Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Eagle's Essence
2.	The Falcon's Essence
3.	The Hawk's Essence
4.	Return to Cenarion Refuge
5.	Chasing the Moonstone
6.	Vanquish the Raven God

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Comment by 51705

45, 93 is where this guy is at. Uses a viper sting (2 manned it with 2 druids, since we're both doing the quest line ;) )

Comment by Psychopath

But there's no point in duo'ing this, its easily soloable :)

Comment by jef3189

Strategy:

This is the third of three mini boss fights in this quest, each involving a different aspect of your druid abilities. (This particular fight involves your ability to root and cast spells)

Click the statue and the NPC will spawn directly in front, like with the other you will have a few seconds to back up and prepare your roots and initial abolish poison. Remember that your abolish poison ticks and dispells future poisons, so keep that in mind you can completely avoid the viper sting he throws at you. He occasionally curses you so be aware of that too.

DO NOT attempt to use melee combat, and take advantage of barksin. Preempt your roots to make sure that he doesnt come within melee range, and use your wrath/moonfire to burn him down as quickly as possible. They do almost 400% damage (all your druid spells).

Comment by 50579

Putted all my healing gear on (since I got no balance gear) and that gave me a lot more mana so I could cast longer and nuke him quite easily =) Remember to Abolish Poison/ Remove Curse. Did this easy by casting wrath and kept him rooted as a feral specced Druid.

Comment by 33857

At 15-10%, he hits you with "Death's Hammer," a short stun. He then goes into a berserk mode and starts doing much more damage in melee range. Make sure to catch him in roots before this happens.

I recommend using Starfire over Wrath for this encounter since the less-frequent hits give you a lesser chance to break your roots. Nature's Grasp also comes in handy.

Comment by 21727

An easier way would be bringing along a mage (party). As feral I rooted, healed and de-poison while the mage was nuking him. My mage said he got an 8k arcane blast or something hit on the mob. He died in less than a minute (or around there).

Comment by magilync

No balance comments yet? :D This was my favorite essence to do as a moonkin. 14k starfires = owned. :)

Comment by wowheadshic

I'll add balance druid comments, did 2 starfires crit with 15k dmg each then more crit with moon fire, I'd say just stick with moonfire and starfires, mob seems to have negative resistance to those, lol. Easy fight. I teamed up with a feral druid for all 3 parts, she just demo tank and maim first and second with me blasting from far, then this fight was my turn to shine. :D If don't have balance druid friends, bring a pocket mage.

Comment by 34610

I know when I did it a few weeks ago instead of my Starfires hiting for around 1.9k they were hiting for about 9k. I did trinket and get a 20k Starfire crit, really makes you happy. But the general strategy is to always keep him rooted no matter what, and just hammer him with a Starfire, less spells cast, less amount of times you will have to reapply roots.

Comment by Taurent

Wow! This guy is tricky. It's true you need to keep him rooted and just pelt him with balance spells as they do way more damage than normal. I had a hard time my first attempt - he drained all my mana and my roots were not sticky long enough. His melee hits are exceptionally heavy.

I ended up getting a resto druid pal (who is nearing his 5k gold) to help just in case I needed a mid-cast roots or an abolish poison. Went down quickly!

Comment by 62841

did it as feral with the help of an ele-shaman. he did more than 6k dps. the fight didn't even last 10 seconds.

Comment by 24345

The rank 1 root works just as well as the rank 7. Also your innervate gets reset if you die and if you die your automatically ported alive at the graveyard. As a feral druid only no skills in balance I was able to do this with a 7500 mana pool. Also dont wait to cast your abolish poison just cast it when it wears off. Also be sure to just kill the adds all around the alter before you try this. You will need all the room to run around.

Comment by Tiforix

He does seem to take about 5x damage from Arcane spells. I was getting Starfire hits in the 8-9000 range, and one crit for 18,011.

If you are Balance spec, don't use Moonkin form though. You'll need to decurse and de-poison yourself a few times.

And don't use Wrath. Starfire and Moonfire are the way to go.

Comment by 4274

Did this with help from an arcane mage. Small problem; if you take this route, keep in mind that mage arcane spells cast very fast and damage breaks the roots. I basically wound up spamming roots and still had to throw a brez to the mage.

Went down REAL quick tho

Comment by 58040

This is the fight where moonkin shine. Root the guy, drop your treants, pop a trinket, and watch the 10k normal starfires fly. His curse makes you take DOUBLE melee damage so keep him rooted at all costs.

Comment by 73417

I just solo'd this in my resto gear as a Feral, 0/47/14. Died once, Very challenging. Kept root up at all times, abolish poison when it's down, decurse when you get cursed and starfire spam. Low to mid 3k range with no crits, and thorns did about 130ish damage when he got to close. Lots of fun.

Comment by 18933

as a feral i had a hard time with this one. Took me 4 tries. Luckily you dont have to spirit rez when you die so it doesnt matter. First time i simply didnt know what i was doing and i died pretty fast. 2nd time he kept resisting my roots. Resisted about 4-5 times. Not good. 3rd try i was about to beat him and one of those dang birds respawned on my and finished me off. 4th time i used wrath instead of starfire..WAY easier.

Comment by Chinabux

The statue is found at 45.93. Yes its underAuchidon if u have doubts :P

Comment by Beasty

A tip for those low on spell damage but good for anyone as its a huge dps increase (i only had a quag's eye and my end of dreams from back at 60 along 2 pieces of high warlord gear)

Is to use the netherwing ally trinket and summon him while fighting, it does very respectable damage and can take some hits while you nuke if you want it to.

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=32864

Really helped.

Comment by 72639

ok super easy quest for balance druids 15k crit 2 is best for all tho

Comment by Manxome

Since I'm feral, I did it in bear form, with the help of a healadin. At first I tried the root and nuke method. Even with some healing gear giving 7500 mana, and with heals from the healadin, it didn't take long to get killed. My roots would only hold for a couple of seconds. No question I was rusty casting spells, and I didn't get far enough away from the mob so I could cast roots while it ran to me.

But I simply lacked the patience to get the technique down, so I switched to tanking gear (14K HP, 24K armor) and slowly, ever so slowly, beat the mob down. It wasn't a strain so much as it took time; each mangle would only reduce the mob's health by 1%. The healadin had to pot a couple of times, but my health never even went down to 50%. Just clear the area of mobs and fight the npc right at the statue.

Comment by 97761

I found it much easier to just wrath and entangle and use my Commander Trinket to at revered to summon my whelp with him and myself took under 30 secs to kill him and I am a feral druid and did this in my dps suit.

That little whelp does a boat load of damage to him. Also another thing that helps is put abolish poison on macro.

/target *name*
/cast abolish poison

Makes it easier to get the mana drain off.

Comment by 92045

Take a hunter, druid, or shaman with you. The mob is Nature and Arcane weak, Serpent Sting ticks for 1k, Arcane shots hit for 3k+ and my combat log doesn't say what the damage from my Snake Trap was, but I can guess it was decent. Also he can't be silenced.

Comment by 46434

Killed him solo in tanking gear. Just keep in mind, that u need to decurse asap, and try to do it between attacks.

Comment by 104223

Simple fight as a Moonkin.

Clear area, stand on small jutting out hill (I did anyway) Treats almost as soon as he appears, and roots in place. Starfire 3-4 times and maybe a wrath, watch your HP. Easy peasy, dies quickly. Enjoy the trinket!

Comment by 51670

I got to this quest as an alt, newly to level 70, feral spec with -0- spell damage gear. It was HARD. Starfires hit for under 4k, he resists roots far too often, and my mana pool was under 6k. After about 10 attempts, I managed to get him down, but it was as much luck as anything else. People in my situation should either bring a friend, gear up a little first, or be prepared to lose to the random number generator a lot (i.e. 2 root resists in a row).

Comment by CBR1kboy

900 spell damage, 22% crit, 13% hit and he went down with 3 shots.

Moonfire, Starfire, Starfire. (Second starfire was a 20619 crit. Yes, 20k+)

EASY if you're actually Balance!

Comment by 88439

lol @ 21691 starfire crit :D

very very easy for moonkin

Comment by idomagic

Did this as resto with pretty crappy gear, got help from a MS warr (pretty good geared), based on the comments here I asked him to go tank gear.
Was seriously a piece of cake, the warr didn't even need a full stack LB to outheal the incoming damage and the Hawk went down very very quick, I'm guessing I would have had some problems soloing it though.

Comment by Nokturnal

As a feral druid with pretty bad Boomkin gear (+500spelldmg) Managed to solo it.

Tip #1 KILL ALL THOSE ANNOYING BIRDS NEAR SHRINE (Start killing the ones closest to shrine then kill yourself a path to run away from boss along you'll have to kill 5-8 birds atleast)
Tip #2 KEEP ABOLISH POISON UP, Can't stress that enough (Otherwise say goodbye to your mana)
Tip #3 Root him, move away from him, starfire him.
Tip #4 If your cursed decurse yourself
Tip #5 Barkskin is your friend

With these 5 tips you should be able to solo him even with some really bad boomkin gear.

Comment by 52235

As a feral, I put on my crappy healing kit (+536 healing, 9% crit, +236 damage, 6K health, wearing mostly cloth). I died twice trying it solo. He was maybe at 90% health both times. I just couldn't keep him rooted for more than a second or two. Third time I brought along a Pally and a Mage. I died again within seconds. They barely finished him off (Pally was at 20% health). Rez'd from the Pally and loot. Hope I never have to see him again.

Comment by 16636

Feral. First I tried it in melee gear (0 spell, 5k mana), but even with Innervate and mana pot I run out of juice very quickly, got him down to maybe 50%. After a short trip to Shattrath to get oomkin gear (625 spell, 10k mana) killed the boss rather easily with Wrath spam.

Comment by 141019

Feral Geared/Talented Strat: As fresh 70, my stats - 6k mana, +77 spell (neglible) dmg

Preparation: Set up a new "1 to =" hotkey panel with: Moonfire, Wrath, Starfire, Root, Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, Abolish Poison, and Remove Curse. Go into interface options and check "AutoSelf Cast" on, if its not already (This is very important, no fuddling with targets when decursing/healing self.) Bring a mana pot or 2. Clear the open area (NW quadrant) by bird statue of ostriches, buff up and drink up.
Battle: Activate the statue and stand a good 20-30 yards away, target the npc before it turns Attackable, and tap the Root key to root him asap. Nuke away, I think Starfire is preferred despite pushback risk. If your root is getting stale, go with wrath instead and refresh moonfire.
Always keep it rooted, and your ~20+ yd distance. Do not ever try to nuke toe-to-toe. He is immune to Cyclone.
Keep an eye on his Throws, they mana-drain you, tap Abolish Poison immediately. Pre-emptively casting Abolish Poison is useful too. He will often pause mid-pursuit to throw/cast, take this opportunity to re-root.
While you are moving, use your instacasts as needed. (moonfire refresh, decurse, HoT if you're dying)
Mana pot as soon as you've eaten enough mana, this gives the 2 min CD a chance to be done if you are in a panic at the end. (Then Innvervate next of course.)

With 6k mana I was able to beat on 3rd try using 1 lowbie mana pot. First 2 tries were "learning", had some unlucky root breaks, and I hadn't cleared kiting room. Very doable solo as a new feral 70 with NO boomkin gear!

Comment by xpuntar

As feral I tried 4, 5 times in my crap healing set (~ +630 heal & ~+320 damage) and still got owned.

Once I was able to down him to around 50% hp, but still is hard as his melee hits are insane with the curse debuff he puts on you. I would probably need to watch and react better and fight more defensively with roots and moonfire at hand. (It is hard with feral mindset.)

Somehow healbot addon didn't allow to purge his curse / poison off me so it was quite annoying to fight him. I didn't though that I should alt-key for decurse, lol

Just for the sake of this quest I respeced Balance and while with doubts still downed him on my first try with the same "^&*!" healing gear.

As feral with healing set it is pretty much depending what kind of gear you have. If you have BG/PvP heal set (S1, S2, S3) available you should have no problems. If you have crap heal /spell damage it may be doable if you are patient and know how "balance" work.

If you don't have a clue and good gear (healing) better respec Balance and enjoy that part of a druid for a while.

Comment by Robyn

First try I went in with Balance gear but feral spec, and got comprehensively owned. Specc'ed balance I took him down pretty easily though, with about 550 spelldamage and 7k health, without even using Treants. Key talents to have are Balance of Power for the +spellhit (which increases the lasting ability of your Roots), Insect Swarm and all the dps boosts you can pack in.

He hits pretty hard, so staying at range is important, but the key thing is a high-octane offense. The more damage spells you cast, the more damage he takes, so if you pause even with roots up the mana drain poison starts to take its toll.

Comment by 118155

This was by far the easiest encounter from the 3 spirites(as a balance druid). Just keep him rooted, put an abolish poison on you and nuke him with starfire moonfire and (if specced) insect swarm. Got him down in a few seconds with a 24k starfire crit.

Comment by 103926

Did this right now in my PvP healing gear with 1137 +healing (giving 385 spell damage) and 205 resillience with 9.3k hp .... Was really easy to be honest, just rooted him, wrath > moonfire, rinse and repeat, threw abolish poison and remove curse when affected and took me no time at all doing around 4k wrath and 3k moonfire.. easy as pie :D

that's my 10 cents :)

Comment by 146552

i soloed it just some minutes ago as a feral drood in feral gear (s1+accessories).
Bear form and nuke it:D when u are cursed just decurse it and use a healing potion or hs(from apexis shards) or barkskin and heal yourself:)
It's realy easy if u know what to do.

Comment by Diodor

Ok everything is already said but let me share my expirience. I did him on 3rd try, feral spec with some spelldmg/healing gear on me (320 spell dmg 520 healing) solo! So you dont need any help its a skill quest not a gear. There is only 1 trick here... dont let him in melee range. If he comes to you he will hit you 3-4k and you die fast. I had trouble first 2 times coz he resisted roots a lot, but 3rd time he didnt resist any. So i just root, dispell curse & abolish poison... starfire, wrath... repeat. Make sure you are always at 25-30 yards from him so you have time for new root when he breaks it and dispell. Its not a time race... he doest do anything special if you are not in melee with him. And ofc clear some area from annoying birds :)

gl

Comment by 150074

so incredibly easy, even easier than the rest, BEING FERAL SPECCED!

I attacked him, but then i noticed i only had moonfire in my skillbar.
Just root him and keep Moonfire up and wait till it dies.

Easy as pie, only had to use innervate, had 404 spelldamage xD.

B.

Comment by scyru

omg died at 3% with 230 spell dmg feral druid:S

Comment by 161029

You don't have to be balance in any, way, shape or form to do this.

I was full feral so i used half tanking gear half pvp gear giving me 10.7k health, 6.8k mana & 31 spell damage.

Wasn't too difficult. Cleared a small area (killed about 4 birds). Summoned him, kept him constantly rooted, kept abolish poison up, decursed when needed, starfired constantly. Used 1 super mana option and an innervate. He died with me at about 9k health, and 1.5k mana.

Comment by 32686

Feral, wearing healing gear. Did it easily on my first try.

Follow this priority list:

(1) Root. Interrupt whatever else you're doing to reapply root.
(2) Get to max range. This is to ensure that you never get hit during (1).
(3) Abolish Poison, or lose your mana.
(4) Decurse. Not crucial if you do (1) and (2) well (I never got hit), but better safe than sorry.
(5) Nuke.
(6) Collect Essence of the Hawk and turn it in for nifty trinket. :)

Comment by Buzku

This one wasn't easy for me as feral druid. I need a backup dps (hunter) to down the Hawk quick enough. Mana was also an issue...

Comment by 58296

Alternative strategy - Kiting.

I couldn't keep him rooted. My Entangle kept getting resisted or breaking on the very first moonfire. I'm also a Feral Druid and didn't feel like respec'ing for this one.

So I cleared out the adds around the cliff. I then moonfired and then kited him in cat form... I came out of cat to recast moonfire and to clear off the poison. I also used Feral Fairie Fire each time to came off of cooldown so he didn't reset.

I didn't dispel the curse (no point!). He was at 45% by the time I reached the end of my 'path'. I then entangled, hit a pot, and circled around him and kited him back to his statue.

He died almost on top of the statue.

Comment by 172375

This was the easiest of the 3 for me, I just kept entangling roots up, and kept starfiring, with barkskin when it was ready.

Comment by tilgare

First off, it took me a second to clue in that he's on a floating island. It's there, the coords (45,93) are correct.

Took a Fury warrior friend with me. Very simple, just let him take the damage, healed when needed, and moonfire/starfire the rest of the time. Took maybe a minute to take him down. Warrior said that the hits he was dealing would have made it hard solo, so obviously keep him rooted if you are alone. Very important. Otherwise, quite easy if you have any help at all frankly.

Comment by moonstalker

as a balance druid i was able to kill the hawk, in about 13 secs, with just root, moonfire, is, and 2 12k-13k wrath crits

Comment by xblitz44x

I also had a lot of trouble as a feral druid, and died 4 times. Keeping him rooted is key because he hits hard, but my roots got resisted quite a bit. I found that by the time he was rooted, I abolished the poison, and got back into max range I only had time for one or two spells before roots broke and had to start the cycle over. Mana was an issue.

I had to recruit a resto/balance guildie friend. He made it look easy. I kept the mob rooted and the both of us decursed/free of poisons while my friend nuked him down in about 30 seconds.

Comment by 182366

Feral druid, 7/8 T6 when I went to do this, didn't bother with any spell casting, took a while, but never had to swap out and heal or anything, killed it pretty easily.

So you can melee this, with enough gear to just bull through it... and yes, up until recently, I never bothered with the fast flight form.

Comment by 26260

Do not do this in Feral spec as a fresh 70 Feral, your mana won't sustain

By fresh 70 Feral i mean one that leveled all the way as Feral, and picked up Feral quest rewards over caster rewards

Respecced to Moonkin for this one

Comment by 80180

For this I was feral (kitty) spec but tossed on my rather mediocre resto set (no boomkin set). Cast roots, then Wrath and Moonfire sort of randomly as I felt like it. Kept him rooted, used a few hots and Abolish Poison. Didn't bother with decurse at all. Killed him quickly enough with almost full health and plenty of mana to spare. I'd rate this as easier than the Falcon one.

Comment by 144132

Similar to apfhex's post, I tried this boss as feral spec'd, but in my tanking gear. Got destroyed 3-4 times before getting annoyed and grabbing some healing gear lying around in the bank, which gave me about 900 healing, 390 spell dmg. That left me with about 7K health & 10K mana in regular caster form.

Returned to boss and royally kicked his ass on first attempt. Kept him rooted with lvl 1 Roots and spammed Starfire from max range, critting for over 8K at least a couple times.

Remember to keep Lifebloom and Abolish Poison up as often as possible. I didn't even bother with Innervate or Barkskin (woulda prob made the fight even easier), and had over 50% health and just under 50% mana at the end.

Comment by 19839

Just turned 70, full feral spec, wearing only spelldamage questitems.

Cleared 4 mobs for some runningspace.

Used rank 4 roots, spammed max rank wrath and always had a moonfire debuff up.

As long as you root a lot, you wont need to move at all. Downrank roots and spam it and its a breeze.

Comment by Immaterial

I'm fully feral, apart from enough resto to get omen of clarity (think my mana pool's about 4K, with a tiny % of spell crit), but managed to solo this with a little rummaging on the auction house-
1 Bringer of death -about 25-30G on my server- you can always d/e it if you don't want it after this quest!
1 Adept's elixir from a guild-mate alchemist
1 Elixir of Draenic Wisdom- about 2-3G, Auction house
1 Crunchy Serpent- again, from guild

With these buffs, I got quite respectable mana regen, an increase of about 2K to my mana pool, a 10% spell crit, my feeble wraths were hitting at 2.5-3k- and my Moonfire was ticking at 900.Used Yaak's strategy (above).

Just thought I'd list these out for any other ferals that don't normally touch spell/mana stuff, and needed a quick reference.

editted for crazy pricing

Comment by 163227

Unlike the other two, you turn this in with Arthorn Windsong (in Blade's Edge), not with the bird you call with the whistle.

Comment by Avah

Can be found at 45,93

For those of you who dont have cords here is a map;

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=3519:450930

Comment by 25105

Guardian of the Hawk hits you for 1100.
Guardian of the Hawk casts Curse of Blood (increases damage taken by 100%) on you.
Guardian of the Hawk hits you for 2200.

Painful as resto druid with 2500 armor.

Comment by Dactyl

I tried this the first time doing the casting method, but I died with him at 2% because I went oom, with pot and innervate on CD.

I said screw it, and ended up killing him the second try. easily, by just tanking him down and melee'ing him in bear, while wearing full tanking gear. Popped out maybe 3 times to rejuv/regrowth myself. Kept demo roar, faerie fire, and lacerate stack up, and popped frenzied regen near the end. Did not need any help. I was using T4, S2-3, and some Kara gear.

Comment by 203775

This fight....was...a joke..
Trees. Starfire moonfire starfire moonfire dead. the roots undid right away but he only hits 688 on moonkin and i 2 hit him pretty much so...

Comment by 237837

Okay, this was the easiest fight ever. you don't need to buy pots or anything else.

I'm a dreamstate-resto druid, 28/0/33. All i did for this fight was clear some of the surrounding mobs and when i summoned him, i rooted him and used moonfire/wrath/insect swarm.

Keep him rooted because he hits for 2k melee. Also, you may want to abolish poison cause he can viper sting.

I killed this guy so easily it's not even funny. I have 912spelldmg

Comment by 171792

Did this spec'd fully feral, in feral pvp gear, with a caster mace and offhand. Starfires crit for 8.5k. Died the first couple times getting the strat down, but third try was cake. Keep him rooted, keep Abolish Poison up and decurse when needed. Burn down.

Comment by Darkmanian

Easily solo'ed at level 80. Boomkin 16.8k armor and 1400 bonus spell power.

This guardian has 50k HP but you should be fine if you can crit reasonably high. For some reason i was critting abnormally high and didn't see any buffs that were not familiar on me. (ie: 19k critical Wrath)

I did pop treants and used barskin but the fight only lasted a few seconds.

Edit: I also received a 13g23s reward at level 80

Comment by 260402

As of WotLK, all of these quests can be soloed at lvl 80, regardless of spec and very minorly of gear.

I'm full spec resto, nailed the bear-boss easily with wraths, barkskin, and bash to intercept the Starfire.

Wrathed down the second guy; all attacks missed me cause of lvl, so they should miss you too.

Rooted and Starfired third guy. I was critting for 23k, which is about 4x the amount I normaly do. No worries, his 50k goes down easier than 1k.

So all this talk about bringing a friend and speccing properly and strategy is basically out of date at lvl 80. Have fun soloing

Comment by 334547

I didn't pick up this quest until level 77, at which time I trained for epic flying and got the swift flight form. I'm a tank, so I treated all these mini bosses as such...and this guy keeps you on your toes. I have 16k health in bear form, used regrowth once and had 4k left at the end. For others solo at this level, keep him dotted with lacerate and mangle (remember that lacerate stacks 5x), debuff with ferie fire and demoralizing roar, heal early and you should be alright.

Comment by 175017

I don't know if these mini-bosses were nerfed in WotLK, but I had no problem with them at all. Just killed all 3 like normal mobs without any tactics.
As for this particular one -- as soon as he started to run at me, I accidentally clicked on Starfall instead of Starfire and he died half-way to me.

And my druid is only level 70 (twink) with a bunch of level 61-70 green/blue gear.

Comment by 329396

This guy is extremely vulnerable to arcane damage (probably nature dmg also, but I didn't spam wrath), so even if a feral does ff--->mf--->starfire spam, you should be ok. If you don't have a deep mana pool, as ferals won't, wrath isn't mana efficient, so you shouldn't be doing that anyway. I'm balance, but at lvl 76, my starfire hit him for 11k-16k (were not critical strikes, either). Usually, my starfire hits for 2500, so it seems to scale the damage for any spec to do the quest, as long as they use the vulnerabilities of the target to their advantage.

It seems each of these guys in the quest are designed for any spec druid to do, as long as you use your forms properly. If you're balance/resto, you can still do the feral ones (and vice versa), it just requires a little planning.

Comment by Mydge

Worlds most useless trinket?

Comment by Bruenor80

lol this is cake for a boomkin....45k starfire crits ftw. You would probably be better off just spamming starfire on him regardless of spec.

Comment by Soldier45

If you take the time to read the quest (unlike me) you'll noticed that you need to return to Arthorn Windsong when you loot the essence. Do not attempt to use the whistle to call the bird to turn in the quest. He will not have a question mark above his head.

Comment by 342582

if you're 80 with normal gear and prefer cat form, do it. killled him in less than a minute, just popped berserk and then he was basically dead, maybe lost 5% of my total health in the fight...

Comment by 156711

Soloed this as a lvl 70 boomkin in heirlooms (shoulders, chest, mainhand mace and trinket). Got killed once but that was because i was careless and let one of the wandering birds aggro on me (should have cleared them before calling the miniboss). When i came back, i started the fight, rooted him and used hurricane and that's it. My ents were on cooldown from the previous fight.

Comment by Doodac

Did this very easy as feral in bear form, got 3 pieces of leveling gear.

Just go for him as you normally would on any elite in bear form, 5x Lacerate, Mangle, Faerie Fire (Feral) (This did about 2k Damage each hit.)
Keep some potions off cd, you might need it, same with Frenzied Reg. and Barkskin.
And just keep the curse off, this worked out pretty good for me, hope it does for other people aswell :).

Comment by 466069

You tell us how to get him down...
But where is he? Like cords or something..?

Comment by 320640

45, 93 he is att. very, very easy as a t9 geared boomkin, 33k NON-crit starfire =]]

Comment by 370864

This used to increase speed in flight forms by 10%. Now as you can see it only reduces mana cost. Shame and a waste of slot.

Comment by 142412

Easily handled at lvl 70 as boomkin, (with almost 1k spl dmg that is.. ) Dots, trees and wrath = dead 'boss' ..

Good Luck! :)

Comment by 589531

I believe its solo-able for a 70 druid today, cause im a 70 druid and im i dont have any epics, just wrath greens, and he droped like a bird... i was surprised... he had 50k hp

Comment by 1Beachcomber

I can't help but conclude that this trinket is one of the most worthless quest rewards in the game.

Comment by Allakhazam

I am level 80 and my 1st spec is as a healer with +2200 spell power, so I knew this would be easy, however, this mob is especially susceptible to spell damage. I hit him with a 15K wrath spell, which I certainly have never done before. He must take quintuple spell damage or something. My normal wrath crit is 3K or so.

Comment by Allakhazam

The stupid bird won't talk to me after killing and getting the essence :(

Comment by Allakhazam

Heh, I managed to do this as a feral druid with 0 spell damage. I wasn't sure what to expect, so I messed up a bit at the beginning. That cost me, cause i landed up with about <100 hp at the end. and no mana.

I managed though. I called the bird.... and nothing. Bird just sat there.

Was about to go respec balance, cause I didn't want to have to redo the stupid quest I barely got through.

Then I realized, you're supposed to go to the guy at the evergrove. Not call the bird. ^^

Just follow everyone else's advice. Throw on any int/stam/spell damage gear you have. Root. Most important spell. then just follow it up with a moonfire and spam starfire. Always decurse and abolish poison yourself. Innervate/pot as needed.

Good luck!

Comment by Allakhazam

I tanked him to death in bear form as a 0/47/14 Feral Druid.

I had to drink a Combat Mana Pot to have some mana to be able to keep on healing because I simply forgot to Innervate myself the second time I shifted out to root and heal, otherwise I'd have done it without having to drink.
The method is quite simple, I mostly ignored the curse until I had to shift out of bear to heal, then if I had the curse, I used remove curse+root, otherwise barkskin+root if it was up or root on the mob if it wasn't, move away from the mob, heal and put all possible HoTs, back to bear for more bashing. Also be sure to kill the damned giant chicken that roam the place, I had to run away on the first try because I agroed two of them.

I'm mostly in PvP gear and most enchants and gems are stamina/agility oriented:
7010 mana, 327 resilience (helps a bit for the damned mana drains).
In bear, 14424 health, 18394 armor and 28.15% dodge, 34.25% crit, 2033 AP.
As you can see, nothing utterly awesome, so I guess it's doable for any Feral Druid with decent tanking gear who knows how to play his class.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2008 1:16pm by Morrydwen

Comment by Allakhazam

I'm not sure what the difficulty with this was. I can only suspect people aren't using their keyboard like they should be. Long as you react quickly to the poisons, curse, and the need to reroot you'll beat this guy easy.

I did it in my cat feral gear with 0 +dmg or mp5. Just keep the guy off you with roots and burn him down. If you have to keep looking and moving your mouse, you're losing a valuable sec taking your eyes off the field. He'll catch you and swat you

Comment by Allakhazam

I was able to find the first two however I cannot locate the third statue. I dont have a coordinates addon so I need landmarks and location names. I have not yet located sorrow wing point where the statue is said to be.

Comment by Allakhazam

Confirmed coordsat 42, 92.

Yes, do this in caster form. I did it in healing gear, but that's because I don't have balance gear. Start away from him, keep him rooted, starfire + moonfire him. You can ignore the curse, but that's only if you are good at avoiding him. Definately depoison yourself as much as possible. Rooting him is first priority, depoisoning yourself is second, dps is third.

The lower he gets in health, the more often he uses his abilities. Honestly this was the easiest of all 3, and I'm in really bad gear for all 3. At the end I got a 4.5k wrath crit as feral with 280 bonus damage, so that was pretty sweet.

After this quest head back to Evergrove.

Comment by Allakhazam

Quest details have been updated.

Comment by Allakhazam

It is possible to meele solo this "boss" I used 2 2000+ healing pots, feral rejuv, and a remove curse powershift macro bear>remove>bear. Also I had to full heal, healing touch, regrowth, rejuv, 3x lifebloom once. Ended with 6k health from 15k, mana was occasionally an issue but not a huge deal. I'm kara gears could techincally do ZA

Comment by Allakhazam

Absolutely rediculous. The mob is faster than normal running speed, so you need to be at max range to hope to root him before he gets to you in 3.5 sec. The moment he does get to you, expect to lose half your life.

I'm a feral druid, my only casting gear is healing equipment, with a whopping 100 damage.

6 deaths so far...

Comment by Allakhazam

This was annoying, aggitating and frustrating as a real feral.

I've got no caster gear - I don't cast anything but thorns and MoW 95% of the time - so I was working with no spell bonus damage.

The @#$% kept breaking root every other second and the @#$% local wildlife was just a total and utter pain in the @$$.

Finally, I said @#$% it and popped back to Moonglade, respected to boomkin and came back to finish the damned quest

So if you're a feral spec, save yourself a lot of repair bills, wasted pots and overall aggitation and just drop the gold to respec to boomkin, kill this sob and then respec back to feral - the time and annoyance saved alone is worth the 100g.

Comment by Allakhazam

I cleared the area around the shrine. Summoned then got to a decent distance to root. When the guardian appeared and I was able to attack I rooted him. Got my treants out, dotted him and starfired. that was it. My starfire hit for over 20k. Roots did break early though, so while I barkskinned and healed my dots and treants finished the job.

My spell damage is at 933 with just GOTW. So, as a boomer I found this fight by far the quickest and easiest.

Comment by Allakhazam

Clear the birds around the statue. Put on any and all mana, stam, +dmg gear you have. A health pot wouldn't hurt. Summon him, get as far back as possible and just keep him rooted! Also, keep the debuffs off! There's a curse and poison which drains mana. I had to use 1 health pot and heal once, but I got him down. Oh, by the way, I'm feral and my set was a healing set...+109 dmg. I just used nothing but moonfire and 1 wrath. Moonfire is enough. I was critting for over 2k or more. Trust me, I don't hit that hard as feral with other mobs. Just root, dispell, moonfire!

Comment by Allakhazam

coords are correct. The last one is the partytime of resto druid.
You keep healing yourself so that you constantly have all HoT s on yourself and you use moonfire, starfire and wrath at him. Finished it with my hp almost untouched. No potions used and all my talents r at restoration. I suggest using entagling roots only if your healing cannot stand the hits you get, cause when he is close - melee range,he doesn t through the hunters arrow that drains your mana and which stucks up everytime time, so all your mana is availiable for casting:) If u use roots and decide to have a distant fight then u ll need innervate and mana potion (u ll need some extra mana, since u r doing only magical damage and... u ll have to deal with the mana draining...)

I consider this bossy as a compensation for the resto druids, who unfortunately will have a very hard time killing alone the previous 2. Its managable though. Thanks a lot for the advises for the previous 2, they were very helpfull, especially the maim hit at falcon, just before the blast...

Comment by Allakhazam

For this fight only was the very FIRST time i specced boomkin. I had some of the Outland battle gear which for some reason has spell power on all 3 versions. So, with just a little under 500 spell damage and 7.3k mana I attempted him for the 5th time of the day. He owned me because i got close. Second time however, i rooted him, insect swarm then hit star fall, which crit for 6k every hit and bam he was dead. I may get to like this Moonkin thing. :P

Comment by Allakhazam

I tried to solo it as a feral with ~300 Spelldmg, unfortunately it wasn't possible.

The bird is immune to Hurricane, it is rootable, so i only had the chance to hit it twice. Then it twoshot me :(

Luckily if you die you get ressurected at the graveyard south of Auchindoun, so you won't need to gh.

Comment by Allakhazam

As a feral druid the first two quests were very easy. I didn't bother to swap out of bear form on the first. The Second I only swapped out of Cat form to heal near the end after maiming the guy.

This one was a little trickier. But only a little. I'm feral tank specced. I tried doing the quest with no spell damage gear at all, got him down to around 30% and had to run off, the second time I got him down to around 15%, but he killed me. So I ran back to Stormwind, bought a cheap Flask of Blinding Light and popped on 2 pieces of spell damage gear I had mouldering in my bank for a total of +198 Arcane/Nature.

After that it was easy. Root him, Moonfire, Starfire, just make sure you keep cleansing the poison/curse as they come, manage your mana (I had to use Innervate/1x Unstable Mana Potion), and stay away from him. Watch your roots, if you see it fail, stop whatever you're casting and re-root immediately. Other than that it's cake.

I finished with about 60% health, and around 10% mana - feral at +198 Arcane/Nature

Comment by Allakhazam

Defiantly not something that can be done in dps either in cat or bear form. I ended up respeccing myself moonkin to get some extra ranged damage before I got him down. I didn't even have gears with +spell damage, +INT or +mana so I went oom mid fight but Innervate and mana pot helped me win this one.

Comment by Allakhazam

With +468 spell power, feral build, my starfires were hitting around 6k and critting around 10k; moonfire was hitting around 2.2k. Hate to think what a moonkin would be hitting for!

Comment by Allakhazam

First try: I was in my feral gear (having brought no other gear with me.) I was massacred.

Second try: I was in my resto gear (which is greens/blues) since I have no balance gear. I kept the mob rooted, used starfire and moonfire, and found it was easy. Used no potions. The only thing I would mention is, he has a nasty curse (curse of blood, increased damage taken from his Throw) and poison (viper sting, drains your mana fast) so be sure to dispel those.

Comment by Allakhazam

easy enough to solo with decent caster gear.
even if feral, without re-spec. -- not in feral form, though i even didnt try because of the other posts here.

(as written in other quest pages, i think Blizz has nerf'd this chain. doesnt seem as tough as some of the early posts make it out to be)

like most druids i know, i have some caster gear in bank. (including Windhawk set tho without it i think i could've handled it fine)

kept him rooted, alternated dmg spells of Moonfire, Wrath & coupla Starfires ..
current gear gives only +590 dmg but those spells hit him for high damage: Moonfire hitting first for 2k and then ticking away with 1200 each cycle, Wrath hitting for 4k, Starfire for 6k.

only healed once, and hardly needed that.

as others said below, remove his curses & keep him rooted, you'll be fine.
also good idea to clear 3 of the bird mobs nearby, just to have some elbow room.

Comment by Allakhazam

The first 2 of these were cake for me, full-feral 1-week-old 70.

Good thing is that you can reset this guy and not die if you just run away.

Realize that this guy apparently has about 50k hp and so it's probably not possible to melee him down - after reading the other posts I decided not to try, especially after having helped a bear friend do this before - she tanked, my lock killed... surprisingly slowly.

So in my feral gear I tried to root/moonfire/starfire/wrath/ etc.... I just didn't have the firepower nor the mana to do this - especially as he puts a big mana Drain-over-time debuf on you. I was able to get him to about 50% this way, even when I had the presence of mind to cast innervate on myself.

So finally off to the bank I went and got the meager moonkin gear that I have - +500spell, 12.5% crit, 8400 mana. With this low caster stat I've got to believe that the mob is heavily sensitive to druidic magic as my moonfire hit him for an instant 2784!

This still required me to pop innervate (make sure you do this when you still have mana as the debuff will prevent you from doing it if you fall below the 94 mana required for the spell) as well as use a mana pot, but I finished with about 3000hp out of about 7500.

Comment by Allakhazam

Feral... killed him first try, +505 bonus damage, very easy!

Comment by Allakhazam

WOW what a joke! The last, and strongest, of the spirits. the 1st by stonebreaker was teh tuffest, this one was cake, root incects, wrath win

Comment by Allakhazam

Coord = 45 92
make sure clear few of the birds around the totem before u start summon.
and make sure you had a set of balance gear. My starfall hit this guardian 5000ish with only 350 spell dmg.

Comment by Allakhazam

I was able to solo this as a feral (0/46/14) druid, after some practice. My balance set is blue/green quest rewards that give +19 mana/5 sec, and +460 spell damage.

For me the key was to never attempt to cast starfire. Keeping the mob rooted was priority #1. Keeping myself decursed and depoisoned was priority #2. Moonfire was priority #3. I also managed to squeeze in a wrath or two.

The mob goes down fast. You don't have to do all that much damage, so much as keep yourself alive. I used one health potion. As a feral I worried about going out of mana on this fight, but that turned out to be a non-issue.

Comment by Allakhazam

I am geared for tanking and this mob was impossible for me. Had to get a pala to help.

Comment by Allakhazam

While the advice and strategies given for defeating this and the previous two mobs in the chain was no doubt helpful and valid, the true secret tact that makes these dead easy is simple: ENGINEERING!

Not because the bombs and gadgets give you any special advantage over these bird-homids, but because you will be so broke that you may, like me, not have the 5,000 gold saved up until level 75-76, when defeating these feathered fiends is child's play for a boomkin in green gear (and purple specs, wearable 14 levels below my own).

See? A simple and elegant solution.

Comment by Sipder2

How to do The Falcon's Essence:

grab the quest
go to Terokkar Forest > Sorrow Wing Point /way 45,6, 93,3
interact with Shrine of the Hawk
defeat Guardian of the Hawk and loot Essence of the Hawk. Can be done in caster/boomkin form. Root and nuke.
use Arthorn's Sparrowhawk Whistle and return the quest

The Hawk's Essence WoW TBC: https://youtu.be/8QEp7QFLJAk

Comment by Christianlw

target is immune to taunt and
after I killed / looted it the messenger bird didn't offer a chance to turn in quest, after to fly to evergrove to do so

Comment by Studioman16

Speak with Arthorn Windsong to get a new Arthorn's Sparrowhawk Whistle if you lose your original one

Comment by howa003

This quest is part of the quest line for the druid Swift Flight Form.

The first quest in this line is Morthis Whisperwing.

For whole quest line see Sipder2's comment or Wowhead guide.

Comment by squidzorz

Very easy as a fresh 70 feral druid (full feral talents) with the spare spell damage gear I accrued from quests while leveling. I think I was around 250 bonus spell damage. This isn't anywhere near as hard as I expected reading some of the comments here. You will probably have to innervate. Don't hold onto it too long. Took just over a minute to kill.

- Abolish Poison when he casts the mana burning poison. The poison drains your mana very quickly. This is 100x more important than removing the curse.
- Remove Curse when he casts the increased physical damage curse. As long as you keep him rooted and stay at max range, you won't get hit very often. He has a throw ability that he uses every 5-10 seconds. I took a total of 2.4K damage, so around two Rejuvenations worth of healing.

1. Click the altar to summon. He will spawn directly in front of the altar.
2. Run ~30 yards away to be at max range for Entangling Roots. Spam cast it to cast as soon as he turns attackable.
3. Moonfire
4. Starfire 1-3 times
5. Re-cast Entangling Roots. Cast early if they break. Be sure to try and stay near max range so you have enough time to react.

Repeat 3-5 until dead.

Damage breakdown:
58% Moonfire
34% Starfire
8% Entangling Roots

Comment by Hairband

DO NOT READ OUT OF ORDER

Miniwing Takes Back the Hawk Spirit Defeating Anzu

Sorrowwing Point is the place where the Hawk, the most violent and horrible of all the bird spirits, has been been defeated by Anzu's minions and imprisoned. The only thing here are large Lost Torranches without a clue to the significance of the hulking statue with its green eyes gazing at nothing. If only the Torranches knew of the violence and the idol-worshippers keeping the spirit locked into its stone prison. My touch of the statue will enrage the hidden priest of Anzu that I know will be guarding the Hawk's prison. The peaceful Torranches will look on with surprise of its sudden neighbors.

I click the Hawk statue to bring out the guardian. In secret, hiding, it is casting a beam on the Hawk's resting place and threatens:

Guardian of the Hawk says: Fool! The essence of the hawk will never be yours.
Guardian of the Hawk says: The time of the Raven is nigh, but yours will end here.

Undefeated by the Hawk's deadly horrible claws, the Hawk's guardian comes for me but my strength is too quick. With the knowledge from the Cenarion Druids and the forbidden text, the Hawk Guardian falls before me and I speedily take the Hawk's essence. Now I have the remains of the three spirits that defeated Anzu. I have freed the spirits from their prison. Now it is time that they come to the world of the living. They are needed. They defeated Anzu the raven idol before and I am here with them now. I need them with me to defeat Anzu's spirit and let him know his presence will die within the Emerald Dream, releasing Clintar and the other druids in the Emerald Dream and making them free of nightmare.

(Once you obtain the essence, you cannot click the statue and summon the Guardian of the Hawk. This is why I do not have a screenshot of his spellcasting from his hiding spot.)

As I return to Arthorn she askes me, "Did you overcome the Hawk's guardian and win its essence?" She knows I did. She hands me a cool blue token with a birdlike profile in black, and says, "Now that we have all the essences, Morthis Whisperspring must find a way to combine them into an amulet that you'll be able to use to challenge the raven god, draw him out of the Emerald Dream and defeat him. I'll be sending him my notes on the spirits with the hope that he'll realize the value of my insight... Each of the spirits has blessed a charm I've prepared for you."

She hands me the Charm of Swift Flight.

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The Hawk's Essence

Defeat the Guardian of the Hawk and bring the Essence of the Hawk to Arthorn Windsong at the Evergrove.

	Essence of the Hawk (1)
	Arthorn's Sparrowhawk Whistle (Provided) (1)

Description

<Arthorn's voice addresses you.>

The last, and strongest, of the spirits spoken of in the Book of the Raven is that of the hawk. It was imprisoned far from Skettis, in a shrine on a remote island southeast of Auchindoun.

I believe this description best matches the island we know as Sorrow Wing Point.

The tablet describes the hawk's guardian as nearly invulnerable to the bird's claws. Forsake physical attacks and call down the fury of the stars to defeat this foe. Do not repeat the hawk's mistake.

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You will receive:

	Charm of Swift Flight

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

150 reputation with Cenarion Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10992))

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