Quick Facts

Series

1.	If There Are Survivors...
2.	Into The Wild Green Yonder
3.	A Cold Front Approaches
4.	The Last Line Of Defense

Storyline
Icecrown Honor Above All Else Curing The Incurable Defending The Vanguard Scourge Tactics If There Are Survivors... Into The Wild Green Yonder A Cold Front Approaches The Last Line Of Defense Once More Unto The Breach, Hero Once More Unto The Breach, Hero The Scourgestone The Restless Dead The Purging Of Scourgeholme The Stone That Started A Revolution It Could Kill Us All The Air Stands Still Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle The Crusaders' Pinnacle The Skybreaker Orgrim's Hammer The Broken Front Your Attention, Please Borrowed Technology ...All the Help We Can Get. Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Basic Chemistry Coprous the Defiled Sneak Preview Chain of Command Cannot Reproduce Retest Now Not a Bug Need More Info No Rest For The Wicked Raise the Barricades Bloodspattered Banners Get the Message The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards The Broken Front Takes One to Know One Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Coprous the Defiled Basic Chemistry Sneak Preview Chain of Command Cannot Reproduce Retest Now Not a Bug Need More Info No Rest For The Wicked Raise the Barricades Bloodspattered Banners Blinding the Eyes in the Sky The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards It's All Fun and Games It's All Fun and Games I Have an Idea, But First... Free Your Mind If He Cannot Be Turned If He Cannot Be Turned The Shadow Vault The Shadow Vault The Duke Exploiting an Opening Securing the Perimeter Set it Off! A Short Fuse Opportunity Establishing Superiority Blow it Up! A Short Fuse Parting Gifts An Undead's Best Friend Honor is for the Weak From Whence They Came Seeds of Chaos Amidst the Confusion Vereth the Cunning New Recruit The Vile Hold Generosity Abounds Matchmaker Stunning View The Rider of the Unholy The Rider of Frost The Rider of Blood The Fate of Bloodbane Eliminate the Competition The Bone Witch The Sum is Greater than the Parts The Art of Being a Water Terror Through the Eye Find the Ancient Hero Not-So-Honorable Combat Banshee's Revenge Battle at Valhalas Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn Battle at Valhalas: Carnage! Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge Where Are They Coming From? Destroying the Altars Death's Gaze Spill Their Blood Jagged Shards I'm Smelting... Smelting! The Runesmiths of Malykriss A Visit to the Doctor By Fire Be Purged Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton He's Gone to Pieces Putting Olakin Back Together Again The Flesh Giant Champion A Voice in the Dark Time to Hide Return to the Surface Field Repairs Do Your Worst Army of the Damned Futility Sindragosa's Fall Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Tirion's Help Tirion's Gambit A Voice in the Dark Time to Hide Return to the Surface Field Repairs Do Your Worst Army of the Damned Futility Cradle of the Frostbrood Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Argent Aid Tirion's Gambit A Tale of Valor A Hero Remains The Keeper's Favor Hope Within the Emerald Nightmare The Boon of Remulos Time Yet Remains The Touch of an Aspect Dahlia's Tears The Boon of Alexstrasza Hope Yet Remains The Will of the Naaru The Boon of A'dal Light Within the Darkness

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Comment by 207568

to me this quest was a little bit buggy it would say i was picking a crusader up and then it wouldnt register some of my friends have completed this quest but i have no clue how i cant

Comment by 3857

Even though it looks like you have not picked up any, when you fly back to the infirmary, you still get credit.

Comment by 222095

Pick up dragon mount at 87.79 , rescue Captured crusader at 79.66ish, drop off crusader next to the bonfire at 86.76

Comment by 176018

don't bother trying to do this if you aren't a lvl 77+ druid... i gave up after getting dropped from the mount twice en route to the npcs you have to rescue, avoided what would've been certain death by popping into flight form ><

Comment by 5487

Quest title is presumably a reference to the upcoming, and possibly final, Futurama movie.

Comment by doomi92y

a twist on the US Air Force song "Wild Blue Yonder"

Comment by 170174

Quest done on live, seems to work fine.

As stated, head over to 79,66 roughly, grab the crusaders, come back to the bonfire at 86,76.

Comment by Whoofer

Fairly easy quest for such a reward. Right next to the quest giver, there are some dragons. Dismount your own mount, and right click one of them. Then fly north untill you get to Scourgeholme. Find a Captured Crusdader (first ability placed on 1) and fly back to the camp. Deliver the NPC by using the second spell (placed on 2), repeat over again. You'll also get the chance to increase your flying speed, use this whenever it's off cooldown.

Comment by shadowspa

you can see the lich king while on a drake. he yells stuff and if you get in about 30 range he will use some atk called tendrils of death or something on u for 3k dps.he melee critted me for 12000000 xD

Comment by 245247

STEP 1: Disable any UI mods. Some do not work with Blizz's new vehicle system.

STEP 2: Make sure you are dismounted and right click one of the Argent Skytalon mounts right next to the questgiver 87, 79

STEP 3: Fly your new skytalon to the area at about 78, 66 and you will see NPC's named Captured Crusader. Fly close to one and press your #1 ability.

STEP 4: Fly back to the bonfire at 86, 76 and drop your Captured Crusader using your #2 ability.

STEP 5: Go back to STEP 3.

Comment by 251380

DONT LAND IN SCOURGEHELM, or go up to and stat attacking the LK, it bugs, you dismount and about 80 ppl with 20k health each start succesivley attacking you, its rly not fun

Comment by 37560

Completing the quest after this (A cold front approaches) phases the town. All mobs disappear.

The nerubians outside the town are a very quick source of chitins, they come in large numbers, and all you need to do is do at least a single point of damage onto mobs tanked by the npc to be able to loot and skin (they drop frostweave on a regular basis as well). On a 30 minute farming trip I got at least 10-15 chitins owing to the fact that horde players and alliance players (non-skinners) were killing the spiders as well.

If you do want to farm the chitins you may want to put off completing this quest.

Comment by lordkarthas

This quest seems familiar: Flight of the Wintergarde Defender.

Comment by 275560

There's a pretty weird bug in this quest. I was flying near the Leach King, I let him kill me and that morphed me into a zombie, and making it so that your action bar is not a mix of the dragon's action bar but with zombie abilities. If you wait for your zombie morph to ware out you'll die but you'll still be mounted on the dragon upon release. :D

Comment by 5027

Comments from the captured crusaders:

"Let's get out of here! Quickly!"

"Thank you, friend, but we're not out of trouble yet!"

"Had you not come along I would have died for sure!"

"I... I think I saw the Lich King. It was only for a moment, but he was here... And it turned so cold, friend. So, so cold..."

"Faster, hero! We must get back to the Argent Vanguard and warn them of the impending attack!"

"There are hundreds of them! Maybe thousands! They will attack at any moment! I'm sure of it!"

"They're planning a huge attack! We need to warn Highlord Fordring!"

"Thank you, hero."

Comment by 78426

This quest doesn't seem to provide group credit with each drop unlike the similar Dragonblight Alliance quest. So if you're a dual-boxer or someone that plays with another, you'll both have to do this. Fortunately, it's only 3 :).

Comment by 174518

Quest name is reference to new Futurama movie

Comment by Whiterock

THE CRUSADERS' PINNACLE Quest Tree From Whiterock

N)Judgment Day Comes!{H}
1)Honor Above All Else
|_______________________________________________________________
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2)Scourge Tactics 2)Defending The Vanguard 2)Curing The Incurable
|_________________|____________________________________________|
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1)If There Are Survivors...
3)Into The Wild Green Yonder
1)A Cold Front Approaches
1)The Last Line Of Defense
2)Once More Unto The Breach, Hero {Death Knight special}
|___________________________________________________________________________________
| | | | |
3)The Scourgestone 3)The Purging Of Scourgeholme | 3)The Restless Dead |
| | | | |
3)The Air Stands Still 4)The Stone That Started A Revolution | 4)It Could Kill Us All
|_______________________________________________|___________|______________________|
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1)Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend
5)The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle-->5)The Crusaders' Pinnacle
6)A Tale of Valor |->The Skybreaker(A)*
5)A Hero Remains |->Orgrim's Hammer(H)*
7)The Keeper's Favor
7)Hope Within the Emerald Nightmare
6)The Boon of Remulos
5)Time Yet Remains
7)The Touch of an Aspect
7)Dahlia's Tears
6)The Boon of Alexstrasza
5)Hope Yet Remains
7)The Will of the Naaru
6)The Boon of A'dal
5)Light Within the Darkness
Quest Zones:
1)Argent Vanguard_____2)Valley of Echoes_____3)Scourgeholme_____4)Crystalsong Forest_____5)Crusaders' Pinnacle_____6)Silent Vigil_____7)Unique zone
N)Not-needed
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.

Comment by 200349

Oddly enough, these Skytalons will not take damage in your place like other vehicles.

Comment by 113958

Anyone else realise this quest was probably named after the movie of the same name, Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder?

Comment by 369602

For those that do not have coordinates...... DO NOT fly North as mentioned above. You will get dropped. Follow the road that goes NorthWest! This will lead you to the captives. :)

Comment by 301406

is it just me or is there no animation on the drake when u picked up a crusader?

Comment by 262088

While doing this quest, you can actually attack The Lich King, he has a bunch of adds around him, he doesnt seem to be able to turn around, so my Proto-Drake kept hitting him, when I got in front of him, he swung my proto drake vehicle for 115k. He also hit my while i was flying with a kind of frost attack, I will post the name as soon as I get the name of it. As soon as you dismount the drake though he disappears. 27.9mil health though, not bad

Edit: Ok back, when I was back on another proto drake, I went in without getting too close and he hit Me, not my proto drake with a ranged type of attack called Tendrils of Frost hitting me for 2.7k Frost damage, and his Frostmourne starts to glow, its so badass.

Comment by 450189

i abandoned it. i cant f*king pick up any and drop them off. time-wasting

Comment by 253672

Reference to the Futurama movie?

Comment by joker102877

**Multiboxers**

Slaves cannot simply get credit for being in the area when a Crusader is returned to the infirmary. Each account must pick up a Captured Crusader and return them to the infirmary to get credit.

Comment by Jatz

So action #3 I believe it was states that using it increases flight speed BY 385% (not TO 385%). Standard flight speed on this vehicle is +200% therefore according to the description activating that ability should increase flight speed to +770%.

Just a small detail but I really did want to see myself flying at roughly 8x speed. lol

Jatz: So where are the captives? I don't see them.
Green Dragon: At about 10,000 yards...
Jatz: Oh okay, we'll be there in no time.
Green Dragon: No... 10,000 yards behind us...
Jatz: Oh... Oops?

Comment by 472199

When using Soar the drake can bug out sometimes, freezing it's flight animation. It's rather odd.

Comment by 548256

Reference to the Futurama movie " Into The Wild Green Yonder"

Comment by 653072

Just fair warning, if you go near The Lich King while rescuing crusaders he WILL attack you. Just be careful near him.

Comment by 512576

This quest appears to be broken (at least for some players) as of 4.1.

Whenever I mount the proto-drake, all of the mobs (including the crusaders you're supposed to pick up) disappear. Sometimes they stay, but then I get the error message 'Out of Range' whenever I try to pick them up. To add to the confusion, on some attempts I can pick them up, but the bonfire you need to drop them off by randomly disappears so that you can't get rid of them. It seems to decide at random what problem you should have as soon as you mount up.

Additionally, I cannot dismount from the proto-drake. Trying to do so (either by using the dismount button or by right-clicking the buff on the top right corner) causes the controls to freeze temporarily. I can still dismount by waiting for the buff to wear off, or I can log off. When I log back in, I will appear at the nearest graveyard.

At first I thought this was addon-related, but all I have is DBM. I didn't need that for the alt I was leveling here, so I just disabled it, then restarted the game. No dice. This is probably the weirdest bug I have ever encountered in my history of playing the game.

EDIT: I think it's the pets! This bug was introduced in 4.1, and I've heard some people claim it's pet-related. I'm going to test to see if the new permanency of non-combat pets is screwing with the vehicle system.

EDIT: Nevermind. Dismissing pets seemed to change nothing for me.

Comment by 834213

I had the exact same bug and found that it was pet related. So I tried it this time, and since I am a hunter I dismissed my pet and was able to complete the quest. I believe the problem has to do with the control of the mobs you save and it controls them by utilizing pet functions. So I imagine that any class with a pet aka mage, lock, hunter, etc. would probably have this issue. Hope this helps.

Edit: Apparently I spoke to soon. Got to save 2/3 now its bugged again and not one mob in all of ice crown is visible to me.

Comment by 589559

I am sorry to dissapoint you kene52700 but i am a warrior and i have the EXACT same problem.. so i dont think its pet related s:

EDIT!
- i have now written a ticket to the GM about this, and i will post back if they have a solution for this problem.
2. EDIT!
- "The quest should work normally as far as we know, untill our developers find a bug, we can't really do anything about this issue"
he didnt even want to give me credit to the quest so i could get on with the questing in icecrown
because they haven't verified a bug yet even though the problem has been reported by a LOT of ppl..

- i hope this post helped, so you don't have to write to a GM!

Comment by lewagalikopaka

i also have the problem and i'm a druid i have only been able to get one and haven't gotten any more since idk if quiting the quest and getting bk will work or not i haven't tried that yet

just tried quiting and redoing i couldn't get a single one so i just wasted my time and have to try to get all 3 again instead of needing just 2 more

edit 6/22/11

i tried the quest again a few minutes ago and was able to get all the guys and turn it in idk if they fixed the prob or if i was having less lagg or something idk

Comment by 834471

I had experienced the same bug described above.

I found that dismissing any pets (including non-combat companions!) helped somewhat. Also, not using Soar, and passing between the Crusade camp into Scourgeholme via the Breach allowed me to complete the quest bug-free.

Not sure if it'll work for everybody, but it worked for me.

Comment by 722337

I spoke to a GM about an hour ago. The only workaround which "seemed" to work for some players was to lower your resolution and graphics to as low as possible.

The bug though has to deal with the vehicle itself (the dragon). While it appears you are moving, the system still thinks you haven't moved at all; this is why many of us don't see any mobs around.

The Development Team is working on this issue but the GM could not inform me of any specific date/time on when it'll be fixed.

I tried this workaround and managed to get 1 guy but as soon as I made it back to camp, I couldn't drop him.

Comment by V1100tor

I took the quest now, and i was going fine, got 2 guys save on camp, but at the time i was picking the 3th crusader, all mobs disappear, tried reloading the screen and nothing, lowering res and nothing, even exit the game twice and droping the quest, and nothing again, damn thing is i can't even leave the vehicle.
So im waiting the 15 mins it last and see what happend tomorrow.

Comment by 835000

Just finished this. They might have hotfixed it today during the rolling restart or try this tip. After failing a bunch of times, I did it this time to completion by never using Soar. Takes a bit longer but finished it without a problem.

Comment by 535505

Just tried this quest on my rogue. I was able to drop one off and pick up another, but no npcs, no bonfire, and unable to dismount. I never used soar. When the dragon wore off, I found myself at a random spot in a mountain nearby. I was able to go back and remount a dragon, (nps were again visible) pick up a new prisoner, drop him off and pick up and drop off the third. I staunchly followed the path through the Breach this time; not sure if that made the difference or not, but the quest IS still buggy.

Comment by 591586

I don't know if it's just a coincidence but something to try, I had the scourge area disappear when I was flying high so I decided to stay close to the ground the whole time, and was able to get 3 in a row, I used soar just fine. I didn't walk, just flew low and the npcs seemd to all load normally on both sides.

Comment by Weetzie00

Ditto. The first time I couldn't see any NPCs and had to log out to dismount. After reading this, I dismissed my companion and just stayed close to the ground. I used soar just fine and I didn't change my graphics.

Comment by 757836

I had the same issues as above, the first time i tried it it wouldnt let me pick up another soldier after the first and wouldnt let me dismount so i dropped the quest and relogged. The second time i didnt use soar and used the breach to get to Sourgeholm but after picking up 2 soldiers, all the npc's disappeared. I relogged again, ended up at the graveyard, went back and got another mount and was able to pick up the last soldier just fine. Don't drop the quest, just relog and it should work although you might have to do it 2 or 3 times.

Comment by batteredhilt2

YAY FREE TIME LOST PROTO DRAKES

Comment by emzyyx

It says to drop them off at the Vanguard Infirmary. I tried this, but you need to drop them at the front of the infirmary, next to the bonfire, at around 86:76.

Comment by 865677

This Quest is the 6th quest in the Argent Vanguard area when first starting in Icecrown.
This quest requires you to fly a Argent Skytalon ( Argent Skytalon ) across to Scourgeholme and rescue 3 Captured Crusader's and return them to Father Gustav.
It also gives a decent amount of experience when finished (27000xp) and is really fun.
And make sure to do it as quik as possible because With each minute that passes their chance of survival decreases.

Comment by 555434

I have done this quest a dozen times and I just noticed that the Lich King stands on the altar in the center of Scourgleholme during this quest. Needless to say, he stabbed me out of the air with one-shot... and then he disappeared.

Comment by 1086037

I like how the dragon carries the crusaders in the claws.
It looks very comfortable.

Comment by Crunchy101

You can pick up herbs whilst using this mount, handy!

Comment by Gimroth

Pride of the flight aside, this quest should really import some of those Proto drakes from the quest Cold Hearted in Storm Peaks. Those are able to carry four passengers (3 Brunnhildar Prisoners and you).

It would speed up this quest so much more...

Comment by Neffi

The title is probably a reference to the Futurama movie Into the Wild Green Yonder, which is itself a reference to a US Air Force song that mentions "into the wild blue yonder".

Comment by 1440987

Into The Wild Green Yonder http://youtu.be/-JP-LDZu9xg

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=ViLDsGRCAck

Comment by Boxofbeer

Into The Wild Green Yonder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etfRTcmpKBQ

Comment by allOf

Into The Wild Green Yonder https://youtu.be/6hKrCKViiEM

Comment by bobsjobisfob

tricked me again blizzard, congrats ya got me. you just love watching me fly back and forth to quest objectives dont you. and i know youre watching

Comment by selfady

Into The Wild Green Yonder quest
When I fly my new skytalon to the area at about 78, 66 and use #1 ability to save NPC's named Captured Crusader it doesn't hop into the dragon and stand on the ground.
If I press the #1 button once again I get error message "You are already carrying a captured Argent Crusade...".
Since in reality a carry nothing it is impossible to save the NPCs and complete the quest.

Comment by RobotNinja

I just spent 15 minutes trying to find the stupid Argent Skytalons. For anyone else that came here to figure out where they're at, go to 87,79.

Links

Into The Wild Green Yonder

Rescue 3 Captured Argent Crusaders from Scourgeholme and drop them off at the Vanguard Infirmary at the center of the Argent Vanguard. Report to Highlord Tirion Fordring should you succeed.

	Captured Crusader Rescued (3)

Description

We will do all that we can to assist you, <name>. The proto-brood have volunteered to fly you across the Breach and into Scourgeholme. Rescue any captured Argent Crusaders that you find. Return them immediately to the Vanguard Infirmary, located at the center of this base.

Choose one of the Argent Skytalons in the pen behind me and go!

Scourgeholme is located northwest, across the Valley of Echoes, through the great Breach.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Argent Crusade

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13045))