TheWoWDBFirst, take out any runts within the vicinity of Dreadpiston because if it hits you with its fireball, you will get knocked back and possibly aggro them too. The damage from the cannon will kill you quick so avoid being hit by staying away from the open barrel. Avoid standing directly in front of the cannon opening. Keep moving in circles around the cannon and try to stay BEHIND it while you attack it. The driver will attack you with what appears to be projectile knife hits, but the damage is minimal compared to the fireball coming from the cannon. It will take longer to kill it, but it can be soloed without special gear. At some point, the driver hops off and will attack you too, but if he kills you and you already killed dreadpiston, you get credit for the quest.
Quest
Dreadpiston
A World of Warcraft quest in Talador. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7TKh9XlRBc
Accept the quest, One Step Ahead, from Sloan McCoy at coords 69.6, 20.9.
1. One Step Ahead - (Video) - Exit Fort Wrynn, and travel to the paved path at coords 66.7, 22.6.
• Follow the paved path southwest to coords 64.7, 25.7, and then turn right to go to Redemption Rise.
• Turn in the quest to Vindicator Maraad at 63.0, 25.9, and accept Through the Looking Glass.2. Through the Looking Glass - (Video) - Click [npc=77335].
• After the cut-scene, turn this quest in to Vindicator Maraad, accepting Too Many Irons in the Fire.
• Accept Thaelin's Quick Fix from [npc=75874] at coords 63.1, 26.1.
• Accept In Short Supply from [npc=75804] at coords 63.1, 25.8.
• Travel southwest to coords 61.8, 27.6 and accept the quest, Decommissioned Mission from [object=225726] (looks like a book).Too Many Irons in the Fire - While completing the next sequence of quests, kill 15 Iron Horde.
3. Thaelin's Quick Fix - (Video) - Travel to 'Log Storage' at coords 61.0, 26.9 and click [item=109161].
• Travel west to the 'Thunderlord Cache' at coords 66.4, 26.6 and click [item=109161].
• Travel southwest to the 'Forge' at coords 64.8, 32.6 and click [item=109161].In Short Supply - Loot 6 [item=107855], on the ground, which appear as cube shaped boxes).
Decommissioned Mission - Travel northwest to coords 62.2, 23.9, and follow the path around & up the hill.
• Defeat [npc=77387] at coords 63.2, 14.4.
• Click the [npc=75809] to take control of it. Travel down the hill, behind it, to Redemption Rise.
• Turn in the quests, and accept Iron Them Out, Vol. X Pages ?, and Dreadpiston.4. Iron Them Out - (Video) - Travel southwest, along the paved path, to coords 59.6, 29.3.
• Click on 6 Iron Horde Siege Engine to destroy them.Vol. X Pages ? - Kill Iron Horde in the area of Archenon Seigeyard and loot 20 [item=107843].
5. Dreadpiston - (Video) - Travel to coords 56.4, 27.4 and defeat [npc=80576].
• At this point, you can either start the optional quest Dying Wish, or travel east to Redemption Rise, at coords 63.1, 25.8 and turn in Iron Them Out, Dreadpiston, and Vol. X Pages ?.[Optional:] Dying Wish - (Video) - Travel north to coords 56.9, 26.0 and accept Dying Wish from [npc=77031].
• Travel up the stairs and enter the building at coords, , and kill [npc=76981].
• Loot [item=108825] off the corpse of [npc=76981].
• Turn the quest into [npc=77031] (if you use your [item=110560], he will be available as a follower for you, outside your garrison gates).Travel west, back to Redemption Rise, and turn in the quests at coordinates 63, 25.
Post 7.3.5, this tank is incredibly hard to kill. It should perhaps be flagged as a group quest.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(34959))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
The Iron Horde overtook a peaceful draenei outpost without mercy. They used a machine they call Dreadpiston to level the town in minutes. Destroy it.
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 #535 63.0 25.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inTalador 63.0, 25.9
/way #535 63.0 25.9 - Objective areaTalador 56.5, 27.3
/way #535 56.5 27.3 - Objective areaTalador 63.2, 25.7
/way #535 63.2 25.7
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 Talador map
- Shredder Manual about 420 yards
- Next Steps about 440 yards
- Due Cause to Celebrate about 450 yards
- The Only Way to Travel about 450 yards
- The Quarry Quandary about 460 yards
- Out of Jovite about 480 yards
- Iridium Recovery about 480 yards
- Gas Guzzlers about 480 yards
- In Ared's Memory about 480 yards
- An Audience With The Archmage about 740 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Talador, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Talador:
- Redemption Rise, Talador
- Fort Wrynn (Alliance), Talador
- Shattrath City, Talador
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: Council of Exarchs +250
Under the leadership of five powerful exarchs, the draenei of Draenor have prospered in a savage world.
Reputation group: Warlords of Draenor.
Other quests in Talador that reward Council of Exarchs reputation: Nightmare in the Tomb (+250), Pieces of Us (+250), Burning Sky (+250), Barum's Notes (+250), Disrupting the Flow (+250), The Heart of Auchindoun (+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.
Storyline
The Battle for Shattrath
Part 8 of 14.
Previous: Vol. X Pages ? · Next: Iron Them Out
- 1Through the Looking Glass
- 2Too Many Irons in the Fire
- 3In Short Supply
- 4Thaelin's Quick Fix
- 5Decommissioned Mission
- 6Shredder Manual
- 7Vol. X Pages ?
- 8Dreadpiston
- 9Iron Them Out
- 10An Eye for a Spy
- 11Born to Shred
- 12Engineering Her Demise
- 13Khadgar's Plan
- 14The Battle for Shattrath
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.
- Vol. X Pages ?
That shredder had a manual jammed in the cockpit, but it's missing a lot o' pages. If we can find those manual pages, I'd bet my third toe I can get the prototype shredder working again. I coulda swore I saw a few of those pages floatin' about in Archenon Siegeyard. Maybe the orcs there carry them.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Iron Them Out
The orcs themselves are not the only threat. They still have siege weapons of significant power. They've already been used against Tuurem, and we must not allow for their continued operation. Sabotage siege weapons using the explosives you collected from the logging camp.
Quests that require this one
Other quests with this name
This one: Alliance only · Talador · Level 20-40.
The storyline at a glance
The Battle for Shattrath has 14 steps, from Through the Looking Glass to The Battle for Shattrath.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Talador (14).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Talador map
- Establishing your Outpost
- In the Shadows of Auchindoun
- The Plight of the Arakkoa
- Garrison Campaign
- Gorefiend
- Against the Warsong
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.