Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Underneath
2.	The Tortured Earth
3.	Eating Damnation
4.	Shattering the Veil
5.	Gurok the Usurper

Storyline
Nagrand Do My Eyes Deceive Me Not On My Watch! Mo'mor the Breaker The Ruins of Burning Blade The Twin Clefts of Nagrand Diplomatic Measures Solving the Problem Stopping the Spread Murkblood Invaders Ortor My Old Friend... The Totem of Kar'dash HELP! Corki's Gone Missing Again! Message to Telaar Corki's Ransom Cho'war the Pillager Missing Mag'hari Procession War on the Warmaul Finding the Survivors Cho'war the Pillager The Impotent Leader Don't Kill the Fat One Success! Because Kilrath is a Coward Standards and Practices Bleeding Hollow Supply Crates Message in a Battle An Audacious Advance Diplomatic Measures Message to Garadar Vile Idolatry The Missing War Party Murkblood Leaders... Once Were Warriors He Will Walk The Earth... The Totem of Kar'dash Armaments for Deception Ruthless Cunning Body of Evidence Returning the Favor Survey the Land Buying Time The Master Planner Patience and Understanding Crackin' Some Skulls It's Just That Easy? Forge Camp: Annihilated WANTED: Giselda the Crone WANTED: Zorbo the Advisor WANTED: Durn the Hungerer WANTED: Giselda the Crone WANTED: Zorbo the Advisor WANTED: Durn the Hungerer The Ring of Blood: Brokentoe The Ring of Blood: The Blue Brothers The Ring of Blood: Rokdar the Sundered Lord The Ring of Blood: Skra'gath The Ring of Blood: The Warmaul Champion The Ring of Blood: The Final Challenge The Underneath The Tortured Earth Eating Damnation Shattering the Veil Gurok the Usurper The Howling Wind Murkblood Corrupters A Rare Bean Agitated Spirits of Skysong Blessing of Incineratus The Spirit Polluted Clefthoof Mastery Clefthoof Mastery Clefthoof Mastery Windroc Mastery Windroc Mastery Windroc Mastery Talbuk Mastery Talbuk Mastery Talbuk Mastery The Ultimate Bloodsport Matters of Security Gava'xi A Visit With the Greatmother Material Components To Meet Mother Kashur The Agitated Ancestors A Visit With The Ancestors When Spirits Speak A Secret Revealed Auchindoun... What the Soul Sees Return to the Greatmother The Inconsolable Chieftain There Is No Hope

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Comment by 1633

Use the rock provided by Gordawg to shatter the Shattered Rumblers. 2 to 3 Minions of Gurok will spawn. If you stay at range, they will not aggro and can be pulled individually.

Comment by 13498

They are near Kill Sorrow Fortress , around 62 81

Comment by 15629

At 37, 82 below Oshu'gun there are many Shattered Rumblers. The minions are level 64 with very little health and easy to kill.

Comment by womanizor

Best loc is 38, 81. Just at the edge.

Comment by 16172

38,81 is spot on.

Comment by Furion12

Confirmed at 38, 81 the little guys are easy to take out, stand at a range of about 15-20 yards when you toss the boulder, 2-3 of them will spawn for druids and rogues, after tossing it if you did not aggro the little guys.

You will get out of combat after about 5 seconds to stealth, they're easy to take out, and all of them should be handled with little problemsi would like to recommend doing this quest with matters of security, the voidspawn quest, they spawn in the area as well, just to the north a bit.

Comment by Vollana

You don't have to go that far. Just exit Telaar from the west entrance and go around the foothills below Telaar. Did my quest in about 20 minutes.

Comment by 10283

49,71 also just right from Telaar.

Comment by aridian

that is left :)

Comment by 17137

Confirm 49.71.....

Check your bags and take the Gordawg's Boulder....then use it on 1 elemental with name "Shattered Rumbler"...then kill the minions of gurok

Good Luck

Comment by 24835_

It might look a little much with 30 kills, but they have really little hp. Also they don't aggro eachother. This will go quite fast and even faster if you got AoE. Thought I'd toss that in. :)

Comment by rumbaughster

A tip for druids, I found it most efficient when I used the boulder on several elementals before going into cat form and killing them. This saved alot of mana as we would have to constantly shift in and out if we did it individually. There is about a 10 second cooldown on the item.

Comment by 24102

What can I say... you hardly gain any experience, whatsoever, during the quest. All you get is like 8-10 xp(this was with the rested bonus) per minon which is up to 240-300 xp in total.

Good thing the XP reward for turning it in is 17k, that kinda makes up for it.

Comment by 16379

This was loads of fun ... just make sure you do some damage to the little dudes if you have a pet. If your pet kills 'em, you don't get credit.

Made me chuckle out loud the first time I threw a boulder and shattered one of those guys into three little ones.

I want one of those little dudes as a pet.

Comment by Brenzily

Very easy as a 65 Frost Mage... throw rock -> frost nova -> blizzard ... done..

Comment by Nectur

just a tip, don't be stupid like me and destroy the rock since i needed the bag space, he wants it back afterwards.

Comment by Randie

It is a reason why u dont get any experience from those mobs, if u did get like 100-300 exp from each of the minions u should be available to just go there and grind pretty damn fast since they die in like 3-4 hits for me as a rogue and with blade flurry it should go extremly fast or for a AoE class.

Comment by 48604

Interesting note, you can throw that boulder while running.(on 7/26/07)

Throw it at a Shattered Rumbler and 2-3 Minions of Gurok come out.

The minions have VERY little HP and give 5 exp each (lol?)

Comment by 88178

If you're a mage:

Break 3 - 5 large mobs at a time, then just pop up an ice barrier / mana shield, nova them and blizzard :)

Did this quest in about 5 minutes.

60, 80

Comment by 75179

This quest is annoying to us elemental shamans. I finished this in about 10 minutes. Here's how:

First thing to note is that you can use the rock as you move. Doesn't help a lot, just a convenience, especially if another mob aggros you.

I'd run in, throw the rock, and aggro all 2-3 of the mobs. Drop stoneclaw, frostshock one for aggro.

Drop Magma totem, frostshock another one for aggro. This way, you hold aggro, save mana, and still AoE them. I killed about 14 in my first pull with my earth elemental totem and magma totem as well.

Comment by 97336

As a Shaman, immediately after you throw the rock, if you run in and drop Stoneclaw Totem, you will have just enough time to mine the Shattered Rumbler. Only for miners of course, but free mining.

Could possibly also be done with frost nova, intimidating shout, fear, etc. good luck

Comment by cndd1

Just did this quest today... Did NOT get credit for one my pet killed but I didn't also tag, so hunters, make sure you get a hit in on each one!

Comment by 110798

Gordawgs Boulder can be thrown while moving.

Comment by Hybzor

Easy as 66 Frost mage.
Used Gordawgs Boulder at 3 shattered elements. Ice Barrier and ran around to gather all the spawns. Frost Nova, Bliazzard and used Arcane Explosion the finsh them off.
Super xp for such a easy quest

Comment by 130472

As an arcane mage very easy. Just use Arcane Explosion on the minions. Done in 10 min.

Comment by 170593

very easy, did is as 66 beastmaster hunter=D

Comment by 67465

I would like some of whatever the designer of this quest was on at the time when they thought of this.

You're asked by a big rock to throw a rock at these smaller rocks to reveal little rocks, who are minions of an evil big rock.

Comment by Mandydeth

Just a little note. If you're in a raid group (let's say from Halaa) you will not get any credit for killing the little guys.

Comment by 206341

At 50.77 there are several...happy hunting

Comment by Darion

If ur a pally (im prot) then this is quick. I used the rock on one, waited used it on another, and then gathered all 6 minions on me with holy sheild+Blessing of sanctuary+ consecration+retro aura+avengers shield.. they died in like 20secs, done in a few mins.

Comment by 235097

Each Shattering Rumbler spawns 2-3 Minions of Gurok every time. You'll have to shatter around 12-15 Rumblers at maximum in order to complete your quest.

Comment by 109621

ANOTHER NOTE:
if you start damaging the rumbler and then toss the stone you won't get any minions.
tried that myself just to test the situation.

Comment by Barmazuz

5 exp for each minion at level 66 (without any party or help).

i did this quest in 5 min

Comment by 336610

Here's a neat trick if you have mining - engage the rumbler, like with a damaging spell, then throw the rock, then kill the minions. You can then mine the rambler for crystilline fragments at 15 silver each - should make an extra 2 gold. You usually can't mine them if you did not engage them before throwing the rock.

Comment by 359147

extremely easy to solo as a 66 DK. just throw out death and decay and desecration and watch them die. lol. they only have about 2300 life each.

Comment by 355085

Reeeaaaally easythepeasy quest :P AOE spells help perfectly here, as a lvl 66 mage you can just frost nova all of those Minions and use Blizzard or sth =P

Comment by 431855

Its very easy quest....you can earn a lot of XP here....xD

Comment by 756647

Just don't get rid of Gordawgs Boulder because he wants it back at the end of the quest. Yeah, I destroyed it.

Comment by Knabber

using will not yield any Minion of Gurok

Comment by ziggy29

Not one of the more enjoyable quests as a priest without AoE. I've been through here with other toons but they had AoE and it was much less of a grind.

Comment by Mormolyce

Just did this quest for like the 6th time. Suggested ways to make me not want to stab myself in the face while doing this quest:

1) Remove the cast time from the rock throw
2) Remove the cooldown on the rock throw (why do quest items with cooldowns even exist?)
3) Decrease the number of minions needed
4) Increase the number of minions spawned on a throw

Comment by sagsco

62.79/80.02/ First, dismiss your pet. You have to boulder like 15 if these big boulder guys, as when they collapse, they spawn about 2 Minions each. Very easy to kill/ Have fun!

Comment by 1440987

Shattering the Veil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOgKYLUWLBo

Comment by Boxofbeer

Shattering the Veil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBgGSWSSixY

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=iS9HXS6ZRHg&feature=youtu.be

Comment by francoisjabbour

16 years later and this remains one of the worst quests in the game.

You have to kill 30 of these little rocks that each give 2xp. You throw the boulder at the big mob and the boulder itself has like a 10 second cd so by the time you're finished killing the little mobs, you still stand around for at least 5 seconds waiting for the item to come off cd.

So overall, you get essentially 0 rep for killing all these mobs, it's incredibly slow, and it sends you to the actual opposite corner of the map to do it.

I'd like to throw a rock at whoever designed this.

Comment by adjensen

Well, as of August 2024, this is super simple to do. I'll correct one of these posts -- if you're a hunter, you do NOT need to dismiss your pet.

When you engage with one of the Shattered Rumblers, you'll see your pointer turn into a square. When that happens, click and wait for the process to run -- it will kill the Rumbler and release three minions of Gurok. Kill them and move on to the next Rumbler. Once you've done this ten times, you're done.

Once I realized the process, it took less that five minutes to clear the quest (Level 55 Hunter, Alliance)

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Shattering the Veil

Gordawg at the Throne of the Elements in Nagrand has asked that you slay 30 Minions of Gurok.

	Minion of Gurok slain (30)

Provided item:

	Gordawg's Boulder (1)

Description

<Gordawg breaks off a piece of ebon rock from his back.>

You are granted a piece of the fury of the earth. Take the boulder of Gordawg and hurl it at the poison rock. Shatter their shells to discover the truth. Destroy the minions of the usurper and return to Gordawg with the name.

You find the shattered elements at the edge of the world. Southwest.

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(9849))