Quick Facts

Series

1.	A Change of Seasons
2.	Giving It All We've Got
3.	Ephemeral Manastorm Projector

Storyline
A Change of Seasons A Change of Seasons Giving It All We've Got Ephemeral Manastorm Projector Flow Control Bring Home the Beacon Withered Progress All In Arcan'dor, Gift of the Ancient Magi Arluin's Request

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Comments

Comment by Professori

If you can solo kill one but can't handle additional mobs you can pull Chronarch Defender at 60.4 63.9 to 61.2 65.2 and safely kill it without worry of patrols. If you don't want to wait for respawn there is another one close by at 61.5 63.4 that you can pull to stairs next to it, around halfway up is safe just wait for the patrol to go far left before you pull.

Comment by priestguy

After finishing this three quest series, you get the quests All In and Arcan'dor, Gift of the Ancient Magi.

Comment by Reven

I did this quest with ease by pulling the Defenders located at the marina into the water. I just waited when there were no other mobs around them.

As a mage I just kited them a bit with Blink and Ice Floes, but the damage they did was offset by Cauterizing Blink and Ice Barrier. Dodging their abilities was quite easy with all the available space and the little knockback the Defenders do is actually quite helpful to give you some distance away from them.

Comment by Pluck123

Leads to the quest chain All-in which will reward the good suramaritan achievement

Comment by thanyou

Quite easily "soloed" this with the help of Consolidating Power that was happening at the time, using the Nightblade Pendant quest item to summon a platoon to help take the mobs down quicker.

I also only stayed outside on the Moonlit Landing, hexing any guards that were close to it and tanking the construct out in the water before summoning the npcs.

Lazy man's group finder :P

Comment by basedinspace

Can pull from 69,69 in the fountain pretty safely. You'll have to wait for the single mob available from that spot to respawn but its a pretty safe area to solo with enough room to dodge its mechanics.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Jez, i tired finding single Chronarch Defender, but found no one, they all in aggro range of other nightfallen guards, so you can control others while fighting against Defenders, of join any group and do it easy (especially you cant tank much damage). Thanks blizz, Warp-Resistant Plating drops 100%.

Update: there's 54.6 65.0 point, where I found single patroling defender Chronarch Defender

Ephemeral Manastorm Projector — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Vl97TevpE

This quest is a part of A Change of Seasons quest chain needed for Good Suramaritan achievement. Full list is under the spoiler

A Change of Seasons quest chain:
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A Change of Seasons	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPAE8HQvek0
Giving It All We've Got	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKv59el7yww
Ephemeral Manastorm Projector	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Vl97TevpE
Flow Control	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXryTvOrqA
Bring Home the Beacon	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL7JD55BHrw
All In	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7b8TORAX1s
Arcan'dor, Gift of the Ancient Magi	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0JfZr9YsZo

Comment by esochan

The best solo one I've found is at 57.2 67.4 on a wharf that has the occasional patrol. Pull him into the water while he's alone and you should be able to take care of him.

Edit: Respawns were about 510 mins in between

Comment by Jehosaphat

I'm not so sure that trying to contain all that power into one manastorm is such a good idea.

Comment by ssimon11

Did this by pulling the one at 57, 67.

As a warrior with virtually no self heals, found this difficult and kept dying with the Defender 5-15%.

The solution? Go get Ward of the First Arcanist from First Arcanist Thalyssra. The spell pretty much one-shot the Defender's remaining health when it activated.

Yes, I had to keep going back and refreshing the ward each time, but Flight Master's Whistle made that pretty simple. Plus, even after that, I still had to wait a minute or two for re-spawn, so it didn't really take any extra time.

Comment by rzzr

Personally I would use the LFG tool to find others on the quest if possible. It's way easier with 3 people and will save you a world of pain and repair bills.

Comment by Jimi42389

You can use the Angler's raft to easily pull and kill all of them (As ranged)

Comment by Malachi68

As several other have noted, killing them in the water is the key to completing this quest rather easily. However, it must be stressed that:

you should swim all the way down to the bottom and fight the defender while standing on the sea bottom!

I'm not 100% why you have to stand on the bottom but it makes a huge difference. This might be due to the Vent Mana not functioning as it should but, in any case, it works.

Comment by DanReynolds

While working on Flow Control you can position yourself on the edge of the fountain at 59.42, 60.11. There is a single Chronarch Defender standing in a nearby alcove that can be pulled alone from range. The mobs behind won't add. You'll be just out of aggro range from the passing patrols.

Comment by dgnuff

If you get stuck after turning this quest and Flow Control in, because there aren't any follow-on quests, make sure you've unlocked Cheif Telemancer Oculeth by feeding him the daily 50 Ancient Mana.

Comment by wcrow

Easy soloable if you manage to get to /way 57,62 57,43 (Rocfeather Skyhorn Kite helps alot if you jump from the upper level). Just kill the 2 elite guards then pull the Defender downstairs.

Comment by Tallida

TL;DR: Go to 61.5 63.0, wait for tracking mob to pass, pull defender halfway up the stairs, kill and repeat.

At first I was so frustrated with this, kept dying an pulling unnecessary mobs. I finally found one alone, you can stand and wait for the respawn without pulling anything else.

The spot I found is actually outside of the given area to find the mobs. There is a staircase, the specific coords are 61.5 63.0. Facing south, there is a Chronarch Defender that spawns just in the little alcove between the staircase and the wall. You can see it from the coords. When spawned, wait for the mob tracking the path below the stairs to be out of range, jump down and pull the defender halfway up the stairs to be out of range of other mobs.
And boom! Kill the defender and repeat. :)

Comment by Moocifer

Go to 57, 67 in the harbour. There is a short pier that sticks out that spawns a single Chonarch Defender. Stay in the water, wait for the partrol mob to walk away and pull him to you. You can kill him with no interference. It's a 10 minute respawn but there is also a patrol mob that you can also kill he walks on the water side to the right of the pier mentioned above. This is a bit more hazardous as you need to get your timing right so not to pull the other pats but I got my 4 kills in 30 minutes with no risk whatsoever.

Comment by nomsidious

As a hunter I went around 52.96 63.41, put my pets on passive and pulled them one by one into the water. This way I only fought what I needed while avoiding everything else.Really easy to do this way and it was a big time saver as far as only needing to fight what the quest required and bypassing everything else.

Comment by SpakyTwo

A macro to check your progress in this chapter.

/run for k, v in pairs({change=43502,giving=43562, ephemeral=43563,flow=43564,beacon=43565,AllIn=43567,arcandor=43568}) do print(format("%s: %s", k, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and "Done\124r" or "\124cffff0000Need\124r")) end

Comment by Yogilaw

Around the harbour area seems to be the best place to camp for the constructs. 1 word of advice though, if you have Tank specialisation maxed this makes things a whole lot easier. In DPS spec, you won't solo these (at least not as a 872 DK anyway). If in doubt form, or look for a Q group in LFG to do this quicker. Trying to pick your way round Suramar so as not to pull mobs in not anyone's idea of fun!

Comment by 704410

I did this quest immediately after getting the Flow Control - Midnight Court. Come around to the opposite side of the waterfall/fountain . It is a safe spot in a corner and directly in front of you is a defender. You have to wait for the respawns but you can stay there unbothered. (I stand here now as I write this post.) Additionally if you take down the three NPCs at the end of the cul de sac to the right I found one green NPC left who gave me a 25% haste buff for 15mins.

Comment by torque6

A better spot would be /way 53 63

Similar to Professori's comment made earlier in the thread. You only need to be in the canal / water area. There are 2 Chronarch Defender here which you can pull individually without any agro. I'm ilvl 889 and was able to take them down with no issues.

Comment by Amallah

If you're like me and prefer doing things solo, I found a really nice spot at 61.54, 62.89 on a stairwell. The stairs are a safespot, stand in the middle of them and you won't have any issues with patrols. One Chronarch Defender spawns next to the stairs, another one spawns a short ways past the bottom of the stairs. If you time the patrols right, the second one can be pulled and kited back to the middle of the stairs before the patrols can come back. Respawn timer seemed to be approximately 10 mins, so you can get it done in about 20-25ish minutes depending on how long it takes you to kill one, and how long you're waiting on cooldowns.

Comment by Illumina4

There is another question in this chain called Bring Home the Beacon. It only becomes available if you feed Chief Telemancer Oculeth but it is needed before you get offered All In I spent ages figuring this out. Hope this post will help others avoid a lot of wasted time. :)

Comment by Wimbleton

I tried pulling them into the water with my 865 Feral but kept coming up about 10% short on health, so I decided to take a pass on this quest chain and try another route…oh wait – you can’t! Wow, just like in the bad old days when, if you wanted a DK, you had to do the specified quests in the specified order or you could just take a long walk off a short pier. Maybe that’s why all those millions of players stopped playing.

OK, crybaby time over. I spent an hour trying to find a lone Defender that was in reach of the water (as so much else is in Suramar) but no luck. Then I remembered a trick from another series of quests in North Suramar. There is a lone Defender at 57.40, 64.03 just outside the door of a house and nobody nearby except one Sycophant in the house but he’s LOS, so he doesn’t aggro.

Portal to the Vineyard and head to about the middle of the wall, jump off and use a Goblin Glider Kit to get to 57.40, 64.03. Tricky but if you land on top of a building, you won’t be detected. The Defender is no pushover but Potion of Prolonged Power stacks with Sylvan Elixir, so that should do the trick. If you put your back in the corner created by the house and the wall next to it, the Defender’s knock-back won’t affect you. Not so good for ranged classes but pretty safe for melee. Respawn time is six minutes and then Whistle out and you’re done.

Comment by neelzfinch

Here's another safe spot for soloing Chronarch Defenders: 60,59 66,16, on the edge of the platform.

Comment by Mondoblasto

If you have the fortune to get Sick of the Sycophants while on this quest, you can go to (57, 65) at Moonlit Landing and go into the two-story building by the harbor (if you've done Court of Stars, it's the very first one you enter at the beginning from the gondola). Go to the other entrance upstairs and outside there is a Chronarch Defender that patrols here. Once you've used your Telemancy Orbs to spawn enough whithered to your liking, you can aggro it.

You can stay here and keep summoning more whithered while you wait for the defender to respawn. If you do it this way, make sure you've got plenty of time left on the world quest. It's slow to be sure, but really safe.

Comment by bipolargirl

If the quests aren't popping up for you feed the npcs ancient mana. They won't give the quests if they're hungry. I spent days researching the quests trying to figure out what I was missing. I tried everything and it just wasn't working. Then I fed the npc mana and it popped up. A couple quests later I was stuck again. No quests available. I fed the other npc mana and a quest popped up. This happened several times for me. Mana was the problem each time. There are 3 npcs to feed downstairs standing together. Oculeth, Thalyssra and Valtrois.

Comment by DredgenWrath

Finished this quest chain for changing of seasons but didn't get the achievement to pop? Is there something that I'm missing?

Comment by ElviraBanks

Start from Jandvik and swim all the way around to Astravar Harbor in Suramar City. In Astravar Harbor the second set of stairs on the right facing North you'll see the defender. Coordinates are roughly 57/68. Sit in the water and pull the defender with a ranged attack into the water. Wait about 10 minutes for respawn and repeat. You're safe in the water and will only pull the defender if you time it right. It saves you the trouble of ducking and dodging 20,000 elites throughout the city.

Links

Ephemeral Manastorm Projector

Collect 4 Warp-Resistant Plating from Chronarch Defenders.

	Warp-Resistant Plating (4)

Description

Oculeth's theory is sound. Reckless, but sound. A small warp-field could trap and excite ambient mana in the conduit, thus creating a manastorm similar to when the arcan'dor fell out of balance. I can build a device to generate the warp-field, but I need materials. Specifically, warp-resistant alloys - such as the armor plating of high-end security constructs in the noble district. Those constructs are deadly. If anyone owes you a favor, now is the time to call it in.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Mana-Injected Chronarch Power Core

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

150 reputation with The Nightfallen

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(43563))