TheWoWDBTried killing him a million times. I finally got it to work by abandoning the quest, exiting the game and deleting my cache folder. Logged back on and it worked the first time.
Quest
Cindermaul, the Portal Master
A World of Warcraft quest in Mount Hyjal. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Ok, after a dozen failed attempts at this here is what I discovered:
I was killing the wrong boss.
Foolishly I was killing the fire boss (Forgemaster Pyrendius) at the southern-most end of the cave, on the rock plateau surrounded with lava. CINDERMAUL is not this guy.
Cindermaul is to the left just as you are going down the ramp to the lava room where Forgemaster Pyrendius is.
Hopefully that helps save someone some headache lol.
He's inside the cave; when you're partway down to the forgemaster, there's an alcove on your left (going down) with three portals.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 30-35
ZoneMount Hyjal
Quest ID25599
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25599))
Requirements
Requires all ofForged of Shadow and Flame, Rage of the Wolf Ancient, Crushing the Cores
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineMount Hyjal, step 36 of 118
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Description
Twilight's Hammer is using these corridors, and others like them, to move supplies from the elemental planes up into Azeroth. In order to seal these passages off, we're going to need to know how they're constructed. Find for me the Tome of Openings, used by the elementals to open gates between the planes. Cindermaul the Portal Master should have one. You'll have to kill him. Careful! He's probably got some tricks up his sleeve...
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #198 26.3 41.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inMount Hyjal 26.3, 41.8
/way #198 26.3 41.8 - Objective areaMount Hyjal 30.6, 41.4
/way #198 30.6 41.4 - Objective areaMount Hyjal 26.3, 41.9
/way #198 26.3 41.9
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 Mount Hyjal map
- Mother's Orders about 610 yards
- Talon Terror about 620 yards
- Attack on the Roost about 640 yards
- Aviana's Grace about 790 yards
- Champion: Minerva Ravensorrow about 1,480 yards
- Battle Pet Tamers: Cataclysm about 1,510 yards
- Moments of Reflection about 1,540 yards
- Communing With Malorne about 1,540 yards
- A Fresh Trauma about 1,590 yards
- Healing Nordrassil about 1,590 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Mount Hyjal, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Mount Hyjal:
- Grove of Aessina, Hyjal
- Sanctuary of Malorne, Hyjal
- Shrine of Aviana, Hyjal
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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.
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Reward details
Reputation: Guardians of Hyjal +250
Faced with the impending devastation of Mount Hyjal, the most powerful members of the Cenarion Circle have joined forces with their Emerald Dragonflight allies to fend off Ragnaros' elemental hordes and the Twilight's Hammer.
Reputation group: Cataclysm.
Other quests in Mount Hyjal that reward Guardians of Hyjal reputation: Trial By Fire (+250), In Bloom (+250), End of the Supply Line (+250), In the Rear With the Gear (+250), Harrying the Hunters (+250), The Voice of Goldrinn (+10).
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.
Storyline
Mount Hyjal
Part 36 of 118.
Previous: Crushing the Cores · Next: Forgemaster Pyrendius
- 31Gar'gol's Gotta Go
- 32Get Me Outta Here!
- 33Forged of Shadow and Flame
- 34Rage of the Wolf Ancient
- 35Crushing the Cores
- 36Cindermaul, the Portal Master
- 37Forgemaster Pyrendius
- 38Return from the Firelands
- 39Return from the Firelands
- 40Disrupting the Rituals
- 41Save the Wee Animals
- 42Oh, Deer!
Showing steps 31 to 42 of 118.
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.
- Crushing the Cores
These searing guardians are murderous! We destroy them, and within minutes, they reignite from the ashes. I think there's a way to destroy them permanently, but we'll need someone who can fight through the front ranks.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Forgemaster Pyrendius
A terrible evil squats in the heart of this cavern, <name>. Forgemaster Pyrendius has personally crafted many of the cursed weapons that Twilight's Hammer is using in their conquest of the realms above. Before we leave these lands of flame... Pyrendius must die. He will not go down easy.
The storyline at a glance
Mount Hyjal has 118 steps, from Protect the World Tree to The Firelord.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Mount Hyjal (118).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Mount Hyjal map
- The Eternal Dream IV
- Battle Pet Tamers
- The Eternal Dream II
- The Four Horsemen IV
- Moments of Reflection
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.