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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 67539

Soloed as a level 50 Frost Mage.

Blacklash ability: Flame Breath - Frontal Cone AoE - he'll cast it even if you move out of range. Make good use of this.

Hematus ability: Flame Buffet - Does fire damage and increases fire damage taken by an amount. Stacks

If you're trying to kite these two, keep in mind that they can be pulled seperately, run slightly faster than normal runspeed, and hit fairly hard. (I was crit for 850)

If you're trying this as a Frost Mage (fire won't be able to, as they are fire-immune) here are some tips.

Always try to keep Ice Barrier up, to avoid being crushed

Make use of blink, you should be able to blink far enough ahead to get one frostbolt off before running.

Use your water elemental twice, once after a cold snap. He'll be doing a whole lot of damage while you kite.

Try and bounce the drake between you and your elemental via Ice Blocking.

I found Blacklash to be slightly easier. Good luck!

Comment by 40642

Soloed as 48 affliction warlock after a few tries. Found best tactic to be:

Dragons are immune to fire, fear and horror. Hematus is slightly harder to kill than Backlash. Pull one dragon at a time with a shadowbolt and start kiting while putting all dots up and sending voidwalker on for damage add (turn his spells off, he can't taunt worth sh-t and you need to drain his mana during the fight anyway). Kite back and forth, or in a circular motion if you have room for it. Use Death Coil in beginning of fight to have it ready again near end of fight.
Occasionally the dragons might stop to breathe fire on your voidwalker, this is a good time to cast Drain Life if you have good distance. Be ready to sacrifice voidwalker at any time, both dragons can do crits not far from 1000 on cloth.

Comment by weetabix

Soloed as a 47 bm hunter without much trouble, just keep mend pet up all the time, and have it trained up with avoidance to reduce the flame breath damage.

Immune to concussion shot and i assume also scatter shot and frost traps though i didn't test them.

Comment by 82758

hematus is much easier than blacklash.

Comment by 81120

I just did this quest with a fire mage (50 and myself) and a holy paladin (level 52) was easy bit slow ... we cleared the 43-45 elite mobs and then summond, then ran away and then pulled them 1 by 1... very easy imo

Comment by 1954

As of 2.3 this quest awards 6800xp at lv 47 and 250 reputation with Stormwind.

Comment by 149

This quest is kind of a bummer for clothies. The chest pieces are amazing, but the necklace leaves much to be desired.

Comment by tale

As of 2.3 this quest is no longer marked as elite, but it is still very much elite. Don't let the lack of a group indicator fool you.

Comment by 108737

We did it with a fury warri, and disc priest (myself) On the first summon both dragon attacked the warri, and she died. I managed to run away, and ressed her. The dragons did not despawn, and can be pulled seperatly.

Comment by 1299

Quest is no longer marked Elite or even group. Rest assured, two level 50 elites still spawn as before.

Comment by 44496

http://www.wowhead.com/?maps=3:720660810629809328

Map of the Pillars

Comment by 127002

6800xp at lv 52 and 68 rep with Ironforge

Comment by 140744

As of patch 2.4 quest spawns two level 50's. They are no longer elite. This quest is now fairly easy for the reward.

Comment by gpdoyon

Clarification...I am a doofus...I didn't complete the quest by myself, only PART of it. Sigh. One silly Hunter (41) can't kill a level 50 dragon.

Comment by tephramancy

Solo'd painlessly as a lvl48 enhancement shammy. Took out two of the elite guards, popped the gems, popped ghostwolf and ran away. When the named dragons spawned, pulled them one by one (earth shock interrupts their flame breath) and killed them. Very simple indeed, the elite guardians are harder than the dragons themselves.

Comment by 145987

dragons are no longer elite

Comment by sdkphoenix

Solo'd as a 48 fire mage using frost and arcane spells. Very easy to do.

Comment by Bogsie

Even though the dragons are no longer elite, Blacklash still uses a flamebreath attack which deals 500 damage, and cannot be interrupted. However, now that his hitpoints and melee damage have been drastically reduced, it shouldn't pose a significant problem.

Hematus uses Flame Buffet, which starts off doing low damage, but puts a stacking debuff increasing fire damage taken by 60 or so. However, since he dies quickly, this won't cause a major headache, as long as you pull them seperately.

Managed to down them with relative ease as a level 48 warrior. The plate chestpiece is nice, unless you're severely lacking stamina already.

Comment by Crazykill

I Can't get the runestones from the pillars, and can't find the opal one...

Comment by HinataObsession

Yeah um, do not have coordinates map, and not getting it either. Where are the pillars?

Comment by 173707

Just solo'd this as a 44 'lock spec'd in demonology. Take one at a time, keep shadow cursing/afflicting them (they're immune to fire spells and fear, at least at my level) and keep health funneling your voidwalker. Make sure that the voidwalker has full mana when you go into battle, otherwise the dragon will start attacking YOU. I almost died learning that.

Comment by Mydge

Good lord. The 43 elites around them are harder.

Approximately 2k hp each and can be pulled individually if you run as soon as you complete quest.

Didn't even bother getting health back between them.

Done as 52 arms warrior, DW.

Comment by 46491

Soloed these two with my rogue. Approach the pillar from the east side, as none of the surrounding elites path there. Both are immune to stuns (no cheap or kidney shots) and mind-numbing poison, and melee for up to 110 per hit (unmitigated) in addition to their specials.

Comment by 227168

Easy for me soloed this one as a lvl 45 feral druid. Don't attempt the same thing unless your geared though.

Comment by paj1891

just soloed as a lvl 43 enhan shaman, shammys rule!

Comment by 261674

wow justed soloed it with my lv 44 beast mastery hunter

Comment by flymolo21

Solo as lvl 51 fury warrior. Tough but still killed both. Neither are elite. They do a lot of damage though. Had to use a healing potion. Still easy enough

Comment by 238959

They've changed it!

Based on comments, i tried it as a lvl46 hunter. I was able to kill 4 elite dragons before the others killed me. Killed two on the way to the stone. Ran back the way I came, but two others attacked. We killed two more before a fifth killed me. I saw at least three others flapping around in the background.

There are a lot of them, not just two!

Comment by 279388

Finished today, lv 40 BM hunter... got the 3 crystals easily enough.

As for the dragons, I ran up to the stone, hit it and started backing away before accepting the quest. At this point, dragon's spawned... and i ran and used Feign Death. I attacked both dragons seperately and only had to rest during the time... (Mend pet saved my backside :D)

But yea.. do-able at lv 40

Comment by 276278

just soloed as a 49 warrior. just went defense stance the whole time and only needed to cast gift of the naaru. found them at 83, 50

Comment by 320219

46 hunter, easily done as long as you dont aggro any elites theese two are easy to kill, 2 level 50's non elites 600xp from each well rested enjoy

Comment by gotler

Soloed as a lvl 42 prot pally.
First when you summon them just run away until they evade. Then you can pull them one at a time easily, the new 30 yard taunt is excellent for this.

Hematus was no problem, just keep up BoSanc, Righteous Fury and seal of light, and keep judgement of light up. His ability is flame buffet, a debuff that keeps doing more and more damage the higher it is stacked, so it needs to be dispelled ASAP.

Blacklash is much harder. His flamebreath did close to 500 damage and I had to use all cooldowns to take him down, and the fight went on for at least 5 minutes. My gear is better than average, so you should only attempt this at 42 if you are on a twinked char.
Good luck.

Comment by SpitefulCrow

Hilariously, now that the two dragons are no longer elite, the elite mobs that surround their pillar are actually tougher. If you can kill those elite mobs, you can do this quest easily. Just click the pillar, turn away, click confirm and run. You'll only aggro one of the dragons and can take them out seperately.

Comment by vanol

I was a lvl 47 rouge and i was able to do it with some dificulties. i recomend killing 1 or 2 elites before activating the stone then as soon as the dragons apear run away and they will eventually stop following, I did not kill an eilite so i died once. i shot a crossbow at 1 dragon to pull just him then i fought and killed him and stealthed up to the other and did the same. the hardest thing is that they use flame buffet which increases fire damage taken by 76 but if you can do high damage fast it shouldnt matter. to release them you need to find 3 rune stones. one is to the north and the other 2 are to the south. the seccond one to the bottom is found about 45 second run to the west (left on map). Both dragons have around 2500 health which compared to 5500 health on the 45 elites, which makes them easier than even the 43 elites except the two dragons have a 25% higher chance for a critical if your lvl 46 or below. good luck guys

Comment by 48880

Count for Loremaster of EK.

Comment by 407649

Solo'd this as a level 49 feral druid. It was a lot easier than I thought. Simply clear a few elite dragons around before you summon the dragons. The dragons summoned are not elite and have around 2k HP each. Easy.

Comment by 116292

Soloed as a 45 Ret Pally.

Fire Resistance Aura, Blessing of Kings and Seal of Judgement for the elites. Judgement of Light as often as possible. When I needed healing, I'd use either Hammer of Justice or Repentance, and then step back and heal a few times. When they got stunned, I'd Flash of Light. Once the area was relatively clear, I activated the tower, bubbled, then ran like heck until I lost aggro.

Fighting the big two was similar to the elites, but they're immune to stun, so I switched to Seal of Light for the extra healing. Pulled them individually with Hand of Reckoning. (Watch that 30 yards. It may not seem like much, but it can be the difference between pulling one, and ending up as lunch.) Used Judgement of Light as often as I could. When I got low on health, I'd either bubble, or spam Flash of Light a few times.

Nearly aggroed an elite while I was fighting Hematus, but I was able to shift the fight over a little bit. Had to use one mana pot in the second fight, but otherwise, there wasn't much trouble.

Comment by neleo

Soloed as lvl 43 feral druid in greens, self-buffed.

Clear an area of elites and when you spawn the bosses start moving backwards in your area. The flame breath is melee range and I found out I often didn't get the damage because the bosses stood a bit further back before closing in again.

This was just the amount of time needed for enough energy for the next combo builder and the white damage loss was compensated by only having to switch forms twice to heal before Blacklash was dead . Healed to full and then switched to Hematus.

The reward was pretty sweet for a lvl 43. Definitely not vendor trash. :D

Comment by morillus

Soloed as a 43 fury warrior with 4 blues, 1 epic and 2 heirlooms. Used the tactic mentioned above - spawn the mobs and then run from them, go back when they've stopped chasing and take them one at a time. Piece of *!@#, though my gear is somewhat decent for my level. Great chestpiece reward, but didn't use it because of the heirloom. Damn.

Comment by 27400

Just soloed as a 42 BM hunter. Patch 3.3. Not difficult at all. I have crappy gear. Great chest armor for 42.

Comment by 903384

Just tried soloing this as a 50 hunter, bad idea.

Comment by 923237

I just did the 'Tremors of the Earth'
(part 1 of 2) . I found the at 62 ; 69.
(part 2 of 2). the dragons where already by the one pillar, so i never had to go and get all the gems from the pillar. this was at 81 ; 50

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Tremors of the Earth

This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

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)

Description

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.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Blazewind Breastplate		Prismscale Hauberk
	Warforged Chestplate		Mindburst Medallion

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Stormwind

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(717))