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Storyline
Dragonblight The Liquid Fire of Elune Kill the Cultists The Favor of Zangus The High Cultist Rifle the Bodies Prevent the Accord A Strange Device Projections and Plans The Focus on the Beach Atop the Woodlands Search Indu'le Village Into the Fold Blood Oath of the Horde Agmar's Hammer Victory Nears... Rifle the Bodies Prevent the Accord A Strange Device Projections and Plans The Focus on the Beach Atop the Woodlands Search Indu'le Village Let Nothing Go To Waste Slay Loguhn Spiritual Insight Elder Mana'loa Freedom for the Lingering Conversing With the Depths The End of the Line Gaining an Audience Speak with your Ambassador Report to the Ruby Dragonshrine Heated Battle Return to the Earth Through Fields of Flame The Steward of Wyrmrest Temple Informing the Queen The End of the Line Gaining an Audience Speak with your Ambassador Report to the Ruby Dragonshrine Heated Battle Return to the Earth Through Fields of Flame The Steward of Wyrmrest Temple Informing the Queen The Obsidian Dragonshrine No Place to Run No One to Save You The Best of Intentions Defiling the Defilers Culling the Damned Neltharion's Flame Tales of Destruction Cycle of Life The Plume of Alystros Seeds of the Lashers That Which Creates Can Also Destroy Mystery of the Infinite Mystery of the Infinite, Redux Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde Flight of the Wintergarde Defender Return to the High Commander The Demo-gnome The Search for Slinkin The Bleeding Ore Leave Nothing to Chance Understanding the Scourge War Machine Rescue from Town Square Find Durkon! Secrets of the Scourge Mystery of the Tome Understanding the Language of Death A Righteous Sermon Into Hostile Territory Steamtank Surprise Scattered To The Wind The Chain Gun And You Plunderbeard Must Be Found! Plunderbeard's Journal Chasing Icestorm: The 7th Legion Front Chasing Icestorm: Thel'zan's Phylactery Finality An End And A Beginning To Fordragon Hold! Audience With The Dragon Queen Marked for Death: High Cultist Zangus The Flesh-Bound Tome Koltira and the Language of Death In Service of Blood In Service of the Unholy In Service of Frost The Power to Destroy The Translated Tome Containing the Rot The Good Doctor... In Search of the Ruby Lilac Return to Soar Where the Wild Things Roam Strength of Icemist Chains of the Anub'ar Return of the High Chief All Hail Roanauk! The Might of the Horde Attack by Air! Blightbeasts be Damned! The Kor'kron Vanguard! Audience With The Dragon Queen Galakrond and the Scourge On Ruby Wings Return To Angrathar Imprints on the Past Orik Trueheart and the Forgotten Shore The Murkweed Elixir The Forgotten Tale The Truth Shall Set Us Free Parting Thoughts What Secrets Men Hide Frostmourne Cavern Return To Angrathar WANTED: The Scarlet Onslaught Blighted Last Rites Let Them Not Rise! Stealing from the Siegesmiths Need to Know The Spy in New Hearthglen No Mercy for the Captured Torture the Torturer Without a Prayer The Perfect Dissemblance The Rod of Compulsion The Denouncement A Fall From Grace The Truth Will Out Do Unto Others Nozzlerust Defense Stocking Up Shaved Ice Soft Packaging Something That Doesn't Melt Hard to Swallow Lumber Hack Harp on This! Slim Pickings Messy Business Stomping Grounds Apply This Twice A Day Worm Wrangler Really Big Worm

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Comments

Comment by Acku

The only intelligent way to do this quest is while using Xink's Shredder Control Device.
Do this quest along with Lumber Hack.

Comment by redandgray

Found the Mistress at 46,11. She is a 74 elite and can be soloed using the Shredder.

Note: using the shredder on the non-elites prevents you from getting XP or loot.

Comment by 38799

If you forgot to do this quest while you are doing the Shredder one, you can still get the Shredder from Xink, just talk with him.

Comment by 170084

Soloed it as a level 74 frost mage, easy.

Comment by 248190

quest is bugged, can't use any abilities, very frustrating.

Comment by 110479

74 Belf priest in Sunwell gear: cast renew on yourself, and PoM, go shadow; PWS, VT, SWP, VE, MB, MF spam; when bubble breaks, recast. If you can silence (either spec'ed or Belf racial) interrupt her cast. Fear if you get into trouble. Disperse with max DoTs on her. She dies pretty easily this way...

Comment by 176381

Above coords are good, but she snuck up on me and layed the smackdown on me. After the corpse run, I noticed in my log that she does huge chunks of nature damage, so hunters, here's another great opportunity to use Aspect of the Wild, then she's a piece of cake.

Comment by Paddyjack

There are prerequisites to get this quest. You have to do the quest from all 3 gnomes:

http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12043
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12044
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12045

Then it opens other quests. I'm not sure which one is required, but I did:
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12047
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12046

After I did these quests, "Harp on this" was available. Note that Lumber Hack was not required, but I did it at the same time.

Comment by 247910

Note that there are two of her. One "image" or something on the left down where you come up to the harpies, and one much further nw, in the valley. We spent ages trying to attack the image before we checked at the coords posted above and managed to kill her.
Anyone that knows what the image is for anyway, except to annoy questers?

Comment by kounteron

the shredder's spells arent working, obviously bugged

Comment by 72664

Soloed Mistress of the Coldwin as a 76 bm hunter. just let pet tank and mend pet and use all cooldowns and it should be fine.

Mikl

Comment by flymolo21

I messed this one up and didn't use the shredder. She is a lvl 74 elite with 51000+ health. She has a hit that does 2400+ damage...almsot died as lvl 78 dk but someone came along to help at the last moment lol. Keep the shredder, you will need it...if you don't have bring a couple people

Comment by 327525

If, while you're doing you also have you can use Xink's Shredder to easily take out the Coldwind Harpies as well as Mistress of the Coldwind!

Comment by 337360

I soloed it on accident without the shredder because i forgot and died got it down to 5k health as an enhancement shaman lvl 73 it has 50k health and i went back with shredder and killed it. (im so stupid lol)

Comment by Zexter

i was able to solo this as a lvl 72 demo warlock. took one healthstone, and alot of fearing.

Comment by 303818

TIP: Shredder cannot be used to kill the Crystalline Ice Giant elites around Coldwind Heights (just thought I'd try to solo a non-harpy elite with it for fun)! Save yourself the grief. Also, for some reason they will follow you till the ends of the earth even when you are forced to dismount the shredder due to leaving Coldwind Heights. It only seemed to lose interest in me when I finally removed it as target (emptied my target)!

Comment by WhoDoesThatt

Had no trouble soloing her as a ret pally, you can use hammer of wrath as well.

Comment by Zgred2

If you are having trouble with this quest with strange bugs in the shredder like not being able to leave it or the abilities not working, there is a bug with vehicles in 4.1.0 and this helped me to bypass them, the bugs are similiar to the ones in the quests "Flight of the Wintergarde Defender" and "Lumber Hack"

1) Backup your Interface and WTF folders somewhere else
2) Delete your Cache, Interface and WTF folders (naturally keep those backups you just made!)
3) Go into the game, go through the intro cinematic, license agreements etc. , go to video settings, set the slider to low settings
4) Go into the game, do the quest, it should be working perfectly now.
5) After you're done with the quest, turn the game off, go into the WoW folder, delete Cache, Interface and WTF again.
6) Copy your backed up Interface and WTF folders back into the main WoW directory.

After that and you log in into the game and make sure everything is back to the way it was, you can delete the backups or do whatever you want with them

Comment by MakriWorgen

I did this quest today and the exp reward has changed. It is now 2,600 exp instead of the 25,950 exp reported at the top of this page. Equip and money rewards remain the same.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Harp on This! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8eV0RoZn5I

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=RnXRPJIO2l0&feature=youtu.be

Links

Harp on This!

Kill the Mistress of the Coldwind and 15 Coldwind harpies in the mountains northwest of Nozzlerust Post. Return to Narf once the task is complete.

Should you be in need of Xink's Shredder Control Device, speak to Xink at Nozzlerust Post.

Mistress of the Coldwind slain (1)

Coldwind Harpies (15) (1)

Provided item:

	Xink's Shredder Control Device (1)

Description

<class>, did you see that? That's the harpy that's been leading the attack on our shipments to the gate! I've seen her in the back of Coldwind Heights before.

Those harpies have slowed our profits long enough! Kill them all.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Miraculous Waistwarming Band			Narf's Explosiveproof Strand
	Serrated Chain Links			Experimental Utility Belt

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12052))