Quick Facts

Series

1.	Pay Attention!
2.	Buy Us Some Time Traveling on Our Stomachs Helm's Deep
3.	Girding Our Loins Finders, Keepers
4.	Bring It On!
5.	Blood and Thunder!

Storyline
Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse Call of Duty Sea Legs Pay It Forward Rest For the Weary Buy Us Some Time Traveling on Our Stomachs Girding Our Loins Helm's Deep Finders, Keepers Bring It On! Blood and Thunder! Better Late Than Dead The Abyssal Ride Gimme Shelter! Ain't Too Proud to Beg A Taste For Tail A Girl's Best Friend Can't Start a Fire Without a Spark Ophidophobia A Desperate Plea Oh, the Insanity! Dah, Nunt... Dah, Nunt... Shark Weak DUN-dun-DUN-dun-DUN-dun A Bone to Pick Decisions, Decisions Undersea Sanctuary Spelunking Debriefing Wake of Destruction Come Hell or High Water What? What? In My Gut...? Decompression The Warden's Time Across the Great Divide The Looming Threat Backed Into a Corner Rundown Silver Tide Hollow The Great Sambino Undersea Inflation Totem Modification Back in One Piece Vengeful Heart Fathom-Lord Zin'jatar Nespirah Making Contact Slave Labor Stick it to Them Capture the Crab Breaking Through We Are Not Alone Hopelessly Gearless Body Blows Still Valuable Overseer Idra'kess Waking the Beast Shelled Salvation Crafty Crabs Something Edible Caught Off-Guard Swift Approach An Occupation of Time A Better Vantage Upon the Scene of Battle Visions of the Past: The Invasion of Vashj'ir Reoccupation The Revered Lady To the Fathom-Lord's Call Built to Last Not Soon Forgotten Looking Forward Clear Goals Not Entirely Unprepared Properly Inspired Swift Action Fallen But Not Forgotten Gauging Success Visions of the Past: The Slaughter of Biel'aran Ridge By Her Lady's Word No Trespass Forgiven Stolen Property Chosen Burden The Culmination of Our Efforts Losing Ground Desperate Plan Hostile Waters Come Prepared Unfurling Plan Honor and Privilege Welcome News Visions of the Past: Rise from the Deep Her Lady's Hand At All Costs Devout Assembly Final Judgment A Breath of Fresh Air Full Circle

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Comment by 43396

This quest is NOT completed by killing naga. Instead, when Nazgrim says "We are... beaten. Escape if you can..." - abort fighting and swim up. There will be an untargetable naga who takes you to a new area, which completes the quest.

It is possible to go into a very long loop of wave after wave of naga with no effect. The quest can only end when you are abducted.

Comment by Hezkezl

Legionnaire Nazgrim yells: Thrall's balls! They're everywhere...

Interesting yell, first time I think I've ever seen any reference to Thrall's package in the game :P

Comment by ktc64

I just accepted this quest but it freaked out sadly and now I cant get it again. He did his little event thing and then everyone dove into the water. I followed and when i got outside i saw the naga for a split second but then everything despawned. Assuming if i abandoned the quest I could reset it, but doing so left me with no options =(

Comment by 238076

Currently, when you take this quest, do NOT jump into the water and swim out. Doing so will cause you to leave the correct phase and you cannot get back to it. Since you cannot get the quest again either, if you screwed up you will be stuck until it's fixed.

Also, do not turn in the quest Girding Our Loins (get the axes/armors/helms) after Finders, Keepers (find 5 alliance S.E.A.L. equipment). If you turn in Girding Our Loins, the phase changes because now the orcs are armed again. If you do this after you've started blood and thunder, or after you've turned in Finders, Keepers, but before grabbing Blood and Thunder, your phase will change, and you'll either not be able to complete the quest, or not pick it up, depending on the order.

Safest way to do it, turn in Girding, wait for the phase change, then turn in Finders. After the naga is dead, grab Blood and Thunder and just stand right there until you get abducted. You do not need to be in the water for this. If you accidentally leave the correct phase in any way, you will not be able to advance the vashj'ir quest line or get the seahorse.

Comment by Marloss

Upon completing this quest, you will swim to Shallow's End, where a new quest chain will start, starting on Better Late Than Dead.

Comment by 690923

Just so everyone knows, just sit there for a couple seconds.
The quest will register.

Comment by clavarnway

I couldn't get abducted by the Naga at the end of the quest until after I dismissed my pet. Your mileage may vary.

Comment by 713502

All u have to do is Get Abducted and wait for 5 to 10s Then It should work.

Comment by 223108

I'm starting to get really quite annoyed with this quest. I did it fine on my hunter - just floated around randomly killing mobs and then all of a sudden I got carried away by a naga and the quest completed.

Trying to do it on my DK is proving a pain, however. The waves of naga will not end, and I keep getting jumped by groups of 3-5 of them at a time. I tried swimming up to see if I could initiate the abduction, but all that happened was that I aggroed a nice, large group of the naga swimming up by the surface. The quest will NOT finish, I don't get abducted, and as of this writing, I have died 5 times because the naga all jump me and the NPCs don't take aggro.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but it's starting to drive me up the wall.

Comment by 682720

This quest is really tough as a fresh 80 with no gear! Especially if you're melee. I too kept getting swarmed by mobs, then when I finally got abducted they dropped me and I died. Had to re-do the whole lot. Really annoying!

Comment by 417100

Well, this has got to be the worst quest I have ever done. Never have I died so much. It bugged out for me a lot, constant resets, and whenever the naga did abduct me, I die from fall damage when I get dropped. I DIE FROM FALL DAMAGE UNDERWATER! How does that even WORK? And because I died, the quest won't register for me even if I stand still for a few seconds.

Comment by 738431

So...I thought that you actually had to fight during this fight, and between being overwhelmed multiple times, and dying from fall damage just before the quest ends, all of my gear is broken. I set my home to the Immortal Coil, and there seems to be nowhere to repair. Do I just have to creep along doing no damage, or is there somewhere I'm not seeing that I can get this problem taken care of?

I feel like a huge noob. Please help if you can!

Comment by 741925

There is something to fix your armor in one of the other boats, it's just a little anvil looking thing. I, also, am stuck in a permanent quest loop....I can't stay alive long enough to even try and get taken away and if I get to that point nothing happens. This is, without a doubt, the WORST quest that Blizz has EVER created. I have been working on this quest for 3 days and still I am stuck.

Comment by 741925

Ok....so seriously, I wandered around trying to find the boat to fix my armor and then had to go afk for like 15 mins and when I came back I had the quest completed...no fighting or anything.

Comment by 26280

I too got stuck in an endless loop. So I went to 7-11 to pick up some cigs and when I came back, it was completed. :)

Comment by Doomgrip

After you get abducted and dropped on the sea floor you should stay or even move closer to the Earthen Ring shaman that appears after a little while. Only then will your quest register as complete.

Don't swim away to pick a herb as I did in my first attempt to complete the quest putting me into a second round of the "endless" loop. Just stay calm and you should avoid getting into a "loop".

Comment by 17238

I think the best advice for fresh lvl 80 with lousy armors is that you stand behind the shaman and slightly under the sunken ship, at there you just need to fight one or two nagas and wait for your turn to be abducted and you need to be at least half hp to survive the fall UNDERWATER. oh blizzard...

Comment by itzmcnugget

What i did was, float in anger behind the shaman and check wowhead furiously, when i went back to try something I was already being abducted. -.-

Comment by 748687

Okey i've been stuck on this quest also and died 20-ish times on my mage alt. before i figured it out. Also as mentioned here before i had to deal with: UNDERWATER falling damage, phase resetting, overwhelmed by not aggro'd Naga's, etc.

As far as i could see it the quest consist of 2 encounter phases:
First phase is the encounter starts and after a while the Shaman NPC Erunak does his trick when called on.
Second Phase starts after that, but don't be standing at the entrance of The Immortal coil any more as 3 Naga's will swim to there and will gank you when on low gear or when alone. I was at the ground in Legion's Fate around coordinates 40.31. Than after a while yells are being made by the the Orc NPC's and being abducted by the Naga's and in time you too.

Just make sure you don't leave the phase or aggro any Naga during the encounter and you be fine as the fall damage is around +5k.

Hopefully this will help you, good luck.

Comment by 733170

The best way to do this quest while it's bugged is to sit tight inside of the underwater portion of the inside of the ship (I believe I was swiming above the ground). Due to LoS, the mobs will never aggro you, but you're apparently still in range of the event to make everything trigger properly. It didn't loop while I was sitting there, but as I've only done it once, mileage may vary.

After having the same massive problems everyone else has had, I sat myself down there and popped over to WoWHead to see if anyone had any tips on the quest, heard a naga punch me and tabbed over to the delightful scene of being absconded instead of butchered!

Comment by Tarudizer

As a warrior without much self healing, I had a lot of troubles with this quest. First attempt I died before I was done, because there were too many mobs attacking me at the same time, and the heal from victory rush was unavailable since we dont get exp from the mobs we kill. Second attempt I managed to survive but got to 4k health and died at the fall damage (really? underwater? what the hey?) at the end where the shamans rescue you. Lots of fun.

Edit: Third attempt! Couple naga's were left before the one naga that bumps you on the noggin then swims away with you appear. They hit me as he was about to do his thing, so I was left behind. Tried to swim there, that was way too slow. On to my fourth attempt.

Comment by 757766

i just completed this quest and all i did was swim out and stand on top of the boat, i was attacked by some naga but i just ignored them (after 6 tries of fighting i found being a pacifist worked lol)

Comment by 761072

This quest is not impossible!

Everyone else has given excellent advice about this quest - if you're having trouble with this quest, don't go and aggro a bunch of the Naga. Try to find a place that doesn't reset the quest every time you move there, and also allows for you to not get adds. Fortunately for me, I hearthed back home, repaired my entirely broken gear and threw on a tank set that I had from Wrath and I could tank everything fine on my DK in Blood tank spec.

The fall damage from this quest is about 7k, which is pretty dumb, but it's also not the first time I encountered it. In a quest after this - mounting the turtle - I encountered about 3500 damage from falling. GG Blizz.

Comment by Mage12322

ive died so ^&*!ing much on this quest....when does it END!

Comment by pudsley

It's amasing that with all their money and experience Blizzard is still incapable of fixing a few minor scripting errors.

Really, was this internally tested?

Anyway.... level 80 DK alt, wearing mainly level 78 crafted blues, IL226 epic helm, Titansteel Destroyer (ironically replaced this with a higher DPS one handed axe from the quests before this latest quest) I got murdered by these nagas repeatedly.

Armour all broken, the anvil inside the boat vanished and no way to repair my weapon (another oversight from Blizz) I was pretty irritated, tried standing inside or under the boat, the quest reset itself and looped at strange places.

In the end I found standing directly on top of the boat (as per someones suggestion) on the metal band at the apex of the upturned hull allowed the quest to continue to the end (one naga might attack from above but nothing any poorly equipped player cant handle).....however....

*****Put away your pet(s)!*****

The first time I did this I was almost in tears laughing when the Naga came and abducted my ghoul, ignored me and the quest started again, what a joke.

Second time with no pet out worked fine, all in all about 10 deaths, 10 resets and 1 pet abduction later I finished up.

Comment by 223204

THRALL'S BALLS!(##RESPBREAK##)16##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##

Comment by 147875

A frustrating and poorly written quest. I keep getting jumped by 2-4 Naga.

The fact that this one has gotten so many comments and complaints is telling.

Comment by 467680

Mine bugged out too so I just stood in the opening of the Immortal Coil looking down at the scene. After a while, the naga came and abducted me to continue the quest.

Comment by 179665

Lvl 80 Frost Mage - After dying over 12 times I finally stayed in the window opening to the left of the main door (from inside) until fight was over and then ventured out - had to fight off one naga and healed enough so that I survived the "kidnapping" to end the quest - I am now down to 50% durability - sure was fun... and a real waste of my time...

Comment by ithilethiel

IT NEVER ENDS!
i've tried everything and when they say we have to escape, the shaman kills every mob.. GAAH
c'mon! my sword's useless, 0/100....

it's so frustrating

Comment by 755036

This is the worst quest ever. If there was not Thottbot/wowhead for reference i would never have any chance of completing. Since you have to complete this quest before moving forward you are stuck. This is enough to consider quitting WOW. I have died so many times that I am up to two minute wait before I can resurect. My gear is zero. I have six eighties so I am not new to the game. THIS SUCKS!

So with that said the way I got through it was stay just inside the ship underwater when you hear the retreat swim just outide that way you have full heath and get taken. An hour of my life I will never get back lol

Comment by Aluminum

Someone should lose their job for this quest, for the total failure in testing the design, making it required and worst of all the total failure to fix it for months.

Ruining average horde advancement in this zone worldwide, good job.

Comment by imjc

When you get dropped, after the abduction, just wait. Dont go back. It will complete eventually (1-2 mins max).

Comment by 779227

In my opinion, the best way to do this quest is by not doing it. If you sit there trying to get it to work you're just gonna get frustrated and probably make it take longer.

Best way to do this quest = find a hinding spot inside/under the boat where you won't aggro anything, then go afk for 15 minutes and come back to a completed quest.

Comment by 787222

I must have died 8 times doing this quest. I died under mobs of naga until every piece of my armor was destroyed, my gun was destroyed, and I gave up trying to rez my pet. After hearthstoning to Org I repaired (at 30 freaking gold), and then portaled back. I stayed on the ship where it had ported me while I looked up this thread. When I went back to the screen, it had apparently completed the quest and had transported me to the new quest chain. Go figure!

Comment by 786683

This quest won't work for me. I got abducted the first time I swam up and I had to low hp at the moment, and I died when he was caring me. Now I've been trying to get abducted for about 20 minutes, they swim at me then despawn what do I do?

Comment by 790746

THIS IS IT!

I died many time and then just stayed in the boat out of the battle looking up a solution on this forum. I was abducted while in the air chamber - taken away and when the naga was killed I just stood there. I got credit and then accepted the next quest. The secret is to do absolutely nothing. You might have to go outside but not sure on that.

Comment by Atrumara

What is wrong with the guys at Blizzard do they even try? Retarded quest.

Comment by 759727

At first I was having trouble completing the quest. I was fighting a naga when randomly all of the orcs disappeared. I went back inside the boat to look for them, they weren't there so I decided to hop on Wowhead and check for a solution. While I was looking on here, I looked back at my WoW screen and I phased to the correct place, not sure what happened. I guess I just got lucky

Comment by Sunweaver

This quest is still experiencing similar issues as stated above. Have just started out in Vashj'ir & it took several deaths and over half an hour to get kidnapped. I was eventually kidnapped whilst writing a GM ticket standing in the ship's alcove by the stairs ^^;

Comment by 789021

go hyjal!

Comment by britters

If you never get this to work. Disband party. Blizzard's use of phasing sucks balls.

Comment by Giannita

After 30 minutes i finally got kidnapped............................. by 3 nagas <.<

Just kill the nagas that are attacking you and you should be fine

Comment by Whiterock

In order to getPay Attention! you must completeGirding Our Loins before acceptingHelm's Deep.
Better Late Than Dead andThe Abyssal Ride are NOT needed to takeGimme Shelter! and followups, however that would make you unable to getGood Deed Left Undone.
Lady La-La's Necklace have 0% drop chance beforeOphidophobia done and 100% after, however anyone can share you this quest as long as you are 80+lvl.
Anyone can takeVengeful Heart and do it's followups as long as they are 80+lvl. Quests above are NOT needed for it.

<<Feedback here, please>>

Comment by Qienna

First time I tried it it didn't work because I didn't swim up, then I seemed to be stuck on an endless loop that kept resetting halfway through. I swam up and floated around looking for answers on Wowhead when I noticed I'd been kidnapped :)

Comment by poarro

Instructions:
After you get the quest, just go outside the boat together with the NPC's. They will fight against many naga, stay with them, maybe you have to wait until the next group of naga attack.
You can just stay on the flood for a while. They will aggro and CAPTURE you, so the quest will complete.

Comment by 297139

Yet another completely screwed up quest by Blizzard.
When does Rift come out again?

Comment by dasbaum

Quest works fine, but is still a pain in the ass.

If you have trouble seeing Nazgrim, just abandon the Quest and zone out of Vash'jir (heartstone) to reset your phasing layer.

Get back accept the quest. You don't even need to kill any Naga, simply attack one of them and keep a low profile, so you don't die.

When he is screaming something about, fighting and dieing in honor blah blah, swim in front of him and little higher, don't stay on the ground. As I've seen that there are 2 or 3 scripted Naga that swim by at the end of the battle that will take you away. You probably need to be in proximity to those to be taken or something.

Worked for me on the first try after I've seen those.

Comment by Zariell

Impossible quest for under geared warriors. Killing the Naga does not reward experience and therefore does not allow you to use victory rush to heal yourself. Fighting 3-4 guys with 36k health at a time while you have a petty 20k is ridiculous.

After dieing 3-4 times I eventually said &*!@ it and just sat in the boat where after a few minutes I was captured by a naga without having to do anything

Comment by harriaal

Quest still bugged, endless reset loop after the leader yells "Shaman, make yourself useful!"

Comment by 709274

for those of you having problems with this quest resetting on you. this is my second trip into this quest and i found standing ontop the boat by the metal pieces will trigger the quest to advance properly

Comment by martykiller

ok so I started this quest ant noting happen now I abandoned it and swam back to quest givers position but he is gone so I cant restart the quest :s what do I need to do ? :(

Comment by 341049

I think I've discovered the cause of this bug. It appears to be caused by changing forms (for example, when I was dropping out of shadowform to heal). When you do this, the entire event will reset to the beginning. After I realized this, I just stayed in shadowform and was abducted within 1 minute of starting. (I'm not sure, but it could also be ANY of your buffs changing that causes it to reset. It would require more testing that I am NOT leveling another toon to 80 to do.)

Comment by Metricc

this quest is so stupid. i think i have just spent an hour dying and trying to "kidnapped" or whatever. but i finally found something that worked. when they were battling, i just went to the top of the water and i finally got kidnapped. the quest didn't complete the first time so i went back to the shipwrecked boat and they were STILL battling. so i went to the top of the water AGAIN, they kidnapped me again, and the quest finally completed. really aggravating quest.

Comment by 82411

And after dying countless of times in combat, and being rammed into the ground and dying.

"Greetings, friend.
It is good to see you that you survived your battle in one piece."

Comment by Darthvixen

will get totally wiped by 4 naga every time with my current death knight. never happened on 8 alliance toons and the one other blood elf i took thru vashjir. before this.

Comment by gemanoma

I hate this quest.

Comment by 807334

this quest is ridicilous!
After looping and looping, i stayed inside the ship, tired of dying all the time. ANd while i was standing there, the friendly naga came and carried me away.... lol.....so the quest got finished at last

Comment by 01nicolaj

Note after your abducted and get saved dont swim back i did that and were going to fight 7 waves again. Follow the guys which saves you.

Comment by rowaasr13

"For the Horde!" is now officially too 2000. "Thrall's Balls" is a new, much better warcry for the Horde.

Comment by darkcrystal23

this is the worst quest ever done have been waiting 2 hours to be abducted still havent been also abandoned it to re do it and im still waiting

Comment by 734972

This quest has got to be the most annoying one in the game if you are solo. Playing as a disc healer, and using my shadow offspec to dps quests (so I can get my seahorse and find the gd entrance to the first dungeon so I can continually dungeon instead of quest through cata) has been a little difficult but not too bad. Until this quest.

I find myself running out of mana CONSTANTLY. First I flat out dps'd mobs but could only take a few before I was out of mana. Most of the time I was in combat so I couldn't drink. Using shadowfiend, disperse, and hymn of hope as much as I could was okay, but I was not able to dps continually like I wanted too without fear of the quest resetting. So I sat back and just mind blasted mobs, which kept my mana pretty level until my cd's were up, for 25 minutes.

I gave up and wrote a ticket. 5th toon going through cata quests, I really don't care about the story line at this point.

Comment by 739777

can't get this thing to work, been treing for more than half an hour and yet i keep getting put out of combat or not getting abducted... what now?

Comment by 249020

I'm now going on 47 ...yes FOURTY SEVEN....minutes of fighting naga, not fighting naga, standing, standing on my head with my nose pinched and doing the hookey pokey, and doing EVERY single FREAKKING THING suggested in this post and nothing. NOTHING.

Comment by 323757

This quest still seems to be bugged and i talked to a GM and their advice was to check wowhead.com. I was waiting for over an hour and still it is not fixed. It seems like we are now forced to quest in Hyjal.

Comment by Myuk

is it bugged now or something? kept killing naga's for 15 mins with a Shadow Priest, but they just kept spawning..

Comment by 918684

Quest is bugged. Was trying for over an hour. gm flagged as complete to help me out

Comment by 593337

Tried for a while last night and nothing was advancing so I opened a ticket. When I logged in this morning, here's the response:

This is an issue that our dev team is aware of and are looking to correct as quickly as possible. In the meantime, I have marked the quest as completed for you and moved you to Erunak Stonespeaker to allow you to turn it in easier.

Comment by 909239

A hotfix went out for this quest last night but it seems that the quest is still broken. They're working to resolve this so it should be fixed very soon.

Comment by Rodderz

This is the second bugged quest I've found in as many days and both bugs involved triggering of cutscene events, Cold Hearted and now this one. I don't know how widespread the issue is, but surely something like this would be picked up in regression testing. Well I'm refusing to quest in Hyjal again (would be the fourth time through) so I'm just going to tread water for a while.

Comment by DraconisAerius

This quest is still bugged. Been here for an hour with nothing working to make the quest move forward. Ticket time remaining: 5 Days 4 Hours. That's redonkulous.

Ticket now answered, 3 hours later. And now I can't move on anyway because the stupid thing won't let me select any og the quest rewards. Relogging does nothing, turning addons off does nothing. Bloody stupid thing. 4.3 didn't even do anything to this zone, how the hell did it break this quest so badly?

Comment by Lunarine

As of 4.3.0 patch, the quest is currently broken despite attempts to try and complete it.

Comment by 919757

I had to post a ticket with Blizzard, and the GM got me past it. He explained it is a known problem with the looping, and they are working on fixing the problem. So I suggest, for those of you stuck in the loop, to post a ticket, and they will get you past.

Comment by 919266

I did post a ticket....waited 4 days....came back and my ticket thing was gone and I received no reply and my quest still isn't completed. Sigh.

Comment by windjammer72

as of 4.3 and on 12/7/11, this quest still does not work. The annoying thing is, you cannot progress through the zone when bugs like this happen. It really makes me mad.

Comment by 794338

I have done this quest on two other toons before (a mage and a death knight) and do not remember it taking anywhere near this long. I have abandoned this quest after reading all the previous comments and hope Blizzard fixes this soon as I would really like to do this quest line on my new troll druid. I noticed some of the same things others noted - wave after wave of naga and after something like half an hour I was like wtf and that's when I came here (I didn't remember it taking anywhere NEAR that long on my other toons when I leveled THEM to 85)..... and I am disappointed that it would appear that whatever bug everyone is talking about is still apparent. I hope they fix it soon.... I would really like to finish this quest.

Comment by 917375

This quest is fixed following the rolling restarts today.

Comment by 716949

Thursday December 08, 2011, 4.3 glitched this quest! GM Ticket resolved to state the following regarding Blood and Thunder not allowing people to progress in the zone. Bollucks.

__________________________
Errinithal
Customer Service Representative
Greetings,

Thank you for contacting us about your issue. We have gone ahead and looked into this for you and we can let you know you were right in your assumption that most of vashir is bugged right now. The zone hit a huge snag with patch 4.3. It is pretty much broken so bad that we have to suggest not even attempting anymore quests in the zone until we fix it all up. We will be sure to make a huge announcement about it once it is all fixed up.

We do apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you, however we hope this helps clear everything up for you so know what was happening,

===============================

Thanks again for letting us help you out. Hope that you have a fantastic time playing!

Best of luck to you,

Game Master Errinthal
World of Warcraft
www.blizzard.com/support
___________________________________________

Comment by H4wT

The Quest as been fixed with the lastest HotFix 4.3.0.15050.

You just need to abandon it (if not already done) wait for the shaman(NPC) to kill all naga and retake the Quest right after. After 1 or 2 minutes the quest event is finish and you have been taked away by a Naga.

And all the Quest in Vashir Zone are now fully working.

Comment by windjammer72

UPDATE 12/8/11: This seems to work now. I deleted the quest, left the zone. Went back and accepted it (they were still fighting), and a few minutes later got abducted and completed.

The quest line now progresses.

Comment by 794338

Update: it seems they fixed it. Went back to the area and when I picked the quest back up it reset and proceeded into the escape sequence. So working again! Yay! Druid swim form rocks out here. LOL

Comment by 924636

Got killed. Decided to hide in the ship and then read through the comments. When I went back I was at a new destination. I did nothing and it worked!

Comment by Hierotheus

ATTENTION!

I found this quest to be a really big problem in 4.3, but after several deaths and alot of time, I finally found THE SOLUTION!

My quest kept looping, at the point where we fight nagas, and Legionnaire Nazgrim keep yelling "They swarm us, shaman! Make yourself useful!".

I tried Wowheading it, and tried to combine some of your answers.

here you have it...
Hope it helps you.

http: //i.imgur.com/mca49.jpg

Do as described on the picture, and you will be picked up by a naga, which will finish the quest.

Comment by 717301

So as for 4.3.0 i managed to complete the quest without any heirloom, being a warrior arms.
First try to catch the aggro of only ONE mob, (in my case two meaning death).
If not repeat.
You should survive with enough health to survive the fall >.>.
now this (let me say) difficulty in the (mob killing/ mob´s damage) is a very arguable point in the fact given that the transition between vanilla-bc; bc-wrath is veery very easy.
and all of a sudden this quest is nearly imposible.
I know that i could simply go defensive stance,rend,thunderclap, and pray for the quest to finish.
But... as far as i know this is not done intentionally (so that we could come up with some kind of strategy to play it better....NO!).
This is just neglect and they all of a sudden forget that people "well equipped" happen to be patches ago.
Now the fact of falling underwater at the end of the quest is just the "cherry at the top".
Please Blizzard this is an importatn mission dont abandon it.

I finally found MY problem with this quest, and it was the lack of equipment. :D
when i get my first weapon of questing all of a sudden the game became as easy as always -.-.
So maybe they should give a little help in this quest by giving some quest equippment before doing it.

by the time i completed the quest i was 13k health AND even by doing dungeons (through my leveling) i was unable to get better equip by that point.

Comment by Rasztra

HOW TO COMPLETE THIS QUEST:

When the event starts, do not stand in the ship, under the ship, or above the ship like other people have stated. Instead, stay on the opposite side of the event from the ship, standing on the ground. There are some pieces of long, thin ship debris on the ground -- stand on one of those. The event will start and the raiders will come. Don't attack anything. You should be in a place where you hopefully don't get any aggro. If you do, just let it hit you... don't kill it if you don't have to. Just keep standing there and watching. Eventually, you will see "Stand your ground! Fight!" That is a good thing, and they are going into the abduction phase of the quest. When you see this, swim closer to the center of the battle. Stay put there until he yells "We are beaten, escape if you can!" Then swim up about 15 feet. A raider will spawn out of nowhere, hit you a few times, then abduct you.

The key is to be in a place that will not bug the raider that spawns to capture you. If you are under the ship, it will bug. If you are inside the ship, it will bug. If you are too far away from the event, it will bug. If you see "Shaman, make yourself useful!" and the shaman does his lightning attack, the quest has bugged and you were standing in the wrong place.

Comment by 935728

What a ridiculous quest.

after spending 2 hours trying to complete this my router crashed and i got disconnected. logged back in sat at shallow's end.

Blizz we love you, why do you do this to us?

Comment by 6877

I had the same problem many here have had. Multiple deaths, with no luck. Here is my advise. Stay in the boat where you are not in the water. Let them go out and fight stay in the ship where you first got the quest. I was there tabbed out reading this thread when I was abducted and taken to the right spot.

STAY IN THE BOAT.. this worked for me. But yes, most annoying and frustrating quest I've ever been apart of.

Comment by 824521

I am pleased to report that I was able to complete this quest today, January 16, 2012.
I could not complete it approximately a month prior, and none of the suggestions on this page helped.
There were three things that changed: a new patch since I last attempted this, I was 2 levels higher, and I was grouped with an 85 guildy who was phased and could not help.

Comment by 939947

Stupidest. Quest. Ever. I've been snatched my naga about 12 times, and the quest hasn't been completed. I even tried to go up, as seen in the comment below. Nothing works. I haven't died, as everyone else has, but the quest WON'T complete. I hope they fix this, as NOTHING works.

Comment by Aquifel

Did this one today, took 23 minutes altogether, i killed naga for about 4 of those minutes, then went and sat on top of the boat, and watched TV for awhile, after another 19 minutes, i got the 'We are Beaten' message and they abducted me, quest complete :D.

Comment by darkpowrjd

Just did this as a 80 Fire Mage.

The key to this is not get aggroed by too many naga. Doing so will overwhelm you and you'll die, making the phase have to reset (in other words, you cannot wipe at any time during this quest). Stand at the other side of the battlefield, opposite of the ship, to get the least amount of naga aggroing you (maybe one or two; three will be way too much for a clothie to handle, and they do hit hard).

Here's the trick to this: do NOT attack the naga with anything. Mages are known for big DPS, and if you hit too hard, the naga will ignore anyone else. This is because Naz will come in after killing his mobs to help you out. You MUST LET HIM PICK UP THREAT or else you WILL die, which causes the loop (the loop seems to happen from the wipes, which perhaps is the problem from this quest: too many mobs with too few NPCs to pick them up). Use any survivability CDs you have (I used Ice Block and Mana Shield). The event becomes easier to survive the more you successfully get to the final part.

When Naz says to retreat, DO SO. Swim up, and the naga will abduct you, thereby ending that part of the quest. However, you need about 5k more health because of when the Shaman rescues you, you'll take some damage. It could be fall damage, which makes no sense. However, it's also possible it could be from the actual explosion of the naga (remember the guts that fly from the naga when the Shammy blows them up?) or collateral from the actual Shammy attack. Either way, it may not be fixed because it may be an intentional act from any of those attacks (though if it IS fall dmg, it has to be fixed).

Anyway, it will help if you do EXACTLY what Naz says except for the fighting part. Use defensive/survivability CDs, let the NPCs do the fighting, aggro as few Naga as possible since they hit hard and can overwhelm you quickly, and retreat when he says to. Whatever you do, DON'T DIE!

Comment by 976613

Here are 2 ways to 100% beat this awkward quest. 1 of which works...the other well...lol.
1st way port somewhere else or somehow have 1 dude go hulk and tank all naga then take aggro and near death you should be swept away (unfortunately due to the near death thing you will probably die...I did =P) or simply take on the non quest naga =). Take the ones roughly over the boat and just chill there gaining some extra exp and coins and wait for your bad selfs to get all body snatched and junk. (by the way I did it in that order lol...plus I was only like il225 or so and DPS spec...you may fair better with tank, but either way, the point is to lose but not fail ><) IDK if this is better than sitting on the boat I just felt useless there and these naga started coming at me...so I just started mowing them down....then after a min or so I was snatched. I was worried too that I had further glitched it after getting snatched then dying before quest was over was really why I threw that tid-bit in there.

Comment by 344501

This is my second character through the quest line, and the first time I found it glitched.
After several waves of Naga and no hope of an end, I tried Loudmutes suggestion and sat just inside the ship but still underwater. On the second wave I was abducted.

Comment by znaszger

OK guys found out wat 2 do so please read this:
for the Q Blood and Thunder! all u have 2 do is kill as many naga as u can... this will make them come alot and @#$% and 1 tip: try NOT 2 pull that many, cuz sometimes the pulled nagas will follow u and kill u after The Earthen Ring has killed the Naga Escorting u. well wen uve killed many then there will come a message that goes like this "Fight like the orcs you were born to be! Theres no retreat!" then u know uve completed the part then the dudes will say more $%^& and u "try to escape" but so sadly for you, u dont. u get taken away and the earthen ring help's u...

so thats all, but if ur an lazy ass and dont want 2 read the %^&* i just spended time on writing ill put it on dots ;)

kill as many naga's as u can as fast as u can (renember dont pull 2 many!)
as soon as legionnaire nazgrim yells "Fight like the orcs you were born to be! Theres no retreat!" then just swim upward and try 2 survive
then get stunned and then get escoreted
Earthen Ring helps u, and u fall 2 the ground
go to the clams and %^&* theres like... to ur right
if the dudes r not there... dont worry :) just wait a little (some seconds)
complete the Q and gj and gz
if the dudes do not come after a period of waiting go back and do the process again
gl!

hope this helped u :) plz thums up this comment since that many ppl r having prob's with this Q :)
beforehand ty and have a good day :)

Comment by Martika

GRRR. Did this on an alt having had NO issue on my main; went through the process, got kidnapped and draggeda way by the naga, and dropped...and then no NPCs were waiting for me on the other end. Are you SERIOUS?

Comment by 1001588

this quest doesn't work ... i should have gone to mount hyjal i would have been lv82 by now.

Comment by ritalyn

after wiping on this many times trying many different tactics explained here... This is what worked for me.

as a mage lvl 80. I got the attention of 3 ( think 1 will do) and kited him around and around the area. he was ALWAYS attacking me and not another NPC. that seems to keep the role play flowing and as long as you can take a few thousand damage by the end of the role play you get picked up then dropped then you walk a short distance following your saviors.

worked for me ...good luck

Comment by sandra361

This is one of the most frustrating quests I have ever done. First I kept aggro-ing mobs and dying. Then after reading all the comments here, I tried doing exactly what was suggested and the naga finally picked me up...only to get dropped off and there were no NPCs and the quest didn't complete. Had to abandon the quest and try again, now no matter where I stand the naga doesn't even grab me. I keep abandoning the quest to retry it with no luck.

ALL I WANT IS TO COMPLETE THE QUEST :(((

/endrant

Comment by Ezick

Just complete.

After loops i just killed one naga and hide inside Ship (within water not above) and while reading comments it is compeleted itself :P

Comment by 1077400

Died at least 18 times attempting to take on this quest. Of course this was due in part to me not knowing that I WAS NOT supposed to attack the swarms of Naga halfway through my venture in the undertaking of it.
Finally almost got abducted when I figured out I was supposed to not draw aggro, and swam upward (a bit prematurely I'm afraid) since I didn't wait for the correct quote to be spoken before I did so. I of course died since I was then attacked by multiple naga before the abducting naga showed up. The cycle continued about 4-5 more times without the abductor showing himself and the Shaman killing everything dead with the lightening attack. I'm guessing now that the location of your toon definitely determines whether or not the bug occurs.
I finally finished the blasted quest after standing next to a guard way off to the left from the commander and clear of the ship.. beat up two naga and was finally abducted. Thank you Blizzard for a quest with frustratingly unclear instructions and ensuing bugs throughout. I certainly hope that the bugs can be worked out of this area soon!

Comment by Elirai

After you talk to Nazgrim to receive the quest, DO NOT LEAVE THE SHIP. If you just sit inside and wait there, only one Naga comes and attacks you per wave. I discovered this after fighting and dying for a good 30 minutes and just decided to hide. It's survivable even if your armor is pretty weakened from dying multiple times. Once Nazgrim announces his "We're beaten ... escape if you can." quote, wait a few seconds before leaving the ship so the attacking Naga have time to clear out/target other NPCs. Then my abductor showed up. :)

THRALL'S BALLS!

Comment by Tadewing

Completed by AFK'ing inside boat.

Comment by zn4rf

Just completed this quest on an alt, so if Nazgrim yells that you should try to escape then you should try to swim away and you will be kidnapped by a naga.

Comment by devidinio

So, after fighting those damn Naga's for over half an hour I think I figured it out. You gotta listen to what Nazrim has to say. When he says to escape if you can, DO SO!
Just swim away, and one of the fleeing Naga will take you and abduct you. And so, the quest got completed.

Comment by 1374013

Blood and Thunder https://youtu.be/HQd8jBeoJvo

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=fXzdkiyZTdE&feature=youtu.be

Comment by bigunde

A video of the quest Blood And Thunder!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbQqKXKruTM

Comment by Yaldrik

Trying to do this at lvl 100 to get to the quest that gives the seahorse mount so that itll be easier to get search for ghostcrawler. Stupid Quest just keeps repeating over and over again

Comment by littlekeloid08

Irrelevant to this quest, but the eye findings for central retinal vein occlusion are always described as "blood and thunder." So whenever that diagnosis comes up when I study, I read it in a deep orc voice.

Comment by cowchops

After running back to do this again and the objective repeatedly not completing, I finally just waited after they took me away and I got credit. If you run back, you will not get credit apparently.

And as always, when they start yelling things about too many being there, stop fighting. Soon, one will fight you and transport you to a new area. Good luck, hope this helps.

Comment by Taurenmoo814U

This quest is so flawed.

If your a healer and can heal up right after combat, your be fine, but classes that can't heal quickly in or out of combat, like a mage or hunter without the right talent, then your in trouble, because if you've been taking damage during the last portion of the fight, but haven't healed up enough, once that naga at the end grabs you and drag you, when you releases you upon being killed, your take 20% fall damage (despite being underwater).

This is a flaw blizzards never fixed, why fall damage? And if you die here, like my fire mage did, you need to repeat the whole bloody thing.

Comment by Melkekartong

Worst Q I've ever done..

Comment by sallypantsiscool

I was abducted 4 times, but I kept swimming back so I didn't complete the quest. I was finally able to complete the quest when I just stayed in the location I got dropped off after being abducted.

Comment by jzkalika

The first time I did this despite being kidnapped the complete symbol '?' did not appear for me... Seems it may because I swam in the wrong direction after being dropped.

On attempt #3 I got kidnapped, some people appear to kill the naga, I get "dropped" to the ground, and immediately followed the people who saved me staying as close to them as possible. When they stopped swimming the '?' seems to appear correctly and I was able to finish the quest.

Comment by Amrom

For all those having trouble doing this Quest:

Stay defensiv, only attack those Naga coming directly at you.
If you are actually standing on the seafloor, you can eat - do it.
As soon as Legionnaire Nazgrim yells "We are... beaten. Escape if you can..." do so.
'-> Head south east as fast as you can, and stay above 30% HP, till you get snatched by a Naga.
I suffered around 27% fall damage when I got droped.

If you do not try to run away you will not get snatched by a Naga and just get overwhelmed by spawning Naga till you die. So run.

After you got droped, follow those NPCs.

Comment by venjur

So, I find it a little funny, that all these years later, this quest is still buggy as hell, and I had to ram my head into it for about 10 minutes with multiple deaths to get it to trigger right... /joy

Comment by Qisa

If you're coming back to do this quest as a high-level character, your instinct may be to just mass kill the naga over and over. If you do this, they will just keep coming in waves and the quest will never progress. When Nazgrim calls for a retreat, follow him south and you'll be grabbed by a naga. After some brief roleplay the quest will complete.

Comment by Dyzdaemar

There are 2 Nazgrims in the ship and neither will take my quest even though i have abandoned it and redone it...

Comment by favebook

Don't be a smart ass and mount up while waiting for more mobs to spawn, you will be forced to redo the whole fight as friendly mobs will despawn (phase out) and you will receive "You are mounted" error.

Comment by therealtrogdor

"Thrall's balls! They're everywhere!"

- Legionnaire Nazgrim

Comment by bwoody75

High level tips:

It's more about time than kills... I killed casually out of boredom waiting and eventually he yells "Escape if you can..." I had Nazgrim and Erunak marked with target markers so I could follow them. When you swim in the direction they go, you will get picked up by a Naga and carried along.

When the naga stops and drops you (because your NPCs shoot it) immediately get close to them and follow them. The first time I did it, I stopped for an herb and the quest turn in never showed up... and the second time I did it, I swam ahead and must have gotten too far and it glitched again...

If it glitches for you and the NPCs don't show up for turn in, go back to the boat to the northwest. For me, when I got back to the boat Nazgrim and crew were back there fighting nagas again, without having to abandon and restart.

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Blood and Thunder!

Assist Legionnaire Nazgrim in the defense of The Immortal Coil.

	Defense of The Immortal Coil Complete (1)

Description

The time has come to make our stand, <race>.

We'll defend this ship to our last breath, and make these naga scum think twice before approaching it again!

For the Horde!

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Schooner-Savior's Grips			Bracers of Breached Integrity
	Hood of the Shuffled Coil

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(25949))