summon the templar without getting 1400dmg.

Twilight Cultist Medallion of Station

Comment by Allakhazam

Yes it's bugged... BUT... if you put on the outfit, log out and log back in with the outfit on, you can do the fight... I just did it a while ago.

Comment by Allakhazam

I have the same problem of not being able to use the lesser wind stones. When I get past this login queue, I will try again without my pet being up..

Comment by Allakhazam

I have just tried the lesser windstone without logging out after putting the gear on, no problems. Gotta admit that I had tried at the main windstone first and was told (basically) to get lost. Btw the templar had a serious knockback and I went flying almost out of aggro range, which tbh was nice cos I couldnt get mobbed by the others whilst fighting. I was neutral with CC at thye time.

Comment by Allakhazam

I have the full set of Twilight Cul!@#$t armor (3 pieces right?) and yet whenever i click on the lesser windstone i get blasted for about 1400 hp. Besides that nothing else happens. What am i doing wrong?

Comment by Allakhazam

Collect the full set of Twilight Cultist armor and you'll be able to summon a Templar via one of the Lesser stones.

Comment by Allakhazam

I am having the same problem. I have made sure I have all three pieces equipped and the first two tries I was nuked and told something about daring to disturb someone but every time I tried tonight since then I got the "infidel" message you get when you don't have the armor equipped. I am wondering if the patch broke something? Someone told me that you might have to have friendly with Cenarian Circle and I am just below that. I had never tried to do this before the patch so don't know if it has anything to do with it.

Comment by Allakhazam

so how does one go about summoning one of the wind stones, or greater wind stones......

Comment by Allakhazam

Just reported to GMs that this thing was bugged - they've apparently got so many bug reports that they've set up a replybot - the thing just says "Yeah, we know it's bugged - we're claiming we're working on it - guess you're not getting faction any time soon chump." Obviously not an exact quote, but that's the sense I got from the automated reply. : /

Comment by Allakhazam

is this quest repeatable

Comment by Allakhazam

I too gotzapped today as did two others in my party who tried. The medallion is used for summonning the bigger bosses surely? To get the medallion you need three Abysall Crests. Where are you supposed to get the crests if you need the medallion to get them in the first place? The crest drop from templars, the medallions are used to summon dukes I think.

Comment by Allakhazam

The logging out and logging back in with the outfit on works but not for everyone. It worked for the lvl 60 Pally but not for lvl 60 Hunter

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This quest is no longer available within the game.

Bor Wildmane at Cenarion Hold in Silithus wants you to destroy an Abyssal Templar and bring him an Abyssal Crest as proof of the deed.

	Abyssal Crest (1)

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We've seen the Twilight's Hammer cultists performing rituals to summon powerful elemental nobles. We don't know if these are the beings the cultists worship or if they act as intermediaries to even more powerful forces. One thing is for sure: they are receiving orders from these elementals.

I want you to find a way to contact an Abyssal Templar and give it a proper beating! Nothing throws the troops in disarray like taking out the chain of command. Bring back proof while you're at it.

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You will receive:

	Bag of Spoils

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Cenarion Circle

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(8361))

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