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Comment by selvin

You may have to wait a bit for the event to start, so be patient and it'll start up.

Comment by XxTimetoKillxX

Ji, and any other players that are on the quest will help you defeat the 3 "bosses". The bosses are monsters from the 3 previous expansions. Oggax is a gronn from The Burning Crusade, Gadoon is a hill-lord from Cataclysm, and Frozengore is a magnataur from Wrath of the Lich King.

Comment by Krastopic

Walk into the door (it looks like planks going up and down, hung vertically) to enter the instance.

Things don't get started until you walk up and stand next to Ji Firepaw.

You will fight three monsters will not be hard. At one point you will get Agro from Frozengore, just run to the edge and keep running around the edge of the arena until agro goes away. If you are a caster and can do a spell to freeze them, or a hunter with a trap, you can snare him with.

Once the battle is over you will be transported back outside to where Gorrash was standing when he handed you the quest.

Now you get to run back to the building where you first encountered Gorrash to turn in the quest.

Comment by thelaks

Well, that was disappointing. I was at least expecting something neat for a quest called "Hellscream's Gift"!...but just a measly 35c. Sad panda :(

Actually, I didn't even successfully do it. Ji died and then I did just before the last one went down. It still completed though.

Comment by Reignac

I'm not sure where Garrosh got his hands on a gronn or an ettin, but the magnataur is probably one of the ones from the novel Wolfheart. Garrosh kidnapped some children of the magnataur to force them to work for him and attack Ashenvale.

Comment by Shaid

Might be worth noting that you pass regardless of whether you actually kill them all or not. After taking down the Gronn, Ji was then severely weakened by the ettin, and died at the hands of the magnataur, leaving me to fight alone. I almost managed to kill him, but he hit me a little harder than I hit him, and I died. Still got quest credit, though I had a fairly long corpse run from the Valley of Wisdom.

Comment by iamnightmare

Site of upcoming brawler's guild. Treat this quest as a preview to that.

Comment by bubblyapple

If Ji dies, you fail the quest, even if you manage to kill all the monsters. I couldn't seem to heal him (I'm a priest) sooo I guess it's a race to kill the mobs before they kill Ji.

If Ji does die, just run back in there and everything resets.

Comment by jojopojo64

Interestingly enough, when they updated Ring of Valor to be the Brawler's Guild arena, many like myself were worried that they would bug this encounter. Turns out, they made a few cool changes.

While it does seem weird at first that Ji's in the center ring all by himself, once the encounter is ready, all Pandaren get ported into the center alongside him to fight in the ring, similar to a Brawler's Gulid queue. Meanwhile, the Ettin stands on a raised pillar outside the ring and pelts attackers with boulders while you down the Gronn. Once he's down, the Ettin comes to take his stand; meanwhile, the Magnataur tralalalas around the perimeter of the ring, charging anyone he fixates in his path.

Pretty cool aesthetic upgrade, if you ask me.

Comment by Fiammata

Forget jet lag. You fight now, orc-style!

But exotically.

Comment by mezili

He doesn't actually give you a gift, he just makes you fight things.

Comment by lamchopp

Anyone having trouble with this? The event is not starting up at all

Comment by FreelancerMerc

I was reading the comments here because the event didn't seem to be starting anytime soon, and while I was here I heard Garrosh talking. It seems all you have to do is wait for a little and the event will start on it's own!

As for the fight, it's easy really. I managed to keep Ji alive after the surprise start with Windwalker's monk stun. You need to kill the big guy first, then the second will come from outside the arena were he previously threw stuff at you and lastly the mob that keeps running around the room. I suppose you could change the kill order (Killing the running mob first and the big guy last). Only notable abilities are Frozengore's Fixate where you have to run away from him, if you chose a monk then roll is your friend.

Hope this helped. wait a moment...
FOR THE HORDE!

Comment by Andorana

Key points (some consolidated from others' comments and some new):

If you switched to Wowhead to lookup why the fight hasn't started yet, switch back now and make sure you're not in combat. Make sure your sound is on or that you can otherwise tell when the encounter starts before coming back to Wowhead. As others have noted you just have to wait for a while (up to 3-4 minutes) for it to start. From what I saw combat will automatically begin whether you're there or not.
The 3 "bosses" are level 10 Elites with a few thousand health each. Ji Firepaw appears to be level 10 too. Since your toon is probably around level 12 after the Wandering Isle quest chain you should be able to do this with just Ji, but it may be your first real challenge on this toon. If you're not confident you might want to wait to go in at the same time as others and fight together.
Before you go in you might want to upgrade your gear, either from the gold you picked up so far (~1 gold should buy you the best usable vendor armor/weapon at this point) or from mailed help from your alts or guildies. A strong gear advantage should help.
Healers, don't waste time trying to heal Ji (it won't work), fight alongside him instead. Hellscream's Horde doesn't need weaklings (who need others to heal them). By the time I figured out that I was doing the healing right but nothing was happening, Ji was almost dead and mid-way through the second boss.
If Ji dies don't panic. After I killed the third boss he popped back to life and I got full credit for the quest.
Healers, don't forget to heal yourself. As a Mistweaver, when I was hit for about 1/3 of my health I switched to , self-cast Soothing Mist, returned to Stance of the Fierce Tiger, and resumed attacking the boss.

Some RP or flavor oriented thoughts:

If you listen to Ji's chatter leading up to this it's clear he's having some doubts. But he sticks with his choice, that's why he's For the Horde! It doesn't have anything to do with his predilections for blowing stuff up first and trying to think of a reason later...
As a cute, cuddly, Zen, humanoid Panda you too might have some misgivings about this Hellscream's Horde to which you've pledged your life. Do you:
1. Follow Ji and commit to Huojin Pandaren (throwing good ~~money~~effort after bad).
2. Decide you're a naughty Pandaren who loves Garrosh Hellscream and will follow him anywhere (shh, don't anyone mention the Siege of Orgrimmar). Or follow the Darkspear Rebellion instead.
3. /facepalm realizing what you've done and /reroll a Tushui Pandaren so you can be with the other cute-things.
4. Come up with a more interesting backstory.
5. Laugh heartily at all this RP stuff and admit it: since they wouldn't put the Worgen in the Horde it's the only way to have fur in your natural form and be in the Horde.
If you're not in the Brawler's Guild (from another toon) then take any remaining time before the combat starts and look around (although it's empty now). It's going to be a long time before this toon can come back on their own and few others get the chance to see the Brawler's Guild so early.

Edit: -Added RP/flavor oriented thoughts. -Adjusted some phrasing for clarity.

Comment by LiquidCool

I thought he was gonna force Ji to kill a captured Aysa.

...Bummer

Comment by TheWheatOne

I believe its at this point, if you are truly a new player that happened to roll a pandaren first, that you say to yourself, "I #$%^ed up." Bliz really showed just how extreme Garrosh is relative to how Varian does things, and how people treat you while walking past.

Comment by machina2413

Sample video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbw6PDeevk

Comment by Traxus4

Worst. Gift. Ever.

Comment by Arkamor

I too was wondering if they had somehow captured Aysa, or since Ji was in there by himself, I was wondering if he had to fight first, and then me...maybe he would have died and been deemed unfit.

Seriously though, I wasn't around for Garrosh as warchief. I wasn't Horde really until a decent way into WoD...I'm glad I never saw him as Warchief. I almost didn't want to click Horde even though I'm pretty solidly Horde now, lol.

ANYWAYS, I ended up walking into the goblin teleport device and it seemed like that ported me, though it could have well been time based as some are saying.

Comment by WoWQHelps

HD Video Tutorial for this quest : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcbNFoJOOVo

Comment by Sunreaver

Leave it to Garrosh to construct a Thunderdome in the middle of his city.

Comment by Evalana

First time i was in the area i wasn't in the ring i just walked to the portal (when i was inside) and it teleported me inside the ring, thats when the quest started.

Comment by Sandwalker

I'm not sure this quest even exists any more. I've just got my new pandaren mage to Orgrimmar (whereupon I was very surprised to see Garrosh present, as well as Vol'jin), and he offered 'Joining the Horde' and 'The Horde Way', but not this quest, leaving me apparently unable to use my Chauffeur mount. Logging out and in again, however, seems to fix this issue, and now I can ride (or be driven around in) my chopper.

The joys of continuity breakage.

Comment by Wyr3d

Currently marked as "obsolete, removed by Blizzard" - but I'm not sure this is true. After completing the pre-quest, The Horde Way (30313), the NPC for the second part of this quest (other Garrosh, outside the Arena) spawns and waits patiently for the quest turn-in.

The problem is you can't accept the quest coz of the changes that broke the chain, so rather than "mark as obsolete" Blizzard need to set the quest to auto-accept, so it can be completed; or remove the spawned NPC that ill only be there harassing Panda.

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Hellscream's Gift

This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Complete Garrosh's test by defeating Oggax, Gadoon, and Frozengore.

	Complete Hellscream's trial

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I need to know if you can fight... that you can kill, and live. Eventually, each of you will be called upon for war, and I need to know that you can be counted on.

I mentioned a gift earlier. It lies here, within the Ring of Valor. Step into the arena, right through this door behind me. I will test your skills.

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You will receive: 35

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

155 experience
500 reputation with Horde

Hellscream's Gift

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