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Comment by Beranis

This zone has a statistic called "War Effort" for both sides.

Completing quests will earn "War Effort" progress for either faction. When your faction gets enough "War Effort", it will unlock a feature to use on the Isle, like the Lightning Forge or the Treasure Room.

"War Effort" is similar to the phased progress on Isle of Quel'Danas, you unlock features to use over time. Mains will probably get this first, Alts will see the progress as they are progressing by doing dailies.

Comment by 812686

To get here you`ll have to take a portal from Townlong Steppes(you can`t fly there).Just take it from the faction camps outside the Shado-Pan Garrison

Comment by christehchris

Loving it so far.

Comment by Joe1113

Is there an innkeeper on the Isle?

Comment by Kasperion

I hate to say it but, in my opinion, this has to be one of the most poorly designed zones in WoW. Don't even think to try using the mini-map to get from point A to point B, just go out and familiarize yourself with the isle, it'll save you a lot of headaches.

Also, when moving from hub to hub, be prepared to kill more enemies while making the journey than you do for the quests themselves.

Worse, people are unwilling to do the above and kill those mobs, they simply run past them and drag them away from their spawn points and patrols. So while that mob you decide to fight may look alone, there could be many more mobs that were dragged away by someone running past on their mounts and when they reset back, you're in trouble.

I thought this place was going to be something along the lines of the Firelands daily area, which I thought was a GREAT place for questing. Unfortunately, whatever "pro's" that area had were not implemented here.

Perhaps things will get better as we unlock new stuff but, as it stands, this is an extremely frustrating zone to quest in.

Granted, this is just my opinion, so take it with a grain of salt. I'm sure there are many people out there that like it. Heck, I like the quests themselves, and the vast majority of the actual content. But the zone itself, other than looks, leaves a lot to be desired.

EDIT: As a guildie whose Kirin Tor Beacon was on cooldown just stated in vent: "When the idea of logging out and doing the turn-ins tomorrow is more attractive than running the length of the isle, something is wrong. When the idea of afk'ing for ten minutes to wait for the beacon to come off cooldown is more attractive than running the length of the isle, something is wrong. When the idea of hearthing back to the Shrine, flying to Townlong Steppes, and taking the portal back to the boat is more attractive than running the length of the isle, something is wrong. In short, something is wrong."

Comment by Glandur

You can't swim to the isle. There's empty water there, you won't get zoned in automagically.

Comment by Fartwell

i know how to get to stage 2,3 and 4, the easiest way is to die near the ports then you'll release spirit then walk right through the door, works on every door.

Comment by ED209

As an extra note, the Sealed Tome of the Lost Legion can drop from all mobs-rare and normal-on the Isle. The tome is the start of an epic, Warlock-only questline to receive the long awaited fel-green effect on specific spells!

Comment by dartworth

Here is a helpful addon for The Isle of Thunder

Isle of Thunder Weekly Check

Ths Isle of Thunder has a few "once per week" events for every character. These are not account wide so you can complete these events with every level 90 character, but it's not easy to remember which character has killed a rare.. or whether you should be looking around the isle for a trove. That's where "Isle of Thunder Weekly Check" can be very handy. It opens a window with a list of possible events and whether or not the current character has completed them.

We only know of 6 once a week "events" at the moment:

Comment by Ottius

This is very melee unfriendly zone. Most of the mobs are casters and/or put puddles on the ground which you need to avoid, while they stand on them casting stuff at you.

Comment by danog969

What about flying. Has anyone heard, or know, about being able to fly on the Isle of Thunder?

Comment by Viserate

Thought this zone had promise early on, but have been disappointed. It takes 3 times as long to do the dailies there as anywhere else and if you don't have a group, you can't finish the dailies at all. I'll stick with the main continent and simply acknowledge I have visited the Isle of Thunder and was not impressed.
I too, found myself simply waiting for the beacon cool-down to submit quests. And the rewards aren't worth the time invested. Now I don't mind being tested in content, but I really get tired of 3,4, and 5 mobs jumping in all at once. If you run the quests as a duo, you're set but if soloing, to me at least, it's not worth the effort.

And if what you're out there for are VP, they are much, much more easily obtained simply doing the normal run of dailies, LFR, and dungeons.

Comment by Thalloren

As a Mage with Ice Barrier and Greater Invis, I don't mind the closely-packed, powerful mobs too much. What does start to get to me after a while is that, though there are half a dozen different lines for the first part of the PvE quests, the second part is the same. exact. quests. every single time. Yeah, sure, now I have to disable lightning drills instead of freeing agents, but I still have to kill Metal Lord Mono-han, Itoku, and Fleshcrafter Hoku, then get through the Swollen Vault every time. After getting variation in the first half, the repetition is even more stark. Not a good design, especially not when contrasted with the variation found all through the daily lines of some of the more tedious factions like Golden Lotus.

Comment by 610726

Today when I returned to finish up my Kirin Tor rep once and for all, I gnoticed a Gnome Commoner sitting by the campfire with some of the mages. Gnot sure if one's always been there, but the one I saw was done up like he'd just stepped out of the PX-238 Winter Wondervolt, so he was a lot more gnoticeable.

Comment by Yogilaw

For any 'relatively' new 90's (particularly melee) who have got the quest chain to go to IoT & are now in the situation of spending more time in the graveyard than completing quests, here's a tip: Don't go there before you have wrung all the loot you can from Timeless Isle.

IMO, TI has a far better 'gear drop to difficulty' ratio than IoT. Given all the chests you can loot there & upgrade to 496 gear + the Burden upgrades you can get it means that you are in a position to take on the 'mobcentric' IoT quests with far more confidence. Sure, the idea of each zone is to present a challenge, but frankly IoT is pitched too high for many. Don't get me wrong TI is not exactly a cakewalk, but the rewards are easier to get & the lower level mobs not too hard to solo & pick off individually. You can look at my post for TI & it's initial quests if you want more detail.

Comment by Zesha

to gain access to this region of the map you need to be lvl 90 and start the quest chain starting with Thunder Calls

Comment by Yeahmate

I was able to be summoned to the isle as a level 20 starter edition (twink).

Comment by 1422251

I've choose the PvE quest but nothing happened, is this a normal thing?

Comment by 1592608

If you are looking for battle pets, you will have to complete the scenarios before you are able to get them, but as soon as you are done with scenarios, you will find all of the ones you can capture in the first area you encounter.

The only one I didn't see out and about in the first quest area was the Elder Python, but it was a secondary pet to several of the others. I also saw Shrine Fly, Mongoose, Mongoose Pup, and Amber Moth as secondary pets.

The other two battle pets are available as drops in the zone will take more time, unless you are very lucky with the drop rate.

Comment by Kanariya

You can now start and quest through this zone at Level 85.

Comment by Levitated

To make it easy to find the quest when you are high level I suggest you turn on the tracking for Trivial Quests and just look on the minimap.

Alliance:
To gain access to this region you have to go to Shrine of Seven Stars and pick up Thunder Calls from Lyalia.
Horde:
To gain access to this region you have to go to Shrine of Two Moons and pick up Thunder Calls from Sunwalker Dezco.

Once you have this quest just fly to Shado-Pan Garrison in Townlong Steppes and turn it in. You will get a couple of follow up questions but it doesn't take very long. I spend 5 to 10 minutes doing these quests, taking my sweet time and ignoring all the story. Once you have build the base the portal is permanently unlocked!

Comment by Xaphireftw

If you're finding a way in to the zone, but don't see a portal: Speak to Vereesa Windrunner!

She will guide you.

Comment by ColdIceEyes

Do note that you won't see a portal unless you start the quest "The Storm Gathers". Go to 50.7, 73.4 if you are horde and there should be a quest giver there for you to travel to the Isle. Same for alliance at 49.7, 68.7.

Comment by Roggy

To get to the isle you need to start a quest at your faction city hub located in the Vale of eternal blossoms.
to be able to see the questgiver you probably need to fly over to Zidormi and go back in time.

After that the questgiver should be right infront of your faction city hub giving you the quest Thunder calls

This quest will need you to go to the Shado-pan garrison in the Townlong Steppes.
The NPC where you turn in the quest will fly you over to the thundering isle.

Note*: If you forgot to pick up the Q at the faction hub, the faction NPC at the garrison will give you the quest to fly over regardless.

greeting Roggy

Comment by Ehayen

Funny how I get fatigued flying there by myself but as soon as I'm following a NPC it's all good.

Comment by Mooshrums

Get quest "The Storm Gathers" to get there.
Questgiver: 50.7, 73.4 if you are horde.

Comment by Lazypaladin

For Quest giver and Teleport Gate

/way Townlong Steppes 50.66 73.43(Horde)
/way Townlong Steppes 49.88 69.04(Alliance)

Comment by Xuper

finally I was able to access Isle of thunder
I am alliance So I did grab Quest : Thunder Calls
After completing Isle of thunder , Next time you want to go there , You should go to Shadow-pan Garrison ( Zone : Townlong Steppes ) . Two portal : either horde (50.7 73.2 ) or Alliance (49.7 68.8)
Note : those cords are for after completing Storyline in Isle of thunder

Comment by kaitielea

what do you do if you don't finish the quests and left? I can't use the portal.

Comment by Averdynne

As stated elsewhere, the Portal is at the Shado Pan Garrison, but AFTER you take the "starter" quest from Vareesa Windrunner (Ally) - in case you're playing on an ALT and forgot how to open it up!

Comment by Averdynne

As stated elsewhere, the Portal is at the Shado Pan Garrison, but AFTER you take the "starter" quest from Vareesa Windrunner (Ally) - in case you're playing on an ALT and forgot how to open it up!

Comment by downbraker

Patch 10.1.7 - As horde you can get this quest in front of the Shrine of Two from Sunwalker Dezco at /way 63.0, 28.0. Before you can do that, you have to speak sadly to Zidormi to show you the Vale of Eternal Blossom before the Black Empire assault.

Comment by Thodric

Zidormi is needed to phase out of the BfA version of Vale of Eternal Blossoms and back to the original MoP version, so if you're on an alt that hasn't started BfA she isn't needed.

For Alliance, fly down to the ground area just in front of Shrine of the Seven Stars to see if you can pick up the Thunder Calls quest from Lyalia. I assume Horde works similar at the other Shrine.

Comment by Ovez

You can't fly to the isle. You need to finish the quest "The Storm Gathers". Horde go to /way 50.7, 73.4 and Alliance go to /way 49.7, 68.7.

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Nalak, The Storm Lord – When Lei Shen discovered a rare clutch of thundering cloud serpents, he was awed, and set to subjugating them. The largest hatchling fiercely resisted, and when Lei Shen visited the handling pens, he laughed mightily at the charred mogu that lined the walls. He took the hatchling for his own, and for its obedience, granted it power over the storms and the sky. For thousands of years following the death of the Thunder King, Nalak has guarded the walls of his hidden citadel, awaiting his return.

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