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1.	Temple of the White Tiger
2.	A Celestial Experience
3.	A Witness to History

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Comment by rhysdog

is it ironic if i help someone on the other faction do this quest while i do it?

Comment by Whiterock

Kun-lai Side Story Quest Tree From Whiterock
S)Temple of the White Tiger{H}(Multiple zones)
+)A Celestial Experience {H}
a)A Witness to History {H}
/ |
The Shrine of Seven Stars(A)* The Shrine of Two Moons(H)*
The Ordo Warbringer{A2,H1,H2}* +)The Kun-Lai Kicker(Brewmoon Festival)
|
S)Muskpaw Ranch{H}
+)The Missing Muskpaw +)Fresh Needle Scent
| \
b)Yakity Yak b)At the Yak Wash +)The Late Mrs. Muskpaw
| / b)The Fearmaster
c)Back in Yak
The Ordo Warbringer{A2,H1,H2}* Barrels of Fun{H}* Pandaren Prisoners{H}*
\ | /
S)The Missing Merchant {H}
+)Repossession +)My Son...
d)Father and Child Reunion
+)The Waterspeaker's Staff +)Enraged Vengeance +)Free the Dissenters
\ | ┌───────────┘
d)The Ritual
e)Cleansing the Mere
e)The Fall of Shai Hu
Legend:
S means Skippable
+ means Can start anytime, prequests not needed.
(A)/(H) means Alliance/Horde only.
{H} means Quest Have Horde Variant, click {H} for it.
* means another Quest Tree.

Comment by cautious

For this quest you must complete three tests, each involving the killing of a spirit:

Test One: Spirit of Violence - Casts "Sha Corruption", creating a deadly cloud wherever you are standing. Make sure you are moving when it finishes casting so you are out of the way.

Test Two: Spirit of Anger - Along with the previous spell, it casts "Devastation", creating bubbles all around your initial position. Move out of the way immediately to make sure you are not caught in it.

Test Three: Spirit of Hate - Along with the previous two spells, it casts "Whirlwind of Anger". It takes a few seconds for him to warm up so make sure to move as far away from him as possible so that when he begins coming after you, you are out of range of his blades.

Remember those simple rules and you should be able to pass the tests with no problem. Get caught in any of those attacks and you will likely lose 1/3 to 1/2 of your health very quickly.

P.S. If there are others doing the quest at the same time, make sure to move away from them. The spirit will follow you and you will then be sure of not getting caught up in the attacks of someone else's spirit.

Comment by Aros

At the completion of this quest chain the gates to Vale of Eternal Blossoms will be opened which will gain you access to Shrine of Seven Stars which is the Alliance city hub in Pandaria.
(Or if you are Horde to Shrine of Two Moons.)

It has portals to Stormwind, Ironforge, Darnassus, Exodar, Shattrath and Dalaran.

It has bankers and auctioneer (for engineers only) and access to void storage, reforging and transmogrification.

And it has a flight trainer which on level 90 will teach you to fly in Pandaria.

Edit: Updated auctioneer info.

Comment by Mudders

Just as an FYI, if you die during Test 1 or 2, release, come back then succeed in the subsequent phases, you will not be able to summon the opponent from the earlier test that you failed.

I fixed this problem by dropping the quest and starting over.

Comment by Sunreaver

On the last part, the Sha of Hatred, be careful if you're kiting the mob around the room like I was. Apparently if you get too far from the center of the room, the mob runs back towards the center and disappears. This happened to me twice, but you can restart just that phase by talking to the tiger again.

Comment by mihalidis

This questchain is a prerequisite to start doing the Golden Lotus Dailies.

Without this questchain you will *not* be able to do the initiating quests (and dailies thereafter) for golden lotus, you wont even see the startquest in the Shrine of/the Seven Stairs, not even if you're lvl 90.

A guildie had this happen and i can confirm that he to redo part of this quest chain, starting from A Witness to History and after this the dailies became visible. I say "redo" because he had already done them but apparently he needed to do them again.

Comment by Zentran

For thoes that may be getting frustrated with this quest To give you a heads up. Move all around that cricle. When you see the Spell being cast get you buns moving away from the boss. once that cast is done jump in and start hiting with eveyrthing you got when he starts up again move keep moving until the cast ends then turn and attack. The Idea is to keep moving stand in one spot and die not good. Move move move :)

Comment by Fluffmeister

The tips about keeping out of the spell area are true - but as the last one (Sha of Hatred) is five times stronger than me, this just meant it took him about 2 minutes to kill me instead of a few seconds. Even using mirror only delays my inevitable death briefly (since he uses the deadly attacks on them instead), and I can reduce him to about 60% of his original health before he kills me.

Anyone solo this as a lvl 88 mage, or am I just taking this on too soon?

Comment by phreakwently

Do not talk to Xuen once you have started

I had the mob down to 10% as a prot pally doing 5k DPS, on phase 3, talked to him and started again :(

Comment by ImMrWolf

As a feral druid, I wasn't able to pull this off until lvl 90...had very frustrating attempts at lower levels, but i'm far from the best at hitting the right key at the right time. I'm a solo/quester so my armor's OK but nothing to write home about..got good and buffed up with Flask of the Earth (+1980 Stam) and Sea Mist Rice Noodles (+300 Agil)...took me three tries...as others have said, it's all about KEEP MOVING and whup on him when he's not casting...nice to be done with it! I got into the Vale early on by jumping the wall (geez...cats can fall a LONG ways and live!), but still needed to get this quest to get cozy with the Golden Lotus clan.

Comment by BVannillie

Ugh.

I helped out three different people take down hatred but not one of them returned the favour.

Since when did people on WoW get so selfish?

Comment by tehMugwump

Did this as a lvl 88 Rogue. Keep moving and mashing those buttons! Died once before I figured that out (and it's a LONG way back) and had to vanish out of the last one once. Healed up and hit it again. About 1% health left, but got him.

Comment by Siob

The first two were really easy, just move around and nuke. The last i died twice. Then i came here to read and in the mean time somebody helped me out and killed the last one for me.. couldn't say thank you. So.. if you're reading this and you helped a guardian druid. Thanx :D

Comment by Dayta

【HD Quest Video】

See the Quest being done from Start to the End.
This Recording was done for Wowheads Quest Comments to help People find their Way.

Comment by Wimbleton

My Aff Lock hammered these guys so quickly, I just assumed that was the usual deal. The next time I tried it with my DK, there was nothing left but little pieces. What had changed? I was about to get on a plane to Irvine to express my intense joy at a number of things, not the least of which is that the GY is two time zones and three plane changes away. Good thing I had a visa to get back. Lesson #1: Do Not Die; you will need half your annual vacation to get back. On the other hand you could read War and Peace on the way back.

Lesson #2: Just read what the smart and clever posters wrote before. Don't stand in it. Apparently the "it" you're not supposed to stand in doesn't affect Voidwalkers. Mine just stood there whacking away at the apparitions while I connected the dots. It's a little different when you have to stand within melee range. Maybe it was the apparitions' bad breath?

Lesson #3: The other reason you don't want to stand in it even if you are are wearing a lot of plate is that the fog of war or whatever these plug-uglies are belching up slows all your spells and melee attacks down so much that you start to think something went wrong with your computer. It wasn't until the same thing happened twice that I realized it was part of the effect.

Lesson #4: Don't try to be a hero. You'll basically be trying to fight while you're constantly running away like a little wimpoid. Don't worry about it - at the end the schmucks will be dead and you'll be having a cocktail at a tavern somewhere other than in elf territory.

Lesson #5: Locks are OP. So be it. Don't tell anyone.

P.S. The Designers have one more Bronx cheer for you: try to find the repair guy! (Hint: 66.66, 52.16)

Comment by BlueRobe

Piece of cake on my 87 Arcane Mage - Slow, Mirror Image, Blink, Ice Barrier.

As for my 87 Rogue? Virtually none of the Rogue's special abilities did any good (Kick doesn't interrupt any of his abilities). And most of the heavy dmg this guy does are dumped under your feet, so you have to run around constantly (which is hardly conducive to doing dmg). Further more, the guy resets VERY easily - I sprinted out of range of his Whirlwind of Anger and he reset 2 seconds later. It's pretty ironic that the smart move (moving out of the AoE) is also the move the bugs this quest.

Comment by Tectosages

My experience was quite difficult. As a Blood Death Knight I killed everything and everyone except the last demon. I am still working on this quest. I think that the author of this quest is none other than the obsequious sinophile of Red River and other locations. There is nothing I despise more than Blizzard developers, game monitors, and programers. Sadistic infantile beings of nastitude! The one thing one should be before playing this quest is level 90. We the customers do not need this grief of poorly designed quests. The third demon portion of this quest is filled with so much control jamming on the part of the program against the client that it is criminal.

Comment by Vedrian

Died the first time as a 88 Retribution paladin but nailed it the second time with barely a scratch. Biggest thing to worry about on the 3rd one is the bladestorm - interrupt it with basically anything you have: I used Fist of Justice primarily and kept moving. Judgement, Exorcism, Hammer of Wrath... anything to keep him at range. When I hit him with a Fist I would move in and hammer on him a bit, then back off before the stun wore off. Blinding Light worked well also. Good luck!

Comment by Claircy

Does anyone know why I doesn't get credit for talking to Xuen? I've killed the ones from test one, test two and test three. Only the "Speak to Xuen" thing left. Tried to talk to him after I killed all those from the tests and still no credit.

Abondoned the quest and started all over again. Works good now.

Comment by augernaut1

Anyone having an issue with the last trial. I have tried him 4 times and every time when I get about half way down, he ups and disappears or runs away and disappears. I read the other post and make sure I stay well within the pathway of the circle, but it stills happens. Any ideas or help?

Never Mind. I final beat the sucker. I was able to take him down with not to much problem, once I started using my "Fist of Justice" to stun him only when he wound up for his whirling attack and just before he was able to reach me with it. The rest of his spells I did not worry that much about just move out of them and mainly did my close up attacking while he was stunned.

Comment by ryoohki

I know it sounds dumb & obvious but this isn't like your normal NPC fights where you can stand there & take the hits as a pally or warrior. As soon as they cast their AOE's Move ASAP. I wondered why I kept dying so quickly. Those AOE's like drain you. (Just like those negative emotions do in the real world.)

On the last boss if you go to far away you drop out of the fight & have to start over.

Comment by Neffero

Is the last test always Varian, or do the Alliance characters get Garrosh? Is the Spirit of Hatred's face chosen by race? I could kind of see why my Blood Elf would hate Varian, with what happened at Quel'Thalas and the hate of humans, but I wouldn't say the Blood Elves hate him specifically.

it must be a matter of allegiance.

Comment by ctra1983

Just an FYI ----

You do not need to ABANDON the quest if you die OR if the spirt of "____" vanishes mid-combat.

You simply talk to Xuen once again and it will pick up where you've left off

:)

Comment by trishofoz

Please, please, please....if you see there's someone else in the middle of the trials, wait a minute so they can finish without getting attacks from your spirits, too.

Comment by xexok

If you do this as a mage or a class with a pet make sure you kill the anger pet FIRST. If you don't then you next trial will start and you have to face the last mob as well as your pet.

I'm not sure if you start the test without a pet/elemental out if it will still clone it or not but it is worth a try not having the pet out for the second boss.

Comment by Daisieheart

While doing this i had my Warbot pet out and i am not sure if it was a bug or what but it copied it and made two spirits of anger forcing me to kill 2 mobs instead of the one. It is weird that it would copy my companion pet and not my hunter pet so i definitely think it is a bug but just in case, watch out!

Comment by Astralon

Apparently after diablo's death, Tyrael hasn't retired.

Instead, he found a new occupation as a celestial. Not bad.

Comment by Ice13

Did this on my holy pala, it just took some time, but it was easier for me to stay healed up i guess ^^

Comment by heroold

Un-doable for me with a arkan mage. die right at first, wether I do all possibilities I have such as mirror, time shift, time curve - nothing is helping. Lvl is 89. Anybody a hint? Thanks in forehand

Comment by Everdreamer

While you gonna turn in Temple of the White Tiger, the NPCs are talking about the situation.

Zhi the Harmonious says: ...I've seen them with my own eyes: Mogu legions, storming the Vale in force. We are not trained for mass combat!

Anduin Wrynn says: The Alliance - and even the Horde - we can help you.

Taran Zhu says: Great Tiger, the strangers from beyond the mists, they cannot be trusted. The wreckage in the Jade Forest can attest to this.

Then, after you take the quest A Celestial Experience and go through it, the NPCs are talking during the course of your fight.

Xuen says: Ah, another stranger from beyond the mists.

Taran Zhu says: Soon they will overwhelm this continent! Where do we draw the line?

Anduin Wrynn says: We're here to lend our aid. We can help protect the Vale.

Taran Zhu says: We have witnessed your "help" in the Jade Forest. This "Horde," this "Alliance" of yours - you have no control over your own nature. You leave misery in your wake.

Xuen says: Ten thousand years ago, the last Pandaren Emperor came seeking my advice. He, too, was filled with conflict. Let us see if you are correct, Taran. Let us see how this stranger deals with turmoil of the soul.

Taran Zhu says: Violence. See? They are filled with it.

Anduin Wrynn says: Yes... we are fighters. But we come from a violent land. We fought off demons, we fought off death, we even fought against the very end of the world!

Zhi the Harmonious says: It is true. They are strong. There is much they can teach us.

Defeat Spirit of Violence.

Xuen says: We can agree it is noble to fight for a righteous cause: to defend home or family. But what of vengeance? What of anger? I sense these emotions run deep in this one.

Anduin Wrynn says: Anger is a part of us all, yes. But we value control. The orcs were once driven solely by anger - they lived in a state of bloodlust - but they conquered it.

Taran Zhu says: All you seek to conquer is each other!

Zhi the Harmonious says: To live without anger is not to live at all. It is ours to overcome. In defeating our anger, we draw great strength.

Defeat Spirit of Anger.

Xuen says: Well spoken, Zhi. The strangers from beyond the mists have no shortage of passions, but let us see if they indeed control them. Beyond anger lies hatred, the wellspring of all misery. What is this? Your hatred has a face!

Anduin Wrynn says: That... that looks just like Garrosh Hellscream!

Taran Zhu says: See? See how these outsiders hate one another! They wear their hatred to battle and carry it to their graves!

Anduin Wrynn says: No, that's not true - there is so much more to us than this!

Zhi the Harmonious says: How interesting. They bring much to our land, but they also bring the shadow of war.

Anduin Wrynn says: Peace will come, I swear it. And old hatreds will go away. You have to believe me.

Defeat Spirit of Hatred.

Xuen says: This one has indeed proven mastery over anger. Between the young cub's words and the actions of this hero, I think I understand. Those from beyond the mists are hardened by battle. They are scarred, yes, but they have learned much. I trust them.

Taran Zhu says: You are making a terrible mistake!

Taran Zhu leaves.

Xuen says: It is decided. I will open the gates. The Vale of Eternal Blossoms will be open for all.

Anduin Wrynn says: Thank you, Master White Tiger. You will see. I believe that my people - and the Horde - are essentially good.

Xuen says: I will consult the others. Meet me at the gates.

Sunwalker Dezco says: I find your faith inspiring, little one. But I wonder if you have ever met our warchief?

Comment by ivanstrel

If you aren't doing this while leveling a toon, and instead take on this quest at level 90 to unlock the Golden Lotus dailies, you may continually bug yourself out if your DPS is too high; killing your shadows before the NPCs in the back are finished with their scripted conversations will cause the following shadow to disappear before you can aggro it.

Happened to me on multiple pet-tanking hunters, and it was resolved by slowing my DPS a little, to allow the conversations to play out before killing my sha.

Comment by Stealthfire13

The dialogue for this quest has changed slightly with the desecration of the Vale in 5.4.
New/altered lines are bolded.

As you approach Xuen (technically still on Temple of the White Tiger):

Taran Zhu says: Half of the Vale lies in ruin! These outsiders have been more destructive than the mantid and mogu combined!
Anduin Wrynn says: Give us a chance to put things right.
Taran Zhu says: Great Tiger, the strangers from beyond the mists, they cannot be trusted. The wreckage in the Jade Forest can attest to this.

The only parts that seem to change in the dialogue after you pick up the quest are these:

Xuen says: Ah, another stranger from beyond the mists.
Taran Zhu says: Soon they will overwhelm this continent! Where do we draw the line?
Anduin Wrynn says: We're here to lend our aid. We can help you rebuild the Vale.
Taran Zhu says: We have witnessed your "help" in the Jade Forest. This "Horde," this "Alliance" of yours - you have no control over your own nature. You leave misery in your wake.

And later:

Xuen says: It is decided. The Vale of Eternal Blossoms shall remain open. The transgressions of the outsiders have been great... but I see in them the capability to right what has been wronged.
Anduin Wrynn says: Thank you, Master White Tiger. You will see. I believe that my people - and the Horde - are essentially good.
Xuen says: I will consult the others. Meet me at the gates.
Sunwalker Dezco says: I find your faith inspiring, little one. But I wonder if you have ever met our warchief?

While it was nice of Blizzard to try to keep this quest up to date (with voice acting and everything!) the timeline feels a little...weird. Anduin and Taran Zhu seem to be in good health and missing the injuries Garrosh inflicted on them, but Taran Zhu is still fearful and xenophobic, as he was when the Sha of Hatred had control of him. That said, he does state in Siege of Orgrimmar that "we should never have let them in", so it's possible that Garrosh's attack convinced him that the Alliance and Horde truly shouldn't be trusted. Either way, Sunwalker Dezco's joke doesn't really work anymore.

Comment by zeiz

Pray that they don't tell you to go to temple of the white tiger, cause there is no quests there. Every day they tell me to go there I lose a day of rep. Hope Blizz could wake up and fix this bug.

Comment by Whoisthiscook

i found an EXTREMELY interesting and humorous bug with this quest on my 87 Destro lock (not that the spec matters):

I summoned a Gateway into the arena before starting the fights, approximately from where you are thrown before each fight. When any of the fights started, two mobs spawned, one was my character's mirror, the other one was my GATEWAY!
First fight, the gateway mob despawned soon after I entered combat,
second fight I had to kill both of the mobs.
The third fight.. I didn't get a Gateway mob at all, but on the arena there was Garrosh and WRYNN. I was too busy trying to get a screenie of the incident, so I died.

It honestly freaked me out every time combat started (seeing as how the results were always different from the earlier one).

TL;DR: If a warlock summons Gateways to the arena, they might get an opponent with the model of the Gateway (or Wrynn on the third fight).

Comment by Waldteufel

Okay, I went to do the three tests and when I arrived, there were two players - one Horde and one Alliance - standing around the circle as if waiting, so I took one of our friend's above advice and waited my turn. And waited, and waited and waited. Finally I asked the Allie if he were waiting to go into the quest, and after 3-4 minutes he answered: "Just chillin' ". Okay, so I figured the Horde player was also just chillin and made ready to go a second time after dying and after reading this thread. But before I could even talk to Xuen, here came two players and went right into the quest; no asking about turns, who was waiting, etc. I finally just left and will probably go back in the wee hours of the morning. I guess not everyone is as polite as we are. lol.

Comment by Mozai

It seems really wrong that the proper response to the "spirit of violence" is to prove yourself more violent than the sha by beating up the spirit of violence.

First time I got to this quest, I ran around the room trying to find a non-violent way to deal with the spirit, so the Celestial and other witnesses could see we're not always warlike.

Comment by Cosmonaut99

The difference in difficulty levels with this quest is **massive**.

My Hunter and Shadow Priest downed this guy without the slightest
problem, (run, shoot / pet tank, run)... piece of cake.

With a Rogue it's an entirely different subject.

Yes you can sprint away when he starts casting no problem...
But to complete the trial you have to kill him too.

This means running back towards him and attacking in between casts.

Consequently you get so little time to attack and get so little damage done (as well as taking heavy physical damage off his axe swing ), this is a real pain in the a$$ of a quest.

Blizzard need to re-think this, and either provide Melee DPS classes with much improved shielding & distrupt abilities (15 seconds on kick - is totally ridiculous it should be more
like 3 seconds)... or give *every* class proper minions/pets that can absorb & give decent damage.

Comment by Cr4zyM0nk3y1

Found a bug. Not sure if this goes for the first and second test but, on the third. DO NOT GET DRUNK! You will not be able to proceed till you are sobering up. I guess they don't allow drunken fighting ><

Comment by downtide66

What do I have to do to get the second spirit to appear? Defeated the first one, listened to the completion of the conversation, but then stand around and nothing happens, tried talking to Xuen and everyone else in the room, nothing. Tried abandoning and starting over and it stalls in the same place. There must be something I need to *do* to get the second spirit to appear, but what?

Comment by Bareno

I don't know if any other classes and/or hunters had this issue, but on my hunter when I got to the third test, instead of spawning only one spirit of hatred he spawned FOUR, yes FOUR. One garrosh hatred and three varian ones lol

That &*!@ almost killed me, thank god for being loaded with heirlooms

Comment by Boxofbeer

A Celestial Experience https://youtu.be/RpOQ70N-Deo

Comment by Illigitimus

So I tried this as a lvl 100 and it bugged after the first test. I left the temple and walked back in to Xuen and it continued where it bugged and it finished easily. A GM said it is because we kill too quickly at lvl 100. If it happens to you try walking out of the temple down the steps and back in again.

Comment by SFFCorgi

If you are doing this well into WoD, you might find the progression sticking on you. After reading the comments here, I found that moving around during the fight - even if it's normally a one- or two-hit kill for you - will keep the sequence of tests moving along properly. Pace your blows by the dialogue going on between the northerners, Pandaren, and Xuen.

Comment by allOf

A Celestial Experience https://youtu.be/Rj-LDpJNWQM

Comment by ClickNut

BUG SOLUTION CONFIRMED

I couldn't get past the Second Phase.

Solution was to NOT KILL anything before Xeun was done talking. After i killed the creature og ran back to Xeun each time.

FIXED

Comment by Mojohunt

Seems they may have put in a quick fix for when it gets stuck. I was on the third phase when it stuck and after coming here to reread how to do it right i went back and clicked on Xuen and it restarted the third phase threw me out to the normal spot the sha thing appeared turned into Garrosh and i quickly took him down ended the quest. XD

Comment by SlayferSan

For those that experience bug, for mobs not to spawn after first or second mob, in Legion, after every mob spawns go back to the Xuen, wait for everyone to finish their talk and slowly kill the mob, with a weapon preferable. And wait for Xuen to blow you away across the room, and repeat. That way all 3 mobs will spawn properly and you will finish the quest.

Comment by Shardsy

After having problem with one-shotting them I dismissed my pet and used a Soft Foam Sword.

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A Celestial Experience

Speak to Xuen and complete his tests.

	Speak to Xuen
	Pass the First Test
	Pass the Second Test
	Pass the Third Test

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Nobody is allowed into the Vale without the approval of the August Celestials. Xuen, The White Tiger, appears ready to listen to me.

But Taran Zhu of the Shado-Pan is reluctant to let the Alliance or Horde anywhere NEAR the Vale after all that's happened.

<Anduin shakes his head.>

Maybe you can help me make my case. Speak to the White Tiger on our behalf. Be careful! He may set a number of challenges before you...

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with The August Celestials

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Wowhead's Guide to the August Celestials Wowhead's Guide to the Golden Lotus and 5.4 Changes

A Celestial Experience

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