Quick Facts

Storyline
Twilight Highlands Twilight Shores Twilight Shores Welcome to Highbank! Burnin' at Both Ends Aiming High Kurdran's Waitin' Salvage Operation Naga Reinforcements Our Boys on the Shore Shredderectomy Siege Tank Rescue Scouting the Shore Landgrab Bird Down! Bird Down! Roots'll Do 'Er Wings Over Highbank The Perfect Poultice Any Portal in a Storm The Way is Open Firebeard's Patrol Welcome Relief The Only Homes We Have Small Comforts Honorable Bearing Clan Mullan Stubborn as a Doyle The Fate of the Doyles Firebeard Bellows The Fighting Spirit The Scent of Battle The Loyalty of Clan Mullan Death Worthy of a Dragonmaw Anything We Can Get Somethin' for the Boys Personal Request Dropping the Hammer The Lost Brother They Took Me Pants! Dunwalds Don't Die While Meeting The Family Sifting Through The Wreckage Donnelly Dunwald Eoin Dunwald Cayden Dunwald Finding Beak Anything But Water Once More Into The Fire A Steady Supply Home Again Doing It Like a Dunwald The Crucible of Carnage: The Bloodeye Bruiser! The Crucible of Carnage: The Bloodeye Bruiser! The Crucible of Carnage: The Bloodeye Bruiser! The Crucible of Carnage: The Deadly Dragonmaw! The Crucible of Carnage: Calder's Creation! The Crucible of Carnage: The Earl of Evisceration! The Crucible of Carnage: The Twilight Terror! Dragonmaw Takedown Fight Like a Wildhammer Never Leave a Dinner Behind A Vision of Twilight We All Must Sacrifice The Eyes Have It Eye Spy Tempered in Elemental Flame Hot Stuff Potential Energy Tear Them From the Sky! Last Stand at Thundermar Narkrall, The Drake-Tamer The Kirthaven Summit The Bachelor Rescue at Glopgut's Hollow Ogre Bashin' Find Fanny The Bachelorette Something Bold Something Brewed Something Stolen Something Stewed Words and Music By... Wild, Wild, Wildhammer Wedding Torn Ground Pushing Back Unbroken Simple Solutions Mercy for the Bound The Maw of Iso'rath Devoured The Worldbreaker The Terrors of Iso'rath Nightmare Warm Welcome Even Dragons Bleed Draconic Mending Life from Death In Defense of the Redoubt Encroaching Twilight Far from the Nest Breach in the Defenses Mathias' Command Easy Pickings Precious Goods Paving the Way If The Key Fits Pressing Forward Enter the Dragon Queen Battle of Life and Death And the Sky Streaked Red Blackout Shining Through the Dark Following the Young Home A Fitting End Last of Her Kind Victors' Point Ogres & Ettins Call in the Artillery SI:7 Drop Move the Mountain Signal the Attack Signal the Attack Four Heads are Better than None Four Heads are Better than None Up to the Citadel Just You and Mathias Just You and Mathias Dark Assassins Bring the Hammer Down Help from the Earthcaller Portal Overload Unbinding Spirit of the Loch The Elementium Axe Distract Them for Me Dragon, Unchained Fire the Cannon Coup de Grace Water of Life Mr. Goldmine's Wild Ride A Little on the Side While We're Here Rune Ruination A Fiery Reunion The Hammer of Twilight Skullcrusher the Mountain

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Comments

Comment by 86797

Make sure you do this the same time as the escort quest, otherwise you won't be able to turn it in if you have to go back and kill more (npc disappears)

Comment by 609618

These guys are NOT expert marksmen. They break my sheep! Semper Stupids!

/sarcasm

Comment by 318970

When you talk to the Highbank Lieutenant you have two options; "Dismissed!" and "<Make a series of complicated hand gestures>". If you select the 2nd option, here is a list of the funny stuff that the squad says back to you.

- Sir, I think the explosions and gunfire gave us away. You don't have to use hand signals.
- I don't think that is physically possible, sir.
- Leading under the influence...
- Now that's just rude...
- What the heck was that?
- What did you just call my mother?
- You want me to steal third? (Hilarious baseball reference!)

It looks like its just these few sayings, but they're funny!

Comment by SolidXerm

I was playing around with the <Make a series of complicated hand gestures.> command and my squad's medic reacted "Was that... Yoga?". I didn't saw this one on the list above so I tought I'll post about it... It's hillarious, this is the best squad ever! XD

Also, anybody noticed the buff they gain while they're standing still? It's...

Taking Cover!
Smarter than your avarge goblin.

Comment by 763824

I am trying to do this quest.. and Im not getting credit for a single kill. Not one. I cant figure out how to do this quest. or get those guys to even follow me.

Comment by slayer50513

"Was that...Yoga?"

Comment by Jaunter

Yet another stupid quest in the Cataclysm expansion. It's a very confusing quest. No real guidelines on how to get it done. I get killed and my spirit is on the other side of the closed gate from where my corpse is, so I have to go the resurrection sickness route. Thank you, Blizzard, for yet another badly designed quest.

Comment by 852170

This quest is seriously awful. I had to drop it and get it again multiple times, because either the NPCs never showed (and I couldn't get a new set), or the NPCs decided to randomly attack whatever the hell they wanted instead of following me. They do not go in the direction they should be going, and they get lost in the mix of random NPCs fighting each other. This is stupid. Skipping it!

EDIT: Pick up "If the Key Fits", then drag them to the location you need them to be. They will not enter combat instantly if you WAIT before picking up "Paving the way".

Comment by 862792

Ok, to make things a little bit clear for those like me who had problems doing this quest.
First of all don't accept both quests @ the same time, start with if the key fits, accept it and turn around, you have to walk away from the fight in the direction up the hill.
Once you past the fire there you can accept the other quest, paving the way.
If you accept both at same time they will join the fight where the quest begins and the won't follow you anymore.
Hope this was helpfull
Grtz

Comment by 862792

Sry forgot to mension that the guy who gives you the second quest is in your squad so he follows you, you don't have to go back to get the second one.

Comment by blankStare

ok. figured it out. I was still in combat from the previous quest. They just go right to the hill and start if your in combat. out of combat, they follow.

Comment by Fsmism

If your having the same problem I am and handed in the other quest first and can't hand this one in. Go back to Warlord Krogg at 29:41 and tell him you've lost the Gob Squad. You'll get them back and can hand in the quest that way.

Comment by Luminasita

Highbank Demolitionist says: Meatbag spotted.

Comment by Pypode

Today I accepted both quests. Before you take off, look around. There are foothills and you can run over them and around most of the mobs. On the way to the first gate, another squad (not a player, but NPCs) joined in the fight. Toward the second gate, "we" skirted the big mobs and hugged the gate. Just remember, when the explosives are set, definitely clear out. I was tossed by the explosion into a crowd. My Ghoul took the mob on and I ran for the gate. Complete! I like quests where I can figure out a different way of going. And maybe Blizz has reworked this to make it better.

Comment by arnoldc6

Once the quest starts before you entre combat, check out their buff and formation.
Everyone besides the captain and marine and a buff call "taking cover" and they are basically hiding behind you so you would get attack by mob first lol.
Thing is, that marine doesn't. Guess Blizzard thinks marines are dump ;O

Comment by Boxofbeer

Paving the Way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZbwErzL9Ec

Comment by rhinoceroseosei

When I finished this quest my Lieutenant was nowhere to be found. You can go back to Matthias at 26, 39 to get them to respawn.

Links

Paving the Way

Kill 30 Twilight's Hammer cultists along Wyrm's Bend as you fight towards the entrance to Grim Batol.

Wyrms' Bend cultists killed (30) (1)

Description

My orders are to accompany you south through the Dragonmaw Gates towards the entrance of Grim Batol. We're to clear a path so that the rest of the men can follow us up and secure the entrance.

Translation: kill everything that moves, and don't be ashamed if you have a good time doing it.

The boys are getting antsy. Let's go.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Stormwind

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28107))