Quick Facts

Series

1.	Foolish Endeavors
2.	Nork Bloodfrenzy's Charge
3.	Coward Delivery... Under 30 Minutes or it's Free
4.	Vermin Extermination

Storyline
Borean Tundra Hellscream's Vigil The Defense of Warsong Hold The Defense of Warsong Hold The Defense of Warsong Hold The Sky Will Know Boiling Point Motes of the Enraged Return to the Spirit Talker Vision of Air Farseer Grimwalker's Spirit Kaganishu Return My Remains Taking Back Mightstone Quarry Cutting Off the Source Wind Master To'bor Magic Carpet Ride Tank Ain't Gonna Fix Itself Mobu's Pneumatic Tank Transjigamarig Super Strong Metal Plates! Tanks a lot... The Plains of Nasam Untold Truths Nerub'ar Secrets Message to Hellscream Reinforcements Incoming... The Warsong Farms Get to Getry Foolish Endeavors The Wondrous Bloodspore Pollen from the Source Karuk's Oath Gamel the Cruel A Father's Words The Trident of Naz'jan The Emissary A Mission Statement Help Those That Cannot Help Themselves Khu'nok Will Know Kaw the Mammoth Destroyer Nedar, Lord of Rhinos... Happy as a Clam The Abandoned Reach Not On Our Watch The Nefarious Clam Master... Unfit for Death The Culler Cometh The Assassination of Harold Lane Monitoring the Rift: Cleftcliff Anomaly Monitoring the Rift: Sundered Chasm Monitoring the Rift: Winterfin Cavern Prison Break Abduction The Borean Inquisition The Art of Persuasion Sharing Intelligence A Race Against Time Reforging the Key Taking Wing Rescuing Evanor Dragonspeak Traversing the Rift Nuts for Berries Keep the Secret Safe Basic Training Hatching a Plan Drake Hunt Cracking the Code Puzzling... The Cell Keristrasza Bait and Switch Saragosa's End Mustering the Reds Springing the Trap A Suitable Test Subject Not Without a Fight! Muahit's Wisdom Spirits Watch Over Us The Tides Turn Learning to Communicate Winterfin Commerce Oh Noes, the Tadpoles! Them! I'm Being Blackmailed By My Cleaner Grmmurggll Mrllggrl Glrggl!!! Succulent Orca Stew The Spare Suit Surrender... Not! Keymaster Urmgrgl Escape from the Winterfin Caverns The Invasion of Gammoth Gammothra the Tormentor Trophies of Gammoth Hellscream's Champion Load'er Up! The Power of the Elements Patching Up Scouting the Sinkholes The Heart of the Elements The Horn of Elemental Fury The Collapse Sage Highmesa is Missing A Proper Death Stop the Plague Find Bristlehorn Fallen Necropolis The Doctor and the Lich-Lord Return with the Bad News What Are They Up To? Master the Storm Weakness to Lightning Souls of the Decursed Cleaning Up the Pools The Sub-Chieftains Defeat the Gearmaster Shrouds of the Scourge The Bad Earth Blending In The Fall of Taunka'le Village Across Transborea

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Videos

Comments

Comment by 180979

Pretty simple quest, just attack Varidus the Flenser and let the NPC's attack the rest of the mobs. If you die run back and rez as quickly as possible as you will still get credit if Varidus has not yet fallen. Turns in at 41,53 in Warsong Hold.

Comment by 168126

High Overlord Saurfang does all the work for you

Comment by DJScythe15

Very fun quest. After an interesting scene, complete with the heroic appearance of Saurfang, undercover as an En'kilah Necrolord (http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?npc=25730), you fight Varidus with Getry and Saurfang's assistance. Should you die before the battle ends, don't release; there's a good chance that the two can finish off the enemy without your help. Be sure to stick around until Saurfang's departure for the beginning of an interesting sideplot.

Comment by 168126

Video of the Quest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=murPb--gR7E

Comment by 221082

I tried this quest as a 72 death knight... I started the quest and Saurfang never spawned. Together with Getry I managed to get his heath down a good bit but eventually he died and I failed the quest. I ran back and tried again, assuming it just bugged and again Saurfang failed to spawn. Anyone else seeing this?

Edit: tried it a third time making sure I was in range of Varidus when Getry was and Saurfang spawned.

Comment by sup2069

Not sure if this quest is bugged but my pickup group skipped the massive attack. Instead we just simply killed Varidus as Getry was walking down the ramp. He ran to assist us and after Varidus was killed the quest was completed. Very odd.

Comment by 38428

This quest is bugged in the sense that neither Saurfang nor the undead adds will spawn if Varidus is aggroed before he stuns you and the dialogue begins, in which case youre in for a hell of a challenge if youre going solo.

This happened to me three times when random people rode past him before he got to stun me and the UD rogue NPC, resulting in me waiting for him to kill the npc, restart the quest and cross my fingers hoping for no further intrusion from careless riders.

Comment by danb

This quest is truly dreadful. It's very easy to bug out; passing riders, being too slow getting down the ramp, being too fast, all sorts. The rewards are token at best and if it wasn't for the follow up quests I'd suggest just giving this one a miss due to the ease at which it goes wrong.

Edit: Wait until the less popular play times to do this. It's very easy when nobody else is around to mess it up.

Comment by 203775

Just comepleted this quest...

At first i was like oh fu-- im screwed...

then saurfand came and WTFPWNED all of em

Comment by 166028

This is the worst quest ever designed for this game. Random players can tag the boss mob, denying you credit for completing the event. I've tried to do this quest repeatedly, and after watching the event over 6 times, I have given up. If you want to complete this quest, do it when your server is at it's least-active, or wait for the initial wave of players to leave the starter zones.

Comment by swedgen

Many of you dishonor the High Overlord with your impudent prattle. Make no mention. Any of you!

Comment by 247363

Woot!
I just completed this quest with my 71 Holy Pally.
Saurfang never spawned... 'cause Varidus the Flenser never got me below ~4,000HP.
Getry and I just finished him off ourselves! (although Getry still thanks a non-existent Saurfang at the end...)
Took awhile, but I just kept my Seal and Judgement of Wisdom up, and kept healing...
I was Tanking BTW, not Getry...

Comment by 113085

This is the actual start for this quest: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=11614

Comment by 174016

I think its a good idea to mention that you got to follow Shadowstalker Getry so both of you are in combat at the same time, just before the combat both of you should be thrown into a shadow prison, if and Saurfang appears.

This q was damn hard to me because im a lock, and i think the most guys that say that Saurfang dont spawn are ranged too (or cowards :)

Comment by Telenvale

Do not use a priest's bubble before this quest gets started, it wont finish the sequence and you'll have a harder time trying to kill him. Wait until after the Shadow Prison wears off.

Comment by azinja

Indeed a bit of a messy quest.

First time I got down the ramp along with Getry, and we both got a 2 min. prison during which absolutly nothing happened (no dialogue, no action, no nothing). After it worn off me, Getry and Varidus just stood there, Varidus still being un-attackable.

Second time Varidus was attackable from the start, before the event started. We didnt get prisoned and the fight started straight away.
Me & Getry put up a good fight but I was taking it easy, thinking that Saurfang would pop his head in for a quick hello, which he never did. So Getry died, the quest failed and Varidus de-aggrod and became un-attackable.

Third time Varidus again was attackable from the start, and there was no sign of Saurfang so I popped some more damage in the mix and managed to not pull aggro until the very end. After a fair bit of smashing Varidus died and I finally got it completed (70 blood death knight).

So even if the quest bugs out for you its possible to get it completed.

Comment by 253718

dismiss your pet first to make things less likely to get bugged out. Also, stay close to Getry as he walks up to ensure your capture.

Comment by 185830

I've been watching this quest for a bit now.

Who starts what:
Getry and Varidus are linked together in their interaction for the quest
Saurfang the Necrolord is spawned by the quest and seems to have a spawn timer also.
Saurfang's appearence starts the chat and the mobs.
Saurfang's appearence is connected to Varidus being attackable.
So..... the "bugging" of the quest depends on how long it's been since the last time it was done, and how successful it was.

The correct way the quest should occur is for Shadowstalker Getry and the one who starts the quest (only the one who start it if in a group) to approach Varidus and get shadow stunned for 2 minutes. Saurfang comes and has a quick chat with Varidus. Varidus summons roughly 30 mobs. Varidus should not be attackable until this point. FIGHT!

Bugged path one:
1. If Shadowstalker Getry dies then Varidus will despawn, however Saurfang will not.
2. A group starts the quest before Saurfang despawns on his own.
3. The quest will freeze up when the new Getry approaches Varidus, as the game sees Saurfang and is waiting for him to speak.

Bugged path two:
1. If Shadowstalker Getry dies then Varidus will despawn, however Saurfang will not.
2. The next group starts the quest "soon" after Saurfang despawns on his own.
3. Saurfang's spawn timer is not yet up, however since he is not there the quest does not wait for him to speak.
4. Varidus can be attacked at any time in this case. No mob will spawn.

I've seen this chain with Saurfang not spawning two times in a row, on two seperate occasions. On the third group, both times, he did spawn.

Bugged path three: This one is more of a guess on my part.
1. A group does the quest succesfully the way it was meant to be done.
2. While Saurfang is running away, another group starts the quest.
3. Saurfang is counted as still being there so Varidus can be attacked early. No mob, no Sarufang. Still trying to see if there is a reason behind this one.

On a side note, non of this is Saurfang's fault. Any indication pointing in that direction is simply a misunderstanding.

Comment by azinja

If you can't take this quest it's probably because you haven't gotten the pre-req.

Try talking to Shadowstalker Ickoris who gives the quest Get to Getry (which, if I remember correctly, unlocks this quest). If that quest isn't available, just do his chain. :)

Comment by Lickking

If Varidus doesn't have shield of suffering buff when you start the quest he will kill Shadowstalker Getry, because he didn't despawn correctly. I've noticed this is caused by impatient people accepting the quest too quickly.

Comment by 296457

What are the co-ords of the quest giver...

n0m3

Comment by 122055

Spoilers:
The text as follows:

Shadowstalker Gentry: This is it <Character Name>. The start and the end of the world. And your going to see it off...
Shadowstalker Gentry: Lets Go.
Varidus the Flenser: Is this it? Is this all the mighty Horde could muster?
Varidus the Flenser: Pathetic
Varidus the Flenser: I've never understood your type. The Hero...
Varidus the Flenser: Why won't you just let go? Why do you fight the inevitable?
Varidus the Flenser: The Lich King cannot be stopped. Accept it.
Varidus the Flenser: This world is coming to an end. Let. It. Burn.
Varidus the Flenser: Take him away and prepare him for reanimation.

High Overlord Saurfang: I'll rip out your shriveled heart with my bare hands before any harm comes to <Character Name>, Necromancer.
Varidus the Flenser: What's this now?
High Overlord Saurfang: You were never alone, <Character Name>.
High Overlord Saurfang: We will fight you with every fiber of our being- Until we are nothing more than dust and debris. We will fight until the end.
Varidus the Flenser: Then you are a fool.
High Overlord Saurfang: A fool that is about to end you, Necrolord. There will be nothing left of you for the Lich King to reanimate!
Varidus the Flenser: You? A lone orc? Against me and...
Varidus the Flenser yells: RISE!
After Flenser is killed-
Shadowstalker Gentry: I... I can't believe it... Saurfang... I... I am honored... honored to have fought along side you, sir.
Shadowstalker Gentry: You should return to Warsong hold now, friend. Hellscream will surly want to hear of what just happened here... of Saurfang...
High Overlord Saurfang: You'll make no mention of me. Either of you!

Great quest. More of Saurfang's awsomeness. Basically he disguises himself, comes out and beats the hell out of Flenser. Oh, and he says he will lolpwn anyone who mentions it to Hellscream that he was there.

Comment by Kenaro

So... pallies... don't consecrate. You'll pull somewhere around 50 mobs. Holy wrath only stuns for a few seconds. -_- If you die, run back quiiick because Saurfang wrecks those guys.

Comment by evankimori

One tip though: while Saurfang and the rogue beat on him, you can stand behind Varidus and use him for some quick and easy weapon skill up points since Saurfang isn't going to die any time soon. Just watch out for when he does his AOE so you can back off and heal/bandage. If the rogue dies however: the quest usually bugs out.

If you plan on doing free weaponskills: simply fail/abandon the quest, retake it and there you go: free 2-3 minutes of weaponskill levelling. Easy way to get your "Somebody order a Knuckle Sandwich?" achievement.

Comment by 258919

It's an easy fight because Chu- I mean, Saurfang appears and makes meatloaf out of him. This just goes to show.

Don't #@*& with Saurfang

Comment by ZidaTheBlazing

This quest didn't go as expected for me. I wasn't sure what caused Saurfang to spawn, so I engaged the elite before shadow prison was cast on me. I blew all my CD's and went insane on him (Level 71 Frost Mage) while Getry tanked him (quite well). The moment I pulled aggro, I Ice Blocked and then went easy on my DPS. At this point, a random DK came and started attacking him as well. The DK pulled and died. After that, my CD's were up, so I blew them again and once again, pulled. The moment I did, I used Cold Snap and Ice Blocked again. By this point, he was maybe at 1/3P health, so I blew my CD's again (Cold Snap). This time, when I pulled, I couldn't ice block, so I blinked away from him for a little bit while ice lancing him. Surprisingly, he didn't kill me fast, I did have to use a potion though. Then, I decided to just wing it and try for an invisibility. It worked, and I dropped all my aggro again. I then DPS'd the boss's last 20k health down while Getry took the hits again. I got the quest complete as normal. I wish I would've taken a video of this.

Comment by 202233

As of 4/12/09 It is working properly, just getting a couple of hits out on the elite and let saurfang do the work, I have also noticed that it is only taking 2 minutes in its entirely instead of around 5 minutes before.

Comment by 329683

Just did this quest...still buggy. The instant all the other adds spawned they IMMEDIATELY attacked and killed me, without even going to Saurfang who was whirlwinding the hell out of everything. I still managed to ghost back and complete the quest...but it was pretty stupid nonetheless.

Comment by 366528

when i was doing the quest 1 of the mobs critted saurfang...and we all know what happened after that.

Comment by Mairin

Following the shadow prison, Saurfang shows up and does his thing while I DPS the boss (just for something to do really) yet Getry for whatever reason fails to join the fight after coming out of his bubble.

Getry: "I...I am honored...honored to have fough along side you, sir".

or not as the case may be.

Comment by 389166

this quest contains lots of cleaves

Comment by TK0680

I always thought that Necrolord with 1.8m HP looked a bit suspicious.

The speed at which Saurfang scuttles off at the end is pretty brilliant, too.

Comment by 101318

Be sure to let saurfang uber cleave all the adds before you engage the necromancer. If you attack too early, there's a chance that they could start to evade. When that happens, odds are, the entire undead swarm will go directly for you.

And if you are a clothie like I am, you will probably die.

Comment by Cakeman100

i cant get this quest.. why? do i need to complete a certain chain first?

Comment by Flitzy

Saurfang is lucky I was there to kill everything for him.

He would have been in trouble otherwise....

Comment by nereus

during the fight it says that "High Overlord Saurfang's eyes glow red for a brief moment" right before he goes into his crazy AoE rage. I know that orcs' eyes glowed red while they had the taint of the demons blood. Does this mean that Saurfang, and other orcs who were once tainted have the ability to turn it on that corruption for moments in combat now even after they've been cleansed of the taint?

Comment by 354705

Did this on my new warlock, only had to try three times. The first time Varidus cast Shadow Prison on us, then Saurfang came in disguise and... Varidus started beating Getry to death. Saurfang did absolutely nothing. Quest failed.

The second time we go down, Varidus says "Pathetic." and casts Shadow Prison on us. Saurfang's still standing there and we all stood there until everyone despawned. Quest failed.

The third time went almost normally, except only a couple of adds would attack us. After Varidus died, the rest of the adds attacked me and Saurfang was running the hell away. Quest completed!

So yeah, it's still a bit buggy. Proceed with caution.

Comment by Gui7arFreak

DONT stand in the field, stand next to Getry, or all the mobs will aggro to you.

Comment by 492810

Saurfang runs. Very, very fast. Also, there will be a Saurfang's Rage buff cast upon you at the start of the battle.

Comment by alxndr5120

i tried getting this quest again cause i abandoned it cause i had no clue what to do and now its not letting me get it...

Comment by iitzstevo

"I'll rip your shriveled heart with my bare hands before any harm comes to him, necromancer." -High Overlord Saurfang

Comment by k3m0

I soloed this guy with fury warrior in 2 tries with one super healing potion coz those retarded 10000 thingies didnt attack me :D

Comment by 355072

I was stupid enough to aoe the mobs on my lock and died in a few seconds. Just let Saurfang kill them.

Comment by 188312

Extremely bugged at times.

Comment by 697032

found this quest extremely fun it was awesome

Comment by cefm

This is a good quest to weed out the non-readers. If all you do is click through the dialogue, check your map for the icon and zip straight there to attack, you'll get destroyed.

When the guy says "follow me" it means FOLLOW. When he gets to Varidus the scenario will start correctly. Then just stay out of the way whil Saurfang kills everything. DON'T attack the mobs or they'll kill you. What, you think you're tougher than Saurfang? Fool.

Comment by fordahord

I dunno, maybe this quest has been nerfed in Cata, but it was far and away the easiest (major) quest I've done.

69 Destro Lock -- I listened through the nonsense dialogue then tried out my brand spanking new Chaos Bolt on Varidus. I didn't target any of the other mobs, just Varidus.

I took no damage whatever.

Comment by Sanryo

This has my vote as one of the best quests ever.

Comment by MiltiadesBooga

Don't AoE them or you'll become the epicentre of an undead-mofo mosh pit.

Comment by donquixote235

If you die, don't release! You'll get a quest completion once Saurfang drops Veridus, regardless of whether or not you lived. If however you release and Saurfang kills Veridus while you're still running to your corpse, you will not get credit.

Comment by coolkingler1

Love this quest dearly.

Let me tell you a short tale.

I once convinced a friend to play WoW. Well he did, and he enjoyed it. This was back in the time of Wrath of the Lich King with Cataclysm nearing.

So we had to go to another friends birthday party, I stop by the WoW playing friend's house to pick him up so we can go together.

'Wait' he tells me, he was leveling in Northrend.

Then he started this quest, me being the quest buff I was knew what was going to.happen.

Or did I?

A lvl 80 rogue of the opposing faction (Alliance) suddenly tried to kill my friend's character, my friend being a paladin popped his bubble, so he wouldn't die for some seconds.

Unfortunately for the rogue he made the dire mistake of attacking my friend while Saurfang was with him because of this quest.

What happened next was extremely hilarious: he cleaved the rogue instantly, first charging him, then cleaved him, needless to say, he died instantly.

This was the most epic quest moment I ever witnesssed.

Comment by maely

This quest just cost me my 200% exp buff only 20 minutes into Northrend questing. Do NOT attempt this quest if you are under the effect of the Krol potion. You will get attacked by about 30 adds, and unless you're a Priest with Fade or something you're screwed.

Comment by 1440987

Foolish Endeavors http://youtu.be/_P5Lt4poVa4

Comment by WoWGnGP

I made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTDnQGxYJjM

Comment by Balasarius

This is a little bugged after the level scaling. At level 72 Varidus the Flenser has something in the vicinity of 300k health. He killed me pretty easily, then I spent four minutes as a corpse waiting for Saurfang and Getry to finish him off.

Comment by SaltLB

If you survive the swarm, just chill out, even if you die. Saurfang will bring Varidus down eventually and you will still get credit. Be wary though, if you die too early you will become a spirit before Varidus is killed.

Comment by Elitecookie

Completed it while still on my flying mount and attacked once the swarm was gone just to be sure

Comment by TimeTraveler

Now that everyone is leveling up during our 100% xp, there are lots there picking up this quest. Killed him a number of times with no credit.

If someone else is there either doing the quest down below (in which case the ques tgiver is not there) and you will have to wait and he will respawn at the top of top or someone is picking up the quest as you are......Be sure that he says your name in the dialogue that follows or you will kill him but no credit. He has to say your characters name and tell you to follow him. If he doesn't you just have to wait until he respawns and pick it up faster that the next person.

Comment by gothnate

I believe this quest is currently bugged, or it at least bugged on me. Leveling a new warrior, I attacked, and after Saurfang AoEd the adds, the stopped doing anything, which caused me to die. I released, and fortunately, quest credit was still given.

Comment by FlayOnDarkIron

It's interesting going back and doing this quest today. Lots to unpack here. Really goes to show that Forsaken appreciation and reverence of Saurfang goes back a looong time, and wasn't simply pulled out of thin air for the Sylvanas v. Saurfang cinematic. I enjoyed replaying it. Hope they decide to extend the experience buff so I can continue to feel like questing is worth my time, because going back to this older content for a refresher is putting newer content in greater perspective.

Comment by Nyloaf

Word of warning for non-tanks or healers doing this quest; do not use aoe when initially attacking the quest objective when the summoned creatures begin to swarm in. They will very likely aggro onto you and kill you, making you fail the quest and have to endure the run of shame back to Gentry to reclaim the quest once again. Do single target dps on Varidus and let Saurfang take care of the bulk of the swarming ads.

Links

Foolish Endeavors

Help Getry defeat Varidus the Flenser at Warsong Farms.

Report to Garrosh Hellscream should you succeed.

	Varidus the Flenser slain (1)
	Varidus the Flenser Defeated (1)

Description

This is madness. How do they expect us to take on a Scourge necrolord and an unknown number of his minions?

<Getry sighs.>

If Ickoris sent you he must think that you are capable of great feats. Perhaps you will call down a miracle today, eh?

When you're ready we will descend and face Varidus.

If we make it out of this mess in one piece, report back to Hellscream in Warsong Hold.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Ermine Ruff Cloak			Reinforced Mendicant's Cowl
	Benign Crusader's Plate

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Graven Shoveltusk Pendant

You will also receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Warsong Offensive

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11705))