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Comment by Tova

Basically just clear out a big area around the drakes and start laying them where you can.

Comment by clownshoes

Yep pretty much, took me a while to figure out

Comment by Wealth

I took the first little "top" with crystals and place'd the things around it, i got 5 of those buffs when i was on the top of the crystals place

Comment by Nula

Pretty confusing quest imo.

Comment by enervate

The quest is easy. Clear out an area, and lay five scanners in a star formation. The overlap point will be the centre of the star.

Comment by Flyv

To do this quest you need to be in Singing Ridge, in the vicinity of 60, 76. Clear a large area (5-6 mobs worth) and then start dropping scanners. Every time you drop a scanner there's a chance a Wyrm from Beyond (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=21796) will spawn. Not too hard to solo, but keep an eye out.

You have to work fairly quickly, the scanners are on a short timeout. The scanners have some restrictions on where they can be placed, but it's not simply distance; I've put two within five yeards of each other Look to your buffs for plus-sign shaped buffs showing you the scanners in range, and a minus-sign shaped debuff if you can't drop a scanner where you're staying.

Comment by juliomoralesm

Esta facil, solo limpias el area, tienes cuidad de un elite, haces un cuadro, y arriba del cuadro a la mitad de el pones un poste y listo.

Comment by Liscadipesce

Here is a quick video I put together to show how it's done. Sorry for the somewhat bad quality, you can see whats goin on though. Hope this helps.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4128515249062363025&hl=en-CA

The music I used was Children by Robert Miles.

Comment by tripler6

This quest is easy if you just happen to do this when there are another 5-6 people grinding this crap. If its just you, this quest sucks big time.

Comment by Docjowles

As a mage, this is quite literally the worst quest in the game. The dragons all have incredibly high resists, they spawn like crazy, do a mana burn, etc. If this place isn't being camped by several people, don't waste your time.

Comment by Poposhka

im not too sophisticated, i just killed a bunch of mobs and popped up the oscillators whereever i could, after about 6 i got a completed message..

but my compy was lagging liike mad!

Comment by termitehead

Also, be careful of where you place the nodes. if you are too close to the eggs or crystals in the area you can get trapped inside of them and you will have to wait for them to despawn.

Comment by wodelaotian

This quest is really easy as a mage. First place a scanner, and run away to any direction until u can place another scanner, instead of place down another scanner, turn around facing the 1st scanner u placed and hit blink, and hit the scanner immediately. You should be able to place 2 scanners right by each other.

x---------------x
x---------------x
--------x

Place the scanners like above and..done~ :)

Comment by Savanaah

Keep getting 'invalid target' I've done everything to try and get this quest to work.. Why isn't it working?!

Comment by sleye

You have to put them in order like this

#2 .....................................#3

...................#1

#4 ......................................#5
so just place #1 and then make a box around it
after you set #5, run to #1 and the quest will complete itself

Comment by Jericon

This is quite a bit simpler when you are neutral with Netherwing. That way you do not need to worry about clearing the drakes.

Comment by theamericanidiot

I just put mine in a star pattern, and stood in the center. Poof, done.

...............X..................
..................................
X................................X
..................................
.....X.....................X

Comment by Badadz

I must have been super lucky. saw a a set that someone alse had layed down and running through it completed my quest.

So keep an eye out for somneone already doing it as long as you have the quest in your log.

Comment by Streifen9984

Definitely clear a large area before starting. It may take a few tries to get a pattern down, and you don't want to be there when the mobs start spawning again. CLEAR FIRST!! The mandatory distance you have to place the scanners is quite large. Your best bet is to stay away from the area that Dreadwing patrols.

Bring a friend or find someone nearby to help you and this quest becomes extremely easy. It is also very possible to solo this at 66.

Comment by TaizeR

The rewards of the quest have some pretty awesome names.
=]

Nice and easy. B)

Comment by Hatebreed0

this is the hardest and ignorant quest there is. save it for when you r neutral w/ the wings and it's less annoying, but still hard.

Comment by craigavonite

I don't know why everyone is complaining about it being hard, it's really easy. You don't need to go mad clearing mobs, run towards Singing Ridge, andd just where the zone name changes to say "Singing Ridge" lay your first poles - the bottom 2 points of the star shape. Then just move forward as little as possible to lay the rest, I did this only having to kill 2 crystal flayers, no major clearing involved at all

Comment by quenty95

I didn't really understand this quest or really what to do, so i just kinda ran around in a circle placing them, and eventually i got quest completed.

This quest will be kinda annoying with out a pet for when the guys spawn, i am a hunter so i was able to just have him agro them and keep placing..

the video posted on here is a great tool, i recommend you watch it.

Comment by MOonmatt2

If your having trouble doing it look at the pictures and use the star one =)

Comment by amnty

dont waste your time with this quest. the exp and rewards arent worth your time clearing and trying to get oscillators in the right places.

Comment by Wingu

I can confirm as well that the posters "box" is missleading. Try picturing as a house instead, like in the attached picture.

Comment by fitey

Did this quest in liek 2 mins, cleared 3 dragons laid 6 in the largest circle I could and ran back to town before all the mobs that I aggrod could kill me.

Comment by crysco

Stupid quest, but challenging, I'd skip it unless your bored.

Comment by Kascus

Go to 59.81, 74.12 and clear the dragons. Drop the first on at same location I just mentioned before. Then make a box around it. I placed mine at four corners of the area but only went far enough to where it would let me place them. There is a marker in your buff screen that shows a minus if you can't place it. Pretty easy. You do get some 67 or 66 beasts but nothing to hard to handle. I did it solo at lvl 70 as a Prot spec warrior. Screen shot is forthcoming. I will add the corrds above as the caption.

Comment by Hatebreed0

is their any coords to place the markers cause it's impossible to do w/o them and Tomtom only allows you to set 3 WP's which makes it more retarded then it already is

Comment by BrownMagickz

hatebreed, get cartographer, you can set like 5 wp's, i think

Comment by kalvalla

You can just run back and forth just inside the singing ridge and place the resonators in a line. It only measures the distance to the last one placed and not the distance to the one placed before the last. I let whatever spawned hit me until I had all 5 down. Took about 15 to 20 sec and I didn't have to clear any drakes out. I was getting ticked trying to make a pentagram and just tried the linear approach.

Comment by joag

This quest can be easier than it looks. Even if you don't get the right pattern with the dropped scanners, you may be able to complete the quest by mounting up and running through. You'll still need to drop at least 5 scanners, but the lines don't HAVE to make the right pattern.

Each positive (+) buff lasts about 2 seconds. Run through and pick up a buff or two from one area, and then get 3 or 4 from another and you can have get your 5. All the quest requires is that you have 5 of those buffs on you at once. =)

Comment by bleiddyn

Also, if you're a druid who happens to have flight form, this becomes trivial. Just drop the scanner, pop into flight form, and take off, fly to next, and repeat. You might summon worms, but they get very sad when you fly away. They don't hang around after, either.

Comment by elevatorrider212

If you run away from the Wyrms, they will despawn after you disengage. This is easiest done if near Toshley's Station, so you don't need to worry about aggroing the dragons or flayers.

Comment by speexz

how to do just impossible i can't

Comment by Preliatus

If you are having trouble with the pentigon pentigram I found it easier to make the usual Box then go to the middle real fast and go towards the left a bit and plant it. I stood there with a weird box with a hole in the middle. That completed the quest and it did seem easier then the demonic Pentigram.

Comment by Vesitin

I've never been able to figure this quest out before, for some reason. I was working on my 4th 70, my druid, and I decided I'd give it another shot.

This time I got it. First I made a Rectangle, then I put another point to make a triangle on top of the rectangle. Then I made another point in the center of the rectangle and I was done.

The picture I submitted shows it all. Look for Vespaa the druid. I didn't use flight form to figure out where to put them, only to take the picture. Be sure to clear the area first and this quest is a cake walk, really.

Comment by McPoowl

The "triangle on top of the rectangle" is not neccesary. Just make a triangle and place one more scanner in the middle. Done!

Comment by gerwim

This is how I did it:
http://i37.tinypic.com/29cs4us.jpg

I made 5 points, which are circled in red.

Comment by Seersha

I don't think it exactly has to be a star pattern...mine looked nothing like it. It looked like a half melted square.

Comment by Valdan

OMFG ppl this is easy. Go to 60,76 make a square box and the 5th one place in the middle of the square. EASY!

Comment by Arearda

I agree with McBainXIV

This quest was impossible on my mage. By the time I had an area clear, there were mobs respawning in the same place. Also, the wyrms use mana burn and will continuously hit you. A mage can only stand a few hits, and with Mana burn I had to sit and eat/drink every time I layed down one of the nodes.

So not worth it in my opinion.

Comment by sigsauer40

when i try to put on down the little had turns grey and when i put it over my self its blue, then when i click it says "invalid target, any help?

Comment by Mylii

Very easy! Just make a star and run around in it until it says complete.....that's what i did

Comment by eutopia

Something exactly you need to know.
Make any shape that produces five or more beams.
Run ACROSS five beams (not along them) quickly. It's done.
With eacn beam you ran across, you get a buff which lasts only 2 seconds.
You need to collect all these five buffs before they fade and that will complete the quest objective.
It took me an hour before I figure out what it means, since no one here mention that.

Comment by jh443

This quest is definitely not worth it for clothies. While you'll probably get a spell power increase of about 15, you'll also probably have to give up some INT (aka "Mana") in the process. While the Spirit (aka "MP5") isn't bad, it doesn't offset the loss of mana.

Comment by HaddonEast

Its ok clearing an area, except they respawn again within minuts.
Ok if ur high power character, but then u wouldnt be waisting time in that local "Would You" especialy when ur lvl crunching, Abandone it, total waist of time for the reward,,,,, CRAPPPP

Comment by Gannok

I had no problem doing this quest. I didn't have to clear any mobs at all in fact. I only had to deal with the Wyrm things that spawn from the portals this quest opens.

I started by just going into the Singing Ridge zone and dropping a beacon. When you are in a certain range of a beacon, you get a debuff that tells you that you are to close to a beacon to drop another one. So what I did was run away from the beacon, and waited for the debuff to go away. Then I ran back towards the beacon and got fairly close to the beacon, and dropped another one before I could get the debuff again. I was able to pack them fairly densely this way. Then, rinse and repeat.

Comment by sorband

as a 67 Affliction Warlock i was able to do it... eventually. Didn't clear much, mounted and looked at the screenies on wowhead to make my pentagon :D

Comment by chailey

Something I noticed when I was doing it just now was that the negative buff seemed a little slow to fall off. Once it fell off, I noticed I could back up quite a ways before picking it back up. So, it might help to know you don't need to spread it out as much as it might seem you do, you might just need to give the negative buff a couple seconds to fall off.

Comment by Vastus

I just wanted to make a note that this quest seems to be a reference to the movie "From Beyond". In the movie a scientist uses a machine to create resonance frequencies that bring the worms and such "from beyond" to our realm.

Comment by killmurlocs

I found an odd thing on my dwarf hunter, when i place the things i place them on top of myself trapping me inside and object and that's really bad when ur a hunter (tried disengage).

Comment by malrion

As a prot paladin i had severe problems doing this quest due to the mana burning spawns with my low single target dps. so after trying a couple of times i died running around like a headless chicken with 4 spawns and a huge group of mobs on me and only 4 buffs...
feeling rather beaten i decided to try it in a different way.

i bound the use of the item to mouseweel up and my flying mount to mouseweel down and i just spammed mount the moment i dropped the item. Flying up asap and leaving the spawn on the ground. Then flew to the next location, dropped down between mobs and spammed the item and mount again untill i had 5 totems in a rather random order. after that i just flew over/between them with flight speed and had the 5 of the buff on me in short order
also seems like a good tactic for mages to me

doing this i was able to get the quest in 5 minutes. but only after wasting half an hour on running around making pegan symbols in an online game :(

Comment by carwik149

You have to clear a feild and ley out 5 "Oscillating Frequency Scanners"
and stand in the middle of them.. you should have 5auras called
"Oscillation Field" If you have them your done! =)

Comment by Animexlife

Just lay the things all over as many as you can as close as you can. don't worry about formation. all you need is to have the + buff on you, five at 1 time. so run through them with your mount, and try.

Comment by KeybladeBandit

I actually got this by just sticking them in random places where they'd go and running around. Really isn't much in the way of strategy... Or I just got lucky.

Comment by untossable

This is probably the most stupid quest I have ever done.
I really can't count how often I've read "you can't do this..."
Do yourself a favour and just skip that quest.

Comment by link07

on my first try i was just randomly placing them, then i let them time out, and on my second try i had it in less the 3 mins

Comment by davey1971

DUDE ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS MAKE A BOX AND PLACE ONE IN THE MIDDLE! DUUUHHH!

Comment by WhiteLama

One of the easier one out there, if you have a brain.

As the above me poster stated, just make a box with one in the middle, easy as that. Got if after 1 minute.

Comment by Jackielol

Took my lazy brain a while to get this but here's what I did..
http://oi53.tinypic.com/jq02sx.jpg

Comment by brickeater

Just put them freakkin' everywhere. Tat worked for me.

Comment by slimetiger

The easiest way to complete this quest is to drop a scanner, then mount up on your flying mount and fly straight up. After you loose your debuff, dismount (in mid air) and drop a new scanner. It will still appear on the ground even though it is dropped in mid air. rinse and repeat and you will have 5 scanners on top of each other.

Comment by MrGubs

Just kill any Monsters in an area, then run around in a circular way and place the Scanners around, took me only two tries to get it completed.

Comment by WeerdK

This quest was actually really easy (I'm a lvl 66 mage) I just made a shape that had five lines and ran across all five. Died after that because I got caught by a drake but oh well!

Comment by dbratton54

OK. After going through the above posts, I finally hit on how to do this. You will need to clear a fair sized area first. Then place your first scanner off to one side. You will get a + and - buff. Move away from the scanner until the - buff drops. (Using a mount is suggested.) Then you can drop scanner two. Move away again until the - buff drops and drop scanner 3. Repeat until you get all five dropped. Mount up and get all five + buffs by riding around to the scanners. Done.

Comment by JamieRawrasaur

mine didnt look anything like a star lol, but i just randomly pllaced them where i could, faught off the mobs then stood in the middle. took about 4 minutes. easy =] if not a little annoying

Comment by Scoobyboo

I hate Outland...
I simply cannot stand the tiresome quests with each and everyone of them having to look up here to know what it is I need to do
-_-

Comment by fordahord

I don't think this is as hard as everyone is making out. Perhaps it's been nerfed a bit.

It is very helpful to start right at the boundary of Singing Ridge and Razor Ridge (just north of Toshley's Station). That way there aren't a lot of mobs to bother you.

I think it is very helpful to plan to fly between stops. Go until your ' - ' debuff disappears and drop a scanner, rinse and repeat. Whether you 'box', 'circle', 'house', or' pentagram' doesn't seem to matter all that much.

It takes more time to read the complaints here than it does to do the quest. The rewards don't amount to much for either leather or clothe wearers, but a quest is a quest....

Comment by sucosam

Drop the gauges in a square box shape, so one at each of the four corners and then put one in the middle of the box. kill mobs as needed and once all five are laid down, mount up and run over the 'lines' of enery between the gauges. It is not necessary to travel far from the quest start point but it will let you know if you have to back up further in order to drop them.

Comment by Achloryn

It's worth noting that some buff addons will interfere with you seeing how many different "Resonant Frequency" buffs you have. As was mentioned, the quest completes when you get 5 of them, but since they're all titled the same and have the same duration they can be a bit spastic. The buff addon I run is called "Raven" and it only showed one, but I still got the quest complete after a couple tries.

Comment by GRAPEfedGODDESS

I've been following Wowhead for a while now, but have never felt the need to create an account and let me voice be heard. Until now. I created an account for the sole purpose of letting my opinion on this quest be known. It is by far the stupidest thing I've ever done, and when we're talking about WoW, that's a real low bar. Really, Blizzard. Ridiculous. Absolutely ludicrous. Can we give this quest some sort of Most Absurd Quest Award?

Comment by GhostPants

Been on this quest for days now. Impossible. Level 70 frost mage.

Comment by GitGudGuides

Gauging the Resonant Frequency http://youtu.be/YiwNK98yUd0

Comment by Boxofbeer

Gauging the Resonant Frequency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxDlTG0zI40

Comment by Animexlife

Update at 8/28/2015 I did this on a feral druid, level 65. Clear the mobs out in an open area, then put the charges in a square, doesn't have to be perfect. Then one more in the middle..then you're done. Simple. Took about 5 minutes.

Comment by NessieMo

When placing all five in a rough circle, I found it impossible to get all five buffs, as they expired so quickly.

I was given a great tip which helped me, form a square, then drop one in the centre, and you'll complete the quest immediately because all the oscillation fields cross the centre.

Comment by Dougeh

The most metal quest in TBC.

Comment by MisterRik

This seems to be bugged (August 16, 2016). No matter where I am in the Singing Ridge, attempting to use the item just gets me a red "Invalid Target" error.

Comment by zaonpt

Most stupid quest EVER .

Comment by melodelic

I just did this, and like other comments in previous patches, I did a square with the posts. I put down a post wherever it allowed me to for the four corners, and then put a put a post down in the middle where it allowed me to. The hardest part was finding the spot in the middle that allowed me to put down a post.

Comment by starcraft7

eutopia hit the nail on the head, as a level 71 Hunter, I was done in less than two minutes.

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Gauging the Resonant Frequency

Place the Oscillating Frequency Scanners in such a way that when you stand amongst them, you are hit by 5 overlapping Oscillation fields.

	Oscillating Frequency Scanners (Provided)
	Singing crystal resonant frequency gauged

Description

Take these scanners to the Singing Ridge. By dropping them in a pattern on the ground, you will create overlapping fields that will read the amplitude of the crystals. Stand amidst them in such a way that you're in five oscillation fields and I'll have the information that I need!

Your scanners will even work with those that others drop.

Oh, and it's likely that a rift will be formed! I have no idea what, if anything, will come out of it, but be prepared for the worst.