Quick Facts

Series

1.	Priestess Hu'rala
2.	Mind Vision
3.	See Raptor
4.	Mind Control
5.	Be Raptor
6.	Surkhan

Storyline
Northern Stranglethorn The Defense of Grom'gol: Raptor Risk The Defense of Grom'gol: Murloc Menace Hunt for Yenniku Headhunting Nezzliok Will Know Speaking with Nezzliok Chasing Yenniku's Fate The Mind's Eye Saving Yenniku A Lashtail Hatchling I Think She's Hungry Favored Skull A Nose for This Sort of Thing Who's a Big Troll? Population Con-Troll Skullsplitter Mojo Bloodlord Mandokir Priestess Hu'rala Mind Vision See Raptor Mind Control Be Raptor Surkhan Welcome to the Jungle The Green Hills of Stranglethorn Tiger Hunting Panther Hunting Raptor Hunting Supply and Demand Tiger Stalking Panther Stalking Raptor Stalking Some Assembly Required Tiger Prowess Panther Prowess Raptor Prowess Excelsior Tiger Mastery Panther Mastery Raptor Mastery Big Game Hunter

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Comments

Comment by 18516

Very cute quest. If you get caught by trolls you get returned to the starting point, so avoid that big time. There are only 4 raptors to speak with. On my mini-map they were marked as green dots, but that could have been because I had hunter beast tracking on, though you are in pet/vehicle form during the quest and those abilities shouldn't work.... You start out with a Dash ability (1 button)

First raptor teaches you how to break out of nets (2 button). In my experience they captured you again before you could break out of their nets, so pretty much useless.

Second raptor asks you to get him food from a sleeping guy, so I did a 180 back away from him, hugged the right wall, and went into the back tent to get him food. You have 3 minutes to return with the food. Once you do he teaches you an ability to use get torches from braziers and burn tikis (3 button). If you get caught on the next steps you do not have to get him food again, because you have already learned the burning tiki ability.

You have to burn three tikis to get to the next raptor. Click the brazier below him and move nearish the tiki next to it, and hit the 3 button. The guards will move away and attend to the tiki. Going forward do the same with the next brazier, but this time you must be faster. The last brazier is right past where the guards are. Use the brazier and hit dash, click the 3 button as soon as you can at the next tiki, otherwise your torch will burn out, and move forward to the last raptor. I had to do this a few times to get it right.

Last raptor teaches you how to pick up skulls to trip trolls (4 button). I picked up a skull below and put it on the footbridge. If the patrol aggros you he will ignore the skull, so stay back a bit. Once he nears the skull he will trip and fall of the bridge. I repeated this on the next bridge.

Last bit has a triple patrol and a single patrol. I zipped around all of them, used the brazier near the exit, burned the tiki and ran up the stairs to get the complete event.

Comment by Dugiswowguide

View this video guide on complete path on how to complete this quest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fh-sw-9bTQ&hd=1

1. Turn on name plates so that you can spot the trolls easier.
2. The twigs have a 5 seconds duration incase you're wondering why it kept dissapearing, pick it up from the brazier and dash to the tikis.

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Comment by 708426

Ggreg is right on with his descriptions of this quest. It will probably take you a few tries (twigs going out and guys seeing you around corners), but it is a nice change from the normal quest types of collecting items and killing specified NPCs. I hope this is a preview of the types of quests we will be seeing in Cataclysm. Have fun!

Comment by gaudaloht

Sooo cute ñ_ñ

Comment by Vesuvius79

Got to raptor where I had to get food for it. Got to tent near the back where there's no guards infront of it, got food from sleeping guard but every (and I mean EVERY) time I leave the tent, I get netted, I eat through it and dash but get netted again. Really irritating me.

Comment by 64801

It doesn't matter if you run past guards or not, they will net you and the 2 ability is absolutely worthless.

Watch the bridge guards, they respawn in about 5 to 10 seconds. The last bridge, if you trip the guard but have to wait on the patrol to leave on the far side, just go ahead and pick up another skull and place it. You won't get past it.

Comment by caramelle10

The cutest quest ever...I was failing at the 3rd Tiki but luckily enough there was someone else doing the quest so we ganged together with the skulls and stuff and breezed through it. Ggreg's description however did help me out loads, so thank you :)

Comment by Tjaffe

Best quest ever :D

Comment by 711153

Small tip, pick pocket the troll for the food before you go speak with Tenjiyu, Less running :P

Comment by starfish

seriously annoying! if other ppl are doing this quest the same time as you and they get argo'd the troll still come after you even if you are far away... and I totally agree.. the chew the net button is useless!
I don't think I will be playing WOW if they make too many more quests like this!

I do like the rapto though.. he is really cute.....

Comment by fortnerd

Tip: You don't have to go inside the tent at all to steal the food. Stand at the back of the tent, close to the wall and hover the cursor around till you see the loot cursor. Voila, food. And no pesky guards with nets.

Comment by 297833

If you look around the area you will see there are plenty of tents with sleeping trolls to steal food from. Not all the tents have guards. No Guards. No Problems.

Comment by 70984

Pretty fun quest. Was stuck on the skull part, then finally figured it out on the 2nd try :)
Very cute btw.

Comment by 750792

At the end of it you get re captured, im guessing its supposed to happen but does anyone know how to get the raptor back, the guy is so cute <3

Comment by 335067

As of Jan 5th, it's broke. Nobody in any location to talk to.

Comment by Magekin

If you are a clutz like me then you may find this quest frustrating. It takes a while to learn the
aggro distance at which the trolls will attack your little guy (including when you are following
them behind their back). Also some of the quest amounts to timing--just when the
patrols happen to be where, in relation to your guy's progress on the path. A couple of
tips: on the final (hardest) phase using the skulls, get right up on the skullpile, click
the skull icon, then it takes a couple of seconds before the skull loads and the icon
will light up. It is possible under certain circumstances (I know because it happened to
me) to load 2 skulls on the bridge which screws it up and you'll probably get attacked.
It is possible under the right circumstances to succeed using the "chew through trap"
and "dash", but my success rate was only about 10% and I dont think it ever allowed
me to actually get to the next step.
When you start the skull-trip exercise, the first thing you see is a patrol of three that
cross your path in between where you start and the first skull pile. They just go back and
forth from a tent to a spot across the road; wait til they are nearing one end of their
path and scoot past on the other side. When you get to the first skull pile its very
near the first bridge. From the skullpile if you angle the view right, you can see
exactly when the troll patrolling the bridge reaches the near end. From there he
turns around. Grab the skulls when he's closest to you, follow him (not too
close) and drop the skull midway on the bridge or more than 50% across. Back up
then as the troll will aggro onto you if you are too close to the skulls, and won't
slip but will capture you. When the troll reaches the skull on the bridge he slips. It
takes a couple of seconds before he falls but you can start moving past him as soon
as he speaks--do just that. After the first bridge the second skullpile is on the left
and the footbridge is just adjacent on the right. There's a patrol of 3 that sometimes
come close to the skullpile, and you also have to watch out not to walk into the
bridge patrol guy if he is near your end. Again, hopefully you can follow the bridge
patrol as he head to the other side and drop the skull around the midway point.
As soon as the second bridge guy starts to slip, DASH past him--because he
usually seems to respawn right after he falls, and runs back to the bridge--you dont
want him to aggro onto you when he starts his regular-speed bridge walk at the
far end. You want to be out of his range--but when he's dashing to the bridge
and you dash past, he wont follow you. After the second bridge there are
a couple of patrols; at least 1 pack of three and a solo guy. The path bends to the
left. There's a brazier to the right of the path and a tiki just past it, as the path
bends to the left about where the brazier is. Go to the extreme right of the path
without falling over the cliff and you should be able to make it past the patrols to
the brazier. Then you just have to get a short distance from the brazier to the
tiki to set it on fire and sprint onto the exit path, which will be on your right. Take
your time at the brazier and watch that you don't aggro a patrol moving to the
final tiki.
When you reach the exit path there will be a cutscene you have to endure, then
you go back to the questgiver and you're done.

Comment by NAPALM

STUPIDEST quest i have done in my life of WoW

Comment by 242813

Here's a video guide for the quest for those who don't like reading a wall of text: WoW Quest Guide: Be Raptor

Comment by GrooveMaster

A nice homage to Metal Gear Solid ^^

Comment by 795309

Thing I realized: If they're running after the fire you don't have to dash past the guards.

Comment by ccmccoy

Timing is the key to getting past the trolls on the bridges. You can carry a skull for only 30 seconds after pickup (but it lasts longer after being dropped). The skull should be placed well in advance of when the troll will reach it to give you time to get out of aggro range.

Each bridge has two trolls; the second appears after the first falls off the bridge at the first skull. There is a group of trolls periodically approaching the skull supply at the second bridge, which adds some complexity to the timing, but it is still a matter of finding the right opening to get a skull, run on the bridge to drop it at a spot for the troll to reach it after you have run back to a safe spot from both the bridge troll and the group at the skull supply.

After the second bridge there is another group of patrolling trolls on the road, plus a single much faster running troll. You can hug the left side to avoid them and reach a high spot on a small hill to observe the entire final area.

You must reach the brazier across the main road and near a side road, avoiding the main road patrol, the main road runner, and a patrolling group on the side road.

Once you have obtained the fire, burn the tiki to distract the nearby trolls and dash up the ramp. You will be caught, but after listening to a short discussion you will be transported back to the quest giver for the completion.

Comment by Khayr

For those of you wondering, if you've completed the raptor chain the hatchling drops from Mandokir in the new heroic dungeon.

Comment by Emalethx2

Found what I hope is a glitch, because it's extremely annoying!

When you get to the last leg, you must wait for Shade of the Hexxar to speak to you, light the last tiki on fire, run up the stairs and stand in front of him.

I ran the last leg 3 times before I tried this strategy and after waiting for 30 secs for the guy to speak to me, I had almost given up. If you don't wait for him to catch/speak to you, you will be caught by the blue trolls behind him and run it again

Comment by Ivana

If you are clumsy as I am and you fall off into the water (like I did near last Tiki trap), you'll get teleported out of ZG. Don't worry. Speak with Priestess again and you'll spawn at last raptor you've spoken to (the one teaching skull spell).

Comment by Azrile

Not sure if anyone else did this.. but when you are at the end, do NOT run through the black portal (even though the quest says to escape). You need to stop at the black troll name Shade of Hexxer and be caught. I used dash, and actually ran past him and out the portal and was caught by guards outside and had to start over. After you burn that last tikki, just run up to the shadow guy and stop and wait for the RP to start.

Comment by 21348

Tan'shang - coord (89, 46.3)
Tenjiyu - coord (86.9, 44.7)
Chiyu - coord (82.8, 37.5)

Comment by 832859

just completed this quest and I didn't get any companion at all.

Comment by 833094

Completed the quest and went to the heroic ZG dungeon. Mandokir did not drop the pet.

Comment by 534021

To the both of you: it doesn't drop from Mandokir. Ohnga'aka is chained in the back of Mandokir's arena. After defeating him, she gets a BIG YELLOW EXCLAMATION MARK OVER HER HEAD (just in case you, you know, missed it) and you can accept and turn in a quest that gets you the hatchling.

Comment by 440764

Where do i find the dinosaurs and wich is the first dinosaur to talk to? Please help me

Comment by 835342

I cant seem to see any of the raptors I need to talk to. I can run past the guards without them attacking me, and I cant "leave vehicle". I have tried abandoning quest, turning off addons, restarting WoW, taking the advice of an above poster and renaming interface folder and cut and pasting all addons. Each time I go into this quest it doesnt work. Anyone know what my issue is?

Comment by 609642

This quest is broke for me, doesnt let me talk and I can run right past guards. Tried 3 times doesnt even let me leave vehicle I have to log out and it teleports my to the GY when I go back on. Sigh.

Comment by 789157

having the same problem...

Comment by Honathina

i have the same problem, i even disabled addons. freaking annoying cos i was on top of stairs where we complete our quest when i got taken :(

Comment by 520946

same thing happens to me, how can I get past it?

edit:
spoke to a GM:
the conversation here.
I tried about 5 more times before it worked

Comment by moogleroyalty

UI resetting and the like (which a GM suggested) did nothing for me. What did work was abandoning the quest, changing the dungeon difficulty from heroic to normal, and then starting the quest again. (Just changing the difficulty did not work; I had to abandon the quest first.)

Hope this fixes the problem for some of you!

Comment by Ciante

Thanks!

I had the same problem, disabling addons didn't resolve, then I tried this and it worked :)

So just remember to change dungeon difficulty to normal before taking the quest and you'll have no problem

Comment by Grieel

still bugged for me, tried the heroic to normal and disabled all add-ons

Comment by 534021

Did you, by chance, have a vanity pet following you (and a pretty high chance since they seem hell bent on following you after the last patch, no matter what horrors befall you)? I ran into similar bugs and realized I had my Pet Bomb ticking behind me. Dismissed the adorable bugger and, voila, it worked.

Comment by Junoa

Same problem, reload ui, abondon, changing difficulty to normal, even clearing cache, nothing has helped yet.

Actually what worked for me was set all graphic to low :)

Comment by Lanjelin

Abandon, relog, disable addons, summon & dismiss minipets, dismiss pet, removing all buffs, putting haunted memento in guildbank, putting Innkeepers Daughter in bank, changing dungeon difficulty, changing raid difficulty - nothing unbugs it for me.

Kinda annoying as this would be the last pet I'd need for 150 Achievement when 4.2 hits.
Suppose I gotta get back to fishing in Dalaran Sewers instead, sigh..

Edit: Take a look at this post by DerSenf

Set your graphics options to low and the quest WILL work!

I tried everything else, abandon quest, relog, disable addons, i even deleted my addons and the wtf-folder. Nothing helped after countless attempts.
But then i read in the official forums about the graphics settings and gave it a try - worked wonders!

Worth a shot (unable to test myself atm)

Comment by Lanjelin

Take a look at this post by DerSenf

Worth a shot (unable to test myself atm)

Comment by 466556

It worked like a charm! Just set your graphic levels to low. Thanx

Comment by FAMas

a-ha, the change difficulty trick works for me!
what i actually did was abandoning the quest, changing raid difficulty from normal to heroic, changing it back and changing party difficulty from normal to heroic.
i think what really matters is not the current difficulty but the changing itself.
hope this will help the others having this "not seeing any raptor" problem.

Comment by Enkilah

This really is a cute quest, poor lil raptor. :(

Good to note though that the trolls on the bridges tend to respawn fast, so dashing across them is probably a good idea... Also, make sure you don't hurry past the Hexxer at the gates. If you do so, you'll be caught by the bigger trolls and will be returned back to the beginning of the bridges phase. The quest doesn't register as completed until the dialogue triggers, and at least in my case stopping beside the Hexxer was required for it to begin while going past only resulted in getting thrown back in the chain.

Comment by 852086

Worst. Quest. Ever.

Comment by guldarheel

At first the quest is rather straightforward. When it comes time to drop the skulls, you must drop them on the bridge. While it's tempting to watch the unwary troll fall off the bridge, sometimes you will aggro him and he will capture you and you will have to start at the last raptor you spoke to.
Getting the food is easy. It's in the far tent beside the wall, past the tent that has a troll standing outside of it. Loot 'N' Scoot! Feed the raptor and go on to the skull decoy ploy. Timing is everything as there are elite patrols between the first and second bridge as well as another past the second.
Burn another tiki at the far side and then try and make a run for it, or so I thought. The first time I tried this, I got captured... Stupid trolls!
Anyhow, if you've made it across the second bridge I found a troll soldier running through the brush in addition to the standard patrol on the path, so be careful to avoid this one as he traverses the area near where you set the next tiki on fire. I stay to the left after crossing the second bridge, oing around the tree to avoid the patrols and the lone running soldier. Again, timing is everything.
Once you've done that, you will meet up with the Shade of Hexxer and Bloodlord Mandokir (sp?). There's a dialogue and then >poof!< then you're back at Fort Livingston. DO NOT RUN PAST the Shade of Hexxer, or you will just be captured and sent back to the last raptor before the bridges.
Hope this helps. It's not a difficult quest, but it can be a little frustrating.

Comment by 304801

At 86.9/ 49.9 There is a hut that isnt gaurded by any of the trolls.

Comment by 858432

I thought this was such a cute quest and all of the info posted here was extremely helpful in getting me through it without too much frustration. Thanks to all of you. I did this quest about a month and a half ago when I was at a lower level.

Now I am at level 70 and cannot wait until I am able get into Zul'Gurub so I can get my little hatchling back. :D

Comment by 738395

I had a similar thing happen. (Yllmeria/40 BElf Mage, Azuremyst)

I've done this quest many times, Ally & Horde, on many toons & servers. This time, I decided to just try & escape, instead of stopping to be caught, watch the rp scene, and get kicked back to my body like every other time. It was getting a little tedious, you know? So I did it, I tried to escape (like the quest said I should do!) . . . Down the passageway, no problem! Past the guards! . . . Down the steps! . . . Past the two pillars! . . . Down the next set of steps! . . . and I was Outside of ZG, no problem! (Yes, OUTSIDE ZUL'GURUB, Completely!)
Then everything stopped. A net was on me, it just appeared & I was back at the last raptor. I thought to myself, "COOL! That was something different!" I didn't think I could get so far, that I'ld be stopped in the passageway or before I could even get into it. So I've another chance to finish the quest. I get a skull/tripped a troll, repeat, then set the Tiki on fire, and went to finish the quest. But kept getting netted and reset to the last raptor. So I tried again. & again. And you get the picture.
Ticket-time. The first GM told me (in his response, I had to go offline for a while) Yes, that is what happens. You get reset and have to finish the quest, it resets you to the last raptor you were at.
, blah, blah . . I opened another ticket, and had to go offline again shortly after. Don't know what happened to it, but it was gone when I signed on and no reply to it. 3rd ticket got me a GM and we talked about it a few minutes. Found out that no one had ever had this problem before or reported it, at least. She wished me luck and suggested I google info as she couldn't give hints for gameplay. (Which left me wondering, how do you get info on a problem that's never happened before, that no one has heard of? Yeah, good luck on that.)
So, I kept lather/rinse/repeating, trying to finish the quest, and found I couldn't get to the two pillars anymore, but couldn't get the rp scene to play, either.Then I got creative. "What can I do, then?" I thought.
I found a fix, if this ever happens to you. (Oh, and, "You're Welcome, Blizz . . .") When you are about to try and escape, as you approach Jin"Do's shadow, attack it! Popped the rp scene into action and I finished the quest, as it normally should finish.

But it was still cool to be the first to get Ohgan'aka outside of ZG (to the best of my knowledge at the time of posting this), like the quest wants you to do !

Comment by dkgirl

I absolutely hated this quest. Got caught like 15 times, at least!
When I finally completed it, I didn't get the raptor back :( Worst quest ever.

Comment by Saru23

Does anyone know how to complete the "be raptor" quest once you hit 85? ijust got my panther cub, but when I went back to preistess Hu'rala, she was poisoned. I have no way of doing the mind vision.

Comment by dayoodin

I loved this quest chain, but it was a big pain and took a while. Couple things I learned:

Each special object only lasts a certain amount of time once you grab it, so it's good to develop a game plan and time things well. Coming here to read all the comments first is a good start.
If you fail and get caught by the trolls, you'll be brought back to the last "save point," which was the last raptor you spoke to.
The skulls are meant to scare the guard into jumping off the bridge. When the troll guard is on his way toward you, place the skull on the bridge with such timing that you 1) have time to run back to the other side so you don't aggro him and 2) haven't done it too early (because it will disappear before he gets to it and you'll have to place another).

Comment by genius13

If you go to Northern Stranglethorn 89.5,42.0, you will be where the quest chain starts but with no NPCs around. (I was not able to get Carbonite to set a tracking arrow to this location.) I found this useful in that I could work out the geography of the area without being a constantly netted baby raptor.

Comment by 815724

Oh how I have a new most hated quest! Once you get past the skull part you still have to use your skill to try to escape, can't just go for it and run straight out.

Comment by wow112

Hey guys, I really really really need to know this badly, if anyone knows, with this quest or ANY quests that are for both sides.

Say If I was to faction change from alliance to horde and say Ive done this quest line and aquired the reward as an alliance.
Would I be able to redo this quest again instead with the horde and obtain the quest reward as horde? Because the quest givers are completely different on horde and you do different things but I was just wondering.

Or would it just not allow me as horde because I have already done it and completed it as alliance? I mean they are both different sides so shouldnt I be able to do it again on thesame character? But changed factions

I mean the rewards are also different names to the alliance reward so shouldnt it be possible or faction change doesnt allow that because it will still be completed on horde since I did it on alliance. ?

Comment by 1009229

Do you ever get the raptor hatchling back? and if so what do you have to do? i LOVED that little guy lol

Comment by Kittytreets

Wow--this was an exhausting quest LOL! Thanks for the tips!

Comment by 975027

Just finished this today. There were minor bugs just had to get out and go back into WOW.

When you are the little dragon, go to the further corner, not where the large raptor and stairs, the other side of the platform.
Jump off and hug the wall. Watch for the trolls walking about, you can time them to move to the next location, you right turn and again hug walls on your right, you will come to the first raptor.

You will have to go back into the area you just got through. Hug the walls on your left (which was your right when getting to the raptor) Go in the last tent (building) hug the building all the way around to the door, watching for the trolls that patrol the area. You get in the front, go to the sleeping troll, click on him, like dead loot, he will not agro. Back out of the tent watching for the trolls, Hug the tent to your left the same way you went in. And then hug walls on your right back to the raptor, feed him, he will give you an ability to eat through the netting, it is on timer, so you only get one shot to eat and dash, and continue hugging walls and watching for the troll patrol.

The second raptor will give you a stick you can light. You go down the walk where you see the flame, light the stick and quickly get to tiki and press your number three fire button. The trolls will come to put the fire out, you run like crazy to the next area. Repeat three times, each time the tiki if further away so you have to time it.

You are now at the bridges and the last raptor. He will give you the fourth ability to pick and place skulls. NOTE: you can not jump off the bridge it sends you back to the raptor you just saw. You will watch the troll patrol, time it, hug the wall on the right, get behind the posts that come out, wait for the trolls to pass in front of you to the left, when the last troll in on the grass a bit, you can run past all trolls. Go in the tent that has a pile of skulls, pick one up.

When the troll that patrols the bridge start to follow him when he is about 1/2 into the bridge. Go to the half way point, drop the skull. Run backwards to the beginning of the bridge, where you just came from. The troll will jump off the bridge afraid o f the skull. You dash across the bridge to the next bridge again, hug the right side around the tents closest to the water. When the troll patrol goes through, grab your skull, wait, then go to the next bridge point. Do the same thing you did for the first one.
Once over the bridge, hug the right. You will come to an area, where there are huge trolls ahead, one troll patrols in front, and three patrol the rear, where the brazen is for you to light your stick. Timing is everything, sit and watch them, then when you think you have the timing, run to braizer, light stick run to tiki, and when the patrol runs to put fire out, DASH, you will have some sort of animated thing going on. I click the abilities that said invalid, I kept spamming them, and I got the complete and was back up at the priestess.

Good Luck...

Comment by 1018807

On my hunter, I have ran into an issue where I now get logged out after being caught. I am at the first row of tiki burnings and around the corner when I click the fire I get caught and netted. My game locks up and it shows the environment upside down and stuff is also blue. I get logged out. When I log back in I am still phased and there are no NPC or mobs. I have to hearth to get out of it. Keeps happening and is really annoying -.-. Not sure if it is my game or just the toon bugging some how at that point. Going to do this on my rogue and see. Curious if anyone else has had this issue at all.

Comment by Steffwiz

Found a very interesting bug with this quest. While I was controlling the raptor, I disconnected. Upon logging in again, I was out of the area, at what I think is the graveyard. However, I was not dead. I was invisible. Finding this very odd, I mounted. To my surprise, my mount was invisible too! So I'm flying around.. completely invisible. Whether this is for everyone or just me, I don't know. Just a cool bug I thought I should mention!

Comment by 912650

In order to get the quest from Priestess Hu'rala, you will need to finish all the quests from Commander Aggro'gosh. Eventually, Nimboya will start to give you quests and that will lead to here. Be prepared to do at least 20 quests.

Comment by 858432

Well...it took me a little longer than expected, but I finally reached level 85 a couple of weeks ago. I had forgotten about this until a few days ago, but something reminded me of my little hatching. So I started queuing for Zul'Gurub. It was difficult to get into that dungeon. When I finally did, and my group defeated Mandokir, I did see her tied up in the back of the arena with an exclamation point over her head. Yay! I got my little hatchling back! The quest/completion is called an "Old Friend" An Old Friend

Comment by NanamiKhalil

I'm just gonna leave this right here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fh-sw-9bTQ

This is much easier to follow than most text walkthroughs.

Comment by 1104508

5/6/12 bugged. Got to the end of the quest, the bottom of
the bottom of the stairs, no "Shade of " guy or portal to complete quest.

Comment by Aestua

Tried this at least 5 times in the last two days with no success - the end NPC never shows up to allow completion of the quest.

I'm level 90.

I've tried Heroic mode, normal mode, I've tried dropping the quest "Booty Bay's Interests", in case that had me phased, I've shut off all my add ons, restarted both WoW AND the quest completely, all to no avail. I get to the end, and no finishing NPC per the YouTube video.

VERY frustrating.

Interestingly, I WAS booted off Battle.net/RealID and then immediately after the server TWICE when I was just standing around approximately where the NPC should have shown up.

Grr.

Comment by 1122587

At first, I thought i'd get the raptor back but when I managed to escape, too bad a troll will appear and try to stop the raptor. :/
But, I really liked doing this quest. :)

Comment by trappum

This quest is much easier than it will seem to someone who has not seen a video or know some simple basics.
first watch the video on the link below:(finished it last night)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fh-sw-9bTQ

Basic tactics:

Never come closer than about 20 yards from any NPC, that are not the dinosaur you have to reach.

It is very difficult, nearly impossible to get away from an NPC ones hes going after you, so its very important to always stay a save distance away, about 20 yards.

Go to save points whenever you feel danger. whenever you see NPCs coming within 20 yards, move to save points. You'll see that in the video he goes to either the far left or far right. The NPC will not come after you at these points unless you already got too close to them.

Remember its always best to play it save, there is no time limit, so don't worry about how long your taking. It is always better to move to a save point, if any doubts. You can be there for as long as you want.

The danger zones are the roads and any where you come within 20 yards of an NPC.

Other save zones are. behind large trees, edge of cliffs, far off the roads.

Another very important strategy is to move away quickly to a save point onse you have put a tottom on fire, and ones the NPCs have moved to the tottom, quickly move along a far edge to the next point.

I believe its important to save dash to get to the tottom, ones you have the fire.

Make sure you have the fire with you before moving on to the tottom.

Ones you get through the second bridge and get through the guards at the tottom and get on to the bridge, you are done.

Do this quest at level 26, I believe that's the earliest you can do it, the gear is worth it at this point, and very good. I did it at 28 and it is no longer worth it, as the substats become very weak after that level, at 28 you can get better gear. For example, my boots at 28, with only 3 crit, gives me about 1.5% more crit than the 8 crit from the boots of this quest. The boots of this quest may not have a level requirement, but its only an item level 25 gear, at level 28 you can get an item level 31 boots.

Hope this helps.

Comment by 1440987

Be Raptor http://youtu.be/u8sErKOMW5s

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=vzz0Kdg-A-k&feature=youtu.be

Comment by NessieMo

Once Be Raptor or Be Raptor is complete, it unlocks An Old Friend which rewards the rare quality B/B Beast battle pet Lashtail Hatchling.

An Old Friend is offered by the captured Lashtail Hatchling, appearing in the Zul'Gurub raid once you've killed Bloodlord Mandokir.

Note that if you're soloing this as old content, you can go straight to Bloodlord Mandokir, without having to kill any of the other bosses first.

Comment by Jimmu410

I got all the way to the end, got caught by Jin Do and got sent back to the last raptor. I figured I'd done something wrong and kept trying to figure out what I should do instead. Turns out failure is the way to complete the quest. I'd just run into some kind of bug that sent me back one step instead of completing.

Comment by leon7421

Hilariously easy for any arms warriors because of Strom'kar's hidden affect - all the trolls are feared away from the raptor allowing you to breeze through.

Comment by Califree

Legion is nearly over, and this quest is still glitchy on a lvl 42 Lightforged draenei paladin. I got disconnected from server at 2nd raptor. Logged back in to find my character back at the Priestess in Fort Livingston. Telling her once again that I was "ready for the mind-control ritual" returned me to the 2nd raptor.

I had to do the last portion of the quest -- the part involving dropping the skulls so the trolls trip -- three times. The first two times, failing at the big troll at the end sent me back to the previous raptor. The third time was the charm, and "failure" succeeded. (See Jimmu410's comment: this is what happened to me, as well.)

The concept of this quest is great; the execution stinks.

Comment by mindaz3

The quest is not that hard, but beware of other players, if trolls are chasing somebody else near you, they will catch you too, even if it was not you who aggro them.

Comment by Seonsha

An absolutely horrific quest. Easily in the top 10 of worst quests.

Not only is this thing prown to disconnecting you from the game server when a troll captures you (I had a bunch of disconnects during the quest.) The whole design of might of supposed to be fun? Well it failed hard. But the raptor manuevers like the titanic trying to do a u-turn in a one way street. The mobs sometimes ignore the fires and skuls and go straight for you.

This quest can easily be rage inducing for all those factors.

Comment by murrlkjljhklrrr

Silly saurid... Ya be dead again!

Comment by viatrixx

I am a lover of all things cute, so of course, I thought this quest would be good fun, with a good reward. I was wrong. Very wrong.

Firstly, this entire quest feels like some poorly designed stealth game. It feels as if it was added as an afterthought. Someone on the team went "Oh this would be cute and fun", but only had 5 minutes to design and implement the quest, and also had no clue how stealth works.

The instructions at the beginning were unclear, and I got lost and died so, so many times, just trying to figure out the direction I had to walk in.

The stealth mechanic is poorly implemented. By the point of dropping the skulls on the ground, I had died so many times, I had essentially given up, I had tried (and obviously failed) to do that section so many times, that I just ran through, breaking traps as I was caught and running off.

Somehow, that worked...
It shouldn't have done, but somehow it did. By the last firey thing, I had lost all of the guards and could carry on as normal.

And then the quest ended. I had been so excited to finish this quest, and to have my new little dinosaur following me around, but this wasn't even the quest you get the dinosaur at! It was probably obvious to everyone else, but I was so disappointed! :(

Oh well... I'll get my tiny dinosaur eventually...

Comment by D3Nv

I did this quest for my Loremaster achie. This is probably the worst quest i ever done. It took me 2 hours and i almost cried once.... Terrible design....

Comment by thisreidwrites

Maybe I'm the only person who had a blast on this quest?

It's fun! Just zoom your camera out, and you can see everything that's happening. Follow prompts, check YouTube if confused. Enjoy the chaos.

"Must... regain... balance... mon.... ahhhh" is never going to leave my brain.

Links

Be Raptor

Speak with Priestess Hu'rala, then help the Captured Lashtail Hatchling escape from Zul'Gurub.

	Speak with Tan'shang (1)
	Help Tenjiyu (1)
	Speak with Chiyu (1)
	Escape from Zul'Gurub (1)

Description

Mind Control, very powerful, yes.

With luck, you can help Ohgan'aka escape from Zul'Gurub.

Then, Ohgan'aka becomes <name>'aka again!

Speak to Priestess, yes, and help <name>'aka escape.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Jungle Spirits' Embrace			Hu'rala's Slippers
	Belt of the High Shaman			Band of Raptor Teeth
	Waistguard of the High Shaman

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Darkspear Trolls

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26362))

Guides

A Month in the Maelstrom: Farming Cataclysm Mounts and Pets