TheWoWDBI had a bit of difficulty with this quest.
Spam #1 while targeting a mob (each mob needs to be hit twice). Watch for a stream of lightning "attached" to you and use your #2 button to "absorb" the damage. "Absorbing" 3 charges will cause larger amounts of damage with #1.
After killing the 12 Stormbenders, your gryphon will fly higher where the final mob is located. Stormbenders may continue to attack you with the lightning, so keep aware and use #2 as needed.
Use same tactics with Servias Windterror. When Windterror has about 135k health left, you will be dismounted from your gryphon and have to kill him using your class abilities. He will cast his static flux, at which time you will have to move to the edge of the platform until he's done casting it or you will take massive amounts of damage (I died -- twice..). When you've finished him off, you will be mounted on a gryphon and flown to safety.
If at any point your gryphon dies, you will fall to the ground to your death unless you have slowfall etc. You will automatically be resurrected at the graveyard located near the quest giver.
Quest
Dropping the Hammer
A World of Warcraft quest in Twilight Highlands. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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I tried doing this quest as a 120. I flew up, killed the 12 I needed, then went to the boss, killed it, and... spent the next 10 mins circling the boss as the gryphon didn't stop or take me back.
The quest was registered as completed, however I have no method of ending this flight or dismounting.The solution I found to this is logging out while riding the gryphon. One you log back on you spawn where you started.
Another hint: don't hit the static absorb button as soon as the bolt hits you. When the static charge spell she casts hits the end if your absorb shield has worn off you get a good sized hit to your health. You want your absorb shield to be UP when the static charge spell wears off.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27817))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Keegan's Windswept Chestguard, 
Hammerhead Helm, 
Stormhammer Gauntlets, 27g 48s, 6,000 XPDescription
Thanks to you and Iain, we've got enough riders together that we can take the fight back to the Twilight. We're trained to fight while ridin', but a second rider to handle the Stormhammer tends to be more efficient. I thought you might enjoy the honor. Pick your gryphon and join the fight. Best be quick about it though - we're aimin' to clear every last one of those Twilight off of those floatin' rocks before the hour's out.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #241 60.2 58.0
Coordinates
- Turn-inTwilight Highlands 60.2, 58.0
/way #241 60.2 58.0 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Twilight Highlands 59.3, 52.1
/way #241 59.3 52.1 - Objective areaTwilight Highlands 58.6, 51.7
/way #241 58.6 51.7
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 Twilight Highlands map
- Desecrate this Fire! about 550 yards
- More Doom about 600 yards
- Xal'atath's Proven Faithful about 620 yards
- Midnight Dress about 880 yards
- Twilight's Dawn about 960 yards
- The Twilight Highlands about 960 yards
- Cult It Out about 960 yards
- Disrupt the Call about 960 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,230 yards
- Investigating the Highlands about 1,310 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Twilight Highlands, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Twilight Highlands:
- Firebeard's Patrol, Twilight Highlands
- Victor's Point, Twilight Highlands
- Thundermar, Twilight Highlands
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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Other quests on the Twilight Highlands map
Reward details
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Reputation: Wildhammer Clan +250
The Wildhammer dwarves are known for their near-reckless courage as well as their unsurpassed gryphon-riding skills. After losing their home of Grim Batol to a Dark Iron Curse, they've spread their dwellings around the Twilight Highlands.
Reputation group: Cataclysm.
Other quests in Twilight Highlands that reward Wildhammer Clan reputation: Bird Down! Bird Down! (+25), Roots'll Do 'Er (+250), Wings Over Highbank (+25), Firebeard's Patrol (+25), Dunwalds Don't Die (+25), While Meeting The Family (+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
Twilight Highlands
Part 36 of 236.
Previous: Personal Request · Next: The Lost Brother
- 31The Loyalty of Clan Mullan
- 32Death Worthy of a Dragonmaw
- 33Anything We Can Get
- 34Somethin' for the Boys
- 35Personal Request
- 36Dropping the Hammer
- 37The Lost Brother
- 38They Took Me Pants!
- 39Dunwalds Don't Die
- 40While Meeting The Family
- 41Sifting Through The Wreckage
- 42Donnelly Dunwald
Showing steps 31 to 42 of 236.
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.
- Personal Request
Shame about the Doyles. It's a fair miracle that as many of us made it out as is though, so can't count it as much of a surprise. Those louts at Thundermar are cowards. Even after tellin' them it was Keegan askin', they won't set foot outside of their town.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Lost Brother
Me brother Bahrum has gone missing! He was one of the first scouts in the area. All the others have returned safely, but there be no sign of him. Da says he's just dawdlin' somewhere, but he's me only brother, and I promised me mum that I would keep him safe. Will you please find him?
Also counted by Fading into Twilight
Its criteria name 17 quests; others include:
- Salvage Operation
- Naga Reinforcements
- Siege Tank Rescue
- The Perfect Poultice
- The Way is Open
- While Meeting The Family
- Sifting Through The Wreckage
- A Steady Supply
The storyline at a glance
Twilight Highlands has 236 steps, from Twilight Shores to Skullcrusher the Mountain.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Twilight Highlands (222), Azshara (9), Orgrimmar (4), Stormwind City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
- Fading into Twilight
- Round Three. Fight!
- The First Rule of Ring of Blood is You Don't Talk About Ring of Blood
Other storylines on the Twilight Highlands map
- Allies of the Horde: Vulpera
- The Cult Within
- In the Shadow of Crimson Wings
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.
Achievements
Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.
- Fading into Twilight: its criteria name 17 quests, this one included.