TheWoWDBI just stayed at a distance, then used the crystal on the drake. The drake turned green and started attacking the orc. I helped the drake kill the orc to free it (if you don't help, there's a good chance the orc will kill the drake).
The crystal have a long range, so you can stand pretty far away.
Quest
The Force of Neltharaku
A World of Warcraft quest in Shadowmoon Valley. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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What no one has mentioned is that after you use the crystal on the drakes they take a good 2 seconds to turn green...so you must wait that amount of time before attacking.
How to get Neutral with Netherdrake (Netherdrake Epic Mount Quest Starter)
A list by Greengoo1. Kindness
- Kill 8 Rocknail Flayers, Use Carcasses to Feed 8 Dragons (don't move!). Also make sure to travel a bit when laying the meat, as the same drakes won't eat twice in a row.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=108042. Seek Out Neltharaku
- Fly on your mount and find Neltharaku, he patrols slowly around Dragonmaw about a few hundred feet up. You'll have to be about 5 yards UNDER him to talk to him.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=108113. Neltharaku's Tale
- Listen to story.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=108144. Infiltrating Dragonmaw Fortress
- Kill 15 of any type of orcs in the fortress.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=108365.To Netherwing Ledge!
- Find 12 Crystals from the floating island SE of the mainland.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=108376. The Force of Neltharaku
- Free 5 Dragons by using the item on them, then killing the orcs they agro.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=108547. Karynaku
- Find Karynaku, she's the second story of the fortress.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=108588. Zuluhed the Whacked
- Kill Zuluhed and recover the key. I recommend pulling him inside so as to avoid the archers, and kill him BEFORE he summons his add. Use the key he drops to free Karynaku.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=108729. Ally of the Netherwing
- Return to Mordenai, you will immediately gain 42,000 rep and become neutral.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=1087010. ????
- Blizzard has announced that next patch they will be introducing a continuence of this quest line, including the ability to get exalted and purchase or receive through extensive questing an EPIC netherdrake mount. You will need epic training to use it however, so save your gold!
Quest facts
LevelLevel 25-30
Quest ID10854
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10854))
What to do
StorylineShadowmoon Valley, step 136 of 147
Rewards4,100 XP
Description
Take this enchanted nethervine crystal and make your way back to Dragonmaw Fortress. Once there, seek out the enslaved drakes and invoke the magic of the nethervine crystal. My own energies will pour forth, causing the drakes to break free from the bond of their captors. When you see that the drake has broken free, help it defeat its captor! It will most assuredly be weak from the imprisonment. Release all that you can find and return to me, {name}.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #104 61.9 60.0
Coordinates
- Turn-inShadowmoon Valley 61.9, 60.0
/way #104 61.9 60.0 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Shadowmoon Valley 69.9, 61.8
/way #104 69.9 61.8
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 Shadowmoon Valley map
- Honor the Flame about 1,240 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,250 yards
- Hero's Call: Shadowmoon Valley! about 1,250 yards
- Grand Master Antari about 1,850 yards
- Warchief's Command: Shadowmoon Valley! about 2,010 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Shadowmoon Valley, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shadowmoon Valley:
- Sanctum of the Stars, Shadowmoon Valley
- Altar of Sha'tar, Shadowmoon Valley
- Wildhammer Stronghold, Shadowmoon Valley
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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Experience4,100 XP
Other quests on the Shadowmoon Valley map
Storyline
Shadowmoon Valley
Part 136 of 147.
Previous: To Netherwing Ledge! · Next: Karynaku
- 131Kindness
- 132Seek Out Neltharaku
- 133Neltharaku's Tale
- 134Infiltrating Dragonmaw Fortress
- 135To Netherwing Ledge!
- 136The Force of Neltharaku
- 137Karynaku
- 138Zuluhed the Whacked
- 139Zuluhed the Whacked
- 140Ally of the Netherwing
- 141Ally of the Netherwing
- 142Blood Oath of the Netherwing
Showing steps 131 to 142 of 147.
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.
- To Netherwing Ledge!
I believe that I can imbue nethervine crystals with my own essence. The power contained within these imbued crystals should be sufficient to free enslaved drakes of their masters' grasps. Travel to Netherwing Ledge, an island located off the broken shelf of Shadowmoon Valley, to the southeast.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Karynaku
It shames me to ask for your assistance once more, <name>, but you are my flight's only hope. Without my mate, the netherwing brood may die out completely. Make your way to the top of Dragonmaw Fortress and find Karynaku. We will be flying overhead.
The storyline at a glance
Shadowmoon Valley has 147 steps, from Spleendid! to A Job Unfinished....
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shadowmoon Valley (129), Terokkar Forest (10), Nagrand (7), Shattrath City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Shadowmoon Valley map
- Battle Pet Tamers
- Burning Crusade 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.