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Storyline
Twilight Highlands Twilight Shores Twilight Shores Welcome to Highbank! Burnin' at Both Ends Aiming High Kurdran's Waitin' Salvage Operation Naga Reinforcements Our Boys on the Shore Shredderectomy Siege Tank Rescue Scouting the Shore Landgrab Bird Down! Bird Down! Roots'll Do 'Er Wings Over Highbank The Perfect Poultice Any Portal in a Storm The Way is Open Firebeard's Patrol Welcome Relief The Only Homes We Have Small Comforts Honorable Bearing Clan Mullan Stubborn as a Doyle The Fate of the Doyles Firebeard Bellows The Fighting Spirit The Scent of Battle The Loyalty of Clan Mullan Death Worthy of a Dragonmaw Anything We Can Get Somethin' for the Boys Personal Request Dropping the Hammer The Lost Brother They Took Me Pants! Dunwalds Don't Die While Meeting The Family Sifting Through The Wreckage Donnelly Dunwald Eoin Dunwald Cayden Dunwald Finding Beak Anything But Water Once More Into The Fire A Steady Supply Home Again Doing It Like a Dunwald Machines of War Weapons of Mass Dysfunction Unfamiliar Waters Where Is My Warfleet? Ready the Air Force Smoot's Samophlange Pre-Flight Checklist Ready the Ground Troops Ready the Navy Beating the Market Twilight Skies Twilight Skies Emergency Aid Dangerous Compassion Stalled Negotiations Madness Negotiations Terminated You Say You Want a Revolution Insurrection Death to Mor'ghor Securing the Beach Head Muddied Waters Cementing Our Victory Saurfang Will be Pleased Traitor's Bait Return to the Highlands The Southern Flank Scouting the Shore Blood on the Sand Mo' Better Shredder Krazzworks Quality Construction Wildhammer Infestation Pool Pony Rescue Everything But the Kitchen Sink Reprisal Off The Wall Parting Packages Of Utmost Importance Highbank, Crybank Krazz Works! The Northern Flank Blood in the Surf Shells on the Sea Shore Blast Him! Narkrall, the Drake-Tamer Crushing the Wildhammer Total War War Forage Drag 'em Down Paint it Black Bait and Throttle How to Maim Your Dragon The Demon Chain Fury Unbound A Vision of Twilight We All Must Sacrifice The Eyes Have It Eye Spy The Crucible of Carnage: The Bloodeye Bruiser! The Crucible of Carnage: The Bloodeye Bruiser! The Crucible of Carnage: The Bloodeye Bruiser! The Crucible of Carnage: The Deadly Dragonmaw! The Crucible of Carnage: The Wayward Wildhammer! The Crucible of Carnage: Calder's Creation! The Crucible of Carnage: The Earl of Evisceration! The Crucible of Carnage: The Twilight Terror! Dragonmaw Takedown Fight Like a Wildhammer Never Leave a Dinner Behind A Vision of Twilight We All Must Sacrifice The Eyes Have It Eye Spy Tempered in Elemental Flame Hot Stuff Potential Energy Tear Them From the Sky! Last Stand at Thundermar Narkrall, The Drake-Tamer The Kirthaven Summit The Bachelor Rescue at Glopgut's Hollow Ogre Bashin' Find Fanny The Bachelorette Something Bold Something Brewed Something Stolen Something Stewed Words and Music By... Wild, Wild, Wildhammer Wedding Torn Ground Pushing Back Unbroken Simple Solutions Mercy for the Bound The Maw of Iso'rath Devoured The Worldbreaker The Terrors of Iso'rath Nightmare Warm Welcome Warm Welcome Even Dragons Bleed Draconic Mending Life from Death In Defense of the Redoubt Encroaching Twilight Far from the Nest Breach in the Defenses Mathias' Command Patchwork Command Easy Pickings Easy Pickings Precious Goods Precious Goods The Gates of Grim Batol Paving the Way Paving the Way If The Key Fits If The Key Fits Pressing Forward Pressing Forward Enter the Dragon Queen Battle of Life and Death And the Sky Streaked Red Blackout Shining Through the Dark Following the Young Home A Fitting End Last of Her Kind Victors' Point Crushblow Ogres & Ettins Ogres & Ettins Call in the Artillery Call in the Artillery SI:7 Drop Kor'kron Drop Move the Mountain Move the Mountain Signal the Attack Signal the Attack Signal the Attack Signal the Attack Four Heads are Better than None Four Heads are Better than None Four Heads are Better than None Four Heads are Better than None Up to the Citadel Up to the Citadel Just You and Mathias Just You and Mathias Just You and Garona Just You and Garona Dark Assassins Dark Assassins Bring the Hammer Down Bring the Hammer Down Help from the Earthcaller Help from the Earthcaller Portal Overload Unbinding Spirit of the Loch The Elementium Axe Distract Them for Me Distract Them for Me The Elementium Axe Dragon, Unchained Dragon, Unchained Fire the Cannon Coup de Grace Coup de Grace Water of Life Water of Life Mr. Goldmine's Wild Ride Mr. Goldmine's Wild Ride A Little on the Side While We're Here Rune Ruination A Fiery Reunion The Hammer of Twilight The Hammer of Twilight Skullcrusher the Mountain Skullcrusher the Mountain

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Comments

Comment by Faradays

Aetharon is up in a floating platform. Go to where the quest indicates and look up.

Comment by Syncness

Pro Cata Tip: If you can't find it, look up. (Especially applies for Vashj'ir).

Comment by h44mm00

It would appear that if you are in combat, you are unable to overload the portals.

Comment by jaq1010

A tip from someone who is on this quest.

DO NOT HANG AROUND AFTER YOU KILL THE MOB. I killed the air one and then got into a talk with a guildie. The mob respawned, I couldn't weaken him in combat, and I died quite the inglorious death. Not one of my better moments in WoW.

Comment by 735360

Need to keep the mob in the portal light or you can't damage him.

Comment by wynta

so far in my attempts to reach the later quests... (sorry for awful formatting)

encroaching twilight , breach in the defenses , Far from the Nest

lead to...

--> mathias' command Mathias' Command
--> easy pickings, precious goods
--> if the key fits, paving the way
--> pressing forward Pressing Forward
--> enter the dragon queen (lirastrasza) Enter the Dragon Queen
--> battle of life and death Battle of Life and Death
--> and the sky streaked red And the Sky Streaked Red

--> a fitting end, shining through the dark, blackout

--> following the young home Following the Young Home
--> last of her kind Last of Her Kind

--> victor's point Victors' Point

--> ogres & Ettins, call in the artillery, SI:7 drop
--> move the mountain
--> signal the attack
--> four heads are better than one
--> up to the citadel
--> just you and mathias Just You and Mathias

--> dark assassins, bring the hammer down, help the earthcaller

help the earthcaller --> leads to --> portal overload, spirit of the loch, unbinding

Comment by Sakib

On this quest all 3 NPC's that need to be slain have 775k HP ONCE you overload the Portal which is like a little stone in front of the NPC they will lose HP down to 155k. Easy kill all 3 as a fire mage.

Comment by 375389

I cannot figure out how to kill Apexar as a balance druid. He seems to be immune to all of my spells. Can anyone help?

Comment by 736744

Apexar: 38, 80

Aetheron (high platform above): 44, 81.4

Edemantus (little island on middle of lake): 32.7, 62.2

Comment by Jerodast

This is one of the worst quests (or, perhaps is an example of the worst kinds of quests) Blizzard makes. All the mobs are immune to stuns, attack immediately (preventing "opening moves"), have a ton of HP, and hit like a truck. This means that your only choice in combat is to sit there and spam your highest damage moves until they die while taking massive damage yourself. This may be business as usual for healing and plate classes but it %^&*ing sucks as a rogue; I don't appreciate having to burn health pots and cooldowns just to survive a fight with a non-elite quest mob. @#$% you blizzard.

PS. Oh yeah, plus their spells are all uninterruptible. God forbid we reward any mechanics usage other than spamming damage.

Comment by Jerodast

Some non-ranting info on Apexar's "Hardened" ability: I was told that you simply have to dps through it. Not sure if that's accurate, since I saw several people having trouble with that strategy solo (including myself), but when I grouped with two warriors it did seem to go down almost immediately. Still a b**ch and a half for non-pet, non-plate, non-healing classes trying to solo this f**ker.

Comment by HaddonEast

Yeh bad quest to be sure, have managed to complete it (Rogue) had to use Sprint ontil his buff ran out, then was able to take him down, bloody hard one though
:)

Comment by IceHawk79

This is possibly worse quest I have ever done in WoW so far.
(Bringing Pebble to safety is a close 2nd)

Whoever thought putting "a immunity buff" on mobs, wasnt thinking too well.

Comment by 710147

I don't understand why everyone seems to be having so much trouble. This quest is a piece of cake. Use the sparkling little clicky things next to each boss, then DPS them down. The damage shield is barely noticeable, but for a few seconds.

Comment by 751317

This is a bad one... I tried 14 times with my fully PVP geared Rouge. I even tried using my sprint to out run until the buff is off with no luck !

Come on Bliz ! Immunity on a mob!

Tzen

Comment by Donaran

As warrior i highly recommend retaliation to break Apexar´s shield....makes the whole thing much easier.

Comment by marc4551

its a piece pf cake with a unholy DK, didnt have any problems, just activate the stones and then go nuke them

Comment by 727506

I just simply wanted to add that melee dps seems to work pretty good. and I agree that it was hard to find one of the guys just cause they had a floating platform with no indication from the quest giver or the location. I think that bit is what could have been improved.

Comment by 117482

Shouldn't the quest say SOMETHING about their being a floating platform?

I was left wandering around the twilight camp for about a half hour, because that is where the quest trackers says to go.

Heres a tip blizzard-If you want to design 3d quests with objectives below and above you-ADD AN ALTITUDE INDICATOR TO YOUR QUEST TRACKER.

Comment by 764899

I was having a great deal of difficulty with this quest and getting very frustrated....until I noticed that the elementals you have to free as a separate quest Unbinding give you a 15min buff:

Water: 100% damage regen
Air: 5% reduction to damage taken
Fire: 5% increase to damage dealt

After getting each of these I was able to take down the mobs for the other quests.

Comment by 23733

If you are a mage use spellsteal on all 3 of these mobs.

Comment by 548539

Watch out when attacking Edemantus. He does a spell that pushes you backwards, which in my case pushed me into the water. That made him evade my attacks and reset, so I had to kill him all over again.

Comment by 242004

Make sure not to attack any of these before you used the controls (I did that with one of them by accident) since it counts only if you kill them in there debilitated form and you can't use the controls while in combat (as mentioned above a couple times).

So if you have a way to drop out of combat use it since killing them in their elite form - while possible - is just a waste of time.

Comment by Taldiia

I'm Glitched on this Quest it doesn't give me the over loader...

Comment by 774061

accidently used disengage as a hunter on aertheron part. Wheee!

Comment by 816174

Am I just being stupid or what. I spent the whole fight with Apexar being stunned and unable to do any real damage. 85 balance.

Comment by 821280

Edemantus is the only mob u can kill without being center in the portal.

Comment by 252752

Killed Aetharon with my holy priest. Even using the controller repeatedly it felt like forever to kill him and pretty much used every button but finally I saw his health go under 1% and then die. He rose into the sky in ghost format and showed a corpse on ground but quest did not credit him as slain. Then he respawned. I then put a ticket into WoW for a GM to review. The GM reset Aetharon. That caused Aetharon to properly buff with the controller so he shrank and then quickly died and quest completed.

Comment by lightshammer

wow, just went through this on my demo lock with NO problem at all...activate overload...when they shrink send pet and just burn em down. Oh, the little lock isn't even well geared.

Comment by 869425

I created an account just so I could say #$%^! THIS! QUEST!

Died 3 &*!@in times on apexar. What a stupid quest. Had to heal myself the whole time just so I could get like 3 !@#$ing seconds to switch to boomkin form and hit him with a moonfire and then get stunned halfway through starsurge. Thank GOD for my treants or I would have died. Popped barksin, thorns, innervate, treants, healed the @#$% out of myself, and still by then only had like 20% health and like 5% mana. RIDICULOUS BLIZZARD! ^&*!ING RIDICULOUS!

Comment by 875764

I cant unlock this quest! someone help, please, i can't find the chain for this one.

Comment by kalarel

Killing Debilitated Apexar is not possible as an 85 Frost Mage in quest gear.

Comment by kalarel

Mages - use Mirror Image on Apexar after using the controller.

Comment by Luctheduc

Please note in order to eliminate certain death -- you must get a buff from each of the three elementals or you will have -0- chance of success! After the buffs, used the portals, as lvl 85 arcane mage used mirror image and voila! piece o cake.

Comment by maximara

I had no problems with Apexar on my lock, druid, pally, or DK, but when I got to my mage the headaches began.

The only way I was able to down him (the other two didn't give me any problems) was to to get all three elemental buffs and use mirror image. The main issue is that was not on a toon in fresh greens but wearing enough 377 gear that my average item level was 361.

Clearly this quest has some class balance problems and I am dreading when my priest gets to this quest. As it stands now classes with pets and tanks can go "buffs? We don't need no stinking buffs" and plow through this. Everybody else better get that buff or you will die.

Comment by 877612

LOL I was so lost trying to find Aetharon. I was flying at a medium height, enough not to pull aggro on anything, and couldn't find him. I assumed maybe he was in a cave or downstairs in a building or something... till I came here and saw that he's on a floating platform, and was right above me the entire time.
/headdesk

Comment by 804504

A note for rogues: after you overload the portal controllers, DO NOT use Vanish. The mobs will revert back to elites if you do this, and if you can't hit the controller again fast enough, you'll have a helluva time keeping yourself alive. If you're lvl 85, the mobs are a piece of cake - as long as you don't Vanish and try to fight them in their elite forms.

Comment by SeriousBug

The mobs are not inside the mine. Don't try to go inside.

Comment by 940955

They look positively adorable in their tiny forms ^_^

Comment by Boxofbeer

Portal Overload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcDJ90lcnL0

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=hzPmuJ_A8rQ

Links

Portal Overload

Slay Debilitated Apexar, Debilitated Aetheron, and Debilitated Edemantus.

	Debilitated Apexar slain (1)
	Debilitated Aetharon slain (1)
	Debilitated Edemantus slain (1)

Description

I used to be the caretaker of the Earthen Ring's portals here. But while we were away helping to save Deepholm, the Twilight's Hammer moved in and corrupted the area.

They're using powerful ascendants to guard our portals. That's where they've made a critical error.

I want you to go to the portals and use the controllers to overload them. This will unleash all of the portal's energy, debilitating the ascendant. Slay it.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Deepdigger Helm			Portal-Sealer's Breastplate
	Darklight Torch

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with The Earthen Ring

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27659))