Quick Facts

Series

1.	Rise Of An Empire
2.	Buried Secrets
3.	Voice of the Gods

Storyline
Dominance Offensive Meet the Scout The Might of the Warchief Domination Point Dagger in the Dark Rise Of An Empire Buried Secrets Voice of the Gods Someone You Should See Regeneration Takes Time Find Thrall! The Horde Is Family De-Subjugation To Mogujia Ancient Guardians Bloodlines The Korune To the Valley! Clearing a Path Legacy of the Korune Trapping the Leader Echoes of Thunder A Gathering Storm Get My Results! What's in the Box? The Kun-Lai Expedition Ties with the Past Memory Wine The Ruins of Korune The Divine Bell Insertion The Darnassus Mission Victorious Return The Situation In Dalaran It Starts in the Sewers Violence in the Arena Hand of the Silver Covenant A Tactical Assault The Silver Covenant's Stronghold The Kirin Tor's True Colors Krasus' Landing The Remaining Sunreavers One Last Grasp The Bell Speaks Breath of Darkest Shadow

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Comments

Comment by xSnowex

Ugh! Watch out, watch out! When you kill the adds they spawn pools under them, wasn't paying attention and..yeah.

Comment by badabaron

Be careful not to fear the adds or the statue as it will reset it every single time.

Comment by OberonOne

As soon as you click to examine the quilen statue it becomes active. Easy to kill, loot, and complete the quest.

Comment by blupache

The tablet is readable, but vanishes from your inventory after you hand it in. The text is:

In the one-hundred-and-seventieth year of the Thunder King's reign, the Korune spellweavers came to Lei Shen with their greatest creation.

A bell cast from the makers' flesh, shaped by stars' fire, and bound by the breath of darkest shadow. This bell, when rung, could shake the world and call to the heavens.

Taken to war, the bell's cacophonous tones stirred the hearts of Lei Shen's warriors. It fueled their hatred and anger, lending them strength on the field of battle. The bell's screaming voice struck fear and doubt into the hearts of the Emperor's enemies, sending them fleeing in his path.

Awed by its power, the Thunder King described the instrument as "the voice of the gods," and named it Shenqing, the Divine Bell.

Edit:

Some time after handing it in, I received an in-game mail from Fanlyr Silverthorn. It had Reliquary Facsimile attached which provides a copy of the tablet's text. He writes:

Greetings (player)!

Thank you again for you (sic) help with our excavation in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

As expected, Warchief Hellscream was more than pleased to learn of the Empyreal Ledger that you excavated from the stone guardian.

I thought you might be interested in receiving a copy of the relevant factual data that you recovered.

I trust, of course, that you will not share this sensitive information with just anyone.

- Fanlyr Silverthorn

(Who me? Share with just anyone? Noooooo... never... /whistles)

Comment by Relaya

Make sure to stand pretty close to him after activating him. As a clothy, my immediate instinct as soon as the ground started shaking was to run to max range. He would come to life for a split second and then refreeze. Then I stood right next to him and clicked him again and he activated properly.

Comment by jamesjames

What some people won't tell you is this quest is for geared players. You will die unless you can finish adds and dps Boss. Learn this the hard way unless you have a class that can shield up or gain health from melee.

Comment by dkcm

I was not expecting a fight on this, so it took me by surprise. You do not need to be 'heroic geared' for this. I just did it in crafted pvp blues and quest rings / neck / trinkets. Follow:

Strat:

Inspect the stone statue. The ground will shake and he comes to life. Straight fwd DPS until he spawns 3 small Quillen Statue adds. Take each one down and make sure when each of them dies, to move away from it because they spawn a small silverish pool beneath them that will take down your health rapidly.

(I suspect that is the part that is killing people)

Once you kill those three, he will come back to life so just continue to straight fwd DPS him down. Loot and turn in quest.

Comment by Celano

A better way to do this as a hunter:

(Done in greens and blues as BM. Pet was a Ferocity spec'd Cat.)
Open up full blast and pop all your CDs. When the adds spawn, stop DPS. Let your pet pick them up and just let them beat on the pet while you keep it healed. After a few moments, the big statue will become active again, at which point you should be able to easily finish it off before it can spawn a second wave of adds. Any adds up will despawn when it dies.

By not killing the adds, you prevent them from releasing their dangerous silver goo.

Comment by Elfizm

I'm not sure if this quest is broken or if this is intended, but the Mercurial Guardian does not stay 'alive' for more than a couple of seconds. If you miss killing it, it just resets into statue form and you have to click on it again. At level 120 it's a one-shot deal. No adds or anything else happens, but be quick.

Comment by sapertink

At the time of writing, this quest is available at level 15; however, the zone is level 30. The guy shows up as a skull. My level 20 death knight got rolled on this quest. Probably due to some zoning re-leveling scaling issue blizzard missed. If you notice this turns gray at 22, still no way you're going to do this quest at level.

Comment by Magnamus

When I tried this as a Timerunner frost mage the guardian is immune to my attacks!
Frostbolts etc just pass through him, arcane explosions and frost nova don't affect the adds either, so I just die every time!
I'm going to assume that this isn't possible and skip it I think!

Comment by Helpersson

Timerunning Pandaria Remix (10.2.7)

Seems to be bugged or to have a level requirement for obtaining the Ancient Korune Tablet:

In a party of three (Level 37, 28, 27) only the level 37 character was able to complete the quest despite multiple tries killing what is an annoying mob (annoying if you are under Level 40; he is quite powerful but I assume that if you outlevel him, he is a cakewalk since he does not seem to scale).

EDIT: returned at Level 31 and was able to obtain the item so I'm assuming that you need to be Level 30.

Comment by Slunko

You need to be level 30 to loot the quest item required for this quest.

Comment by Darksprite

Why does it give 3000 rep, but then instantly deducts 2750 rep upon completion? (listed under quest rewards above)
It only rewards 250 rep (as stated above under "gains").

What is the issue with that?

Comment by Jornak

Still bugged in Pandaria: Remix.
On a lvl 28 timerunner the mob is still skull-level. Had a lvl 70 player help me and the mob didn't drop the quest item for me. :(

Links

Voice of the Gods

Investigate the Mercurial Guardian and obtain the Ancient Korune Tablet.

	Investigate the Mercurial Guardian (1)
	Ancient Korune Tablet (1)

Description

Too slowly!? We are working as quickly as possible for the Warchief!

We must excavate carefully, catalogue each find, and of course follow safety procedures. He must understand!

Well, we may have something to show him soon. Do you see that stone statue to the west?

We suspect it is an ancient stone storage vessel. Now we just have to find a way to open it.

If you would care to help us with our excavation, please go about it carefully.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Cache of Infinite Treasure		Dominance Offensive
	Dominance Offensive

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(32257))

Guides

Operation: Shieldwall and Dominance Offensive Guides