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Storyline
Deepholm, The Stone Throne The Very Earth Beneath Our Feet Crumbling Defenses Core of Our Troubles On Even Ground Imposing Confrontation Rocky Relations Hatred Runs Deep Unsolid Ground Loose Stones Violent Gale Depth of the Depths A Rock Amongst Many Entrenched Making Things Crystal Clear Intervention Putting the Pieces Together Clingy So Big, So Round... Petrified Delicacies Rock Bottom Steady Hand Don't. Stop. Moving. Hard Falls Fragile Values Resonating Blow Rocky Upheaval Doomshrooms Gone Soft Familiar Intruders A Head Full of Wind Unnatural Causes Wrath of the Fungalmancer Shaken and Stirred Corruption Destruction At the Stonemother's Call Audience with the Stonemother Rallying the Earthen Ring Our Part of the Bargain The Stone March The Twilight Flight Therazane's Mercy Word In Stone Undying Twilight The Binding

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Comment by Sunday

After completing this quest, a new quest should be available from Therazane. The quest is 'Word in Stone'.

Comment by buddyholly101

Guy is in a tent on the south end of the ledge. After downing about 70k of his health, you hop on a drake and follow him and his drake while killing him. If you're a melee toon, you can hop onto his drake to melee him. After you kill him, the drake takes you to a rock high in the sky near the tower.

Comment by MoshJosh

Take heart- if you're using Dominos your control bar will likely never show up. He does minimal damage. Eventually the drake carries you to a rock in the sky where you can kill Zoltrik

Comment by Thraze

Damn, I wish I had turned on some epic fighting music before I chased Zoltrik. That was awesome.

Comment by 22642

Terrath is doing his shout "The Stone Dragons are here…" but the Stone Dragons never show up. Seems to be bugged for me.
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I came back at a later time and it worked for me, very fun quest!

Comment by thecheat1

If you're melee and the Jump Drake button doesn't popup you can type /cast Jump Drakes!

Comment by Tricker

Zoltrik can be found at 63,37 inside a tent

Comment by mybadgamertag

Anyone else say to themselves: "This is fcking awesome!" when they jumped to the other drakes mid-flight to beat the crap out of him?

Comment by 113229

Definitely one of my favorites. I'm lovin' all these God of War-like quests.

Comment by Smog

Cannot get on the drake. I don't jump on automatically when I approach the mob, nor do I get anything on a pet bar, nor does typing '/cast Jump Drakes!' (or any variation thereof) work.

No idea what I'm supposed to do.

Comment by 123407

If you're using Bartender 4 check your pet bar settings, by default the pet bar does NOT show when you're in a vehicle, like in this quest. Hope it helps :)

Comment by jackhunter64

I had some difficulty getting the quest to work. The drakes would always despawn as soon as they landed. I eventually figured out that it was because I had a non-combat pet out using the Pet Leash addon, which was stopping the drakes from appearing. Disabled the addon, dismissed the pet, and dinged level 85 after finishing off the troll dude.

Comment by 104207

epic quest for a hunter :D

Comment by Therulnig

After much stress over this quest, I figured out if you have any sort of pet out, combat or non-combat, then the Stone drake that is supposed to pick you up despawns as soon as it lands or never comes in at all causing you to have to reset the encounter.

I put Mr. Grubbs away..and quest complete a minute later :)

Comment by sopor30

Bugged for me the first time I did it. When I jumped over to his mount to open a can, he wasn't there. I had a nifty little ride on the back of his dragon... alone. When it finally dismounted me, I just flew back down to where he was and started killing him again, and this time around he was on his dragon when I jumped on it and I proceeded to open that can. :)

Comment by pickerin

Bugged for me with a non-combat pet out as well. Dismissed him and turned off auto-call (had the same problem on the Seahorse taming quest in Vashi'jr).

However, this time someone else tagged him before me, but I still got a Drake, it forced me onto it, bugged big time, then gave me control of the drake. I could fly anywhere I wanted, but couldn't get off, and couldn't go up or down.

I had to Hearthstone to get off of it, nothing worked, including "/script VehicleExit();"

Comment by boombear

You may downrate this but:

This was the most epic quest for me as a shadowpriest in Deepholm. Channeling Mind Flay across over to another drake while flying in blazing speed gave me such a great feeling ^^ I /giggled.

Comment by 223204

Just did this as a frost mage, when he gets to lower health and emotes (Something like "Let's see how you do in the sky!") I hit him with deep freeze, and just kept on nuking him as normal, keeping him frozen in place and there was no dragon phase for me. I may have missed out on an epic dragon ride (Meh, I already did the Hyldsmeet) but I got this done in record time :)

Comment by blupache

I had an issue with Zoltrik despawning just after the start of the flight portion of the fight. Left me stuck on my drake unable to dismount or land, and with control over flying the drake but leashed to the fight's flightpath.

Logging off & back in solved the issue, but left my character in mid-air & dismounted (and hence falling rapidly...)

Comment by 683475

Currently having a huge issue finishing the quest. Every time my stone drake flies in, it despawns before I can get on it to continue the fight. I am on my third try, after relogging. Has anyone else had this issue?

Comment by 807462

I killed Zoltrik like five times on that rock in the sky, but it's not saying that I killed him., ?HMMmmm.....! This quest has a bug or or something. Has anyone noticed this?

Comment by 4513

Bugged for me. I completed this quest and was working on the next quest when I was suddenly put on a drake again! I couldn't figure out how to exit the drake but as a mage I figured to teleport out of the situation.

Comment by Mondoblasto

Also bugged for me. If you get close to or attack a twilight drake you're instantly placed on a drake.

I think because stone drakes weren't spawning, they cranked the setting all the way to the other side and now you're put on one at the drop of a hat. The only way to get off is to port, hearth, or do the entire fight all over again. You cans also die by using the Char Stuck button, at least you won't lose any durability.

The fight was cool, and the bug makes for an excellent stone drake mount preview, but it's getting extremely annoying now.

Comment by littlefox

I understand completely, I love this quest, it's one of my favourites - it's fighting on dragons! How could it not be epic?

But my guildies just don't get my fangirl squees over this q lol

Comment by RageTreb

Just stay alive until the dragon takes you to a rock where you both land and fight. I admire Blizz for trying to make this fight more creative. but it's too bugged right now to be of any use.

Comment by witteafval

Had an impossible time doing this on my rogue. The fight started and everything was going well, then he ran away and I didn't notice the drake I was supposed to get on to chase him.

A minute later Zoltrik reappeared in his tent and I approached him to restart the fight, but was immediately put on a drake's back with nothing to chase. He was still in his tent, but I couldn't go up or down on the drake. I tried logging off and back on, as others have suggested, but that just made my drake ride around for a minute with nothing to chase.

So I flew as close as I could and threw daggers at him in his tent from the drake's back. Crippling poison wasn't doing enough damage, so I switched to deadly poison and that eventually got him low enough to make him mount his own drake (while I was at half health!).

The chase began, but my button for jumping the drakes wasn't working. So I just followed along until reaching the place where the fight ends. I'm sure the quest is awesome when it works, but it was way too buggy to enjoy.

Comment by 849137

This quest seems bugged, I cannot get near the boss to engage before I'm thrown onto the drake, at which point the boss does not even "mount up" on his drake and I am stuck waiting for my drake to "time out". I've dropped and retaken quest 5 times now, logged out same #, nothing working..=( HELP?........UPDATE!--employ a ranged or a caster class and have them pull mob out!

Comment by Grizela

For Melee (I played a rogue): Go into the tent and fight him. He then runs out. Follow him. A drake will come and scoop you up. Look for an icon on your pet bar that tells you to jump to his drake. Do so immediately and then melee him to death. After that, some seem to indicate you have control of the drake, but I did not. The drake eventually left me on a projection and I flew back to the questgiver.

That was the second time. The first time, I landed on his drake but he was not there. The drake was not controllable and dropped me to my death.

Clearly still buggy.

Comment by 913874

This quest was bugged for me, as well. After the target mounts, Terrath shouts "The Stone Dragons are here…", it materializes, I leap, sort of bounce off the dragons back, land directly in front of it, and it vanishes.

Disabling all addons did nothing.

I was still able to complete the quest by ranged attack, killing him seemed to work just fine. However, if you are a class without ranged attacks you will likely be out of luck.

Comment by 296015

Amusing "bug" as of right now

A hunter can do this quest, when Zoltrik dies, camouflage. When you get booted off the drake, the camouflage effect persists indefinitely unless you die, use camouflage or attack something with your pet.

The effect causes you to be camouflaged when mounted, in combat or anywhere else.

Comment by Sonadre

Just did it in a party with my friend , he started the quest before me and flew on the drake , i started just after him and the drake went after... , when we reached temple i noticed i didn't get Zoltrik Drakebane he said he did and he was attacking it anyways i got the Quest Complet but i was stuck on the Drake! couldn't fly up or down just around , flew everywhere , pressed the button and even tried /exitvehicle nothing worked , at last! i went to the doorway of the temple and got "Zzz" rested state so got dosmounted immediately , alas :) hope none have that , and hopefully this will help you.

Comment by Catriona

It could at least reward you for killing him quickly by not taking you all the way across the zone to the rock anyway. But this zone is chock full of such turn-ins.

Comment by Whiterock

Bottom World Pillar Fragment Quest Tree From Whiterock
The Middle Fragment* The World Pillar Fragment*
\ /
a)The Very Earth Beneath Our Feet
/ | \
a)Crumbling Defenses a)On Even Ground a)Core of Our Troubles
\ | /
a)Imposing Confrontation
b)Rocky Relations
/ | \
b)Unsolid Ground b)Loose Stones b)Hatred Runs Deep
\ | ┌────┘
c)Violent Gale
c)Depth of the Depths
c)A Rock Amongst Many──>#)Wayward Child(Stonecore)
d)Entrenched────┐
/ ├>d)Intervention
d)Putting the Pieces Together └>d)Making Things Crystal Clear
S)Pebble
d)Clingy
d)So Big, So Round...
| \
d)Rock Bottom d)Petrified Delicacies
├─────────────┴───────────────┐ ┌>f)Gone Soft
e)Steady Hand f)Rocky Upheaval────┴>f)Doomshrooms
e)Don't. Stop. Moving. f)Familiar Intruders
| \ f)A Head Full of Wind
e)Hard Falls e)Fragile Values f)Unnatural Causes──>g)Wrath of the Fungalmancer
| / / \ |
e)Resonating Blow g)Shaken and Stirred g)Corruption Destruction |
\ | / |
h)At the Stonemother's Call |
h)Audience with the Stonemother |
i)Rallying the Earthen Ring |
j)Our Part of the Bargain |
/ | \ |
j)The Stone March j)Therazane's Mercy j)The Twilight Flight |
\ | ┌────────┘ |
k)Word In Stone | ┌>Fungalophobia
k)Undying Twilight ┌>D)Glop, Son of Glop┴>The Glop Family Line
k)The Binding |
k)The Stone Throne─Revered,OnePerDay┴>D)The Restless Brood──>My Very Own Broodmother
┌────────────────┘ |
├>D)Motes | ┌>D)Beneath the Surface
├>D)Soft Rock └OnePerDay┼>D)Underground Economy
├>D)Fear of Boring └>D)Lost In The Deeps──>Rock Lover
├>D)Through Persistence
└>D)Fungal Fury──>Fungal Frenzy

Legend:
S menas Skippable
# means Other Zones
* means another Quest Tree.
IMPORTANT INFO:

The World Pillar didn't made it to live.
Wrath of the Fungalmancer is indeed needed for Glop, Son of Glop to be aviable.
Underground Economy is used to get to Jadefang read comments on NPC for more info.

Comment by sixcorners

During the fight the game sends you a CHAT_MSG_RAID_BOSS_WHISPER that appears at the top in the middle of your screen (and the normal chat frame) with the golden text

If you can't fight Zoltrik at range, use your Jump Drakes! ability:

|TInterface\Icons\ability_vehicle_launchplayer.blp:64|t

The icon looks like this: http://www.wowpedia.org/File:Ability_vehicle_launchplayer.png

If you wanted to see what it looks like in the game make sure you escape the newlines, pipe characters, and the reverse solidi. You also need to send it to both DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME and whatever that chat frame in the middle is. I will post what I have so far but I don't know how to send it to the frames listening for CHAT_MSG_RAID_BOSS_WHISPER messages.

/run print("If you can't fight Zoltrik at range, use your Jump Drakes! ability:\n\n\124TInterface\\Icons\\ability_vehicle_launchplayer.blp:64\124t")

I wonder if pictures in the in-game mail are sent in a similar manner. You can't send this using SendChatMessage() BTW.

I notice that at the beginning of the quest you can fly your dragon like a normal mount. I wonder how exactly this stuff is implemented and if other mounts are set up so that you could use abilities on them if Blizzard allowed it (or if you poked at a few of these functions).

Comment by MysticMagicks

This has got to be one of the most epic quests in Deepholm.

Comment by 1440987

The Twilight Flight http://youtu.be/a0_uMgv_Mik

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Twilight Flight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-58CiyQbU4

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=OK2zWPczKRE&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Tarsnock

If you missed the Jump Drake, your target eventually hands at the top of a rock and dismounts and that is your chance to kill him.

Links

The Twilight Flight

Defeat Zoltrik Drakebane.

Zoltrik Drakebane defeated (1) (1)

Description

Terrath wants you to make your way to the far end of the precipice to fight Zoltrik Drakebane. He is on his way there as well, but he thinks Zoltrik is likely to take to the sky.

Quite an impression you seem to have made, little one. Have you ever mused that none of this would have happened if I had just stepped on you during our first meeting? Fate is a strange thing.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Therazane

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26831))