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Valkyrion Must Burn

Use the Valkyrion Harpoon Guns to burn 6 Dry Haystacks.

	Fires Started (6)

Provided item:

	Incendiary Harpoons

Description

The crate is filled with incendiary harpoons. You recall seeing harpoon guns and dry stacks of hay outside.

Perhaps Iva will appreciate the extra effort and reward you appropriately.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Flamebringer's Crown		Steel-Tipped Snowboots
	Valkyrion Tracker's Chestguard		Wooly Stompers

You will also receive: 5 80

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

9,140 experience

Comments

Comment by mccart

At first I was looking for a lootable Harpoon gun to use, but it turns out the guns are turrets that you enter and use like any other vehicle quest. They are located to the southeast of the building where the Harpoon crate was.

Comment by zephiK

27,60 for the Harpoon Gun

Comment by zere

Quest starts at 24.0 / 61.6 from a barrel directly in front of Yulda http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?npc=30046
Turn-In at Iva http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?npc=29997

Comment by Eminence

horrible quests

at least for me, dunno what caused the bugs i had:

the skill says 2 sec cooldown. (on the cannon) and it didnt have one. not even global cooldown. 99.99999% of the shots i i did, just faded out into thin air and didnt hit the sacks...

very weird.

IT WAS doable though. just took some time. tried all the cannons, and shot at all sacks, eventually i went back, to the 2 cannons at 27,1 60,0. those seemed to work most often for me

Comment by Icithis

I mashed the firing arrow, and about 40 arrows in a continuous stream shot out until for whatever reason the cooldown was activated by one of the arrows. This arrow would go all the way and light the hay. So just button mash until it works.

Comment by Arivalis

i skipped it my frist time because it kept fading, but i just now picked up the quest and completed it with no complications, so i suppose just drop the quest and pick it back up

Comment by chrono2x

I was having the same problem with my harpoons vanishing before they hit the target. However they would hit 100% of the time as long as I was in combat when I was firing them.

Comment by Akay

The harpoon guns are scattered about Valkyrion, however the best spot is the center of Valkyrion. If you look closely on the map, you can see a graphic of a bonfire in the center of the city. You need to keep an eye out because the haystacks don't sparkle like normal quest items. They typically spawn right next to houses or in the carts. Keep an eye out, and you'll see them. The little aiming beam has a margin of error, so don't worry about hitting the stack on point.

Comment by kryonik

You can actually attack the opposite faction on PvP realms with the harpoon gun.

Comment by Doomgrip

For me the best way to set a haystack ablaze was to carefully aim the gun and then spam the fire button very fast until I got an error message about the ability not being ready. The last harpoon that triggered the cooldown would travel all the way to the haystack, and if the aim was correct it would set it on fire.

I have seen other players shoot without harpoons fading out so it might be an addon issue.

Comment by Hellxfire

Best Way to do this is if the arrows are glitching log onto another char for about 2 minutes than go back and try it again.

Comment by Stapler

If you're not that addicted you can also just log out for two minutes.

Comment by mahlani

I didn't realize it at first, but I had trouble aiming the turrets just right. You have to click with both mouse buttons in order to aim the turrets up or down.

Comment by Hanliam

This must work differently for different people because this worked just fine for me without being in combat or using both mouse buttons. I did notice that if someone else has just set the haystack on fire, your shots will disappear before they hit the stack. Make sure no one else is firing at the one you're going after and you should be fine. They have a really good respawn time also, so just wait in your turret until the ones you can shoot successfully respawn.

Comment by RobertELeet

If you hop off the harpoon gun before the arrow hits the hay, you do not get credit for the shot. Keep this in mind before you hop on your mount and make an escape.

Comment by DoctorHat

Also note you can't click on the haystacks or mouse over them, the just look like something which is party of the scenery.

Comment by holyaz

You can not attack mobs with these, so if your being attacked dont try and use the harpoon gun.

Comment by randyg1999

I had problems with harpoons not starting the stacks on fire also, but its true if you just agro a near-by mob then hop on the gun it works no problem. I didnt restart quest or log off either. Depending on how squishy you are you should be able to get all the hay stacks in 2-4 rounds, beats dropping quest and hoping it works the 2nd time around.

Comment by tmanmrt

Make sure you aim at the hay stacks that are outside the buildings!

Comment by skruf93

i had to logout 7 times! This quest sucks. Not A good Idea doing it if you dont got alot of time..

Comment by Meeneemee

A better solution, keep firing the gun until the cooldown appears.

Comment by Wolfy21

Next to the buildings is somthing like a small sack! Just target the sack next to the buildin with your canon than fire!Very easy quest! gl

Comment by Talostastic

Do the harpoons not have tilt control, or is this a graphical glitch on my part?

Comment by Syladind

I killed a few people with the guns. Its hilarious xD

Comment by Lashima

Aiming at the hay stacks, that's it. Took one shot each time after that :)

Comment by persuader

Do you have to do this quest to start doing dailies?

Comment by kaktuzz

TURN OFF ADDONS! Then it will work :)

Comment by Adulruna

*shakes head*

Addons, guys. Most addons seem to be programmed exactly so that they will bug the "vehicle" quests (no, actually, Blizzard has done a really lame job on them, and it's far from just the addons problem). Logout -> AddOns -> Disable All Addons -> Log back in -> Quest works.

Read the damn posts above you before whining.

Comment by soraman414

for me, all i did was hit the 1 key over and over again and after like 20 shot a good one came and got a cooldown. so it seems like it is totally random on when it will be an actuall good shot

Comment by Kazzack

i dont know what you guys are talking about...i had no trouble at all with this quest.

Comment by Reignhart

There is no point to log, the hay stacks respawn from 10 to 20 seconds.

Comment by Pulha

"Oh, hey Iva. I killed those Valk'yrs you told me to kill. I also killed that Yulda chick...
Oh, and i also burned their village to the ground."

Comment by BiogonEu

This quest is not friendly on those with poor graphics, at first I couldn't see any of the hay stacks, realised I had to turn up my distance before I could pick out any of the hay stacks. Once I did that this quest took less than 3 minutes, otherwise it was a pain in the butt :P

Comment by Darkravager

The fact that this isn't a daily breaks my heart. I kept it in my questlog for over a week to just shot up the town whenever I felt lie doing something different.

THIS QUEST IS HOW TURRETS SHOULD WORK!

Comment by Crushinator

So I'm still having the trouble with the aiming reticle. I've disabled all addons, I've tried logging an alt for 2 minutes, I even tried logging off for two minutes, and that was HARD!:) haha Had no problems doing this quest on my Warlock but now on my Paladin, the harpoon guns just simply won't aim, they point straight up in the air no matter what I do. If I'm able to move the guns an INCH, they pop immediately back to straight up in the air. I can't fire a single haystack! Any suggestions? I've opened a ticket, still no reply.

Comment by heavens

press key 'insert' and 'delete' will work
excellent for those have problem using that damn harpoon gun(couldn't aim, for example)
if you didn't change that 2 keys for something else

Comment by joudoid

Just aim for the hay bundle.

Comment by Deserpent

For those of you who have problems with aiming - go to your Key Bindings menu, scroll down to the near end of the list and find "Vehicle Controls".

Bind "Aim Up" and "Aim Down" on any keys you like and use those to aim up and down :) Aiming left and right is easy using mouse with right button pressed.

Comment by Trullion

I was having problems with the harpoon guns in Valkyrion for the quest Valkyrion is burning. For some reason they would not allow me to aim them anywhere. I could move them side to side but not up and down.

I was able to get the guns to aim by using the pitchup/pitchdown buttons, this seemed ot unlock the gun so that I could move it around with my mouse.

Comment by Termaq

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wZMyxn8Wjk

Comment by CobraA1

I don't recommend aggroing the monsters, especially if you have certain addons installed - it lead to all of my controls disappearing and I had to log out and back in to reset.

Comment by valdor

I could do this quest as an alliance player although wowhead classifies it as a horde quest.

Comment by schwesterdk

This quest has the same "FEATURE" as a daily quest in Icecrown, Shadow Vault, Vile Like Fire! : You can shoot at the same target. As soon as it has stopped burning, it counts again as a valid target. Sometimes the simplicity of the programmed AI makes you shame, and you may even want to play your game completely according to the obviously occationally loosely written Requirement Specification of the programming code, pretending that there are no bugs in the so beatifully written Azeroth. However the reason could have been the need to provide targets for other players too who are doing the same quest - without leaving people wait for a painfull spawning period? Of course the points counting logic here would require a lookup table, and a datatype which keep record of the burned individual targets also when the player changes place from one harpoon cannon to another - to be adequate. Ok! For how long should the count be in force? =8-\\

By the way it's a pity that the harpoon cannon doesn't bring much damage for the NPC, in case you happen to aggro them by shooting at them. You just have to defend yourself with your own weapons. I tried this and a single Valkyrian aspirant called a whole bunch of them and half a dozen of Nascant Valkyrians too. Army of dead cleaned the stage, but was even though a little unsporty..? Funny that the harpoon can aggro the mobs so totally, but othervise you can in peace kill one after another without disturbing the rest of them.

Talking about "unsporty" solutions, in case the keyboard settings for insert and delete bring actual harm mentioned above, a pc-gamepad with free joytokey.exe - driver solve the matter too. A joystick can be temporarily mapped for this quest. However the mouse guidance was ok in my case.

Comment by destructorz

For me I hit the dry hay but it doesn't set the building on fire what do i do?

Comment by Arkuda

Aim at hay stacks near those buildings... Just did it like that without any logouts.
http://img67.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot080109120034.jpg/

Comment by greythork

Today while I was doing this quest, I had some alliance competition for the hay stacks. I kept getting them before she was able to, and I guess that annoyed her because she turned the canon on me and shot. I didn't take any direct damage from the canon, but the ground burst into flames and I took fire damage from that. I don't think she realized that would happen because she went back to shooting the hay.

I turned my canon on her and lit her up and from the conflagration she fell too below half hp. This is on a PVE server to boot and neither of us was flagged. A one time glitch or a known exploit?

Comment by pago

I wouldnt bother doing this quest, becouze you constantly will get attacked by flying mobs that will either destroy your weapon or you have to dismount and kill mob you chose, and second bad thing is that starting fire taking long time.

Comment by diablo108

**Correction** the harpoon gun is at "27, 59"

Comment by Sorwin

Wow shooting that is really addicting! i killed a horde with it hahahah!

Comment by Lithua

I cant find the harpoon I dont understand these numbered locations someone help.

Comment by Crystufer

This could've made a fun daily.

Comment by Valiath

I guess we'll be starting fire in an old-fashioned way!

Comment by dogmeat55

I hope they do not make this a daily. It need work on that harpoon gun.Level up.

Comment by jemoess

For anyone without a co-ords add on:

Exit the building you got the quest from. Go straight down the ramp to the wide dirt path/road, away from the blight pool. Move around the blue fire in the middle, taking the left side. On the ridge, you'll see two harpoon guns. They're in a patch of brown ground. In that pair, one faces the building you've just left, the other faces 90 degrees around.

There's another set of two directly East from those, a bit further back from the road.

Also, for those of you that don't know the targeting trick: hold down both mouse buttons to target, press 1 to fire. It's a heck of a lot easier that way.

Comment by Zeifos

The harpoon gun is at 27,60. Use it to shoot at 6 haystacks.

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