Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Motives of the Mantid Set the Mantid Back
2.	The Wisdom of Niuzao
3.	Niuzao's Price

Storyline
Townlong Steppes A Foot in the Door First Assault Running Rampant Perfect Pitch Seeing Red Pitching In Ranger Rescue Jung Duk In Search of Suna Dust to Dust Slaying the Scavengers Totemic Research Last Toll of the Yaungol What Lies Beneath Spiteful Spirits Hatred Becomes Us The Point of No Return A Spear Through My Side, A Chain Through My Soul The Torches Golgoss Arconiss The Death of Me Golgoss Hungers Arconiss Thirsts Orbiss Fades Mists' Opportunity Behind the Battlefront Unwelcome Intruders Breach in the Defenses The Restless Watch Returning from the Pass Treatment for the Troops Back on Their Feet The Endless Swarm Rummaging Through the Remains Improvised Ammunition Cutting the Swarm Terror of the Dread Wastes Along the Southern Front Enraged By Hatred Taking Stock Joining the Fight Up In Flames The Taking of Dusklight Bridge Joining the Hunt In Skilled Hands Hostile Skies Devastation Below Heroes of the Shado-Pan Buried Beneath Thinning the Sik'thik Taoshi and Korvexxis Lao-Chin and Serevex Nurong and Rothek The Sha of Hatred The Motives of the Mantid Set the Mantid Back The Wisdom of Niuzao Niuzao's Price The Terrible Truth

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Comments

Comment by dreedo

For this quest all you have to do is kill mobs while your friend, the shadow panda will search their bodies while you kill them.

So all you have to do is kill all the bugs you see till you got all 4 clues.
But be aware, they hit like a truck!

Comment by 1019447

This quest bugged out on me. I got the first and second clue, no problem, but then Tai Ho stopped following me around. Despite massacring the camp twice, there was no third or fourth clue. Leaving the quest area (just the little mantid camp) and returning fixed the problem. Good luck!

Comment by Hilaeira

I believe the hints are only on the boneslicers. I killed several of the other bugs in the area but all of my clues came from boneslicers. Good luck.

Tai Ho also said "No clues here... but I did find this." and threw me a Amber Medallion.

Comment by kgurnhill

Tai Ho says: Look at the size of these! This one is definitely a breeding male.

Did he just tell me to look at a bugs nuts? o.O
Who the hell looks at an insects testicles when looking for clues? lol

Comment by alpanhell

I really hate when blizzard puts something like this in and then fails to make sense. I don't get how the clues inter-relate at all.

Comment by lonewolftek

Note that if you are doing this quest and your inventory is full, Tai Ho will not be able to toss you an and you will miss out on 5g worth of vendor trash.

Comment by Lainya

I came here hoping to find a listing of the clues, since I managed to miss what the first one was, and they've not been posted yet. In an attempt to compile a list, these are the ones that I received (I can't say with certainty that they are always given in the same order, or that there are only ever these four stated, as I've done this quest only once so far).

Second Clue
Tai Ho says: Look at the size of these! This one is definitely a breeding male.
Tai Ho says: That means the mantid queen is involved in this...somehow.

Third Clue
Tai Ho says: His body - it's covered with scars. Old Scars.
Tai Ho says: Not just any scars, either. These were created by pandaren weapons.

Fourth Clue
Tai Ho says: Here it is! This is what we've been looking for!
Tai Ho says: Yak hair.
Tai Ho says: Come back to the camp when you are finished. We have much to discuss.

Comment by 984420

I remember this quest on my bear druid - it was no big deal. But on my shadow priest it was nearly impossible, as others mentioned, you get swarmed. What I finally did was to fly into the buildings and wait inside. One would come down, a few seconds later another would follow - kill the first one using your orbs, build orbs on the second one. Eventually I killed enough to finish "the motives of the mantid" and I continued by blowing up their weapons and supplies.

Comment by 1064741

this quest was so annoying -_- wud try kill one (im only a hpala) and then 3 would randomly come from above and own me. How do they expect me to interrupt 3 sonic screams? ridiculous!

Comment by Eillesthis

Tai Ho's initial comments:

You take them out. I'll hide in the shadows and search their bodies.

The color has just... left its body.
There's no doubt about it. These creatures have been affected by Sha.

Plus he periodically says one of:

Nothing here. Keep moving.
There's nothing here. Let's keep loking.
No... nothing of note here. Keep looking.
Nothing on this one.

Comment by Stalyn

Tai Ho says: Look at the size of these! This one is definitely a breeding male.
If you know what I'm saying.

Comment by yarko

Swarms of sonic attackers make this a very difficult quest. Fortunately, you can move out of the way of the scream if you start moving when they start casting. Also, some of these mobs will chase you across the zone. I couldn't believe it. I wonder if that was intentional on Blizzard's part.

Comment by 994077

A relatively easy way to do this is to slide along the side to where the weapons destroy in, there is a little house there, and a side yard on the cliffs where it is safe to stand and there is decent space to fight. If you need to kite, this is great. Just watch and pull singles from the passing guards, bring them down to the field and SLAY THEM! The loc on the field is 55, 53. Careful, don't run off a cliff :-)

Comment by bryanakperry

So I couldn't find any basic instructions for this quest, and I'm not one to read quests, so I thought I'd just say that you have to kill the bugs to get the clues. Only the boneslicer ones will give you clues. Some have said that the other ones CAN give you clues (and downvoted my original comment for it, so thanks guys), but the chance of that happening (for me, at least) isn't worth bothering with. Just go for the boneslicers. Your life will be easier.

Comment by aryon

You take them out. I'll hide in the shadows and search their bodies.

Well that's extremely brave of you, Tai ho, but are you sure you want to take that risk? Perhaps you'd like to head back to camp instead, or just sit behind a rock quivering with fear?

No wonder pandas are dying out.

Comment by Sorshana

As an Ele Shaman this quest was a pain in the rear. I attempted it at level 88 and got owned. Came back at level 90 and still struggled. After an hour and a half of attempting to carefully pick one monster off a time, I finally completed it once I figured out the following.

For all the spell casters having trouble (like I did - 24g in repairs later), I think I figured out something that might help you.

Come into the area from the northern path. Their numbers seem to be a bit more sparse there so you should have an easier time of singling one out.

Whenever possible, target and single out a Boneslicer. They do NOT have the same magic locking abilities the Screamers do but their attacks are fairly strong.

I had to kill 11 total monsters to get all 4 clues. It likely varies but this is just an FYI.

Comment by deadjonas

These Mantids will swarm all over you, and Tai Ho is of little help. I somehow got through this quest and when complete still had a healthy group of Mantids after me. When I attempted to run, Tai Ho kept hitting them, so they just kept following me. I ended up running to the coast and jumping into the ocean, where they finally gave up and turned back.

Comment by Caglock

If you kill multiple of them at once, then Tai Ho still only observes one of them, instead of all of them. Best to just pick them off one at a time to finish the quest faster.

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Motives of the Mantid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds1OljvWQKk

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=X2c6nB_X4bM&feature=youtu.be

Comment by pixielynn

In Panda Remix doing this quest as well as "Set The Mantids Back" and "Natural Antiseptic" and all the quest givers in the area keep disappearing as I approach them. I've closed the game and re-opened and checked all my addons. This is frustrating so I guess I'm putting in a ticket.

Comment by Made4Viol3nce

If you can't see the NPC's, look for the quest "Surprise Attack" and finish it first.

Links

The Motives of the Mantid

Slay mantid in Kri'vess so Tai Ho can look for clues on their bodies.

	First Clue (1)
	Second Clue (1)
	Third Clue (1)
	Fourth Clue (1)

Description

<class>. You may be of assistance.

The Shado-Pan wishes to know why the mantid are attacking so violently. We have our suspicions, but we cannot be sure. Furthermore, we do not want the mantid to know that we are investigating them.

That's where you come in.

I need you to kill the mantid of Kri'vess, in the north. I will lurk behind you in the shadows, and search for clues on their bodies.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Mistborne Cuffs			Mistlurker Bindings
	Earthmover Armbands			Goldtalon Bracers
	Swampwalker Cuffs			Steppebeast Armwraps
	Osul Peak Wristwraps			Temple Guardian Armplates
	Palewind Bracers

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

100 reputation with Shado-Pan

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(30921))