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Caverns of Time: Mount Hyjal will ship with World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade expansion retail launch. The dungeon requires 25 player raid groups. However, not everyone can enter the dungeon. This dungeon requires many pre-requisites:

1. You must be level 70

2. Complete Caverns of Time: Durnholde (Old Hillsbrad) and Complete Caverns of Time: Dark Portal (Black Morass).

3. Talk to Soridormi (Adult) - the consort of Nozdormu. You may find her roaming around the clockwork in Caverns of Time. She will give you a quest titled: The Vial's of Eternity.

However, this is no 1-2-3 immediate quest. To acquire the two vials of eternity requires the completition of many quest chains that will take months to accomplish and good gear.

4. You must complete the Cipher of Damnation quest chain in Shadowmoon Valley and the Stormspire quests in Netherstorm. The Stormspire quest chain starts in Area 52 with the Consortium Ethereal. The chain ends when Nexus-Prince Harammad sends you to A'dal with a crystal. Maybe you should have talked to Akama at the Warden's Cage in Shadowmoon Valley.

5. A'dal will give you the Arcatraz Key quest: The crystal key is divided in two halves. The first half is held by the last boss of Tempest Keep: Botanica - Splintertree. The second half is held by the last boss of Tempest Keep: Mechanar. Once you assemble the Arcatraz Key and have completed the two quest chains: Stormspire and Cipher of Damnation -- Khadgar will talk to you, asking you to talk to A'dal. A'dal will give you the Kael'Thas dungeon key chain quest. The key is named Tempest Key - for the final showdown with Prince Kael'Thas Sunstrider.

6. Brace yourself - - you need to be revered with the Sha'tar Reputation faction to obtain the Tempest Keep Heroic-Dungeon key, Revered with the Lower City to obtain the Auchenai Key to unlock the Auchindoun Dungeons in Heroic-mode, Revered with the Cenarion Expedition to unlock the Heroic-mode for Coilfang Reservoir dungeons, and Revered with Thrallmar/Honor Hold to unlock the Heroic-mode Difficulty for Hellfire Citadel dungeons. Hope you have had fun reading this far.

7. Complete Trial of the Naaru: Mercy; Trial of the Naaru: Strength; and Trial of the Naaru: Tenacity. No easy task ... for you have to complete the three trials in Heroic-mode. Trash mobs hit for 15,000 non-crit damage, no less. You have to kill Murmur in Auchindoun: Shadow Laberynth, retrieve an unused Axe of the Executioner from Hellfire Citadel: Shattered Halls, Kalithresh's Trident in Coilfang Reservoir: Steamvaults, and to rescue Millhouse Manastorm (gnome) after killing the last boss of Tempest Keep: Arcatraz. Once you have completed those four dungeons in Heroic-mode, return to A'dal and he will grant you the Tempest Key to enter Prince Kael'Thas dungeon -- which requires 25 players. Kill Kael'Thas and loot his Vial of Eternity.

8. Now you need to kill Lady Vashj and loot her Vial of Eternity. No data has been gathered concerning the requirements to enter Lady Vashj's dungeon.

9. By now you should be Friendly with the Scales of the Sands faction.

10. Now you can enter Caverns of Time: Mount Hyjal

In this dungeon you go back in time 4 years into the past to fight alongside Malfurion Stormrage, Tyrande Whisperwind, Thrall, and Jaina Proudmoore against Archimonde and the Burning Legion. Your mission is to stop the Infinity Dragonflight from altering time.


THE VIALS OF ETERNITY

INTRO

Soridormi: The Battle of Mount Hyjal is one of the most well-guarded events of this timeline. Should an intruder alter its outcome, the impact would extend to all subsequent moments in history.

As the Aspect's prime mate I'm far more in tune with the flow of time than other bronze dragons. I recently sensed a minute ripple in time emanating from the events surrounding the Battle of Mount Hyjal. Someone or something is attempting to change this timeline and they must be stopped.

Soridormi: Seven vials were drawn from the Well of Eternity by Illidan. He poured three into the lake on top of Mount Hyjal and a second Well of Eternity was created. For years the rest were believed lost.

With the opening of the Dark Portal, we've come to know that he gave one each to his lieutenants Kael'thas and Vashj. Retrieve what remains of them; we wil need them as foci to open a gateway to any events tied to Mount Hyjal, recent or ancient. The outcome of the Battle of Mount Hyjal must be preserved.

I've asked the impossible of you, yet I expect you to succeed. Much depends on it.


QUEST OBJECTIVES

Soridormi at Caverns of Time wants you to retrieve Vashj's Vial Remnant from Lady Vashj at Coilfang Reservoir and Kael's Vial Remnant from Kael'Thas Sunstrider at Tempest Keep.

Rewards: 24g 60s

If they keep faction rewards the same as they are in Beta, then yes, revered faction is easy to obtain. If they nerf the hell out of them by around 1/10th, which most people expect they will, then it will take forever and piss off a lot of people.

Don't most Betas have supercharged XP and such, in order for people to rapidly advance and try out the game? Sort of like EVE's test server, and their "everything is 100 ISK" market?

That's the rumor people keep spreading.  However, they spread the same rumor during WoW's initial release, and Blizzard's response at that time was (paraphrased); "Why would we do that? It's fucking stupid. We're testing leveling rates here too, so why inflate the xp?"   

Considering they've tweaked the XP to hit certain levels a few times already, I'm inclined to believe there is no 'fast xp' nor 'fast faction'.  Turnins of stuff for cenarion expedition seem on-par with other rep turn-ins in the exsisting game, as do the quest faction rewards.  I dunno why anyone would think they'd nerf it.

First Glance, this does in fact look lame as all hell.

Well, when you take a look at it as a 60 just walking into Outland, that's a lot of shit, but it really isn't.

The easiest analogy is say... you need to kill Rag to get your BWL attunement.

• Step 1: Get the Rep required for Heroic Mode 5-mans (you'll do this anyway).
• Step 2: Lotta Quests.
  
• Step 3a: Clear the 5-mans on Heroic to get keyed for one of the 25-man raids (if you're a raider, you'll do this anyway).
• Step 3b: Clear two Caverns of Time instances (again, you'll do this anyway :P).

• Step 4: Clear two of the 25-mans to get access to CoT: Hyjal.

EDIT: Forgot the quests before you need to worry about the Heroic 5-mans.

What's with the camwhore and her 'rogues do it from behind' avatar? Is she trying to play on the "omg r u reely a girl?!" thing? Sheesh.

Edit: So she's a site admin. If there's a more egocentric thing to do, I can't think of it.

According to the sig, she's the rogue.  How small-minded of you to assume she has a boyfriend.  Maybe it's a girlfriend, or a favorite sex toy.  She calls it "Garret"

As to the question of 'wtf is up with the avatard' yes, she's attn. whoring, and playing up the 'omg i'm a girl, tee hee' angle.  Also incredibly self-conscious about the size of her shnoz, since she took a pic that minimizes the angle as well as hides it in overexposure.

Stuff

Yup, sounds like she was dealing with quite the douche. Where I come from, he would have been fired.  :evil: Also...why didn't someone there jump on the other register for her? Isn't "Get In, Get Out, Get On Your Way" some company's slogan? Granted, if someone wants to talk to me about something, I'll talk, but when I shop that's how I usually do things - I just want to get my shit and leave. Most of the people I find that work in game stores are simply stupid fanboys who hardly know shit about games.

Also, lol @ your wife reporting the kid.  :evil:

What's with the camwhore and her 'rogues do it from behind' avatar? Is she trying to play on the "omg r u reely a girl?!" thing? Sheesh.

Edit: So she's a site admin. If there's a more egocentric thing to do, I can't think of it.

Apparently the other guy, while not sexist, was helping a youngish (like 12 to 14) kid who was also doing tradeins. He was apparently nice, and was helping an actual customer instead of fucking around with a friend.

And yeah, all things considered, I'd have simply told my buddy the "Let's play What-If on these parts until I get a deal I can live with" to hold on a second and rang up the chick with the one game.

This is a pretty good derail, here!

Funnily enough, it was the only post I read all the way through here.  :-)

(On the other hand, I have two shirts that make math jokes, so I'm not one to talk....)

I think it's kinda stupid.  Rep is alot easier to obtain, no doubt, but you still won't hit revered just from doing a quest here or there while you level up.  You're going to have to spend a few days working on it, longer if you're on a pvp server, and the areas are probably going to be heavily contested for a few months.

You don't just get it from doing quests, you also get it from doing a certain dungeon. You get Thrallmar/HH rep for doing Hellfire Citadel and Thrallmar/HH rep is used for... unlocking Heroic Hellfire Citadel (among other things).

Rerail:

I think it's kinda stupid.  Rep is alot easier to obtain, no doubt, but you still won't hit revered just from doing a quest here or there while you level up.  You're going to have to spend a few days working on it, longer if you're on a pvp server, and the areas are probably going to be heavily contested for a few months.

Losing a person attuned is going to be a bitch.  Just about the worst thing ever in WoW was getting someone Ony attuned for Horde, and this looks like it's actually worse.

Exactly, here's a big tip from me about rep:

Screw questing early. Do nothing but hump whatever new dungeon is in the zone you're leveling in at least 5 times.

Out of interest, is all this going to hang on Brood of Nozdormu reputation, thus excluding folks who were absent during the AQ opening and raiding periods?

I'm aware that they have their own factions once inside, but Brood is currently required to get there.

Apparently, it's not really faction grinding; you can get revered just by doing all the quests in an area.. supposedly they've done away with cenarion circle / furblog stuff.

Well, when you take a look at it as a 60 just walking into Outland, that's a lot of shit, but it really isn't.

The easiest analogy is say... you need to kill Rag to get your BWL attunement.

• Step 1: Get the Rep required for Heroic Mode 5-mans (you'll do this anyway).
• Step 2: Lotta Quests.
  
• Step 3a: Clear the 5-mans on Heroic to get keyed for one of the 25-man raids (if you're a raider, you'll do this anyway).
• Step 3b: Clear two Caverns of Time instances (again, you'll do this anyway :P).
• Step 3c: *insert Lady Vashj attunement here*
• Step 4: Clear two of the 25-mans to get access to CoT: Hyjal.

EDIT: Forgot the quests before you need to worry about the Heroic 5-mans.

Nope. You'll get Revered from quests. In fact, my experience in beta was that there was pretty much EXACTLY enough rep to get revered in any given faction from just quests. Then you go to exalted with dungeon runs.

Why?

O RLY? I'll have to go look-see.