Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Kessel Run
2.	Declaration of Power
3.	Report to Exarch Admetius

Storyline
Bloodmyst Isle The Kessel Run Declaration of Power What Argus Means to Me Blood Watch What We Know... What We Don't Know... Intercepting the Message Translations... Audience with the Prophet Truth or Fiction I Shoot Magic Into the Darkness The Cryo-Core Searching for Galaen Galaen's Fate Galaen's Journal - The Fate of Vindicator Saruan Matis the Cruel Don't Drink the Water Limits of Physical Exhaustion Vindicator's Rest Clearing the Way Oh, the Tangled Webs They Weave Fouled Water Spirits Cutting a Path Critters of the Void Ending Their World The Sun Gate Mac'Aree Mushroom Menagerie Ysera's Tears Urgent Delivery Restoring Sanctity Into the Dream Razormaw The Bloodcurse Legacy The Bloodcurse Legacy The Bloodcursed Naga The Hopeless Ones... Ending the Bloodcurse The Unwritten Prophecy

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Comment by Semperaude

awesome quest, you get to ride a 100% mount speed elekk to warn people.

Get the quest from the first outpost as you cross the bridge onto Bloodmyst Isle, then turn around and run back to Azuremyst isle.

first stop - Stillpine chief outside of stillpine hold
second stop - Exarch menelaous - on the hill just to the northwest of the town of Azurewatch, in the middle of the island.
Third Stop - Admiral Odesyus, in Odesyus' landing, at the bottom of the island.

with the elekk mount speed, you can do this in less than 6 minutes, meaning that you can spend the next 8 minutes running around on a mount :)

Comment by Ithinarine

Has anyone tried this quest with a race other than Draenei? Or is it Draenei only?

Comment by vexis58

On my female draenei alt, I appeared to be sitting inside of the elekk, rather than on top of it. It's not like I was trying to do it with some weird other race they didn't think of, elekks are supposed to be our racial mount -- so why couldn't they get the clipping right?

It's not a major bug, doesn't interfere with the quest completion, but I hope they fix it soon.

Comment by 749

Be sure to turn in the quest before the timer runs out, else it fails, even if you have warned the NPC's.

Comment by 33903

This must have been bugged for me. I went to High Chief Stillpine and there didnt seem to be a way to warn him. He just stood there. I finally left, and Exarch did the same thing, so I just went into the inn and failed the mission. Am I missing something?

Comment by Mblast

If you didn't know, the quest name is a reference to Star Wars where there actually is a Kessel run. Han Solo did it in less than twelve parsecs.

Comment by Vlad

Who (and where) to talk to:
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1) High Chief Stillpine - - The leader Furbolg in Stillpine Hold.
2) Exarch Menelaous - - Leader at Azure Watch, west edge of the village.
3) Admiral Odesyus - - The admiral at Odesyus Landing.
Note: Can't miss them, quested many times for these guys. Here is a map, just in case. ;)

Other information
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a) You use around 5 minutes in total if you don't slack.
b) The mount is 100% and lasts 15 minutes.
c) Abandon and retake quest if you dismount somehow.
d) Yes the mount is indeed bugged (model wise) for Draenei female.
Pic: http://i13.tinypic.com/43vzvw6.jpg

Comment by 1337Druid

Is the ellek an actual item given to you able to just be used, or has charges? or is it a spell? and if you abandon the quest, are you still able to keep it? or does it go away?

Comment by jackbang

A couple things worth noting: For me, only two of the questgivers had marks over their heads. The third one did not, which threw me for a while, but if you talk to him it all works out.

The other thing is that you definitely can aggro mobs while you are riding. I did not do it enough to see if they can knock you off, but it may be a possibility - so try to stay clear of any aggressive mobs while you're riding, else you might have to start over.

Comment by 50831

Its Cool (really cool)

Comment by 52603

i know its silly, but HOW DO U RIDE IT? i took the quest and what? is it the mount near stable master? is it is, gow do u ride on it? plz help!

Comment by 27483

Yes I'm lazy. I didn't turn in the quest and I used the mount to travel to and fro (usually only in one direction -- until I had to dismount) to travel. Dropped the quest and picked it back up to get another ride.

What can I say? After you travel epic, its frustrating to travel any other way.

Comment by 21706

Be warned that this buff is considered a real mount, so you will get automatically dismounted if you accidentally try to cast a spell or use other abilities... I found out the hard way T_T

Comment by kseniya07

Is this quest draenei only? I'm human, trying to rep farm with the Exodar.

Comment by Exsism

Important note !
if you want to do this quest make sure you have no failed quests in your questlog.

Comment by 75850

IMPORTANT
if you cast a spell on the elekk, the elekk disappears and there is no other way to get it back except abondon/retake but u can still finish the quest onfoot the time is enough

Comment by EllBell

Also if u try to go in hostile area u automatticaly dismount and get a whisper saying that my elekk doesn't go into hostile territory.

Comment by 79700

While doing this quest, I ran into a blood elf bandit. I got the mask, but I had to abandon the quest and try again.

Comment by 86678

It's 15 seconds, not 12.

Comment by 9080

Just to let you guys know, you can ride the elekk anywhere inside of exodar without dismounting.

Comment by 72765

But what happens if you get the Elekk wet?

Comment by TegoZanduba

Note, the quest timer continues when logged out -- I figured I'd log off and come back after having to do something. quest failed 30feet from turning it in :-(

Comment by mrdummy

The mount bug is already fixed, female dranei sits now good on the back of the mount. :)

When you run fast enough, you have around 8 minutes rest for free mount run (whole quest run included return run)
You can use time for fast exploring unknown places for extra XP, or go to north place Blood Watch.

Comment by 53267

Use the remaining minutes to do a run of Azuremyst and get your first Blood Elf Bandit Mask using the macro "/target Blood Elf Bandit" while running the roads of Azuremyst! This is how found him the first time.

Comment by geoffster

Although if you cross the bridge heading north, you will automaticly dismount as "My Elkk will not go into enemy territory". If you go to just a bit east there is a waterfall. Get your hind legs on the rock in the middle, and jump so that your front legs are on land. Keep jumping and shimmey east. Eventually you come to an area you can climb up. Don't believe me? Try it yourself

Comment by 82105

There must be some kind of bug (since patch 2.4) because I received quest from Kessel and proceeded to warn all three NPC's to no evail. None of the three NPC's had a Question Mark or Exclamation Mark over them, yet when i talked to them they said "Thanks for the warning" but the quest did not show any progress. :(

I will be checking with Blizzard support to verify my findings.

Comment by Tanae

No question marks over their heads, but worked well enough when talking to them.

DONT cast spells while riding, you lose the mount. I lost mine almost at the 3rd one and had to run back on my own, bummer.

Comment by 161180

If you die the quest timer keeps going, i died running through the Furbolg villiage to the east of the hand in, as i put auto run on, and misjudged the direction. Lost my mount almost straight away, as i was dismounted by auto attacking a nightsaber.

Comment by onekay

i gues i m doing something wrong because when i accept the quest and i chek the quest log they say that the quest is failed without doing anything, how is that? maybe bugged?

Comment by katora

This quest is mentioned again in What Argus Means to Me.

Ah, <name>... I've heard about you. You're the one that made the Kessel Run in under 15 minutes, right? Bah, probably not.

More star wars humour :D

Comment by 220466

I've tried this q 2 times, but neither of them worked to warn, why? Speaking to the don't work and there's no q-marks over their heads..

Comment by 313896

I completed this quest in less than twelve parsecs.

Comment by 145510

Hilarious quest is hilarious. I was questing for Exodar rep for the Ambassador achievement, and suddenly an elephant spawned on top of my mammoth. Thought I would dismount when I accepted the quest but seems the new vehicle system doesn't work that way.

I've submitted a screenshot but Im not sure how long it takes for wowhead to approve it, so here's a link: http://i42.tinypic.com/2ih409w.jpg

Comment by dandenoth

Just for giggles, since mounts can swim now with this patch, as I was on my way back, I hopped in the water close to the turn-in since I had plenty of time, and was promptly dismounted. So, apparently, you still can't swim on this quest.

Comment by anaamika

If you accept the quest in cat form (as I did on my NE druid) it doesn't give you the mount. Had to drop the quest, pop out of cat form, pick up the quest again, and this time the mount popped up under me.

Comment by Vexallius

Is it just me or do male night elfs look weird on that mount? ;o

Comment by MisterEver

Since it's not really stated here, you don't necessarily fail if you get dismounted. I accidentally ran into some water *cough* and finished the quest on my own mount.

Comment by 488171

I love how QuestHelper tells you Slay for Admiral Odesyus Warned when you're actually doing the exact opposite, just starting a quick conversation.

Comment by 173035

For low level Alliance players interested in the Explorer title who won't be questing on Azuremyst:
You can explore most of the island using this quest. Obviously, Silvermyst Isle to the southwest has to be skipped because of the water in between, but the rest can all be done with ~5 mins to spare if you don't dawdle. This way you can just come back for Silvermyst later with your epic mount, and you won't have so much work to do.

Comment by 311760

This shouldn't be a timed quest, it should be required to be completed in a limited number of steps.

Comment by orlanth

I had the Elekk through to Admiral Odesyus, but then I decided to be nice and buff some newbies there, lost the Elekk.

Mounted up on my Black War Bear and returned to Kessel, and he still have a golden question mark above his head! You can still turn it in without having the Elekk. I don't know if you can get each person warned and completed if you are not on the Elekk, however.

Comment by Elvorfidia

okie so i tried to do this quest a min ago and didnt get the mount is it bugging for anyone else or is it just me! :(

Comment by Xeriusfire

Just did this quest on my warlock. Tested the mount in the water and it no longer dismounts. I even swam around a bit with it, jumping in and out of the water. No dismount. I had the quest complete and was returning to turn in when I tried swimming.

Comment by 704062

I just wanted to add that as of 11/18/2010 this quest is still bugged. I'm a lvl10 female draenei. I submitted a ticket for this quest, just to let Blizz know, but completed the quest with five minutes to spare, by warning the three people then hearthing to the inn on Bloodmyst Isle, saving myself quite a run.

Rayen

Comment by TiuTalk

Looks like there's no more mount on patch 4.0.3. Completed by foot and turned in with 3 min.

Comment by 726249

If your still having problems with this bug then try this;

Accept the quest and wait a few seconds

If the mount hasn't shown up, abandon the quest

Accept the quest again, and keep repeating until the Elekk shows up

Comment by Kiione

Cata is so buggy. :( Its still not working. I guess Im running. :P

Comment by Thortok2000

I believe this is the only remaining timed quest in the game, thanks to Deathwing. =P

Comment by SgtFrog

Okay, by "friendly territory only", they mean "friendly territory only". As it turns out, you can run to Valaar's Berth, take the boat to Rutheran Village and run around Darnassus for no reason WHILE STILL MOUNTED! Unfortunately, I got distracted by a Hero's Call board in Darnassus and got dismounted.

Comment by Akario

You can easily Solo this quest in less than twelve parsecs.

Comment by CucumberGH

It might just be me, but it seems like the elekk mount in this quest is significantly larger than the ones available for purchase. Mine was closer to the size of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth. It also helps that all mounts are slightly bigger when ridden by gnomes. (This isn't an illusion, as confirmed with a side-by-side comparison.)

Comment by Fruhauf

This quest gave me one of the most fun "bugs" i've ever experienced in the game. It was years ago, I don't remember what the issue was, but something went wrong while on this quest to the point where I could not play/do anything else, and had to open a ticket.
The GM was able to "hearth" me, a level 10 Draenei, to the Commons in Ironforge for some reason, in an attempt to unstick me from whatever the problem was.
Funny thing was, it kept me mounted on the elekk for the full duration of the buff (10 minutes I think?)
So I got to stand around in front of the bank in IF for 15 minutes, a level 10, having people constantly whisper me "How did you get a mount?"

Comment by Zombette

I believe this is the only remaining timed quest in the game, thanks to Deathwing. =P

Not really. In the Night Elf Starting area, the quest Mist, is on a 10 minute timer from the moment you accept it til the moment you turn it in.

Comment by hmrhead

The step by step on efficiency to do this quest.

Assuming you have also taken all the other quests offered in this area.

1. Accept the quest.
2. Ride NORTH to Blood Watch. (You will get dismounted before you actually get there, but that's ok.)
3. Pick up all the quests in Blood Watch. (You will be given another quest that has to be done in the same area the first quests are done in.)
4. Set your hearth to Blood Watch.
5. Get the flight path for Blood Watch.
6. Fly to Azure Watch.
7. Warn all the NPC's in the following order. Menelaous (47,50), Odesyus (47,70), and then Stillpine (46,20).
8 Hearth back to Blood Watch.
9. Run south to the quest giver to turn it in before the timer runs out. I had 3 minutes to spare.

The important thing is that many of the quests you will pick up in Blood Watch will have you back in the same area that Kessel and his friends send you to with their quests. By having them all together, it's a much faster process even though you only get the coolness of a level 10 mount for a very limited amount of time.

Comment by Bluemalkin

"Favor the road traveled by few."

Uh, no offense Kessel but that's awful advice for this.

Comment by TyrantJump

If you start this quest on a Chauffeur mount, Frank will maintain his driving position underneath the elekk.

Comment by Kiyoine

I was on my Chauffeured Chopper when I accepted this quest. Rather than elekk-on-mammoth as another person mentioned, I appeared on the elekk, who was standing on the ground ... but my chauffeur was 'seated' on ground level as well, beneath the elekk's belly.

For the whole trip.

Once I turned in the quest, I still appeared to be on the elekk. However, once the 15 minutes had expired, I was visually still on an elekk but moving at unmounted runspeed until I clicked off my "chauffeur" buff. Then I was able to re-mount and proceed as normal.

Comment by auntmousie

If you are on the heirloom mount when you accept this quest, your driver will appear underneath the Elekk. You can see him if you jump off a cliff, or pan the camera.

Comment by Tropposcontato

Care NOT to be on the heirloom mount while accepting the quest, since it causes the elekk not to spawn; this will prevent you from turning the quest in, even though you will be able to warn all the three NPCs. The quest will eventually reset by itself! This is what happened to me at least... After accepting the quest dismounted, I have been able to complete it smoothly :) Have a nice game!

Comment by rachellcupcakes

This will probably be rated poorly / removed, but they should definitely add some type of quest connected to Elekks and the quote between Rey and Han Solo in The Force Awakens.

"This is the ship that did The Kessel Run in 14 parsecs?"
"Twelve!" (*in disbelief*) ".. Fourteen....."

Comment by LiriellGarrosh

If you are mounted on the heirloom mount when accepting this quest, you have the chance of not getting the elekk and being dismounted. The good news is, you can still complete the quest using your Chauffered Chopper.

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=nwau5orijmw&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Revenai

After you speak to the three leaders, the timer will disappear and the quest display will switch to "Ready for turn-in"... but this seems to be misleading. After getting the quest to this state, I went on my merry way to kill ravagers, and a little while later, the quest switched to Failed. Seems like the timer keeps going even when not displayed, or something else may make it fail even after the objective is complete.

Comment by Jdgurl

I failed this quest and was wondering if there was any way I could start over?

Comment by Downhitted

I used my own 100% speed mount and did it in about 3 minutes. (Backtracking is not measured).
If you are going for the Bloodmyst Isle Quests achievement, I would recommend taking this as one of the first ones to get it out of the way. There is more quests after that from the same guy.
If you are just leveling and doesn't mind skipping a couple of quests here and there, don't do this quest. It will be a waste of time.

Comment by Lilithanara

The fact that the time limit carries over into turning it in messed me up pretty bad. I went and did another quest after finishing this one and before turning it in. When I got back and returned to Kessel, I realized I had “failed” the quest. Keep this in mind.

Edit: I rode my own mount the entire time; accepting the quest through finishing.

Comment by celtictexan

This quest doesn't require riding the mount the NPC gives you. Just pass the message to the three named NPC's, and get back within the 15 minutes.

Comment by FreckledFraggle

NO ALTERNATE FORMS: If you're a shaman in Ghost Wolf form, or a druid in cat or bear form, you've already taken "The Kessel Run" quest, and now find yourself standing there pickin' your nose...get out of whatever alternate stance/form you're in and abandon this quest. When you're in your default form, retake the quest. Taking the quest should instantly place you atop an elekk, and it can't do that if you're wandering around on four legs. :)

Comment by DaymienRogue

Ok 2 things to confirm:

1) You must still turn in the quest before 15 min even though the timer disappears when you talk to the third person.
2) If you are on a mount or in any other form (Wolf for Shaman, or ANY druid form) you will not get the mount. while you can complete it on a normal mount/travel form, the Elekk you get is 200% mount and will be much faster at low levels. If you do not get the elekk, just dismount or change to normal form and abandon the quest and re accept.

Comment by Niecho

Hmrhead's directions worked like a charm, but I didn't take the time to grab all the other quests (and there are A LOT of them at Blood Watch), so to make this really easy...

NOTE:

* DO NOT BE ON A MOUNT OF ANY KIND
* DO NOT HAVE ANY FORMS ON i.e. Worgen, druids, shamans, costumes, etc
* Set Hearthstone to Blood Watch (North of the Quest Giver-- run up and do this first if you haven't ventured that far yet)
* Grab the Flight Path at Blood Watch, and take note of where the road / banners leading up are so you know which way to run back down quickly
* You WILL lose the mount he provided at the bridge as you run north to Blood Watch, so grab your chauffeured mount if you have that from heirlooms-- or use an alternate form, etc
* The quest is NOT complete until you turn it in-- though it will tell you it is complete in your quest log. You will fail if you do not make it back to the turn in within that 15 minute time frame.

WHAT TO DO:

1) ACCEPT QUEST
2) Run North back to Blood Watch-- and you will lose the mount he gave you as you hit the bridge (as a Resto Shaman, I ran it in Ghost Wolf form)
3) Take Flight Path to Azure Watch
4) Land and GO! Click each NPC for credit in this order:

/way 47, 50 Exarch Menelaous
/way 47, 70 Admiral Odesyus
/way 46, 20 High Chief Stillpine

HEARTHSTONE back to Blood Watch

Run South by Southeast along the road and turn it back in:

/way 63, 87 Return to Kessel

Comment by Blunderbus

You need to hand the quest in within the time limit, even after talking to all three people, or you'll fail it, even though the timer has stopped counting and it makes it seem like you've already completed it. Very dumb quest design.

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The Kessel Run

Kessel at Kessel's Crossing wants you to warn High Chief Stillpine at Stillpine Hold, Exarch Menelaous at Azure Watch and Admiral Odesyus at Odesyus' Landing of the imminent blood elf invasion. Return to Kessel when you complete this task. You have 15 minutes. (Be sure to keep it out of water.)

	High Chief Stillpine Warned (1)
	Exarch Menelaous Warned (1)
	Admiral Odesyus Warned (1)

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You're just in time, <name>. Blood elf activity in this area has doubled in the past week. Our agents have informed us that the blood elves that call themselves Sunhawks plan to launch an offensive upon Azuremyst soon. I need you to get a warning out to our allies and compatriots.

Warn High Chief Stillpine at Stillpine Hold, Exarch Menelaous at Azure Watch and Admiral Odesyus at Odesyus' Landing.

Time is of the essence so I am lending you my elekk. Be sure to keep it out of water.

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Exodar

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