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Storyline
Howling Fjord Hell Has Frozen Over... If Valgarde Falls... Rescuing the Rescuers Prisoners of Wyrmskull Into the World of Spirits The Human League The Path to Payback The Echo of Ymiron Zedd's Probably Dead And Then There Were Two... The Depths of Depravity The Ring of Judgment Stunning Defeat at the Ring Return to Valgarde The Explorers' League Outpost Locating the Mechanism Anguish of Nifflevar Dragonflayer Battle Plans To Westguard Keep! Meet Lieutenant Icehammer... Drop It then Rock It! Harpoon Master Yavus It Goes to 11... Let's Go Surfing Now Tools to Get the Job Done Out of My Element? We Can Rebuild It We Have the Technology Iron Rune Constructs and You: Rocket Jumping Iron Rune Constructs and You: Collecting Data Iron Rune Constructs and You: The Bluff Lightning Infused Relics The Delicate Sound of Thunder News From the East The Clutches of Evil Mage-Lieutenant Malister Two Wrongs... Report to Scout Knowles The Dead Rise! Elder Atuik and Kamagua Grezzix Spindlesnap Feeding the Survivors Street "Cred" Arming Kamagua "Scoodles" Forgotten Treasure Avenge Iskaal The Staff of Storm's Fury The Frozen Heart of Isuldof The Lost Shield of the Aesirites The Ancient Armor of the Kvaldir Gambling Debt The Fragrance of Money Mutiny on the Mercy Jack Likes His Drink A Traitor Among Us Sorlof's Booty Dead Man's Debt Zeh'gehn Sez The Shield of the Aesirites A Carver and a Croaker A Return to Resting "Crowleg" Dan Return to Atuik Meet Number Two The Jig is Up Mission: Eternal Flame Mission: Package Retrieval Mission: Forsaken Intel Absholutely... Thish Will Work! You Tell Him ...Hic! Mission: Plague This! Operation: Skornful Wrath Gruesome, But Necessary Burn Skorn, Burn! Towers of Certain Doom All Hail the Conqueror of Skorn! Dealing With Gjalerbron Of Keys and Cages Necro Overlord Mezhen In Service to the Light Sleeping Giants The Slumbering King Down to the Wire The Yeti Next Door I'll Try Anything! Spirits of the Ice The Fallen Sisters Wild Vines Spawn of the Twisted Glade Seeds of the Blacksouled Keepers Keeper Witherleaf The Book of Runes Mastering the Runes The Rune of Command March of the Giants The Lodestone Demolishing Megalith See to the Operations I've Got a Flying Machine! Gjalerbron Attack Plans The Frost Wyrm and its Master The Cleansing In Worg's Clothing Brother Betrayers Eyes of the Eagle Alpha Worg

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Comment by 18970

71.6, 69.8 inside the cave at the Baelguns Excavation Camp.

After passing by on an army of Dark Iron Dwarves an holograph titan appears talking to the crowd. After listening to the following lines, you get the quest completed.

Kronus yells: Come, minions! Your master calls!
Kronus yells: The work of your brothers in the Storm Peaks has reached a frenzied pace. Soon, Father will be freed.
Iron Rune Worker says: Stop! Stop! Scrap metal moves itself now?
Iron Rune Construct says: To interfere with construct's function results in termination. Move along.
Iron Rune Worker says: Forgive my insolence!
Kronus yells: Your brothers to the north have subjugated the stone behemoths and set them on the path to Ulduar. Soon, the remaining defenses of the Pantheon will be neutralized.
Kronus yells: The three fissures opened by the mortals of this region must be silenced. The earth hears and sees what we do and will continue to interfere with our efforts if the way is not closed.
Kronus yells: Bury this place! Your master demands it!

Comment by redandgray

Cave entrance at 73.4,70.4, up some scaffolding.

Comment by Frostfire

There is a way to complete this quest in 8926.

You just have to jump out of the suit once you're under the statue, and the quest will complete.

Comment by 126640

Still confirmed as bugged, but the work around does still work. I went as far back between the statue's legs as I could and then waited for the projection to say: "The three fissures opened by the mortals of this region must be silenced. The earth hears and sees what we do and will continue to interfere with our efforts if the way is not closed."

After that I released the costume and got the complete without any aggro. Hope that helps!

Comment by NapalmDawn

Nice Pink Floyd reference.
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?quest=11495

Comment by 176018

as of 10/16, quest is still bugged and work-around still works

Comment by 17299

Seems like you have to enter the cave from the bottom entrance to spawn the Titan and get the quest completed.

Comment by Shanody

If you have trouble finding the cave (well, perhaps not finding, but getting there), then perhaps this may help:

- from the Explorer's League Outpost go South-West until you will get the note 'Bael'gun's Excavation Site' and see a ramp downwards (this is a very short walk)
- go down the first slope (the grassy one still) and turn left at the bottom of it
- you should now see an elevator a little bit ahead, just take it as far down as possible to get to the cave entrance

Just walk into the cave and Loken should start yelling and Dark Iron creatures will gather around a bright white holographic titan. Just stick around there for a few moments for the quest to complete.

Comment by Stone

Complete directions:

- top of entrance to Excavation: 72.7, 67.5.
- take scaffolding all the way over to elevator at 72.3, 74.1
- take elevator down.
- get off elevator and jump down to scaffolding at 72.5, 73.9
- face relatively north and take ramp to right.
- you will take two ramps... after that go to the right.
- jump to scaffolding at 72.8, 72.2
- face the cliff wall and take the scaffolding / ramp up to the right. (There will an earth elemental stationary at the base of that ramp.) Base at 72.9, 71.6
- go up the scaffolding to the green dirt at 73.8, 71.0
- take scaffolding ramp on your left up to the deck.... you will come up to that deck underneath the next ramp you need to take.
- the ramp (base at 72.9, 71.2) up to the cave entrance.

Hope this helps... a little complicated, but hey... better than nothing.

Comment by Vger

You don't seem to take fall damage in the suit -- or at least not unless you fall REALLY far. I never managed to hurt my golem by falling. This makes it a bit easier to get to the cave.

Comment by 226997

Here's a simple way to reach the cave, as discovered by a friend:

Get to the scaffolding with the three blast-off runes (you can get here quickly via the single rune at the ground floor of the excavation site).

Choose the middle rune. When you land, head several paces to your left. The cave entrance should be on your right.

Comment by Polynices

This quest only gave 9 gold 40 silver at 71. I suspect the gold amount listed is for doing it at 80 when experience is converted to cash.

Comment by Heekale

The title of this quest is also the name of the Pink Floyd live 2CD from 1988.

Comment by Stryker666

As i have just found out you DO NOT need to be inside a construst suit to complete either of the quests round here.

After going down to the bottom with a friend i got attacked by a stone elemental destroying my suit. My friend continued to do the quest collecting data. Each node he went to gave me credit as well. This also meant when i went into the thundering cave i was stealthed in cat form. Although i couldn't understand the Titan Language i was still able to complete the quest!

Comment by Executor5

Easy way to reach the cave: as you go down the slope entering the excavation area, there are 2 paths, take the left one. It ends at a elevator. The elevator has 3 stops, wait for it to reach the bottom. At the bottom, you'll see the cave entrance straight ahead.

Comment by Varly

does anyone know if there is a horde equivalent of this quest?

Comment by okayokay

OMG these are crap directions! LOL. Who the frick would follow all that crap!

These were Great:

By Amourysse 4 days ago (Patch 3.0.3)
Here's a simple way to reach the cave, as discovered by a friend:

Get to the scaffolding with the three blast-off runes (you can get here quickly via the single rune at the ground floor of the excavation site).

Choose the middle rune. When you land, head several paces to your left. The cave entrance should be on your right.

Comment by Sithean

I wasn't able to complete the quest while in the suit. I ran directly facing the rock the giant appears in front of, as far back as I could go, right against the rock face, and took off the suit. The quest completed, and nothing attacked me.

Comment by EvilTomte

They found me out quickly the first time I tried, the next time I kept some distance while spamming "Bluff", it was the way of win!

So just do as I did, and they won't insta-pwn you.

edit: Also, you don't take fall damage while in the suit... So don't worry about just jumping down to the cave.

Comment by Blackboy0

Loken yells: Come, minions! Your master calls!
Loken yells: The work of your brothers in the Storm Peaks has reached a frenzied pace. Soon, Father will be freed.
Loken yells: Your brothers to the north have subjugated the stone behemoths and set them on the path to Ulduar. Soon, the remaining defenses of the Pantheon will be neutralized.
Loken yells: The three fissures opened by the mortals of this region must be silenced. The earth hears and sees what we do and will continue to interfere with our efforts if the way is not closed.
Loken yells: Bury this place! Your master demands it!
The sound of thunder dissipates.

The up-to-date speech of Loken :)

Also,

That's what I did and I found it right away :)

On completion of The Delicate Sound of Thunder and Lightning Infused Relics, you get News from the East.

Comment by Liri

11/29
I went up between the Titan's legs and didnt leave the suit, the quest completed normally.

Comment by chopperdave

Went all the way through the cave and didn't get credit. Might still be bugged.

EDIT- I had to listen to everything Loken said until i got a message saying "The sound of thunder dissipates." Hope that helps.

Comment by 261385

"The Delicate Sound of Thunder" is named after the video set released to coincide with Pink Floyd's 'Momentary Lapse of Reason' tour.

Comment by 249660

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wmU9qV8CWA

Comment by 159686

Many of the Vrykul lore is based on the danish viking, and it seems Blizz has also included some of the mythology in theese dwarfes... Loke is one of the northern gods of the north mythology...

Comment by 90866

Amazing area for prot paladins, while the titan is talking, 2 groups of about 8 Iron dwarves will spawn on the 2 levels pull 1 group (or both if you have good gear), AoE them down and they instantly respawn.

Each mob gives 800xp per 1600 rested I went from 71.5 to 73 in just over an hour of grinding these guys.

They don't have that much health. They don't have any special attacks. They were only hitting me for 160 each with 13k armor and 12k health, I was only in the crafted Cobalt set with a couple quest greens.

Edit: typos

Comment by 158821

u have to be in the 'iron rune construct' form

Comment by Grizlor

It seems that they have removed the exp from the iron dwarves. Oh well :/

Comment by 246674

Go to the coords 72.70 at Baelgun's Excavation Site. There you will find three Golem transports, take the middle one. Then you'll end up at 74.70, where you go straight ahead and then take a right, go into the cave as deep as you can and wait for the conversation to finish. Mission completed ;)

Comment by 208425

if you happen to die inside the cave after the titan event has started, dont release! just wait a minute, and the Thunder will Dissipate, and you'll get credit. (I had 1 dwarf who didn't seem to be fooled by the bluff, and eventually killed my golem suit inside the cave.. after that it was insta-death from the dwarves when i was back in dranei form)

Comment by 235376

What are the prequests?

At first her only had one for me but on completion of that I've been presented with two and it would be great to know if I need to complete them both or just one to get this.

Comment by 337397

I couldn't complet the quest. I did everything normal, waited until the end of Loken's speech, and nothing happened. I got out of the suit, ran around, exited the cave, went back, still no completion. I discarded the quest, took it again, went back into the cave, and the animation didn't show up. So no completion.

Edit : went back with the suit, animation showned up. Stayed in front of Loken, completed quest.

Comment by redwiz

i've now gone into this cave 3 times and nothing happens. am i in the right place? see screenshot

Comment by Metzae

Put on the Golem suit first before you do this quest. I know this may seem obvious, but if you're like me then you power level and only stop to read the descriptions when you absolutely have to. Well, this is one of those quests.

Comment by Torathin

The quest line for this is as follows:

Tools to Get the Job Done
We Can Rebuild It
We Have the Technology (concurrent with above - you need to do both to get next quest)
Iron Rune Constructs and You: Rocket Jumping
Iron Rune Constructs and You: Collecting Data
Iron Rune Constructs and You: The Bluff
Lightning Infused Relics
The Delicate Sound of Thunder
News From the East

I don't believe there is any prerequisite to starting this quest line.

Comment by 692994

THERE IS NO NEED FOR ALL THE CONFUSING DIRECTIONS. PLS READ.

If you remember the previous quests that led up to this one, you'll remember that you can Rocket Jump on the dwarf runes (those square things on the ground with the glowing orange symbols on them). You have to be in your golem suit though, or you won't be able to. You can get the suit by clicking on the table by the quest giver nearby (in case you forgot). Get into the suit and walk over to the entrance of the excavation site (coords 72, 67). Every time you see an Iron Rune Steelguard, hit the 'Bluff' button in your action bar so they don't attack you, if they start attacking you run away. Avoid elementals, they see right through your golem disguise!

Once you're at the entrance, go down the slight hill a short distance and you'll see a two separate wooden platforms. The one to the right-ish has some ramps going up to it, and theres one on the left-ish with 3 dwarf runes on the edge of it. Hard to miss. You don't have to go up or down anywhere to see them. They are on the edge of the wooden platform overlooking the excavation site. Stand on the dwarf rune that is in the middle (coords 72, 70), and hit 'Rocket Jump' in your action bar. You will be launched to another dwarf rune on a wooden platform that is right by the cave. Once you've landed, walk west across the platform to the cave (coords 73, 70). Enter the cave and walk to the back, a guy will appear and say some stuff, wait until he's done talking to complete the quest. Walk back out and back to the spot where you landed, you can stand on that rune and launch yourself back up to the top again.

Comment by 959312

QUICK AND EASY WAY TO GET TO CAVE!Once you get the quest run to exactly 73/69 cords. Go to the edge of the rock and jump, you'll land, jump again, you're at the cave opening! Easy Peasy! Run in, listen to the big guys speech. Done. Run back to cave entrance, leave vehicle, get on your flying mount and turn in quest. Why are people making this sound so difficult?

Comment by 1002015

I spent FOREVER on this quest and then came here and found the comment by Executor5 and was done in about 3 minutes. Like he said when you are coming down the initial slope into the site hang a left. You'll know you are going the right way because the little bastards will say this area is off limits (or at least they did when I walked through). Board the elevator and turn back to face the gate (this is important because otherwise you will get off the wrong side). Take the elevator down two stops and walk forward. Now you are at the entrance to the cave. No zig zagging. No teleport runes. Just one elevator and a couple steps forward.

Comment by 664366

click on the table next to the quest giver after accepting the quest to get in a construct costume or else you won't be able to do anything

Comment by 13808

There is one cave at the excavation site with two entrances. The easiest way is to head straight south and fall down onto a tent and take the lift straight ahead. Stay on through the first stop and go all the way to the bottom and you will be close to the lower cave entrance.

Once in the cave, make you way to about 1/2 way through the cave where there's a statue forming out of the wall and you will see a ghostly shape. STAY THERE as you see a lot of deep iron dwarves come and listen to the entire thing, you don't get credit until the guy is done talking. My first time through we just breezed by and didn't stop so we didn't get credit.

Comment by EddieShoe

Anyone else noticed that the dwarves sit in a breast-like shape?

Comment by chrth

If you happen to lose your suit while listening to Loken's speech (say, for example, an Earth Elemental just won't leave you alone), the Dark Iron will aggro and attack you, and you'll no longer be able to understand what Loken is saying.

However, even if you die, you'll still get quest completion credit once Loken finishes his speech, so don't release until then.

Comment by 1440987

The Delicate Sound of Thunder http://youtu.be/O98BhP_zJBU

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Delicate Sound of Thunder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS3NsnHKZ9k

Comment by Wowzir

OPTIMUM ROUTE to complete The Delicate Sound of Thunder
OBTW, you should have no trouble following this route WITHOUT using the included coordinates.

From the Quest Giver, look over to the upper structure of the elevator. You are going to run your construct UNDER the hanging counterweight. Beyond the counterweight, are a large and a small tree. Pass the large one and turn left between the trees .
{You are going to pass two Iron Rune Steelguards on your left side and a third one on your right}

Now run just beyond the back corner of the elevator tower to , and jump down onto the upper elevator entrance platform and get on the elevator. As soon as you are ON the elevator, turn around 180 degrees and face the way you entered from.

You are going to jump OFF into empty space when the elevator makes its first stop! Run straight ahead (west) to the cave entrance at . Turn right, enter cave and go uphill untill you get to Loken, the BIG GLOWING STATUE at and listen to the dialog until you get quest completion.

My personal preference for returning is to run out the way you came in and jump off the platform. Then just exit the construct and mount your flying mount to return to the Quest Giver.

Comment by OptikRise

I'm not sure why but I had to listen to Lokens' rant twice before getting credit... maybe I was moving around too much the first time.

Comment by Bighand

I've never done worse quest than this... congrats blizzard.

Comment by Kozzie

thinking this is bugged - I'm currently in the suit - on a rune and hitting Rocket jump and nothing is happening, abandoned, reload didn't change anything. So, have no idea what else to try here. But its been a waste of 30 mins.

Comment by 2245526

If you missed the full speech (actual quest requirement), just stay inside the statue for some time until you hear it again in full (Iron Rune Construct suit required)

Comment by Roscoe426

Having to come here to see how to do every damn quest in this area is just bad writing. Heading back to Borean Tundra to quest there. less frustrating.

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The Delicate Sound of Thunder

Walt at the Explorers' League Outpost in the Howling Fjord wants you to use the Iron Rune Construct to explore the thundering cave at Baelgun's Excavation Site.

Dismiss your construct by dismissing it from the pet window once you have completed the quest.

	Thundering Cave investigated (1)

Description

The cavern that we opened at Baelgun's was the one place that most steered clear of... Can't say I blame 'em. The sound of thunder shot out of that cave, <name>! Loud, booming thunder!

I think near the end, it was abandoned by all. Bad, bad things happened to any that went in to explore - most never coming back.

I want you to check that cave out while you're at Baelgun's. Explore around the titan statue inside and report back with your findings.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Featherweight Claymore			Acid-Etched Knuckles
	Fullered Coldsteel Dagger			Hair-Trigger Blunderbuss

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Explorers' League
350 reputation with Valiance Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11495))