If you just ran to pick up quests via questhelper and don't know what to do - you hop on a turret that's on the front of a plane (at ground level) and it flies you to the area to complete the quest - it's a tiny little alliance quest hub close to the area.
Quest
Assault by Air
A World of Warcraft quest in Icecrown. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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When I first started this quest I did not like it very much on account i would fire a Suppression charge (the only attack the ship has) and the missile would 50% of the time disappear before it reached its target. After doing the quest day after day I learned a few techniques that i thought might help someone doing it for the first time.
-The Suppression charge has a range of 100 yards, so keep in mind that just because your Turret is aimed on a spear gun, you may be too far away, and your SC will not hit it.
-Aim low, near walls.You don't have to hit the gun, just around or near the gun. I like to aim for the ground but I've accidentally hit the walls near them and it still knocks the spear gun out.
-It is OK to get hit once each spear gun, some you can not avoid but make sure that if you did miss or fire too early that you do NOT move on to the next gun. Ignoring 1 gun can shoot your plane down.
-Just because your SC does not have a cooldown does not mean you should fire it like a machine gun! Take your time when firing, it is better to be late and get hit once than to miss.
Lastly If its your first time running the quest take your time finding each gun. It can be hard to get all 4 soldiers dropped in 1 pass. I dont know if this will help anyone with the quest but noticing these things made it a lot easeir for me.
There's nothing to shoot for the first minute or so, don't freak out looking around for stuff like I did. The guns look just like all the other harpoon cannons, MAKE SURE YOU SHOOT THEM. Their range boarders on unreasonable, they WILL kill the plane.
Quest facts
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Requirements
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Description
I've got some boys suited and ready for their drops inside of Ymirheim. I could use you to see them there safely. Inside the walls, the vrykul have set up some kind of automated spear guns that have been tearing up our transports. We had our engineers install a Suppression Turret to shut down those spear guns - just fire a round near any gun and the smoke should block its sight and clog its gears. Hop on the turret and see to it that all my boys make it to their drops in one piece.
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Reward details
Reputation: Valiance Expedition +250
The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in Icecrown that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: The Skybreaker (+25), King of the Mountain (+250), Assault by Ground (+250), Get to Ymirheim! (+10), Get the Message (+250), Capture More Dispatches (+250).
Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.
Where this quest fits
Other daily quests in Icecrown
- From Their Corpses, Rise!
- No Fly Zone
- Intelligence Gathering
- Leave Our Mark
- Shoot 'Em Up
- Vile Like Fire!
- No Mercy!
- Make Them Pay!
Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.