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Series

1.	Damaged Mask
2.	Mystery Mask
3.	Felsworn Gas Mask
4.	Deceive thy Enemy
5.	You're Fired!
6.	Death's Door
7.	Harvesting the Fel Ammunition
8.	Fire At Will!
9.	The Hound-Master

Storyline
Blade's Edge Mountains The Encroaching Wilderness Marauding Wolves Protecting Our Own A Dire Situation The Bloodmaul Ogres Into the Draenethyst Mine Strange Brew The Bladespire Ogres Getting the Bladespire Tanked The Trappings of a Vindicator Gorr'Dim, Your Time Has Come... Planting the Banner The Encroaching Wilderness Dust from the Drakes Protecting Our Own The Bladespire Threat Thunderlord Clan Artifacts Vision Guide The Bloodmaul Ogres The Thunderspike They Stole Me Hookah and Me Brews! Bladespire Kegger Grimnok and Korgaah, I Am For You! A Curse Upon Both of Your Clans! The Stones of Vekh'nir Trial and Error Ruuan Weald Understanding the Mok'Nathal Since Time Forgotten... Slay the Brood Mother The Totems of My Enemy Spirit Calling Gather the Orbs Inform Leoroxx! There Can Be Only One Response Picking Up Some Power Converters Ride the Lightning Trapping the Light Fantastic Show Them Gnome Mercy! Test Flight: The Zephyrium Capacitorium Test Flight: The Singing Ridge Test Flight: Razaan's Landing Test Flight: Ruuan Weald Crystal Clear Gauging the Resonant Frequency Ridgespine Menace More than a Pound of Flesh Cutting Your Teeth What Came First, the Drake or the Egg? A Date with Dorgok Favor of the Gronn Pay the Baron a Visit Into the Churning Gulch Goodnight, Gronn It's a Trap! Gorgrom the Dragon-Eater Baron Sablemane Has Requested Your Presence Massacre at Gruul's Lair Showdown The Spirits Have Voices Whispers on the Wind Reunion On Spirit's Wings Baron Sablemane Into the Churning Gulch Baron Sablemane's Poison The Smallest Creatures A Boaring Time for Grulloc It's a Trap! Gorgrom the Dragon-Eater Prisoner of the Bladespire Showdown Culling the Wild Creating the Pendant Whispers of the Raven God Little Embers From the Ashes Damaged Mask Mystery Mask Felsworn Gas Mask Deceive thy Enemy You're Fired! Death's Door Harvesting the Fel Ammunition Fire At Will! The Hound-Master A Time for Negotiation... ...and a Time for Action Poaching from Poachers Whelps of the Wyrmcult Did You Get The Note? Wyrmskull Watcher Longtail is the Lynchpin Meeting at the Blackwing Coven Maxnar Must Die!

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Comment by Arina

Northern Cannon: 61,60
Southern Cannon: 65,68

Just use your Naturalized ammunition, and kill all the imps. Very low hp.Void terrors will spawn too but they shouldnt be too hard.

Cannon tooltip says 7 shot to kill, so now you know what to do.
Use your Druid signal and your done

Comment by seidule

This quest is only soloable as a healer or ranged class.

The steady stream of Imps explode on you for 500 damage each when you hit them.

Comment by 13419

I had a hard time as a 66 lock soloing but it is possible.

Comment by dmalburg

As a demonologist warlock this quest was difficult. You lose your pet when you take control of the cannon.

Comment by 16172

Very difficult. Takes 7 shots... so many adds.... tough quest bring a friend.

YOU NEED YOUR PET BAR, MAKE SURE IT'S SHOWN!

Northern Cannon: 61, 60
Southern Cannon: 65, 68

Comment by 17633

Actually this is soloable by the melee classes, using my tip!
Simply walk slightly backwards as you hit the imp, and you wont get the damage when he dies, just some very small damage from the imp attacking you.
I activated the cannon, and just used artillery whenever it came up. I kept meleeing the imps (walking back as i hit each one) and after 6 the dog came out. I just tanked him with evasion while i kept hitting imps and one more cannonball did it.

Comment by Ecofish

It's really easy. Too easy to be honest as a warlock.

Activate the cannon and start spamming it's attack. Meanwhile you tab + searing pain every imp. If you've got anough mana this will be smooth.

Sometimes a hound will be released, but they're easy. Just keep them banished.

Comment by 16311

Urgamanix has got it just right. Did it as a rogue following his tip.

Comment by 11947

I pulled my hair out.. about this.. I had no options to fire etc.

finally realized that one of my Mod's had Pet Bar Disabled as I'm a priest .. this was so frustrating..

Hope this may help anyone else having this problem.

Comment by 16802

I did this as a shadow priest. I just tab-targetted the imps and mind-flayed them one after the other... If one got too close, I casted shadow word: death. It was ridiculously easy once I started doing that. I didn't even have to fire at them with the cannon at all.

Comment by 12489

This quest is actually quite simple, don't face the imp's head on! Turn your back to the gate, as the imp's walk by you hit them in the back.. you'll likely 1-shot them and only get around 25dmg versus the 600+ from the explosion. Once again, let them walk by you and hit them in the back, easiest way.

Comment by 18555

Yes, you CAN do this as a melee class too, but it's a bit harder though :P On the first cannon when I didn't know exactly what to do, I had to use a Super Healing Potion, but this shouldn't be too hard.

If you don't want this to be troublesome, bring a friend.

Comment by 6225

Tip for mages : Imps can be two-shotted with ice lance. Sit next to the cannon , keep it going while you spam ice lance at the imp flood.

Comment by aasartor

The explosion from the imps is considered physical damage and thus is mitigated by armor. Warriors, Feral Druids in bear, and Paladins shouldn't have too much trouble absorbing their damage.

Comment by BDLandis

As a hunter, had zero problem doing this. Imps were 1-2 shotted on auto shot, just kept targetting them and blowing them away well before they got to me and kept clicking on the cannon's fire every time it was up. :)

Definitely would be rougher as a solo melee class like warrior or rogue.

Southern camp gave me more trouble due to the way the imps came out, I had less time to shoot them down, but still managed without dying, had to pot once 'case the hound ate me up with a few crits.

Comment by 27921

Soloed this as a rogue. Instead of backing up or sidestepping, I faced the cannon and just stayed put, backstabbing the imps as they walked past (as energy allowed). For whatever reason, even tho I was stationary, I didn't take any bomb dmg. About half got thru, but it was enough to get the port down before the cannon died.

Comment by Core

The cannons are immune to normal heals. Triggered heals like Prayer of Mending work however.

Comment by 26693

as a melee, to step back, worked fawlessly

Comment by abaji

As of patch 2.0.10 Warriors can "Victory Rush" without a cooldown. So just do that all the way down the chain with your eyes on the cooldown of the pet bar cannon attack and you'll be done before you know it.

Comment by 32371

Tip for Shaman: Use Stoneclaw totem right next to the protal, all imps will despawn everytime they attack it. And when it disapears just use earthbind and wait for cooldown.

Comment by 10501

this can be done by druids in feral form. just make sure your pet bar is visible

Comment by 15218

As a holy Paladin this is a really simple task. In mediocre +damage gear you can one shot the imps with a holy shock, exorcism, and judgement of righteousness, and then you can also one shot them with seal of righteousness + a 2 hander. Made this a quick task.

Comment by Eleris

A few druid tips:
You can buff the canon with MotW. You can heal it using rejuvenation and lifebloom. Regrowth doesn't work. I haven't tried healing touch but it likely doesn't work either.
Healing the canon will make the imps aggro you, so it might be useful if you get behind with killing the imps as an easy way to divert them from the canon.

Feral druid tips:
Stay in bear form, in your tanking gear. Try to move backwards as you kill the imps so you avoid the explosion damage.
Use swipe to kill the imps, it's enough to one shoot them. And you should be full rage all the time while doing this.
Auto attack doesn't cut it, it's too slow and if it misses you'll get an imp exploding on the canon.

You'll still have nothing better than the auto attack to kill the imps with while you use frenzied regeneration however, but you can use faerie fire feral to aggro the imps that you miss to alleviate the problem a bit.

If a dog show up, just tank it, dps it down and keep it in front of the canon, and when the canon attack cooldown is up, use the flame thrower attack to insta kill it.
If it fails somehow, just finish off the dog yourself. Use swipe and demo roar while fighting the dog to grab some of the imps as well.

Comment by Khabal

VERY easy as a L70 Mage.

Activate the cannon and use Ice Lance against the imps. I did this on another character before (Warlock), and I got hounds that time. This time, I got no hounds.

The only difference in the two times I did it was that this time, I was able to kill all the Imps before they reached the cannons. It seemed like when I allowed an Imp to explode near the cannons, that's when I got a hound.

Maybe it's a coincidence.

Comment by 1114

What I did to solo this as a hunter was to stand near the gate and as the imps came out I simply auto-shot them or multishot when I could. Usually 1 shot them and they were far away that neither myself or the cannon took any damage. Ranged classes should try this.

Comment by 18906

Is it possible to have a pet out when you do the cannon thing?

Comment by 22384

easiest way to do as a priest:
sw:death one shots them, cast it every time it's up,
throw PoM on the cannon everytime it's up, otherwise ignore the imps

Comment by Jaece

Tanking classes, just tank everything that comes out.

Paladin's, throw down a low level consecrate and do what you do best. :)

Comment by 38467

Clear the area around the cannon!

Then use the ammunition on the cannon, a pet bar will appear in the middle of your screen. There are two shots, one that does damage to the gate, and one that kills they imps. What I did was to only use the shots on the gate, and I killed the imps myself.

When the imps attack (they target your pet cannon as default) they blow up and do about 600 damage. Fortunately they had a little more than 400 hp, so they were easy to one-shot. If they aggro you, they run up to you and explode... not fun.

Just keep spaming the shot as soon as it cools down and kill the steady stream of mobs that comes.

Comment by 30345

Easily solo'd as a 67 warlock.

Strategy:
Of course you cant use pet so I'm demo spec and demonic sacrifice my imp for more fire dmg, i then just tab targeted any imp that came out and 1 shot it with a searing pain. When a dog came out I banished, easy easy.

Comment by 62380

This is probably the easiest quest for a Druid (Feral), before engaging the cannon, just clear the are of any mobs, so you don't aggro by mistake later. Second step is engage cannon, fire the first shot go cat form and just kill all Imps with mangle, mostly likely you will crit and gain health from ILOTP and even better if you have http://www.wowhead.com/?item=28109 on, to finish off just keep firing the cannon, you and cannon will end quest at full health!

Anyways good luck, hope this has helped someone.

Comment by 67876

Strategy for a lvl 70 Holy Pally: Clear mobs around area. Use the cannon ball. Stand about halfway between the cannon and where the imp are coming from. Spam the cannon's shoot button on the pet bar (to the right of your aura buttons) and your consecration. Concencration will pick up most the imps. Flash heal as needed, the imps were exploding on me for about 400 each. They come out at about one per second so I never really tried to melee them, just stayed in one spot and let the concencrate pick them up. A little messy figuring this out on the first cannon. But on the second cannon, I think only one imp got through to the cannon. Took about 7000 mana to finish the fight. If you have less than that, have a mana pot ready :)

Comment by Aredict

Shaman: place a Stoneclaw totem near the mouth of the gate, the imps will make to attack it and then explode, doing no damage. This negates quite a few of them, and you can frost shock one to get in quick heal time if ya need it. Otherwise, backpedaling after hitting an imp will "dodge" the explosion more often than not.

Comment by 67358

I just stood up near the portal as a bear, attacked them one by one and some of them explode. I am not sure if thorns will help kill them instantly when they attack you.

Comment by mynameisob3l

full prot tank even. cake mode

Comment by siggboy

If you are a hunter and want to make it even easier: drop a FROST TRAP in front of the cannon, which will slow the imps down and buys you even more time to kill them.

Comment by Byronn

Solod as 70 BM hunter with no pet (cursed cannon stealing the petbar).

Cleared the mobs between the cannon and the gate. Killed and nearby lurking hounds. Then just shot the imps as they came out, 1 shot, sometimes 2, they have hardly any hp. pewpew easy quest. quick cash too for the late starter

Comment by Axthony

Super easy for Hunters, just auto shot the Imps as they spawn, 2 shots should kill them. 1 shot if you crit.

Comment by 31318

Easy for a warlock too. Just stand on the side of the canon and fire your searing pain = 1 shot 1 kill use the TAB button to mark the next. And fire the canon when its ready. so you can do this 1. time..

Comment by peilthetraveler

just did this as a 67 lock. The trick is to start firing the cannon right away. Then i would target the imp farthest away and shadowbolt him (i have a 2.5 sec cast time) One shot always killed them. Even if you miss half the imps you should still be able to complete it

Comment by chimera

Soloed with 68 dw fury warrior. One item is very good here: essence infused mushroom... Use victory rush and BT to kill the imps.

Comment by 87110

If you one hit the Imps they will not explode. As a rogue i just stood in front of the stream of Imps and spam'd Sinister Strike making sure i was not in Auto-Atack

Comment by Tigraine

Had absolutely no Problem as a Affliction Lock to one-shot them with Searing Pain.
They have less than 400 hp each.

On the Northern Cannon there seems to be a Bug, sometimes Imp's don't get damage. But that's no big deal.

For the Summoned Wrath Hound some people here mentioned for the Southern Gate, that's just a normal patrolling mob, kill it and you only have to deal with imps, nothing else.

The Imps only explode for 500 damage if they come in melee range. If you either one-shot them or keep them at range you have no need for bandages/hp gear

Comment by 70265

For Rogues:

Regardless of what you will take the 500-700 damage a few times... the big secret that made it easier for me was to clear the fight manually with about 1k health left, allow the cannon to take damage while still attacking.

If you back up, you will drop out of combat, eat up to 1/2 - 3/4 health and get going back on it... ended the fight with around 3k of 7k health

Comment by nimajneb

Soloed as 69 hunter (BM), not hard imo but just don't forget your pet is changed to the cannon, simply click fire at warp cannon or something at the 'pet's bar and shoot he imps...
P.S.: Clear the mobs around the cannon, else you will pull them (you can freeze one ofc)

Comment by DeeBee

To summarize:

After converting the cannon, nothing happens until after your first cannonball attack on the portal.
The cannonball & AoE flamethrower share a 15 second cooldown.
The first cannonball attack causes imps to spawn non-stop from the portal -- about one every 2-3 secs.
The imps explode in a short-range AoE to attack and head straight at the cannon.
The imps have 450hp, according to http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=22474
If you one-shot kill them, they don't explode, they just die.
If you hit and don't kill them, or generate threat in any way, they turn and explode on you instead of the cannon.

You need to have a pet bar available and visible to do this quest. If you have addons that hide it, disable them. If you already have a pet, you'll have to dismiss it.

If you convert the cannon without clearing the area first, the mobs will attack the cannon if they wander within standard aggro range. I had a wandering dog eat my north cannon from behind, since I was paying more attention to stemming the tide of a'splodin imps.

Dogs (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=22500) can / do spawn in at random intervals instead of imps. For me, southern portal spawned none, while the north one spawned two in succession halfway through the cannon blasts.

Some claim that side-stepping, or stepping away from the imp as you hit it may help dodge their exploding damage. YMMV.

If the cannon dies, just wait. It will respawn. Be aware that by this time, previously cleared mobs may be respawning as well.

For shamans - totems are immune to AoE. Use that knowledge as creatively as you want.

Everyone else - you need to figure out a class-specific way of mitigating the damage (heal, bubble, mana shield, plain old soak) or perform many one-shot kills (backstab, earthshock, fire blast, etc). Ideally, you'll have to find a middle-ground of damage soaking, and popping imps, leaving yourself some buffer health / mana / rage / energy to deal with the occasional dog.

Good luck, and have fun.

Comment by 72498

This quest was seriously easy as a shadow priest lvl 68. I killed the mobs around the portal and the cannon. Then I took over the cannon and spent each cooldown of the cannon on shooting the portal down. Now the part that made it so easy was that 1 mind flay (2 ticks) was all that was needed for each imp. I couldn't possibly go out of mana or die...

Comment by raduking

tips for warlocks:

1. clear all ferguards in the area
2. gather full mana
3. use Searing Pain on imps (they should die from one cast)
4. bomb the gate

Comment by FroRev

Hunters: Dismiss your pet before using the cannon ammo, or your pet bar might bug out when your pet disappears. I didn't dismiss mine, so I had to type "/reload ui" to see the new fel cannon bar.

Comment by Aifor

It is pretty easy as a mage just be careful not to summon your pet as it uses the same summoned pet bar and only one can be present at a time. Just stand back and scorch and it 1 hits all of the imps.

Comment by Fallerup

tactic worked perfectly... (backing up when you hit them) died once in the end but I managed to destroy it:) the 2nd one was no problem.

Comment by 91244

I'm doing this as a 60 warlock (in 2.3) and it's horrible.

It's an easy start. Clear the mobs around the cannon and activate it using the item. Not hard. (Note though it takes away your pet!) Once you fire your first shot (on the pet bar), Imps will come in constant waves. They don't hit very hard and have VERY low health (Searing Pain can one-shot them), but they'll kill the cannon if they gather on it.. At the northern cannon after a couple shots I had dog-like creatures begin to spawn along with the Imps, at an increasing rate. They're quite a bit harder and will require a little more firing focus. Note that if you get swamped the cannon also has an AoE ability to fight these things.

If you're an affliction warlock like me, be careful. Dependent upon my Imp for mana, I was surprised to see that Blizzard de-spawns your pet when you take control of the cannon. Though I had no issues with the southern cannon, this proved a problem for the northern cannon. Out of the 5 times I attempted it I got an add (the huge orange dog) 4 times, and having resorted to Life Tapping for mana (even with bandages and a healthstone) I found that (having spammed Searing Pain) by the time he came I had too little health and mana to take care of just him, let alone the waves of Imps and doggies still crashing into my cannon.

I eventually just gave up. I'll re-visit the quest at a later time when I'm stronger.

Comment by 100201

just did this as a 67 rogue .. pretty easy .. i just spammed sinister strike .. one hit took them out .. used cloak of shadows when i could .. used first aid once .. 1 try at each one

Comment by Krakatau

Mages beware: if you spawn your water elemental, fel cannon disappears because elemetal replaces it as your minion.

Comment by 94443

Took me a few goes, but finally done it. Rogues, make goos use of backstab. 1 hit kill.

Comment by FrightKing

As a a priest and it is your pet. So you can Power Word: Shield it! The damage taken is minimal so the shield will last a while just pick off an imp with a Shadow Word: Death and this is pure easy.

Comment by 113439

If you're a shaman, this quest is amazingly easy. Just clear the area, set down an Earthbind Totem near their spawn point, and attack them as they come along. You can use Chain Lightning to take out 2-3 at a time, and use any shocks to get the extras. No problem at all.

Comment by peeweesweden

If you end up without the Pet-bar, pressing

CTRL+4 = Fire at the gate
CTRL+5 = Flame thrower at the imps

The abilities are on a shared, 15-second cooldown

Comment by birdmanp

He is very easy I am a prot warrior and the questgiver gives you 2 Evergrove Ancients who pretty much beat the crap out of Hound Master. All I did was DPS him and shield bash his spells and stun him and he was down in under a minute. It might be different for every race

Sockem
Lvl 70 Warrior Mug'thol

Comment by 105880

i think its impossible to complete this q as a lock

Comment by Armstrong

Okay, did this last night (and then later helped a hunter do it so we could do the Hound-Master together) as a protection paladin. This is really the no-skill way to do it (after clearing adds/patrollers, waited for big "Summoned..." dog-thing to patrol away):

I put on my spell damage gear (~10000 armor/~9000 hp/~8500 mana, all crafted/quested/AH bought, nothing exceptional) and put myself halfway between cannon and warp gate on imps path. Used the Naturalized Ammunition on the fel cannon and shot it every time the cooldown was up and spammed Consecrate (which in this gear does ~173/tick if I remember correctly). The imps mostly blew up on me and I had to Holy Light once ~2/3 through (cannon got hit by one or two imps but it can take about 4 or 5 hits easy). When dog came out (on North Gate, no dog on South Gate), I tanked him and kept consecrating. When the gate blew, all remaining imps and the dog faded out.

Never used the flame thrower, never directly targeted anything but the dog and let AoE kill the imps. Did not need to use a potion on my solo run (had to one mana potion when I helped the hunter because one of those big Summoned demon dogs (the ones that come out of the gate Bael'mon uses) patrolled into us.

South Gate is much easier IMO because the path the imps take between the gate and the cannon is longer.

Comment by 123131

this tip is for all u Shadow Priests out there u just need to use the shot on the pet to kill the gate no need for the AoE unless the Hound comes and Mind Flay the Imps and if they get too close just SW:Death easy as cake ^^

Comment by 99207

this quest is soloable for most classes i think, the imps has very low hp, and it's rare that anything else than imps come after you..

Comment by 125143

Paladins-

Simply keep consecration down between the cannon and the gate and all the imps will explode on contact! Just dps down the hounds and you'll be fine.

Comment by 00bender00

Easy solo as paladin, did it with my alt, put mana regen gear on, BoW, use consecration rank 1 and heal yourself for the explosions.
Kill the bigger demons with seal of vengeange, but remeber to keep that cons. rank 1 down to stop the imps.

Comment by Nain

shamans, stoneclaw totem is very useful for this quest. The stoneclaw will aggro the imps and they blow up.

Comment by 38292

Despite soloing this with my level 70 warrior, ive still unable to complete this. oh well try again

Comment by Suhov

For warriors doing that quest - you have to press 2 buttons. Button 1 - Fel Canopn shoot a Portal (15 secs CD, need 5x);
Button 2 - press Victory Rush.

Just kill imps on a halfway to your canons pressing 1 button without CD. Even if Victory Rush not crited normal hit will finish imp.

Comment by penicillin

I did the first cannon np, the second seemed totally bugged. Out of maybe 15 imps 14 resisted my spells and cannon died.

Comment by 53766

I keep getting a bug where the fel cannon vanishes while I'm in the middle of the quest. I didn't see its health, but nothing hit it. Anyone know why it's doing this?

Comment by parl2001

Insanely easy as a well-geared (pre-Kara blues/greens, no raid epics) feral druid.

1. equip dps gear
2. cat
3. clear around cannon, around gate
4. stay in dps gear, go bear
5. hit the gate whenever the cooldown is up on the cannon (left-click only apparently)
6. get to the imps as soon after they spawn as possible
7. walk backward as you melee them down (1 hit usually, sometimes 2)
8. hit the gate using the cannon...
9. get random pathing add
10. swipe/mangle down the add while you try to swipe-aggro the imps
11. complete without ever going below 75% health

Comment by 127201

Really easy as 69 feral druid. Went into cat form... all the imps went down with a single "Mangle (Cat)", and energy regen was enough to keep hitting 'em.

I walked backwards, just to be sure, but none of them really did any damage.

Using the cannon doesn't take you out of cat form, thank goodness!

Comment by thisispatrick

INSANELY easy for a feral druid. Just shift into cat, and mangle everything that comes out. Imps die in 1 hit, and the dogs a few more, clearcasting make sure that you have enough energy to keep up with the spawns. Fairly simple quest. I just stood right next to the entrance where they come out and just mangled them one by one. Stream of dead bodies :D

Comment by 150342

I found this quest to be completed fairly easily as a level 68 Warlock. All you had to do was activate the cannon, start firing cannons at the Gate, and use Searing Pain on the imps as they walked out. They would die in one shot.

Note: Sometimes the searing pains WOULD NOT WORK on the imps. I do not think they were resisting it, but sometimes the game would not even acknowledge that I casted the spell on them. There was no "resist" notification at all. If you miss one, move to the next, the; the amount you miss will not be enough to kill the machine.

Note: You will lose your summoned demon when you activate the machine.

Note: It takes 7 shots from the machine to destroy the gate. The imps that are out at that time will disappear.

Comment by 144063

as a preist i was able to renew and power word: sheild on the cannon . . didnt look like renew did anything but sheild looked like it helped keep it alive very easy

Comment by 144063

some idiot must love just putting -1 to everything.. but theres some good info in here even tho its a minus rating

Comment by Bsmx93

Easy solo at a level 66 frost mage, just ice lance all the imps that come out, and if any aggro tags on, let your water elemental take care of them, the imps will die in about 2 hits with ice lance unless it crits, and since it only takes about 127 mana you should be able to kill most of the imps that come out.

Comment by persiarash

Note to warlocks:

Do not enslave the demon guarding the cannon, doing so will cause the cannon to despawn (maybe they consider it the demon's pet?). However after waiting for like 15 seconds the cannon respawns, so it isn't really that bad...

Comment by Chath

This was really easy as a frost mage, or any mage for that matter.

Just do the bomb ability on the cannon asap and then just spam ice lance. With crits you one hit, otherwise two hit. I have a 7.5k mana pool and I got down to 3k about until the warp gates broke down, none of the imps ever reached me :P

Hope this helped someone.

Comment by foonana

Did as a 70 lock with a 68 pally killed in about 6 seconds

i would recommend that if your under 68 and not a healer get a mate to help you if not shouldnt be too hard.

Comment by molrad

This quest is very hard for a hunter when the dogs start spawn

Comment by 237700

You may need some help on this quest depending on how much damage you can take and how much DPS you can do. Make sure you stand close to where the mobs come out so they don't get a chance to get even close to the fel cannon. After about 6 or 7 hits the gate should go down.

Comment by DarkWolfB15

Solo'd as 68 prot warrior. It was kinda hard, but I spammed Revenge, Shield Slam, and the occasional Concussive (forgot the name) on the Imps as they came out. The single dog that came was easy.

Comment by Darkscar

i think i found a way for all you warriors (esp protesct spec)

there is a way to avoid those imps from exploding if you use your abilities and not normal attack Ex: Shield Slam,,Revenge,,Shockwave..... do that with all the imps but DpS the hounds and try not to use the imp flame thing and you'll be OK

Comment by 362388

Okay, I guess I'm the slow one on this quest... I read all the comments and tried to do this in-game and took FOREVER standing-around trying to figure out what I was supposed to do, and I couldn't figure-out how to get my cannon to fire once I took-it under control. I kept reading comments above about imps and I was saying to myself "What Imps? I don't see any imps!".. so if anyone else is a bit slow like me, here's what you do:

1) take-over the cannon (if you can't figure this out, you're slower then me!)
2) you'll get a "pet action bar" over your own bar (I somehow missed this)... don't summon any pets after taking-over the cannon or you'll lose the cannon!
3) don't use "attack"... for those who use pets, that's not what you use! I sat around for seemingly 10 minutes trying to get my cannon to "attack" once I realized there was a pet-action bar!
4) there's two seperate attack modes on the pet action bar that you do use to attack... kinda colored green and blobish looking... use those to start the attack!
5) once you get-off the first shot, imps will start coming out of the teleporter to attack (suicide bomb) your fel cannon... kill them as quick as you can by any means necessary... they don't have much health but come fast... any area-effect weapons should do quite well here... I used my Death and Decay AoE as a Death Knight... worked quite-well at wiping-out multiple imps.
6) wait for the "cooldown" of the fel cannon and hit it again (and again, and again)... it will take multiple shots to destroy the portal, all while imps try to kamikaze into your fel cannon... kill the imps at all costs.

That's pretty much it... I had a hard time figuring out what I was supposed to do for this quest, so if you're like me, I hope the above helps out!

Comment by 204012

Tip for hunters:
before taking control of the cannon lay a frost trap between the target and the cannon. This way you can slow imps. Also for those who don't put autoshot to their actionbars, put it on the 1st bar so that you can press Tab(select npc) and press 1(activate autoshot). when they start to come in big numbers just use Volley.

Comment by 202879

Found this so easy as a lvl 69 DPS, DK. I clicked on my canon ball to actvate the cannon & bar. Stood halfway between cannon and gate, then fired. When the imps come out i just hit them as they went to go past me. They have about 500 hp & if they explode next to you, they hit for about 500 damage. Just click on the cannon's fire bar as the timer completes cool down. I solo it this way and suffered very minor damage.

Comment by 172268

As DK, found Death and Decay particularly useful here. Keeping spamming it in front of the warp gate and you'll explode a lot of the imps before they reach the cannon

Comment by seebs

Tried this about 8 times in a row. Cannon despawns after about a minute and twenty seconds. Cooldown's 15 seconds.

So far as I can tell, if the cannon despawns that quickly, this is impossible.

And yes, I've completely cleared the area, I'm one-shotting the imps without the SLIGHTEST effort, nothing's touching the cannon. It just despawns after about five shots. Dunno if this is a new "feature".

EDIT:

I'm an idiot.

They nerfed it -- the gate died in under 7 hits -- but since I was counting hits I didn't see the message. So I'd already gotten credit but not noticed.

Comment by 103710

I was able to solo this as a 65 unholy DK. I just used lots of icy touch and death coil to kill them from afar. Death and decay also helps

Comment by Chronalis

Which one's Will?

Comment by 455383

As a Balance-oriented druid, I found that the best way to get rid of the dogs when they come is to throw up Hurricane; it one-shots the imps as they come without having to divert your attention from attacking the dog. Popping Innervate when it cools down is helpful since Hurricane sucks mana down pretty fast. The good news is that the dogs don't show up very often. In fact, I didn't see any on the south cannon! Targeting the imps before they get to you works best. Don't wait for them to get right up to you, because they'll run past you and damage the cannon (learned the hard way). I suggest using a fast-attack weapon if you have one that hits hard enough.

I stood a few paces in front of the cannon so I could intercept whatever came down the pipes before it got to the cannon. Also, I suggest staying in Moonkin form if you have it, and using a weapon that boosts attack power in forms.

Hunters should have NO problems whatsoever since they have automatic ranged attacks.

Comment by xipeido

am i the only one noticing this is bugged ? cant do nothing, i get cannon but no portal and no imps ..

Comment by 616859

Ok, I'm about to give up. I stand on top of every structure inside Death's Door and click on Naturalized Ammunition and get the message 'Requires Death's Door Fel Cannon'.. What do I have to do to find this cannon?

Edit: Ok.. I found the cannons - they look nothing like the cannon picture on wowhead... running into problems with bartender 4 that prevent me from completing this quest.. I have the pet bar enabled, and it appears I am able to shoot the cannon because i see the cooldown on the bar for the shots - but nothing comes out of the cannon and no imps attack... it must be something specific to my computer... i have other addons that glitch and i suspect either i dont have enought ram or my graphics card is screwing me up

Comment by Freedomage

Frost Mage 72 with Ice Armor and Arcane Intellect.

North Gate:1st time
Cleared 3 closest Demons and started Fel Cannon.
Imps and 1 dog then two dogs at once, (Ice Barrier)-(Arcane Explosions)-(Fire Blasts)-(Frost Nova)-(Ice Lances), reres on Guards, (Life Blood), but killed me off.

North Gate:2nd time
Cleared every one and started Fel Cannon.
Only 1 doggy this time, (Ice Barrier), Imps, (Life Blood), more imps, 1 (Super Healing Potion), more imps finished with about 600 HP.

South Gate:
Macro:
/tar Unstable Imp
/Cast Ice Lance
No Doggies just Imps, kept pressing macro button.
3 got close because they needed 2-hits but the rest 1-hitted
just as they left the port.

Neither me nor the Cannon took even 1-HP of damage!

Comment by Horsekebab

If you try this quest in 4.0.1, destroying a gate will not give you credit. You will also not be able to do Loremaster :D

Comment by 682313

Confirmed indeed, the quest is bugged. I've read Horsekebab's post and opened a GM ticket because I was just working on On the Blade's Edge and thought I won't be able to complete without that quest. False, I just dinged it now by doing all quests from Skyguard Outpost, Ogri'la, Blade Tooth Canyon (which is NOT horde-only) + Malaise + Scratches.

So don't worry, you can still aim for Loremaster even tho Fire At Will! is bugged.

Good luck!

Comment by 178387

I completed this mission tonight after an hour trying different ways.

The mission crashes when the imps keeps in the portal.

At the south portal they simply stop coming out. To fix it, let them to attack the cannon and killing just the pairs, this will help to mantain the imps flux. Don't worry about the cannon, you have enough life to destroy the portal.

At the north portal they attack you and that's the cause they stop coming out. To fix it, you must keep a bit far back of the cannon, if they target the cannon it's almost done. Anyway, like at south portal, keep killing just the pairs, to mantain the flux.

84/86... Ogri'la, Skyguard and Consortium missions left ><

GL

Comment by Navaros

If you're trying to complete this quest at level 80 (like I did) for achievement purposes, you might be encountering the problem that in mid-event the cannon despawns and you can't destroy the warp-gate. What I did after several tries was let some of the imps kamikaze themselves in the cannon - that kept the cannon in combat, it didn't despawn, and I could finally get credit for destroying the gate. So in short - kill every other imp and let a few hit the cannon, it has enough hp to take some beating, while you get the 6-7 shots it takes to get credit for destroying.

EDIT: For some reason I only saw the last 5-6 posts after i posted my comment (naughty, naughty wowhead), anyways keeping it here just in case someone misses the comment of the previous poster. :)

Comment by Grigor12

This quest is bugged as of 4.0.1, the northern fel cannon despawns before the wrath-gate is destroyed. Been trying over and over again, must've been around 10-15 tries where it despawned at shot 5.

Comment by 120638

Problems at LVL 80.
After a few first mobs I leaved combat and wont be able to finish the quest. GM wrote me, that is because I dont aggro imps - due to my LVL 80.
So he suggested me to stay near the gate, to aggro imps. It helped.
Character is able to control cannon while stay near gate.

Comment by 547335

Tips are great...

But what happens if you panic a bit and drag the icon that fires the cannon at the gate off the bar?

How do you get it back to complete the quest?

any tips on that?

Comment by 699128

YOU MUST REMAIN IN COMBAT THE WHOLE TIME! OR YOUR CANNON WILL DISAPPEAR!

Comment by johnnyrizzle

As has been pointed out above, this quest is tricky at 80, however it is not bugged.

It is simply a case of holding back on your leet level 80 pewpews. You need to keep the imps streaming out of the portal, and not dropping aggro and hanging around inside, which will drop you out of combat and fail the event (although not immediately).

There's a simple system to ensure you don't break it.

1. Stand behind the cannon, so that no imps decide to aggro you instead of the cannon;
2. Wait until an imp is almost on top of the cannon to kill it. Do not kill it before hand. As long as there is an imp on its way toward your cannon, the other imps will continue to do the same. As a mage I just Ice Lanced the imps as they got close.
3. Use your cannon's warp gate attack every cooldown.
4. Profit

Did the above on both North and South cannon after bugging the event several times and it worked perfectly.

Comment by ohrid

If you cannot complete the quest (since 4.01), clear out all the mobs, including the hound that wanders around. I was waiting for a GM to respond to my ticket, killing time by killing the mobs around. Then I tried again and it worked. The hound is important, you need to kill him too. Was the last quest for Loremaster of Outland for me ^^

Comment by 146878

Solo 67 Disc Priest

Penance
Mind Blast
Smite
Smite (during cooldowns)

<repeat spell pattern between artillery blasts from cannon>

Keep doing this pattern even when Summoned Wrath Hounds arrive from the gate. Seven artillery blasts from each cannon and you're done.

Comment by 792376

Well as of 02/20/11 the quest now Does Nothing. when I click on the Ammunition, the cannon turns into my minion, but just sits there. I tried clearing out the entire area, but at level 68 which is when the quest is supposed to be done, they respawn at the front when I get done in the back...& the Cannons just sit there for like 3 min. & then just disappear. Quest is Totally Glitched now

Comment by 376702

Frustrating! I've tried to do this quest probably about five times -- still, the imps keep coming and the cannon eventually dies. I shoot at the warp gate endlessly, and the canon doesn't move, either. Definitely glitched.

Comment by MaxWilder

At this point you are probably coming back to do this quest for loremaster. Dead simple, just be aware that when you take control of the cannon you must use the pet bar that appears to fire the cannon!

Stupid mechanic. It should just fire on its own, but that's the way it works at the moment.

Also, they appear to have fixed the bug that makes it necessary to aggro the imps. I did this as an 85 boomkin, and simply fired the cannon from the pet bar while one-shotting the imps with moonfire. The cannon stayed active until the gate was destroyed each time. This was just a few hours after server maintenance, so if the quest is still bugged for you, try again on a Tuesday.

Comment by 814691

Quest is bugged

From a GM: We are aware of this issue and we're trying to fix it as soom as possible.

Comment by IMissThottbot

Quest worked fine for me as of 4.1.

The cannon is NOT a vehicle, meaning you can shoot/fight whilst controlling it. Fight the mobs manually, use the cannon's cannonball shot on every cooldown, and it's easy.

Took me ~3 attempts as a level 85 to realize that the cannon isn't a vehicle, and that I can fight while using it.

Note to hunters: using the cannon WILL dismiss your pet, so be prepared to fight petless!

Comment by rednaw

One of the hardest quests that I've ever faced on my level 68 Rogue.

It took me 4 goes to get the first one down and to get the hand of it.

1) Kill all the surrounding Death Mights.
2) Activate the Cannon and start firing.
3) Stay next to the warp gate and attack every imp as they spawn - they were dieing in one hit for me.
4) Fire the Cannon every 15 seconds.
5) A Hound/s may spawn, dot the hound asap but still try one shot the imps while you kill the hound.

Comment by 883086

for those of you trying to do this quest, i assume your on it because your working on loremaster. WELL, i couldnt get aggro on the imps at a lvl 85 priest, so the imps wouldnt stop coming, id go oom, it was a disaster, so right before i /ragequit, a friend came out to help me. he killed the imps while i shot the cannon, and i completed the quest. im so glad to never have to do this again.

Comment by 771219

WHERE are the Fel Canons?

Comment by Arcanehore

The cannons (once they are under your control) will appear as your pet toolbar. It'll take seven shots to destroy the gate.
The cannons are located near the gates, guarded by a demon called Death's Might.
Imps usually have 400 health, easy to kill. If you are a high level make sure you are continuously in combat with them, otherwise you may glitch and fail the quest.
Don't forget to summon the druid when you're done!

Comment by 938776

Level 68 Balance Druid. I solo-ed this quest with miminal damage. I read all the suggestions how to complete after struggling with it for a while. This is what worked for me.

In moonkin form I took out the Death's Might Demons around the cannon. Went to the cannon, activated it and then moved over to safe distance away from it. Fired the first shot and as the imps appeared nuked them with moonfire (some took 2 zaps others 1). Kept killing the imps with moonfire until the cannon was ready to fire again. Did this until the gate was destroyed.

I used a bandage between taking out the Death's Mights and using the cannon, but tbh didnt really need to.

No imps reached the cannon or my druid, therefore no damage. I'd taken out the hell-hound with the treant summons - and would have done again if it had appeared, but it didnt for both gates. Shape-shifted in bird-form as soon as I was able and then landed on a spike to call down the druid.

Hope this helps. =)

Comment by Ariztophale

I had a problem with this quests as a hunter, then i realized I had to dismiss my pet first.

Comment by Locker

Just did this quest on my 67 Rogue , here are a few things i think is good to know :
1. U must have ur pet bar active make sure of that for those who use any addons.
2. U can avoid the dmg from the imps :
a.North Gate position urself near the Gate entrance where the Imps spawn use any instant melee attack u will kill it and get no dmg,while u press ur canon from the pet bar, will roughly take 4 or 5 shots.
b.South Gate the area between canon and gate is less than at the North Gate is no problem, try to get as clsoe to entrance aswell find the spot where when u kill the imps they do no dmg. Same here 4 or 5 shots and ur done.
I do not know if this quest has been bugged or had glitches before it doesnt have any now .
Good Luck

Comment by newhon63

I have found when I did the south first, it did not tell me that I was successful in destroying the warpgate. But I happened to look on my Carbonite mini map and it showed that I only had a quest dot for the northern warpgate. So I went to the north warpgate and used my fel cannon and after I was done with it, I got the finished message. I don't know if this is a bug or a Glitch in the Matrix, but I don't care, After spending about an hour and a half on the south part of it and thinking I was failing each time. I am glad I am done with this.

Comment by 908758

Found north cannon at about 61 60, and south one at 64 68. You may not find them at the same places, as they despawn, but there's an idea on where to look.

Comment by 1021081

I was ONE quest away from "The Loremaster" and needed this quest - badly. I tried yesterday (08/15/2012) and it seemed to bug. I would be doing ok, then the cannon disappeared and I ended up with no gates being finished.

I tried again today and there happened to be another Horde player there trying it (85 Warlock). He said he couldn't get it to work for him either. So we joined together into a party.

I stood at the gate opening and killed approximately every other imp that came out of the gate. The Warlock controlled the cannon. We succeeded with no problems on the first attempt at each gate.

So if you are having trouble with the cannon just disappearing and the quest not being fulfilled, perhaps you might want to try to party up.

BTW... You are looking at the newest "Loremaster!"

Comment by 664366

another damn quest that you have no idea what to do, and seems bugged, I'm tired of crap like this blizzard.... things like this don't make the game fun it makes it frustrating

Comment by tkeatherd

So i tried to do this quest by myself without coming here first and when i failed the first three times and got me mad i came on here and found out some others had problems with this aswell... so i decided to tell you how i did it! :)

I did this quest on my level 66 demonology warlock and found it quite easy to do it by myself. I started the cannon and fired at the gate, the fel imps start to come out and i use demon form and just instant cast the shadowbolts and they die in one shot. Whenever the fel cannons artilary is up i use it (always keep an eye on that cause you need 7 shots to kill the gate).

AND THATS IT! If you keep the artilary going as soon as the cooldown is done then you will have it finished before respawns of the dead demons around you pop up! Good luck.

:)

Comment by MarsJenkar

Why are we firing at Will? What did he ever do to deserve this?

Comment by nicholberry

Not too hard as a Pandaren Monk at level... just don't panic. #1 Make sure your pet bar is pulled out so you have the ammo. The cannons have a long cd and you'll need to kill about 4-5 fel imps between shots...You'll need a total of 7 shots to detroy the warp gate. Just tag the fel imps as they come out and hit them with your crackling jade lightning... they're easy to kill and won't even get close to the cannon (your minion) or you. Doing it this way I didn't even have to confront the dog, but if he comes out, tag him with Paralysis... should give you plenty of time to finish off the gate.

For those who are not a Panda Monk... pick an instant cast that you have to target the fel imps and pick a stun or grasp... something that locks the dog in place to finish off. Should work fine for you, too.

Comment by 1137461

This quest is actually pretty simple as a hunter. I spammed Arcane Shot as each imp came out, and I killed each in one shot. Just make sure you use Steady Shot to regenerate your focus every once in awhile.

Comment by cephadex

Here's a screenshot I took indicating what the item you need to control looks like, what the item you need to destroy looks like, and what needs to be shot at what.

Comment by gretha

Just soloed this with my level 67 shaman. It was difficult, but I did it. First, I approached the cannon and cleared the area around it - this is very important if you are a shaman, because if other mobs appear while you're dealing with the imps it's going to be very difficult to cope with both and not use all of your mana. Then I used the ammunition to control the cannon and stood near the gate. Killed every imp as soon as they spawned with chain lightning. When I got 7 stacks of lightning shield, I'd keep the charges of earth shock to kill the hounds, since they're somewhat tougher than the imps. I got a "mana low" warning as soon as the gate was destroyed.

I hope this helps someone.

Comment by 1114048

Ok, I'm stuck on this one, level 72 Hunter, when I load the naturalized ammo, the gun turns green and then turns towards the gate, but then nothing happens - the gate never opens, the gun never fires, no buttons to click on, nothing, it just sits there green and happy and uselss until it despawns.

Comment by Celebriian

While doing Loremaster (at 90), this quest became a bit frustrating (more like pain in the butt) due to the imps killing the canons. Grab yourself someone in the area to do this quest with. It's much easier for someone to kill the imps while you focus on the canon, and help kill imps as well. And the other person can get credit for it too.

Comment by Nocked

As a 65 hunter I struggled with this one a few times, always at 0 Focus. The trick is to use Trap Launcher and drop Ice Trap at the entrance where the imps come out every time the cool down is up. This will slow them down juuuuuuuust enough to get 7 shots in, and enough time to draw some of them towards you. Stand as far away from the gate/launcher that you can and still be able to use it.

At 65 I was able to solo it, but each gun had just a sliver of health at the end. Whew.

Comment by cooldad

hi all i am 65 thats not my lvl .ive just done this quest solo. i found it easy i just cleared the mobs there then activated the cannon move forward just a bit .not to loose pet control on cannon. use aoe on the little buggers that came out and when cannon ready fire (it takes 5 shots to kill the gate)make shore you clear the lot from the cannon as thy spoon a bit fast.if i can do anyone can .love the game. roll on the new hellfire.

Comment by JDLKY

At level this is a bit of a pain for a pet class (no pet). Especially a Warlock. If you are an alchemist equip your alchemist stone in a trinket slot as the bonus healing will be very helpful.

Comment by Milowful

Fel cannons are located at 61,60 and 65,68 !

Step 1: Locate the Cannons !
Step 2: Use Naturalized Ammunition near the cannon ... Now you have control of it !
Step 3: Then spam Artillery on the Warp-Gate. It will appear as a spell on your pet bar, so make sure you have it enabled!

Keep in mind that demons will spawn from inside the gate and they will try to attack the fel cannon, so make sure you kill them fast ! Don't worry they are really easy to kill !

Step 4: You are done !

PS: It does count for On the Blade's Edge !

Comment by Malachi68

I think something has changed with this quest since the nerfing that accompanied WoD. It's become impossibly difficult for my well-equipped (iLvl 111) level 68 Subtlety Rogue to complete this.

Each little demon that runs out of the Warp-Gate does about 1000 hp damage to my rogue when it dies. Daggers are too slow.

Even with healing potions and Recuperate, it's impossible to both survive and get off more than four shots at the gate.

Anyone else having a similar problem? Or is it just me?

Comment by Boxofbeer

Fire At Will! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw41YDvokoU

Comment by alpanhell

A really stupid and badly done quest. You can't see a health bar for the gate so you just have to watch for when the quest completes to know when it does (and it will eventually disappear).

The timer on the cannon attack for the gate takes like 15 secs, so you pretty much just attack imps the whole time inbetween. I was on a melee class so used tab to target each imp (and we all know how well tab works...). If you stand in their path and you can 1 shot them they will approach in a straight line and you should auto target them fine.

Comment by 1064378

Did this as a level 100 DK. Some other comments have suggested keeping aggro on the mobs, which is unfortunately not possible at level 100. What you have to do is allow every couple of imps to get to the cannon and damage it, therefore keeping you in combat. If you don't do this and you don't have aggro, you won't get credit.

Comment by geekygirlish

Quests like these remind me why I never finished the blades edge quest lines. Poor drop rates and bad mechanics. I am leveling up a 66 monk in my boredom, and this quest is a pain as there is not a good AOE as you one shot the imps with spinning crane but the imps do a lot of dmg to you too. Failed a couple of time until I found a sort of cheat solution. If you have higher alts at 100, I am sure you have a touch of the void trinket. Pop this and the tendrils keep the imps busy while you fire at the gate. Gives you time to heal if need be, kill a few imps yourself, and fire when off cd.

Don't bother with the imp rockets and make sure you clear the area around before you start. Got it done with trinket and tendrils

Comment by JaxxyLupei

As a level 67 Unholy DK, this quest is incredibly annoying. Firstly, taking control of the fel cannon will cancel out my undead minion, which immediately makes it harder because my minion backs me up while my attacks are on cooldown.
Secondly, why do we have to command the fel cannon to attack? Why can't we set it as automatic and protect it as the imps and such come out?
Abandoning this POS.

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aRqYXFDYis&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Jasonsp

A really good tip for rogue players is to use your fan of knives. This way you can AoE clear a lot of them at once and also be at a safe distance from their explosion radius.

Comment by Wyr3d

TLDR version: Put your pet away before you "charm" the cannon. The cannon's pet bar appears where your pet's bar usually is. Use bombard on the tower, and kill spawn mobs with AoE

Comment by Dawnetha

What do you do if you've destroyed both gates and can't find the altar of GOC. do I need to start the whole thing over?

Comment by ariadnesthread

I was able to solo this as a level 67 Survival Hunter. I did it by first dismissing my pet, (had it glitch on me the first time when I didn't), then I turned the cannon and stood in the path the imps were going to take, they stick to a mostly straight line, I got as close to the gate as possible. I threw out caltrops over and over as it would slow them down and aggro them on me. I stood in their line and hit Carve over and over as they came. I alternated throwing down caltrops, hitting carve and clicking the button that makes the cannon shoot at the gate as each refreshed. Both Caltrops and the cannon timer are 15 seconds so you know when you need to refresh your Caltrops it is time to click the cannon as well. If any get away from the line somehow, throw out an ice trap. Also keep your eye on the cannon's health I had a respawn that ran over and immediately started wailing on my cannon.

Comment by candylandish

Rogues can use Shuriken Toss to easily defeat the imps at a distance.

Comment by TheChineseVodka

DISABLE BARTENDER4 TO SHOW THE PET ACTION BAR! Took me an hour to figure it out.

Comment by Lafeoverde

As a shaman I found that just doing Healing Surge pulled all of the imps away from the cannon.

Comment by GreenEyedBlues

When you activate the Death's Door Cannons, they will appear as a "pet" above your lower left-hand action bar.
This quest was designed before the vehicle-based quests of WotLK so it's a little counterintuitive for those used to post-BC content.

Comment by Adahlilana

Ok. Let's make this easy for folks like me. Lol.

First, take control of the cannon with the "Naturalized artillery" in your bag.
Then look for your pet par. You can start the fight with the 4th button from the left on your pet bar. If you have not redone your key mapping, control+4 should trigger it. The imps will spawn from the gate right next to the cannon.

Kill the imps as they come out.

hit your 4th button again every time it's on cooldown since this is the only way to damage the gate. 7 times should do it.

Comment by dasbaum

The quest marker for this quest is shown in the Evergroove Ruuan Weald. But you can't actually start the quest there.

The quest starts from a summoned NPC Evergrove Druid while standing in the area around Death's door (the Druids are circling in the air).

To summon Evergrove Druid you need Druid Signal. If you lost it, get a new one from Wildlord Antelarion (at the quest marker).

Comment by ravenhunt

This quest is fairly easy really but contrary to what has already been written you use the 4th button the kill the gate when it is on cooldown but both 4th and 5th are on same cooldown. Kill the mobs yourself - they are really easy - i did it on a droo healer and i can do it anyone can

Comment by treessassin

Struggled with this while leveling as Demonology. I found switching to Affliction made this insanely easy. Just hit Imps with Corruption as they come out and they all die long before they reach the cannon.

Comment by ataegina

Easily soloable as a hunter in patch 2.0.3

Shoot once. Feign death. You can still shoot while feigned and no adds will come.

Comment by Mellro

This might've been difficult back in BC, but as of current retail (BfA 8.3) It's not too hard, especially with Winds of Wisdom buff up, you're likely to be over-leveled or outgeared for this quest even a little bit. Just stand in front of the imps (or have your pet, guardian, or minion do the same), they explode on impact but do relatively little damage (especially if you have a self heal or any potions). Eventually you can push them back without ever having to use the turret's flame gouge ability. Once you got them exploding at your spawn point you can just spam any AOE, cleave or chain damage ability you have and you'll never see them spawn for more than half a second. Click the turret's first ability every time it's ready until you get credit. The wrath hounds arent very troubling either and pretty easy to handle with a few buttons of your rotation.

As a shaman, it's easily doable in both Enhancement and Elemental specs, however it's harder/easier depending on how squishy you are in your spec. If you find yourself needing constant heals, go enhancement, building maelstrom allows you to cast instant heals practically for free. If you want to beat the mobs easier, go Elemental for the AoE.

Comment by MagickRed

Tried this today (2021)

As a warlock, Searing Pain is gone (or I can't find it lol)

The two abilities, artillery on the gate and shoot the demons, share a cool down which made it difficult. It was like 'Make a choice, lose the cannon super fast or demons and best of luck haha'

I tried using drains, dots and instant casts on the imps and other demons but the spells aren't quick enough. For this to work you need a melee with you to mow down the mobs while you click the cannon abilities OR make the cannon abilities a separate cool down and shorter timer.

Comment by Raincloud

If you lose your signal flare. You can get another from.

Wildlord Antelarion

Comment by Aphelyite

I was running around after subduing a cannon on my druid and couldn't figure out what to do. The "pet" bar was on the bottom right for me.
Just poke the adds to death and keep clicking that same button on cd. Not the fire breath that kills the imps.

Comment by Totoroe

For some reason I didn't get the extra action button or whatever to actually use the cannon after taking control of it. I targeted the cannon and used macro "/cast artillery on the warp-gate" a few times

Comment by rosiebud2000

Working on Loremaster and trying to do this quest on a level 50 druid - I can get 10 to 11 shots off at the gate, killing the imps and other mobs, and the cannon will despawn after the 10/11th shot. I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've abandoned the quest and then retried and still the same results. It is driving me crazy.

Comment by Astralmight333

I had an issue where if I tried to control a cannon with a minion out beforehand as a warlock, the pet bar to fire the cannon wouldn't show up.

If you're playing a warlock or hunter, I suggest dismissing your pet before taking control of the cannon to avoid this issue since this is what solved it for me. The pet bar to control the cannon will look like your normal minion/pet bar.

Stand in the way of the imps after attacking them and they'll explode on you instead of your controlled cannon if your cannon is low on health and you can eat some damage.

Comment by piediddly

If you are trying to complete your Loremaster Achievement, coming from Dragonflight xpac, lemme explain how I completed this quest.

Go to one of the fel cannons, right-click the ammo which will be located in your bag. If you look on the left side above your topmost action bar, you'll find an extra 'pet' bar now visible.
Only one button matters to us, & that is the artillery button, which will destroy the transporter.
At the northern cannon, the demons will appear from the left side of the transporter, so stand to the left of the fel cannon. At the southern cannon, the demons appear from the right side of the transporter, so stand to the right of the fel cannon.
You're gonna want to use any AoE to down the demons that will arrive to destroy your cannon. Simply kill the demons yourself, while waiting for the fel cannon's artillery CD (12 seconds, I think) to finish then just fire the cannon's artillery. It will take seven shots to destroy each transporter.

EZ-PZ, lemon-squeezy, your quest should now be completed. I hope this helps!

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Fire At Will!

Use the Naturalized Ammunition to take control of the Death's Door Fel Cannons. Use the cannons to destroy both the South Warp-Gate and the North Warp-Gate.

	South Warp-Gate Destroyed (1)
	North Warp-Gate Destroyed (1)
	Naturalized Ammunition (Provided) (1)

Description

Now that the ammunition can affect the Burning Legion, it's time for you to use it.

There are two warp-gates, which are used for teleportation and enhancement of the void terrors. One is in the south and the other in the north, and each is within range of a fel cannon.

Use the naturalized ammunition to take control of each fel cannon and destroy the warp-gates.

Attack the gate with artillery to begin, and be prepared to kill its defenders to keep the cannon alive if necessary.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Cenarion Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10911))