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1.	Treasure Contract: The Thunderlord Sage
2.	Gronnsbane: The Broken Spear
3.	Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Fire
4.	Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Frost
5.	Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Beasts Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Beasts

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Comment by Haqin

The offering required is one Raw Clefthoof Meat.

If you're lucky you have remote access to your Bank/Guild Bank where one is stored. If not then a quick trip west of Stonefury Cliffs to the western, upper area of Daggermaw Ravine is in order. There you'll find Ashmane Clefthoof to slaughter!

Comment by r00x

You have to find Raw Clefthoof Meat from Clefthoofs and place it on the altar to lure in Gok'tal.

Comment by parpface

If you die and someone else kills it, you'll get the kill credit but by the time you make it back up, the corpse may have disappeared and you won't be able to empower the spear. I'm not sure if it despawns if you die and no-one else attacks it.

It hits pretty hard so I'd bring a few extra meats just in case.

Comment by Aaahead

for this specific quest (step 5 below).

BEFORE YOU BEGIN THE CHAIN, you may want to get a couple Raw Clefthoof Meats from the auction house, a Trading Post trader, or bank storage for step 5. You'll also need three bag slots free for step 2.

This guide includes info on the full "The Blessing of Beasts" quest chain, one of the six quest chain criteria for the Master Relic Hunter (Alliance)/Master Relic Hunter (Horde) achievement needed to get the Harrison Jones follower with unique Mentor ability. The quest chain takes place in Frostfire Ridge, the northwest Draenor zone where Horde characters begin on the continent.

Getting Starter Quests: The first quest of the quest chains are given by Harrison Jones, who turns up just inside your garrison's Town Hall on random days. He's in some garrisons every day, giving the same chain's starter quest in every garrison for that day. Use Group Finder's Premade Groups/Custom category to search for "Harrison" to see if anyone is inviting people to their garrison to get the quest.

Bug Notes:

If you collect an item that should complete a quest, but the quest isn't shown as completed, log off and back on (just reloading won't work), click the quest in your quest log, and see if you can click "complete quest".
Leave at least one spot free in your quest log (i.e. 24 of 25), or a quest may become uncompletable going from one quest to the next.
You can not do these quests in a raid group; doing some steps in a raid group can make a quest uncompletable.
If a quest becomes uncompletable, you can return to your garrison, delete the quest, and re-accept the quest on that step of the quest chain from the book of Relic Hunting Notes on the ground next to Harrison Jones. All but the initial quest are also shareable from party members, if you are on the same step of the quest chain.

For Alliance with no flightpoint to Frostfire Ridge:

Fly to the Bastion Rise flightpoint in southern Gorgrond
Walk along the path west into Talador until it dead-ends into a north-south road at in Talador
Turn right and keep following the road north through Gorgrond into Frostfire Ridge
In Iron Siegeworks, turn right (east) at an intersection at to learn the flightpoint at
Follow the path west into the rest of Frostfire Ridge; a cave-in seems to block the path, but there's a crack between the rocks the left

You should also learn the Bloodmaul Slag Mines flightpoint at between steps 2 and 3. Easy follower: While you're in Frostfire, you can also get Dagg, a level 92 ogre follower; just click a cage to free him at on your way to step 1, click a second cage at after step 5, then click him outside your garrison to make him a follower.

Quests:

1. Treasure Contract: The Thunderlord Sage: At , click on Windreader Argoram's corpse on the animal bones, choose "Search for clues" in the pop-up window, and click the "Click to complete quest" on the next pop-up window. If you don't use coordinates, it's about 1.5 letter's height below the "N" in the word "MAGNAROK" on the Frostfire Ridge map, next to large animal bones within a circular pool of molten and solid rock. You can type "/tar windreader" to target his corpse, if that helps.

Bag Space Tip: After you get credit for completing this quest, you can safely delete Argoram's Journal from your bags. It's just for interesting reading. Each Harrison Jones quest chain leaves a similar soulbound book in your inventory (click for list).

2. Gronnsbane: The Broken Spear: Gather the three items, fairly nearby, which show up as a yellow dot on the minimap as you approach them. (1.) Gronnsbane's Weight, (2.) Gronnsbane's Haft, (3.) Gronnsbane's Blade in the Refuse Pit area. If you don't use coordinates, the quest's markers on your main map will get you close enough that you should be able to find them.

3. Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Fire: Go to and click the Molten Shamanstone above the end of the lava falls, NOT the Frostwolf Shamanstone at the bottom of the falls which is also clickable. If you're at the bottom, walk up the path by the Frostwolf Shamanstone and make your way through the mobs up and around to the top - it's a roundabout walk up there. Once you click the Molten Shamanstone, click the "Click to complete quest" pop-up window.

4. Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Frost: Go to at the top of the tower. From step 3, jump back up the rock next to the Shamanstone and go south toward a snowy path up a hill, to the left of a fiery path. Take the first left up that snowy path around , cross a rock bridge around , go up a curving hill, into the tower, up the spiral ramp to the top, click the Frozen Shamanstone, and click the "Click to complete quest" pop-up window.

5. Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Beasts: You'll need one Raw Clefthoof Meat, or maybe more than one if you die, to summon Gok'tal on this step, OR you can just wait for someone else with meat to summon Gok'tal (you just need to help kill it, and then click on its corpse). If you need meat, you can buy it off the auction house, or from a garrison's Trading Post trader, or farm it from clefthoof & similar mobs in Frostfire Ridge, such as Ashmane Clefthoof/Ashmane Bull around , , or .

Go to the altar at . From step 4, walk down the tower (you could die jumping), west back across the bridge, west back to the snowy path around , and follow the path south up to the altar. If you have meat yourself, click the altar, then click "Place offering of raw clefthoof meat" to lure down Gok'tal, then kill him. If you don't have meat, wait for someone else to place meat and lure him down, then help kill him. Warning: avoid standing in Frosted Ground too long; it can kill you even after Gok'tal dies. Also, you can sidestep Gok'tal's Frost Breath as he's casting it. Even if you don't click the altar yourself, killing Gok'tal fulfills half the quest, "Lure and kill an ancient black rylak". Next, click Gok'tal's corpse to cast Bloodying and create an Empowered Gronnsbane; that fulfills the other half of the quest, "Empower Gronnsbane with Gok'tal's blood".

Important: Double-check that the quest is ready for turn-in (you must click his corpse after killing him) before going back to your garrison to turn it in to Bodrick Grey (Alliance) or Rokhan (Horde).

Thanks to other wowhead users for info and feedback used here, including akasachmo, Scabby, Tarano, cyocko87, Alfa, Andremoreira, LuckyGhoul, misterinfinity, parpface, and Ashtral.

Comment by Zeneo

This quest line is started by Harrison Jones that pops up in your Garrison Town Hall on different days. BEFORE YOU START, acquire 1 Raw Clefthoof Meat and put it in your bags to finish the last quest in the quest line.

1.Treasure Contract: The Thunderlord Sage is the starting quest. Windreader Argoram is in Frostfire Ridge at location (70, 26).
Simply right click on him and then click on his menu that reads "Search the orc for clues." Then a (Click to complete quest) will pop up on your upper right screen Treasure Contract: The Thunderlord Sage. During clicking on Windreader Argoram you get Argoram's Journal.

2. Next after completing that quest is, Gronnsbane: The Broken Spear. Quest item locations are in Frostfire Ridge as follows: Gronnsbane's Haft at (70, 23), Gronnsbane's Weight at (72, 26) and Gronnsbane's Blade at (71, 33) down in Refuse Pit. After collecting all 3 items a (Click to complete quest) will pop up again. After completing that quest, you get Gronnsbane.

3.Next quest is, Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Fire. This takes you to Stonefury Cliffs. The location of Molten Shamanstone for this quest is at (42, 12) up on the edge of the upper cliff. Right click on it and you'll get another (Click to complete quest).

4. Click to complete and you'll get Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Frost. The quest item Frozen Shamanstone location is at (49, 21) way up on the top of the building. Click it and you'll get another (Click to complete quest).

5. Next quest is, Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Beasts. To complete this quest go to location (45, 27) and offer 1 Raw Clefthoof Meat by right clicking on the altar. All you need is 1 Raw Clefthoof Meat in your bags. It will then read "Place offering of raw clefthoof meat." Click it and Gok'tal will come down. Kill him and then click on him after he's dead to create Empowered Gronnsbane. Then return to your garrison and complete the quest with Rokhan (Horde) or Bodrick Grey (Alliance).

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You are now done and should get Blessing of the Beasts lit up for the storyline achievement Master Relic Hunter.

Comment by djset

If someone kills it before you arrive, you can still loot the corpse and get credit for it. If you don't have Raw Clefthoof Meat and noone around to spawn Rylak you can always join any LFG Group and most likely find a couple of people doing this quest.

Comment by zedwards

If you happened to take this quest...get all the way to finishing it and then decide to wait til the next day, you'll find that this quest is no longer available. So regardless of what a PITA it is to get the Clefthoof meat and go back, just do it and finish it. You won't regret it like I did only to find the quest gone the next day.

Comment by dunkeldorn

You have to loot everything off the rylak before you can empower the weapon with his corpse.

Comment by Aurleis1

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRfkWHWZwx8

Before starting this chain, it is a good idea to grab a Raw Clefthoof Meat from your Reagent Bank, your Trading Post, or the Auction House (as this is a required item to have for the final step to this quest). These can also be farmed from Ashmane Bull, Ashmane Clefthoof, or most any other Clefthoof on Draenor.

If you're Horde, you can travel North into Magnarok, from your Garrison in Frostfire Ridge. For Alliance, you will need to either:
• Fly to Iron Siegeworks in Frostfire Ridge, or
• Deeproot, Gorgrond before proceeding to step one.

1. Treasure Contract: The Thunderlord Sage
• Pickup the quest, inside the Garrison, from Harrison Jones / Surveyor Daltry
• After entering Frostfire Ridge, travel to Magnarok to coords 70.1, 26.8
• Click on Windreader Argoram
• Click "Search the orc for clues"

2. Gronnsbane: The Broken Spear
• Go to coords 70.8, 23.6 and click on Gronnsbane's Haft
• Go to coords 72.5, 26.9 and click on Gronnsbane's Weight
• Go to coords 71.9, 33.5 and click on Gronnsbane's Blade located on the top of a skull.

3. Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Fire
• Travel to Coldsnap Bluffs at coords 52.2, 18.8 and go down the hill/path toward Stonefury Cliffs.
• Continue to coords 47.5, 17, and take a left heading toward coords 42.6, 12.6
• Click the Molten Shamanstone.

4. Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Frost
• Travel to the top of a tower located at coords 49.6, 21.1 and click on the Frostwolf Shamanstone.

5. Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Beasts
• Exit the tower and travel to coords 43.6, 22.1 and hang a left at the fork
• Continue on to coords 45.6, 28.1 and click on the Altar.
• Click "Place offering of Raw Clefthoof Meat."
• Kill Gok'tal - Be aware of his Belch Frost he puts on the ground.
• Once he is dead, click his corpse to complete the quest.
• Hearth back to your Garrison, and turn in the quest to (Alliance) / (Horde).

Comment by Voxxel

If you happen to come a bit late and the rylak is already killed, you still can use its body to create Empowered Gronnsbane.

Despite "Lure and kill an ancient black rylak" part of the quest shows as 0/1 in the quest page itself, the quest reports as Completed and you can port back and hand in to Bodrick Grey without problem.

Comment by marlinespike

Raw Clefthoof Meat can be found just east of the alter on Icehoof Bulls, Cows, and Calfs. They roam together as families from 51, 29 to 59, 23 . This is much closer to the quest completion areas than the other clefthoofs mentioned.

Comment by 547277

Maybe I missed something while doing this quest line, but at what point does it give you any indication that you need raw clefthoof meat? Even when at the altar it says to look at the bones for clues. Why are there humanoid bone structures sitting on the altar if it needs clefthoof?

This quest really needs some work, the ambiguous nature of it is frustrating.

Comment by 1210820

Ive looked around for answers concerning a bug where the Rylak doesn't spawn but I haven't found an answer yet. Having done this questline a few times ive come across a problem where using the clefthoof meat doesnt spawn the rylak for the final stage.I ended up joining a group and switching realms, no problems after that getting the rylak to show. Oddly enough once I returned to my server another player was finishing without any issues.

Comment by Arson85

I've needed only 1x Raw Clefthoof Meat to complete this quest.

Comment by JoserraGamin

I went to go this quest without reading the requeriments here, so when I needed the Raw Clefthoof Meat, had to call for my Argent Squire to get access to the bank.
You can see my walkthrough as a retribution paladin in this video.
As I said, didn't know it was the Clefthoof meat what was needed, so I spent some time trying to figure out what the ofering was, since I though the meat should be looted from any of the creatures nearby XD.

Comment by ruipedroesteves

Did this quest chain today, but here in Wowhead is shown as incomplete... There is something wrong. I uploaded data through client, but...

Comment by Kohlensohn

Just in case: it seems you must complete all stages of the quest chain on the day you start it. I got interrupted by some RL stuff and didn't get back to WoW until the next day, and now cannot complete. I have the spear and the raw clefthoof meat, but cannot use them. I guess I'll have to abandon and wait for it to come around again.

Comment by Ellysimo

Unfortunately for us Hunters, Gok'tal cannot be tamed.

Comment by surms41

You need Raw Clefthoof Meat as a Lure for Rylak.
You can get the meat off of Icehoof Cow. (click for coords)

No need for buying it or flying back and forth.

Comment by Aleflusher

You would think that in a quest chain where every single quest has the word "Gronnsbane" in it, you would need a dead gronn. But no, it's Clefthoof Meat.

Comment by Darneas

So it took me twice to defeat the rylak on my dk and did it easy peasy on my warrior. I think to myself "Wow! That difference in ilvl really does matter!" Then, since I was thinking about items and ilvl I look at my dk and realize, I still had the fishing rod equipped from where I just did the fishing daily before starting this chain. I called myself a noob after that one.

Comment by sixsigma9

I've done the chains to do Harrison Jones several times and never has it taken me more than 2 weeks at a time, never. In fact it used to be that the quests to do them were almost back to back, with maybe a day or 2 that someone else was in my Garrison instead.

I hit 100 on my Pally sometime in September or October, I can't quite remember. I do know that it's been well over 8 weeks or 2 months now and I haven't seen this quest a single time. I have all the others done and I have checked every, single, day.

My question is, can anyone think of any sort of prerequisite for getting the quest? I can't think of any, and as I mentioned I've done this several times. I have all the books that I've collected in my bags.

I have Harrison on at least 4 other characters. This one's really burning me. The whole intention of getting Harrison when I hit 100 was to power level my followers easily and now, sadly that I have almost 25 100 level followers. He's almost unnecessary. I'll get him anyway, because it's only 1 quest but geez, have I been royally jipped by rng or is there something I'm missing?

Comment by Crasht

Grumpus is standing on top of the altar during Winter Veil.

Comment by Caolela

What a stupid quest and huge waste of time for a measly 150g.

Comment by Cymre

One of six questlines offered by Harrison Jones in your Garrison and just one of the steps needed to add him as a follower in Patch 6.1.

Here is a post and video detailing my first run-through.

Comment by Schnoodledorfer

As of 7.0 this quest may be bugged. The Horde version is. After completing it, it disappeared from my logbook multiple times when I hearthed back to my Garrison to turn it in. Flying back (Druid flight form) worked, though. That was the Horde version of the quest, so flying back was easy, but Alliance characters might try flying back or using a taxi if they run into an identical bug. Hopefully that would work.

EDIT: I put in a ticket and got a quick confirmation: "We are aware of the quest issue you are experiencing and are currently working to resolve it as soon as possible." In the meantime, try flying back, I guess.

Comment by Rossmallo

Quest appears to be broken as of 9.0. The Rylak corpse does not offer the option to click on it after death, tried it about 5 times.

Comment by Oathkneel

Just got this done on Alliance at level 57.

Importantly, I flew back to my garrison, as others said it might be uncompleted by hearthing.
Also, I didn't 1-shot the rylak, as I've seen that cause problems with other quest and counters.

Comment by Darkkiz

Still broken as of 11th of Jan for Horde

Comment by Mcmoshi4

Still doesn't seem to be working, 23/1/21, offer made, Rylak spawns and is killed, looted and then unable to click on corpse to complete quest.

Comment by SilkCharm

2021 with level 51(SL) DH Horde. Double clicking Gok'tal's corpse lets me loot it, but nothing else. I've tried clicking the Gronnsbane, I've read Argoram's journal nothing. I killed him multiple times, let him hit me a bit in case I was killing him too quick but zip. Not sure how to trigger the second part of the quest? "empower Gronnsbane with Goktal's blood"? There is no action button or bar. I can't equip Gronnsbane either.

Comment by rikdol

This quest is bugged and Blizzard is working 'as quickly as possible' to fix it.

Searching in their support database there is an entry from a month ago titled: Can't complete Quest - Gronnsbane: The Blessing Of Beasts.( Support article here)
The common problem: Deafeated Gok'tak, but cannot interact with the corpse to empower the weapon.

Blizzard states that multiple reports have been received and confirm it is not working as intended. They have no workaround or resolution that can be provided.

Their developers 'however' are working as quickly as possible to resolve the issue.....

Their is however an empowered version of the blade (Empowered Gronnsbane) available to both Horde and Alliance. So claims of it being available solely to the alliance are false.

The most likely outcome is that they will not bother fixing it.

Comment by Bozzna

Still bugged for Horde in 9.0.5 (18.03.2021)

Comment by deiXide

Yes, as of 17 May 2021, the quest "Blessing of Beasts" is still bugged on the final step, but I was able to complete it. It has been known bugged since October 2020-- 7-8 months! Due to the length of time this has been a problem, this is currently the last step to completing the Master Relic Hunter achievement for most people. There are even official Blizzard posts confirming this with no other helpful info: https://support.blizzard.com/article/000275482

With that said, I was finally able to complete Master Relic Hunter with the help of Blizzard Support! It took many, many conversations back and forth for the ever-changing Support staff to fully understand the problem, but in the end they were able to mark the quest (and achievement) as completed. Harrison Jones is now in my garrison follower table, and I have credit for the achievements.

I would encourage you to open a support ticket and ask for the Blessing of Beasts quest (and Master Relic Hunter if that's the final step) to be marked completed. It may take you several tries to find the right GM (who reads your problem rather than guesses), but it's worth it. Thanks to GM Skaldenth and Daerdrin for taking the time to understand and solve the problem out of band from a formal QA/bugfix.

Copy/paste responses from Blizzard (took several tries):

I went ahead and checked with the QA team who were happy to let me flag the quest complete for you now. They were able to use info provided from your character to get a better understanding of what was going on here with the quest. A fix is in the works as we speak!

After checking into it, I was able to credit you with the Blessing of Beasts portion of the achievement as well. You should have credit for that achievement and any other associated achievements.

Comment by TiduzEU

As of December 2021, this quest does not seem to be bugged anymore (or at least it worked for me).
I was able to interact with the corpse and got the quest progression. (You need 1x Raw Clefthoof Meat for summoning the mob, in case you don't want to scroll through the comments).
However, I have read that you need to have at least two empty bag spaces for the quest, maybe this is a problem for those who are still encountering this bug?

Comment by biekdafreak

I had no problem completing it today. I made sure when he dropped down he had agro on me in case not having it would lead to it bugging out.

Comment by ssithl

For me this quest was not auto-offered after handing in the Blessing of Frost - the chain just ended.

However, if this happens, you can return to your garrison, and the Relic Hunting Notes next to Harrison Jones will have this quest for you to pick up and continue.

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Gronnsbane: The Blessing of Beasts

Defeat the ancient black rylak and douse Gronnsbane in its blood.

Once empowered, return the weapon to Bodrick Grey for your reward.

	Lure and kill an ancient black rylak (1)
	Empowered Gronnsbane (1)

Description

Gronnsbane now pulses with energies of fire and frost. All that remains to restore the full power of the weapon is to receive the Blessing of the Beast. Argoram believed this could be accomplished by bloodying the weapon against one of the ancient black rylaks of Stonefury Cliffs. His journal reads: "High in the Stonefury Cliffs, I have seen an altar where the ogres have left offerings to these ancient beasts. Perhaps I could use it to lure one of them"

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(37919))