Quick Facts

Series

1.	Breach in the Defenses The Restless Watch
2.	Returning from the Pass
3.	The Endless Swarm
4.	Improvised Ammunition
5.	Cutting the Swarm
6.	Terror of the Dread Wastes
7.	Along the Southern Front
8.	Enraged By Hatred

Storylines
Townlong Steppes A Foot in the Door First Assault Running Rampant Perfect Pitch Seeing Red Pitching In Ranger Rescue Jung Duk In Search of Suna Dust to Dust Slaying the Scavengers Totemic Research Last Toll of the Yaungol What Lies Beneath Spiteful Spirits Hatred Becomes Us The Point of No Return A Spear Through My Side, A Chain Through My Soul The Torches Golgoss Arconiss The Death of Me Golgoss Hungers Arconiss Thirsts Orbiss Fades Mists' Opportunity Behind the Battlefront Unwelcome Intruders Breach in the Defenses The Restless Watch Returning from the Pass Treatment for the Troops Back on Their Feet The Endless Swarm Rummaging Through the Remains Improvised Ammunition Cutting the Swarm Terror of the Dread Wastes Along the Southern Front Enraged By Hatred Taking Stock Joining the Fight Up In Flames The Taking of Dusklight Bridge Joining the Hunt In Skilled Hands Hostile Skies Devastation Below Heroes of the Shado-Pan Buried Beneath Thinning the Sik'thik Taoshi and Korvexxis Lao-Chin and Serevex Nurong and Rothek The Sha of Hatred The Motives of the Mantid Set the Mantid Back The Wisdom of Niuzao Niuzao's Price The Terrible Truth Townlong Steppes A Foot in the Door First Assault Running Rampant Perfect Pitch Seeing Red Pitching In Ranger Rescue The Exile Jung Duk In Search of Suna Dust to Dust Slaying the Scavengers Totemic Research Last Toll of the Yaungol What Lies Beneath Spiteful Spirits Hatred Becomes Us The Point of No Return Treatment for the Troops Behind the Battlefront Unwelcome Intruders The Restless Watch Breach in the Defenses Trap Setting Returning from the Pass Back on Their Feet The Endless Swarm Rummaging Through the Remains Improvised Ammunition Thieves and Troublemakers In the Wrong Hands Cutting the Swarm Terror of the Dread Wastes Along the Southern Front Enraged By Hatred Taking Stock Joining the Fight Up In Flames The Taking of Dusklight Bridge Joining the Hunt In Skilled Hands Grounded Welcome Choking the Skies Hostile Skies Devastation Below Heroes of the Shado-Pan Buried Beneath Thinning the Sik'thik The Search for Restless Leng Taoshi and Korvexxis Lao-Chin and Serevex Nurong and Rothek The Sha of Hatred

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Comments

Comment by 95724

The Krik'thik Scentlayers don't aggro until you attack them.

Comment by Antilurker77

There's a bunch of them that pat just south of Scout Long. Throw a flare there and you shouldn't have to run around looking for them.

Comment by selvin

Note that the hunter's "track hidden" will reveal them on the minimap for a short distance around you.

Comment by slayer50513

A few facts:
The mantid are stealthed, but leave a long orange trail behind them.
Despite being marked as aggressive, they are passive and will only attack when they are assaulted first.
They can be one hit killed with the traps from this quest which you pick up at the same spot as this one.

So, to make this extremely easy, just look for an orange trail, arm a trap, then attack the mantid and run over the trap. Tada! +1 to this quest.

Comment by Guy19

Protip: attack a Krik'thik Scentlayer, then lure them into a set Shado-Pan Spike Trap for a 1 hit kill - thus getting Trap Setting & Breach in the Defenses very easily. Note that it seems to only kill one per trap.

Comment by 751881

I've found out that by following the small yellow dust-clouds along the ground, you can see a little scratch sometimes of the creature you're supposed to kill. If you have the sounds on as well, you can hear around your character, where the creature is going stealth. If you can go stealth, you can better attack from behind, or making a supprise attack on them. Or else, general track; watch for the yellow dusty-clouds along the ground.

Comment by Taliesen

You can follow the orange dust clouds around and use the flare the quest giver supplies to reveal them. Not all of them are followed by dust clouds. Alternatively, you can just run close to them and they will appear in stealth and become attackable. They will not aggro unless you attack them first.

For hunters, Track Hidden works as well as Flare. They are stealthed, not invisible.

Comment by Cropz

They kinda suck at this whole "stealth" thing huh.

Comment by pmff

A note for feral druids who have to shift out of cat form to use the flare, it's not necessary to get quest credit. It's a hassle to switch back and forth when you can just follow the obvious scent trails.

Comment by Ezmaralda

An easy way to do this is with the quest Trap Setting. Set the trap then lure the Scentlayers in to it = instant kill. When you have set all the traps, stand in the path leading to DW an wait for the orange trails, taunt and kill.

Comment by Celebriian

This is my 3rd time doing this quest. First on a Horde prot pally, then on a Alliance Blood DK, now on an Alliance prot pally. First 2 rounds of this quest, I died a lot due to being too far toward the mass amount of Mantid toward the Dread Wastes wall. Also watch for Basiliks there. I would use the flare, target, hit, and have mobs and mobs of Mantid all over me. On my 1st 2 toons, I'd find my body, rez, loot, and heal up, then move on to kill the rest. Who cares if you get the quest done, right? Death in WoW is temporary.

Now on my 3rd time doing this quest, I stayed close to where Taoshi and Mao (the quest givers) are standing....just where the fork in the path/road is behind them (you should hear rogue/druid like stealth sounds). Use the flare gun and tab-target, hit. The mobs are less there and you shouldn't die even in all green quest gear. Since I haven't tried this on a clothie yet, I can't speak for that experience (though that is next on my agenda), but I would assume using PWS on Priest or otherwise AOEing would work just fine even in quest gear at the location I described.

Comment by Praxidice

Surprised to not see this comment here so let me add it: These guys have a NASTY stacking bleed. You do not need to activate the flare, you can hit them with aoe damage. The point is, be careful if you're not a strong healing class. If you accidentally aoe a bunch of these guys that DOT can easily be the death of you. :)

Comment by 98367

Requires completion of Unwelcome Intruders to be seen.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Breach in the Defenses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKdd6NZXVOg

Comment by allOf

Breach in the Defenses https://youtu.be/C37ZRcutGhY

Links

Breach in the Defenses

Use the Shado-Pan Flare to aid in killing 10 Krik'thik Scentlayers.

	Krik'thik Scentlayer slain (10)

Provided item:

	Shado-Pan Flare (1)

Description

Normally, it only takes a few scouts to hold this pass. Most of this territory is in sight of the wall, so archers would devastate any mantid force attempting to push through here. The problem is, most of the archers are occupied with the onslaught at the gate.

Take this flare - it will help you locate the mantid that are sneaking through the eastern pass under our diminished watch. Kill any you find. We can't let them lay a trail that might lead the mantid swarms farther into the steppes.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Cache of Infinite Treasure

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

75 reputation with Shado-Pan

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(30888))