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Storylines
In Defense of Life For the Benefit of the Queen The Mandate of the Red Dragonriding How to Glide with Your Dragon How to Dive with Your Dragon How to Use Momentum with Your Dragon The Need For Higher Velocities The Skytop Observatory Skyriding Talents and You Return to the Ruby Lifeshrine Training Wings Who Brought the Ruckus? The Primary Threat Basalt Assault Egg Evac Proto-Fight Cut Off the Head Exeunt, Triumphant Introduction to Dragonriding How to Glide with Your Dragon How to Dive with Your Dragon How to Use Momentum with Your Dragon Dragonriding The Skytop Observatory Skyriding Talents and You Return to the Ruby Lifeshrine The Waking Shores Reporting for Duty Invader Djaradin Deliver Whelps From Evil Time for a Reckoning Killjoy Blacktalon Intel The Obsidian Citadel Veteran Reinforcements Chasing Sendrax Future of the Flights Red in Tooth and Claw Library of Alexstrasza A Last Hope For the Benefit of the Queen Dragonriding How to Glide with Your Dragon How to Dive with Your Dragon How to Use Momentum with Your Dragon The Need For Higher Velocities The Skytop Observatory Skyriding Talents and You Return to the Ruby Lifeshrine The Mandate of the Red Training Wings Who Brought the Ruckus? The Primary Threat Basalt Assault Proto-Fight Egg Evac Cut Off the Head Exeunt, Triumphant Wrathion Awaits Lessons From Our Past Sharp Practice Best Plans and Intentions Talon Strike No Time for Heroes The Courage of One's Convictions Taking the Walls Obsidian Oathstone A Shattered Past Forging a New Future Restoring the Faith The Spark Heir Apparent Claimant to the Throne Black Wagon Flight The Last Eggtender Egg-cited for the Future Life-Binder on Duty A Charge of Care The Waking Shores

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Comment by wingram

Note that if you are having trouble completing the course by flying through the rings, you can just make your own way to the Observatory, and you will still be able to turn in the quest.

Comment by Boxofbeer

To complete The Skytop Observatory you need to travel to the Skytop Observatory using your dragon.
You can use flight forward to pass first 4 rings as quick as possible. Use Ascend ability once to reach ring #5 and once more just after the ring.
You should have enough speed now to pass ring #6 and the next ones, just keep getting up with Ascend.

The Skytop Observatory walkthrough - https://youtu.be/xFWbVoE9xg8

Comment by linda535

There's a Dragon Glyph on top of the highest tower of the observatory. There's a walkway/bridge between two of the towers. Get to the bridge first, then getting the glyph is much easier/doable.

Comment by Oneletterzz

What are the waypoints for the starting location?

Comment by Himela

In every expansion there is something that makes players waste their time and want to break the PC and quit WoW. This quest is this expansion's torture. You have to start the race, press 1 so you get speed, pass the first 4 circles with that speed, press 2 to get some height, pass ring 5 and use 1 again to go fast to ring 6, 7, 8. If you don't manage to do that 100% correctly, you are transfered back to the start. And then, oops, you do it again. And again. And again.

Comment by offspinner

I found this to be pretty difficult. I'm not used to flying at speed in the game, and controlling the dragon wasn't easy for me.

Nevertheless, with persistence I made it. It took around 20 minutes I guess; my advice is, if like me you find it difficult, stick at it and you'll get it done eventually. It was a frustrating quest, though.

Comment by Mypciscraze

Hi all

I present You Storyline In Defense of Life. This Storyline is part of Waking Hope which is criteria for Loremaster of the Dragon Isles.

See Video with Storyline if need it - https://youtu.be/psUM4ybBfzk

Storyline in order I done it:

1. For the Benefit of the Queen - Speak with Majordomo Selistra 55 30.9 then He will take you to Queen 62.3 72.9 , You need to speak with Her and Movie will start
2a. The Mandate of the Red - Speak with 4 NPC in order: 60.7 74 Xius, 59.4 72.4 Akxall, 61.5 68.7 Mother Elion and 62.7 70.4 Zahkrana. Don't do Training Wings Pick it up but go first to do Dragonriding.
2b. Dragonriding - Speak with Lord Andestrasz to get Your DRAGON MOUNT ! After conversation You will get Renewed Proto-Drake and learn Dragonriding. Now every time You use Renewed Proto-Drake Dragonriding will be activated.
4. How to Glide with Your Dragon - Use Renewed Proto-Drake then jump off the platform and fly through the circles then land 57.4 59.1 when you will finish quest NPC will teleport You back. When You press jump button You will fly up, Skill 1 Is going fast forward and ect. FROM THIS QUEST IS START GUIDE HOW TO USE DRAGONS FLY.
5. How to Dive with Your Dragon - Use Renewed Proto-Drake then jump off the platform and fly through the circles then land 57.4 59.1 when you will finish quest NPC will teleport You back. Reward Bronze Timepiece
6. How to Use Momentum with Your Dragon - Use Renewed Proto-Drake then jump off the platform and fly through the circles then land 57.4 59.1 when you will finish quest NPC will teleport You back. Reward Bronze Timepiece
7. The Skytop Observatory - Use Renewed Proto-Drake then jump off the platform and fly through the circles then land 75.1 55 and speak with Lord Andestrasz.
8. A New Set of Horns - Use Rostrum of Transformation 74 58.1 is a platform on ground big but i did not see at start xD. Reward Rostrum Cipher Now You can costomize Your Dragon.
9. Skyriding Talents and You - Collect Dragon Glyph 74.3 57.5 is over ground then speak with Lithragosa ( 2nd option ) to open dragon skills now you can learn new skill. After all speak with Celormu.
10. Return to the Ruby Lifeshrine - Fly to Queen Alexstrasza the Life-Binder 62.3 72.9.
11. Training Wings - Now You can go back to this Quest. Use Ruby Whelpling to Kill: 12 Agitated Weedling, 6 Intrusive Pupstinger and 1 Relentless Gust. I use instant kill 1 for killing and skill 2 to move lower lever to get to other mobs.
12. Who Brought the Ruckus? - Follow Alexstrasza the Life-Binder to 59.6 72.5 Movie will start.
13. The Primary Threat - Fly to Commander Lethanak 59.4 75.9
14. Basalt Assault - Slay 4 Enraged Cliff 59.2 78.2 , 60.9 77.7 , 57.7 76.3 are 2 of them. During this Quest You can do Clear the Battlefield auto Quest.
15a. Egg Evac - Rescue 4 eggs: Azure Egg 57.3 83.2, Bronze Egg 56.1 81.2, Ruby Egg 55 81, Emerald Egg 55.3 83.2
15b. Proto-Fight - Kill 3 Elite Proto-dragons use Ruby Spear for pull and extra dmg to kill them fast.
17. Cut Off the Head - Kill Jadzigeth 53.5 83.4 Use Ruby Spear to do it fast then Movie will start.
18. Exeunt, Triumphant - Fly to 46.1 78.3 and speak with Majordomo Selistra Video will start, Storyline will finish after that.

Main Rewards During This Storyline are: Renewed Proto-Drake, learn using Dragons Skills and Costomize them, As well You will Get Renewed Proto-Drake: Spined Tail, Renewed Proto-Drake: Subtle Horns, Renewed Proto-Drake: Finned Crest, Renewed Proto-Drake: Curved Horns.

Hope That Help You :)

Comment by Lucilite

Dragonriding = 0/10. Want normal flying mounts back, please.

Comment by ToalaDelta

I'm having issues with the race not starting at all, however, this is happening on my alt. I had no issues with my first characters playthrough of this quest. When I accept the quest, Celormu just says "you have a bright future" and walks over to his next position, while Lord Andestrasz does nothing. I can at this point not interact with Celormu to start the race, and if I go to Skytop Observatory by myself the quest does not continue. I have tried resetting the quest, abandoning all other quests in my log, mounting different dragonriding mounts, nothing works.

Comment by drpimento

I just flew up there and it was marked completed. Nevertheless, the game transported me back to Ruby Life without letting me do the completion. Now I have to dink around going back up there. Tedious to begin with and now it's addon insult.

Comment by Dewines

Ignore the guy who tries to force you to race him to the observatory. Just make your way to the bottom of the observatory in your own time by any route you want. There is a "ferry" there, which will take you to the top. Once you are at the top, the quest is marked as completed and finally you can get shot of these nightmare games and start the proper stories.

Comment by SilkCharm

I ignored the whole "fly through the rings" nonsense. I accepted the quest, did NOT click Celormu to start the obstacle course - I just used my mount to fly directly onto pillars then UP to the observatory. Quest finished on arrival. No st00pid rings to fly through yay! Not sure if there were lots of complaints and it changed recently? But done now.

Comment by Ehayen

I'm not sure how but I'm certain the Tortolans are behind this quest.

Comment by Trollokdamus

Did all the previous quests in this chain using Soar instead of Dragonriding on my new dracthyr. This one, however, resets whe you fly through the first ring with Soar. Shame. Dracthyr should have unrestricted access to Dragonriding without the need to mount a drake.

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The Skytop Observatory

Travel to the Skytop Observatory in Waking Shores.

	Speak with Celormu or the Red Drake to start the race (1)
	Race to the Skytop Observatory (1)

Description

Those are the basics of riding a drake! You are doing quite well. Now, I would like to introduce you to some of the others involved in this adventure. We have made a home for ourselves over at the Skytop Observatory. Celormu will be able to help guide you there. Speak to him when you feel ready to take to the skies! See you there!

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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(68796))