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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 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 It's All Fun and Games I Have an Idea, But First... Free Your Mind If He Cannot Be Turned The Shadow Vault The Duke Exploiting an Opening Securing the Perimeter Set it Off! 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 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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Comment by Mblast

Horror is on top of the ramparts at 47.7, 68.6.
Despair is on the floor below the top ramparts at 50, 67.6.
Suffering is on the same floor as Despair at 46, 70.

Comment by 231384

Although this is tagged as "5-man", the mobs around the shards can all be solo pulled, allowing you to destroy the shard with no problem.

Comment by 138194

The shards are surrounded by Cultist Shard Watchers. While these mobs cheat and are able to instantly cast Unstable Affliction, they can be solo pulled (as mentioned above). As they have only slightly over 10000 hitpoints, they're generally taken out before they can cause any significant amount of damage.

This quest should be soloable for any class. Do mind the patrolling elites, though. Being ambushed by one of the oozing puppies patrolling the ramparts might not have a happy ending for you, as they have rather powerful jaws.

This quest does not seem to lead to any followup quests. A somewhat uneventful ending to Thassalian's chain of group quests.

Comment by 157913

No follow-up to this yet on the 3.1 PTR. May still show up at some point, but it doesn't seem to be at the top of Blizzard's priority list.

Comment by 314582

Note that they can be pulled 1 at a time by ranged dps making this quests very soloable for any kind of player

Comment by 283426

Solo'd as a holy priest with no trouble at all, even when i accidently pulled 2 of the crystal guardians. The elite's that are wondering around were no issue whatsoever as they are on slow patrol.

Comment by Whiterock

THE SKYBREAKER Quest Tree From Whiterock

The Crusaders' Pinnacle* 1)Preparations for War
|->Orgrim's Hammer(H)* The Shadow Vault*
| |
1)The Skybreaker------->Exploiting an Opening*
|__________________________________________
| |->2)Mind Tricks |->D)Blood of the Chosen
3)The Broken Front |->D)Slaves to Saronite |->2)Joining the Assault
| +3)Finish Me! |->2)Get to Ymirheim! |->D)Assault by Air
|->D)No Mercy! D)King of the Mountain |->D)Assault by Ground
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|--------------------------->1)Your Attention, Please
1)...All the Help We Can Get. 3)Borrowed Technology-->D)The Solution Solution
3)Poke and Prod 5)Killohertz
|_________________________ 6)Leading the Charge
| | |->D)Static Shock Troops: the Bombardment
3)That's Abominable! | |->D)Putting the Hertz: The Valley of Lost Hope
|->D)That's Abominable! |
| 4)Against the Giants
5)Sneak Preview |->4)Coprous the Defiled
|->5)Chain of Command |->4)Basic Chemistry-->D)Neutralizing the Plague
|->5)Cannot Reproduce
| 5)Retest Now-->D)Retest Now
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5)Drag and Drop-->D)Drag and Drop
|->5)Not a Bug-->D)Not a Bug
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5)Need More Info------------>5)No Rest For The Wicked
| |->D)No Rest For The Wicked
| |
7)Raise the Barricades------>8)The Ironwall Rampart
|->8)Get the Message |
| D)Capture More Dispatches |
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8)Bloodspattered Banners |
|____________________________|
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9)Before the Gate of Horror
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9)Shatter the Shards 9)The Guardians of Corp'rethar

Watts My Target(doesn't work/exist)
Quest Zones:
1)Scybreaker_____2)Ymirheim_____3)Broken Front_____4)Mord'Rethar_____5)Aldur'thar_____6)The Bombardment_____7)Valley of Lost Hope_____8)Valley of Fallen Heroes_____9)Corp'rethar
D)Daily
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
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Comment by quadtard

may be just me but im having trouble clicking on the shard or destroying it or w/e. Anything special i need to do?

Comment by Jrubzjeknf

The horror crystal can be taken by landing on top of it. You have to be in the dead center and level 80 to do it, as when I was a little of center I pulled one mob. Flying up will get you out of combat immediately.

Comment by Arion

It should be noted that while on the quest At the Enemy's Gates (or possibly any of the other Argent Tournament quests), which takes you near Corp'rethar to the Court of Bones, you may be "phased" out of the correct part where you will not see any mobs or the crystals on the gates of Corp'rethar. I could not see any mobs/crystals and guessed that this was the problem. After turning in the previously mentioned quest and returning to Corp'rethar, I could then see all of the mobs / crystals. And subsequently, there was no "Argent Camp" in the Court of Bones, where there would be if you were on At the Enemy's Gates.

Comment by Catriona

Does anyone else wonder about the completion text? My curiosity was very piqued when I turned in the quest.

STORY TIME, THASSARIAN!

Comment by Boxofbeer

Shatter the Shards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmHnbgGSxYA

Comment by 1064378

Worked on this quest earlier and found that sometimes I couldn't see the crystals if I was mounted and flying too far up. Try flying very close to the correct spot and you'll see them.

Comment by allOf

Shatter the Shards https://youtu.be/NuF9bNVwUk0

Comment by Musician2111

If you were only able to find 1 caster type at each end, you have to fly up to the bridges but those are harder fights because of their knock back.

When you do fight them, make sure your back it as a wall. They have a nasty knock back intended to get you into trouble by aggro-ing the dogs and maybe even the mobs surrounding the crystals.

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Shatter the Shards

Bring the Broken Shard of Horror, the Broken Shard of Despair, and the Broken Shard of Suffering to Thassarian, aboard the Skybreaker.

	Broken Shard of Horror (1)
	Broken Shard of Despair (1)
	Broken Shard of Suffering (1)
	Suggested players: 5 (1)

Description

Atop the battlements of Corp'rethar, the Lich King's minions have erected three crystals, the shards of horror, despair, and suffering. Should our men reach the walls of Corp'rethar, he will unleash these weapons on our army.

In full effect, the crystals will afflict the minds of our men with paralyzing pain and fear. Then, the Scourge will be able to slaughter them at will.

Find these shards, destroy them, and bring me their broken remains. We cannot allow the Lich King to deploy these weapons!

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13339))