Quest: Arikara

Level: 28
Side: Horde
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Objectives

Slay Arikara. Bring her remains and the Incendia powder to Motega Firemane in Whitereach Post as proof of your deed.

Description

Take this refined and purified Incendia powder to Thousand Needles and toss it on the sacred fire of life. It is located in the Darkcloud Pinnacle on an isolated needle where they bury their dead.

The enchantment that I have weaved into the Incendia powder will summon Arikara to you, <Name>.

I fear she may be stalking Cairne Bloodhoof; too much Tauren lore has changed, and I fear this has angered Arikara. Move quickly before all is lost, <Class>!

Update

Return to Motega Firemane at Whitereach Post in Thousand Needles.

Progress

Have you slain the vicious serpent Arikara, <name>?

Completion

This does not make sense. Why would Arikara be after Cairne Bloodhoof? Magatha could not be wrong, she is our most powerful shaman.

<Motega shakes his head.>

Regardless, your great deed to the Horde shall not go unnoticed - please, choose one of these as a reward for your aid.

Rewards

Choose one of:

Reputation

+250 reputation with Thunder Bluff

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Added: Sep 28th, 2004, Updated: Dec 18th,2009Send us a correction or info on this quest
 
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Path
Posted: Oct 12th 2009 7:50am | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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The path is slightly south of the Great Lift. If you open your map and see the big boulder below the lake in Dark Pinnacle, that's where you want to go. The path is marked by a totem and goes up to this small Tauren village. THESE are the enemies up there, take care of them first.
the path up
Posted: Aug 11th 2009 12:38pm | Edited: Aug 11th 2009 12:44pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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The path up starts at 31,37. If you are in the right spot it looks like you are almost on the main path that shows on the big map and you are just about directly south from the great lift. Your path up consists of earthen ramps along the sides of the tall pinacles and bridges made of rope and planks.

At the end of the third bridge you have to choose which bridge to take next. the one just off to the right is the way to the village and you will need that one if you are also looking for the three "secret note"s for the "grimtotem spying" quest.

For this quest you need the one that is across from you but slightly left. At the end of the next bridge (the fourth you will have crossed) you again have to choose which way to go. Take the next bridge to your right. This will put you on the pinnacle that has the fire you need.

Edited, Aug 11th 2009 3:44pm by RoqueGnome
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Not Bad
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Not a difficult quest, someone else just did it before me. I skinned arikara then summoned and killed it again before any of the other mobs respawned.
loled...
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lol this quest is sooooo easy!! 31 warlock with void, affliction....
did this in 10 sec :P really!!! coords correct thanks!
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orsfltmsnyomomjdagw
Posted: Jan 13th 2008 7:56pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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bored
omg I soloed it no wayz
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The sacred fire is on the fourth needle from the ramp(don't go to the village). Use the item on the bonfire and the 28 mob is summoned. Don't bother with any previous posts, it's just a regular level 28. All these solo strategies are a joke, unless it's a 2.3 patch thing.

I'm a 32 enhance shaman and I beat it do death with my big stick.

p.s. The ramp is south of the great lift on the east side of the road.

Edited, Jan 8th 2008 12:55am by ThunderHornNekura
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omg I soloed it no wayz
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Thank you for the info about the ramp... i looked all over for it and saw your post... went right to it after that!!! Very good tips and directions Thanks again =D
omg I soloed it no wayz
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Also there is a totem marking where the path begins and you want to look for the Needle with all the mummy bodies in a circle ... that's the fire you start with the powder. Once you see the bird kill quick cuz fire will go out and you have to relight it again to call forth the bird.
omg I soloed it no wayz
Posted: Jan 14th 2008 7:12am | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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I believe this used to be a group quest. Arikara was a 28 elite until 2.3 when they re-evaluated questing experience and most group quests. They took a lot of the "elite" designations off of lower level mobs.

So yeah this quest is easy now.
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Fire Mage
Posted: Jan 2nd 2008 5:28pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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(If Anytime your getting attacked frost nova/Cone of cold and blink

Mana Shield,
Put on fire
Run to bridge
pull with pyro
1.scorch,2.fireball
fireblast then repeat 2
Solo'd as shaman
Posted: Nov 3rd 2007 7:22pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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Solo'ed as a 28 troll shaman.
(Cast Lightning Shield and Flametongue Weapon)
Throw powder on fire, step back a bit onto the bridge.
Pull with 2 Lightning Bolts.
Throw down Stoneskin, Searing, and Healing Stream totems.
Melee and Earth Shock until dead.
Lesser Healing Wave if necessary (Most likely will have to cast 2-3 times.)

Warning: When Arikara gets below about 25%, She(?) casts a type of Rage spell on herself, increasing her DPS output by about 50%. So be prepared at the end, and save your mana for a healing wave.
Soloed
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cords 38, 55

lvl 29 shadow priest bubble,fear,pain,holy fire,mind blast...then repeat


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rather frustrating
Posted: Aug 5th 2007 4:36pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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I completed this quest lvl 31 warlock with minion, made it to the fire ok, but died 2 times before able to kill it. but still a good challenge
a
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if you do this in a group make sure you lit the fire yourself, otherwise Motega will not receive your quest. I did it one with a hunter, got the skin, but Motega would still have the greysh ? so i had to go back and do it again on my own. When you lit the fire the quest says "lit the fire of life" or similar, uess that is part of the quest.
odd
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must of bein a glitch cause ive done this before with a tank and i got the skin
easy
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easy quest soloed on a 28 pally
easy as that
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Soloed this quest at lvl 31 Shamie. It's good to do not real easy. Died 2 time's first time because the mob that walks the bridge re spawned when i was halfway in the fight.(Re spawn is very high so ones you're there don't wait to long)

I res my self and started again this time i killed her and she me at same time all because i forgot to drink healing potion and now i had to walk.

When i returned all the mobs i had killed had re spawned again. And the graveyard is practically next to the quest so now you see how fast they re spawn.
Accept,luted and jumped down in the water all before they even hit me.

- The start of the trail up is 31,36.(where had to find the 3 note's)

- Fire is at 38,35.(don't go left or rigth just straigth on)


easy as that
Posted: Dec 2nd 2007 2:56pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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Level 33 enhancement shaman and I killed the mob with no problem (windsury procced twice in a row, it died in about 6 seconds, finished it off with a frost shock).

Mobs were no problem, I was taking the 2 at a time, carefull pulls and using Stoneclaw to get the add for me.
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drood
Posted: May 6th 2007 7:29am | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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solo'd this as a level 30 druid. all i did was cast a rejuv immediately after lighting the fire, switch to bear, and bash/rejuv mid-way to be sure i didn't die due to some freak accident.

either kill the pat that walks accross the bridge or pull aikara to the opposite end to avoid aggro.

oh, and you can jump off the bridge and in to the lake for a quick exit.
soloed
Posted: Mar 12th 2007 8:41am | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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I've soloed it at lvl 27 Blood Elf Warlock
SOLO IT!
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soloed this quest...

lvl 30 rouge.
one suggestion,
if your health gets low,
use a fully charged kidney shot.

it helps [:schooled:]
Relatively Easy
Posted: Feb 25th 2007 1:10pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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I did this Quest as a :evel 28 Warlock with the help of my Voidwalker and I must admit it was quite easy despite the fact it is a group quest. I was rewarded with 2300 XP and a very nice Stingshot Wand
pretty easy
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i did this quest with lvl 29 hunter and lvl 26 pet

and just like grotbags said
Fire is at 38,35.
The start of the trail up is 31,36.
if you dont have coords- the trail up is on your way from freewind post to the great lift you will see a big blue totem to the right and the trail it to the left of the totem , and once you get up to the needles you have to go to the fourth needle,kill everything, summon it, kill it.. easy !
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Too easy
Posted: Jan 11th 2007 12:53am | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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solo'ed as lvl 26 hunter barely hurt my pet or me.
You'd think Elites would be fearless!
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Really, really easy quest. I did it with a Level 28/29 Warlock, but this could be done by almost any range of level as long as you have the Fear spell (or any variation of it that another class may have).

Get rid of all the mobs on the way there, and kill all the ones on the needle with the campfire. Regen your HP/Mana if needed, and throw the Incendia Powder on the fire. Back up a bit, and wait a few seconds while Arikara summons. When she does, send your pet into her and start casting Fear. When she runs, start dotting her up (I do Curse of Agony, Corruption, and Immolation), then cast fear on her again. Feel free to cast a Shadow Bolt or something of the like on her. Then fear her again. Replace any DOT spells that wore off. Fear again. And pretty much repeat that process until she's dead.

She didn't touch me once.
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soloed as 27 shadow priest. It was hard.
coordinates
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The start of the path up to Darkcloud Pinnacle was at 31,37 (11/10/06)
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Where?
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Can someone describe the start of the trail without coords please? =)
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Where?
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Nearly every quest will have people posting coordinates. You NEED to get yourself the CT mapping mod or Cosmos. They're both easy to find (use google) and trivial to install. Just do it.
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Where?
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lol I don't NEED coords to find something. I found the trail no problem. I rely on reading and looking. =P No need to give me a lecture instead of answering my question.
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lol
Posted: May 6th 2007 7:33am | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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well, i wouldn't rely on looking then, seeing as the ramp is right off the main east-west path.


stubborn people. co'ords save you a lot of time, energy, and frustration.
Solo'd
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Just solo'd the whole thing, level 27 warlock. It wasn't too hard, just took careful pulling. I never had a problem summoning it either.
Easy quest
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Very easy quest with lvl 32 warlock. just watch the respawn on the others in the area and drop the quest off at 21,32.
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Not really a bug
Posted: Sep 18th 2006 2:24pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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If doing this in a party where multiple party members have the quest, all members have to light the flame individually. I had to go back and light it again a week later and as soon as I lit the fire, before Arikara appeared, I got the quest-complete indication.
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co-ords
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Fire is at 38,35.

The start of the trail up is 31,36.

you hand it into Motega Firemane

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/mob.html?wmob=10428

Edited, Tue May 23 16:06:54 2006
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fixed??
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seems fine to me.. just did it no probs.
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spoke to a GM
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for some reason my edit doesnt show, cant be bothered to type it all out, but....

It's still bugged. I messaged a GM. He said that the devs are aware and they need to patch to fix. working on it. patch to be released as soon as its ready.
bugged today too
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I tried this around 8pm on the 15th of may, and same bug. trying again now 5am on 16th and will let you know of progress

PS (first comment on here)

Edited, Tue May 16 01:00:37 2006
arikara stronger then onyxia. ^^
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I tried 2 do this Q today and same thing happened 2 me as to you.
i sent a ticket but no response.
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WTF! everything was cool with me an d blizz... up untill this.
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ridiculous
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still unable to throw powder on the fire. maybe they'll fix it on tuesday. until then, screw you blizzard.
Talked with GM
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I talked with a GM last night and was basically told to just watch the WOW homepage and we will be notified when it is fixed. I also expressed the frustration of doing this many times to no avail. I asked if we could get credit for the quest if they saw we had the scaled and was told no. We will have to run the instance again to complete it.:(
RE: Talked with GM
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What instance ? this is no freakin instance quest !!!
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is the bug fixed?
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I just tried this one 5/1/06 and have the respawn problem. Killed her 5 times and could not get to pu the powder on the fire. I have the scale but cant get to the fire to finish. Everytime I go to the cords, Arikana is already there.

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Same
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Same to me.Last night i have done the part with the kill but the other...

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Confirmation
Posted: Apr 28th 2006 5:57pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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Yeah, I ran into the respawning Arikara problem too - Arikara by itself is doable, but when you kill all the Grimtotems on the needle, then Arikara, then get killed by Arikara again when it respawns in half a second before you can recover, it gets kind of annoying. :/ All I need to do now is throw the powder into the unusable fire.
Quest is bugged
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I was able to Kill Arikara, but the flame was already lit, and Arikara was already summoned. And continues to respawn over and over. I have sent a ticket to gm's, yet with no response..
10-4 on the bug
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Came here cause I thought I was doing something wrong Arikana (however you spell it) is spawned allready and the flame is lit, and once you kill her the first time, she just keeps respawning.
RE: 10-4 on the bug
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I had this exact same problem. Arikara would continuelly spawn and despawn. The fire is lit. About the time I had four arikara corpses and still hadn't "Completed" the quest, I decided to leave the area.

Logged out, back in, still bugged. I might try abandoning the quest all together. Which is annoying, because the incendia agave was a pain to gather(not hard, just a pain).
That Bug thing...
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Interestingly, my friend and I just went there today... he has been trying to gdo the quest for a while, but when I got close to it, it said I had already lit the fire, so I somehow completed it, but he didn't... Weird stuff... Thumbs up for Blizzard!

So confused...
Quest is bugged as of 1.10 patch!
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I tried this today with my L32 Troll Shammy

Instead of the powder summoning Arikara, she's already there, always. Therefore, you can't use the powder to summon her and complete the quest, since the Fire of Life isn't clickable while she's there. Killed her many times, then tried to use the powder on the fire (which is right in front of her), but no go. Many GM's have been informed of the bug, but still not fixed. I'm gonna put in another one today, 4.21.6.

This WTF moment has been brought to you by: Blizzard.

Edited, Fri Apr 21 18:59:39 2006
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jus finishedd thiz
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finished wit clan member lvl 33 warlock... waz piece of cake and not dat hardd i waz lvl 28 priestt
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about to do thiz questt
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yall think lvl 27 priest can solo this?
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NO UI
Posted: Jan 3rd 2006 3:44pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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i dont have a UI so could i get a description of it plz and im a 28 warlock shoudld i get a group or not
easy killing
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Solo'd it with a level 29 rogue - wasn't even close to die - and with no good equipment - Its a bad level 29 elite ..!
where
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Fire is at 38,35.

The start of the trail up is 31,36. (That location can't be restated enough.)
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Coordinates, people! Coordinates!
no more powder
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powder is no longer a reward, i got him down to ~ 10% with a 27 druid(feral), got a few heavy armor patches and won, close fight tho
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Whitereach Post
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the location 4 Whitereach Post is 21,32.
Solo it
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solo'ed this as a lvl29 hunter. let the pet do all the work while mending it as the health ran low. took a while but in the end killed it with no real threat to my char.
Warlock
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Solo:ed as a lvl29 warlock , Use void to tank (and to sacrifice) , nuke him and keep him feared and when he has like 15% its best to sacrifice if you havent got full hp-meter since he goes into rage
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