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Comment by halldorr

Pillars are fairly easy to get to and find. Shouldn't have to fight any elites to get your runestones. Their locations are as follows:

Pillar of Amethyst: 81,63
Pillar of Opal: 72,66
Pillar of Diamond: 83,33

You then use the Seal of the Earth located at 81,49. I suggest clearing a couple of the elite dragons from around the Seal as it spawns two level 50 elite dragons.

Comment by 12094

Just killed these guys with two 46s (rogue and druid). Not easy, but doable.

Separating them is easy: just summon and immediately run away until they turn back (like any mob). Speed helps to avoid getting hit, I suppose. Once they're both summoned and just sitting around the obelisk, just pull and only one should come.

Both drakes are immune to stun, entangling roots and hibernate. Kick wasn't interrupting their dragon breath, either, though it works on the nearby elites.

We used love fools (target dummies) to allow the druid to heal himself, along with barkskin and harm prevention belt.

Comment by 33682

This is the best quest in the game for getting level 57 armor on your level 40 character. Since it's such a high level, you can even put BC armor patches on it, such as Knothide Armor Kit.

Comment by Thottbot

Amethyst (81:64)

Opal (72:66)

Diamond (84:33)

Good luck

Comment by Thottbot

You'll probably don't believe me but I really don't care.

Did this yesterday with my L52 Paladin as good as solo without even needing my emergency stuff (lay-on-hands and such). Used 2 fire-protection potions, 1 mana potion.

Just kill 2 of those L43 elite dragons to make room for a (longggg) fight.

Activate pillar (with the 3 gems you gathered) and run like hell (used Nifty stopwatch here, first time I used that btw). After a short distance both dragons return to the pillar.

Now put up fire-resistance aura, blessing of might, judge seal of light, put up seal of the crusader, use 1H with shield (mediocre shield too btw).

Walk up to the pillar and judge the closest dragon (they seem very close to each-other and even the smaller ones but my judgement only aggroed one) and walk backwards till your back is to a mountain while slaying.

Then hack away and heal at half life! Put up seal of crusader every 30sec and bless with wisdom at 1/3 mana level, mb sooner (needed one mana-potion so...). The dragon starts to get angry at say below 1/3 of his life and does some more dmg in shorter time. But no funny bussiness in the end.
Take new fire-protection potion and have a drink ;)
The other dragon even put some kind of spell on me but that was cure-able (cost more mana, keep eye on that), but it seemed he didn't torch me as much tough and hit me more with his claws.

Funniest thing, just as I was half way through the second dragon another Paladin shows up and after looking at us for a while starts healing me. Turns out later I fought with him before.
Told me he did this too with group of friends including a L60 and that he wouldn't even think of trying it alone which make me really proud there for a moment.

So a little preparation, concentration and patience payed off for me. And since I did all the Sunken Temple quests I gathered later that evening this was one hell of a good day 8`)

PS. got 1326XP for the first dragon and 1050XP for the second one(prob. because the pally helped me) and 5600XP for quest. The pally got some nice skins/scales, he was there for that anyway.

Comment by Thottbot

We knocked this out last night with a Level 48 Warlock (specced Affliction/Destruction) and a Level 48 Druid (specced Feral).

We summoned the two level-50 elite dragons and ended up dying in 10 seconds because they spawned, literally, on top of us. Oops. Good thing I had a soulstone on my Druid.

Take 2: She rezzes me and we buff up. We then dropped the 1st named summon. We rest up and tackle the second one, when one of the wandering level-44 elites got too close and joined in. Back to the graveyard.

Take 3: We rez again and buff up. After clearing the area, we tackle the 2nd named summon, who we drop.

Learn from our mistakes:
1) Have the rest of your party hang back from the Seal of the Earth when you do the summon. Preferably, somebody who can heal the poor sap who's doing the summoning.
2) CLEAR THE AREA FIRST. Otherwise, you'll have a bunch of 44-elites jumping in on the fight.
3) Pull each of the named 50-elites one at a time. They look like they're close together, but they're not.
4) If you have a Warlock in the party, Soulstone your rezzer. It'll make life a lot easier.
5) Again, if you have a Warlock, everybody should get a Healthstone. You'll need 'em.

From my perspective (the 48 Warlock), a couple of pointers�

The Voidwalker seemed the best choice. Both dragons appeared to be highly resistant to fire damage, making the Imp's DPS output negligible. The Succubus fell way too quickly once it gained aggro, and there were no spells to lock or dispellable debuffs, rendering the Felhunter's anti-magic abilities moot.

I would send in my Voidwalker and immediately recall it when it drew aggro, pulling the dragon back to our location. The Druid would drop to bear form and start tanking, causing the dragon to repeatedly shift aggro between my voidwalker and her and back.

Any fire-related spells (Immolate, Searing Pain, etc.) are a waste of mana, as both dragons appear to be highly resistant to fire damage.

Any shadow-based DoT spells (Corruption, any Curse, Siphon Life) would only stick for a second or two before being dispelled. Drain Life worked, but was too slow from a DPS standpoint.

In the end, I was left to spamming Shadowbolts which seemed to do the trick. Eventually, they would notice that I was the one doing the most damage and turn their attention to me. I would Sacrifice my Voidwalker and continue to spam Shadowbolt behind the safety of my sacrifice shield. The Druid shifted to cat and went to town shredding the mob. Eventually, the dragon will shift aggro back to the Druid, and she'll shift back to bear. By then, I finished it off with Shadowburn.

Rinse, lather, repeat.

Comment by Thottbot

The diamond pillar is at the top, north east corner of the map, and the other two is seen immediately if you approach the ravine from the bottom.

You have to get those stones to summon the dragons.. The tower at which to SUMMON is at the cente at the elite dragons, called the Seal of the Earth. You summon and you run like hell because you will aggro if your level is around theirs.

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We did this with a 47 frost-specced mage and 46 retribution-specced paladin.

I pulled and let the pally hold aggro. I didn't bother using arcane missles, and stuck with frost, that's what did damage. Frost nova and fire, of course, didn't work, so there was little chance for crits.

HOWEVER, we took the first dragon down. The paladin had to use his bubble on him and Lay on Hands on me. I had to use iceblock to lose aggro, and mana agate/evocation. Heh, since we used most of our cooldowns, I didn't think we could do the second dragon.

We started, but we had to kite him to lose another dragon, and the pally took on damage and had to use that mana to heal while we didn't inflict any damage at all. Dead.

Walking back and that fight allowed most cooldowns to come to an end.

This time, it was easy. I let the pally have it to 90% then all out frostbolts. Not one crit, but we did it. Only had to use an evocation.

It was fun. They were orange to us, so we felt pretty good. Our gear sucked, too :D

Comment by Thottbot

yeah, tried to solo this one... lvl 48 warrior

got runestones, cleared a nice battlefeild around the pillar, carefully killed each lvl 45 elite dragon one by one.. then i activated the stones and summoned hermetes and the other guy, both lvl 50 elite dragons...lol

that was a surprise...got toasted.

Comment by Thottbot

Soloed them as a lvl 59 frost mage. This may not sound like a big deal, but they're immune to frost effects and fire spells so basically I had to tank each of them while trying to dish out 12k damage per dragon in my frost spells.

Backlash was easier of the two and died on the first try. Hematus seems to have a bit more health, though. I had to try him 3 times before I could kill him, but luckily I didn't die. Ice barrier was the key to beating them.

Comment by Allakhazam

Did this quest with:

56 Warrior
50 Priest (me ^_^)
47 Hunter
42 Warrior
42 Warlock

first attempt didnt go too well. we managed to stay alive for a while and then got wiped.
we then came back and the 2 were still there. so we thought if we killed 1 we could come back and kill the other one. so the hunter pulled Hermatus with his bow and he came solo. we killed him with no interferance then we pulled Blacklash the same way and won @ life =)

gl

Comment by Allakhazam

The easy part is getting the three required stones from the other pillars. Then you must fight dragons around the final pillar.

The can easily be fought one at a time and don't need to be pulled. They look close together because they are so big but they are not. Fight one at a time even if in a group.

The voidwalker must be sacraficed 1/2 through the fight.

I sent in the void walker, and cast corruption. These are immune to fire spells. Then, I cast curse of shadow, and repeatedly cast rank 7 shadow bolt. Monitor corruptino and recast when necessary. Then, when voidwalker is to die, sacrafice him. You will get hit once or twice, but you will live and kill of the big boy.

Comment by Allakhazam

I get reach the Pillar of Opal to get the 3rd stone...

Comment by Allakhazam

Did it with a lvl 70 warlock and i'm a lvl 43 warrior. I got toasted until he could take aggro. Then he kicked their butt. Definitely need a healer and fire repellant.

Comment by Allakhazam

I've heard of the quest and the contact coresponding to...but when i try to talk to Garek he won't give me the time of day. What can I do to get him to talk to me and then give me the quest?

Comment by Allakhazam

Did it last night. My 53 warlock and my friend's 41 hunter. Had to use soulstone during the first 50 elite dragon but the second went down a bit easier. I think the toughest thing about the dragons is that they do this "Flame Buffet" debuff, which increases their fire damage. The debuff stacks, I think i had it on 3 times and it increased the dragons fire damage by +229.

Comment by Allakhazam

Soloed this as a level 50 hunter. Pulled one at a time, had my pet tank themuntil I ran out of mana, and kited them till they died. Pretty easy!

Comment by Allakhazam

Pillar of Diamond: 83,33
Pillar of Amethyst: 81,64
Pillar of Opal: 72,66

Central Pillar where you die at the claws of Blacklash and Hematus: 81,50

Comment by Allakhazam

killed them with 47 pala, 47 pala, 48 rogue

Comment by Allakhazam

for those who cant find, the 3 other tower things that give the stones you need are in the same area. jsut walk all around that gourge area and you will find them

Comment by Allakhazam

ok i seem to be having one hel* of a hard time finding the pillar of diamond. can anyone tell me directions on how to find it in relation to the other 2? i dont use the thottbot program so coordinates are a no go. I'd appreciate any help i can get, if oyu are on server BLODHOOF/ALLIANCE my name is Sharphunter tanks for any help.!

Comment by Allakhazam

Still using my Blazewind Breastplate. Good stuff. I feel sorry for mail users, though. Could Prismscale Hauberk suck any more? No, I don't think it could.

Comment by Allakhazam

Did it with a group of four. lvl42 druid (me) lvl42 paladin, another lvl42 paladin and yet another lvl53 paladin. Got the medallion and 5900 XP.

Comment by Allakhazam

did it with only a 52 warlock, i was 42 pally... kinda hard, but we succeeded, i healed like hell, and we survived both.

Comment by Allakhazam

I had no idea what these two dragons were for, but I soloed them as a 52 warlock, and I didn't kill any of the lower level ones around the edge. Use a voidwalker, you'll get him to about 35-40% health, sacrifice, summon a felhunter, and watch that nasty fire spell disappear! I don't think the two horde (who were no doubt saying "please don't kill them" - they were level 42s and clearly waiting for help) would have been too impressed, but it kept saying they were making strange gestures at me... these are also immune to fear which almost made everything go wrong for me too, so be careful of that.

Comment by Allakhazam

coordinates given are correct but the diamond pillar is at the far north end of the ravine and the other two are at the south end.

Comment by Allakhazam

Completed with 48 druid (me), 45 warrior and 41 pally.

Me and warrior tanked while pally healed, we died first attempt as when handing in the quest at the sign of earth both the dragons were pulled.

We managed to res and pull one at a time later though so it was ok

Comment by Allakhazam

Solo'd as 55 Druid.

Diamond at 83, 32.
Amethyst at 81, 64.
Opal at 72, 66.

Earth Pillar at 81, 49.

As a Druid, it was easy to sneak to the Eartyh Pillar in stealthed Cat Form, then I click, click, and then cheetah like H377!

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest is pure gay. It's been wasting room in my quest log for-goddam-ever and now as a 48 pally with a 51 druid we still can't beat it. And after the 10 min walk from the worst placed graveyard EVER a level 60 killed both of them and I have to go gather the freaking stones again.

Comment by Allakhazam

Took me a while to find the Diamond pillar, it is in the Ravine to the right of where it splits to go to Dustwind Gulch.

My Team...

lvl46 Paladin
lvl 42 Hunter ( Me )
lvl 51 Hunter

I summoned but for some reason both came with me and we killed the 1 but the other wiped us.

Came back healed skinned looted the 1 we killed. Then we killed the other one with 0 issues.

Not to hard. finding the Diamond pillar was the hardest part.

Edited, Sat Jan 21 07:10:06 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

Completed with:
LvL 49 Warlock (Debuffer +2ndary Attacker)
LvL 46 Druid (Primary Healer)
LvL 48 Rogue (Me- Tanking)
LvL 39 Druid (2ndary Healer)

It is possible to pull only one of them at a time, makes it MUCH easier.

Comment by Allakhazam

I am a level 55 warlock and along with three others had a difficult time. I have only obtained two of the three items you are supposed to collect. The dragons run from level 45 to 55. Hoep this helps.

Comment by Allakhazam

This one is tough...

a group of 45s cant do this without outside help...

Comment by Allakhazam

These dragons are very easy for their level. My group of four did it, 40 priest
40 warrior
45 mage <------ Me
53 mage

We did it easily. Our strategy was :
1/ 53 mage went to summon the dragons( He was only one with all the stones)
2/ Ran back and then he pulled blacklash with a frostbolt
3/ repeated for hematus

You MUST be sure that you clear all the dragons around the pillar.

By the way, they are kind of easy for their level because normal things 5 levels above me resist about 75% of my spells, and the ones that hit do about 25% of the normal damage. But with these dragons, still 5 levels above me, they resisted only about 25% and the ones that hit ( the other 75% of course ) did full damage. Just be sure to use frost against these guys if your a mage.

Comment by Allakhazam

Just did it with a level 50 Rogue (me), level 48 Warrior and a level 48 Paladin. Had no problems at all. Gotta love the Blazewind Breastplate, brilliant piece of gear in my opinion.

Comment by Allakhazam

Did it with 46 pal, 44 rog, 46 cle, 48 cle. Triggered it, run away, then single pulled the dragons.

Comment by Allakhazam

whats the min lvl for this quest im a 46 rouge?...

Comment by Allakhazam

diamond pillar is at 83, 32

Comment by Allakhazam

Solo-ed as a lvl 58 BM hunter really easy. too bad I had a better chest already, this would have been nice 10 levels ago

Comment by Ourez

Solo guide for hunters using kiting, step by step (Classic WoW):

I solo'd this as a level 48 BM Hunter.

Step 1: Activate the two elite dragons with your collected runes. You will get instant aggro on both when you activate them, so Feign Death and let you pet get aggro, then run as far away as necessary with Aspect of the Cheetah until the two dragons reset.
- Revive your pet now obviously.

Step 2: Clear the most obvious and necessary dragons to make a clear path out of the area (following the map northwest out of the area).

Step 3: Before you engage in combat, make sure you're on full HP/Mana and enable "Track Hidden". This tracking will allow you to spot stealthing cats in badlands as you kite and make it easier to dodge them.

Step 4: Have Aspect of the Hawk activated --> Put down Immolation Trap (optional) --> Hunters Mark on first dragon --> Pull with Serpent Sting --> Send in pet and activate Beastial Wrath and start doing damage (Auto Shot, Arcane Shot, Multishot and Serpent Sting). If you overaggro your pet, simply use Feign Death and get distance to the dragon again.

Step 5: Once your pet dies (It will, do not bother healing it, waste of mana) activate Aspect of the Cheetah (IMPORTANT) and start kiting along your cleared path, heading northwest out of the zone. At this point focus on having distance to the dragon, dont let it get in melee range. From now on only spend mana on keeping up Hunters Mark, Serpent Sting and Arcane Shot as a filler if possible. Highest priority is to keep distance and keep track of your autoshot timer. Run, stand still, autoshot, repeat (use Serpent Sting / Arcane Shot while running, in between autoshots).
Keep doing this for 3-5 minutes and the dragon should be dead (Personally I almost kited it to Thelsamar in Loch Modan).

Now repeat the exact same strategy with the second dragon as well.

Hope this will work for you. Best of luck.

Comment by j3fff

Solo'd this yesterday as a lvl 52 feral druid.

Basically moonfire and kite, travel form as needed to get distance.

Summon them then run away then go back and solo pull.

Hematus is a bit easier b/c he likes to stop and cast a fire thing which you can outrange, allowing you to almost never need travel form. I kited him around the small circular area SW of where they spawn (71,55). You can use the mountains to your advantage...he will try to fly up and above them which makes his path longer...

Blacklash seems to get slower around 25% and you will be able to kite him without travel form.

Just remember you need to cast moonfire immediately after it wears off (12 seconds) or you risk a reset. Thankfully moonfire lasts 12s! If you're using rank 1 to save mana (see below), it's only 9s so count to 3 after it wears off then moonfire again.

Other tips:
-If you have a resto set with intellect/spirit it helps a lot with your mana...otherwise you will need to use mana pots/innervate. I actually did Blacklash in feral gear and kited him long enough to innervate twice lol.
-If your mana is really low, switch to rank 1 moonfire until your mana pots/innervate come off cooldown.
-You should be able to moonfire, travel form, pop out and moonfire after 12s, then continue to kite in noform until the next moonfire...then travel form again. This saves a lot of mana not casting travel form every 14s.
-If you kite around the little mountain, don't let him die while up on the mountain or you won't be able to loot (yes i did this lol)
-Don't get caught...they hit HARD!
-Don't be afraid to travel form and keep running to reset if you messed up.

Comment by Regormak41

You can pull just ONE boss dragon and run out of range until he turns back and they will be separated and you can fight one at a time. As a Hunter, I aggroed one with my pet. Ran away until he stopped chasing. Went back and fought one at a time.

Comment by benmo

In TBC classic these dragons are no longer elites, just normal level 50 dragons. As a level 45 feral I pulled one until the other reset and killed him. The last was a straight forward solo where I needed to heal up once. The level 42-43 dragons around the spawn are still elite, and more dangerous than the quest dragons.

Comment by AngusMcBeef

Ok so this quest is popular in Season of Discovery Phase 2 due to the high-level rewards at the lvl40 cap.

The quest is tough even with a 5-man lvl40 group, so you might need additional people (just don't create a raid, as the quest can't be completed that way). As a hunter, you also have the option to solo this quest at lvl40 (have done it before on Era too at lvl43). You do the following:

General:
- Both Hematus and Blacklash have normal enemy running speed, which is about 120%, so you outrun them with Cheetah. One of them, I believe Hematus, has a ranged cast (flame buffet) that has fairly short range however and he needs to stand still to cast it. You should always be out of his casting range at the time he's finishing his cast. Just keep running.
- You need to kite them each for about 15 minutes to kill them. Badlands is a pretty terrible place to do it as you need a lot of space where you don't get jumped by mobs left and right. The best nearby place is Loch Modan eastern lake side. Run a big circle there. The mobs there are neutral and low-level, so they won't bother you unless you stand on top of their toes.
- Use Chimera + Lone Wolf runes for max damage (despawn your pet with distance once you don't need it anymore). Jump-turn autoshot is also an option as you can keep 5 seconds rule to regenerate mana.

How you do it:
- Gather the runes to summon Hematus and Backlash.
- Come from north. Clear the whelplings in the way (your goal is to run to Loch Modan). They deal a lot of damage and cast at range, so you can't just wing-clip them (but trap launcher freezing trap would be an option if only 1-2 are left).
- Summon Hematus and Blacklash, immediately run away and feign death. You might need to use your pet for this, or for distracting the elite non-named drakes around them, though I managed to get to the pillar without aggroing these.
- Now coming again from north, at the start of the area with the non-named elite drakes, go a bit to the left (western side on the map) to put your pet there (small patch where there are no elite drakes around). Make it stay, then use it to pull the elite non-named drakes that are in the way to the pillar. As soon as your pet has aggro, make it return to it's place. In the meanwhile, while the non-named drakes are out of the way, pull Hematus or Blacklash individually and run north/north-west (towards Loch Modan). Your pet should soon despawn due to distance. Resummon it immediately as it will regenerate health due to being out of combat. Use it to distract remaining whelplings (if any), though trap launcher freezing trap is probably easier. Going up the hills you will get in an area with lvl40+ wolves, just use pet again or wing-clip or more trap launcher. The same goes for enemies down in the valley (there are stealthed cats here, but they have low aggro range).
- Once you're in Loch Modan, it's fairly easy. Just keep blasting Chimera or jump-turn auto shot until it dies.
- Repeat for the second dragon.

Comment by Caregiver

Soloable as a level 40 feral druid with feline swiftness. Use catfire, kite into Loch Modan to Thelsamar, and just catfire while kiting him through town and letting the level 30 guards help. You'll get a lot of resists, I averaged 340-350 casts of catfire for each of them.

Comment by stinfectious

Be careful when soloing this quest in SoD, I was kiting this boss through Loch Modan and phased while doing so which despawned the dragon. Very frustrating to phase during combat, shouldn't be a thing...

Good luck!

Comment by Jemikwa

SoD P2 - If you take a group of 4-5 (at least one hunter or catfire druid) and kite each boss to Loch Modan, it's comfy. Make sure the others in the group scout ahead to kill adds and ensure the kiter doesn't get dazed. Important spots to pre-clear are the drakelings north of the main obelisk and the coyotes on the way to the canyon. Don't forget stealthed cougars. Non-kiters should not touch the boss except to make sure the boss stays aggro'd. Hunter can frost trap, but it'll often be resisted. Most important thing to do is to keep up your dot/tagging so the boss doesn't leash.
Once you make it to Loch Modan, the kiter can run in circles while your group kills the boss. If you need help, go to the guards in Thelsalmar, otherwise your group should be able to handle it with the kiter's aggro built up. Repeat for the second boss and you have yourself a nice armor upgrade :)

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Tremors of the Earth

Use the Sign of the Earth to activate the Pillars of Amethyst, Opal, and Diamond and obtain the Runestones.

Place the runestones in the Seal of the Earth to free Blacklash and Hematus.

Slay them and return Blacklash's Bindings, the Chains of Hematus, and the Sign of the Earth to Garek.

	Blacklash's Bindings (1)
	Chains of Hematus (1)
	Sign of the Earth (Provided) (1)

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It has become obvious that we cannot ensure that Blacklash and Hematus will remain imprisoned in Lethlor. That black dragons have taken up residence there, and that the ogres managed to steal the Sign indicates that more drastic measures will have to be taken.

The drakes' prison is maintained by three runestones that may only be retrieved using the Sign of the Earth. Those runestones can then be used to break the seal which imprisons them.

<name>... assure that their dreams are eternal.

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You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Blazewind Breastplate		Prismscale Hauberk
	Warforged Chestplate		Mindburst Medallion

The following spell will be cast on you:

	Burst of Experience

You will also receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

150 reputation with Stormwind

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(717))

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Best Quest Rewards at level 50 - Season of Discovery Classic WoW Alliance Leveling Guide and Recommended Zones Pre-Questing Guide for Phase 3 - Season of Discovery

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