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Mulgore Sharing the Land The Restless Earth Dangers of the Windfury Swoop Hunting Mazzranache Kyle's Gone Missing! Poison Water Winterhoof Cleansing Thunderhorn Totem Thunderhorn Cleansing Rite of Vision The Ravaged Caravan The Ravaged Caravan The Venture Co. Supervisor Fizsprocket A Sacred Burial Preparation for Ceremony Rite of Wisdom Wildmane Totem Wildmane Cleansing Journey into Thunder Bluff War Dance Walk With The Earth Mother Walk With The Earth Mother

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Comment by Crazytroll

im the only one to add a comment. ummmm well its a quest, you can't miss it if your a lvl 8 or higher...... take elavator up to TB and you'll see some tauren walkin round with a ! over his head. talk to him hes near the pond and he gives you this quest. Had the harness on my lvl 8 troll hunter but hes 53 now.... so that was a while ago. Although i did do this with a lvl 8 tauren warrior and only minutes after i got the shield i sold it and with the 1 silver i bid on a shield in the ah that was better armor and +1 stamina.

Comment by 43096

Thought i'd add one too cause only Crazytroll added one..So when you take the quest from the Tauren you take the right elivator down and go east of it keep going straight and you'll find the harpies kill 10 of each color there are white and blue the white ones give you azure the blue give you bronze, you'll get them all after you kill 10-15 of em well thats what i did when i was lvl 9 well Good Luck and happy Killing =P

Comment by 43408

I've only done this quest once, even though I frequently roll Tauren characters, and the reason for it is that the rewards are generally not worth the effort to collect the quest items. You'll have to kill forty to fifty harpies just to get all of the feathers in an area where no other quest activity is located.

If you want a nice leather chest piece, hunt the Rake (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=5807), he's not too hard to find northeast of Elder rise (same location as Arra'chea spawns as well) and consistently drops a 55 armor 1 int green chest. Mazzranache (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=3068) has a 50% drop rate for a 55 armor 1 agi chest, but is much more difficult to find.

Comment by 58410

39, 71 is where I went, this can take a little bit....about 10-15 mins total

Comment by 42007

I tried the above coords & nothing was there. The harpies were at 56, 17, NW of Red Rocks.

Comment by RedwoodElf

The Harpies can be found to the west side of the Spirit rise. To tell what color of feathers a harpy will drop, target them and look at the hair. Blue will drop azure feathers, brown will drop bronze ones.

Comment by 102628

I found the harpies at 56,17

Comment by hawke

Watch out for the Matriach, as they heal themself, so it make it hard for class with no healing ability (like warrior).

Tips for warrior:
I would suggest you Harmstring them at around 40% HP, because they try to run away at 10%, and the last thing you want is to get a caster pull :/ ! You can always try to War Stomp when they heal too, make it easier for you.

And btw, have some patience, the drop rate is HORRIBLE. Matriarch drop the Bronze Feather, and Sorceress drop the Azure Feathers...

Comment by 113818

Location 32, 27
Drop rate is 60%~

Sorceress has 176 HP~ and uses Frost attacks
Matriarchs has 207 HP~ uses Lightning attacks and Heals

Comment by 133291

found a load of harpies round 30-22..drop rate sucks though

Comment by 138030

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Comment by DistinctlyBenign

I would like to point out that if one has finished all of the other mulgore quests this is a great quest to finish off the area with if you want to get as much XP as possible before the barrens. This is because you are essentaly grinding the harpies which give around 90 XP each at the level, of which you'll be killing lots, and then you get an additional 850 XP after you finish.

Comment by raistlyn

This quest is not worth the quest rewards unless you are grinding rep with the Tauren, or are really in need of better gear. The drop rate is abysmal.

Comment by Jungleman

Map: Mulgore
Coords: from 31.7. 28.3 to 29.7. 19.7 (lots of harpies)

Comment by 203987

The drop rate appears to have been improved.

Comment by 240993

If anything the drop rate is lower than 60%, at least for the bronze feathers. I got only 2 of them in the time it took me to get all the Azure ones. If you need a good sheild this quest is TOTTALLY worth it though, you won't find anything better for a while. The Barrens is also a crazilly tough place to quest in, you want every bit of XP you can get going into the area. So DO THIS QUEST. Between grinding and the quest itself you'll net yourself a whole level normally, if not more

Comment by 120087

This quest was pretty easy, as a warrior level 11. Harpies found at 32, 27 just down the hill to the NW, from the elevator. And the drop rate was acceptable about 60% and with some other pretty good loot, too.

Comment by Nobleshift

So I was doing this for the shield, leveling as a prot warrior.... and on the last kill I get a way better green shield with Agi on it... sigh.... Oh well, EXP is EXP, right?

Comment by 285424

Northwest of Red Rocks, all around the Outside edge of the zone, you can find these mobs. Look for the tell-tale harpy nest suspended from the trees. Both types of mobs who drop the feathers are spellcasters; the sorceresses are mages and the matriarchs are shamans meaning that they can heal. The drop rate for the feathers is fairly low; I killed all the mobs and was only at 4/6 for each before going back and starting over again. But XP is XP.

Comment by 48643

Qualifies for Loremaster of Kalimdor

Comment by 447186

In cataclysm the drop rate on these feathers has improved significantly. Now 100%. I used to skip this quest a lot as it was a bit of a pain to complete if I was in a hurry. Now its an easy must do quest.

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Comment by 638005

Took me 4 minutes as a level 60 DK :P

Comment by Prototyp3

The Quest can now be found at 49.59, 17.50.

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=jS7c1At7KiA&feature=youtu.be

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Preparation for Ceremony

Collect 6 Azure Feathers and 6 Bronze Feathers.

	Azure Feather (6)
	Bronze Feather (6)

Description

<name>, my brother soon stands before Chief Bloodhoof, and it is my honor to make his headdress for him.

I want to ask a favor of you while I finish tanning these leather straps. There is not time for me to find enough feathers, and I was wondering, would you gather more for me?

You can find feathers of the correct size from the harpies residing far to the north and northwest of Thunder Bluff. I need only 6 azure and 6 bronze feathers to complete the design.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Leggings of Brown Grass			Hewn Kodo Gloves
	Plainstrider Leg Armor			Plainstrider Handguards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Thunder Bluff

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(744))