Quick Facts

Series

1.	Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend
2.	The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle
3.	The Crusaders' Pinnacle

Storyline
Icecrown Honor Above All Else Curing The Incurable Defending The Vanguard Scourge Tactics If There Are Survivors... Into The Wild Green Yonder A Cold Front Approaches The Last Line Of Defense Once More Unto The Breach, Hero Once More Unto The Breach, Hero The Scourgestone The Restless Dead The Purging Of Scourgeholme The Stone That Started A Revolution It Could Kill Us All The Air Stands Still Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle The Crusaders' Pinnacle The Skybreaker Orgrim's Hammer The Broken Front Your Attention, Please Borrowed Technology ...All the Help We Can Get. Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Basic Chemistry Coprous the Defiled Sneak Preview Chain of Command Cannot Reproduce Retest Now Not a Bug Need More Info No Rest For The Wicked Raise the Barricades Bloodspattered Banners Get the Message The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards The Broken Front Takes One to Know One Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Coprous the Defiled Basic Chemistry Sneak Preview Chain of Command Cannot Reproduce Retest Now Not a Bug Need More Info No Rest For The Wicked Raise the Barricades Bloodspattered Banners Blinding the Eyes in the Sky The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards It's All Fun and Games It's All Fun and Games I Have an Idea, But First... Free Your Mind If He Cannot Be Turned If He Cannot Be Turned The Shadow Vault The Shadow Vault The Duke Exploiting an Opening Securing the Perimeter Set it Off! A Short Fuse Opportunity Establishing Superiority Blow it Up! A Short Fuse Parting Gifts An Undead's Best Friend Honor is for the Weak From Whence They Came Seeds of Chaos Amidst the Confusion Vereth the Cunning New Recruit The Vile Hold Generosity Abounds Matchmaker Stunning View The Rider of the Unholy The Rider of Frost The Rider of Blood The Fate of Bloodbane Eliminate the Competition The Bone Witch The Sum is Greater than the Parts The Art of Being a Water Terror Through the Eye Find the Ancient Hero Not-So-Honorable Combat Banshee's Revenge Battle at Valhalas Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn Battle at Valhalas: Carnage! Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge Where Are They Coming From? Destroying the Altars Death's Gaze Spill Their Blood Jagged Shards I'm Smelting... Smelting! The Runesmiths of Malykriss A Visit to the Doctor By Fire Be Purged Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton He's Gone to Pieces Putting Olakin Back Together Again The Flesh Giant Champion A Voice in the Dark Time to Hide Return to the Surface Field Repairs Do Your Worst Army of the Damned Futility Sindragosa's Fall Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Tirion's Help Tirion's Gambit A Voice in the Dark Time to Hide Return to the Surface Field Repairs Do Your Worst Army of the Damned Futility Cradle of the Frostbrood Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Argent Aid Tirion's Gambit A Tale of Valor A Hero Remains The Keeper's Favor Hope Within the Emerald Nightmare The Boon of Remulos Time Yet Remains The Touch of an Aspect Dahlia's Tears The Boon of Alexstrasza Hope Yet Remains The Will of the Naaru The Boon of A'dal Light Within the Darkness

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Comments

Comment by geony

Pile of Crusader Skulls - 80.71

Comment by Fafhrd

You have to help kill Halof the Deathbringer to complete the quest.

Comment by 114290

It can be somewhat tough for melee dps, as even though you may kill fast, tons start spawning. The captains are a high priority as they will heal the other mobs nearby, then the large plague beings (whose name escapes me at the moment), then the smaller mobs. If you have any form of taunting ability (including death grip and dark command, though I imagine others like misdirect etc would work), use it on mobs that are attacking the pillar. You will get them on you, but you're healing a heck of a lot so long as you're near the flag.

Once Halof spawns, focus fire on him until he's dead, and you win.

Comment by Dianora

This quest is highly susceptible to cross faction griefing. All it takes is another faction to be standing in the AoE of the group doing the quest, and main quest NPC will attack the AoEer.

Interstingly enough. If you don't interfered and just let the other faction complete the quest, while you're within the radius of the buff, you'll get the credit as well.

Comment by 176018

the spawning goes on for a while, gets kinda boring >.> like someone else said as soon as you see halof spawn (he's easy to spot, a bit bigger than anything else) focus everything on him -- once he dies, it all despawns.

Comment by Ichise

bugged on live..at least for my 5 trys today 11-16

Comment by Xpariah

Rogue Plan:
After failing this quest three times after hitting 80 I went about it this way (I am undergeared as my rogue was an ALT until WotLK):
1. Blow all combo generation moves (SS, Muti, Hemo) on Captains and the large hunchbacks
2. Pool energy and auto attack the little mobs, don't waste energy here (really important)
3. Use everything on the ending boss as well as evasion half way through. Don't forget your trinkets!

Good luck!

Comment by 170203

If you're having trouble the banner dying before it seems like you get a chance to hit anything: move down the hill to their spawn point. It appears that when the Scourge cross a certain line, they agro directly on the banner and short of taunting, nothing can peel them off. Instant dead banner. However, if you tag them when they spawn, they will stay on you the whole time - even when the elite shows up at the end.

Comment by 63753

this currently appears to be bugged

after about 15 minutes of fighting constant spawns, the npcs (except the ones throwing fires) despawned so did the flag, even though they were on full hp

i lost me damage bonus and healing and got squashed by 2 elites

never saw anything except the 3 basic mobs spawn

the skeletons stun and heal, beware

Comment by Santello

After tries with bugs i finally figured out what to do to ''unbug'' it.
Basically you need to fight the mobs right between the banner and the spawn points of those mobs, if you keep killing the mobs just like that eventually a black one will appear which you have to kill making it the completion of this quest.

Any other position will bug the quest.

Comment by Chocopie

As a Warlock, when Halof spawns, just Shadowbolt him a couple times and keep up your Hellfire.

Comment by 248940

Well ive tried 10 times and just cant do it as a muti rogue..the energy pooling idea helped but im still short of energy to deal with it when there are 5+ all at once...I got the boss to spawn once but lack of any energy just stops me from doing it :(....

Ok ive tried for over 2 hours and its just not possible for me to do it :(( lol

Comment by Guildmaster

Quest works, but you have to stay up at the top of the hill. Don't engage until they get to the top. Otherwise it will despawn. Eventually a boss type will show up and you'll get completion. Takes 5-8 minutes.

Arrataz

Comment by kaze950

Anyway to heal the flag? The boss won't stop hitting it and I can't kill him fast enough

And can someone tell me why the stupid npcs just stand there while the boss is killing the flag?

Comment by 43910

Worst quest ever. About 10 tries, when horde doesn't steal the boss mob it just doesn't give credit for the quest.

Wasted about two hours on this, still havent completed. GG blizz

Comment by 251842

Completed it thanks to horde doing i jsut stood there :)

After the hand in to the guy in the shed you are given another quest that takes you back to where you had the battle, not as questhelper currently states

Co-Ords are 80.72 the area had changed now including a flight path and more quests

Comment by 141925

Edit: Figured it out as a hunter...

Before the boss, just use volley for everything. Once the boss comes, pop your trinkets, bestial wrath, rapid fire, everything. Get some solid aggro on the boss beside the banner. Once you have aggro, begin volleying again around the banner. You will likely lose boss aggro again so use your instant shots and killshot if he's below 20% then begin volley again to stop the other mobs from destroying it. Took me about 10 tries but finally got it.

Comment by 248940

Well I did it! But was very sneaky I just parked my rogue there and waited about an hour while browsing online and a gang of horde came along and as they started i put my banner up and got stuck in with them and it worked :)...

Comment by 40984

Finally got halof to spawn today..and then hundreds of mobs spawn and kill the flag..this is impossible as a rogue, don't bother unless you have someone to help you.

Comment by 240917

From what i know and have seen, and i have done this quest about 25 times, the main guy on the ram needs spawn with the mob group. Then an event where he tells the peasants to burn the bodies hanging in the trees needs to happen for him to interact in the battle itself.

If the NPC on the ram interacts in the battle it should work as intended, thats why everytime you whisper a GM they cant find a problem with this quest.

So, try to wait until noone is around, Start the quest, follow the events, and bring more then one persons to kill them fast enough so you let the quest bug itself in any other way.

If the event isnt happening or the npc isnt spawning you can just leave the place and come back later cause you wont complete the quest.

Good luck!

Comment by sticky

Abandon or put off this quest immediately as a pre-80 rogue. Do not even attempt it unless someone is assisting you - trust me, you will save yourself a lot of aggravation.

Comment by 48128

Quest is bugged for me i fought 36 minutes straight untill i gave up, the lich king stopped saying something 30 mins ago :/

Annoying

The npc attacked me suddenly i was also spamming aoe but there was no cross faction standin there, i just ran away and when icame back he was green again, this happened like 2 mintues before i gave up so the quest didn't bug because of that

log letters i gotta tipe in are
amzin

amazing!

When i re-tried to do the quest the npc's just stood there aswell as a pack of undeads but they just stared eachothers eyes out instead of fighting

Comment by TauHunt

(Tauren Hunter)

Found out something interesting today by accident... it doesn't matter who is doing the quest. As today I saw an alliance guy doing the quest (I am on a pve server), so popped down to give him a hand to clear it faster and get on with my own attempt - and got credited for the completion of the quest same as he did at the end.

Comment by Sibrina

For those without coords, Crusader's Pinnacle is directly west of the horizontal space between Argent and Vanguard on the map. It's a little hard to describe.

Or perhaps if you prefer, directly south of the northernmost tip of the road leading out of the Argent Vanguard camp. It's in the hills a bit.

Comment by Khanor

I found this bugged as well. Heres my observation:

The tattered banner just in front of the argent banner seems to be the "line" that you cant cross, otherwise the quest becomes glitched.

My solution was to simply stay back, maybe 3 feet in front of the banner, and let the NPC's fight. A few of them died, but eventually the boss spawned and after maybe 5 minutes or so of him trashing the remaining battle priests, he made his way up to the banner. Grab him quick and the banner wont get aggro. After that there will most likely be a ton of adds still, but same answer - AoE them quick and you should be fine, the heals will keep you alive and you can focus on the big guy.

As for the aggro problem itself my only guess as to that would be (and keep in mind i have no support, this is just a theory) that the banner itself issues the massive heals, thus creating aggro - much like a healer in an instance.

I suppose if you WANTED to count it as support, the theory could be propped up by the fact that since the banner doesnt heal NPC's, and your not fighting (thus dont need heals) by my method above, the banner effectively creates no aggro (much like many of the dps in instances :P). Grabbing the boss before you need heals allows you to build up aggro before the banner, securing your victory.

PS - took me four tries, and about 2 hours :(

Comment by 83545

I fought for 10mins straight and nothing happened. Eventually the NPCs despawned and so did the flag and I died. Waste of time, dropping.

Comment by e13e7

Just make sure you get the varkul tagged. This quest is pretty much necessary.

Comment by 216253

I got this quest to "unbug"... If you see two of the helpers down the hillside a bit just sitting there where the mobs spawn and nothing is happening I got on my flying mount, ran through the mobs, dragged them up the hill to the banner, killed them all and the boss appeared shortly after..

Don't know if this was what did it but I was able to complete the quest after it bugged out..

Comment by 40804

Just did the quest by fighting all the mobs at the bottom of the hill but within the range of the buff after dozens of tries. The NPC helpers did not engage and the boss did not spawn but I still got credit after about 5 minutes of fending off the mobs.

Hope this helps.

Comment by 246821

I'm a rogue, and just did this quest a few times and came to a few conclusions. Eventually completed it with ease:
*Stay back, the argent guys can take care of themselves.
*If mobs are on the flag, kill them.
*The Lich King likes to yell.
*When LK yells "Lay down your arms and surrender your souls," that is when the boss spawns. If The Lich King yells that, and the guy doesn't spawn, you bugged it. Leave and come back.
*Running forward seems to make the battle last forever and eventually causes the NPCs to depsawn.

Be patient, and follow the quest instructions by protecting that flag! NOT by running forward! :D

Comment by 257150

I did this last night as a lvl 77 warlock, I read all the above and followed what it said and it was cake!

I planted the flag and stood back and watched the NPC kick A$$, some of the elite mobs made it thru the NPC's but they were burned down easy. After a few waves of this like 3 of the elites made it to the flag and I destroyed them (unlimited mana btw), then the boss spawned and the NPC's once again tore them up I tagged the boss and burned him down, not one mob touched me!

In short;
1. Plant flag.
2. Stay back let NPC deal with mobs
3. Tag boss and burn down.
4. Complete quest and receive loot!

Cake! thanks for the advise guys!

Comment by SpeedAtNight

Very easy as a Boomkin, just put on your crit gear, spam wrath, and watch the 25k+ hits fly.

I stood out in front of the NPCs a bit and the only ones that got through there were the plague bringers with their 31k health. The NPCs easily finished off what 3k health I left them with before they got to the flag though.

You can kill the ghoul like creatures as they come up out of the ground, don't wait for a full animation spawn.

Comment by 66086

Just completed it on my human death knight on Dentarg, had the help of two horde players... a /ty out to Avilyn and Dragonhawk.

But I had a completely different problem... that prick Gustav is not where he is supposed to be.

EDIT: Found him, if you are using the quest helper addon... don't trust the location it's showing you... he's in the outhouse thing Northwest of the base.

Comment by 259764

When you hear Arthas yelling "Lay down your arms and surrender your souls" is when the big guy SHOULD spawn.

For me I just had to start the event a second time for it to work.

Also, to all the people who are saying that it is too hard to solo, i managed fine. You don't even need to do anything, the NPC's take care of it all.

The Pile of Crusader Skulls is at 80.71, just before the slope that is next to the little hut.

Comment by 191385

I am not quite sure how repeatable this is, but I began the quest by planting the banner and had to afk before the last wave. I left combat and just had my character hover close to the banner on his flying mount. After I came back the quest was showing as complete. If there isn't much competition in the area, this may be an alternative that will allow you to avoid the bugs in this quest.

Comment by b1ackcat

This quest is buggy as hell. When I first planted my banner, I was alone. 10 minutes in, still no quest mob, but 3 or 4 alliance had shown up, and were killing mobs down at the spawn point. great.

So this goes on and on and eventually my banner disappears. No one had seen the quest mob. An alliance comes and plants his banner, and the mindless slaughter continues.

After a bit more time, for no reason I can comprehend, I put my banner down again. INSTANTLY the quest mob appeared, at the top of the ramp (thank god, all the alli were down the hill so I got the tag). Killed, done, event stopped.

Weird.

Comment by Replica

The Blessed Banner of the Crusade has been planted.
Defend the banner from all attackers!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Crusader Lord Dalfors says: BY THE LIGHT! Those damned monsters! Look at what they've done to our people!
Crusader Lord Dalfors says: Burn it down, boys. Burn it all down.

The Lich King yells: Leave no survivors!

Crusader Lord Dalfors says: Let 'em come. They'll pay for what they've done!

The Lich King yells: Cower before my terrible creations!
The Lich King yells: Feast my children! Feast upon the flesh of the living!
The Lich King yells: Lay down your arms and surrender your souls!

Crusader Lord Dalfors yells: We've done it, lads! We've taken the pinnacle from the Scourge! Report to Father Gustav at once and tell him the good news! We're gonna get to buildin' and settin' up! Go!

Comment by 268690

I found an easy way to do this quest.

As I approached the boss, there was an alliance shaman doing it. As soon as he killed it, I also got the quest complete...

Horde Death Knight

Comment by 114940

The pile of skulls in on the hill near the Ebon Watcher. Very easy quest, as a caster, just stay back by the banner and kill Undead.

Comment by 84945

Confirmed, the coordinates are 80, 72 on the mountain near where you get the quest.

Comment by 135219

This quest was easy for me. A night elf death knight started it so i sat behind and waited for him to get done so i could go. I am on the horde so i didnt help :P. Well after he got done i got credit for it and i didn't have to do a thing lol.

Comment by nickwatson64

why did people find this hard? im a 79 balance drood and all i did was stand next to the banner and spam <tab> Wrath. it hits 10k each mob. i love the buff tho! i hit 50k Starfire XD (i had trink up)

Edit: oh and i did the same thing 4 the boss. wasnt hard

oh and please dont downrate this comment, if u disagree reply so i can see what i was doing right and post that :)

Comment by Blackboy0

Definately one of my favorite Quests. Sure, after the 20th wave of Mobs, it gets a kind of repetitive, but it still really fun.

Here's how you do it:

Drop the Banner on the Bones
Wait as the Dwarves and Crusaders come and burn down the trees and stuff
Slay the 25(ish) waves of Scourge that come up the mountain
Slay Halof the Deathbringer when he spawns
Return to Father Gustav

Props to Blizz for this :D

Comment by 285310

I put down the banner, flew up on my dragon and watched.
When Halof the Deadbringer came, I jumped off sended the felguard and some shadowbolts.
Voila, quest completed and no bugs.

Comment by 136677

A friend of mine was doing it while i was in the group with him. I had already done the quest so i was in a future phase. the quest didnt work till i left the group. then it worked fine next try.

Comment by 269759

Do NOT go down to where they are spawning. This will continue the waves of Scourge and you wont get the boss to spawn. Stay up by the flag and let them come to you.

Comment by gruumz

This quest was the funniest quest I've done at lvl 80. I just say... 27k crit with Kill Shot (Hunter). ;)

Comment by 150817

I was doing this quest for about 25 minutes and it didn't stop. At some point the Lich King stopped speaking, but the mobs kept spawning. I died when the npcs helping me despawned leaving me to deal with 7-8 mobs =/

Comment by 112627

I think that if you have any trouble with this quest then it must be bugged. Your elite buddies should be making pie out of the mobs that spawn, you get an epic buff that gives you crazy damage and mp5 regen. Eventually the last mob spawns and you tag him and the elites finish him off. All in all easy quest and xp.

Comment by 304980

@ 80,71

Plant your flag and stand back. You get 4 NPC's that come and help you. You really only need to let them handle all the adds, maybe catch the few that sneak past them. Eventually a mob that kinda looks like a nordic warrior spawns in the middle of all the fighting. Tag him and enjoy your completed quest. Holy priest, lvl 80.

I did have to do this one twice. You get unlimited mana as a caster. I made the mistake of standing at the flag and just spamming Holy Nova...noticed a shadowy figure start to spawn..holy nova...it despawned and bugged the first try. Recommend you do NOT aoe on the group of mobs your NPC's are fighting until the named one spawns fully.

Second attempt, stood back and just singel target wanded. Your NPC's will be just fine on there own. Mob spawned, tagged him then went all out on the group with my NPC's.

Comment by Yamboo

this quest shows, that blizzard didn't teste having more than one char on your account. because of the zones changing, you have to delete the cache-files in your wow-directory before switching between chars, who have different status on quests and zones.

Comment by 306383

I think you have to do at least some damage. I tried the technique of flying above the banner within buff range and let the npc's fight. the boss showed up finally and they beat him, the waves stopped, but i never got completion.

The second time, I just fought a little ways down the path. easy fight for 77 hunter. elites go down easy.

btw, it looks like the npc's heal the banner if it ever gets hit.

Comment by adelaide

tried this quest a few weeks ago and after 20 minutes of nothing but spawns, FOUR times...i gave up.

just completed in less than 4 minutes. thought i'd update the comments.

Comment by 49773

For thsoe without coords http://www.wowhead.com/?maps=210:806714

Comment by 156783

LOCKS ONLY can just spam Hellfire, and because of the quest buff that you get, you will never run out of HP or Mana.

Comment by 258919

This was incredibly simple as a frost mage. I just stood by the flag and spammed frostbolts and the like until the boss appeared, burned him down. Much like the Battle for UC, you get a couple god buffs that let you keep casting without runnin outta mana, or dying from hits.

Comment by Whiterock

THE CRUSADERS' PINNACLE Quest Tree From Whiterock

N)Judgment Day Comes!{H}
1)Honor Above All Else
|_______________________________________________________________
| | |
2)Scourge Tactics 2)Defending The Vanguard 2)Curing The Incurable
|_________________|____________________________________________|
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1)If There Are Survivors...
3)Into The Wild Green Yonder
1)A Cold Front Approaches
1)The Last Line Of Defense
2)Once More Unto The Breach, Hero {Death Knight special}
|___________________________________________________________________________________
| | | | |
3)The Scourgestone 3)The Purging Of Scourgeholme | 3)The Restless Dead |
| | | | |
3)The Air Stands Still 4)The Stone That Started A Revolution | 4)It Could Kill Us All
|_______________________________________________|___________|______________________|
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1)Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend
5)The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle-->5)The Crusaders' Pinnacle
6)A Tale of Valor |->The Skybreaker(A)*
5)A Hero Remains |->Orgrim's Hammer(H)*
7)The Keeper's Favor
7)Hope Within the Emerald Nightmare
6)The Boon of Remulos
5)Time Yet Remains
7)The Touch of an Aspect
7)Dahlia's Tears
6)The Boon of Alexstrasza
5)Hope Yet Remains
7)The Will of the Naaru
6)The Boon of A'dal
5)Light Within the Darkness
Quest Zones:
1)Argent Vanguard_____2)Valley of Echoes_____3)Scourgeholme_____4)Crystalsong Forest_____5)Crusaders' Pinnacle_____6)Silent Vigil_____7)Unique zone
N)Not-needed
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.

Comment by Banduin

For paladins, I wouldn't recommend using Seal of Blood/Martyr. The backfire damage gets amplified as well.

Comment by 424422

Just did this earlier today, fun quest, quite simply with two people, myself an 80 Disc Priest and the other an 80 Arc Mage

She spammed Arcane Aspoldy... I spammed Holy Asplody... quest complete in 5 minutes!

Comment by 423913

Didnt do anything at all, went to the spot where a ally was already doing it (I am horde ofc) Got the credits and quest completed while just waiting on my flying mount.

Fastest quest ever.

Comment by 150068

My 80 DK planted the banner and stood by it, letting the NPCs handle the mobs. If a mob got through to the banner it was an easy kill for my DK, even the so-called elites. The boss eventually spawned with a few adds, but nothing difficult happened and there was no reason to avoid the few battles that took place by the banner. Thanks to all the comments before that advised staying out of the fray for the most part -- it worked.

Comment by CaptainFlameGuy

Gotta love this quest's objectives that show up in the quest tracker..

The Battle for Crusaders' Pinnacle
- Battle for Crusaders' Pinnacle

Comment by Direbruin

You do NOT need to attack any of the mobs, nor do you need to plant your banner to complete this quest. I watched 2 alliance do this quest and I got credit for the completion.

Comment by 360166

Just finished this one.. at first, no problems.. then game hung, had to kill game via task manager & reload.. fight was still in progress thankfully, killed final mob & got credit

Comment by thatonegeek

It's entirely possible that this quest was hopelessly busted when the comments above were made, and in the time since then the quest was tweaked and the folks who make QuestHelper figured out how to handle phasing, but here's what I observed.

Tirion (the quest giver) and Gustav (the guy you hand it in to when you're done) both appear exactly where they're supposed to be given my progress through the zone at this point. The QuestHelper arrow and icons worked as intended.

When the banner is planted in the pile of skulls, a group of 7 or 8 friendlies spawns 30 yards or so down the hill and charges up to help me defend the banner. A couple of them have dialog lines, and a few masons set about burning up the remnants of scourge infestation on the plateau behind me. After a short wait (10-15 seconds?) scourge mobs start spawning down the hill and charging up to eat our brains.

Initially, I decided to see if the "ima go make me a sammie" solution (hovering nearby on a flying mount and letting my helpful allies do my dirty work) would work, but I joined the fray when a couple of ghouls started picking at the banner. I don't think I gained aggro at any point during the fight, despite using death and decay, icy touching mobs at random (ew!), and making liberal use of pestilence and blood boil. The mobs died quickly and I never dropped below 95% health... if I even got hit at all.

The ghoulies have about 11k hp and the bigger baddies have about 30k hp, but none of them paid much attention to me. I didn't notice the last guy's hp... he died too quickly for it to matter anyway.

I did not need to worry about getting aggro on the last guy in order to get quest credit.

The whole thing lasted maybe 10 mins, counting several seconds after each mob of mobs died before the next batch spawned and came up the hill. 'cuz yea... they died that fast.

Granted, I'm playing ezmode (death knight) but this particular quest could have been completed wearing a full twill set.

Oh, and this was the night before a big patch so everybody was lagging and complaining about how the world was broken. No problems at all. Maybe I'm lucky, but it's far more likely that the stuff that was buggy has been fixed.

Comment by ry4n

The skulls are at 80:72

Comment by 313976

Fun Fact: Double clicking on the NPCs that throw fire will make them say, "More work?" and other phrases from the Warcraft series!

Comment by 543819

the bones are at 80.09 / 72.03.....

Comment by joker102877

Neat quest to do as a Warlock. The only quest in the whole game where you can stand in a single spot and spam Hellfire continuously, without a healer, and not die.

Comment by 329909

You can literally just afk through this whole quest after dropping the banner.

Comment by Kevinik

This just happened to me. I was in my flying mount watching a human mage do the quest, to do it after her. And when she finish I got the quest done... Didn't even knew this was possible. That was silly of blizzard to let that happen and haven't fixed it. Or like Blizzard would say "working as intended".

Comment by HapHazzard

Well I hate to think that I cheated, but I flew over to the spot and things were going down. Couldn't really see the pile of skulls and couldn't figure out why I seemed to be buffing. Pop up to a hover and a quick check of wowhead. I'm reading about Arthas yelling "lay down your arms", when low and behold, I see it pop up in red over on my wow screen. About the time I think WTF, quest complete. I really wasn't even really that close but evidently ninja'd some other toons kill. I guess quest soloed, not a single blow landed.

Comment by Grukam

Did this as a lvl 79 Tauren Warrior full enchanted cobalt tank set with melee. Planted the flag on the pile of skulls mounted up and hovered over the banner and watched the NPCs handle all the mobs. When the LK sent in the final boss I dropped down and tagged him. Hit him with charge and threw everything I had at him. Don't sweat the lesser add maintain beating on the boss. Try to stay behind him and let the NPCs draw the aggro. HP hardly dropped at all. Took about 2 minutes to drop the boss. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

Comment by 5parrowhawk

Something weird I noticed (81 Alliance enh shammy).

Just after I picked this quest up, a Horde DK (79 I think) dropped by the little camp and tried to gank me - probably for his PVP daily.

Now I have no freaking clue what happened (forgot to check combat log), but within about 5 seconds the DK dropped dead(er) and I got an HK. Didn't press a single button.

Possibility 1: Killed by NPCs (but they were friendly to him, since I saw him apparently turning in a quest). Will Crusade NPCs aggro on you if you try to gank someone near them?
Possibility 2: This quest gives you some kind of superpowered buff which multiplies your damage. Is it possible that my Lightning Shield triggered off his attack, critted and triggered my Thunder Capacitor to hit him? I don't think a shield orb, even with the buff, would do enough damage to kill a player outright. But IIRC the buff says it only works on Scourge in the area of Crusader's Pinnacle.

*scratches head* Still wondering what happened.

Comment by joannelds

TY to dykesc55 for pointing out to "burn down" that last boss mob after I lost the first fight by just standing next to the flag.

Comment by Hildur

I tried doing this twice following advice here where both times I got the "we won" message at the end, but my quest wasn't registered as completed. However after having given up on it and eventually going outside of the icecrown zone, I noticed it was completed when I returned to the zone.

Comment by Twylork

For those like me that struggled to find it.

Go through 'the breach' near to the questgiver, once through follow the mountainside a short way to the left then up a small path - bingo crusaders' pinnacle.

Comment by 1440987

The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle http://youtu.be/MjJ8sNPXdKk

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=YNxAEZ6SOok

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPQ2TOAnWxA

Comment by allOf

The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle https://youtu.be/MCqd318e6Eg

Comment by deiXide

Yeah, it takes a while. Just keep killing the mobs and it'll eventually end.

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The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle

Venture to Crusaders' Pinnacle and use the Blessed Banner of the Crusade atop the Pile of Crusader Skulls. Defend the banner against Scourge attack until the land atop the pinnacle is sanctified and then return to Father Gustav at the Valley of Echoes in Icecrown.

	Battle for Crusaders' Pinnacle (1)

Provided item:

	Blessed Banner of the Crusade (1)

Description

<Highlord Fordring holds a banner of the Argent Crusade.>

This banner is like no other, <name>. It carries with it a powerful blessing, able to sanctify large tracts of blighted land.

You must take it northwest, through the Breach, to an area the Scourge have mockingly named Crusaders' Pinnacle. Plant the banner atop the skulls of our fallen brethren at Crusaders' Pinnacle and defend it against attack. Once the land is sanctified, return to Father Gustav.

Go now, <name>. Hold no fear in your heart.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Argent Crusade

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13141))