Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Axe of Earthly Sundering Elemental Ore
2.	One With the Ground
3.	Bring Down the Avalanche Bring Down the Avalanche
4.	Stonefather's Boon
5.	Sealing the Way
6.	Shatter Them!
7.	Troggzor the Earthinator

Storyline
Deepholm, War & Gunships Where's Goldmine? Explosive Bonding Compound Something that Burns Apply and Flash Dry Take Him to the Earthcaller To Stonehearth's Aid The Quaking Fields The Axe of Earthly Sundering Elemental Ore One With the Ground Bring Down the Avalanche Bring Down the Avalanche Stonefather's Boon We're Surrounded Sealing the Way Thunder Stones Shatter Them! Fixer Upper Battlefront Triage Troggzor the Earthinator Rush Delivery Close Escort Keep Them off the Front Reactivate the Constructs Mystic Masters Down Into the Chasm Sprout No More Fungal Monstrosities A Slight Problem Rescue the Stonefather... and Flint The Hero Returns The Middle Fragment Gunship Down The Earth Claims All Captain's Log Diplomacy First All Our Friends Are Dead The Admiral's Cabin Without a Captain or Crew Take No Prisoners On Second Thought, Take One Prisoner Some Spraining to Do Return to the Temple of Earth Deathwing's Fall Blood of the Earthwarder Bleed the Bloodshaper Question the Slaves The Forgemaster's Log Silvermarsh Rendezvous Quicksilver Submersion The Twilight Overlook To Catch a Dragon Big Game, Big Bait Testing the Trap Abyssion's Minions Block the Gates The World Pillar Fragment

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Comments

Comment by eddyjr

Just use the item you were given-on the Emerald Colossus and it will take away their (elite) status. Now kill em!

Comment by 67465

Interestingly, if you do damage to the mob, THEN throw the axe at them, you'll get the loot from their elite loot table, meaning 1G per mob!

Comment by 738930

If you are a Druid, dont use the weapon in flight form. It will make the Emerald Colossus smaller but it will not remove the Elite status and you will get squished very quickly!

Comment by Jazzism

I wanted to keep this so I could farm them but you get stuck with quest hubs closing and this one the only one open I could find.

Each mob is worth ~1g and other nice drops.

Comment by Jazzism

I tried to keep this and moved on to other quests in the zone but they all dried up making me need to turn it in.

Those colosus give ~1g a pop and good drops I wanted to farm later.

Comment by deathager

Looting therapy!

Edit : Killing giants out of quest in their elite form is quite interesting because they give 10k exp each and more than 1g loot. So farm them !

Comment by Harkken

This quest is great to farm high amounts of gold, even after you've gotten your kills mount the Item on your task bar and keep killing them you can get anywhere from 50s to 1g 50s from the loot on these, now at level 85 killing these guys at their elite form is not hard but its faster if you just keep the quest

Comment by Lahtel

Fun thing to do when bored(well, as a hunter at least), axe those suckers and feign death. They will shrink and stay shrunk. I shrunk em all, and watched other players fly past them looking for giants, while QQ'n in chat about none being around. Maybe I'm just a jerk... :P

Comment by FountainSalmacis

whatever you do.... don't get your quest items mixed up and try to use a charred branch on one of these fellas. I'll tell ya; it don't work.

Comment by Pypode

I used my ghoul to attack, then hurled the axe. Was able to hurl it twice which brings them down fast.

Comment by 97613

You can't go straight to him and take the quest for the rewards. You have to quest in Deepholm and you'll get a quest that requires you to take a Dwarf to Yevaa and from there the quest chain starts. The quest that leads directly to him is called The Quaking Fields

Comment by healingenzo

For rogues, wanting the thrown weapon, if you haven't done any Q's in Deepholm (I hadn't on my 85 Rogue) you just need to do

1. Where's Goldmine
2. Explosive bonding compound (took 9 kills for me) + Something that burns
3. Apply and flash dry
4. Take him to the earthcaller
5. To Stonehearth's aid
6. The Quaking fields
7. The Axe of Elemental Sundering

30 minutes max.

Comment by Myebika

There's some nice gold to be made here.
Never turn in the quest, keep farming the weakened mobs with the item, they drop 1gold+ each :)

Comment by Whiterock

Middle World Pillar Fragment Quest Tree From Whiterock
a)Where's Goldmine?
/ \
a)Something that Burns a)Explosive Bonding Compound
\ /
a)Apply and Flash Dry
a)Take Him to the Earthcaller
b)To Stonehearth's Aid
b)The Quaking Fields
/ \
b)Elemental Ore b)The Axe of Earthly Sundering
\ /
b)One With the Ground
b)Bring Down the Avalanche (2nd version)
/ \
c)We're Surrounded c)Stonefather's Boon
c)Thunder Stones c)Sealing the Way
| \ / |
d)Fixer Upper d)Battlefront Triage d)Shatter Them!
\ | /
d)Troggzor the Earthinator
d)Rush Delivery
d)Close Escort
e)Keep Them off the Front
/ \
e)Mystic Masters e)Reactivate the Constructs
\ /
f)Down Into the Chasm
/ \
f)Sprout No More f)Fungal Monstrosities
\ /
f)A Slight Problem
g)Rescue the Stonefather... and Flint
g)The Hero Returns
g)The Middle Fragment The World Pillar Fragment*
| /
The Very Earth Beneath Our Feet*

Legend:
* means another Quest Tree.

Comment by revilate

even while sundered these mobs seemed to drop elite quality loot

got 3 greens and at least 1g+ off 3/5 mobs

Comment by MsPhelix

Straightforward quest:
Find an Emerald Colossus;
Hit him with the Axe of Earthly Sundering (which you got from the quest giver);
In a couple of seconds his health drops from 34k to 44639;
In a couple more seconds; he shrinks to about 1/3 his original size;
Start fighting him anytime (obviously it's smart to axe and deplete him first but you don't need to).
Note: if you're a Druid, see the comment by Ragola.
Note: Miners can mine his corpse.
Note: You should have gotten Elemental Ore at the same time from the same quest giver; its objectives are in the same area as the Emerald Colossi.

Comment by torquezzz

Yea don't forget to use the quest item on the collosi The Axe of Earthly Sundering, otherwise kill won't count.

Comment by GamingTV

Complete Playthrough in 1080p HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKLWNIgCZY8

Comment by GitGudGuides

The Axe of Earthly Sundering http://youtu.be/HNxH5K9iRh4

Comment by WoWGnGP

I made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUzVeTgOP0I&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Axe of Earthly Sundering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGGT7mZEzH0

Comment by Wowzir

Attention HUNTERS: when I went back to complete REP Grind for The Earthen Ring, I rediscovered that until I dismissed my hunter pet, I was unable to get credit for killing the Sundered Emerald Colossus.

What worked best for me (YMMV) was to close to just within the 40-yard range at which the quest axe would work, and then backpedal until the Name changed to SUNDERED Emerald Colossus before firing my next (Arcane) Shot.

Probably similar for other classes with minion(s).

Comment by aoeu

"And my axe!"

Comment by CharlesMartinTX

If you are too high level, you can one-shot these but not get credit. Here are the steps I had to follow:

Dismiss your pet.
Pull aggro of the Emerald Colossus by running through them (because one-shot otherwise).
Use the hammer.
WAIT! The Colossus must shrink down to it's smallest size first.
Then and only then, kill it.
Rinse and repeat.

Links

The Axe of Earthly Sundering

Slay 5 Sundered Emerald Colossi.

	Sundered Emerald Colossus slain (5)

Provided item:

	The Axe of Earthly Sundering (1)

Description

The emerald colossi are the greatest of the Stone Mother's creatures. They must be the first to be removed from the field.

I brought Stonefather Oremantle's axe for just this task. Use it to sunder the giants.

That should bring them down to a more manageable size for you to finish off.