This post details the druid epic flight form quest.  If you do not wish to be spoiled for it then please look away now!

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So, you’ve gotten together you 5000g (no mean feat in itself) and now you want to take off your safety-wings and get that epic flight form!  But… where do you start?  I decided to write up a little guide to hopefully help people get through this long questline with a minimum of bumps - especially as soon Wrath will be hitting us and you might not always be able to snag help from people for what may be the considered the ’solo’ sections of the quest.  Also I really, really wanted to share one of my favouritest quests in the game /shine.

I completed this quest line twice (horde and alliance side) as feral and with some relatively nice gear.  It will be harder for you if you are resto and if your gear is just-hit-70 greens - but not impossible!  Most druids I know have multiple gear sets and, to be honest, you’ll be very glad of them if you have kept some on backup even though you “know” you’re never going resto / doomkin / feral.

What you’ll need:

Equipment

• Bear / PVP gear
• DPS gear
• Caster or Resto Gear

Items

• 10 Ancient Lichen
• 10 Dreaming Glory
• Lower City (Auchindon) Heroic Key

Abilities

• Teleport Moonglade
• Hearthstone
• Patience

Buying Epic Flight Skill

First off, you’ll want to go visit the epic-flight trainer located in Shadowmoon Valley.  For the Alliance this is in Wildhammer Stronghold - for the Horde it is in Shadowmoon Village.  Pay up your 5000g and then use your first… Teleport: Moonglade! You’ll need a few strategic uses of this and your hearthstone so I’d reccomend having your hearth off cooldown when you begin.  You may also wish to set your hearth to the inn at the Cenarion Outpost in Zangarmarsh for convenience.  Expect to run all over Outlands several times with a few trips to Azeroth.  This quest line loves making you run about…

Run to the trainer at Moonglade and grab the first quest:

Morthis Whisperwind

(You could go to the Darnassus / Thunder Bluff trainers for this quest but, in my opinion, this is the fastest way)

This sends you to… you guessed it - The Cenarion Outpost in Zangarmarsh.  Hearth up and run outside to the moonwell.  Morthis gives you the first (of several) fun quest of the series.

The Ward of Wakening

“…The mixture requires common herbs, as well as bogblossom, which usually grows atop the tallest mushrooms in the marsh. Fly up there and pursue them but take care, as they’re quite fragile and may explode violently if mishandled.“

Take note of this last part.  Your mission is to fly around Zangarmarsh and look for Bog Blossoms on top of the giant mushrooms which reside there.  Most times you can land, pick your herb and scoot to the next one along but sometimes you will be catapulted into the air.  Make sure you have flight form bound to something or at least easily accessible.  This quest seems to aim to ‘teach’ you fast and reflexive use of your flight form!

Hand the quest in, get the follow up and… Teleport: Moonglade.

Waking the Sleeper

Run all the way down to the south east of Moonglade and into the southernmost Stormrage Barrow Den.  Inside you’ll find that all hell has broken loose - nightmareish creatures from the Emerald Dream patrol the hallways and endeavour to stop your mission.

No Mere Dream

The sleeper, awoken and asks you to help him gather the requested relics.  You escort him throughout the barrow dens fighting off enemies - eventually facing a large, nightmarish bird.  Once you’ve fended him off you should hand in the quest at Dreamwarden Lurosa (who is near the entrance to the Den) who then gives you the follow up:

Return to Morthis Whisperwind

You should have around 15-20 minutes left on your hearthstone.  If you’re bored then you can catch a free ride to Rut’theran, fly to Auberdine, take a boat to Menethil, fly to Blasted Land, ride to The Dark Portal and into Hellfire then fly to the Cenarion Outpost (well, Telredor or Swamprat Post).  Or you could go take a break, grab a coffee or read for 20 minutes until your hearthstone is off cooldown.

Whichever way you decide to go, Morthis will give you the next quest:

To the Evergrove

Get back to your flight master of choice and wing it to Evergrove in Blade’s Edge Mountains where Arthorn will give you:

The Book of the Raven

Arthorn will give you a stone, which, when combined with an Aether Ray eye will allow you to see Arakkoa spirits.  For those familiar with the Ogri’la quests head directly there and slaughter an Aether Ray for its eye.  For those unfamiliar with Ogri’la - head to the far west of Blade’s Edge Mountains, past Sylvanaar and Blade Spire Hold.   Once you’ve located Ogri’la and gotten an eye, click the stone in your inventory.  This will give you a five minute buff which reveals wandering spirits.

There are quite a few spirits running around here - you’re looking for one which has dark brown / pink clothing and not the more common purple / pink clothed Arakkoa.  Once found,  Sai’kkal will chat to you and reveal the information he has.  Back to Evergrove to grab the next part.

Eyes in the Sky

“Go to Nagrand”.  Another trip is in store for you here - Luckily, there’s a handy flight master close to the quest giver and you can take a quick trip down to Garadar or Telaar.  From there, fly West - past the Forge Camps - and into the hills.

To Catch a Sparrowhawk

This is the second of the really silly / fun quests and requires you to use an ability which you may not have used that much until now except for your level 50 class quest: Hibernate.   The birds you have to capture are ’skittish’ and will run away when you get close.  This means you cannot just run up to them and throw your net like you would for most quests!

However, a quick hibernate will allow you to sneak up on the bird and capture it with little trouble.  Just be quick with your net and you will have a bird in the hand in no time.

The Raven Stones

So, why did you catch your little feathery friend?  Well, if you’ve been keeping up with the quest text you’ll see it’s because they’re famously good at aspying things and you’re going to use them for just that purpose.  Flap your way back to your home base of choice and grab a flight to Allerian Stronghold / Stonebreaker hold and then use your own wings to take you up to Skettis.

You should have a whistle in your inventory.  Use this and wait for a few moments.  A sparrowhawk should emerge and emote that it has found something (or that it cannot find anything) and lead you to a place where it will then dig up a tablet which you can collect.   I found the best places for this seemed to be at least somewhat close to the tree-houses and settlement areas.

Now… back to Blades Edge Mountain! (I did say there’d be  a lot of travelling…)

The Eagle’s Essence

Part one of a trio of tests which can be made harder or easier dependant on your gear and spec.  They aim to get you to harness several forms to defeat the essences of the guardians who look after the statues. Each time you complete one use the sparrowhawk whistle to call one down to hand in and get the next part of the quest.

The tablet says that the eagle fought valiantly, but was overcome by a swarm of enemies. The armor and endurance of your bear form is well-suited to this fight.

During this fight the enemy spirit will call adds.  These will slowly build up until you have rather a lot at which point hey will overwhelm and kill you.  So, what do you do? - I recommend you put on your best tanking gear and bear up.  Preferably equip trinkets which give you burst damage and burst survival / avoidance (dodge, armour, health).

Some tips and tricks to make it easier for those not used to feral spec style ‘elite’ soloing.   Once you’ve clicked the statue you should wait a few seconds and then cast Regrowth, Rejuvenation, Lifebloom and then Bearform.  This is your heal buffer and should pretty much give you 10-15 seconds where you’re taking ‘no’ damage due to it simply being out-healed.

You will want to make sure you have demoralising roar up on all of the enemies as they spawn to reduce the damage you take.  You should only concentrate on killing the Arakkoa spirit as when he is killed the spawned birds will disappear.  For those not specced feral you’ll have to maul and swipe your little heart out.

Mangle makes the fight go much faster and thus gives you more of a chance at surviving.  Either way, poke your burst trinket early and utilise your avoidance trinket and frenzied regen as best you can in an effort to survive.

Please note that if you die doing these quests you will be in an area where it is impossible to run back to your body and so will have to spirit res and wait for 10 minutes before re-trying unless you can find a friend to bring you back.

The Falcon’s Essence

To overcome the falcon’s guardian, you’ll need to use the falcon’s strengths to your advantage. Use the speed and grace of your cat form to defeat the guardian before it reaches full strength!

Although this directly tells you to use cat form any high dps will do - looking at you here moonkins.  He will place a stacking debuff which will make his magic attacks do more damage to the point where it becomes unhealable.

Try to make sure you keep the mountain wall to your back as he will do a knockback and getting out of the water is not easy feat when you’re being blasted by shadowbolts.    Again, hot-ing yourself up beforehand will make the fight a lot easier and give you more time to concentrate on bursting him down.  Resto druids may have a hard time doing this step unless they have some decent dps gear - though your stronger heals will help against his steadily increasing damage.

The Hawk’s Essence

The hawk statue is on an Island in the south of Terokkar.  Most people who have not done this quest or are not hunters looking for unusual pets will not have been here!

So, up until now you’ve been thinking ‘hey ferals have it really easy!’ but now is the time for the doomkin and resto druids to shine.  This guy hits like a truck and debuffs like a warlock and hunter.   You will want to have the following easily accessable:

• decurse
• abolish / remove poison
• entangling roots

You will also probably want to clear near the statue so as not to attract unwanted pecking attacks during your battle from the tallstriders who linger around the area.  If you’re a feral druid you might also want to remind yourself where your wrath button is! Hehe.

The guardian of the hawk needs to be rooted and burned down from afar - magical effects on him are amplified so you may see some nice numbers as feral and exceptional ones as resto / doomkin.  I have no doomkin gear at the moment so I had to go for a full resto kit and managed it fine (despite a relatively weak healing set gathered from bits people didn’t want - 300-ish bonus damage and 0 spell hit).

He will periodically curse you and use a mana drain just like a hunter’s serpent sting.  Both can be cleansed, though I managed to fail to do so this time around as I couldn’t remember which clique setup I’d given them.  I still managed ok, though, so if you are good at those and even less geared than me you should manage this guy with ease!

(I had hoped to take videos of all three of these but I utterly messed up the recording and didn’t realise until I had handed in the quests. /sadface)

Back to Evergrove!

You gain a shiny [Charm of Swift Flight]!

Return to Cenarion Refuge

I think this one is fairly self-explanatory.

Chasing the Moonstone

Just when you thought you’d maybe be given a break you’re sent to, of all places, Azshara.  Teleport: Moonglade and grab a gryphon direct to Talrendis Point (you did go and pick that flight point up whilst levelling, right?).   From there - ride as far North as you can beside the river until you find a boat with an oh-so-easily accessible moonstone.  Right there! For the picking!

*Grab* *Sapped* “£$^*&@ !”

A pvp trinket will remove the sap but I’ve not used it either time.  Once you’re compos mentis again, jump right into the river and get your Seal form on! The little goblinette will do her best to stop you following - dropping bombs and ice grenades.  The bombs will blast you out of the water (and seal form) and the ice grenades will lock you in place.

Quick shifting and avoidance of the bombs are the name of the game!

If it takes you a while to catch up, no worries, periodically you’ll see a winged foot-in-a-chest icon like those used for the speed boosts in pvp… and these do the exact same thing.  Speed boost or not you should eventually catch up with the gnome at which point she’ll surrender the moonstone to you.

Huzzah!

Hearthstone time again!

Vanquish the Raven God

This is the point at which you need to bother some guildies and / or friends to go to heroic Sethekk Halls.  click the bag Morthis has given you to get your moonstone and enter the Raven God’s lair…

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Returning to Morthis will grant you a shiny new Idol - [Idol of the Raven Goddess] and , of course, Swift Flight Form!

Oh, and you might want to take a trip back now and then to visit Anzu as he drops the rather nifty [Reins of the Raven Lord].

If you see I’ve missed anything or think there’s something I could add then give me a poke on the comment section!