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Icecrown Honor Above All Else Curing The Incurable Defending The Vanguard Scourge Tactics If There Are Survivors... Into The Wild Green Yonder A Cold Front Approaches The Last Line Of Defense Once More Unto The Breach, Hero Once More Unto The Breach, Hero The Scourgestone The Restless Dead The Purging Of Scourgeholme The Stone That Started A Revolution It Could Kill Us All The Air Stands Still Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle The Crusaders' Pinnacle The Skybreaker The Broken Front Your Attention, Please Borrowed Technology ...All the Help We Can Get. Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Basic Chemistry Coprous the Defiled Sneak Preview Chain of Command Cannot Reproduce Retest Now Not a Bug Need More Info No Rest For The Wicked Raise the Barricades Bloodspattered Banners Get the Message The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards It's All Fun and Games I Have an Idea, But First... Free Your Mind If He Cannot Be Turned The Shadow Vault The Duke Exploiting an Opening Securing the Perimeter Set it Off! A Short Fuse Parting Gifts An Undead's Best Friend Honor is for the Weak From Whence They Came Seeds of Chaos Amidst the Confusion Vereth the Cunning New Recruit The Vile Hold Generosity Abounds Matchmaker Stunning View The Rider of the Unholy The Rider of Frost The Rider of Blood The Fate of Bloodbane Eliminate the Competition The Bone Witch The Sum is Greater than the Parts The Art of Being a Water Terror Through the Eye Find the Ancient Hero Not-So-Honorable Combat Banshee's Revenge Battle at Valhalas Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn Battle at Valhalas: Carnage! Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge Where Are They Coming From? Destroying the Altars Death's Gaze Spill Their Blood Jagged Shards I'm Smelting... Smelting! The Runesmiths of Malykriss A Visit to the Doctor By Fire Be Purged Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton He's Gone to Pieces Putting Olakin Back Together Again The Flesh Giant Champion A Voice in the Dark Time to Hide Return to the Surface Field Repairs Do Your Worst Army of the Damned Futility Sindragosa's Fall Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Tirion's Help Tirion's Gambit A Tale of Valor A Hero Remains The Keeper's Favor Hope Within the Emerald Nightmare The Boon of Remulos Time Yet Remains The Touch of an Aspect Dahlia's Tears The Boon of Alexstrasza Hope Yet Remains The Will of the Naaru The Boon of A'dal Light Within the Darkness

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Comment by sueyed

Need to have five Dark Matter in your inventory for the Summoning to work, not the stated three.

Comment by Rhinosaur

Summoning Stone can be found at 54,34.

Comment by blackxangel

bliz updated the quest log and it now says five (5).

Comment by 101773

As quest states you need to collect 5 x Dark Matter.

Siphoned from the mob "Void Summoners", around coords 54, 29.

Use the "Rod of Siphoning" in your inventory on the defeated Void Summoners.

Comment by 245455

Once you gather 5 dark matter, go to 53, 33 and you'll see a purple summoning stone,

Comment by Hamusutaa

... it's a feature!

Comment by Cassandrart

It has to be a fresh kill as it seems. I killed a Voidy and started chatting in guild but I couldn't siphon it later. Unless this is a bug :P

Comment by 82413

The summoning stone is a purple, large crystal with a pile of skulls under it.

Comment by 182943

Kill Void Summoners and use the item on voidwalkers

Comment by 267845

Kill Void walkers around 56.1 30.0 and use the rod of siphoning on the dead void walkers.
Once you have collected 5 go to the summoning stone at 54 34 .

Comment by Novak

For those of you desperately wondering "Where are the mobs for this Dark Matter?", the answer is "Not near the stone." The mobs whose Dark Matter you steal are called Enslaved Minions. They follow around Void Summoners.

If you're at the stone, and facing north, go to the right and you'll see a flight of stairs. Go up them, you'll find some Summoners and Minions there. Go up the next flight of stairs to find a few more.

Comment by 301621

How do I get this freaking quest?

Comment by 163526

i have collected all 5 dark matters, but cant see what i'm supposed to do next to summon the dark messenger, can anyone help me pls thanks

Comment by JamesThePaladin

Make sure you siphon the voidwalkers before you loot them.

Comment by 189736

As JamesThePaladin said, make sure you siphon before looting, or else the channel wont work, happened to me for a bit before i realized what was causing it.

Comment by 59696

Possible fixed at 3.0.9? I just did it, and looted the first one without thinking (it's like flushing the toilet), and I could still siphon.

Comment by 229361

so what do u have to do before this quest opens for u? i'm an 80 dk and it's not showing up. (honored with knights of ebon blade.)

Comment by SannaSK

Other players can kill Enslaved Minions that you have tapped, and siphon them, OR can even siphon a Minion you have totally killed, thus getting credit for your effort. Be very very careful about who is around you *cough*Horde*cough* while you are killing.

Comment by Whiterock

THE SKYBREAKER Quest Tree From Whiterock

The Crusaders' Pinnacle* 1)Preparations for War
|->Orgrim's Hammer(H)* The Shadow Vault*
| |
1)The Skybreaker------->Exploiting an Opening*
|__________________________________________
| |->2)Mind Tricks |->D)Blood of the Chosen
3)The Broken Front |->D)Slaves to Saronite |->2)Joining the Assault
| +3)Finish Me! |->2)Get to Ymirheim! |->D)Assault by Air
|->D)No Mercy! D)King of the Mountain |->D)Assault by Ground
|
|--------------------------->1)Your Attention, Please
1)...All the Help We Can Get. 3)Borrowed Technology-->D)The Solution Solution
3)Poke and Prod 5)Killohertz
|_________________________ 6)Leading the Charge
| | |->D)Static Shock Troops: the Bombardment
3)That's Abominable! | |->D)Putting the Hertz: The Valley of Lost Hope
|->D)That's Abominable! |
| 4)Against the Giants
5)Sneak Preview |->4)Coprous the Defiled
|->5)Chain of Command |->4)Basic Chemistry-->D)Neutralizing the Plague
|->5)Cannot Reproduce
| 5)Retest Now-->D)Retest Now
|
5)Drag and Drop-->D)Drag and Drop
|->5)Not a Bug-->D)Not a Bug
|
5)Need More Info------------>5)No Rest For The Wicked
| |->D)No Rest For The Wicked
| |
7)Raise the Barricades------>8)The Ironwall Rampart
|->8)Get the Message |
| D)Capture More Dispatches |
| |
8)Bloodspattered Banners |
|____________________________|
|
9)Before the Gate of Horror
| \
9)Shatter the Shards 9)The Guardians of Corp'rethar

Watts My Target(doesn't work/exist)
Quest Zones:
1)Scybreaker_____2)Ymirheim_____3)Broken Front_____4)Mord'Rethar_____5)Aldur'thar_____6)The Bombardment_____7)Valley of Lost Hope_____8)Valley of Fallen Heroes_____9)Corp'rethar
D)Daily
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.

Comment by 29564

man..

I hate icecrown :S

Comment by nowayride

I'm getting a bug. I got 2 essence, now when I use the rod I get put in combat until the rod comes off of CD.

Apparently there IS a bug.

Comment by 344542

The rod will work if you are in combat just as long as they are frozen. After I took a summoner and minion down another summoner and minion attacked me. I just hit Hungering Cold and was able to get use the rod on the first one and then I turned my attention to the new pair.

Comment by Uselessbob

Not working as intended or not working, as intended?

Comment by Amonjura

Yeh i also get the same bug where you use the rod and it begins to siphon then puts you into combat and cancels it, then you leave combat when the rod has finished its GC of 4 Seconds.

Comment by 274970

With all of the aforementioned problems with the quest, I think it's interesting that the quest name is "Not a Bug"

Comment by 296281

if you can charge/grab enemys to come to you while killing the summoner, ALWAYS pull/charge the caster either way the minion will always come to you so just hurt the caster first

Comment by snuzzle

A word of warning to hunters, warlocks and deathknights (and any class with a summonable pet who might want to use it).

If your pet gets the killing blow on the Minion, you will NOT be able to use the quest item on its corpse. Best to set your pet on the void summoner, while you focus on killing the Minion first, luckily they're very squishy and I (as a hunter) was able to kill the Minion before he got into melee range.

Comment by LessThanEqual

It's a feature.

Comment by 811982

I would just polymorph the summoner, kill the minion, use the quest item then kill the summoner. EZ MODE.

Comment by goldenlace

Foe people still doing this quest for Loremaster. When you find the Summoning Stone that's hovering above a pile of skulls the mobs you need to kill to summon the Dark messenger are on the balcony above you to the North. Just kill the void walkers"Enslaved Minions" and use the Rod of Siphoning on them. You need to kill and Siphon 5 to summon the Dark Messenger to complete the quest.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Not a Bug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5jgs8kFBDg

Comment by allOf

Not a Bug https://youtu.be/YAlZhgvCXKI

Comment by Icarus509

The mobs you're looking for can be found at approximately 55.95, 30. Other comments are not accurate.

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Not a Bug

Thassarian, aboard the Skybreaker, wants you to collect 5 Dark Matters and summon a Dark Messenger at Aldur'thar.

	Dark Messenger summoned (1)
	Dark Matter (5)

Provided item:

	Rod of Siphoning (1)

Description

Alright, <friend/missy>, time to plant a bug.

Relax, it's not a bug exactly, but it'll serve our purposes.

In the northern portion of Aldur'thar the cult's void summoners enslave demonic minions. Use this rod to siphon the dark matter from the corpses of these enslaved minions, and then use their summoning crystal to bring our little spy into being.

Until it is discovered, the messenger will serve as our eyes and ears, discreetly observing the actions of our enemy.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Mantle of the Dark Messenger			Gilly's Strangulation Gauntlets
	Chain Gloves of the Demonic Minion			Legplates of the Northern Expedition
	Gutbuster of Aldur'thar

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13342))