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Comment by Strokelock

At the time of this post, this item works exactly like the .
Increases speed and damage BUT you are silenced.
Not great for a BM Hunter.

Dropped of a Rarespawn Echo of Aella walking down a Path at Agthias Repose.
/way 47.33 64.84 (Up on top of the rocks and overhangs).

Comment by Boxofbeer

Heavenly Drum is a loot contained in the Echo of Aella's chest.

Location: 45.75 64.75
World Zone: Bastion

Echo of Aella usually wanders around Agthia's Repose and can be easy to miss.
Its neutral so you need to talk to it and accept its challenge. Then the fight starts.
Defeat Echo of Aella and it drops Worthy Aspirant's Cache treasure chest.

TomTom coordinates:

/way 45.75 64.75 Echo of Aella

Echo of Aella rare mob location - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaII6pRZ710

There are all musical instruments you can find in Bastion:
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All musical instruments of Bastion
# Name Coordinates Note Video

1 Ascended Flute 35.87 48.01 Loot Flauto dei Kyrian Rotto from Unsettled Etherwyrms https://youtu.be/Rh8DvcXB9DI

2 Benevolent Gong 27.64 21.74 Contained in the Gift of Devos treasure https://youtu.be/eXJUc0XzKPU

3 Kyrian Bell 58.51 71.58 Contained in the Vesper of Virtues treasure https://youtu.be/il2u0A7ZB5Q

4 Heavenly Drum 45.75 64.75 Drops from Echo of Aella rare mob https://youtu.be/TaII6pRZ710

5 Unearthly Chime 58.51 71.58 Contained in the Gift of Agthia treasure https://youtu.be/Sq907r2MP7M

Comment by Haldhur

Right now this item increase mount speed from 200% to 215%

Comment by skyline33

Can confirm, does not stack with Crusader Aura, although crusader aura will bring mounted speed from 215% to 220%

Comment by swordstrike

Don't be afraid to use this. I tested it and it is not consumed on use. You can re-use the item multiple times.

Comment by coolguy23

I thought this was identical to Kyrian Bell (heals every now and then) but it says it increases mount speed also.

EDIT: It no longer says it heals and it's only a mount speed boost.

Comment by EXPERIMENTONGOD

In my opinion this is the best of the five "Instruments of Bastion" BY FAR. It gives you +15% mount speed and is obtainable before level 60 (you can get it as soon as you hit Shadowlands as far as I know).

Just put it on a mount macro and you will have permanent 215% mount speed in all Shadowlands outdoor zones.

Make sure you use the macro again to re-gain the buff if it fades.

Example of mounting macro:

/use (NAME OF YOUR MOUNT)
/use Heavenly Drum

Comment by Elitecookie

Doesn't affect Mag'har Orcs with their 10% mount speed racial and if you're in a guild. Get one of the others instead

Comment by rikapi

Am I the only one that doesn't see this as an option for switching instruments from Pico?

I wanted to switch back after accidentally switching to Chime (brain fart had the two effects reversed) and when I talked to Pico I was given the other four options but not this one...

Comment by Gaffa

I have at one time or another collected all these items (some more then once). I have tried each one, but today when I proc'd the drum I'm currently using I noticed all the different cords sounded at once and I gained the Music of Bastion buff that gave me every buff of all instruments at once!

Note: I was in Elysian Hold at the time

Comment by Regent2203

Wanna change this Instrument of Bastion to another one, previously learnt? Visit Pico.

Comment by Ticity

Here is a little macro you can use, so you use the drums everytime you mount up.

#showtooltip
/use Heavenly Drum
/cast

This will also display your mount on your action bar instead of the drums
My macro looks like this

#showtooltip Gilded Prowler
/use Heavenly Drum
/cast Gilded Prowler

Comment by ProdromusHarv

Runeforged Spurs will stack with Heavenly Drum or other similar Bastion instruments, giving a total of +30% total mount speed so actually worth using if you already have an existing guild or racial mount speed increase.

Comment by JayDAxis

I don't know if it was just missed up but I had all 5 instruments in my bags at the same time and all worked. If anyone like me had/has all of the instruments do not, I repeat DO NOT pick up a second copy of any of them. When I did it removed the Kyrian Bell from my bag and Blizzards answer to me was "it has been removed it's because you may only hold one Instrument of Bastion at a time."

Comment by Healcannon

I feel like this item was stealth nerfed. Previously I could leave this up 24 and move between the zones with the wormhole generator. Now i'm finding myself to quite often have lost my buff moving from one zone to the next without stepping into Oribos. The fact it falls off going to Oribos at all was stupid but now it falling off between the very zones you are allowed to have the buff in, really kills the usefulness it had previously.

Comment by Kurtosis

This item pairs nicely with Comfortable Rider's Barding for both +20% mount speed and immunity to being dazed and dismounted.

Death Knights and Paladins (in tank spec) can have both these abilities innately, but one or both is useful for all other classes.

Comment by JasperKazai

9.0.5 seems to have limited how the instruments can be used. Before, you could use multiple, and get all of the buffs active upon you at once. Now, in 9.0.5, using just one instrument puts all of them on the 15 min CD.

But, they now work in both Oribos and the Maw, which they used to not. So that's nice.

Comment by torul72

can druid use this in travel form ?

Comment by deepspace8

Keep in mind you can re-loot this after you delete it, in case you don't want it taking up bag space in your bank.

Comment by Null

Does not appear to affect flying mount speed. I'm at 410% with or without the buff, whereas ground speed is 215% vs 200%.

Comment by Direlamb

As of Patch 9.1, only seems to work for ground mounts (in Shadowlands zones). With Mount Up guild perk, it increases my ground mount speed from 210 to 215. But my flying mount speed stays at 420.

Comment by DCPrimus

Alright, so here is the list of what the buffs actually are:

Ascended Flute: +80 to Primary Stat
Benevolent Gong: +100 to Armor
Kyrian Bell: 2% Healing every 15 seconds
Heavenly Drum: +10% to mount speed but capped at 220% on ground and 420% when flying
Unearthly Chime: Stealth buff of +100 Speed. Doesn't show on Character tab, stacks with Speed, doesn't affect mounted speed.

Take your pick on usefulness. Many use potions, enchantments, and food buffs so +80 on Primary stat has an effect, but say you have 1730 Intellect and 355 Armor.
Do you want an 80 point Intellect buff, ~= 4.62%, or a 100 point Armor buff, ~= 28.17%.

YMMV

Comment by TheAngryGazebo

This item has gotten considerably more useful in 9.2 - while it does not stack with the 'Mount Up' perk, and passives like DK's On a Pale Horse, it *does* stack with Cypher speed effects. On my Death Knight, with the cypher gauntlets that boost speed, and Heavenly Drum activated, plus some miscellaneous Speed rating, I am moving at 251% on the ground. With a 15 minute duration and a 15 minute cooldown, you're looking at 100% uptime, deaths notwithstanding.

Consider putting this one back into your bags if you're spending a lot of time in Zereth Mortis, or have an outdoor speed set that includes Cypher gear.

Comment by Theodicus

Today, I was retrieving my WoW in-game mail and noticed that I had another Kyrian Bell in my mailbox. I don't know where this came from but probably from when I was farming to get the rest the items for the Treasures of Bastion achievement. I already had the Ascended Flute in my bags and been using it for a while but when I finished getting all my mail (auto-get), I noticed that the bell had replaced the flute.

So I had to fly all the way back out to Bastion and pick up the flute again from Pico. A real major inconvenience. So be careful when getting your mail or you too will have to make that unnecessary trip to replace which ever item.

This is in reference to the items:
Ascended Flute
Benevolent Gong
Heavenly Drum
Kyrian Bell
Unearthly Chime

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Heavenly Drum

Item Level 1
Binds when picked up
Unique

Use: Play this instrument of Bastion, improving the performance and morale of nearby friendly players while outdoors in the Shadowlands.
This instrument shares a cooldown with the other Instruments of Bastion.

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