TheWoWDBIf you are like me and rushed throuh daily's to get revered, then hunting onyx eggs to get exalted and end up wondering why this quest isn't popping up: You must have done Flight Training: Full Speed Ahead and Flight Training: In Due Course to make Elder Anli give you this quest.
Quest
Riding the Skies
A World of Warcraft quest in The Jade Forest. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Not sure if it's just me, but the cinematic seems to be bugged for me to where my character doesn't show up in it, just some random female Blood Elf. :(
As an added bonus, you are able to sell your cloud serpent mount back to the vendor if you've already learned it on another toon :) 750g ka-ching!
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-35
ZoneThe Jade Forest
Quest ID31810
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(31810))
Requirements
ReputationOrder of the Cloud Serpent: Exalted or higher
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
WhereThe Jade Forest, around 57.7, 44.8
StorylineOrder of the Cloud Serpent, step 16 of 17
RewardsReins of the Azure Cloud Serpent, 6g 87s, 2,400 XP
Reins of the Azure Cloud Serpent, 6g 87s, 2,400 XPDescription
I can no longer call myself your teacher, {name}. You have proven yourself worthy of your cloud serpent. Today, you shall join our ranks. Are you ready?
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 #371 57.7 44.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Jade Forest 57.7, 44.8
/way #371 57.7 44.8
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 The Jade Forest map
- Quill of Stingers about 160 yards
- The Perfect Color about 170 yards
- Find the Boy about 200 yards
- Getting Permission about 480 yards
- Shrine of the Dawn about 480 yards
- The Scryer's Dilemma about 520 yards
- The Jade Serpent about 580 yards
- Self Care about 610 yards
- Up, Up, and Home about 610 yards
- The Monkey King's Challenge about 630 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Jade Forest, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Jade Forest:
- The Arboretum, Jade Forest
- Dawn's Blossom, Jade Forest
- Jade Temple Grounds, Jade Forest
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
Items you receive
TypeMiscellaneous
Item level30
BindingBinds when picked up
UseLearning
EffectAzure Cloud Serpent
Requires level10
Sells to vendors for750 gold
“Teaches you how to summon this mount.”
Reputation: Order of the Cloud Serpent +1,000
Guardians of the East Temple
Reputation group: Mists of Pandaria.
Other quests in The Jade Forest that reward Order of the Cloud Serpent reputation: Wild Things (+500), Beating the Odds (+1,000), Empty Nests (+1,000), Egg Collection (+1,000), Choosing the One (+500), The Rider's Journey (+500).
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
Order of the Cloud Serpent
Part 16 of 17.
Previous: Riding the Skies · Next: Riding the Skies
- 6Choosing the One
- 7The Rider's Journey
- 8The Rider's Journey
- 9The Rider's Journey
- 10It's A...
- 11They Grow Like Weeds
- 12Flight Training: Ring Round-Up
- 13Flight Training: Full Speed Ahead
- 14Flight Training: In Due Course
- 15Riding the Skies
- 16Riding the Skies
- 17Riding the Skies
Showing steps 6 to 17 of 17.
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.
- Flight Training: In Due Course
Now that you have learned the basics of the race, you should go learn the course. Explore the spires and collect a race flag from each of the checkpoints. Fly through each checkered flag to collect it.
The storyline at a glance
Order of the Cloud Serpent has 17 steps, from Wild Things to Riding the Skies.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Jade Forest (17).
Other storylines on The Jade Forest map
- The Jade Forest
- The Jade Forest, Dawn's Blossom & Tian Monastery & Nectarbreeze Village
- The Jade Forest, Greenstone Quarry & Terrace of Ten Thunders & The Jade Serpent
- The Jade Forest, Strange Bedfellows & Grookin Hill
- The Jade Forest, The White Pawn & Pearlfin Village
- The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village
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.