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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 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: 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 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 Easy Pickings Precious Goods Paving the Way If The Key Fits 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 Ogres & Ettins Call in the Artillery SI:7 Drop Move the Mountain Signal the Attack Signal the Attack Four Heads are Better than None Four Heads are Better than None Up to the Citadel Just You and Mathias Just You and Mathias Dark Assassins Bring the Hammer Down Help from the Earthcaller Portal Overload Unbinding Spirit of the Loch The Elementium Axe Distract Them for Me Dragon, Unchained Fire the Cannon Coup de Grace Water of Life Mr. Goldmine's Wild Ride A Little on the Side While We're Here Rune Ruination A Fiery Reunion The Hammer of Twilight Skullcrusher the Mountain

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Comments

Comment by Iheartbeer

Some Gryphons are fine, just click them to return.

Some are trapped, kill the trappers and the trapper bindings to release them.

Some are injured. If you're a non-healing class you must use first aid, I tried using Heavy Frostweave Bandages, no good. You have to use Embersilk Bandages or higher on the Gryphons to get them to return.

All of them are found directly east of the quest giver (Crucible of Carnage area).

Comment by Flenop

The gryphons which require healing only need to be brought above 25% health.

As previously posted, 1 Embersilk Bandage will work. However, any healing method which will restore them to 25.1% or more will suffice. (This does include multiple Heavy Frostweave Bandages if you have no Embersilk ones)

Comment by Romple

You don't NEED to rescue the injured ones to finish the quest. I went to town to learn embersilk bandages, came back and there were more trapped ones to rescue. It appears to be a fairly long respawn though so if you run into a 6/8 situation and only see injured ones just do another quest and come back and there will be more you can rescue.

Comment by Rauderce

Expect to stay longer camping the gryphons if there are 2 or more others trying to finish the same quest. And tbh, this quest's concept is really bad.

Comment by violetta

considering how abysmally low the cloth droprate is, I'd recommend not wasting bandages even if you have first aid, at least not until the droprate is fixed to something more sensible

Comment by 739661

You do not have to fight the Twilight Trappers to save those gryphons; simply destroy the bindings from range and it will count.

Comment by 744915

You don't need to heal any of them. Just let the uninjured ones smell the charred Birchwood and they will fly home and count as quest.

Comment by N0VIS

I had a bit of a funny experience with this quest. A gryphon was tied up with a Twilight Trapper guarding it. So I began to fight the trapper and as I was fighting him a druid comes by and destroys all the pegs keeping it in place. When he finished, I actually got the credit for it!

So the moral is: Don't try and destroy the pegs while someone is fighting the trapper. You won't get any credit for it. ^_^

Comment by 838725

Beware of wolves when doing this quest, as a patrol of 8 wolves may find you and try having you for dinner :)

Comment by Cropz

Heads up if you're a Hunter and are trying to use Tracking to find the gryphons: they're Humanoids, and not Beasts, strangely enough.

Comment by ironarcanine

Make those gryphons smell my wood (name).
That will get them back.

Comment by DeliaDelilah

I wish someimes there would be consistency or at least some kind os heads up about the quest item given to complete quest. Tried clicking on the birch treid to put on tool bar like every other usable item.

Comment by sforzie

For the BM Hunters out there, a Spirit Beast's Spirit Mend will heal up the gryphons just fine, although sometimes it takes a second application to get the full amount of healing needed.

Comment by stormrage442

The ones that are down/wounded can be healed, gaining your quest progress, which might be easier on healing classes.

Comment by 975898

As any class with a ranged attack (I'm a warrior and I used my gun) you can just shoot one or two bindings off without aggroing the trapper.

It's much faster to do the trapped ones this way if you're just trying to get the Loremaster or get through the zone.

Comment by 1016790

This quest kinda blows if you're can't heal and don't have first aid... The gryphons are spaced pretty far apart and when you finally find one, if it's just lying there and looks dead you have to heal it.

Comment by Rizzatto

Reasons I hate this quest

1) I can heal myself just fine, I can even heal my demon pet but I can't heal the gryphons.

2) I've been using all my cloth to level tailoring, not first aid. Potions don't work, either.

3) I ran across several injured gryphons I couldn't do jack with.

4) When I found ones that were tied up, the rope that they're tied down with is so small it takes forever to click on it just right.

5) When I finally got the last gryphon, I aggroed a wolf. By itself it was no problem, but what I didn't realize was that this wolf was the point man for a pack of 8 more and that wolf pack decided to camp my corpse.

Bliz, I am giving you the finger as hard as I possibly can.

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Scent of Battle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L2dL0BJy80

Comment by Cioco

As of 8.3, since you no longer have first aid, if you are not a healer class, have fun. Most gryphons I have found were injured, and had to heal them. And I'm rogue. Took me a good while to find 8 not injured. Blizzard, check your damn old quests!

Comment by demodecus

You can buy Deep Sea Bandage off the AH.

Links

The Scent of Battle

Find 8 Mullan Gryphons and dispatch them back to their gryphon riders.

	Mullan Gryphons found and returned (8)

Provided item:

	Charred Highland Birch (1)

Description

Don't let Duglas fool you, the Mullans have been itchin' to take wing again, and if there's anyone we'd do it for, it's Firebeard.

We left our gryphons in the Highland Forest to the south to hunt and to get away from the sounds of battle for a bit. They deserved a rest.

If you want us back in the air soon, you'd do well to help us bring our gryphons back in.

Take this piece of charred highland birch. We use it during training - as soon as they smell it, they'll come straight back to us.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Wildhammer Clan

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27811))