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Ceremonial Drums

Ceremonial Drums is a quest for level 10-45 in Highmountain. It is step 2 of 3 in the Thunder Totem Troubles storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Highmountain at 46.7, 61.8. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 6,150 experience and money.

Description

Those foolish calves!

They've made off with our ceremonial drums again, treating them as toys... as... common drums!

Can you help me find them? They must be scattered to all corners of Thunder Totem by now, discarded as soon as the fun dries up.

Rewards

Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP
ReputationHighmountain Tribe +250
Top Comments

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Tolian64+83via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I am Deathlord Tolian, the Undying, Hand of the Lich King, wielder of the Maw of the Damned, Champion of Azeroth, and you want me to collect drums for you?

It involves you running around an irksome Thunderbluff copy, searching for the most boring of musical instruments imaginable, you will probably need to search all three of the following locations:


  • Top outer ring killing the drum-wielding creatures

  • Just on the other side of the bridges across from this ring

  • Inside at the bottom, around the walls

This is the most boring quest in an otherwise fantastic expansion.

Read all 45 on Wowhead ↗

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,150
MoneyGold20g 22s
ReputationHighmountain Tribe+250

Reward details

Reputation: Highmountain Tribe +250

The Highmountain Tribe has dwindled in numbers over the years, and with the drogbar threat looming, seek new allies to save their homeland.

Reputation group: Legion.

Other quests in Highmountain that reward Highmountain Tribe reputation: Get to High Ground (+250), Rocs vs Eagles (+150), The Skyhorn Tribe (+10), Battle of Snowblind Mesa (+150), Secrets of Highmountain (+150), Grasp of the Underking (+150).

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 it comes from
Turn-in mapHighmountainTurn-in marker at 46.7, 61.8, 1 mapped point
Turn-in mapThunder Totem
Turn-in mapThunder Totem
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Where to go

Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.

Highmountain Quest turn-in 1 mapped point
Highmountain map showing where to go for Ceremonial DrumsTurn-in

In-game waypoint: /way #650 46.7 61.8

Thunder Totem Quest turn-in
Thunder Totem Quest turn-in

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHighmountain 46.7, 61.8/way #650 46.7 61.8

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Nearby on the Highmountain map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Highmountain, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Highmountain:

  • Thunder Totem, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 110 yards north
  • Nesingwary's Retreat, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 630 yards north-west
  • Eastern HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 760 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 110 yards north-east (on the Thunder Totem map)
  • Objective areaabout 90 yards north (on the Thunder Totem map)
  • Objective areaabout 130 yards north (on the Thunder Totem map)

Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.

Quest Line

Storyline

Thunder Totem Troubles

Part 2 of 3.

Previous: Bolas Bastion · Next: Mountainstrider Round-Up

  1. 1Bolas Bastion
  2. 2Ceremonial Drums
  3. 3Mountainstrider Round-Up

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Bolas BastionHighmountain · Level 10-45

    I received word that a coven of harpies and their rocs plan to attack in force. They'll be coming from the mountains to the north. Use one of the bolas launchers and I'll man the other. Quick!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Mountainstrider Round-UpHighmountain · Level 10-45

    Stranger! You are the one I have heard of? When the kerfuffle with the drogbar happened, some of the young moose ran off! I can't chase them down or the others might wander off as well. Could you bring them back here?

The storyline at a glance

Thunder Totem Troubles has 3 steps, from Bolas Bastion to Mountainstrider Round-Up.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Highmountain (3).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Highmountain map

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.

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Cementing Our Victory
Cenarion Property
Cenarius, Keeper of the Grove
Censers of Guidance
Ceremonial Vestments
Chabal
Chain of Command
Chain of Command
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Quest Location and Connections

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