Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Path of Conquest
2.	Breaching the Path
3.	When Worlds Collide...
4.	Tabards of the Illidari
5.	Dissension Amongst the Ranks...

Storyline
Shadowmoon Valley What Strange Creatures... Frankly, It Makes No Sense... Felspine the Greater The Path of Conquest Breaching the Path When Worlds Collide... Tabards of the Illidari Dissension Amongst the Ranks... Besieged! To Legion Hold Setting Up the Bomb Blast the Infernals! The Deathforge Minions of the Shadow Council The Fate of Kagrosh The Summoning Chamber Bring Down the Warbringer! Gaining Access Invasion Point: Cataclysm The Art of Fel Reaver Maintenance The Fel and the Furious News of Victory Illidari-Bane Shard Capture the Weapons The Hermit Smith Additional Materials Fresh from the Mechanar The Lexicon Demonica Underworld Loam Tear of the Earthmother Bane of the Illidari Quenching the Blade The Sketh'lon Wreckage Find the Deserter Asghar's Totem The Rod of Lianthe Sketh'lon Feathers Imbuing the Headpiece Thwart the Dark Conclave A Haunted History Spectrecles Teron Gorefiend - Lore and Legend Divination: Gorefiend's Armor Divination: Gorefiend's Cloak Divination: Gorefiend's Truncheon Teron Gorefiend, I am... Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth Enraged Spirits of Water Enraged Spirits of Air Oronok Torn-heart I Was A Lot Of Things... A Lesson Learned The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History Grom'tor, Son of Oronok The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered Ar'tor, Son of Oronok Demonic Crystal Prisons Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered Borak, Son of Oronok Of Thistleheads and Eggs... The Bundle of Bloodthistle To Catch A Thistlehead The Shadowmoon Shuffle What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets... The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered The Cipher of Damnation Karabor Training Grounds A Necessary Distraction Altruis Karabor Training Grounds A Necessary Distraction Altruis Against the Legion Against the Illidari Against All Odds Illidan's Pupil The Book of Fel Names Return to the Aldor Varedis Must Be Stopped Return to the Scryers Varedis Must Be Stopped Tablets of Baa'ri Oronu the Elder The Ashtongue Corruptors The Warden's Cage Tablets of Baa'ri Oronu the Elder The Ashtongue Corruptors The Warden's Cage Proof of Allegiance Akama Seer Udalo A Mysterious Portent The Ata'mal Terrace Akama's Promise Kindness Seek Out Neltharaku Neltharaku's Tale Infiltrating Dragonmaw Fortress To Netherwing Ledge! The Force of Neltharaku Karynaku Zuluhed the Whacked Ally of the Netherwing Blood Oath of the Netherwing In Service of the Illidari Your Friend On The Inside The Great Netherwing Egg Hunt Enter the Taskmaster A Job Unfinished...

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Comments

Comment by 1987

Mobs to kill: http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=19823

This is the end of this series: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10750

Comment by 19184

Make sure everyone in your group is disguised.
And you loose the disguise if you move outside the zone 'Eclipsion Fields'.

Comment by 4688

Also if you are the ONLY one in you group who has to do this quest, make sure you deliver the killing blow, or else they won't count. Took us like 5 giants to figure that out... :/

Comment by 18921

Can't complete it in Druid Forms due to loosing the disguise upon shifting. Disguise will not come back while trying to equip tabard in Druid Forms.

Comment by Therage

Make sure you complete it before the disguise timer wears out. Otherwise you need to restart the quest >.<

Comment by 16754

another thing that might cause you to not get credit.

you MUST kill the spawns before the elite. Took us a few kills to notice this but if you kill all the spawns first then the elite you will get credit.

Comment by 6736

Blizzard needs to make some slightly different melee dps rings~

the quest, Deathblow to the Legion - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10409, has the exact same melee dps ring, http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30860

the quest, News of Victory - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10745, a Shadowmoon valley quest has nearly the exact same ring, just 2 less agility, http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30973

Comment by 22372

Also, the caster ring is 100%=http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30366 ... not that I'm complaining, as a shaman I love my crit chance, especially when the next patch makes my crits trigger clearcasting

Comment by 24033

Two-manned with a feral druid and combat rogue, rogue always got killing blow with costume on and the small spawns were always killed before the colossus died.

Comment by 26049

what worked for us:

me had everyone de-equip and then re-equip the tabards first (everyone de, and then everyone eq). then we made sure to kill the spawns before the elite. lastly we made sure no pets gave the killing blow by having them on standby for last 5%. doing those things we got credit each time.

Comment by Hegga

Dualed this with me(mage) and a holy paladin, I tanked and he healed me. He just had to keep JoW on the mob so I didn´t run out of mana.

Comment by Carkasjak

Mage and Druid in bear form, mage got killing blow. Didn't kill the spawns first. Got credit every time.
It's a little hard to do this 2man without a healer, but we managed ;>

Comment by Swyfter

The Windrider gives you a tabard that you must equip.

Be aware that the tabard rots after 1 hour playtime. I discovered this to my horror after getting 4/5 kills because of flaky kill credit (and dinner).

If you leave the area or die, you lose the buff and must unequip and reequip the item.

My best advice is to reequip the item after you make each kill, just to keep the buff fresh. I noticed that I would randomly lose the buff every other kill, even though there was no buff timer.

Comment by Kathucka

If you don't finish the quest within an hour, you need to abandon it, fire off the flare gun, and pick it up again. This will get you a new tabard.

Tanked it with my (hunter) pet and a healer. Mend Pet couldn't keep up, but the healer could. The giants take forever to kill, so you're going to need a way to heal.

The giants are immune to poison, but not to arcane or (non-poison) nature.

Comment by 20486

Ugh. Like the druid shapeshifting issue mentioned earlier, this disguise will break a shadow priest out of shadowform. There doesn't seem to be a way to use the disguise and be in shadowform.

Comment by 47214

If you're a druid and are tanking, make sure you pull them in caster form and get out of bear form right before it dies, otherwise you wont get credit for the kill. (also make sure everyone else has the tabard on)

Comment by 77433

Crappy bugs in this one - half the time the ppl in my 3 man party could not get the disguise to work, even tho we had equipped the tabard in the fields. It would just disappear randomly :/ (And yes we all reequipped after we rezzed) Sometimes we would get no credit for the kill (no shapeshifters - a taurean tank - me, BE rogue and undead lock). Then there also seemed to be individually bugged giants that we couldn't hit, yet we took damage. Gave up after a while in disgust, will have to return and get another disguise, but will be shitty to find someone else right at the end of this pretty tedious chain. Not happy Jan.

Comment by adamb10

This quest so bugged it's not even funny. The one who does the killing blow to the giant gets the kill and some of the giants are glitched. Avoid this quest until Blizzard fixes it.

Comment by dusk

I did it today (5th September '07) in patch 2.1 I'm a feral druid so naturally I was tanking. The disguise DOES disappear when shapeshifting, but I had a mage with me and when he got killing blow, I got credit for the kill as well. Inbetween giants, I went out of feral form and re-equipped the tabard to gain the disguise again.

Comment by Slimda

Me and my group killed all five giants in without any problems or bugs. I was the tank, and as a Feral Druid, I never left Bearform. Yet I still completed the quest.

Great fun, great rewards. And I always wanted to look like an elf... :P

Comment by 57225

i'm a shadow priest and i can't maintain the disguise and shadowform at the same time. When i put on the disguise while in shadowform it drops shadowform and if i go shadowform after using the disguise i lose the disguise. ridiculous!

These things have about 57k hp and hit cloth for 650-1k

Comment by 30651

As of 2.3, my log updated once per group member per kill.

Pretty awesome.

Comment by 117253

Yeah, for every member in your group, you get a kill.

I did this with one other person and got 2 logs a kill.
Kinda cool.

=)

Comment by Jakobud

Just did this quest w/ me (prot warrior) and feral druid. The druid shape shift bug is back, however whenever we killed a Crazed Collosus, we (the druid too even in cat form) got credit for two kills. The druid shape shift might have bugged it that way.

Comment by valenwood

One thing to note for this quest, I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but it is important to equip the tabard once you have entered the Eclipsian Fields, it is not enough to have it equipped then enter the fields. Wasted a good bit of time figuring this out ;-/

Oh, and its hard to tell if your in uniform when you're a bloodelf to start, just look for the buff, the tabard shoes up on your char whether or not the "disguise" its actually taking effect.

Comment by jbwest

Easily soloable as a feral druid in kara/heroic gear. Takes about 10 min each though, just gotta outlast. I didn't have any bug problems. I got credit for all kills. Equipped the tabard, shifted to bear form, and even popped out to heal once each, and got credit. Maybe the bug is only in groups.

Comment by 135322

Easily soloable with protpala, just SoW on 'em and keep slamming your SoR on them till they're down, while maintaining Holy Shield. Retri Aura and Blessing of Sanctuary recommended!

Comment by Jderache

This quest seems hard at first but here's how to make it much easier: stun the crazed collosi just before 75%, 50%(or maybe 45%) and 25% and they won't split anymore! Best way to do it is to get a rogue with you.
Also, if you stun them for example 2 times, after killing it the quest log will update as if you killed 3 of the mobs!! Nice bug blizz! keep up the good work

Comment by roman

for horde, you need to turn it in to Overlord Or'barokh

http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=21769

Comment by 141501

My disguise suddenly disappeared after wearing it only 15 minutes. After speaking to a GM she let me know that the disguise will be removed if you leave the Eclipsian field. I believe I was at the edge of the field. You will have to start from scratch (I killed 3 of the 5). :(

Comment by 166987

Solo'ed this portion of the quest as a holy paladin, to get the Protector's Mark for a prot set.

The mobs went down stupid easy; go with Concentration Aura and Blessing of Wisdom, then nail the big guy with Judgment of Wisdom. From there, whittle away at the mob with Judgment and down-ranked Consecration. I would wait until I was down 6k in health before healing, so as to not waste any mana should the heal crit. I liked to pop DI mid-fight at some point when I could cast a heal, Holy Shock, and max rank Consecrate before the buff dropped.

Ignore the adds until the elite dies, then burn them down with a max rank Consecrate. Other than that, it's dead easy - these guys have no tricks, stuns, or knockbacks. Be sure to pull to the very edge of the field, as most of them have large pathing ranges.

Comment by Rammstein

There is a mob Val'zareq the Conqueror that drops an item that starts a chain q The Journal of Val'zareq, that leads to the Illidari tabard.

Comment by Rawveggie

I didn't see this mentioned and a friend and I figured it out the hard way. If you are a HUNTER, do not let your pet get the killing blow because you will not get credit for the kill. Someone wearing the tabard MUST get the killing blow. This is completely LAME for hunters doing this quest, but is, in fact, how it works. I hope Blizzard changes this because we killed quite a few of the Colossus' before we figured out why were weren't getting credit. Be aware.

Comment by 238183

Also, as a HUNTER. If you try and solo this FD will cause you to lose your disguise. I had like 10% left on big guy, had to FD to get the adds off me. I pop back up and disguise was gone. =( I bagged it after this.
Gorilla+Volley+Trinkets = Win

Comment by docmanhattan

Just solo'd this as patch 3.0.3 Enhancement Shammy with a mix of Kara and Badge gear.

With Feral Spirits and proc'ing Bloodlust when available, this was easily done. When Elemental Fire/Earth totems were up, I'd drop one as well.

All in all, very doable.

Comment by 334069

The same comment about the Hunter pets applies to Warlocks. If your pet lands the killing blow you will not get credit for the kill.

Tested Metamorphosis and it will also prevent a kill credit.

Comment by 54656

Just doing this one today and having huge problems. Have found I'm having to sacrifice my ghoul otherwise it doesn't register the kill. I've tried the switching of the disguise to no avail.

Comment by Arijel

Very very very crap quest >.<

Warlocks, look at your minion, don't let him make the killing blow or is all a waste of time...

Comment by 63230

As a level 80 hunter, I found soloing this quest very frustrating. If your pet delivers the killing blow, you won't get credit. If you do not complete the task within one hour your tabard vanishes and you won't get credit. If you die, you lose the buff and must unequip and reequip the tabard to regain the buff or you won't get credit. And as you whittle the bugger down, and think, ah, I'll just pull my pet off now, he starts spawning little shardlings. Very frustrating, but doable if you keep all of these things in mind.

Comment by 182363

There is trick for hunter. When you start fighting this Colossus, hunter aggro first then pet. Once you get to colossus two little form (one elite and one regular) dismiss your pet and keep killing. It will count the kill to you

Comment by hummmer

Also done solo with lvl 70 hunter. At first didnt know about kiling blow, thats why first time didnt do quest, because of tabard playtime. I pet tanking till Colossus had 2k hp, then click pet on passive mode and killed elite, thats all.

Comment by 554807

I had to lol to see what I looked like... Disguised as a Blood Elf.... I was one to begin with (so I didn't change at all) :)

Comment by wFPwnz

Solo'd this as a Level 68 Retribution Paladin, I used the following method.

Notable Equipment
BoA Axe
BoA Shoulders
BoA Chest
2 x Haste BoA Trinkets
Rest green / blues from questing.

Skill Rotation
Use Seal of Wisdom, Judgement of Light
Spam Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, Judgement of Light, whenever Art Of War procs hit flash of light (assuming you have a decent crit % this should be a lot) doing this should keep you even with the damage (in retribution aura) if it doesn't hit Holy Light AT 50% HP, when Holy Light finishes casting Chain two Flash of Lights together you should be back at 100%.

When an add spawns from the mother^&*!er switch targets and kill it, killing it is vital to you living. When you've killed it heal yourself with Flash of Light and go back to spamming CS, DS, Judgement and Consecration.

That's about it. Each one of these took aprox. 2 1/2 minutes to kill.

Comment by 715936

Surprised that as a 75 DK had a lot of problems soloing. I didn't have a choice because nobody wanted to do this rotten quest with me, and I'd wanted to see what's at the end of it. Can kill them singly in around in a minute and something, but have to wait for ghoul and ice armor to reset - is not soloable without them. Once the shard babies appear, you lose health quickly.

I had killed two before I noticed no credit, and realized I didn't put the silly tabard on. And it is not the ghoul, but the tabard that is the problem. Everything finally was going great with 3 killed, and I suddenly got a second colossus that respawned right on me. Well, they're a bit tough and I died. But didn't see that I had no tabard after I rezzed - killed two before I realized. No tabard in my pack, and the guy refused to give me another!

It is not that killing these things is so difficult, or that waiting for buff resets is so onerous, but fighting bugs instead of the monsters is pretty annoying. Before I restarted the quest, I killed 8 times and had to give up the 3 that did count because I died ONCE! GRRRR Although the points are nice, IMHO it's too much aggravation, and this is the last quest in this line - doesn't get you all that much to finish it. If you're tired of it - toss it.

Comment by 844894

as a warlock, just use your instant soul fire to finish the giant when you solo him, to ensure that you get the kill! :)

Comment by 844894

and adrienne50, you were wearing the tabard after you had died, its just that you have to re-equip it after dying or leaving the area :/

Comment by 642076

I was able to solo this as a 72 level Ret Paladin, but I had to keep the health up really high or the little shardlings killed me off before I could heal. And it is a really long run back since the graveyard I resurrected in was in Shadowmoon Village on the other side of the zone.

I have a good trinket (Core of Ar'kelos) that helped, but my armor is kind of light due to gem buffs.

My spells were Exorcism, Crusader Strike, Templar's Verdict, Divine Storm, and Judgment. No particular pattern, I just used whatever was active. I don't have any macros set, so it was not as efficient as some experienced guys could probably do.

Take care and good luck.

Comment by 1117167

alright im a tauren monk and every time i go to put on the tabard my game completely crashes is this happening to anyone else?

Comment by ArcaneEther

Seem to be getting a Phase bug here.

Every time I enter the Eclipsion Fields, the mobs Phase out.

Is anyone else getting this?

Comment by iAardvark

You will lose the disguise if you use any speed modifications (Ghost Wolf form, Flight form, mount etc), but your kills will still count toward the quest completion. So don't spend half an hour trying to get a new tabard! :)

Comment by 1440987

Dissension Amongst the Ranks... http://youtu.be/el9y47U6SAQ

Comment by Tantrevalles

Still bugged as of 7/14: at the Bug forum on Battlenet someone has started a thread, which you will find typing "Dissension" in the search box. I recommend you add your comments to that thread instead of starting a new one.

Comment by Thaicha

guys, even tho i use the tabard, when i kill a colossus, the kill doesnt count, is this a bug?

Comment by Torti

This is the worst quest ever, even when i have my tabard on and i succeed on killing one of those things, i still doesent get the kill.
And im a warrior, not a druid.

Comment by Seniade

This is still bugged. You can complete Lore Master without it, there are no more quests after this one in that chain.

Comment by myrddinwylt

Still bugged as of 6.2.3 . Scrolling through the notes here, it is evident Blizzard just doesn't care about this issue and is more focused on removing things from the game to make way for a couple 'new' (and reduced) features, rather than fixing bugged quests / dungeons / raids.

Adding my voice to the growing list of 'plx fix this blizz' on bnet forums.

( Side note/mini-rant: I really wish blizz would focus more time on fixing the issues in the game rather than focus on what things they can remove and then sell it as a 'feature' )

Comment by 30049

Still bugged as of 01.19.16

Comment by 1580036

As of 01/27/2016 still bugged. Solo as lvl 100 hunter, pet on passive, no credit at all, even got a new tabbard, still no credit.

Comment by Catitude

On a lvl 70 Frost DK I do NOT have a minion out. No credit for the kills I even deleted my tabard & acquired a new one & still no credit.

Comment by CzechCloud

Just for the record, its still bugged as of 10/5/2016.

Comment by g0dkar

Hello from 2016, people from 2010+!

Still bugged.

Godammit, Blizz :(

Comment by skaltur

Hello.

This is still bugged. I'm wearing the tabard and I still can't get kills to count.

I'll open a ticket to Blizzard.

Comment by Vire

Ticketed this to a GM. Received the following response (after escalation):

Hey there,

Game Master Gekintia here. Thanks for reaching out to me about the quest Dissension Amongst the Ranks! Outside of this problem, I hope you're having a good day. c:

This is actually a known bug! Since it's a known bug, we do actually have approval to grant out quest completion for that quest at this time. I've gone ahead and completed that quest for you at this time, so you should be able to turn that in at your earliest convenience!

Thanks again for reaching out to me dude, and don't hesitate to reach out to us again for help if anything else comes up! Have a great rest of your day!

Comment by ranmaryoko

Wow, still bugged as of 7/5/2016. Guess it is never going to be fixed? Super frustrating as I'm a completionist.

Comment by Aiue

Alliance version of this quest works again as of 7.0.3, would assume the same holds true for Horde.

Comment by Pyemi

Some contradicting reports from 7.0.1 if this quest works or still bugged. As of patch 7.2 this quest seems to work completely fine, tested on both alliance/horde.

Comment by ranmaryoko

I would just like to confirm that I was successfully able to complete this quest today :)

Comment by hotcore

With the 7.3.5 leveling changes, this quest is still elite and quite hard if you lack survival skills. He will summon about 4 adds and hits quite hard. I did this on a hunter and I had to kite the adds.

Comment by cheinii

If you phase out for some reason, move away from any eclipse zone (go to the volcano ie) and return.. logout doesn't work!

I totally deserve a Patient title though... holy priest in appropriate lvl 73. Oh yeah.. :d

Comment by alelb22

I had this quest sitting in my quest log for too long..
It is not longer bugged.
To get the kill counted, you NEED to have the Enchanted Illidari Tabard equipped.
It is a 1 hour duration item, so in case your tabbard is gone, you can summon a Kor'kron Wind Rider with your Kor'kron Flare Gun to get a new tabbard.

Comment by Zamnest

It ıs working as intented. If you lose tabard for any reason you can just use the flare and ask from the npc. No need to abandon and restart the quest.

Edit: Also, it is required for the loremaster achievement.

Comment by seawolf9000

If you're like me and somehow didn't get this quest, it probably showed up on your map in Wildhammer Stronghold. Just use your flare gun and get the quest from the dwarf.

Comment by Dosantsu

If anyone ever feels like doing this quest chain for the hell of it,either for Loremaster or because you are bored of the other areas and don't feel like moving over to Northrend don't be alarmed by the high health of the mobs.
If you have a healing ability not on a cooldown the way to complete this step solo is pretty simple.
As you are dpsing down the giant, it will summon a shardling,kill the shardling ASAP.
The giants themselves aren't too strong,but the shardlings enrage shortly after being summoned and they hit HARD.
And as the giants health drops he will summon a further two at lower percentages.
Kill the shardlings as soon as they are summoned before resuming attacking the giant itself.
As long as you have at least some method of health gain it shouldn't be too bad.

Currently doing it on a Windwalker Monk right now and it's difficult,but manageable as long as you pay attention.

Comment by shaker5585

September 2 2021 I can see this low level quest on my map as though I need to do it. I have 4 of 8 chapters in Shadowmoon completed but I cannot seem to find where to get this quest?

Links

Dissension Amongst the Ranks...

Slay 5 Crazed Colossus while in disguise as an Illidari blood elf and return to Overlord Or'barokh at Shadowmoon Village in Shadowmoon Valley. He will also want his Kor'kron Flare Gun returned.

	Crazed Colossus slain while in disguise (5)
	Kor'kron Flare Gun (1)
	Suggested players: 3 (1)

Provided item:

	Enchanted Illidari Tabard (1)

Description

Researcher Tiorus was kind enough to put this concoction together for the final strike. I merely pour it upon this tabard that you have provided for me and the item is imbued with the essence of the Illidari filth.

Take the enchanted tabard and travel to the Eclipsion Fields, southwest of Eclipse Point. Once there, use the tabard to transform into an agent of Illidan. While in disguise, slay the crazed colossi that wander the field. They will think it an attack by the Eclipsion and sever all ties!

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Evoker's Mark of the Redemption			Spellsword's Mark of the Redemption
	Slayer's Mark of the Redemption

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Protector's Mark of the Redemption

You will also receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10769))