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Quest
Colossal Guardians
A World of Warcraft quest in Uldum. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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This quest is not bugged. After much trial and error, here is what worked for me on both the Colossals. After you click on either Colossal, it will rise up out of the ground and will be "green" or "safe" for a few seconds before it turns "red" and starts attacking you. While each one is in "safe" mode, run away from the statue in the ground a few yards and make it come after you when it goes into attack mode. You may have to kill each one twice, but using this method of dragging it away from where it spawns and THEN killing it will pretty much guarantee successful drops.
Hope this works for you as well as it did for me.
The answer with this quest is to loot both of the Colossal Guardians just as they are falling to the ground. If you leave it later than that, ie on the ground they despawn and it looks bugged.
Tried it yesterday and it appeared bugged and I put in a ticket which came back as no known problems with this quest so I went back today and tried to loot both of them after they had fallen but before despawning. Neither could be looted.
Next I tried it as they were falling and they looted fine.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 30-35
ZoneUldum
Quest ID27623
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27623))
What to do
StorylineUldum, step 13 of 101
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Description
The chest containing the scepter appears to be magically sealed and will not budge. The plaque above it depicts two giant statues holding star and moon-shaped stones sockets at their center. The two statues are pictured guarding pyramids that look like the ones outside. Perhaps it's worth your while to investigate these.
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 #249 39.6 45.4
Coordinates
- Turn-inUldum 39.6, 45.4
/way #249 39.6 45.4 - Objective areaUldum 41.4, 37.7
/way #249 41.4 37.7 - Objective areaUldum 39.6, 40.9
/way #249 39.6 40.9
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 Uldum map
- Desecrate this Fire! about 940 yards
- Off To Adventure! about 1,080 yards
- Thunder on the Sands about 1,080 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Uldum, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Uldum:
- Ramkahen, Uldum
- Schnottz's Landing, Uldum
- Oasis of Vir'sar, Uldum
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- 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: Ramkahen +250
The cat-like people of Ramkahen are the descendants of the Tol'vir, guardians of Uldum. Though they've lost their stone bodies, protecting the secrets of the titans is still a part of their rigid tradition.
Reputation group: Cataclysm.
Other quests in Uldum that reward Ramkahen reputation: Under the Choking Sands (+250), Minions of Al'Akir (+250), The Prophet Hadassi (+75), The Prophet's Dying Words (+75), Send Word to Phaoris (+150), The Vizier's Vote (+75).
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
Uldum
Part 13 of 101.
Previous: The Prophet's Dying Words · Next: The Scepter of Orsis
- 8Al'Akir's Vengeance
- 9Under the Choking Sands
- 10Minions of Al'Akir
- 11The Prophet Hadassi
- 12The Prophet's Dying Words
- 13Colossal Guardians
- 14The Scepter of Orsis
- 15Send Word to Phaoris
- 16The High Commander's Vote
- 17The Weakest Link
- 18Shaping Up
- 19Salhet's Secret
Showing steps 8 to 19 of 101.
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.
- The Prophet's Dying Words
We... are... bound by oath... to protect the scepter of Orsis. Listen, <class>, I don't have much time... left. Find the sacred receptacle... in the southern end of the city. Do not... let it... fall into their... hands...
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Scepter of Orsis
The chest below unlocks with a loud click as you insert the two stones into the plaque. Obtain the scepter and bring it back to General Ammantep.
The storyline at a glance
Uldum has 101 steps, from Easy Money to The Coffer of Promise.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Uldum (101).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Uldum map
- The Fists of the Heavens
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.