Guild Guidebook: Dragonwrath (Legendary Staff) Quest Line

In this edition of Guild Guidebook, we delve into the quest line for the Legendary staff, available from the Firelands raid.

Completion Time
The time it takes to complete this quest chain varies depending on the difficulty you complete the Firelands on.

• 25-34 weeks on 10 Normal.
• 15-8 weeks on 25 Normal
• 11 weeks on 10 Heroic
• 9-10 weeks on 25 Heroic

The Quest Chain

The quest chain is compromised of the following quests:

• A Legendary Engagement
• A Wrinkle in Time
• All-Seeing Eye
• On a Wing and a Prayer
• Through a Glass, Darkly
• Actionable Intelligence
• Delegation
• Nordrassil's Bough
• Emergency Extraction
• At One
• Time Grows Short
• Alignment
• Heart of Flame
• The Stuff of Legends

Getting Started

In order to be eligible to start this quest chain, you must be a caster class and defeat a Molten Lord inside the Firelands raid instance. Doing so will automatically award players the quest "Your Time Has Come", leading them to the start of the quest chain.

A Legendary Engagement simply requires the player to speak to Anachronos in the Caverns of Time. Once completed, he will offer the follow-up quest "A Wrinkle in Time". To complete the quest, simply speak with him again and tell him you are ready to "witness a vision of the future". This will trigger a short cut-scene, foretelling the doom of Azeroth. It will also count the quest as completed. After this, the quest chain takes on a more cumbersome direction.

The First Collecting Stage

The next quest, All-Seeing Eye, requires players to collect 25 Eternal Embers as well as 3 Sands of Time. This should take 2 full clears to 25 man raids, and a 4-5 full clears in 10 man raids.

Eternal Embers are obtainable from bosses within the Firelands. Each boss has an 80% chance to drop at least one Eternal Ember. In 25-man difficulty, a boss can drop up to 3 Eternal Embers. Note that there does not seem to be a higher chance to get Eternal Embers in Heroic mode.

Sands of Time are sold by Yasmin, an innkeeper found in North-West Uldum, for the price of 3,000 gold each.

The Blue Dragonflight

Once you have obtained these items, you can return to Anachronos and turn in the quest. He will breathe on an orb next to him, which you can then loot to obtain Timeless Eye. The next quest, On a Wing and a Prayer, requires you to deliver the Timeless Eye to Coldarra, in Northrend.

On arriving in Coldarra, you will be met with a cut-scene, during which you are introduced to Tarecgosa. She warns you that Coldarra is dangerous, and that you should leave. Once the cut-scene is over, you can turn in the quest to her and take the next one, Through a Glass, Darkly.

This quest will send you into the Nexus (although, it is not really the Nexus, but rather a phased version of the instance). There, you will be assisted by Tarecgosa in making your way to the heart of the instance. You will need to defeat several mobs along the way, and some interesting events will take place.

At the end of your journey inside the Nexus, you will need to use the Timeless Eye, the provided quest item, and will have to defeat a dragon named Thyrinar, who is seemingly attempting to destroy Tarecgosa. The fight against Thyrinar is simple, and involves avoiding a very slow moving breath attack. Once the dragon is defeated, you witness yet another cut-scene and are then offered Actionable Intelligence by Tarecgosa. The quest send you to Mount Hyjal, where you must speak with Kalecgos.

Into the Firelands

From this point on, the quest chain will take you into the Firelands instance repeatedly, in order to complete several tasks.

Kalecgos, in Mount Hyjal, will give you the quest Delegation. You are required to enter the Firelands and retrieve a Branch of Nordrassil. This item is obtained by completing an event which takes place at the Anvil of Conflagration, however, in order to access this area, you will first need to obtain 4 items which will unlock a portal to the Anvil.

Indeed, you will have to obtain a quest item from each of the following bosses:

• Shannox
• Beth'tilac
• Alysrazor
• Lord Rhyolith

Doing so will require you to perform a specific, unique task during each of the encounters. Initially, you will receive a version of the quest item, which is deemed "uncharged". This item then becomes "charged" when you have completed the required task. The quest item is called "focus" ("foci" is the plural form!). Therefore, on each of the four encounters you will have to deal with both and uncharged and a charged focus.

Shannox' Focus

Each time a Crystal Prison Trap is destroyed, three lootable objects appear on the ground, called Emberstone Fragments. You will need to loot these, and use them (right click them in your bags), which will create a Dull Emberstone Focus. You must then place this new item in the location of a Hurl Spear. To do this, simply be in the correct location (it is indicated by a red marker) and use the item. 

To ensure you make it to the Hurl Spear location in time, it is advised that you remain in close proximity to Riplimb, as Shannox tends to hurl his spear nearby. 

If executed correctly, the Hurl Spear should charge the focus turning it into a Charged Emberstone Focus, which can be looted from the ground. If, for whatever reason, this result failed to be achieved, you will have to attempt it all over again. 

Beth'tilac's Focus

Each Cinderweb Drone drops three Chitinous Fragments when it dies. These items can be looted from the ground and using them will create a Dull Chitinous Focus. Then, simply climb up to the Beth'tilac level, use the item (which will place the focus on the ground), and descend before she casts Smoldering Devastation. When Beth'tilac casts Smoldering Devastation, the focus will become charged, and you can then simply climb back up to Beth'tilac's level to loot the Charged Chitinous Focus.

Alysrazor's Focus
Each time a Voracious Hatchling spawns from an egg, it will leave behind a Pyreshell Fragment. Loot three of these and use them to obtain a Dull Pyreshell Focus. Then, place this new item under Alysrazor during either Stage Three or Stage Four, and it will become a Charged Pyreshell Focus when the boss reaches 100 energy. Afterwards, simply loot it from the ground.

Lord Rhyolith's Focus
Each time Rhyolith performs a Concussive Stomp (though also at other, seemingly random times), Rhyolite Fragments will spawn around the edges of the platform. Loot three of these and use them to create a Dull Rhyolite Focus.


The Rhyolite Fragments look like piles of dirt on the ground, and should not be confused with the Fragment of Rhyolith adds which spawn during the encounter.


Then, simply place the Dull Rhyolite Focus underneath Lord Rhyolith right before a Concussive Stomp, and it will become charged. Loot the Charged Rhyolite Focus.

The Anvil of Conflagration and Volcanus the Firelord
Once you have obtained all 4 charged foci, you are able to unlock the teleporter which leads to the Anvil of Conflagration. This teleporter is located at the end of the Path of Corruption, a pathway which is found between the entrance to Beth'tilac's area and the one to Baleroc's.

Using the teleporter will send you (and the rest of your raid, assuming they use it as well) up to the Anvil of Conflagration. Here, you will have to face a three stage encounter, at the end of which you will receive the Branch of Nordrassil. 

Binding with Tarecgosa
At this point, Kalecgos has relocated to Coldarra. You will have to turn in Delegation to him there, after which he will offer you another quest, which simply rewards you with an early version of the legendary staff, Branch of Nordrassil.

Kalecgos will then give you the next quest in the chain, Emergency Extraction. It contains some lore-related role-playing and a cut-scene. Following this cut-scene, you find that Tarecgosa is mortally wounded. The quest At One is offered. This quest requires you to allow Kalecgos to "bind" Tarecgosa's essence to you.

The Second Collecting Stage
Kalecgos informs you that you must collect 1000 Seething Cinders, and provides you with Time Grows Short, the related quest. Seething Cinders are drops from bosses within the Firelands raid instance. The approximate drop numbers for Seething Cinders, based on raid size and difficulty are as follows (between parenthesis is indicated the NUMBER of full clears required to gather 1000 Seething Cinders):

• In 10-man normal: 20-21 (7 to 8 full clears);
• In 10-man heroic: 25 (6 to 7 full clears);
• In 25-man normal: 50 (3 full clears);
• In 25-man heroic: 60-65 (2 full clears + 2/3 bosses).

Once you have collected all the Seething Cinders, you need to return to Kalecgos, in Coldarra, to turn the quest in. Following a cut-scene, you will be offered the following quest, Alignment. This will reward you with the Runestaff of Nordrassil, an upgraded version of the Branch of Nordrassil, presumably of 391 item level.

The final stage of the quest chain requires you to venture into the Firelands once again in order to complete Heart of Flame. There are two parts to this quest.

Firstly, you will need to collect 250 Smouldering Essences. These are obtained from corpses of Firelands raid bosses. When bosses are killed by a raid where at least one player is on the quest Heart of Flame, their corpse receives a debuff called Smoldering. By using the "on use" effect of the Runestaff of Nordrassil on such a corpse, the caster will channel a 9 second cast of Siphon Essence. This will remove the Smouldering debuff from the corpse, and reward the caster with a number of Smouldering Essences. Ragnaros cannot be siphoned as he does not have a corpse.

The approximate drop numbers for Smouldering Essences, based on raid size and difficulty are as follows (between parenthesis is indicated the number of full clears required to gather 250 Smouldering Essences):

• In 10-man normal: 3-6 (7-10 full clears);
• In 10-man heroic: 6-8 (5-6 full clears);
• In 25-man normal: 7-8 (5-6 full clears);
• In 25-man heroic: 9-11 (4-5 full clears).

Secondly, you must loot the Heart of Flame from Ragnaros. It is obtainable simply by defeating Ragnaros with a player in the raid being on the Heart of Flame quest, and having the 250 Smoldering Essences already collected. There's a twist though: when that player engages Ragnaros, a specific debuff, Rage of Ragnaros, is applied to them. Every minute, they will pulse for a moderate amount of Fire damage and knock back all allies within 8 yards.

Essentially, your raid must complete the fight while dealing with this added challenge. Once Ragnaros is defeated, the Heart of Flame is lootable from the central lava pool. In order for the quest item to actually spawn, you have to survive the encounter.

On heroic mode, Rage of Ragnaros does not exist, and defeating Ragnaros simply grants the Heart of Flame.

Once you have obtained this last quest item, you will receive one final quest, The Stuff of Legends, which will award you the legendary item, after a great deal of role-playing action in your faction's capital city.

And that's it for this edition of Guild Guidebook! If you have a suggestion for a future Guild Guidebook, be sure to leave it here in the comments! Also, look out on Monday for a new article "Machinima Madness".