TheWoWDBThis quest can still be completed as of 5.4, despite the removal of the Barrens questline.
Head over to [npc=61962] - you'll need to complete The King and the Council, and then The Warchief and the Darkness - he offered these quests to my newly-dinged 90s. When you've done them, The Old Seer will lead to Path of the Last Emperor.
(Note: Wowhead currently displays these quests as unavailable in-game. Either Blizzard have modified the quest IDs, or Wowhead is just not up to date yet.)
Quest
Path of the Last Emperor
A World of Warcraft quest in Kun-Lai Summit. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Anyone else notice that "Seer Hao Pham Roo" is an anagram of "Emperor Shao Hao"? :)
As if all his comments along the way up the mountain weren't hint enough. :P
When I was young... I had to walk barefoot through Azeroth until level 40.
Quest facts
Quest ID32816
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(32816))
What to do
StorylineEscalation, step 3 of 3
Rewards27g 48s, 6,000 XP
Description
In his time of uncertainty, the last emperor walked a lonely path up this mountain, until he had at last found his answers. I am here to walk the same path, and it seems you have questions of your own to be answered. Perhaps you will join me, and we can both be satisfied? Oh, but I am getting old, and this blizzard is proving too much for my bones. Could you climb ahead and anchor this rope? I can hoist myself along from there. Together we shall walk the path of the last emperor.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #379 43.8 51.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inKun-Lai Summit 43.8, 51.1
/way #379 43.8 51.1 - Objective areaKun-Lai Summit 44.9, 49.1
/way #379 44.9 49.1 - Objective areaKun-Lai Summit 44.0, 47.9
/way #379 44.0 47.9 - Objective areaKun-Lai Summit 43.3, 49.6
/way #379 43.3 49.6 - Objective areaKun-Lai Summit 43.3, 51.9
/way #379 43.3 51.9
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 Kun-Lai Summit map
- Seeker's Folly same spot
- The Tongue of Ba-Shon same spot
- The Trail of Ban-Lu about 280 yards
- Smelly's Luckydo about 280 yards
- Comin' Round the Mountain about 290 yards
- One Traveler's Misfortune about 290 yards
- The Monkey King about 320 yards
- Return to the Broken Peak about 450 yards
- The Shadow of Ban-Lu about 470 yards
- Clean-up on Aisle Sha about 470 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Kun-Lai Summit, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Kun-Lai Summit:
- Winter's Blossom, Kun-Lai Summit
- Kota Basecamp, Kun-Lai Summit
- One Keg, Kun-Lai Summit
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- 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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Money27 gold48 silver
Experience6,000 XP
Other quests on the Kun-Lai Summit map
Storyline
Escalation
Part 3 of 3.
Previous: The Warchief and the Darkness
- 1The King and the Council
- 2The Warchief and the Darkness
- 3Path of the Last Emperor
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 Warchief and the Darkness
I see now how the Alliance king leads his people. But what is the Horde warchief up to? Just below us, a swarm of goblins are burrowing into the sacred vale on his orders. What does he hope to find there? We must find out!
Also counted by Darkspear Revolutionary
Its criteria name 4 quests; others include:
Also counted by Hordebreaker
Its criteria name 4 quests; others include:
The storyline at a glance
Escalation has 3 steps, from The King and the Council to Path of the Last Emperor.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Vale of Eternal Blossoms (2), Kun-Lai Summit (1).
Other storylines on the Kun-Lai Summit map
- Kun-Lai Summit
- Dominance Offensive
- Operation Shieldwall
- Mogu at the Gates
- Class Mount: Monk
- The Voice of Thunder
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 these achievements.
Darkspear RevolutionaryAided Vol'jin's troll uprising during Patch 5.3: Escalation.HordebreakerResponsible for pitting Vol'jin's troll uprising against Garrosh Hellscream's Horde during Patch 5.3: Escalation.
- Darkspear Revolutionary: its criteria name 4 quests, this one included. Title: Darkspear Revolutionary.
- Hordebreaker: its criteria name 4 quests, this one included. Title: The Hordebreaker.