Attunement to Mount Hyjal

[MongoJerry]

http://www.worldofraids.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2650

Caverns of Time: Mount Hyjal will ship with World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade expansion retail launch. The dungeon requires 25 player raid groups. However, not everyone can enter the dungeon. This dungeon requires many pre-requisites:

1. You must be level 70

2. Complete Caverns of Time: Durnholde (Old Hillsbrad) and Complete Caverns of Time: Dark Portal (Black Morass).

3. Talk to Soridormi (Adult) - the consort of Nozdormu. You may find her roaming around the clockwork in Caverns of Time. She will give you a quest titled: The Vial's of Eternity.

However, this is no 1-2-3 immediate quest. To acquire the two vials of eternity requires the completition of many quest chains that will take months to accomplish and good gear.

4. You must complete the Cipher of Damnation quest chain in Shadowmoon Valley and the Stormspire quests in Netherstorm. The Stormspire quest chain starts in Area 52 with the Consortium Ethereal. The chain ends when Nexus-Prince Harammad sends you to A'dal with a crystal. Maybe you should have talked to Akama at the Warden's Cage in Shadowmoon Valley.

5. A'dal will give you the Arcatraz Key quest: The crystal key is divided in two halves. The first half is held by the last boss of Tempest Keep: Botanica - Splintertree. The second half is held by the last boss of Tempest Keep: Mechanar. Once you assemble the Arcatraz Key and have completed the two quest chains: Stormspire and Cipher of Damnation -- Khadgar will talk to you, asking you to talk to A'dal. A'dal will give you the Kael'Thas dungeon key chain quest. The key is named Tempest Key - for the final showdown with Prince Kael'Thas Sunstrider.

6. Brace yourself - - you need to be revered with the Sha'tar Reputation faction to obtain the Tempest Keep Heroic-Dungeon key, Revered with the Lower City to obtain the Auchenai Key to unlock the Auchindoun Dungeons in Heroic-mode, Revered with the Cenarion Expedition to unlock the Heroic-mode for Coilfang Reservoir dungeons, and Revered with Thrallmar/Honor Hold to unlock the Heroic-mode Difficulty for Hellfire Citadel dungeons. Hope you have had fun reading this far.

7. Complete Trial of the Naaru: Mercy; Trial of the Naaru: Strength; and Trial of the Naaru: Tenacity. No easy task ... for you have to complete the three trials in Heroic-mode. Trash mobs hit for 15,000 non-crit damage, no less. You have to kill Murmur in Auchindoun: Shadow Laberynth, retrieve an unused Axe of the Executioner from Hellfire Citadel: Shattered Halls, Kalithresh's Trident in Coilfang Reservoir: Steamvaults, and to rescue Millhouse Manastorm (gnome) after killing the last boss of Tempest Keep: Arcatraz. Once you have completed those four dungeons in Heroic-mode, return to A'dal and he will grant you the Tempest Key to enter Prince Kael'Thas dungeon -- which requires 25 players. Kill Kael'Thas and loot his Vial of Eternity.

8. Now you need to kill Lady Vashj and loot her Vial of Eternity. No data has been gathered concerning the requirements to enter Lady Vashj's dungeon.

9. By now you should be Friendly with the Scales of the Sands faction.

10. Now you can enter Caverns of Time: Mount Hyjal

In this dungeon you go back in time 4 years into the past to fight alongside Malfurion Stormrage, Tyrande Whisperwind, Thrall, and Jaina Proudmoore against Archimonde and the Burning Legion. Your mission is to stop the Infinity Dragonflight from altering time.


THE VIALS OF ETERNITY

INTRO

Soridormi: The Battle of Mount Hyjal is one of the most well-guarded events of this timeline. Should an intruder alter its outcome, the impact would extend to all subsequent moments in history.

As the Aspect's prime mate I'm far more in tune with the flow of time than other bronze dragons. I recently sensed a minute ripple in time emanating from the events surrounding the Battle of Mount Hyjal. Someone or something is attempting to change this timeline and they must be stopped.

Soridormi: Seven vials were drawn from the Well of Eternity by Illidan. He poured three into the lake on top of Mount Hyjal and a second Well of Eternity was created. For years the rest were believed lost.

With the opening of the Dark Portal, we've come to know that he gave one each to his lieutenants Kael'thas and Vashj. Retrieve what remains of them; we wil need them as foci to open a gateway to any events tied to Mount Hyjal, recent or ancient. The outcome of the Battle of Mount Hyjal must be preserved.

I've asked the impossible of you, yet I expect you to succeed. Much depends on it.


QUEST OBJECTIVES

Soridormi at Caverns of Time wants you to retrieve Vashj's Vial Remnant from Lady Vashj at Coilfang Reservoir and Kael's Vial Remnant from Kael'Thas Sunstrider at Tempest Keep.

Rewards: 24g 60s

[Mirajj]

Sounds like a lot of fun to me. I wonder how long they'll keep it intact like that until the...ah...complaints...of the "casuals" drown them out and it's nerfed some so everyone can experience it.;)

[Zarathustra]

Sounds like a lot of fun to me. I wonder how long they'll keep it intact like that until the...ah...complaints...of the "casuals" drown them out and it's nerfed some so everyone can experience it.;)

Hopefully that won't be a problem. So-called "casual" players didn't seem to have much interest in the AQ40 Scepter quests.

[Ruvanal]

Hopefully that won't be a problem. So-called "casual" players didn't seem to have much interest in the AQ40 Scepter quests.

The scepter quest line was required to be done once on the server to open the gates to AQ20 and AQ40. So the only interest that a casual would need to concern themselves with is that someone on the server did it, then they would get access to those instances. This quest line sounds like it will be required for each player that is going to go there, as in the Onyxia Key quest lines. As a good point though, it sounds like doing the reputation building needed for those is not that serious of a grind from the reports that I hear from the beta players. It will keep players that just cap at 70 from immeditately charging into that instance right away; effectively making them do their dues first.

[Mavfin]

Looks like fun to me. But I'm a quest monkey anyway. YMMV.

[Artega]

Looks like fun to me. But I'm a quest monkey anyway. YMMV.

Ditto. Not crazy on the raid-heavy part, since I much prefer PvP to PvE, but I enjoy quest chains with a solid story.

[MongoJerry]

Comments from a guildie who's been in the beta for a long time:

That quest was the BEST quest in all of warcraft.

Start at the base camp with Jaina and the human, get beat down, fall back tot he orcs with thrall.

get beat down, fall back to the night elves.

Then somehow stupid #$%&ing wisps save the day lol.

I hear Hyjal will be just like the quest from warcraft III. A single long scripted timeline like event that proly last 2-3 hours.

Summary:

Revered with:

Lower city
Thrallamar
Cenarion expedition
Shat'tar

Thats quite a grind of the instances, you get about 2-3000 rep per run some have a special type of item you can turn in for some bonus rep.

You can't even begin going from honored --> revered untill you hit level 67 ish +

Cause you only get rep past honored in:

Shattered halls
Shadow labs
All of tempest keep
Steamvaults

Thats alot of work to do for a 25-30 man raid force months and months of work.

It will be worth it though, Hyjal is gonna be badass.

[Warlock]

Pretty sweet quest chain. Hopefully there will be an equivalent series for groupers.

[The Gnu]

Not like I wasn't planning on doing all that stuff anyways. :rolleyes::P

[Sword_of_Doom]

Comments from a guildie who's been in the beta for a long time:

It really is not that bad. I just hit 70 with my beta character and I am friendly or honored with all those factions without even trying. Also i have done Shattered Halls and Steam Vault and they are 1 hour to 1. 5 hours long. Faction grinding is not even close to the old game its easy and very attainable. All instances i have done are quick and max 2 hours or less. They are shorter with quick efficient groups. So far i am loving beta and the instances are well done with Naxx style strategy and flavor. I think Blizzard has a major winnner on their hands with TBC.

Attunement to Mt. Hyjal is not going to take months. Its going to be much shorter than that and very attainable. The Caverns of Time quests are extremely fun and again not that long. I think i did one of them in 1.5 hours. Rep is not a GRIND, i repeat its not a grind and it seems very easy to get revered with any faction you want. Exalted obviously will take a bit longer.

[The Gnu]

Rep is not a GRIND, i repeat its not a grind and it seems very easy to get revered with any faction you want.

This is my experience as well. You hit honored with pretty much every faction without trying, you get revered once you've done all quests and some instance runs, and exalted is a bit of work. Seems to be well tuned IMO.

[Warlock]

This is my experience as well. You hit honored with pretty much every faction without trying, you get revered once you've done all quests and some instance runs, and exalted is a bit of work. Seems to be well tuned IMO.

If you want exalted is it still best to grind the early levels, saving quest turnins?

[Xanthix]

On a related note, does anyone have a list of all the instances in BC, and what is needed to key for them? Someone told me that every 25-man needs a key of some sort, and I realized how little I knew about the raids of the future.:)

[Pantalaimon]

On a related note, does anyone have a list of all the instances in BC, and what is needed to key for them? Someone told me that every 25-man needs a key of some sort, and I realized how little I knew about the raids of the future.:)

There's a nice flowchart up in the crossroads forum. :D Hold on a sec...

Clicky

[Xanthix]

On a related note, does anyone have a list of all the instances in BC, and what is needed to key for them? Someone told me that every 25-man needs a key of some sort, and I realized how little I knew about the raids of the future.:)

I was curious, so I scoured the internet and made a chart of all the instances and their keying requirements. Here's a link to a pic, as the chart is quite large:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a389/Wik...BCinstances.gif