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Series

1.	Escape from Silverbrook
2.	A Swift Response

Storyline
Grizzly Hills Local Support Close the Deal A Tentative Pact An Exercise in Diplomacy Northern Hospitality Wolfsbane Root Filling the Cages Truce? Vial of Visions Subject to Interpretation Sacrifices Must be Made Heart of the Ancients My Heart is in Your Hands Voices From the Dust Test of Mettle Words of Warning Escape from Silverbrook A Swift Response Secrets of the Flamebinders Thinning the Ranks Descent into Darkness Report to Gryan Stoutmantle... Again Hollowstone Mine The Damaged Journal The Runic Keystone The Runic Prophecies Softening the Blow Brothers in Battle Uncovering the Tunnels The Fate of Orlond Steady as a Rock? Check Up on Raegar The Perfect Plan Why Fabricate When You Can Appropriate? We Have the Power ... Or Maybe We Don't The Iron Thane and His Anvil Blackout The Captive Prospectors Looking the Part Cultivating an Image Put on Your Best Face for Loken Souls at Unrest A Name from the Past Ruuna the Blind The Failed World Tree The Thane of Voldrune A Dark Influence A Possible Link Children of Ursoc Vordrassil's Sapling Vordrassil's Seeds Ursoc, the Bear God Ruuna's Request Out of Body Experience Fate and Coincidence Anatoly Will Talk Sasha's Hunt A Sister's Pledge Hour of the Worg Nice to Meat You Therapy It Takes Guts.... Dun-da-Dun-tah! Drak'aguul's Mallet See You on the Other Side Chill Out, Mon Jin'arrak's End Raining Down Destruction Rallying the Troops Into the Breach Gavrock Runes of Compulsion Latent Power Free at Last

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Comments

Comment by Overseer10

This quest ain't easy...Don't worry about killing the Worgs, just spam Stun and run for your life

Comment by dwarfington

I killed a lot of worgen by letting them run up to me, hitting Thunder Clap to slow them down, and then spam bombs.

Overall, very fun quest to do.

Comment by haoma

let them catch up to you, throw a fire at your feet, thunder clap, sprint

Comment by Blyth

Just completed this on live.

Your the co pilot.

Tough quest - 7 out of 10 and you may need to do a test run to get the feel.

Distance to cover seems to be a 1000 yards, and not the shortest way there.

(After 2 tries - 3rd finished it)

I found the secret is to pan the camera so your looking behind you the whole time.

Spam thunder clap when they get close and spam dash(speed up) when its off cool - JUST after you thunder clap.

--- So,
1) Cam view behind at all times.
2) Hit thunder clap (called Trample) when they are niping at the horses heals or just before.
3) Dash (called Gallop) speed up to get away.
4) Throw a fire strike at them when you feel like it, but I hardly used it.

Comment by 240618

well...
that was easy

Comment by 65439

Do not dismount for any reason, because the quest will not be completed, verified twice.
Now the worgs are not had to kill even you fail they hit for a low amount if ur a caster aoe the hell em.
Fun quest enjoy!

Comment by 37710

this is by far the worst quest i have come upon in wotlk. i had to do the escort 2 times before realizing, like other quests, you have to disable add-ons before the abilities will work. i then got the "complete" sign and logged out to turn them back on - to realize the quest had failed...awesome.

Comment by 251549

I did this as a 73 warlock and I had my tier 5 set on. The horse counts as a pet so everytime I hit the worgs with the flame blast it healed the horse for like 2k hp. Made this quest a joke lol.

Comment by Dragonflame

It's a joke without the set bonus -_-

Comment by shockwaver

There are noticeably less amount of Worg if you take the quest right after someone else started it. I guess most of the spawns are busy chasing the first guy. ;)

Comment by 85606

just like all the other quests where you get on a vehicle... it takes about a minute or two before the spells start working for me, any ideas? i cant get a head start and by the time the moves start working the horse is at half health or lower...this prevents me from completing it

Comment by Femimid

Any one knows what Pre-Quest for this one?
It doesn`t work for me to take it up..

Comment by 152670

There is no "Thunderclap" in the horse's action bar. I presume you are talking about "Trample"? There are 3 actions available; an aoe burn attack with a long cooldown, the dash for 2 sec, and the Trample command I mentioned.

Incidentally, I ended up abandoning this quest after no less than 8 tries (6 deaths, 9g spent on repairs) - even using this method (spam Trample, Dash whenever possible). Blizzard went a bit over the top with this one. 7/10 difficulty? I'd rate it 9/10... Only attempt this quest if you are a VERY proficient player!

Comment by 31259

Really fun and very easy quest. Did it as a rogue if anyone cares for that info.

Comment by Derichian

this quest is the worst quest ever, how are u meant to escape when your horse is constantly dazed.. unless its just a bug with my char but everytime im on the horse the second the first worg hits me im daze-locked. wat a piece of %^&* quest

Comment by 238480

Escape from Silverbrook is bugged as hell. The control buttons (1, 2, 3) do NOTHING. I ran this quest 1/2 a dozen times and only got the buttons to half-ars work the first time. I even dismissed my pet first.

Comment by nkouzmad

I agree it was a difficult quest. I found that stunning, flaming, and then speeding away (or maybe speeding and then flaming? :-) ) was what worked; especially when there was a small group forming. I pulled my view back as far as I could to get the best perspective and I faced backwards the whole time as was mentioned. They seem to die easily and I think that flaming them kept them from becoming a huge mob. I actually enjoyed this once I began to get the hang of it. Good luck!

Comment by 11107

you must remember to use the fire - if you hit them once, the dot will kill them. Otherwise, all of them will eventually catch up with you near the end of the run, and basically zerg you down. A rotation of Stun, Speed, and Fire seemed to work for me.

Comment by 247

You can have a friend run interference in this quest as well. I stayed behind my buddy who was doing the quest spamming piercing howl as a warrior... she got through it EASILY without ever touching any of her horse buttons

Comment by 65239

Yes, that's the way to do it imo. You have to use burning oil and to kill some worgs, or there simply will be too much.

That's exactly what Jame explains in his tutorial video for this quest:

Tutorial Video

Tip: Watch in high quality

Comment by 65239

Comment by 39921

Finished this quest on my 2nd attempt.
First try to get the feel of it......2nd time I thought I bugged it but it finshed lol.
I jumped on the horse and then accidently clicked LEAVE VEHICLE, so he ran off without me...... so then I mounted and chased after him, surprisingly quest did not reset and no worgens spawned after him. I chased him down after a minute and hopped on the horse and continued to use the techniques above and finished it (with some free distance =D)

Now, I'm wondering if I could have just left vehicle and just mount and ride beside him all the way to Amberpine, cause no worgens seem to spawn unless your on the passanger seat
Anyone wanna give it a try? ;)

Comment by 168407

I pretty much just spammed every skill I had whenever it came up and barely made it, had around 400 hp left.

Comment by Iruxos

Here's my video of the quest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARQCx9ynMx4

Comment by 203757

if you have flying mount, do the same up stay above him no aggro and you can jump on it at the last min simple

Comment by 272182

it is kind of hard for me to find him around the area so make sure u look where he is n i never find him till i ask another player around the grizzly hill and then they show me where it was

for priest that is on dici or holy spec is it harder for u guys to fight him so run away if u can

Comment by 25475

What is the quest that you have to do in order to talk to the prisoner and accept this quest?

Comment by 179354

Yes.... my first few tries, my buttons werent working... so i disabled my questhelper and it seemed to work fine... i suggest you try it.

Comment by IceCracker

You'd have to be retarded to fail this quest, imo. It's embarassingly easy, I completed it with my horse at 40% health without even really trying.

-The absolute most important thing is to change your camera following style to "Never" if you haven't before (if you've made it this far in the game, I don't see how you wouldn't have by now, but I digress). To do this, press Esc or click on the options button, click on "Interface", click on the Camera tab, and click on the "Camera Following Style" drop down button, select "Never". This will keep the camera from resetting whenever you let go of your mouse button. This allows you to watch your six constantly (the other guy maneuvers the horse, your job is solely to keep the worgen off the horse).
-Spam your 2 ability (Gallop or some such thing, increases speed).
-Hit the 3 ability (Trample) whenever there's anything close, this will keep you from getting dazed as much as possible.
-Use the 1 ability (flaming oil or whatever) whenever there's a couple of them grouped up and slowed or on your ass. Just target right underneath or right behind your horse and it'll hit them for a dot that will kill them quite quickly.

I didn't hit the speed increase whenever it was up and missed with the oil quite a bit and I still completed with 40% health left, no one should really have trouble with this quest if you exercise a bit of common sense.

Comment by flymolo21

Got it in 1 try...barely. It is difficult just keep the camera facing behind at all times and when they get close thunder stomp and then run like hell fire sticks do come in handy if they jump on you. When they jump you thunder clap, fire stick and run!

Comment by 116644

this quest was FUN !
got you really involved the worgs. on your heels
thunder clap
nuke
speed
Whats with the going the long way?

Comment by helenlister

So.... some of you found a way of doing this quest without being attacked - how boring! Once I realised I was supposed to jump on the horse with the guy and defend it, it was easy, and a lot of fun! (I suspect the long route back was to make it even more fun; otherwise it would have been over far too quickly! :-)

Comment by mommyclz

When I did this the second time (died the first time) the guy jumped off the horse when I jumped on. I left him behind and did the whole quest sitting just behind an empty saddle. However, the quest completed successfully.

Comment by Poposhka

warning: do not mount the horse after you complete the quest (reach the lodge) and dismount (before it disappears) you will be stuck to a nonexistant/invisible horse. you can't hearth, can't move.

Comment by 291780

I have completed this quest 5 times now, however, it was always with a lv 73 or lower character.

I finally got around to doing it with a lv 77 Mage and failed 4 times in a row. There were quite a few more Werewolves this time around and so I ended up permanently slowed. I spammed everything I had available but I am guessing the number of attackers is based on your level. At 77 there are just too many to deal with.

Comment by 137993

I did this quest at night, and it certainly improved the atmosphere. That combined with how the Worgen dash at you on all fours as i throw boiling oil on them really made it seem like a horror movie or somthing.

Comment by 58040

I was able to do this with relative ease. Let them come close then trample them and throw a fireball. Sprint when you're inbetween waves. Trample's on a shorter cooldown than fireball so just keep spamming it.

Comment by 245687

I followed the post by Blyth on 11/15/2008 and it worked perfectly. Only used the oil if I wanted to, the stun every time they got close, and the sprint right after I stunned them. Good luck! =)

Comment by 283591

Don't logout after completing this quest until you've handed it in as it'll be marked as failed.

Comment by 267801

This is part of a very long quest chain.
Part 1 (Into Grizzly Hills, making friends)

The Hills Have Us (Ride a gryphon from Dragonblight to Amberpine Lodge in Grizzly Hills)
Local Support (Collect Cedar Chest (in a house guarded by 3 hordes))
Close the Deal (Simply go to Ivan)
A Tentative Pact (Simply go back to Lieutenant Dumont)
An Exercise in Diplomacy (Yet another go-to quest. Go to Envoy Ducal)
Total: 46700 xp, 575 Valiance Expedition rep

Part 2 (Helping the northern locals)
Finishing part 1 unlocks 2 independent quests

Wolfsbane Root (Collect 8 Wolfsbane Roots around 28.5, 38.5)
Northern Hospitality (Kill 8 Conquest Hold Marauders)
Do these 2 quest together
Total: 41500 xp, 0 rep

Part 3 (Is there something suspicious?)
Finishing part 2 unlocks this chain

Test of Mettle (Kill Sergeant Bonesnap and a guard next to him. Ignore the provided quest item)
Words of Warning (Go to Caged Prisoner)
Total: 31100 xp, 250 Alliance Vanguard rep

Part 4 (Something's wrong)

Escape from Silverbrook (Escort quest on a specialized vehicle)
A Swift Response (Kill 7 Silverbrook Hunters and Vladek)
Total: 41500 xp, 500 Valiance Expedition rep

Part 5 (Beginning of the World Tree chain)
Finishing part 4 unlocks 2 independent quests from and elf Hierophant Thayreen outside the house)

A Dark Influence (Use the provided item in 3 caved. Map here.)
The Failed World Tree (Kill Entropic Ooze to get 6 Slime Samples around the said caves)
Do these 2 quest together
Total: 41500 xp, 250 Valiance Expedition rep

Part 6 (Further investigation)
Finishing part 5 unlocks 2 independent quests

A Possible Link (Kill Frostpaw Furbolgs to get 8 Crazed Furbolg Blood)
Children of Ursoc (Listen to the stories of 2 bears in 2 caves at here)
Do these 2 quest together
Total: 41650 xp, 350 Valiance Expedition rep

Part 7 (Into the Tree)
Finishing part 6 unlocks 2 independent quests

Vordrassil's Sapling (Use the provided torch at the bottom of the center of the Tree. Being able to fly helps a lot.)
Vordrassil's Seeds (Collect 8 Vordrassil's Seeds)
Do these 2 quest together
Total: 41900 xp, 500 Valiance Expedition rep

Part 8 (Finale)

Ursoc, the Bear God (talk to Tur Ragepaw the druid to start the event. Kill Ursoc. Use the provided item on corpse. People have reported that this is soloable.)
Rewards: (1) Choose 1 of 5 rare pants (2) A shield that vendors for 7.5563g (3) 17.7g (4) 31450 xp (5) ? rep

Grand total of quest rewards: 285,850 xp (18% or 3.6 bars at lvl 74, 17.8% or 3.56 bars at lvl 75), 1925 Valiance Expedition rep

Comment by Xarlequin

Dunno why people moan so much about how hard this quest is. I did it in my first try with about 85% hp left on the horse O.o
Just make sure you use your CDs properly. Wait for more than one mob to get close to you before using thunderclap, then throw a fireball in their face and your out of trouble.
Gallop whenever you feel like it to speed up the quest

Comment by 129453

I've never had so much fun on this game. This was probably one of the coolest quests I've ever done. It is pretty difficult though, I barely made it on my first try. Let the worgens catch up to you in big groups then thunder clap, followed by the fire then sprint. Repeat until you get back to Amberpine.

Bravo, Blizzard!

Comment by 146327

No doubt this is a tough quest. But don't give up the first time because it actually gets a little easier the more you do it, and the more you know what to expect. I think we tend to relax a bit when we know what to expect. You'll also get your timing down better.

I was multi-boxing with 3 characters and in this case, each one has to do it.
By the third I was almost surprised that I was there so fast, it went very well.
But make sure you can see behind you, that is really important.

Comment by 60260

DISABLE QUEST HELPER before attempting this quest, it will bug and your skills on the horse will be unusable making the quest quite impossible to complete.

Otherwise, just pan your mouse to watch behind you as the horse runs, and when you toss the fire, target an area in front of you as it takes about 1.5 seconds to actually land.

Comment by Whittall

There's a pretty cool jump half way through the quests, where you clear a whole river. Thought I'd share that with you.

I found this quest rather easy, and fun. I got it on my first run.

My tactic was to let about 5 pile on me, "Trample" them, and then throw the fire into the crowd. (This should be fairly easy, as they walk very slow after Trampling).

Fun quest though, 8/10. :3

Comment by 308702

I wasn't paying attention, and I lost track of where the caged prisoner went. Where do I go if I forgot to follow him? Or how can I re-talk to him?

Comment by 290935

Did this a week after release on my Rogue, finished with ~50% HP left on the horse.

Just did this 3.08 on my Hunter and the ability buttons either don't work or lag badly. Quest glitched.

Comment by 290935

Confirmed. Tried 3 times with questhelper on, buttons were glitched. Logged out, Disabled QH, logged in and completed.

Comment by 290935

Confirmed. Tried 3 times with questhelper on, buttons were glitched. Logged out, Disabled QH, logged in and completed.

Comment by SYNTH3TICK

ummm why do the moves sometimes not work? i press them and theres no CD but they dont work. wouldve been soo much fun if the damned buttons worked lol

Comment by Jaspirac

This is an awesome quest. It took me two tries because I wasn't ready for it the first time. All you need to do is sprint whenever possible, shock them when they get to close and fire bomb as much as possible. Don't panic.

Comment by 302922

For anyone, who like me, forgot where the quest began, here are the COORDINATES: { 26.5, 31.8 }

if u left the quest and did other things...you might have to abandon the quest and restart it, in order to talk to the guy again :P

Comment by 278195

I have 2 level 80 horde characters, and I'm leveling my first alliance character through WoTLK right now. Just got done with this quest on him, and I must say, this is by far the most exhilirating quest I've ever done in this game.

Comment by 348590

Ok, Blizzard, that was an awesome quest. You're forgiven for making me poop.

Comment by Kcwah

85 % is quite a believable statement, but I didn't manage to do it on first try, took my 3rd try (after I came here to read a few tips). The thing the helped me most was having my camera tilt backwards to see everything that was gonna come at me, a sufficient use of thunder clap before the mobs got too close and perma dazed you was the key for me. The fire also helped, half way into the quest I had literally no mobs come at me because i had killed most of them.

Comment by 53267

Use sprint whenever you can.
Use trample whenever it's up and any mob is close enough.
Use oil only when the mobs are slowed, otherwise it will miss.

Comment by 9388

The first two tries, I had 10+ wogens on me from the get-go and I just couldn't kill them fast enough to get away. Then I noticed that there was another player doing this quest. The third try, there were way less worgens on me. Two to three in the first few waves and the most I had on me at the end was 7 or so.

So it's possible that if there are other players doing this quest, the worgens spawned for them might stay spawned and aggro you, making this quest super hard.

Comment by 295117

Probably the best quest i've seen in Warcraft so far. Great fun and not too hard provided you keep hitting the tools given to you.

Comment by Belse

I just loved the feeling of this place. When I realised that the village was full of worgen I just got this "Oh $%^&" feeling, felt like I was really there

Comment by MisterRik

I just want to say that I dislike anything that takes movement control away from me. The guy "steering" the horse seemed to be taking a completely nonsensical route when the obvious "good idea" would have been to get on the road and haul ass instead of riding around in circles like he was trying to pick up as many pursuers as possible. I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on.

Comment by Kharzy

Damn, it's easy!

Comment by Lazeros

Following on your own mount after jumping off his, works like a charm! I jumped on his mount a little after crossing the river. Spammed trample a few times while looking backwards and arrived at Amberpine with over 9300 health left. Very easy this way.

Comment by 392264

I can see this quest becoming quite awkward once Worgen are playable.

Comment by 65521

It's not nearly as difficult as people are saying... you certainly don't have to 'cheat' the quest. You actually only need to hit the trample ability and can ignore the other two.

Getting dazed is going to be the biggest problem, so trample BEFORE they hit you (it has a wide radius). Then sprint to put more distance between you and them (or not, it really doesn't matter). Don't try and sprint out of daze.

The fire ability is there just to distract you. =)

Comment by Heimdallen

Whenever I throw the burning oil, it doesn't show as creating any fire on the ground for the worgen to run through, or if I hit the mob of them, no fire on the worgen - it only makes a very small smoke puff on the ground, like some flammable ordinance that failed to detonate properly and only went off with a small poof or straight up as a dud! Anyone else have this issue? I have done it before on other toons and don't recall this being the case; was thinking maybe somethings been changed in the last few patches or something.

It's not a video settings issue, settings are maxed. And if it is doing damage to the worgen, it's ridiculously small, and doesn't amount to enough on the same worgen (for nearly the whole ride) to kill it, let alone do any noticable damage on the displayed health bar over his head!

Is it supposed to do LITERALLY next to nothing for damage (honestly, can't be doing more than 50 damage total per toss per worgen and that's being really generous) or am I somehow using it incorrectly? I try to throw it slightly ahead of me so it lands on the ground right where they are running, leading them slightly on it so it's a bulls-eye. Is there a different/better way that I'm just not realizing somehow?

Comment by 445414

Still working as of November 09. Just be careful when he jumps 2nd river as its hard to jump up bank there and lots of bears around. Almost lost him.

Comment by 434941

I followed in my Mount after failing three times and did it striaght away thanks goodshepard (see above) for trying it out it was a life saver lol

Comment by 490697

Here's the rotation that works best for me:
-let all the worgen catch up to you
-(optional) chuck fire at the worgen (aim in front of you a little to actually hit)
-trample/thunderclap
-gallop/sprint

If your health starts getting low and you're nervous about dying, just hop off and follow him on your own mount, and JUMP BACK ON BEFORE HE ARRIVES AT THE DESTINATION.

Comment by demotivation

quite an atmospheric quest. it scared the &*!@ out of me :<

Comment by 63920

Completed on First Try Trample and some fire and 60% when possible simple :)

Comment by Calabra

A WAY TO COMPLETE THIS QUEST IF YOU HAVE A FLYING MOUNT

I did this with my alt this way and it was awesome.

1. Mount up to start the run.
2. Dismount immediately and get on your flying mount
3. Follow the other mount.
4. If you have run it before you'll notice that up to this point doing it this way the mount is not attacked by worgen
5. When you get to the lake you'll notice that the mount stops and doesn't move.
6. At this time mount up on the quest mount.
7. The second you mount up and as you are crossing the river the worgen start attacking
8. Let them get close to you and hit trample, then hit the gallop
9. The trample key tends to stun the worgen giving you the chance to get away.
10. Keep doing this until you get to the camp

Warning: Careful when you hit trample or if you decide to use the fire. If you hit anything else in the vicinity (i.e. bears, deer, wolfs, etc.) these things will attack you as well. Thus, be clear of them before hitting any of the attacks.

Good luck,
Calabra

Comment by Brasso

Horse's got mad hops.

Comment by 444898

incredibly tough one and so long, i barely can made it. many of damned mob are following u till u havent reached the amberpine lodge where the quest become completed. so exasperating

Comment by 192758

Just failed the first try. Second try, just kept them away with stomp and fires. And after stomoping, I galloped. Was easy the second try.

Comment by MilknessDalvengy

"Blasted worgen!"
And Alliance get Worgen? Psh.

Comment by 570216

When i accept and open cage.... the guy won't stand up and just sitting still.... why is it?

Comment by 570982

That was almost too easy. Of course you use the fire, to kill them, that's why its there. I would throw it in their face, trample, then they would die, or almost be dead, and I'd wait a second for the daze to go away and sprint. Lived with about half health left.

Comment by Alikat

Interestingly, the time of this runs coincides almost perfectly with 'Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra' from the Last Crusade soundtrack, assuming a liberal use of the dash ability.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQIjCI6Eji0

Comment by 639368

No real tact needed. Just anytime you see more than one worgen giving you grief, Hit the trample. The pil is just for fun really. Hit it when your bored. But all your need is the trample. Instantly slows them down. Hit sprint if it gets sticky. Will be easy.

If the trample was on say, a 10 second cooldown. Then this would be a hard quest.

Comment by Eryemil

Pretty much impossible to complete after the 4.0.1 patch due to the increased mob damage. The horse will always die halfway to Amberpine Lodge.

Comment by Qwiglee

This quest has changed as of 4.0.X for some reason but I found that it is still do-able with some adjusted tactics.

In the past I when I would do this quest I would wait for several worgen to get grouped up to stun and throw fire on them but now with the increased damage this is not possible. The new trick is to not wait for a big group to get in range, instead, just use trample as soon as one is in melee range and keep throwing fire. Trample only has a 3 second cooldown so use it often.

In addition, I found that there were some wolves near the end of the route in a purple meadow that are close enough to aggro and contributed to my failing the quest several times. What I did was I went and killed them first and then flew directly to the quest giver and started the quest, the wolves were still dead when I passed by safely.

Comment by Mahmoth

Y'know, when Cata comes out, this quest is going to be damned awkward for Worgen, and for the questgiver, if he's yelling "Answer me! WERE YOU BLOODY BITTEN?" at the seven foot wolfman who just released him.

Comment by Nekrotik

I've easily completed this quest with no problems on 6 other toons and I can confirm as above, this is much harder than it used to be - pretty near impossible to do the way it's designed because at some point you WILL be overrun. In the past I never had any trouble making it all the way with 15-20% health left on the horse. Now, the damage the worgen do is much, much higher than before. They appear to be taking more damage from you as well, because they don't die nearly as easily as before. Doing this the old way, I died repeatedly in or just past the river, which isn't even close to the finish line. Even when I mounted at the river, they still managed to kill the horse long before I could get to the finish line, until I figured out you MUST spam ALL three abilities. By not using any one of the abilities every time as soon as it's available, you guarantee failure. Even then, it may take several tries to succeed. Unless you have lots of time to waste or are some kind of purist, take the advice of others and cheat this quest.

By the way, did anybody else notice the "Silverbrook Villager" near the southwest corner of the village who's in worgen form? Should be a dead giveaway something's not right in that place, but I never noticed him before. Was he added in patch 4.0?

Comment by Sallara

Since 4.0.1, mobs hit alot harder now, so this is practically impossible to complete normally. As a night elf druid, I rode as much as I could, trampling and using the oil on packs, and when my horse got to around 1200 hp, or before the river, I dismounted and used a threat-wiping ability such as shadowmeld, feign death or so. The worgen stopped attacking and I followed the guy in flight form. I remounted the horse just before he got to the lodge. I got credit for it.

Comment by Friso

I tried this quest on my 76 frost mage...
This is just not doable anymore.. ive done it on 2 chars..
I made a GM ticket about it. And received the response:
"This quest has actually been removed so you can stop trying!
Sorry about that!"

See the screenshot in the screenshot section.

Comment by 338361

Wow...This is definitely a lot more challenging right now. I failed 5 times before getting it (kept dying after crossing the river the first time lol)

Just make sure to trample and then throw a fire on them every chance you get and pray you don't get very many misses.

It gets much easier when you pass the river the first time.

Edit: I didn't cheat, I stayed on the mount the entire time. I finished with 1.3k health for the horse.

Comment by 696395

I found also along your path to escape, the horse will cross a few rivers. If you time it right and click sprint, the horse will not swim through the river but jump over it, saving time and putting more distance between you and the Worgen since they have to swim.

Comment by 696408

Very frustrating to try and complete right now. After many tries I just decided to mount and quickly dismount. I mounted my slower flyer and just followed until the last river before Amber Pine. Just catch up to it and remount. You'll be able to finish the quest. I don't like cheats, but this opens up additional quests you will need. Blizz just made this nearly impossible.

Comment by demotivation

i've done this quest 4 times, just done it with 44lvl warlock - always first try how can you whine about it lol.
one of my favourite quests in the game and the reason i come to quest in Grizzly Hills.

Comment by Teerai

I just did it with 30% left with the following pointers

- Use speed as little as possible.
- Kill as many mobs as you can.
- Trample when they're close, try to avoid aggroing normal mobs.

The reason I want to not use speed is that the mobs seem to spawn at certain points of the trip - speeding up the trip speeds up the spawn rate.
The reason I want to kill them is that they never seem to lose aggro, so once they use their sprint, they will be right back at me.
Trample is to survive (obviously).
If they dazed me, trample and speed seemed to have little effect. Instead I just damaged them and used trample once the daze was gone.

Comment by Firebug

I think the reason it is so hard to complete now, is that the sprint's duration was reduced by half, just like the rogue sprint, however the cool down on it was not reduced.

Comment by 698020

This is doable if you do what me and others have done. I have a fast flying mount. I dismounted immediately, cast my mount and on the ground, caught up to him and just followed.

After he went over the last river, I jumped on and was only attacked by 2-3 worgen. The last river the banks are steep but you are on a flying mount just take to the air and then land on the other side and follow him a little more and then right before the lodge, mount up.

It is frustrating to try and do it the way it was created to be done.

This is in 4.0. I just did it this way tonight.

Comment by 297227

A strategy for this quest is to use the trample ability in *combination* with the fire. Stun them, and then throw the fire while they're stationary. Otherwise, it never seems to hit them at all. Here's a vid demonstrating the technique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnbIHB1wBiM

I was about to put my fist through my desk prior to finding this. Whoever designed this quest is a moron...

Comment by Blackmist

As of 4.0.1, the fire cast seems different. Just cast it on them, rather than near your feet. It's probably a bug, but for now imagine it as an instant hit rather than having to throw it. When it ignites, whatever was there when you cast, will catch fire.

Doing it properly will lead to about 30 worgen on you and having to redo it.

Comment by Flappers

This seems bugged, after reading some of the posts here I found a sure way to complete.

Mount up on his horse & immediately dismount & jump on your own mount. ( If you have a flying mount, get on that, easier to navigate the streams ) Run with him to the 1st stream, jump over, after a short period of time he'll run around and over the bridge. Keep running along side him ( adds wont spawn until your on the horse with him ) and as you approach the 2nd stream fly over if your on the flying mount, if not, take the stones over at the top of the waterfall to your right as you approach the stream. Carry on running with him at your side until your within a 100 yards or so of the finishing point, now click on his mount & as your running alongside, you'll mount his horse.

Finally you'll both arrive at the quest end location and it will complete, it wont complete if you arrive separately. You may have a few Worgs rush you at the end, but they de-spawn as the quest completes.

Enjoy.

Regards, Flappers ;)

Comment by 9tails

As others have mentioned, this quest seems vastly more difficult after patch 4.0.1. I've never had the slightest difficulty with this quest before, but after failing it three times in quick succession and never getting more than about 50% of the way to Amberpine, I cheesed it with the mount trick and washed my hands of it.

If someone wants to play with it for the challenge, one of the notes that you need to throw the fire bombs AT the worgen, rather than leading your target, is entirely correct. This is probably crucially necessary to keeping the newly-buffed number of spawning worgen in check.

Comment by Cubedout

I got so angry doing this.

My Death Knight is my 8th Character to level through the zone, and when I couldn't do something I found so easy previously there where a lot of words shouted.

In the end I finished it by Dismounting and Following, then I mounted back up at the end.

Comment by Liebik

Still broken. As others have, I've completed this quest on a few characters in the past, but there's just no way to deal with the mobs as it stands right now. Save yourself the frustration, and go with the exploit.

Comment by 700863

The key is to use the fire on the worgs you stun with your thunderclap. I mistakenly though the fire was used to redirect and slow their charge towards you.

As another poster said, you have to thin their ranks - otherwise they overtake you no matter what you do.

Thunderclap, and lay down fire where they are stunned. I think on the hotbar this is #3 followed by a quick #1.

Once I did this - the quest went from ridiculous, to manageable.

Sprint right after you have a good group stunned, don't waste it if your horse is stunned.

The path finding and river crossing is annoying, and is part of the problem with this quest. I still had low health and it was a rush when I did complete - I didn't think I was going to make it...

Comment by 694726

Hmm... I came here expecting to see peoples' comments about how they relate this quest on the coming of worgen in the new expansion. And instead all I see is comments like "oh my, this quest is impossible" and "why I can't talk to him when I fail on the first attempt".
Personally I facerolled it in the 2nd try so honestly, if I did it anyone can do it... But I guess it's the whole bunch of people who QQ to Blizzard about how incompetitive their IQ level is for this game's (really simple) mechanics, and so Blizzard will eventually make this game for 5 y.o. kids to have happy customers.
Call me QQer, troll and downrate me, I don't care. I know this is not the right place to do it but I just had to say it.

Comment by natv

First, a tip that I used, is before mounting on his horse, select him and apply a raid icon on him so you can easily track him (ie - I used the blue square). You can easily follow him as the icon shows through trees and stuff.

I kept missing trying to catch him while on my flying mount, so after the first time when I followed him back to Amberpine Lodge, I noticed exactly where he runs to and stops (between the outhouse and the hourses, there's even a patch of grass in almost a circular shape)

So on the next try, I immediately dismounted at the start of the quest, let him run off and I hearthed back to Amberpine Lodge, went outside and to just a little before the place he's going to run and stop at, and waited a bit and he finally came around and I was able to click to mount up and the quest completed. The raid icon helped me recognize him too as he came around.

Comment by Anathelia

Something is definitely wrong with this quest after 4.0.1.

First off, something I've noticed elsewhere - a mob will pursue you across virtually an entire zone before dropping combat now. This is the case with this quest; not only does dashing get you to the next spawn point quicker, but the worgen that have been following you will continue to do so no matter what. That's why there seem to be a TON more worgen now.

Secondly, the targeting on this quest is completely screwed up from when I originally did it. As others have pointed out, you have to aim where you want the torch to hit for it to hit anything at all, not ahead of the target.

Finally, it seemed that once the horse got dazed, it stayed dazed until all the pursuing worgen were dead, or stunned and you got enough of a lead to get out of their range. At least, once the worgen start piling up about mid-trip.

All in all, while I do think it's certainly possible to do this quest as it is, enough changed and/or broke in 4.0.1 that this quest is no longer fun - and it used to be one of the best quests in the game.

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Comment by rystastic

Did this today in patch 4.0.3

Was harder than the last time I did this (3.3.5) but still feasible without "cheating". Mostly without sprinting and just Tclap + Fire to kill them off. Sprinting just seemed to make it worse.

Comment by Lythurienne

Quest confirmed hard-coded to be impossible. Your horse automatically dies in the patch of purple heather at around 550 yards from the 'destination' Note that the horse dying is a SPELL and not a result of its health. Basically this is a well-known game developer trick used in order to not have to code any more game content after a certain point. They will hard-code a certain level/mission/quest to be impossible, that way they don't have to actually make they rest of the game.

Comment by jzk617

Rerolled my 4th 80 and I'm having one hell of a time getting this quest done. I don't remember it being this hard before...

Comment by jonjones88

Is this quest still available? I just see the prisoner in the cage, but he doesn't give me any quest.

Comment by Breakability

This was hard enough the first time >> The best advice I've seen so far and that worked for me was to trample, throw fire, and then sprint.

Make sure not to sprint while you're dazed, it won't do anything.

Comment by Gerik

The quest has been fixed and is easily completable now.
I finished with over 75% of my health on the first go without much effort. Back in 4.0.1 the quest was basically impossible.

Comment by mhavlicek

In 4.0.3 I was able to do the quest the normal way without the flying mount cheat, finished at about 50% health (first try and far from perfect). So it seems to me that the quest got fixed - the worgens didn't hit that hard and there were never more than 5 attacking me. In 4.0.1 I tried about 10 times and gave up, didn't get even halfway...

Comment by 709227

"Worgen. Blasted, Light-forsaken, filth-ridden worgen.

It's time we showed the locals what us civilized folk do with beasts like them."

Seemed rude as a Worgen player =/

Comment by Bangfang

I was lying.

Comment by laughingnome

Cheaters all! I just did the quest on my warlock and I got it done the first try. Only had about 2% health at the end, but I did it!

But I am a Worgen, and none of the npc's seemed to know this. Why would they want to change me into one of them, when I am already? And when i turned in the quest, he insulted me with racist remark against my kind!

They should have made some compensation for this in Cata, but I guess it was overlooked or too low a priority.

Comment by 443661

I just did it with out having to leave vehicle and ride my own mount it took me two tries to do it though. It felt a little weird doing it as a Worgen as you are trying to escape from Worgen and the guy even asks you if you were bitten even though you obviously were since you are a Worgen.

Comment by 261383

Seems like this was already covered, but the quest doesn't exactly fit in since Worgen became part of the Alliance. Also, don't know if it was fixed or I'm just ridiculously good, but I made it with like 70% of my health. I felt like I was getting overrun a lot, but nah, managed it easily.

Comment by ElPsychochillero

"were you bitten?"
funny thing to ask a worgen :>

Comment by 93332

Were you bitten?
Answer me! Were you bloody bitten!

Well you see it's like this... I may have been bitten, back in Gilneas. But you don't need to worry, I don't bite... often... usually... sometimes... actually, you might want to keep your distance...

Worgen. Blasted, Light-forsaken, filth-ridden worgen.

Hey buddy... The night elves gave me control over my curse, but right about now I feel like biting you anyway because you are being so rude to me.

Comment by JasperKazai

This quest really makes no sense if you're a Worgen.

"WERE YOU BITTEN?"
Uh, no, but I'm already kind of a Worgen anyways...

It's remarkable that the guy didn't freak out once the person sitting behind him on a horse turned into a Worgen too...

Comment by 815342

First try. 75 pally. Was really easy...just spammed 3 when they got close and threw fireballs the whole time...used the sprint every time it was available. piece of cake

Comment by shimonu

Freed Alliance Scout says: Were you bitten?
Freed Alliance Scout yells: Answer me! Were you bloody bitten?

Well hearing this question when i am worgen may be a little weird.

Comment by Sutcliff

Managed to do it on my first try, It wasn't too hard, but it was certainly a good quest. I felt nervous the whole time, with them chasing.

Agreeing with a lot of people above, It's hugely awkward for a worgen doing this quest. Haha. and I felt vaguely insulted at what the guy said when I turned in the quest. :P

Comment by barron891

As a worgen mage, I take offense to this quest.

Comment by roguedragon725

Thought it was kind of funny, but the Alliance Scout still asks you if you've been bitten (by a Worgen) if you yourself are already a Worgen. Obviously you were bitten by a Worgen... about 70 levels before. Of course, he can't tell, not like you're furry with sharp claws, teeth or big ears or anything....

Comment by roguedragon725

My reply: "What do you think? Did the fur, pointed teeth, paws and sharp claws give me away? I mean, it was totally 70 levels ago, but I thought the whole lycanthropy thing was going into remission..."

Comment by roguedragon725

Freed Alliance Scout says: Were you bitten?
Freed Alliance Scout yells: Answer me! Were you bloody bitten?

Comment by Lurelina

Freed Alliance Scout says: Were you bitten?
Freed Alliance Scout yells: Answer me! Were you bloody bitten?

/cast Two Forms (was human when turning in the quest)
Does this answer you question?

Worgen. Blasted, Light-forsaken, filth-ridden worgen

Excuse me, sir, but did I not just save both this ignorant scout AND myself from my own distant blood-crazed relatives?

Comment by 838340

Hey guys, I am using cataclysm and I am doing everything I can to get this guy out of the cage...I've tried talking to him, I've looked for the sparklies or whatever is usually there (the gear)...there is nothing. I know there shouldn't be a key, but I CANNOT get him out of the cage. Does anyone know if this is normal and maybe I'm just doing something wrong, or does it sound like there's a glitch in the quest right now?...If someone could help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it!
Thanks!

Comment by 780445

I have to admit, I found this quest rather ironic as a worgen myself.

Comment by Phentari

This entire quest chain takes on a distinctly surreal air when you're playing a Worgen.

Comment by 506632

"Were you bitten?"
"Answer me! Were you bloody bitten?"
"You don't even know, do you? The trappers? They're not human... we have to get out of here! Come, quick!"

Damn, that hurt. I play as a Worgen.

Comment by 828696

I did it in one try :D

Comment by 612656

"Freed Alliance Scout says: Were you bitten?
Freed Alliance Scout yells: Answer me! Were you bloody bitten?"

Worgen Druid: Um, yeah... I thought the big ears, eyes and teeth would give it away.

Comment by HydroKyogre

He must have realized I was bitten 70 levels ago because instead of waiting for me to get on the horse with him, he took off and left me there. :/

Comment by FuryWar

Trample+Dash & the occasional burning oil did the trick for me on the first go! Def. nice to be the copilot on this cuz I'm sure I'da gotten lost trying to get back if I had to ride myself back! ;-)

Comment by citral2

Did it the normal way, with a lvl 73 Rogue, and had no problems at all. 1st time made it. U just have to Sprint right after u have Thunderclapped and keep the firepatches for when they gain on u again. Use TC for the new spawns.

Comment by 935229

I need help, when I except the quest he goes to the house and then he says something about a oil lamp to make use of? but I don't see anything and then he's back in the cage again? HELP?

Comment by RianLli

I didn't miss the irony of him yelling at my worgen "Were you bitten? Answer me! Were you bloody bitten?" I really wanted to say "The heck do you think?"

If a worgen got bitten by another worgen would they be a new breed of worgen?

Comment by RianLli

I didn't miss the irony of him yelling at my worgen "Were you bitten? Answer me! Were you bloddy bitten?" I really wanted to say "The heck do you think?"

If a worgen got bitten by another worgen would they be a new breed of worgen.

Comment by AchimPeters

"There's oil in the back. Make use of it."

"The back" refers to the back of the horse. So don't waste your time looking for oil at the back of the hut. Just jump on the horse the guy jumps on. You'll both be riding the same horse.

Comment by raistlyn

Yep, I just laughed in game, at the scout when he asked my toon if he was bitten.

I was really, really hoping the trappers would drop some hints for my worgen when they were talking to him. I mean, he's walking around like it ain't no big thing, while they're hiding it. I was hoping they were going to be like... "Hey, there's a 'card game' happening tonight under the full moon that you should totally show up to tonight... by yourself, with no, ah, other fur-less creatures around." *wink-wink, nudge-nudge*

Nope... ahh well, guess I'm off to other exotic locales.

Comment by GitGudGuides

Escape from Silverbrook http://youtu.be/oNJ7y1YMxV4

Comment by Syfo

Fun quest this :)

Comment by Boxofbeer

Escape from Silverbrook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr-p-EWWb3Q

Comment by ljgard

confirmed: does not give credit for all party members on completion

Comment by Boxofbeer

Listen to Scout and his yells, then follow him to horses. He will pick one and you join the ride.
While you're riding you have to defend the horse from incoming werewolves. You have three skills:

Fire torch - burns mobs and kill them fast.
Haste - force the horse to run very fast.
Hammerfall - strikes the ground in a small radius and slow enemies within the area being struck.

Escape from Silverbrook - www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr-p-EWWb3Q

Comment by Cexxi

What a fn long ass annoying quest

Comment by phototrope

Anyone having trouble with this quest as of 8.0.1? I'm utilizing all the abilities on the horse, but the worgen just don't die and half way through there are just too many worgen chasing and end up killing you.

Comment by Katsunga

For an easy way to do this quest, check out @LeonardSmale 's comment, imma quote it here for easy-access ;)

"OK so you can mount the horse and then don't move. Let a spawn of worgs come to you stun (3) them and then pour oil on them (1, mouse click over yourself). Rinse and repeat until all worgs are dead and no more spawn. If your clicks are fast enough your horse will still be at near full health. Then move horse and it will ride you all the way home without you taking any damage. Gallop if you want. "

Also if anyone wonders about the how long the time is for the worgens to stop spawning, I timed it to roughly 5 minutes

Comment by jakie006

Wow. What in the world happened to this quest? The stomp misses half the time, the oil/fire toss is all over the place (and horridly slow), everything dazes the horse.

I recall enjoying this quest back in the day. At the very least, I never had a single issue with it.

*shrug*

Comment by Tier24

Still broken. Managed to beat it on my first try while leveling an alt but my horse was at 15% health at the end. Towards the halfway point in the ride I was spamming all the abilities on cooldown. I think I might've just gotten lucky.

Comment by hazga01

After 3 failed attempts on this quest it seems it is still not scaled properly as of 9.0. The burning oil ability (1) seems to deal very little damage, meaning you become overwhelmed before you can get to Amberpine Lodge.

I tried just spamming the slow (3) and gallop (2) but it wasn't enough.

As mentioned in another comment the best thing to do is to NOT move as you get on the horse. For some reason, it scaled correctly for me as I just waited for the worgen to come in waves and killed them easily with the burning oil ability. Takes a little while (maybe 2/3 minutes) but afterwards you are free to afk as the horse rides back to Amberpine Lodge.

Hope this helps someone who is as confused as I was :)

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Escape from Silverbrook

Open the Wooden Cage and help the Freed Alliance Scout escape from Silverbrook. Report to Lieutenant Dumont when you reach Amberpine Lodge.

	Escape from Silverbrook (1)

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You... you're not one of them? Quick! Let me out!

We have to get to Amberpine Lodge immediately! Once Lieutenant Dumont finds out who these people really are, this town will be reduced to rubble!