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Series

1.	The Lost Courier
2.	Of Traitors and Treason Of Traitors and Treason
3.	High Commander Halford Wyrmbane High Commander Halford Wyrmbane
4.	Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde
5.	Flight of the Wintergarde Defender
6.	Return to the High Commander
7.	Rescue from Town Square
8.	Find Durkon!
9.	The Noble's Crypt

Storyline
Dragonblight The Liquid Fire of Elune Kill the Cultists The Favor of Zangus The High Cultist Rifle the Bodies Prevent the Accord A Strange Device Projections and Plans The Focus on the Beach Atop the Woodlands Search Indu'le Village Let Nothing Go To Waste Slay Loguhn Spiritual Insight Elder Mana'loa Freedom for the Lingering Conversing With the Depths The End of the Line Gaining an Audience Speak with your Ambassador Report to the Ruby Dragonshrine Heated Battle Return to the Earth Through Fields of Flame The Steward of Wyrmrest Temple Informing the Queen The Obsidian Dragonshrine No Place to Run No One to Save You The Best of Intentions Defiling the Defilers Culling the Damned Neltharion's Flame Tales of Destruction Cycle of Life The Plume of Alystros Seeds of the Lashers That Which Creates Can Also Destroy Mystery of the Infinite Mystery of the Infinite, Redux Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde Flight of the Wintergarde Defender Return to the High Commander The Demo-gnome The Search for Slinkin The Bleeding Ore Leave Nothing to Chance Understanding the Scourge War Machine Rescue from Town Square Find Durkon! Secrets of the Scourge Mystery of the Tome Understanding the Language of Death A Righteous Sermon Into Hostile Territory Steamtank Surprise Scattered To The Wind The Chain Gun And You Plunderbeard Must Be Found! Plunderbeard's Journal Chasing Icestorm: The 7th Legion Front Chasing Icestorm: Thel'zan's Phylactery Finality An End And A Beginning To Fordragon Hold! Audience With The Dragon Queen Galakrond and the Scourge On Ruby Wings Return To Angrathar Imprints on the Past Orik Trueheart and the Forgotten Shore The Murkweed Elixir The Forgotten Tale The Truth Shall Set Us Free Parting Thoughts What Secrets Men Hide Frostmourne Cavern Nozzlerust Defense Stocking Up Shaved Ice Soft Packaging Something That Doesn't Melt Hard to Swallow Lumber Hack Harp on This! Slim Pickings Messy Business Stomping Grounds Apply This Twice A Day Worm Wrangler Really Big Worm

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Comment by mgarland

k This quest rocks... you will be given a whistle and you simply blow it which calls down a gryphon that you mount and you will gain 3 controls on your tool bar that allow you to soar, collect a helpless villager and drop them off at the start point at 77.49. Helpless villagers run about all around the Carrion fields around 84.49. They are running from the Hungering dead etc. Tip: Fly low and close enough to stop (on ground or low to the ground) must be in range of the villager. Fun quest.

Comment by 31259

K? I accepter this quest and got the "full questlog" sound and a message I've already compleated this quest and I got the follow up instead... Boring for these quests rock.

Comment by aoeu

Dropoff point is right below the "RG" in the word WINTERGARDE on the map. :)

Also, I don't know if this is a bug, but sometimes the mobs hitch a ride with you? When you drop off a guy, one or more Hungering Dead drop there, too, and possibly attack alliance. You can possibly getting your own faction killed! :( I saw a guy AFK at the FP who got pwnt when some guy was doing the quest.

Edit: It appears once you get in combat, sometimes the mob stays in combat and gets to the dropoff point.

Also, be sure to use the "Soar" ability. I disagree with the worst quest ever. It may make a little time, but it's different from the "normal" grind to 80. Only way it could have been better is to reduce the required rescuers to 5.

Comment by Talimar

you need to complete this quest to access the innkeeper and repair guy.

Comment by CaspianRoach

To those who cant access any buttons on gryphon UI:
Turn off the custom UI Add-ons. They seem to conflict in some way and don't let you to press the buttons.
I turned off Outfitter, AutoProfitX and FishingBuddy and done the quest easily.

Comment by 114050

you need to make sure you go for the "helpless" villagers not the "trapped" ones

Comment by 93348

ANOTHER bugged flying quest, half the time the villagers don't jump in. I keep getting villager is not in range message RIGHT NEXT TO HIM. Blizzard, please release finished games.

Comment by Tyriar

Be sure to get Helpless not Trapped, they are outside the city.

Comment by obmckenzie

So anyone else having trouble with this quest? I find that I have to spam the buttons to get them to work properly and even then I have to just get lucky.

Comment by 167914

Macro it!

/target Helpless
/cast Rescue Villager

Comment by EricWK

This quest was giving me a ton of trouble, especially when trying to pick up villagers who were stationary. They simply wouldn't board the gryphon.

Eventually I learned to find the villagers that were running in fear and pick them up instead. This worked every time.

Comment by corpseoftaloy

For others who have custom UIs that mess with the vehicle hotbar:

/cast soar

/cast drop off villager

Comment by 247605

only go after the ones being feared very simple and fun quest if u do it right

Comment by 19385

Confirmed, you have to go after the feared villagers. After that easy mode!

Comment by Pikestaff

The name of the quest struck me as perhaps being a tribute to the movie "Flight of the Navigator"... even if that is a bit of a stretch, one thing is for certain: one of the things your character will tell the villagers is "Come with me if you want to live", 'tis a quote from "Terminator 2"!

Comment by atlas304

this quest is a nightmare. the buttons dont activate properly. it took me 2 minutes of repeateady mashing the pickup button for it to even activate, and as for dropping them off, cant even do it. i had 2 guys dropped off before all this crap happened.

Comment by 248947

This quest rocks. It only rocks if it works right, and as of november 17th 2008, it still is buggy, which makes me a Sad panda

Comment by 194672

If you want exp, definately do this quest, it has long series of quests coming after this one, and they do give experience.

Comment by Ophe

This quest is a good way to get into naxx if you are too low on gold to buy winter flying.

Comment by Guilhas

This quest would rock as a daily! :)

Comment by illepic

Make sure that the quest giver has 'drawn in' before you drop off your citizens. You can be moving very quickly and depending on the draw distance set up in your video config, the quest giver might not be there the moment you fly in. Wait for him to draw in before you drop off your citizens and you'll get credit.

Comment by 252061

I am experiencing a boundary bug for the gryphon. It keeps telling me I'm out of bounds and will be dropped even though I'm nowhere near out of bounds.The quest is set up to drop you if you are not in Carrion Fields or Wintergarde Keep. I actually have gotten 'parachuted' off directly over the mausoleum. It appears as if the game doesn't consider the the mausoleum to be a valid fly area for the quest when it is in fact slap dab in the middle of the keep and the carrion fields and it is well within the realm of possibility that one would pass over it on a normal route from the keep to the fields. Blizz may want to tweak that a bit to allow the Mausoleum area to be allowable air space.

Comment by 178740

This confused me too, until I looked here. The quest text says the Carrion Fields are south east, but they are actually directly east, past the Keep.

Comment by 16270

This is about 85, 50. As others have said it is east of wintergarde keep and just a tiny bit south of Naxx. There's a spot where the roads form a cross road on your map with a little drawing of a building. It's there.

Comment by 39921

Best quote you say when you rescue a villager: "Come with me if you want to live."

GOOOOOOOO ARNIE

Comment by 254249

I was also having alot problems getting the Citz's to hope on and even to dismount. I spent an hour and only had two completed........ "Finnally I turned OFF all of my Add-ons and the quest from that point on worked fine." After completing the quest in about 10 minutes, i just stepped back into the inn, sat and turned all my addon's back ON.
Note: I had been dropped acouple times on my way back. I just started following the road back through the gates each time and was not dropped.

Comment by 254598

You can just use 350% all time xD fast done then hehe

Comment by 106872

Ya... I had similar experiences as everyone else with action bar not responding, odd messages sayign im out of area. Re-logging resolved my issue with action bars. Still occasionally got the out of area warning, but it went much faster after i was able to use my buttons!

Comment by 258259

just curious having huge trouble from this one i have sat isp and lat stays at about 2000 and unable to pick up the helpless ones any ideas i want to finish the quest line but been on this one over an hour with 1 pickup and like 10 deaths cause it says i have to be still to do the quest

Comment by 42580

Skip this quest honestly until they make it less retarded then what it is.

Your gryphon randomly dies
When you pick people up they fall off and won't count
When you HAPPEN to save one and you take it back to the required area they won't jump off and they stay on on the back yapping
sometimes you take them back to the required area and it still says you need to be at the area even though you are looking dead at them
when they are running or stationary you won't always pick them up

so it's best to skip this quest until they fix the bugs that infest it

Comment by Rothar

I've been wondering about something...

The Inn is empty (no Innkeeper, other NPCs, or even music) before you complete this quest.

Afterwards, there's an Innkeeper, cook, and a few other NPCs.

Now, I could swear on my life that these are the exact villagers I saved on this quest. So clearly, there's an instance of the Inn before and after the quest...is the after instance different for each player, depending on which villagers they save?

Comment by 102214

Here's an interesting bug:

When I was taking the villagers back to the keep, I was followed by a trail of undead ghouls who were constantly falling out of of the sky, and when I'm about to land to drop off those villagers a few of those undead also landed right next to me near the questgiver.

I took off soon afterwards and the ghouls attacked other players, and they ended up killing an AFK Druid standing near the FP.

Comment by 76394

This quest is quite important if you're leveling in Dragonblight. After you save the villagers the Inn in Wintergarde Keep will have NPC's. (The NPC's are actually the villagers that you save)

The Inn will now have:

An Innkeeper

A General Goods Vendor

A Reagent and Enchanting Supply Vendor

A Trade Supply Vendor

A Stable Master

An Alchemy and Poison Supply Vendor

A Food & Drink Vendor

So by skipping this quest you'll loose alot of things, since Wintergarde Keep is the main Alliance Base in Dragonblight

Comment by 208573

One of the things you say when getting a person on your mount is "Come with me if you want to live." Terminator reference most likely.

Comment by 187275

Few things about this quest...

Its seems that you can hold one citizen at a time

Going outside of the boundaries seems to immediately cause the citizen to disappear Thus leaving you to collect another one

do NOT spam the button to drop off citizens...doing so appears to override itself and cause you to lose your passenger and once again leaving you to collect a new one

These are just what Ive experienced...please say yay or nay and add info to make it a bit more accurate =D

Comment by Innicas

Only bug I had with this quest was easily fixed by turning off my addons, I have a bunch so who knows which one was conflicting.

I found that after grabbing a villager, if I stopped outside the keep for a second any scourge I picked up would drop out of me. Could save somebody a little stress at the FP

Comment by 25240

Christ! This quest is really bugged. The ghouls can actually follow you in the air and hit you of your gryphon so watch out for that one. If you fall from high up I guess that is what they call "death from above".

Comment by 276650

I would shake (pressing the a and d keys) to "shake' the scourge off. Then I didn't need to worry about dropping off villains with rescued people.

Comment by 179812

I hate this quest!

So much lag, I spent an hour and I only rescued two villagers.

Comment by lmh86

In addition, completion of this quest opens up the Wanted! quest billboard (inside the inn) which offers three group quests.

Most importantly, this quest is part of a chain with 32 more followup quests, involving:

As a lore/quest junkie, this is one of the best quest chains in the game. Don't forgo the chain due to some minor glitches in this particular quest. Come back at 80 if you have to.

Comment by 55164

You can check out the entrance of Naxx long before you've learned to fly in Northrend using the gryphon from this quest. Be warned though, the gryphon will despawn for being out of its range if you hang out there too long, so be prepared to find your own way down if you do.

Comment by 286076

the steps to do this quest:
1. Blow the whistle you get ffrom quest giver. you can do it wherever you like. even indoors.
2. fly to area right east of Wintergare Keep. (use soar (number3) always since it got 8 sek cooldown and duration you can constantly use it.
3. when you see a vilager running around with a fear sign above it land on the ground by it and press 1. if you rescue him/her fly to the gryphon station in Wintergarde Keep and press 2. then you release the villager.
4. repeat this 9 more times.

I hope this helped.

Comment by 302266

I turned off all add-ons and I this quest **STILL** is bugged to death.
Gryphon randomly dies, "too far away" message at inappropriate times, passenger refuses to debark, passenger mysteriously vanishes, et cetera.
Blizzard do beta-test things things before they go live, right?
Every one of these new "vehicle" quests that I have tried have had really serious issues.

Comment by 166885

Well this quest aint bugged at all cuz when i tried it it worked perfectly try turning off your addons then it will work for sureh Well guess thats it ;D

Deadlygnome

Comment by 129453

"Come with me if you want to live."

Best quest evar.

Comment by 146327

I just did this with my 4th character; so while my memory is fresh:

As others have said, I would disable any add-ons before you
begin. I did, and I had no problems.

A. Once you accept quest, you get a whistle in your back pack; you have all the time you need to begin. Begin when you are ready.

B. Depending on your class, if you need some buffs, then do so because it is possible to loose some life, take aggro if this is your first time.

C. As you leave the keep, look up to the scurge/ base in the sky and fly under or near that down toward the town. You don't want to get too far out of town boundaries . If you do, you'll get a message telling you to get back. Stay in the carrion fields area.

D. Begin to look for the people running with the fear sign over their head. When you first begin it is tempting to land as close to them as possible, but you don't have to land to get them.
You can hover near them and somewhat out of the way of the mobs. Press 1 to get the villager into the mount.
You'll see him/her leap in.
However, there are times that you see this happen, but for some reason, there is no one there.
Make sure you fly up a bit and check to see if you do have your person. Use 3 to soar faster to the keep if you like.
As you approach, the flight master will be to somewhat to your left.

E. Once you land, push 2 to let off your passenger.
However, there may be times that a mob has hung onto the
mount and you may bring it to the keep.
Be prepared, they may attack you.

F. This is a good time to check your life. If you have taken any damage you can dis-mount and heal up and call your mount again. In fact you can dis-mount as often as you like if you need to heal up.
My first time I tended to get too close and I was hit by the mobs.
I would return with half life (hunter w/no pet) but my life didn't seem to recover fast enough.

I did not find that it was timed. One occasion I even had to log out and then back, I was able to call my mount and continue-must have been 4-5 min later.
So, relax, you have the time. I know a lot of posters had problems with this quest; it can be a tad stressful, but it is doable.

Also remember that doing this quest gives you access to all of the NPCs of the keep.
No one is there before the quest, once you do it, they are there.

Someone said it would make a good daily and that's probably true. This is something that you get better at the more you do it.

If it's really driving you nuts, leave for a few levels and go back.
Or not! LOL

Comment by Koshut

The STUPIDEST quest i have see in my life... its @#$%ing too long to do and its &*!@ing bugged
aw and i forgot to say its a stupid quest

Comment by 238959

Another completely buggy blizzard quest. I landed by them multiple times. pressing 1 never worked. Pressing the button never worked. About the tenth try, I was killed because they kept shooting at me even in the air.

Revived and tried again. After 10 more tries, gave up. Still hadn't rescued a single one.

I would as Blizzard about it except I know they'd do absolutely nothing.

Comment by 233210

This is the most boring quest in the game.

Comment by 272215

I did this quest as of 2.2.2008 with no problems. It took a bit to get the hang of picking up the villagers, but after that, piece of cake! (Also, I finally tracked down the one addon that was keeping my vehicle bar from showing, which turned out to be MoveAnything- which was updated to the latest version available a while ago, so it's not an old version of MA I'm using.)

Comment by 240252

it was slightly difficult to actually find the villagers. just look for groups of undead chasing something. also, the only glitch i had was when i rescued one, it sort of fell through my gryphon and i had to find another one. this happened twice. not sure if it's somehow related to the fact that the villagers you save end up being the vendors in the keep (like so many gnomes, so many nelfs, etc). just something that occurred to me. over all, a fun little quest. finished in less than 10 minutes

edit: i forgot to mention, not a bug but frustrating: the villagers are running away from the undead, which sometimes makes it difficult to land near them (since they don't stop). this might account for some of the "bugginess" that other people are experiencing. it's not a bug, they just run out of range before you're finished casting.

Comment by 299487

This is by far the most annoying quest I have ever done. First of all, the villagers are difficult to target. Once you can get one targeted, they run by so fast that they're out of range before the pick up spell has finished casting, which by the way can't be cast while you're moving of course. So you basically have to hover long enough to memorize their running pattern and then land far in front of them. Oh and after you've done all that, half the time the villager disappears/dies after it's already jumped on your gryphon!

If it weren't for the fact that this quest is a pre-req. for other quests at Wintergarde Keep, I'd say drop it like it's hot.

Comment by 193226

The helpless ones for this quest are right under naxx, out side of the city.

I got confused with the trapped ones inside the city.

Comment by 248401

This quest bugged for me too, but worked when I turned my addons off. Interestingly enough the only addon I had on at that point was the latest version of Omen, so it appears that may be the source of the bug, atleast in my case anyway.

Comment by 155695

If you are in a party and doing this quest together, make sure you stick with your friends, or at least wait or tell them to wait before turning a person in, you will get credit for their rescues.

Comment by Miletus

How to do this quest.

1. Shoot the flare to call down a gryphon.

2. Fly to the Trapped Wintergarde Villager and try to rescue them.
2a. Realize that these villagers aren't part of the quest.
2b. Curse Blizzard.

3. Fly to the Carrion Fields and find a fleeing villager.

4. Land in front of them and spam the pick up villager button.
4a. Realize the buttons are bugged and you have to manually click with the cursor.
4b. Curse Blizzard.

5. Click with the cursor, pick up the villager and fly away.
5a. Realize that if you move too quickly, the villager disappears from both the ground and the mount.
5b. Curse Blizzard.

6. Collect another villager and fly back to Wintergarde.
6a. Realize that Wintergarde bugged and is showing you the phased version that has NPCs already.
6b. Curse Blizzard.

7. Land near the gryphon master and manually click the button to kick the villager off.
7a. Listen to the villager ask how he can repay you and think to yourself, "By getting off my mount."
7b. Realize you have to be standing in a tiny circle several feet away from the quest giver with the villager on your mount selected and spamming with your mouse button.
7c. Curse Blizzard.

8. Repeat 9 more times.
8a. Curse Blizzard.

9. Realize Horde doesn't have any quest like this to unlock their base in Dragonblight.
9a. Curse Blizzard.

Comment by ResonantYaw

Funny thing, I used the gryphon to fly to Naxx. I flew up to the portal, and left before I got booted off the gryphon due to zoning.

Comment by 272357

Loved that the enemies shouted "NOM NOM NOM" after the villagers :D

Comment by Incurable

Couldn't pick up, or drop off villagers until I disabled all mods. Disable mobs and the quest is smooth as butter.

Comment by 11636

The griffin's "Soar" ability's cooldown is less than its duration, so there is little reason not to keep it up at all times.

Comment by snowkiller

omg booooring :S

Comment by 162694

Before turning in this quest, use the bird to fly to Wyrmrest Temple if you don't have that flight path. You can fly more than halfway there and use your ground mount the rest of the way. The fly back and turn in your quest. There's also a quest out of Wyrmrest Temple that gives you a "free" flying mount for in and around parts of Dragonblight.

Comment by viva

If you watch carefully all these people run into the inn and then shortly thereafter they are your NPC lifeline to this area - vendors, repairs, stable master, inn keeper.

Comment by 386242

I can't even mount the bloody thing. How do you get on & what are add ons?

Comment by mrdummy

You can watch first how the helpless people runs. Many runs in circles, so you can easy go to place where they shall pass you. Press then the button to pick them up.
Not all are immdiately dead.
Track Humanoids is helpful. Look for moving greens on minimap, they're mostly helpless people.
If you see one, land in front of them, stay still and keep pressing button. You must not move when picking up people.

Oops, gryphon can die suddenly after some minutes... but you don't fall immediately dead, you have parachute on it.
Whistle again, get on, and you can continue.

Good luck :)

And: if you want do (soon or later) quest http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12459 (That Which Creates Can Also Destroy), wait with turning in the quest. Use gryphon to fly easy to the mob in the city. It's 1-2 levels higher quest

Comment by iranou

A funny glitch happened - when I picked up a human female, she turned naked! See screenshot.

Comment by kolobri90

This is a tip if you dont got flight skill and wont bother the locks for summon all the time... save this quest and never complete it before you get your real fly skill since you can use it to fly up to naxx. just a tip for those who know they cant efford it later in game. hope you will use it.

Comment by 437042

after I rescued a villager and get to the gryphon station, it says "you must select a target" and when I click on gryphon commander urik it says "no target"

Comment by 23justin

When you mount the gryphon it says when you hover over the icon in the buffs corner, "You may only fly in Wintergarde Keep, Wintergarde Mine, and the Carrion Fields."

The only place I can find these stupid citizens is in the mine, but when I go there it throws me off my gryphon. =/

Comment by ZeroSapphire

The villagers you save are NOT the same that appear in the inn after the quest is done. I was doing this on my dwarf character with the intention of making an all-dwarf inn and was disappointed to find preset NPCs.

Comment by testdrug

Fun thing, you can summon the gryphon and fly around inside the inn.

Comment by Miwna

Sometimes you will say: Come with me if you want to live.

Comment by zeakster777

I keep trying to do this quest, yet, it seems glitched, with all the villagers I attempt to save,"climb aboard" only to dismount the gryphon immediately after mounting, disappearing,with me not getting credit for anything, has anyone else experienced this issue?

Comment by 560996

Very easy and interesting quest. Villagers are south of quest giver, bellow the big undead building, you cant miss it. Simply fly down, press 1 to let them get on ( they jump, you can even lift off while they are jumping ) and fly back. I used Soar only to get there and back quicker :).

Comment by 573345

You can do this in 10 minutes but it feels like two hours.

Comment by datgrl

I spent about 2 hours doing this quest. I had multiple pick ups that didn't complete but I didn't get a 'failed' message. The NPC just seems to disappear as they float down on the mount. So, if you pick one of them up, you will see them behind you. Otherwise, keep trying. For me it was much easier to target the larger NPC's like Night Elves and Humans. And there were one or two that had a definite pattern to their path and those were easy to anticipate. For example, one runs around the bonfire in the square in a circle. You don't have to be on the ground but you do have to be stationary for the pick up to work. Hope this helps someone.

Comment by FuxieDK

This quest is bloody annoying..

2 out of 3 times, when you have picked up up as villager, when you return to drop off point, he's not there (you just get a "failed" when you press 2-key).

On top of this, you have to fly round for 1-2 minutes just to find a villager to pick up..

Comment by FuxieDK

Quoted for the win!

Comment by svirve

This quest is undoubtedly bugged.
I found some few easy ways to counter-act the bugs.

To prevent the NPCs from not mounting your gryphon make sure they do not run out of range before you finish the cast.
I would regularly have the mobs fall through my gryphon, then I started cutting ahead of them making sure they were in range for the duration of the cast, problem fixed, no more falling-through-mount-NPCs.

I never had the gryphon spontaneously die on me, however I noticed that the boundary limit is quite stupid.
Make sure you always fly straight for the quest giver after you've picked up the NPC.
This way i would randomly get the boundary warning but never lose my mount.

I also never encountered the NPCs refusing to dismount, however it's possible to dismount and get a new mount if you have an NPC with you, i suggest doing so.

I was able to complete the quest in under 10 minutes this way.

Skipping this quest is not a good idea, for one it leads to a great quest chain (as mentioned above) and it is the pre-requisite for pretty much every quest in Wintergarde Keep.
Also you'll miss out on the innkeeper, trade goods vendor, reagents vendor, food & drinks vendor, poisons & alchemy vendor among other things.

Comment by Xanker

The 'Grab my hand!' part reminded me of this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdf_Iig-NWg .

Nice quotes in this quest.

Comment by Irishwhiskey

pretty much worst quest ever...as i save villager after villager it tells me no target quest seems bugged as blizzard continues to make no effort into making old quests playable...blizzard sucks..time to go play aion

Comment by 681794

This is one of those frustrating but necessary quests; as others mentioned once you complete this quest it opens up others. This is how it worked for me - I targeted the running villager by left clicking on them, hovered over the area until I figured out their "running path" landed in front of them then clicked the board passenger icon, when I came back I "left clicked" the NCP to turn in (I was not taking a chance that I would not get credit as it was a pain in the backside to get the "running villager" in the first place). All the things others mentioned as bugs happened and I would get an "out of range" message if I was not on the ground to pick them up. Once I figured out WHERE and HOW it did not take as long and it does open new quests. It is possible that the life bar of the Gryphon ran out which is why we got dumped in a mob.. or a bug. Just saying - I was not concentrating on my Gryphon's life bar so much as trying to get the "running villager" to stop long enough to hop on before being attacked by the mob chasing them. I hated this quest! Just saying :-).

Comment by 660248

Try holding your button for jump when they try to get on. They jump a mile.

Comment by auslanderplates

Extremely annoying. One of the worst quests ever.

Comment by Aradroth

God I hate this quest, just did it for like the 5th time today on my hunter. Saving 1 person is bad enough but going back and fourth to save 10 people is waaaay too annoying, they should just drop it down to 5 people.

Comment by 789647

This was a fun quest, just remember to stop to pick up the feared villagers, and hit three constantly if your impatient like me! It takes a while, but I hate grinding on mobs all the time, so even quests that are a little long are a good break from the monotony. :D

Also, one of the male night elves said this to me when I picked him up:

You are my guardian angel! Like a white knight you flew in from the heavens and lifted me from the pit of damnation!

I giggled, being a girl.

Comment by 632548

Nozzivix says: come with me if you want to live

is it just me or is a draenei quoting the terminator funny? especially the male draenei's gun animation

Comment by ziggy29

I floundered with this one at first, but once I made a note of where I was and where I needed to go, it was a lot easier (though 10 times is overkill for a quest like this; 3-5 times would have made more sense).

The quest begins at the gryphon station at 77,50 - remember those coords since that's where you need to go to return the villagers to safety. Fly due east to around 85,50 and look around, panning around a little above the ground looking for running villagers. Find one, pick it up, fly back to 77,50 and drop it off, lather, rinse, repeat.

Comment by 562387

The advice I followed was to observe the running pattern of the villagers (thanks Glamborn!). They usually run around buildings, camp fires, along a certain path etc. and the mobs run after them. The villagers never stray off their path. You'll notice that at some point along their path the villager and the mobs spread out, giving you enough space to get as low as possible and pick them up without aggroing the mobs. Once you've figured out that spot select the villager, hover over the spot, and when he/she runs by again lower the griffon and pick up. I also noticed that once the "pick up" option completes channeling I could start lifting off slowly and the villagers would hop on even though I was higher. Also I would go for the villagers along the perimeter of the Carrion Feilds, there's much more space, it's a little hectic in the middle.

I completed it yesterday, no bugs, no villagers disappearing on me, no glitch at the drop off. It will take some time to complete but unfortunately it's a must-do! Hope this helped!

Comment by Phinnie

This quest is VERY bugged. I tried doing it today and no matter what I did, nothing would work. I couldn't dismount, even if I abandoned the quest. I couldn't pick up villagers. When I actually could, half of the time, I'd go back to drop them off and there wouldn't be anyone around and it would tell me, "You can't do that while moving." I logged off a million times, rebooted my computer, disabled add-ons, changed settings. I did everything I could think of. Even a guildie joined in with me and experienced the same problems. I submitted a ticket.

Comment by 835044

they still have not fixed this quest, and it is still a major pain

Comment by Zgred2

This quest was positively bugged for me in 4.1.0: phasing problems, couldn't dismount, couldn't get rid of a villager because of the "can't use when moving" error, etc. I wrote a ticket and got a response from a GM that there's currently a bug with vehicles that don't belong to the player, and until it gets fixed, he proposed the following fix, which I did and it worked perfectly:

1) Backup your Interface and WTF folders somewhere else
2) Delete your Cache, Interface and WTF folders (naturally keep those backups you just made!)
3) Go into the game, go through the intro cinematic, license agreements etc. , go to video settings, set the slider to low settings
4) Go into the game, do the quest, it should be working perfectly now.
5) After you're done with the quest, turn the game off, go into the WoW folder, delete Cache, Interface and WTF again.
6) Copy your backed up Interface and WTF folders back into the main WoW directory.

After that and you log in into the game and make sure everything is back to the way it was, you can delete the backups or do whatever you want with them

Cheers to the Silvermoon EU GM's, this quest needs fixing fast.

Comment by zopa34

Really annoying quest,10 people are too much

Comment by 835891

This quest was fun for the first three or so pickups.

After that I wanted to eat my eyeballs.

Comment by 903424

It seems to me that you can only haul one person at a time.. This is really time consuming, and that you get no error message (just that you are not close enough) is kind of silly..

Comment by 879813

"My shop's doors will always be open to you, friend."

Jesus, pop culture references and blatant innuendo all bundled nicely into one quests. Way to go, Blizzard.

Comment by FuryWar

After being very frustrated with trying to save the villagers without getting mobbed by the undead, I finally discovered that you do NOT need to land to grab them! It went much more smoothly once I began flying low and hovering to pull them on my gryphon!

Comment by gtadem

As of patch 4.3, this quest now only requires that you save 5, down from 10. Good news considering that the quest is SO tedious, but unlocks a lot of quests.

Comment by wpken

Maybe you guys could help me. I was doing this quest on my third time and all of those Hungering Dead that are chasing the helpess villagers were marked as "friendly" npcs.
Now despite their nameplates saying they were friendly, they most certainly were not. It was a HUUUGE trap! They would still attack me, and the only thing i could do was run away because hey, they're friendly and "I can't attack that target."
I don't mean to come here about this but Blizzard customer support thought it was a good response to my ticket to pawn me off to you guys.

Comment by 823485

I was not happy with this quest. 4 0f the 5 I rescued were male, and the lone female was a gnome. C'mon Blizz, I got a rep to protect. lol

Comment by lionsofmercy

Maybe it was just me, but if not, here are some clues for the Easily Confused:

I kept getting disoriented flying around trying to chase villagers-and then because I'm special I had a hard time getting back to the Keep without going out of bounds.

Answer: Don't go nuts chasing villagers around. I found that they run toward the statue for paternal reassurance. BE PATIENT. Hover close to the ground in front of it and drop when one is near; click "1" *slowly* because if you spam you may un-save the villager.

Then turn around, fly up the hill through the broken gate; bear right and keep going up the hill through the intact gate into the Keep. Go left and then take your first right. The flightmaster is at 77, 50.

Comment by 1022978

And for the sake of making this quest 3 times faster, use the soar ability constantly. The effects are longer than the cooldown so that nice 350% speed boost will be all yours the whole flight.

Comment by MurdokTKD

This quest are bugged for me...
I can´t find any villagers...

Comment by MurdokTKD

Ok guys, this quest are bugged, because i do this quest in same place,with same villager, the only thing i did was:

Stay near a trapped villager

Press the 1 bottom

Press the 2 bottom

and do this 10 times, and its finish.

Comment by Slan1011

Ignore the lame comments above. This is a horrible quest, it's terribly confusing per Blizzard usual, the pick up button does not work, it just tells you you can't do it while mounted. if you dismount you will be killed. Epic fail from a company where epic fail has sadly become the standard operating procedure.

Comment by StarFire2686

If your having issues picking up villagers select them first then hit 1. Also stop moving dont chase the villager. land ahead of where they are running after you have selected the villager and they will jump on after you hit 1. even if you start flying up at that point.

Comment by 1427679

This one frustrated the heck out of me until I realised you don't actually have to land. Just hover in front of them and pick them up as they run past.

Comment by 1440987

Flight of the Wintergarde Defender http://youtu.be/lF_OCW9WIHA

Comment by Boxofbeer

Flight of the Wintergarde Defender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZvtRFP-ju0

Comment by Senpaixde

If someone has a problem like "i cant see the damn Villager $%^gots" just disable addons and use Repair option from Battlenetlauncher. <3

Comment by Dilph

You lose the Darkmoon exp buff WHEE doing this quest pffffft

Comment by Kasstarix

At level 120, just did this quest for the first time. It was extremely easy. Just park a little ways in front of where the villager is running and spam 1 until it sticks. Rinse and repeat.

Links

Flight of the Wintergarde Defender

Rescue 5 Helpless Wintergarde Villagers and return to Gryphon Commander Urik at Wintergarde Keep.

Helpless Villager Rescued (5) (1)

Provided item:

	Wintergarde Gryphon Whistle (1)

Description

With this whistle you can call down a Wintergarde gryphon. Mount the creature and head towards the ruins of Wintergarde Village, now known as the Carrion Fields, southeast of here. Once at the fields, keep your eyes peeled for helpless Wintergarde villagers. When you spot one, fly low and use the gryphon to pick them up. Return the rescued villager here, to the gryphon station.

There are Scourge all over the place so you'll need to keep your wits about you, hero. Good luck!

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12237))