Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Singing Pools
2.	The Lesson of Dry Fur The Lesson of the Balanced Rock
3.	Finding an Old Friend

Storyline
The Wandering Isle The Lesson of the Iron Bough The Lesson of the Iron Bough The Lesson of the Iron Bough The Lesson of the Iron Bough The Lesson of the Iron Bough The Lesson of the Iron Bough The Lesson of the Iron Bough The Lesson of the Sandy Fist The Lesson of Stifled Pride The Lesson of the Burning Scroll The Disciple's Challenge Aysa of the Tushui Items of Utmost Importance The Missing Driver The Way of the Tushui Ji of the Huojin The Way of the Huojin Kindling the Fire Fanning the Flames The Spirit's Guardian The Challenger's Fires Only the Worthy Shall Pass Huo, the Spirit of Fire The Passion of Shen-zin Su The Singing Pools The Lesson of Dry Fur The Lesson of the Balanced Rock Stronger Than Reeds Finding an Old Friend The Sun Pearl The Sting of Learning Shu, the Spirit of Water A New Friend The Source of Our Livelihood Rascals Still Good! Missing Mallet Stronger Than Wood Raucous Rousing Not In the Face! The Spirit and Body of Shen-zin Su Morning Breeze Village Tools of the Enemy Rewritten Wisdoms Stronger Than Stone The Direct Solution Do No Evil Monkey Advisory Warning Stronger Than Bone Balanced Perspective Dafeng, the Spirit of Air Battle for the Skies Worthy of Passing Small, But Significant Unwelcome Nature Passing Wisdom The Suffering of Shen-zin Su Bidden to Greatness Preying on the Predators Stocking Stalks Wrecking the Wreck Evil from the Seas Handle With Care Urgent News None Left Behind Medical Supplies From Bad to Worse An Ancient Evil Risking It All The Healing of Shen-zin Su New Allies A New Fate Joining the Alliance Joining the Horde

Screenshots

Videos

Comments

Comment by Voxxel

On the EU test realm there are a huge amount of people near the Bell you can't even see it sometimes. To gong it (use it), simply change your grapical setting from high to low or vice versa. If you then quickly press Escape to quit Options you'll get a few seconds when every players disappear around so you'll be able to click on the Bell.

Comment by Clopin

OK, this doesn't seem to be working for me, when I try it everything BUT the players disappears.

EDIT: What I tried was getting as close as possible to where the bell is and logging out then logging back in. For a split second, the bell will be clear, but try to position the mouse over where the bell will be and click really fast. Finally got the bell.

Comment by 984725

I took that code from a player which was yelling on the bell
Do that macro

/console BaseMIP 0:
/console BaseMIP 1:

use it than mouseover the bell quickly, it removes players for a second so you can click.

Good Luck

Comment by Krastopic

Mists Beta

When you leave the quest giver, follow the pool under the bridge.

When in the water you will appear as some critter - in my case a skunk.

Under the bridge is some dry land. Once on it you will convert back into your sexy Panda self. In front of you will be wooden timbers with red ropes wrapped around them. When you mouse over - you will note that the green action arrow will appear. Click on the pole and you will Kung Fu jump onto it.

Click yourself from pole to pole to reach the bell.

The bell will be on a stone perch in the middle of the water.

While you are crossing you can work on "The Lesson of the Balanced Rock" and defeat your 6 Tushi Monks.

When this quest is busy - it is a nightmare to ring the bell.

Using the macro above "/console BaseMIP 0:" "/consoler BaseMIP 1:" works but you have to be quick on the bell. I solved it by typing the first consoler command. Typing in the second but before I hit return had my mouse on the bell and clicked it the second I would see it.

A split second later and forget about it.

Couple of other notes: You cannot fall off the poles. When you want to get off the poles. Go back to the bridge and there are poles next to it on shore. Jump to one of the on shore poles and you can walk or jump off the pole maze.

Comment by Orkinman

Now the poles around the bell are much smaller and can't be stood on.

Comment by BullDozzer

This pool and quest is now changed so to complete it, you weirdly enough have to jump into the pool (and be frogged) and then jump on top on the small stubbs close to the bell. (You can also click while in mid-air)
When i say "jump" i mean jump, as in space, not in as some kind of fancy click vehicle-mechanics.

This is probably not as the quest will be in final, but it is the way it is now.

Comment by Huntericius

This quest cant complete if you play it in trial version! When you try to jump to the palisade, the game asks you for cata...:-(
Hope Blizz fix it soon, coz i am stuck in 6th lvl....

Hmm...and it seems there is not any other quest to continue. I searched the hole area. Max lvl is 6-7, unless you wanna kill randomly anything that walks and fly's there to lvlup :(

Comment by 723243

OMG. Don't be stupid like me. This quest is easy. Don't go in the water. The water turns you into a frog and the cranes think of you as a tasty snack. Instead, there are shorter poles on either end of the bridge. They're called "Exit Poles". You can click on them when you're out of the water. The water isn't your friend.
If you happen to be in the water, you can try and jump on the reeds sticking out, turning you back into normal form. During that split second, click on one of the balancing poles.

Comment by druunah

The poles are like any "vehicle" on WoW. Simply mouse over them until you see the green arrow, then click to "jump" your toon from pole to pole until you reach the bell. Once you are close to the bell, you are auto dismounted from the pole and you will land near the bell. Click on the bell.

Beware of falling in as the cranes will attack you! The quest warns to not fall off the pole or you will have to restart, however the one time I "fell off" i was easily able to jump back on the poles and finish the quest with no problem.

Comment by Hantang

Got it done on Starter edition after GM cleared some cache from the server. before that it was : "Requires expansion: Cataclysm"

Comment by stuffeh

The pools and quest is a direct reference to the training that the main character in the manga Ranma 1/2 did.

Comment by 780529

The Lesson of Dry Fur confirmed! Incredibly easy but never would've figured it out. Leave the quest giver and stay in the pond. Go under the bridge and when you mouse over the pillars they will have a green "mount" arrow.

Comment by 172135

Somebody called sandriq posted a link to a video which seemed relevant - but for some obscure reason the comment was deleted.

So here is the link again:It's solution if you need it

Comment by 938446

For this quest you have to use the exit poles that are near "shore." you cannot go in the middle of the water and start from there, then you jump from pole to pole until you reach the bell. Ring the bell and you're finished. (See screenshots for exit poles if you are unsure.)

If you're clever you wouldve picked up the quests: Stronger than reeds & The lesson of the balanced rock.
So you finish off 6 of the tushui monks and then jump in water to pick reeds. Voila. You're done with 3 quests.

Comment by Sututiv

if you click the poles fast enough in the air, you'll be flying

Links

The Lesson of Dry Fur

Cross the balance poles and ring the training bell.

	Ring the Training Bell (1)

Description

Through meditation, I intend to find a route to locating Shu. In the meantime, you would benefit from practice and discipline.

Your first task is the task of all trainees entering the pools: cross the balance poles to the west and ring the bell without falling into the pool.

Should you fall, the pool's curse will make it difficult to get on a pole again, so you will need to return to the edge of the pool to start over.

Oh, and beware the cranes.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Unmarred Cord			Unmarred Waistband
	Unmarred Belt			Unmarred Chain

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Shang Xi's Academy

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(29661))