Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Last Emperor
2.	Timeless Nutriment
3.	Wayshrines Of The Celestials
4.	Drive Back The Flame Path of the Mistwalker
5.	The Archiereus Of Flame

Storylines
The Siege of Orgrimmar Journey to the Timeless Isle Time Keeper Kairoz A Timeless Tour Time In Your Hands Hints From The Past Timeless Treasures The Last Emperor Timeless Nutriment Wayshrines Of The Celestials Drive Back The Flame The Archiereus Of Flame The Siege of Orgrimmar Journey to the Timeless Isle Time Keeper Kairoz A Timeless Tour Time In Your Hands Hints From The Past Timeless Treasures The Last Emperor Timeless Nutriment Wayshrines Of The Celestials Drive Back The Flame The Archiereus Of Flame

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Comment by GoHF

This quest becomes available when you reach Honored with Emperor Shaohao and hand in the quest Drive Back The Flame.

As the quest text states, you need to buy (at least) one Scroll of Challenge from Mistweaver Ku, and then ride to the Three-Breeze Terrace and use the Challenger's Stone that is right in the middle of the terrace.

After 4-5 seconds (during which you are advised to get back out of the terrace), a lot of Ordos yaungol will appear all over the terrace. These will be the same as the yaungol in the Ordon Sanctuary, including:
Eternal Kilnmaster
Blazebound Chanter
Molten Guardian
High Priest of Ordos
and, of course
Archiereus of Flame

While a group is not strictly necessary, it is highly advised you bring help. A ranged class with high mobility can make short work of the npc's (particularly with all the islands buffs), but others might have a harder time, and each of these npc's has abilities that will take roughly anywhere from 50% to 150% of your health.

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As for whether the NPC's despawn after a set time or not at all, unsure. They do not despawn after killing the Archiereus, but neither do they respawn if killed before the Archiereus.

Comment by hiramloram

There are a lot of elite adds, with a lot of health, and very damaging attacks. "A group is not strictly necessary"? "A ranged class with high mobility can make short work of the npcs"? Hmm. Check out the fight first-hand to see if you agree.

Fortunately this quest isn't like the Isle of Thunder summoned bosses where if you die you have to start over and expend more summoning currency. My small group was quickly killed, but all the mobs, including Archiereus, remained. After we ran back, a bunch of other toons came by and we eventually killed everything.

He dropped a 496 BoA and some timeless coins for me. A nice bonus, but the quest reward is the motivator here.

It might be best to treat this fight like Dread Ship Vazuvius. Someone on the quest can pony up the 500 coins to summon the boss, then broadcast over /General that a rare is up. It's worth taking the time to kill, even for people who aren't on the quest.

Comment by 66264

- The quest mob acts like a rare mob with tagging. As long as you hit it, you're golden. The same does not go for the rest of the mobs that spawn with him, which doesn't matter in regards to completing the quest.

- I shouted in /General, and we had like 40 people there within a minute on a Friday night. Made this a walk in the park. Also got a few laughs over all the people getting on-shot. ^^

- The quest mob does not seem to give the summoner any loot. May have been bugged, but that was the case for me 3 times in a row. Everyone else got to loot, and many got BoA's.

- No, you cannot complete the quest while in a raid group, as you may have already guessed.

=)

-Ostepop, Bloodscalp EU

Comment by Arrica42

Point of emphasis, this quest only works if you kill the summoned version of Archiereus of Flame at Three-Breeze Terrace. There is an Archiereus of Flame that randomly spawns like a normal rare at Ordon Sanctuary, and as I had just achieved Honored rep when he spawned in front of my group, I turned in my quest and came back and we killed him, but I did not get quest credit.

Comment by Azaile

important to note that you cannot do it in a raid group.

Comment by 1145548

After struggling with this quest for a while, I found a very easy way to complete it.

Just gather a group of five people at most (the quest requires a simple group so a raid group won´t do) and summon Archiereus yourself with the scroll then simply kite the mob to the celestial court when there are a lot of other players around.

Since Archiereus is a rare mob most people will join the fight in and will burn the boss in no time!

To complete the quest you simply need to kill Archiereus not necessarily the adds themselves.

So, get a good tank, instruct him to taunt and kite Archiereus to the celestials court and let our fellow players do the dirty work! Kill Archiereus and you´ll be done.

It is as simple as that.

Good luck!

Comment by jetfire158

This is actually easily soloed so long as you are on a fairly well-populated server or are connected to servers that are. The Archiereus is a rare elite, which means that as long as you tag him, you will receive credit for the kill. So here's what I did: Bought Scroll of Challenge, ran onto the Terrace, clicked the stone to summon him, died, rezzed, tagged, died...etc. Thanks to the icon on the minimap, any players who are in the area will see that a rare has spawned and will jump at the chance for epic gear or a Burden of Eternity. So even though I was dead for the majority of the time, everyone else killed him in the meantime, and I still received credit for the kill. Additionally, as others have noted, the other mobs do not matter for the quest. As long as you tag the Achiereus, you're good.

Comment by pwnit

Just to note, you do not need to actually summon Archiereus, you could just hit the one summoned by someone else and you will get the quest credit.

Although it's kinda pointless to do alone, with a party of 5 it might be a viable option to re-summon him numerous times. He requires 500 coins to summon, and gives about 400+ to everyone who tagged him, and dont forget - mobs that come with him could be farmed for reputation and additional coins.

Comment by reyzobugs

I just did this quest.
I have farmed rep for some time, so I got alot of Coins, so I went and bought keys.
I got 2 burden there, so I got very happy!
When I went and killed Archierus, I got another Burden.
Now I got 3.
Then I turned in the quest, and I got 4 now!
4 Burden on 10 minutes!
Edit: Why downvote? I'm telling the truth?
Edit2: Stop downvote? Have I done anything wrong?
Edit3: ^&*s...
Edit4: The amount of downvotes is TO DAMN HIGH.

Comment by Karma99

This type of quest is really turning me off WoW. Even with the realm merges, there are still low-population realms, and getting groups together to do stuff like this can only be managed at particular times of the week, Weds evening for eg and even that isn't guaranteed. The rest of the week, you are s**t out of luck. The same think applied with the legendary questline A Change of Command. After the first week of the patch, it was impossible to get a group to do this.

The quest lines are for everyone, but especially for those people who are not raiding in a large guild. So why put quests in where you have to be in a party to complete? And then when people find a way to complete them anyway, you prioritise hotfixing that rather than the endless raft of bugs that require more attention.
This is how to drive players off to GTAV.

Comment by 749141

does this quest require honored rep?

Comment by ufried10

With Timeless Isle being so popular right now, simply summon him using Scroll of Challenge and quickly announce in general chat. You'll have a group quickly as people swarm to take down a rare.

Comment by Yogilaw

'Solo-schmolo'. This quest needs a group of at least 5 to complete. First you have to have the time to run the summoning cast before being wiped by the mobs (not so easy, try picking a time when terrace is not so busy). You must tag AoF asap after spawning & then work with the group to take him down. The adds do not count towards the quest, only the main dude. There's a lot of running about involved in this quest, as long as you avoid the mobs attacks you can take them out without dying, but melee is very tough. Once tagged run like hell to drag into your waiting buddies, then kite like a kid on a windy day. Guarantee of Burden of Eternity dropping for you if you summoned the AoF & tagged him first.

Comment by 1243063

This task is possible to be alone for Destruction Warlock,
I did it with my WL instant 90.

First I cleaned the whole area and finished the boss.

Redid the strategy and posted a video of how to do.

Note: I play WL less than three weeks, had never played before.

Azralon server

youtube.com/watch?v=x9Ce0piTCUk

Comment by Lucilite

I tried to solo this fight on a level 100-something arms warrior and got my ass handed to me. Then i went & leveled up to 107 in Legion, improved my gear, respecced to Prot, tried again, got my ass handed to me just as hard. Maybe my all-purple-geared 110 Prot Pally could handle this fight, but for toons that aren't the most powerful this quest STILL most likely will require a group, even in 2018.

Comment by Vanthalas

In case you are wondering why you can't seem to find a stone, it has a somewhat long respawn timer (I'd guess between 10-15 minutes).

Comment by Gorganite

As of 8.0.1 you only receive 50 rep for killing him rather than the 250 rep posted elsewhere. You also have all of the adds but mostly they are taken out by others.

Comment by MissApril

If someone recently used the Challenger's Stone for this quest it will not be there for a few minutes until it re-spawns.

Comment by Ehayen

In MoP Remix you'll need to try to group with as many people as possible or you'll never be able to complete the quest due to bots one-shotting the mob as soon as it becomes attackable.

Comment by jcam

The Challenger's Stone page has screenshots of what the stone looks like. It sparkles so you won't have to look hard, you just might have to wait a while for it to respawn.

Note that if you have the ability to taunt for aggro, you can use your taunt for an instant tag without doing damage. :)

Comment by janin

REMIX Comment. Not entirely mob related...sort of.

There is something really weird on Remix. If the stone is up, it doesn't matter for how long it's up, as soon as you summon the rare, characters will spawn in.
They're not on a timer, they're not invisible. They simply log in about 5 seconds after the mob has spawned.
Something dodgy is happening :p And if you acknowledge them, I've done a few "/peer" at some, and they don't come back for the next spawn, having appeared for the previous half a dozen.

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The Archiereus Of Flame

Summon and defeat the Archiereus of Flame.

	Archiereus of Flame slain (1)

Description

Your efforts have driven back the Ordon and brought peace to the Celestial Court, but it will not last. It is time to silence the great emissary of Ordos - the Archiereus of Flame.

Speak with Mistweaver Ku and purchase a scroll of challenge, then travel to Three-Breeze Terrace to the north. Issue a challenge at the challenge stone, it will undoubtedly catch the attention of the Ordon, drawing the archiereus out of the Ordon Sanctuary. It is your only chance.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Burden of Eternity		Cache of Infinite Treasure
	Timeless Coin

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Emperor Shaohao

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(33343))

Guides

Wowhead's Guide to Shaohao Reputation Wowhead's Guide to the Timeless Isle