Quick Facts

Series

1.	Zen'Kiki, the Druid
2.	A Different Approach

Storyline
Western Plaguelands Scourge First... Horde Later War Machines The Endless Flow Scholomancer Brute Strength Araj the Summoner Victory, For Now Go Fletch! A Mighty Hunger Uther's Blessing The Abandoned Crypt Ambushed! The Writhing Haunt This Is Our Army Combat Training The Battle Resumes! Supporting the Troops Ashes to Ashes The Depravity of the Forsaken Val'kyr Incursion Brother Against Brother Aradne Alas, Andorhal Scourge First... Alliance Later War Machines The Endless Flow Scholomancer Brute Strength Araj the Summoner Victory, For Now After the Crusade Latent Disease Foxes and Hounds Who Needs Cauldrons? Foes Before Hoes Lower the Boom Strange New Faces When Death is Not Enough Combat Training The Battle Resumes! The Farmers' Militia Supporting the Troops Ashes to Ashes Lindsay Ravensun, Revealed Ace in the Hole Andorhal, Once and For All The Reckoning Learning the Ropes This Means WAR (Wild Arachnid Roundup) An Audience with the Highlord A New Era for the Plaguelands Gahrron's Withering Cauldron Return to the Stead Desperate Acts Students of Krastinov Zen'Kiki, the Druid A Different Approach Zen'Kiki and the Cultists Taelan Fordring's Legacy Unusual Behavior... Even For Gnolls The Good People of Hearthglen Bagging Bisp Turning Yourself In

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Comments

Comment by Nuker

The troll druid, Zen'Kiki (one of the funniest NPCs in the game), simply spawns them for you and you gotta kill 7 total. Coordinates are approximately 55,54.

Special note for Hunters:
The only way to tame a Diseased Hawk is through this quest.

Source: Petopia

Comment by 163843

Note that if you tame a hawk and still want to complete this quest, you'll have to dismiss the bird to continue. Otherwise Zen'Kiki will just keep shooting uselessly at the one you've tamed whenever you poke him.

Comment by 455007

Be sure you are not mounted, because then it does not work. There is no warning that you can't do that because of sitting still on a mount as you probably are because of riding on the hill ;)

Comment by 458239

You can't get Zen'kiki to get the birds if you are mounted.

Comment by Corbomite

Shapeshift! Here it comes, mon!

Comment by nirnaeth

for alliance that want to tame it, you'll have to have a horde summon it down, once it's downtrap the bird so you have some aggro on it, but it will still be aggro'd on the hordie. you will not be able to tame the thing with aggro being on your friend so simply have the hordie run away til aggro breaks and it's all yours

Comment by Raininheaven

Just finished this quest on my Dwarf Shaman. This quest is not Horde only.

Comment by 396598

It's not obvious, but you have to right-click on Zen'Kiki to have him shoot a hawk. I was looking for a pet bar, but it didn't need one.

Comment by pezz

If there is an enemy with a tamed bird there, Zen'Kiki might shoot at that instead of a wild one. I saw that he had done that, decided to hoof it (there was another ally there besides the hunter and I'm terrible at pvp to begin with), ran down the hill, and the Argent Dawn guard promptly one shot me.

If you see an <opposite faction> hunter, you might want to wait until s/he clears out before doing this quest.

Comment by Talvanor

Every time you right-click him once on the hill (or at least most of the time) he'll say something.

"Hey, that tickles, mon!"
"Quit yer pokin', mon!"

He'll also say "Alright, here I go!" sometimes.

I'm not sure if he says anything else.

Comment by 712754

The most Epic NPC in WoW his shapeshift's onto Moonkin are brilliant moar Q liek that blizz and more npc like this one ! :D

Comment by Furydeath

Zen'Kiki turned into a moonkin then spammed moonfire..on him self. =\

Comment by boribam

A couple errors I found while on my new hunter:

Zen'Kiki will fire at a freshly tamed Diseased Hawk, as stated many times above. (dismissing it should fix the problem)
If another player is around doing the same quest, Zen'Kiki will shoot at their already summoned birds.

I had both of them happen to me. The fact that my pet was on defensive didn't help, because it apparently tagged the one summoned by a Blood Elf rogue, who then proceeded to yell at me. So note to the hunters: dismiss the hawk, and keep your pet on passive while doing this to avoid instigating nerd rage.

Otherwise, a very easy (and highly humorous) quest.

Comment by ibroadfo

But why CE rep and not CC?

Comment by Anathelia

Zen'kiki has more quests available after this one, however: In order to access his next quest, you must do the quests around Mender's Stead that will eventually send you up to the Lumber Mill, and then on to Hearthglen.

Once you return from Hearthglen, there will be a quest available to investigate Gahrron's Withering - when you complete that quest, along with this one, then the next quest Zen'kiki and the Cultists, opens up.

Comment by Adelpha

The weird bug that makes you do the warlock summon animation during Zen'Kiki, the Druid is NOT present during this quest, which is handy.

Comment by Mzchief

You Do Not Have To Be Mounted & The Quest Can Be Completed on both Factions

- Go Ontop Of The Hill.
- Right Click on Zen'Kiki he will Start Shooting at the Birds. (you may see the birds in the sky)
- You finish them off and just do this 7 times.

Comment by George14

Even if you are in Stealth, when Zen'Kiki casts Wrath on a bird, the bird will attack you, therefore you will lose Stealth.

Comment by 616245

If Zen'Kiki isn't responding to when you right-click him, make sure you're dismounted. I spent 15 minutes wondering why he wouldn't call any Diseased Hawks down. Then I got ganked (which dismounted me), returned to my body and tried again. It worked.

Comment by Rumbuddy

"Here comes Zen'Kiki!"
"Am I hitting him?"
"No, hit me! Over here, mon!"
"Shapeshift! Oh no! Not again...I seem to be stuck...This isn't right."
"Shapeshift! Get ready to taste my claws! Rawr! Haha! Get back over here, mon!"

"Rawr!"

Comment by vizoere

If you lose Zen'Kiki, just go talk to him again at around 48.6, 54.1

Comment by 1112302

NOTE TO HUNTERS -
If you decide to tame this animal, you will have to dismiss it in the process of the quest. However, if you do not dismiss it, you will have a heck of a time. Zen will attempt to wrath on our pet, making it so you cannot complete the quest. Make sure you dismiss the bird.

Comment by 941372

It seems since CRZ, melee players have a harder time completing the quest. On my monk, when I hit Zen'Kiki to get a bird tagged, 3 to 4 RANGED players would tag the mob that was going to be mine. And the other half of the time, he'd target one that someone else was fighting.

Comment by Ballybog

Here's some advice for those of you who are going to do this quest now that CRZ has been implemented - if you go to the top of the hill and you see other players just standing there, odds are, they are there to try and aggro and kill the birds Zen'kiki calls down for you. Consider it to be an indication of this if you see them there without the required Zen'Kiki. At that point, it's usually best to leave that quest for later, or try to be quicker on the draw with tagging those birds first.

Comment by Yawhatever

On a more hilarious note... im not even sure how it bugged, but i was clicking him, and clicking birds... long story short... somehow i clicked him while he was casting in his moonkin form.... he targeted himself.... and moonfired himself about 7 times in 4 seconds.... killing himself dead.... i LMAO watching this. havent been able to replicate it unfortunately. also, unfortuneately... i had to go back and drop/reaquire the quest in order to get him to show up again.

Lesson learned... click things once when dealing with buggy content.

Comment by Boxofbeer

A Different Approach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XErlCN9raFQ

Comment by KKthx

Zen'kiki doesn't seem to be able to distinguish Hawk from opposite faction. There was a Rogue at the top of the hill doing the same quest. When I clicked on Zen'kiki to attack a hawk, he decided that the Rogue was in fact a Hawk and went after him. Once he starts attacking, there doesn't seem to be an option to stop him... only thing I could do is run out of range so that he despawned, then had to go back to Adrine Towhide to get a "new" Zen'kiki.

I'd advise waiting until any opposite faction players leave the hill... unless you want to pvp of course ;)

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=TQR2Zgt_JN4

Comment by 1374013

A Different Approach https://youtu.be/paZYKAwpOJg

Comment by Rainnea54

For any hunters trying to tame the diseased hawks AND complete the quest: You will have to dismiss your newly tamed bird of prey because Zen'Kiki is a moron and will only "shoot down" your new pet and therefore do nothing. I don't know if it's a bug or not, but it's definitely a sigh-worthy moment.

Comment by sevia121

Quest is buggy for me...i can't click him to target birds, reloading UI doesn't help..i have to logoff, logon, get zen'kiki back from the druid, then go kill another bird. Rinse and repeat :(

Comment by staarx

I discovered why probably most people have a bug with this quest. If you are a hunter this still applies to you as well. One of the other quest chains in the area give you a Val'kyr as a companion. This gives you a "pet". Even when you leave the area before completing the quest you will retain the buff Bond of the Val'kyr. This buff still mimics having an active summon and cannot be clicked off. Simply finish that quest for the buff to be removed and Zen'Kiki will work as he should be.

Comment by chailon

If you are on top of the hill and don't know what to do next like me. Click on the troll following you. He will bring the birds down to you. Make sure to have the camera facing the sky. The birds seem to have a short travel distance so be prepared to do your ranged ability or they'll start to evade and reset.

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A Different Approach

Bring Zen'Kiki to the top of the hill east of the Menders' Stead, then use him to summon and kill 7 Diseased Hawks.

	Diseased Hawk slain (7)

Description

Among other things, Zen'Kiki needs to work on his spell accuracy. I could see his wrath spells spiraling out of control even from here! In fact, I used them as a marker to follow your progress through the woods.

Perhaps we can use Zen'Kiki another way. Take him up to the top of the hill just to our east. The diseased hawks that circle above that hill must be destroyed. Ask Zen'Kiki to shoot at these hawks. Even if he can't hit them, he will distract them so you can finish them off.

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(26954))