Probably the worst quest chain in the game

The Path of Conquest quests in Shadowmoon Valley. I don't know if
alliance have a version of this chain, but for horde it involves doing
various tasks along the Path, then using a flare gun to summon a wind
rider who you turn in the quest to, only to be given another quest in
the same area.

The first step in the chain was easy, and soloable at level 70 with a
flying mount. All you do is fly over the path until it says the quest
is complete, then find a safe place to land and fire the flare.

The next step in the chain also seems very easy, kill around 40 non-
elite blood elves. At first glance it doesn't look like it should
even be a group quest. Then you find out why you need to do it.
Elite rock giants wander the path, and those blood elves have a wicked
respawn rate. And to top it all off, there is 1 more elite who
patrols through the patch, with 4 or 5 non-elite adds with him.
Because of the respawn rate, when you see him coming, theres usually
no place for you to go, except sit there and wait for him and kill
him. But he respawns almost instantly and starts patroling the path
again. He does drop an item that starts a different quest, but I
think we killed this guy about 30 times during the various quests we
did in this chain.

The next step is to kill 2 named elites near the top of the path.
This would have been very easy if 1 group member had not been level
69. So we had to fight our way up to the named elites just so we
could bring this one member with us. This involved killing that one
elite about 5 times.

Then you have to kill more blood elves and take their tabards. So
with 4 people, that means killing a lot of blood elves to get enough
tabards such that everyone could complete the quest.

During all these quests, our group consisted of my level 70 warlock, a
69 warlock, a 70 druid tanking, and a 70 paladin healing. At this
point, the paladin had to leave, but we decided to try the last step
in the quest chain anyway. So.. after we fought our way out so the
warlock could come with us, we headed for the field of crazed rock
giants for the final step.

Here, you have to put on a tabard that changes you into a blood elf,
and kill the rock giants. The problem here is our druid tank could
not shapeshift and keep the disguise, and without the disguise, you
can't complete the quest.

So after some trial an error we came up with a winning strategy. We
got both voidwalkers out. Since I was 1 level higher, and was better
geared than the other warlock and could generate more threat, I became
the tank. We loaded up the giants with dots, and I drain tanked the
giant, with the other warlock DPSing (and casting dots, which helps my
drainlife return more health), both voidwalkers offtanking adds that
resulted spawn during the fight, and the druid healing me as my drain
tanking would have never kept my clothy ass alive through the whole
fight. This strategy worked, and worked well.

So after all this, I fly back to Shadowmoon Village to turn in the
quest and reap my final reward. I talk to the guy and I have a choice
of 4 blue rings. I see a healer ring, a melee DPS ring, a tanking
ring... oh theres the caster ring. Whats that? +Int +Spell Dmg? No
+Stam? All that work for a ring that doesn't even have my primary
stat on it. I probably made 100g doing the quest, -10g for repairs
after my tanking experience, but to be offered a ring without my
primary stat... well, at least there was a vendor not more than 6
steps away.

The respawn timer needs to be nerfed. The elite that patrols with a
bunch of adds needs to be made stationary, and left in a place where
people have to fight him while doing the quests such that they get the
item that starts a quest that drops from him, and of course, nerf his
respawn rate. And allow druids to shapeshift while wearing the blood
elf disguise. Nothing like speccing to fill a certain role only to
have that role snatched away from you by a warlock only because you
have to look like a blood elf to complete the quest.

/rant off

On Sep 4, 10:27 am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS... DeleteThis @totalise.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:24:56 -0700, lcpltom <lcpl... DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
> >The Path of Conquest quests in Shadowmoon Valley. I don't know if
> >alliance have a version of this chain, but for horde it involves doing
> >various tasks along the Path, then using a flare gun to summon a wind
> >rider who you turn in the quest to, only to be given another quest in
> >the same area.
>
> We have that chain as well, only a small difference from what I'm reading
> of your post - we have to kill a few of the elite giants as well in the
> second step. Only one of my four 70s has actually got beyond the first
> stage...
>
> >The next step is to kill 2 named elites near the top of the path.
> >This would have been very easy if 1 group member had not been level
> >69. So we had to fight our way up to the named elites just so we
> >could bring this one member with us. This involved killing that one
> >elite about 5 times.
>
> If you were a warlock, why not just summon him to a nearby safe spot? I see
> below there were four of you with 3 being 70, so 3 fly to the spot and
> summon the 4th

We attempted this, result was disaster. We found a safe spot, started
to summon, and respawns got the warlock before the ritual could
complete. And you can't accept a summons in combat.

>
> >Here, you have to put on a tabard that changes you into a blood elf,
> >and kill the rock giants. The problem here is our druid tank could
> >not shapeshift and keep the disguise, and without the disguise, you
> >can't complete the quest.
>
> Ouch, and a strange one, as I'm sure I did it with a druid tanking and he
> got credit for it, that was quite some time ago though :-/
>
> >The respawn timer needs to be nerfed. The elite that patrols with a
> >bunch of adds needs to be made stationary, and left in a place where
> >people have to fight him while doing the quests such that they get the
> >item that starts a quest that drops from him, and of course, nerf his
> >respawn rate.
>
> That elite is ridiculous yeah, I remember killing him for the quest item,
> starting down the path to kill some mobs for the quest and oh whoops
> there's the elite again, wipe. (Ok this was two of us trying to duo it,
> optimistic at best, but it might've been possible without the damn elite
> pat coming as an add every few minutes)
> --
> EU-Draenor:
> Balgair - Human Rogue (lvl 70)
> Naomh - Draenei Priest (lvl 70)
> Sealgair - Dwarf Hunter (lvl 70)
> Rosad - Human Warlock (lvl 70)
> Sagart - Undead Priest (lvl 61)
> Sgoildubh - Human Mage (lvl 53)
> Beag - Dwarf Paladin (lvl 52)
> Cathach - Gnome Warrior (lvl 30)