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Storyline
Badlands To Fuselight Proper Easily Swayed A Strange Request First Sample: Wild Eggs Second Sample: Whelps Lifting the Veil Third Sample: Implanted Eggs Rhea Revealed The Venerable Doctor Blam Troggish Troubles Dustwind Dig All's Fair in Love, War, and Archaeology The Warden's Pawn The Sentinel's Pawn The Warden's Game The Sentinel's Game Ancient Protectors The Titans' Trove Return to Blam Into the Dragon's Mouth The Swift, the Fierce, and the Stout Eric, the Utility Dwarf Baelog, the Glass Cannon Olaf, the Big Fella' The Wrath of a Dragonflight Their Hunt Continues The Sorrow and the Fury The Hidden Clutch Rheastrasza's Gift Bloodwatcher Point It's Not About History, It's About Power The Warden's Pawn The Sentinel's Pawn The Warden's Game The Sentinel's Game Ancient Protectors The Titans' Trove Return to Blam New Kargath The Bad Dogs Amakkar, Jack of All Trades Jurrix the Striker Gargal, the Behemoth The Wrath of a Dragonflight Their Hunt Continues The Sorrow and the Fury The Hidden Clutch Rheastrasza's Gift Devastation The Egg Lives On The Day that Deathwing Came The Day that Deathwing Came: The Real Story The Day that Deathwing Came: What Really Happened

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Comment by 650345

This expansion will be epic beyond Hogger's paw.

Comment by 642354

a gnome shrank the world and reached into the sun, grabbed a dragon, and threw it across the ocean...that's beleivable...

Comment by 481470

Took me a while to figure it out, but you have to grow to max size, target a cloud, then do your thing. I thought the clouds were just "there".

Comment by 708199

a dwarf a gnome and an orc walk into a bar..

Comment by 710873

So u can run around in Badlands and hitting just 2.. it will search the clouds even if u dont target em.. when u get 5 and u r bigger enough.. find 1 cloud search it, if its not there look right up.. theres a big ball over your head (the sun) just click on it and the quest is done. Thats it!

Comment by 711026

Has anyone had any issues with theis quest glitching? During the Gnome portion, after I get the 5 clouds, I look up, and nothing........I even search around for the sun, and I still got nothing....I had to abandon the quest like 5 times, very frustrating.

Comment by 252015

This quest is a PAIN! I was multiboxing and it only worked on 1 of my characters, but not the other one. OMG it is so frustrating. I always get the 5th cloud, but when I look up there is no sun. Maybe there is a bug. I'm gonna open a ticket.

Comment by Atrumara

Ok check this out. There has been these weird glitches where instead of quest objectives or objects there are little Blue and White checkered boxes and on this quest i saw a very very very tiny one next to the sun when you look up and i had to actually click the blue and white checkered box to complete this quest. If you cant find a certain item or or anything just try to look for those checkered boxes. If anybody else sees them please tell me because it would suck if its only me. Good work Blizzard!

Comment by 151462

If you have trouble with this one, as I did, run up and down the gorge (after you grow to max size)... if you can't find the clouds, they're probably on either side of the little gorge you start in. It can be a pain climbing up the sides, but you'll find a way. Get close to each of 5 clouds, then use your cloud searching ability.

Comment by 718936

After getting the 5 clouds, I went to Lethlor Ravine and saw a large circle like a sun, click it and get Deathwing. Very easy!

Comment by corilan75

While you're on this quest, it turns out tromping around as a giant gnome is a great way to finish Exploring Badlands if you haven't already.

Comment by 25986

If the sun doesn't show up after collecting the clouds, click the eject button to get out of the story, then ask the gnome to tell you the story again. You'll still get credit for searching the clouds and the sun should appear as well.

Comment by 722968

When you look up at the sun there are tiny dots in the sky. Click on one of them to grab Deathwing.

Comment by 729803

In case anyone is still having trouble seeing the dots... turn your video settings up... thats the only way I could get it to work

Comment by Atrumara

I heard the problem with the checkered boxes is something to do with a graphics card or something

Comment by 729468

The sun didn't show up either for me. I backtracked, found a another cloud, and searched it. Then suddenly, the clouds cleared up and the sun was right above me.

Comment by 89813

Interesting, I decided to take a walk and the clouds can be found all over the Badlands, so take a walk, it will go faster.

Comment by 32276

If you're a player that's looking to get the 'Explore Badlands' achievement when you're leveling in the zone, instead of coming back with a flying mount, this quest is a great time to get the achievement. The gnome travels quite fast, despite his walking animation playing slowly, and he doesn't have to deal with any mobs making it very, very easy to travel to areas you haven't yet revealed.

I know some people may prefer to use their flying mount to earn the achievement, but this is an excellent alternative.

Comment by Toroq

Fun fact: If you right-click to attack "Cowardly Deathwing" after grabbing him, he'll hit you (or actually the gnome) for around 35 million damage. Nasty.

Comment by 667361

Gnome's revenge.

Comment by 436603

Just a tip, when you are doing this quest you need to improve your view distance if it isn't at at least good or else it will appear foggy and you will have trouble finding the clouds.

Comment by joburocks

Enlarge yourself 5 or so times by casting the spell.
Walk around looking for clouds at eye level, target cloud, cast search cloud spell.
Once you search 5 clouds he will tell you the dragon is in the sun.
Look up and you will most likely see stars not the friggin sun.
Move mouse around to large stars and see if you get the gear mark like in fishing when you mouse over it. If so click. Quest Done!
Pain in the A

Comment by 778935

You CAN do this quest at night, but you won't find the sun, just the teensy little white pixel almost directly over your head -- looks like a star in the night sky.

Comment by 134346

After having done this on several characters while RAFing, I have finally sorted out the trick to getting the sun to appear. You don't have to listen to the story again or any of that. Once you've caught all the clouds, hit 1 (grow) again. This will trigger the sun. As some have noted, sometimes it appears as a tiny set of pixel-placeholders high in the sky and you have to really search for it. Other times it will show up just fine right in front of you.

Comment by 782341

yea its tarisclator im doing this quest over a hour now and my patience is running out ,do i thought he says like i look up to the sun bla bla so maybe i have to play this quest in day time please let me know .

Comment by 788290

This has to be the most hillarious and fun quest ive seen yet, besides the one in hillsbrad where you are a quest giver

Comment by AnnieHoney

The clouds look a lot like smoke or mist, it took me a while to find cause I was looking up until I noticed they were actually in front of me

Comment by 156138

I LOL'd all the way though this quest. It is a fun quest line with comedy in it.

Comment by Takata

The thing with this quest is...you can run allover Badlands, your not just restricted to the Scar. So just get up to 5 times with the growth spell then run around until you see those grayish hues with lightning in them. Once you target the cloud click the button to search through it, or heck I don't even think you need to target it. As for the sun for the second part, you need to look up and move in close until the gear turns gold and you can click on it. Hope this helps!

Comment by 305313

Straight from my combat log.

"Cowardly Deathwing's melee swing hits Lucien Tosselwrench for 103 Physical. (81425201 Overkill) (Critical)

Comment by 786406

this whole quest line is some of the stupidest quest line so far in cata. a complete waste of time. good exp at lvl 46 and some crappy rewards for a warrior. i know bliz can do better than this. and i know people will downrate. and its ok. people are entitled to there own thoughts.

Comment by McKizz

Right when you go to turn in the quest, he says

"The end. No moral."

That made me lol.

Comment by 810662

So for this quest I had a very hard time but figured it out. You will end up with a little tool bar for the guy. Press 1 five times to get big. Then you need to walk around everywhere in the badlands looking for a mist which is a cloud. Every time you run into one press 2. It might take some time, it isn't just in that gorge, if you look at your map, it is pretty much the whole area. Then it will say he is hidden in the sun, look straight up and click on it and he will come down and then you punch him and it takes you back for part 3 of the quest.

Comment by 605882

Awesome quest line! Epic! Thanks for all the great tips. Was having a helluva time with the cloud thing till I read the posts.

Comment by Macree

This quest bugged for me on multiple occasions. I was able to grow large enough to reach the clouds, but after three separate attempts, I still have not been able to search a cloud. I can target the cloud and the tooltip shows that it can be searched, but the '2' option does nothing and I was not given credit for searching the clouds. The first two times, I abandoned the quest but was not dismounted, so I had to log off the game. When I logged back in, I was disconnected from the server. The third time, I figured I would try leaving the zone and having the quest dismount me, but I got all the way to Blackrock Mountain in Blasted Lands, and I was still on the gnome....

Edit: After doing some research and opening a ticket, many of the issues presented throughout (clouds not appearing, not being able to search clouds, sun not appearing, etc...) are often caused by errors within your User Interface (UI). You should also disable any addons or mods running. If that doesn't work, try resetting your UI. To reset your UI, you should move or delete the following folders from within your World of Warcraft directory: WTF, CACHE, INTERFACE. These folders are recreated upon logging in.

Once I disabled my addons, it worked for me. Time spent unusuccessfully with my UI messed up: 34 minutes. Time spent completing the quest after the fix: 3 minutes.

Comment by Cowbearpig

...............BEST QUESTS EVER!

Comment by cephadex

I was very confused about this quest. here is what I figured out so you won't have to go through the same frustration:

1. Keep clicking the sunglasses icon and keep growing, until it will tell you to start searching for the dragon.
2. To search for the dragon, walk around in badlands (not just the scar); the clouds are NOT the ones up in the sky, but eye-level ish things. I didn't know that and was really irritated, I kept spamming the search icon until I got five but it took a long time and was annoying.
3. Once you get five, it'll tell you how it turns out the dragon is in the sun. When you look up toward the sun, it will have a gear sign. Click the gear sign to find the dragon.

Comment by lionsofmercy

I tend to have my graphics on "fair," because that's what my poor little MacBook can best handle. All I saw was a foggy nothingness (sort of what flying through a real cloud on a plane looks like) until I hiked it up to "high." Bingo! World cleared up and there were the above-mentioned cotton balls. (Of course, typing this comment went at a lag of about a character a second until I changed it back XD)

No sun issue; looked up & there it was, clicked the wheel, one Deathwing on his way back to Kalimdor.

Comment by Grizela

I hated it because the whole world was a giant cloud. I stumbled around, managed to snatch some unseen clouds but then fell into Uldaman and was too big to get out. I released the vehicle (which he is) and started over. Luckily I kept the clouds, so it wasn't a quest fail. But then I realized that the problem was the graphics: I had everything down low. I corrected that and suddenly the air cleared and I could see fuzzy little clouds at knee level. After that it was easy.

Bottom line: up the graphics for this one.

Comment by 733706

Getting the Sun to appear? Make yourself larger? What steps do you take to do the quest, that's what I want to know!

I'm listening to the dwarf's story and all of a sudden I find myself in one of those "vehicle" consoles with the dwarf under me. So one person suggests "Enlarge yourself 5 times or so by casting the spell."

Though it might have been convenient to mention what spell the person is talking about, there are only two buttons on the console, so I hit the first one five times, and, sure enough, the dwarf in front of me got big enough to block my field of view really well and I got the message that I was large enough to search the clouds.

Another person mentioned something about looking for some mist. As I moved forward I saw a misty cloud that stood out from the background somewhat, pressed the second button, and got credit for one cloud searched. As I walked around I wondered how I was going to deal with all the hostile mobs that normally inhabit the Badlands. I never saw any during the quest. So I kept looking for more clouds and after a minute or so the giant dwarf got hung up in the depression in the ground at Hammertoe's Digsite.

Now we all know that one thing to do when a character is stuck on an obstacle is to press the up arrow to move the character forward and press the space bar to jump.

Well he would jump, but not forward. Not in any direction. I finally discovered (after a few minutes) that he would walk up the (now very small) ramp that you would normally use to get your character in and out of the depressed area at that location.

I continued wandering around, getting hung up a few more times, and nailing more clouds. The clouds appeared to have very small green lines in them, like looking at the name over a PvP player (your faction) from a distance.

After the fifth cloud I was told that Deathwing was hiding in the Sun, directly above me. It was very large and actually looked more like Mars (this was at night) and the gear appeared, I right clicked, and the story continued.

The big dwarf threw Deathwing to the ground and I was all of a sudden standing in front of the gold question mark to turn in the quest. A very odd experience to say the least.

Comment by 114233

The most epic quest there is ever been in history of mankind.

Comment by Adela

Just fyi for who is using low graphic, put on "good" or you will not see them :) They are spread around questing area everywhere.

Comment by Kabryia

Alright... this is a HELPFUL comment *ahem*

The clouds are as one person commented, at eye level and look like puffs of grey smoke. They are NOT located in the Scar itself but on the sides near the centre. After you check all the clouds, there will be a "sun" within which is Deathwing (miniaturised). Hopefully, you who read this will not have spent 20 minutes in the Scar trying to find clouds like I did... and yes, I am blonde but I dye my hair black... it's called Artificial Intelligence. =P

Comment by 923889

Turn view distance up to high or ultra first thing. Search the mist looking clows that are around your siz(as 6 sexes big) and are no higher off the ground then you. After that the sun is around the place you started growing a little ways above your head, above the middle of the trench.

Comment by santoxthanksyou

If for some reason you wait too long after searching 5/5 clouds and the 'Sun' you are looking for above your head is not visible or has disappeared, just click on your 'Shrink the world' button #1 again and you should attempt to grow larger and make the 'Sun' reappear above your head.

Comment by OtakuboyT

On a side note this is an easy way to get Explore Badlands.

Comment by 881584

Damn near impossible to see the clouds with lower resolution settings. If all you're seeing is one big fog, you will need to adjust your view distance and environment detail settings.

Comment by lpm555

I started by searching for the clouds in the Scar. Wrong! I left the Scar and then I easily saw the clouds. They are as big as your head and simple to target and 'search'.

Comment by Ventros

I absolutely love how Lucien says "You've got to try this beer". Silly drunk.

Comment by Zoeteklem

Anyone else notice that you REALLY do walk in the Badlands while you are in giant mode? I was discovering unseen places on the map and was getting credit for it. Too funny!

Comment by betsyyyyyy

This was one of the most fun I've had questing in SUCH a long time. Just did this on my baby druid and the 3 of these guys made me laugh the whole time!

Comment by Ebyssius

Clouds will appear on your mini map if you have Zapthrottle Mote Extractor in your bags. :3

Comment by Driva

I hate this quest with the force of a thousand suns.

Comment by 733706

The quest was bugged when I attempted to do it. I hit the "1" key until the message appeared to search the clouds. I was not able to target anything however and wrote a ticket.

Comment by Thumdrive

Search the puffy clouds AT GROUND level. Don't be looking UP in the sky. They look more like puffs of smoke ... again, at ground level. Eventually, after searching 5 of the clouds about knee level, the "Sun" will appear right over his head. Grab Deathwing and he''ll toss it out of sight.

Comment by 1126810

You don't really need to "look" for the clouds. Simply walk in a circle around The Scar. The air is a little foggy, but it gets really thick when you walk into a cloud. Then just tap your 2 key. Don't waste time "looking" for something grey-on-grey.

Comment by foxmajik

My experience is that the "sun" never appears. Maybe it's because it was night time in the zone when I did the quest.

I got the quest complete by mousing over the first cloud to the right from the quest start point and clicking when I saw the gears.

Comment by 759273

After reading all the comments about how to find the Deathwing in the sun I finally figured it out. I actually shrank to take a break and came back into the quest later and looked up to see the sun but there was no sun. I hit the "expand" button several times and the cloudy sky above cleared and the sun became a big bright ball. When I passed my mouse over it I saw the "gear", clicked it, and completed the quest.

Comment by Zaynah

To complete this quest use the following steps:
1. Press 1 several times until the gnome says that you are large enough to search the clouds.
2. Run around the badlands looking for "clouds" - these are at eye level of your gnome, not clouds in the sky. Press 2 whenever you reach one.
3. When you have searched enough clouds, the gnome says that Deathwing is not hiding in the clouds but the sun. Look up to see the sun, an orange ball. Click on it.

Comment by 1020729

I get all done hunting the clouds and the yellow text pops up saying: 'It was then that I realized: he was hiding in the sun. I look up.'
But I look around and there's nothing there cept the swirly gray misty sky. :S
Rrrr..shame, cuz I like this quest chain..

Update: Wandered for a few more min and when I was by those tall stone pillars with the lava-y tops, i saw the sun, couldn't reach so i got on top of one. Clicked sun. Threw Deathwing. Yay!

Comment by scharky

If you seem stuck because the quest won't advance to the next stage(s), don't abandon the quest right away. Try using the World Shrinker again, that should move things along for you.

Frustration had nearly driven me to commit computercide, until clicking the World Shrinker made the quest advance to the "sun" part.

Comment by philipprocter1

been walking round of hours and its p***ing me off

Comment by JimmyR

I had a problem with the Sun showing up, but it would disappear after I clicked it and nothing else would happen.

If this happens, exit the "vehicle" and then talk to the gnome again. He'll start the story right where it left off. Try clicking the sun again, if it doesn't work, try searching another cloud. I did this and it respawned a second sun, this one worked correctly.

Hope this helps.

Comment by 1425034

When I click on the "sun" absolutely nothing happens, it just goes away.

Comment by Arranell

Me and another player encountered a bug in this quest tonight...the first two work fine, but the Orc bike just floats through the canyon and there is no way to complete. :\ Anyone have any suggestions?
I have tried abandoning and retaking it a couple of times, dismounting and going through the re-telling and rebooting my computer and WoW to try to solve it. Since I know I'm not alone in having this issue, I am hoping someone out there can help.
I've also submitted a ticket on this issue.

Comment by Aetheriael

Every time I click on the sun it disappears but doesn't complete my quest... What should I do? (I keep ejecting and restarting it, but the sun never does what it's supposed to do!)

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Day that Deathwing Came: The Real Story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sl0MvJS9iU

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=tk8DYG1AVLQ

Comment by 1374013

The Day that Deathwing Came: The Real Story https://youtu.be/xG5VbmXXgig

Comment by JaxxyLupei

This quest is bugged. When you get to the sun part, nothing happens when you click on it.

Comment by Stryper7

I was up in Fuselight going to search a cloud and I found out that even though you are gigantic if you accidentally (or purposefully) line up Lucien with a doorway you can go "inside." Well at least your massive feet can. You have to turn yourself around and find the door to free your feet and the rest of you.

Comment by Coffeegirl

Twice (on different characters) I've now experienced to click on the sun and then nothing happened. Then just now I tried clicking the ability to "shrink the world". Then sun appeared again and I clicked it, and I got Deathwing. Problem solved.

Comment by Gigabear

EDIT: Hotfixed today or yesterday 11/7/2016

Currently if you do this quest, you will get stuck as a giant should you dismount from the gnome after shrinking the world. Actually quite amusing.

Edit: https://twitter.com/Muffinus/status/795119835130662913

Devs are aware and plan to fix thix next week.

Comment by Arexx

Use the GNOME's part of the story to explore all of Badlands. This is a safer way to open up the entire map. I usually leave one cloud until last, then explore everywhere, get my exploration achieve then finish it.

Comment by Reaper8871

When you see, "Once the world was small enough, I started to hunt for Deathwing in the clouds", then you look for barely perceptible clouds and search for Deathwing in them. The clouds look a little bit bigger than a silver dollar (US Server).

Comment by Speedrun

The quest completion text, "The End! No moral." is a reference to the Achewood webcomic, specifically a strip from April 03, 2006 in which a lively story is told.

Comment by drpimento

I got to the sun part, DW showed up- and then - nothing except quest failed. Ok, figured it out: have to keep using the goggles and max out size till it autocompletes

Comment by Ehayen

I've been trying to complete this quest since 2005 but it always bugged out, preventing me from completing the last questline in the Eastern Kingdoms.

Well, today it finally completed. 🎇🎆

Links

The Day that Deathwing Came: The Real Story

Listen to Lucien Tosselwrench's version of the story.

	Grow large enough to reach the clouds (1)
	Clouds searched (5)
	Find Deathwing (1)

Description

Not only was Theldurin's story wrong, it was boring, unimaginitive, and slow.

I'll tell you how things really happened on that day.

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27714))