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1.	Path of the Last Emperor

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Escalation The King and the Council The Warchief and the Darkness Path of the Last Emperor

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Comment by Cielos

When I was young... I had to walk barefoot through Azeroth until level 40.

Comment by Romire

When i was young i had to walk to Ironforge for the AH, and it was crowded!

Comment by Romire

The fun thing about this quest is that you get a free EPIC upgrade, and learn the story about Pandaria, You have to wonder if Garrosh has too much pride and is the final sha

Comment by Reignac

Is anyone else getting a bug where he won't hand you the rope for the next leg and so you can't continue on?

Comment by JoshDJX

Had a problem where the rope wouldn't appear and/or the Seer wouldn't walk.
I was doing it in a party with a friend. Left group and abandoned the quest then it worked perfectly.
Thought I'd share this in case others are having a problem in a party as well.

Comment by Latias714

Quest mini-chain start is Chen Stormstout in Razor Hill, after you do the Blood in the Snow scenario quest, Dark Heart of Pandaria scenario quest, helped Vol'jin in Sen'jin villiage, and finally take Razor Hill.

Comment by MNnilsen

I'm unable to complete this, Seer does not give me the rope after the 3rd Anchor.

Comment by Romire

Id like to point out for those suffering from "Unable to Pull" the Seer up due to bugs, Abandon the quest, and find him back at the bottom of the hill again.

Blizzard is looking into this

The quest has been hot fixed and is working as intended

Comment by Bolshak

Brief nostalgia of FMAB when the emporer is talking about Pride being the last sha to destroy

Comment by Sharessa

Feel free to use stealth to cruise by the Summit Guster mobs. Seer Hao Pham Roo can climb right past them just fine. Makes it way faster.

Comment by sjprice

I dont think it is really clear here in the comments. Once you accept the quest, run up to the first post and WAIT. He will climb up and say something, and then you can start going to the second. Wait after each post, and you will keep progressing.

Comment by 1122201

I need help i did quest path of the last emperor and i get reward but i dont have any next quest is it normally or i did something wrong ?

Comment by platoriam

i am not getting any next quest when i finisht his quest :( did i do something wrong or is it normal?

Comment by 1122227

We are not asking the right questions:

1) Why is Garrosh so filled with rage? Is someone corrupting him, or rather "deceiving" him, maybe The Deceiver himself?
2) The Emperor said "Be ware of pride, be humble, this world is plunging into chaos." What chaos? The chaos of Alliance and Horde killing eachother or some other sort of chaos, the same chaos that was seen in the Legendary quest?

Comment by 343516

This quest seems to have some bugging issues. Make sure you stay near the anchor point to get the rope for the next step. If you don't get the rope, abandon and repeat. the NPC will respawn at starting point instantly so there is no waiting.

Also when you reach the top, you will see the questionmark at your minimap, indicating you to go down to deliver the quest. DON'T.
Wait for the NPC to climb up and do his talking. After that you can deliver your quest and get your nice reward. You can't mount until the quest is finished, so don't fall down into your own death :)

Comment by 610726

Sadly (ironically), I bet most players won't actually stick around to listen to the old man after getting their new boots.

Comment by Sarantha

This was an epic quest, especially when he finally reveals himself to be the Emperor that everyone has been talking about since we arrived on Pandaria. The existence of the Sha of Pride being revealed was also epic. Who wants to bet that Garrosh gets possessed by the Sha of Pride? -.-

Comment by turbogorm

I'd put a lot of money on the sha of pride being linked to the garrosh fight. It is garrosh's signature trait and Could possess him similar to the goblin in the "dark heart of pandaria" scenario. This gives the potential for the garrosh encounter to become a lot more interesting, being simply a really strong orc warrior, there was previously little room for him to become an encounter with interesting mechanics like Arthas was.

Edit: http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2013/june/GarroshHulked.jpg Looks like I was right guna be a sick fight!

Comment by zephyrangel17

Now... Priests.... I know what you're thinking.
"LEAP OF FAITH! LEAP OF FAITH!"

No... don't do it.. It's for your own good.

Comment by Eillesthis

Previous: The Old Seer (as above)

It's a little more effort, but if after you hitch the rope to a post you run back down to help Seer Hao Pham Roo climb, Zephyr will make the whole thing faster.

Comment by 627828

Lore Stand Point~

So the Ghost of the last Pandaren Emperor is having a little sit down with us.

The Highlights; He tells us that he defeated and buried all the Sha, but the Sha of Pride which he could never defeat due to his pride in the people of Pandaria. He felt Pandaria could stand alone without outside aid, and through this pride, the Sha was able to blanket Pandaria in the Mists. The same Mists which kept Pandaria obscured and isolated from the rest of Azeroth (the ones that mysteriously vanished sometime around the end of the Cataclysm).

Conspiracy Theory: Garrosh is possessed by or working with the Sha of Pride.

The Mists mysteriously disappear around the same time Garrosh goes from wanting to lead the Horde to destroy the Alliance to the point where He believes the Orcs are a superior race and the rest of the Horde should serve them.
His Pride in the Orcs overwhelms his desire to defeat the Alliance (not very Garrosh like). If you've read Theramore, you'll know that Garrosh almost loses Ogrimmar after the Fall of Theramore since his troops are over-extended and Jaina goes ballistic. Keeping with the pride theme, it would seem he didn't feel he could be beaten despite being tactically unsound.

Garrosh has previously tried to harness, control or merge with the Sha (The Divine Bell event).
Prideful to assume you could control a force of nature, no? Plus how did Garrosh find out about the Bell exactly? Yes he heard from his agents about a relic, but they never outlined how he knew exactly what an ancient lost relic could do. Presumably a Sha that had been around to experience the Last Emperor use the Bell to defeat the other Sha, but escape itself, would know.

Garrosh sends his minions (The Goblins and Blood Elves) on archaeology digs across Pandaria.
Why does Garrosh suddenly care about archaeology? He doesn't seem like the most scientifically minded does he? If you completed the Klaxxi Rep grind you'll know that all Sha are only parts of the Old God Y'Shaarj who was killed and buried beneath Pandaria. We know from C'thun and YogSaron that the Old Gods never seem to really die. In Dark Heart of Pandaria (a required 5.3 scenario) the Gobs discover a Y'Shaarj relic. The Kor'Kron overseer admits it is what they have been looking for. It has the capability to generate Y'Shaarj's energies.

So if your a prideful Sha (like the Sha of Pride) you might assume that you could resurrect the Old God and take complete control of the powers of all the reassembled Sha, assuming that the Old God doesn't control the actions of the Sha to some level, thereby seeking to resurrect itself.

My final point is that this whole step in the 5.3 questline is largely unnecessary UNLESS there is relevance to it. Why have us do a few scenarios and a bunch of Barrens content and then send us all the way to Kun Lai for some irrelevant quest to help an old man up a hill? Why introduce the Sha of Pride who we have never heard of or encountered before, especially when the story line has shifted from Pandaria to Kalimdor?
The only logical conclusion is that something from the Path of the Last Emperor is important to the story line yet to resolve in 5.3, and that the newly revealed Sha of Pride is connected.

Edit;
http://www.wowhead.com/news=214667/patch-5-4-tier-16-season-14-and-npc-3d-models-siege-of-orgrimmar-dungeon-journal#54bosses-garrosh-hellscream
Sha of Pride is a boss in Siege of Ogrimmar and Garrosh IS infused with Sha energy in the final fight (as are his 'True Horde' followers (i.e. what he tried to do with the Divine Bell). Not only does it appear he's working with the Sha of Pride, as predicted, he's also attempted to merge with the Sha, as predicted, and it also looks like the Paragons of the Klaxxi are similarly corrupted.

Comment by ItsMaz

Gah, yet more leather pieces with Hit/Exp on them! I can't get rid of the stuff.
Least I can get the Int pair instead.

Comment by 485421

During that final monologue, I got why this patch was named "Escalation"... That escalated quickly o_O

Comment by JimJoBlue

For those that don't wait around here is what Seer Hao Pham Roo says..

Seer Hao Pham Roo says: I was going to teach you a lesson but instead, it is you who have taught me. You see, when I was young... when I was young... when I was young... I... was emperor.

Emperor Shaohao says: I conquered my doubts, my fears, my anger... I buried all of it within the land.

But I held on to one vice. The one sha I never conquered. PRIDE.

My pride cloaked this land in mists! I thought we were better than the rest of the world.

I thought we could solve our own problems. But for ten thousand years, we stagnated, our doubts and fears buried in the land, rising up to fester whenever we allowed them.

Pride. It is the most insidious of sha. It is good until it is bad. And then it is more dangerous than all the others combined.

Beware of Pride! Be humble! The world is plunging into chaos. Old enemies must work together. Proud races must admit they need help.

Things are going to get worse before they get better. Only by working together can we overcome the darkness.

All that stands in our way... is pride.

Comment by 743912

Note for druids:

You can not deer form your way up AT ALL. While you may be able to attach the rope to the next pillar, he will bug out and not give you the next rope. If you can't resist the urge and switch forms to travel form you will need to drop the quest and start again. Using sprint/roar in other forms did not cause this.

Unconfirmed note: A friend said they could Displacer Beast their way up as well.

Comment by phage83

ok i most likely a complete numbskull but what is the exact path you use to get up the mountain?
i've seen other chars go through the wind and not get knocked back do they know something i don't?

Comment by 1017531

Anyone else notice that "Seer Hao Pham Roo" is an anagram of "Emperor Shao Hao"? :)

As if all his comments along the way up the mountain weren't hint enough. :P

Comment by DiogoCP

I think the Mists involving Pandária, represents, in the real World the tradicional Chinese Isolationism.

"My pride cloaked this land in mists! I thought we were better than the rest of the world."
Said the emperor in the quest...
This exactly thougth the chineses along our classic dinasties, and our country was (and still are) called by they how "Emperor of the Midlle" (of the universe, of course) chin. Zhongguo.

"Beware of Pride! Be humble! The world is plunging into chaos. Old enemies must work together. Proud races must admit they need help.." Clearly sayng about a new boss, called Sha of Pride, and alliance between ally and trolls, but also, the world's actual caotic situacion, and relationship between East and West of the Planet. Well is my opinion, do the conclusion yourselves.

Comment by Philthee

For Priests, Leap of Faith does work on Seer Hao Pham Roo but from personal experience,I don't recommend it. I pulled him up because he was so slow. Once he was next to me,he turned and walked all the way back to the last post,circled it and started the slow trek back up the hill. I ended up waiting twice as long. :p

Comment by Shoadowolf

When I was young, I had to buy very expensive mounts and had to carry them in my bag.
...
Also, when I was young, AV lasted for days.

Comment by hixn36

I did this quest without issue on several characters right after patch 5.3 hit. I'm not sure if it was a hotfix that broke it, or a problem that no one else has encountered yet, but I started having trouble advancing the quest on my monk. On the 4th and 5th anchors, the seer would seemingly randomly not give me the rope to tie to the next anchor (I would not get the lead climber debuff). Relogging did not solve the problem. Abandoning the quest and starting over again reset the progress, and being careful to stay next to him and not using Roll or Flying Serpent Kick let me finally complete the quest on my fourth try.

Comment by cmacord

I don't know if this has been fixed or what, but I had no problem whatsoever with it...it took me about 10 min. to complete on my Hunter. I just put my pet (luckily, I had my tanking pet out, which I think made his survival easier) on the zephyrs as soon as I saw one, trapping the ones that aggroed on me, and I just walked up the hill and clicked on the anchor, and the old man just slowly chugged up the hill to where I was. There were no complications or problems whatsoever. I still can't believe I got kickass raid-level boots by doing one little 10-minute quest :)

Comment by 627305

Lor'themar also mentions to Garrosh in the Divine Bell chain that it could be due to Pride that the Mogu were defeated.

Comment by Magnatross

If you're doing this quest when dailies reset, your screen fades to black and you reappear at the golden pagoda for some reason.

Comment by nioxic

if you stick close to him you both get a speed buff

Comment by Ellisande

If you are a priest, you have a couple of options available to you that will make this quest 90% less painful. For the duration of this escort, the seer will be treated as though he were a party member.

1. From your second tier of talents, if have selected Body and Soul or Angelic Feather, you will be able to make him move 60% faster at intervals.

2. Leap of Faith. If you use this, do not use it while standing right on top of a post, make him walk a few more steps or you risk having him backtrack. Worth a try though, I used mine twice on the trek without any issues.

3. If you have the Glyph of Levitate, you can increase his base run speed by 15%.

4. Kill a Summit Guster for the Zephyr buff (50% movement speed) and walk with Hao to share it with him.

With these powers combined (and liberal use of fears), this quest took approximately 2 minutes.

Comment by exen

This quest can seriously go to hell. It's so outrageously picky about your phasing that it will reset if you step an inch off the path or even get bounced up in the air by the mobs flying around. The best way I found to succeed is leave his ass at the bottom of the hill, go kill ALL of the mobs so they won't respawn on you, and just give up on the speed buff. Then you only have to worry about the blowing wind counting your movements as trying to cheat and kicking you out of the Seer's phase.

Comment by Melandroso

There is no direct follow-up after this quest, but when you come back to Shrine of the Two Moons (or Shrine of the Seven Stars), there is a blue daily quest available: The Road to War (alliance equivalent: The Road to War)

Comment by lockbox

This quest can still be completed as of 5.4, despite the removal of the Barrens questline.

Head over to Lorewalker Cho - you'll need to complete The King and the Council, and then The Warchief and the Darkness - he offered these quests to my newly-dinged 90s. When you've done them, The Old Seer will lead to Path of the Last Emperor.

(Note: Wowhead currently displays these quests as unavailable in-game. Either Blizzard have modified the quest IDs, or Wowhead is just not up to date yet.)

Comment by 701981

This quest can be rather challenging in many ways, especially since gusts of wind make it difficult to maneuver freely and reliably during combat.

The trail is steep and the snow is slick. As soon as you stop moving up-slope, gravity pulls you, and the wind pushes you, down-slope immediately -- almost as quickly as you normally walk on flat terrain. You can be pulled or pushed off the trail, and the fall is likely to kill you. Where the trail becomes flat, the wind doesn't move you as much or as often.

The slope and the wind continuously move you away from the Summit Guster mobs. Their Zephyr slows your movement toward them by 50%. Their Frigid Gust knocks you back, away from them and often down-slope. Their Frost Shards make them quite deadly, too. Above all, they move around and about, freely and frequently, so you must constantly re-target the one(s) that you are fighting.

This makes it difficult for a melee fighter to stay within range of the mobs. One recourse is to use the mouse for moving your PC (if you normally use the AWSD keys). Then the left fingers can press keys to apply your abilities without allowing the wind, or gravity, to move you down-slope. But your right hand must still maintain your position with the mouse.

It seems that multi-target AoE abilities were not as effective as attacking each mob individually, although you are likely to be under attack by as many as three or four mobs at the same time. Beware of your health and use your self-heals judiciously. Usually the best position is with your back to the rock wall, so they cannot attack from behind, but it can be difficult to maintain such a position where the slope is significant.

To prepare for my second set of attempts as a paladin: I removed the Glyph of Mass Exorcism to restore it as a ranged spell in this context, and exchanged the Glyph of Double Jeopardy for the Glyph of Divine Protection. Also, I used the Seal of Insight in order to gain healing while the mobs attacked.

In my experience, the Seer often disappeared from the scene for no evident reason. In each case, the Quest Log showed that the rope had been attached to the first two or three anchors. But I subsequently found the Seer at his initial location, and the only way to proceed was to abandon the quest and receive it from him again. As you might expect, if you are killed, then you must abandon the quest and receive it from him again, at his initial location.

In my experience:

(1) Do not attach the rope to an anchor post unless and until all mobs that you encountered while climbing the slope, or near the post, are dead. If the Seer arrives during combat, he is likely to return to his initial position. However, if the Seer is standing at an anchor post, then combat nearby does not disturb him, at least not if it occurs in the general direction of the next anchor.

(2) You must be near the post when the Seer arrives or he will disappear. As others have suggested, you can return down-slope to the Seer after attaching the rope. If you accompany him during his climb, then the buff that you gained from killing Summit Guster mobs enables the Seer to move up-slope to the anchor post very quickly. Once you arrive, wait until he finishes his speech before you proceed to the next one.

Since much of what happens during this quest is goverened by chance, hope and pray for good luck, because you are likely to need it. Don't believe the braggarts. Enjoy!

Comment by Taramonia

This quest chain starts with The King and the Council and is in fact still available as of today

Comment by Altfactory

These are still available according to this post:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/9936573691

You'll still get the quest after you've done Blood in the Snow and Dark Heart of Pandaria (as a part of the quests from Lorewalker Cho.

Comment by 388145

This quest is still doable. But it's no longer part of the Barrens: Battlefield.

This is what you must do in order to get your 502 boots now:

1. Visit Lorewalker Cho at the Seat of Knowledge in Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
2. Pick up the quest to do the "Blood in the Snow" scenario.
3. Do the "Blood in the Snow" scenario.
4. Turn in the quest.
5. Pick up the quest to do "The Dark Heart of Pandaria" scenario.
6. Do "The Dark Heart of Pandaria" scenario.
7. Turn in quest.
8. Pick up quest for "The Old Seer".
9. Take Flight Point and fly to Kota Basecamp.
10. Mount up and go to 45 48.
11. Talk to Seer Hao Pham Roo. Turn in quest, pick up next quest.
12. Take Seer to top of path.
13. Turn in quest, get boots.

Comment by caljenks

I did this quest just before I moved to a new server. Funny thing is, I got it again on the same character on the new server. Not much help now you get better gear from LFR...

Comment by Striker93x

If you are a shaman do not use the ghost wolf form while doing this quest. I had to reset 2 times because when I got to the 3rd pole the emperor wouldn't give me the rope.

Comment by TwistedMetal

To start the blood in the snow quest in bfa talk to the dragon to swap versions to Mists of Pandaria version now old god incursion.

Comment by Karat

If you're doing this quest at max level (obviously very easy) be aware that you must wait for him before moving to the next pole. He is VERY SLOW. Once rope is attached you get a zephyr buff, go back down the hill next to him and it will make him run up the hill. In case it wasn't obvious to anyone. :)

Comment by AerosDarking

To complete this quest in 9.1, go to Lorewalker Cho in Vale of Eternal Blossoms. You may have to talk to Chromie on the balcony to get the correct version of the Vale. Talk to Lorewalker Cho to get the quest The King and the Council, then talk to the nearby NPC Lorewalker Fu Lorewalker Fu to start the scenario "Blood in the Snow". Complete the Scenario.

Talk to Lorewalker Cho again and get the quest The Warchief and the Darkness. Talk to Lorewalker Fu again and complete the scenario "The Dark Heart of Pandaria". Talk to Lorewalker Cho again to get The Old Seer.

Then go to /way Kun-Lai Summit 45 47 Seer Hao Pham Roo, and talk to Seer Hao Pham Roo to complete the quest. Finally, you can pick up Path of the Last Emperor.

Anchor the rope that Seer Hao Pham Roo gives you by clicking the posts (anchor points). If you kill any Summit Guster mobs, it will give you the buff Zephyr Zephyr which increases your movement speed and the movement speed of Seer Hao Pham Roo when you are close to him. Use it to make him move up the ropes faster. Finally, turn in the quest at the top of the mountain for your reward.

Comment by OtterCid

the mobs during this quest drop a lot of thread.. you can abandon this quest and do it over and over again to easily farm some thread

Comment by weltallica

"Pride. It is the most insidious of sha. It is good until it is bad.
And then it is more dangerous than all the others combined.
Beware of pride! Be humble!

The world is plunging into chaos. Old enemies must work together.
Proud races must admit they need help.

Things are going to get worse before they get better.
Only by working together can we overcome the darkness.
All that stands in our way... is pride. "

Heed this wisdom, Blizzard.
Heed this wisdom, Wowhead.

Comment by ArashiFaustes

You must wait for Pham Roo to move to each Rope Anchor before you go to the next one. If you stand too far away from a Rope Anchor while Pham Roo is walking towards it, Pham Roo will despawn and go back to the start, which will force you to abandon the quest to pick it up and do it all over again.

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Path of the Last Emperor

Attach the climbing rope to each Rope Anchor along the path to help Seer Hao Pham Roo reach Seeker's Point.

	First Anchor (1)
	Second Anchor (1)
	Third Anchor (1)
	Fourth Anchor (1)
	Final Anchor (1)

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In his time of uncertainty, the last emperor walked a lonely path up this mountain, until he had at last found his answers.

I am here to walk the same path, and it seems you have questions of your own to be answered. Perhaps you will join me, and we can both be satisfied?

Oh, but I am getting old, and this blizzard is proving too much for my bones. Could you climb ahead and anchor this rope? I can hoist myself along from there.

Together we shall walk the path of the last emperor.

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Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Treads of Reticence			Unpretentious Boots
	Treads of Respect			Boots of Boundless Patience
	Sabatons of the Humble			Modest Sandals
	Subservient Greatboots			Unassuming Slippers
	Self-Effacing Boots

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(32816))

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Wowhead's Guide to Battlefield Barrens [Archive]

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