 Carpie join:2012-10-19 united state kudos:2 | Legendary Quest Line How far along are you? Anyone have the cloak yet? I'm still collecting the Secrets of the Empire tokens on my farthest advanced toon. What else is there before getting the cloak.
So far, iirc, it seems the quest line has been:
- Collect 10 sigils of power and 10 sigils of wisdom - Get some rep with Black Prince - Get 3,000 VP - Get some more rep with Black Prince - Do two BGs - Kill a faction leader in the Shieldwall area - Get 20 Secret of Empire tokens and 40 trillium bars - ??? - ??? - Get mega ilvl 600 cloak -- Absölution -- 6/6 MSV, 4/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 1/12 ToT Pride and Ego -- 6/6 MSV 1/6H, 6/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 2/12 ToT |
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 ImmerGentlemanPremium join:2010-01-07 Evans, GA kudos:8 1 edit | Icy-veins has a great guide: »www.icy-veins.com/breath-of-the-···line-wow
I'm formatting a copy-and-paste now.
2. Rewards
Currently, the quest line offers several rewards to players, as they progress through it:
• legendary gems (+500 of a given stat); • ability to add prismatic socket to weapons; • legendary meta-gems (greatly enhanced meta-gems); • epic, high high level cloaks.
2.1. Legendary Gems
After competing the Patch 5.0.5 quest line, you will obtain a legendary gem, which is to be placed in a special Sha-touched socket found only on select weapons from Tier 14 raids. The first gem is provided for free, and additional gems can be purchased from Wrathion.
There are 3 different legendary gems and you can only use one legendary gem at a time:
• +500 Agility: Crystallized Dread Icon Crystallized Dread; • +500 Strength: Crystallized Terror Icon Crystallized Terror; • +500 Intellect: Crystallized Horror Icon Crystallized Horror.
In the table below, you will find the list of Tier 14 weapons with a Sha-touched socket. Item Name |Type |Main Stats Kilrak, Jaws of Terror Icon Kilrak, Jaws of Terror (LFR, Heroic) |One-Hand Sword |Strength/Mastery Shin'ka, Execution of Dominion Icon Shin'ka, Execution of Dominion (LFR, Heroic) |Two-Handed Axe |Strength/Mastery Claws of Shek'zeer Icon Claws of Shek'zeer (LFR, Heroic) |One-Hand Fist Weapon |Agility Spiritsever Icon Spiritsever (LFR, Heroic) |One-Hand Dagger |Agility Gao-Rei, Staff of the Legendary Protector Icon Gao-Rei, Staff of the Legendary Protector (LFR, Heroic) |Staff |Agility Taoren, the Soul Burner Icon Taoren, the Soul Burner (LFR, Heroic) Gun Agility Kri'tak, Imperial Scepter of the Swarm Icon Kri'tak, Imperial Scepter of the Swarm (LFR, Heroic) |Mace |Intellect/Spirit Loshan, Terror Incarnate Icon Loshan, Terror Incarnate (LFR, Heroic) Sword Intellect Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker Icon Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker (LFR, Heroic) |Staff |Intellect
It is interesting to note that all three versions of the above mentioned weapons (LFR, Normal, and Heroic mode) have the hydraulic sockets and the flavour text, and the gems can be obtained even solely through LFR.
2.2. Prismatic Sockets on Weapons
After completing the Patch 5.1 quest line, players gain the ability to add a prismatic socket to Sha-touched weapons from Tier 14 and to weapons from Tier 15.
2.3. Legendary Meta-Gems
After completing the Patch 5.2 quest line, players gain the ability to use a legendary meta-gem, which is a lot more powerful than regular meta-gems. The following 4 legendary meta-gems are available:
• for melee DPS and Hunters: Capacitive Primal Diamond Icon Capacitive Primal Diamond; • for DPS casters: Sinister Primal Diamond Icon Sinister Primal Diamond; • for healers: Courageous Primal Diamond Icon Courageous Primal Diamond; • for tanks: Indomitable Primal Diamond Icon Indomitable Primal Diamond.
2.4. Epic Cloaks
After completing the Celestial challenge in the Celestial Blessings quest, you will be able to obtain one of the following 6 cloaks from Wrathion:
• Jadefire Drape Icon Jadefire Drape (caster DPS); • Cranewing Cloak Icon Cranewing Cloak (healer); • Tigerfang Wrap Icon Tigerfang Wrap (Agility DPS); • Tigerclaw Cape Icon Tigerclaw Cape (Strength DPS); • Oxhoof Greatcloak Icon Oxhoof Greatcloak (Agility tank); • Oxhorn Bladebreaker Icon Oxhorn Bladebreaker (Strength tank).
3. The Quest Chaintop
The Breath of the Black Prince quest chain is comprised of 26 quests, as of writing this guide. The chain will be extended when Patch 5.4 is launched. 3.1. Summary
The quest chain is comprised of the following quests:
• Stranger in a Strange Land; • A Legend in the Making; • The Strength of One's Foes*; • Trial of the Black Prince**; • Fear Itself*; • Breath of the Black Prince; • Incoming...; • The Measure of a Leader (Alliance / Horde); • The Prince's Pursuit (Alliance / Horde); • A Test of Valor (Alliance / Horde); • The Lion Roars (Alliance) / Glory to the Horde; • A Change of Command (Alliance / Horde); • Call of the Packmaster (Alliance) / The Soul of the Horde (Horde); • The Thunder King*** and Meet Me Upstairs***; • Secrets of the First Empire*; • I Need a Champion; • The Thunder Forge; • Spirit of the Storm Lord; • The Crown of Heaven; • Echoes of the Titans*; • Heart of the Thunder King*; • A Reckoning; • Celestial Blessings; • Cloak of Virtue; • Preparing to Strike.
* quests that require killing raid bosses. ** quests that do not need to be completed by Rogues who have completed the Fangs of the Father quest line. *** optional/breadcrumb quests.
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I'm a little ahead of you. Got 2 Tomes for the next stage along. |
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 Carpie join:2012-10-19 united state kudos:2 | reply to Immer
Thanks for posting Immer. I'm trying to reconcile which quests have what requirements (and filter out all the noise quests (i.e. sit and listen to Wrathions tale)).
So tying our two posts together, it seems like the ones that take a concerted effort are:
The Strength of One's Foes*; - Believe this is the 20 sigils Trial of the Black Prince**; - This is Black Prince rep Fear Itself*; - This was the eye of chimarea or whatever that you needed to kill Sha of Fear for (which I had forgotten about.) A Test of Valor (Alliance / Horde); - 3,000 vp The Lion Roars (Alliance) / Glory to the Horde; - BGs A Change of Command (Alliance / Horde); - Down Faction leader Secrets of the First Empire*; - 20 Sec. of Emp. tokens + 40 trillium bars
And then after that I don't know which of the following are noise vs concerted effort to meet requirements or what the requirements are. The Thunder Forge one I know people have talked about on the forums here and it sounds like it can be difficult. And I think Spirt of Storm Lord requires you to kill Nalak.
I Need a Champion; The Thunder Forge; Spirit of the Storm Lord; The Crown of Heaven; Echoes of the Titans*; Heart of the Thunder King*; A Reckoning; Celestial Blessings; Cloak of Virtue; Preparing to Strike. -- Absölution -- 6/6 MSV, 4/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 1/12 ToT Pride and Ego -- 6/6 MSV 1/6H, 6/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 2/12 ToT |
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 | said by Carpie:And then after that I don't know which of the following are noise vs concerted effort to meet requirements or what the requirements are. The Thunder Forge one I know people have talked about on the forums here and it sounds like it can be difficult. And I think Spirt of Storm Lord requires you to kill Nalak.
I Need a Champion; The Thunder Forge; Spirit of the Storm Lord; The Crown of Heaven; Echoes of the Titans*; Heart of the Thunder King*; A Reckoning; Celestial Blessings; Cloak of Virtue; Preparing to Strike. As you say The Thunder Forge is a solo scenario, fairly easy to be honest, I just didn't realise what I needed to do first time. Likewise Nalak is Spirit of a Storm Lord but it doesn't need a kill. You throw a spear at him at an add spawns, you just have to avoid it for 20 secs. Many classes can solo it, as they can avoid Nalak until they get credit. Crown of Heavens is just a watching thing which rewards you the meta gem. Echoes of the Titans requires more ToT farming, this time 12 tomes of something or other which only drop from the last 6 bosses. This is where I am up to.
Heart of the Thunder King requires a Lei Shen kill I believe, and anything past that I've not read up on yet as it's taking me an age to get the tomes. |
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I'm about 2,100/3,000 of the way on the Valor quest. Already exalted with Black Prince, so the next step will be the two BG's, which will be simple. Will need to group up for the faction leader kill... then it looks like I'll be grinding ToT until my eyes bleed. |
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Already have cloak on 2 Different toons . My BM Monk and My mage. I have the meta gem on my Boomkin as well. |
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I got behind early on when I got bored with LFR MSV/HOF and TOES without getting all the sigils. By the time I got them, 5.1 was in full swing and I was late to the 6k VP party, and didn't max them every week as again, bored of the end game and wanted to level alts. I was then back on track, until I tried to do Change of Command on a dead server and failed. It wasn't until I discovered oqueue that I was able to do it and get back to the questline. Sadly this meant I was still miles behind, and even now am only really 60% through the 5.2 bit, and the only reason I have to run ToT in LFR is these tomes. 
I so want to finish this part before 5.4 |
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 bTU join:2009-04-22 Aurora, CO | reply to Carpie
Still collecting sigils, up to 19 sigils of wisdom and 6 of power on my shaman. That toon is revered with him though. -- Heghlu'meh qaq jajvam! |
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 JBStay Gold join:2009-05-14 kudos:1 | I got 9 runestones I think, I was behind because of my main swap. G_G |
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 | Yeah, I astonishingly got 2 last week, so I am up to 8 now. The drop rate on these is just stupidly low. At least Lei Shen drops one every time now. |
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Is this Legendary quest thing mandatory to progress your toon? |
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 ImmerGentlemanPremium join:2010-01-07 Evans, GA kudos:8 | nope. My main only has the first gem in an LFR weapon. My alts don't even have their Sigils of Power yet. -- Intelligence is no substitute for Character. |
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said by mettachain:Is this Legendary quest thing mandatory to progress your toon? No
It just gives you a legenday cloak and meta gem.
The weapon will be outdated |
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 ZupePremium,MVM join:2001-11-29 New York, NY | reply to Carpie
I'm at 6/12 on Titan Runestones for Echoes of the Titans after getting three last week. I'd really like to be done with that part in the next 2-3 weeks, but I'm not sure how likely that is. -- Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? Pinky: I think so, Brain, but "Snowball for Windows"? |
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 JBStay Gold join:2009-05-14 kudos:1 | reply to mettachain
*cough* depends on who you ask. Some guilds won't consider you if you don't have your meta atm. |
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 Carpie join:2012-10-19 united state kudos:2 | reply to Carpie
@Vince - That is amazing that you have completed the quest line on two toons already. Do you do LFRs at all or are you able to farm them through your Normal and Heroic raids? I suppose theoretically if you are raiding heroics, you have the opportunity to collect 3x the mats each week vs someone who only does LFR.
@Cat - I got behind for the same reasons. I'm so sick to death of running LFRs. People complained about dailies but you could have dailies completed in the time it takes just to queue for one friggin LFR. Last night I went home with the hope of running the ToT LFRs on my two priests. I'm thinking healer queues, 6 hours of play time 5p-11p), should be able to do that. As it turns out I was only able to do it on one of the Priests and it was absolutely torturous and I didn't get done until almost midnight. (And just the fact that I realize I devoted six hours of my day to the game like that makes me sick to my stomach. I need to regain a life someday). -- Absölution -- 6/6 MSV, 4/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 1/12 ToT Pride and Ego -- 6/6 MSV 1/6H, 6/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 2/12 ToT |
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I think I have 2 or 3 titan runestones.
Getting to 12 is gonna be a longer grind for me, since I just can't bring myself to run both 3rd and 4th wing for a shot at the stones. I kill Lei Shen for my guaranteed drop then I'm done for the week. -- Polluxx - LvL 90 Human Warrior - (US) Ravencrest |
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said by Carpie:@Cat - I got behind for the same reasons. I'm so sick to death of running LFRs. People complained about dailies but you could have dailies completed in the time it takes just to queue for one friggin LFR. Last night I went home with the hope of running the ToT LFRs on my two priests. I'm thinking healer queues, 6 hours of play time 5p-11p), should be able to do that. As it turns out I was only able to do it on one of the Priests and it was absolutely torturous and I didn't get done until almost midnight. (And just the fact that I realize I devoted six hours of my day to the game like that makes me sick to my stomach. I need to regain a life someday). It irritates me beyond belief. I don't like "wasting" time and therefore planned my VP gains around LFR as I was doing them anyways for loot / Wrathion. Now I only need the final 2 tiers each week it's a bit more bearable, as it's 1hr in a queue rather than 2 (assuming you get in at boss #1 each time). Other than that I do a scenario and a dungeon each day and I'm usually maxed on VP with 3 days to spare. Even without LFR it's doable in 6 days with just dungeons/scenarios and is a lot less irritating. |
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Yes the legendary quest chain is required if you plan on raiding. And if you are raiding then there is no issue, you will complete all the quests anyway. The meta gem alone is worth 10k-30k DPS depending on your class. The cloak will boost you 6 ilvls by itself. Its a huge upgrade. Not to mention the real legendary that you will get next patch. |
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 DarkLogixTexan and ProudPremium join:2008-10-23 Baytown, TX kudos:3 | reply to cat666
said by cat666: Echoes of the Titans requires more ToT farming, this time 12 tomes of something or other which only drop from the last 6 bosses. This is where I am up to.
Heart of the Thunder King requires a Lei Shen kill I believe, and anything past that I've not read up on yet as it's taking me an age to get the tomes. its 12 titan rune stones and technically there are 7 bosses that drop them but that 7th one is not in reg or LFR
I'm at 11/12 now so next Tuesday I will have my 12, I plan to do tot LFR #3 first so I can try getting a rune before killing lei shen, but if not then I'll kill him for the rune. -- »www.change.org/petitions/create-···imcity-4 |
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 Carpie join:2012-10-19 united state kudos:2 | Done stones and sigils only drop 1st time through like gear? I'd imagine so but guess I've never put it to the test. -- Absölution -- 6/6 MSV, 4/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 1/12 ToT Pride and Ego -- 6/6 MSV 1/6H, 6/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 2/12 ToT |
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 | said by Carpie:Done stones and sigils only drop 1st time through like gear? I'd imagine so but guess I've never put it to the test. Yes, you get one shot a week at them. However, i'm unsure if you can get runestones from bosses you got secrets from earlier in the week. Hopefully I'll find out this week (17/20 secrets). -- When the ship lifts, all bills are paid. No regrets. |
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 DarkLogixTexan and ProudPremium join:2008-10-23 Baytown, TX kudos:3 | Ya I've never seen a rune drop a 2nd time and I killed lie shen 3 times last lockout (burned a mogu rune each time and still no trinket) (so 4 chances at loot and still nadda)
but I'd imagine that you can't do the quest to loot an item off lei shen after the 1st time of the week, maybe you can but that's why I'll do #3 before #4 next week. -- »www.change.org/petitions/create-···imcity-4 |
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 Goldheart join:2002-06-09 Ballston Spa, NY kudos:1 | reply to Carpie
I'm exalted, just finished the 3000 valor so need to do the BGs. |
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 DarkLogixTexan and ProudPremium join:2008-10-23 Baytown, TX kudos:3 | said by Goldheart:I'm exalted, just finished the 3000 valor so need to do the BGs. have you done change of command yet? if not we can help |
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 DarkLogixTexan and ProudPremium join:2008-10-23 Baytown, TX kudos:3 | said by Lothario:I heard they nerfed it, can basically 2 man it. so what goes faster with more
(well you could always 2man it it just took a long time) |
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 Goldheart join:2002-06-09 Ballston Spa, NY kudos:1 | reply to DarkLogix
said by DarkLogix:said by Goldheart:I'm exalted, just finished the 3000 valor so need to do the BGs. have you done change of command yet? if not we can help Yes I did the Change of Command earlier today. I was almost but not quite able to solo this one. I probably could have done it solo if I had played smarter but as it is Owwiee (90 mage) came and helped and we downed the boss easily.
I also did the two PvP battles. These were not as bad as I was expecting and actually I kind of had fun. I was able to nuke people to nothing fairly easily in ilvl 518 gear.
So I got the prismatic socket added to my dagger.
Now i just need to get the secrets. |
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Nice, thanks. |
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