TheWoWDBSome basic information about this quest:
- Get to The Rune of Command quest. It will give you a pet which gonna help alot.
- Mobs you have to kill are Runed Stone Giant and not Stone Giant, which are yellow.
- You need to kill them AFTER they have stepped on the giant runes on the ground and get the Bind Stone Giant buff (it look likes the anti-magic shield effect, last 30 secs but you can kill them after it wears off).
- It is also this "binding" that give them their Rune Fist ability which can put on you the nasty Dark Rune debuff which stack up to 5, doing 3000 damage per 2 seconds.
- If you kill them before they get this "binding", you wont be able to examine them and will get the Invalid target error message.
- Best place to kill them to be sure they got the "binding" is around 72,16.The Dark Rune is very deadly and going into melee with these mobs is very unhealty. Here is a guide for every class of how to solo them.
- Death Knight: Kite them with Chains of Ice > Icy Touch > Blood Boil > Blood Boil > Death Coil. Repeat.
- Druid: Root them and nuke them.
- Hunter: Kite them.
- Mage: Kite them and/or spell steal the Dark Fist buff and melee them for heavy damage :)
- Paladin: You can remove the DoT on yourself.
- Priest: You can remove the DoT on yourself and the buff on the giant.
- Rogue: Stun lock them. Cloak of Shadow if you get the DoT on you. Evasion to prevent to get hit.
- Shaman: Frost Shock kite them and/or purge the buff on the giant.
- Warlock: Felhunter out and eat the buff on the giant. You cant drain their hp and they are immune to fear.
- Warrior: Equip a shield and Shield Slam them to remove the buff. You can also spell reflect the DoT.
Quest
March of the Giants
A World of Warcraft quest in Howling Fjord. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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One easy quest. You don't have to kill any Runed Stone Giants. Or use the quest The Rune of Command.
Just find Megalith. Very easy to solo, did it with a poorly geared level 70 paladin. I didn't use any heal/bubble/LoH
Just be careful of his knock-back. Once Megalith is dead, mine his corpse.
He take 30 seconds to one minute for respawn, it is done very quickly.
WARNING: If you are a miner, you will be able to mine the corpse, it is not to do the investigation, you will mine them and their corpse will disappear.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11365))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
To the east, at Giants' Run, rune-inscribed stone giants have started to migrate north toward Frostblade Peak. I know nothing of their goals, nor of their destination. The glowing runes inscribed in the stone flesh of the giants guide them on their journey. Fell some of these giants. Take this pick with you and use it on the corpses of the runed stone giants. It will deactivate the runes. Once you've tested enough giants, return to me with your findings.
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-inIn-game waypoint: /way #116 60.8 80.6
Objective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #117 73.6 23.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inGrizzly Hills 60.8, 80.6
/way #116 60.8 80.6 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Howling Fjord 70.0, 26.1
/way #117 70.0 26.1
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 Grizzly Hills map
- Honor the Flame about 110 yards
- The Damaged Journal about 1,170 yards
- Deciphering the Journal about 1,170 yards
- The Runic Prophecies about 1,170 yards
- Pounding the Iron about 1,180 yards
- The Overseer's Shadow about 1,180 yards
- Cultivating an Image about 1,180 yards
- Loken's Orders about 1,180 yards
- In the Name of Loken about 1,180 yards
- The Unexpected 'Guest' about 1,180 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Grizzly Hills, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Grizzly Hills:
- Camp Winterhoof, Howling Fjord
- Camp Oneqwah, Grizzly Hills
- Apothecary Camp, Howling Fjord
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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Other quests on the Grizzly Hills map
Reward details
Reputation: The Taunka +250
These hardy people are cousins of the Tauren and have become valuable scouts for the armies of the Horde as they march northward.
Reputation group: Horde Expedition.
Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward The Taunka reputation: Skorn Must Fall! (+10), Gruesome, But Necessary (+250), Burn Skorn, Burn! (+250), Towers of Certain Doom (+250), Stop the Ascension! (+350), The Conqueror of Skorn! (+350).
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
Howling Fjord
Part 117 of 162.
Previous: Mimicking Nature's Call · Next: The Book of Runes
- 112Warning: Some Assembly Required
- 113Mastering the Runes
- 114Suppressing the Elements
- 115Making the Horn
- 116Mimicking Nature's Call
- 117March of the Giants
- 118The Book of Runes
- 119The Lodestone
- 120Mastering the Runes
- 121Skorn Must Fall!
- 122Demolishing Megalith
- 123The Rune of Command
Showing steps 112 to 123 of 162.
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.
- Mimicking Nature's Call
The horn has been roughed out, but before I make the traditional carvings, I want to be certain that it will work. Ahota tells me that he tests his horns at the foot of the frozen waterfall to the northeast of the post.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Book of Runes
Chieftain Ashtotem dispatched me on a scouting mission to Giants' Run, a broad, rocky plateau to the southeast, past the Frozen Glade. The area has been taken over by Iron Dwarves who seem to be altering the giants as they emerge from the earth.
Other quests with this name
This one: Horde only · Howling Fjord · Level 10-30.
The storyline at a glance
Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Grizzly Hills map
- Grizzly Hills
- The Claws of Ursoc
- Wrath of the Lich King Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.