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Commento di Mirei

I think I spent a good hour working on this quest before finally completing it.

Get used to his yell, "Prepare a funereal pyre! <Name> has challenged Skyshatter!"

The trick here is to remain within range of him (which I think is no greater than 15 YDs, MUCH less than the others), while avoiding a bombardment of 'meteors' that shower around him.

If you remain rather close to him the entire time (He must have 280% flight speed... I could NEVER duck and dodge without him getting too far ahead), he'll end up soaking up most of the meteors, himself. Not to be corny, but trust your instincts. He'll lead you to victory. His flight is much shorter than Mulvericks, but about three times as annoying.

Good luck, potential Skybreakers.

Completing this quest nets you 1000 rep, as well as what is listed, above.

Commento di 54981

Is possible to do without a pally. But ot does help to have a wingman to help delfect some of the meteors. Do this quest naked.

Commento di 54233

I can tell you for certain.. that you can do it without, a Paladin..

I, a 70 Hunter was able to do it after 9 tries (I know).. with only a riding crop.. It's sort of easy, after you know what to do..

My advice, stay close to him.. go up and down when he shoots his metoers so you dont' get hit..

He tries to trick you a few times stops and does a 360 and drops meteors a few times during the race, just don't run through him or you will be knocked off, because he sets himself on fire..

As far as that enjoy, as of right now I am 2475/21000 into revered...

** Edit.. by the way, I would.. remove all armor, so you don't take.. Durability hits.. in case you die :)

Commento di Defirion

Just beat him so I wanted to share the a small tip I used to do so.

Fly side by side with him @ approx 10 yards away from him as he almost never shoots his meteors there, don't know if this is possible with a riding crop and the huge downside with this strat is that you have to know about where he turns so you can go lower as you turn if he turns to you or do a sharper turn if he turns away.

Anyhow good luck in becoming the Top Orc!

Commento di 22738

He definitely goes faster than 280%.

Commento di 46525

What's the pre-req to this? Honored reputation with Netherwing or what?

Commento di Thale

If you have noticed, he has the armoured Netherdrake.
I think its the one with 315% speed.
Flying on a straight line with him, even with the raiding crop makes you bite the dust :(

Commento di 17526

The other guys were pretty easy, but this one seems to give a lot of people problems. The result is that there is a line of people waiting to do it often. If you have not already found out: it can be done a a group. Instead of waiting and sniping the quest, group up and you can all start it at once.

Commento di QuiSiLoR

This guy is pretty easy, as mentioned before stay at his side. Once u know the Path he flys on stay at his side but slightly above and its really easy

Commento di 26224

Just done it successfully.
It is definitely helpful to use a druid in epic flight form being damn close to you or him. This way he takes sometimes alot of the meteors.
Also a paladin will help, using the crusader aura. He just needs to be careful with the meteors as well.

Other than this, I flew on his left side as long as possible, somtimes up and down to avoid the meteors.
If I fall behind, see paladin (and my enchants for flying faster).

The least you can do while not having any help, learn his flight pattern / path.
Then keep trying and ask others around you to join.
That way at least one or two may make it through.

Commento di mbulmer

As suggested before, this race can be very difficult without a riding crop or a paladin around to increase your flight speed. It doesn't make much sense that the reward is what's essentially a riding crop, but having one for this quest does make it considerably easier.

If you already have a riding crop and don't need the 1000 reputation, you may want to save yourself the headache and skip it.

Commento di 5286

I did this without a Paladin but with a Riding crop. All I did was stay above him, and in front of him, but make sure you don't get too far ahead because he will deagro. He also does some 360s that you have to be careful about.
Good luck!

Commento di 54835

I finally managed to get this quest done after Skyshatter being bugged for the last week, it took me a few runs to learn his route, but once you get used to his turns it isnt that bad.

You definatly dont need a riding crop to do it, but I can see how helpful it is when it comes to the "straights" :)

Commento di Suhov

Ok, 4 days of try's and I did it. Crap thing sometimes NPC get bugged and no one can take quest again until server restart or GM fix it manualy (takes around 5 hours). Riding Crop is must have for this race because he got 310% mount and you get 280%, but with crop you will get same speed as he is. To laught on you Blizz give another riding crop as reward then you complete this.

Tips:
* Race is shorter then Mulverik one. Learn his route.
* Beware other racers because it is tooo lame to fall off mount in case of non Skyshatter bomb something near finish. =)
* Fly after Skyshater on distance like 1,5-2 size of your mount.
* If there is queue invite all players of your side to group (not raid) and start together. Even if someone falls other quest will still work. However you will not receive credit for quest if you fall but you reduce queue much. It is nessesary if there is like 134565 players waiting for Skyshatter.
* Don't be afraid of flying NPCs which attack you. They hit for 250-400 even when naked you have enough HP to survive. So if shorter way thourgh skyraiders - don't affraid.
* It's depending on style ofcourse but I reccomend you to fly in that way: Turning and moving with mouse (so, all flyght you had to press both mouse buttons non-stop) and correct altitude to avoid meteors with "X" (default "fly down key") and "Space (default "fly up" key).
* They Skyshatter rotate for 24 hours for 2-4 sec (he does this lag like 2-4 times on whjole race) unpress your Right mouse key and look with mouse to his position. They you find him press right mouse button and fly to him. However still move updown because meteors can fly above Skyshatter.

How meteors work:

..................Skyshatter............
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A bit crap coz can't drawing well in this way. ^^
But what it shows: since Skyshatter drop a meteor and you see falling meteor it is not dangerous. How ever after 1 sec or so it will explode and this area (around 2 yard radius) is dangerous. If you got nice green ping ( I made this quest with 700 ms) then you will ever seen that places.

Commento di 57746

it was pretty easy for me, the first 8 or so tries i kept on running into him and it would dismount me, not even getting past the runway.

Once i realized that touching him dismounts you, i tried to fly directly above him the entire time, cutting corners to make up for lost time. I'ts a bit rough to realize you can fly thru the fireballs as long as they haven't exploded yet. after figuring this out, i thought it was easier then the previous guy because it's a shorter path and makes less unpredictable turns.

He will also try to fake you out making 360, but use this time to get ahead, becuase he will ALWAYS turn back around when he does this. I could see this tricking you to follow back into the fireballs and dismount.

In terms of visual positioning, my method of seeing a bit better was to fly sideways, and use full screen mode so my bars/chat windows don't get in the way of any of my view..

Commento di Dave

After reading all the comments here, everyone seems to have their own style of doing this guy, I think it took me about 40 or so goes before i did it. I flew left to right and so on to avoid meteors.

All I can say is; Practice Practice Practice :)

If you do this on your first go then you truly are a skyshatter overload :)

Commento di 18271

This is most definetly doable without the riding crop. He's easier than Mulverick imho.

Beat skyshatter on 2nd attempt, took 4-5 for me to get Mulverick down.

Commento di Nedio

I find that hiding all the UIs on screen temporarily for the race helps a lot, easier to race on a clean screen with less distraction. If you aren't sure which key does this, go to your key bindings and locate the "Toggle User Interface" key, hope this would improve fellow racers who are still trying to defeat him =)

Commento di 55411

I don't know why people say to not worry about the meteor's as its the explosion is what knocks you off? Pretty sure I've been knocked off by them.

Plus, it's a little BS going on here cause the fire will land like 6-7 yds infront of where the meteor actually landed.

sigh

Commento di 55418

Any druids done this in Epic Flight form yet? I did the other 5 without any difficulties due to the fact that if I got hit I could switch bad the second after and continue following, however I tried twice here, and the quest failed almost right after he set off - so it sorta gave me the impression that you needed to be on a mount in order to do this one, I just don't see how it should be different from the other ones. (due to heavy congested I didn't test any further though, perhaps I just go too far away, however I really guess that was unlikely.)

Commento di jef3189

ATTENTION DRUIDS: Yes, you can complete these quests no problem, with your eyes closed and your feet tied up and your hands behind your back. The whole point is not to get knocked off....well as of 6/12/07 you can pretty much shift out and back in whenever you get knocked out of flight form. So....just a heads up to all druid this quest is like...the easiest rep you will ever get next to picking herbs in flight form for netherdust pollen.

Commento di khreative

Stay ahead of him and off to his left. If you've done it and failed many times to the point where you know his path, it will be all the easier. You can then just fly the path yourself and pan back to make sure you're not too far ahead of him (you'll out of range him and fail). It's an easy completion. If you find yourself getting slightly behind you'll be able to shortcut yourself back in front on one of his sneaky turns.

Commento di euebi

I just did this race and I had a hell of a lot of tries and never really got into the path since I seemed to fall down shortly after I cam into a new area. Therefore I began to search for a video in the web and found this nice little vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq87HikhdNo

For everyone that have trouble with Skyshatter, watch this video and you get a clue of the path. After a couple of tries you will get better and better and will defeat him in the end.

Good luck!

Commento di sueyed

The only real issue with this is his backtracking, forcing me to fly back into a barrage of fireballs I never survive.

Going on attempt number 29 right now, I'm getting pretty close to just giving up the drake altogether.

Edit: Attempt 35 was successful, lucky on the backtracks I guess.

Commento di Baliame

You only need to practice a little bit, then it's easy. I did it without any extras, on a simple 280%.

Commento di 18009

WOOT i just down him on my 5645867498 attempt... no crop no speed boost nothing... just learn the path and pay attention to him at the end... that vid rly helped me.... also zoom out all the way (change this in interface options) and press alt+Z to hide your interface... and swear a lot... that helps... just try not to /y it like i did... shhh...

gl guyz :D

Commento di 22920

i was thinking.. what if you tried doing this filthy drunk?
drunk gives you:
- wider angle camera
- drunken dodge ability from fireballs

I've failed this several times so am going to get tanked, get naked and mount up (that sounds dirty) .. *hic*

Commento di 45422

Also use alt+z to hide interface (makes it easier / less lag to see where he is at all times without interface clutter) and I also changed max viewing distance / spell detail to high because it helped spot the meteors instead of only seeing them when they were too close.. hope this helps.

Commento di GoodAtIt

Did this after my 12th try and dying about 8 times :)
Does the stack with ?

Commento di Feanoro

Be careful about cutting turns too tightly as he might fade just slightly out of sight and wham, failed quest. Other than that, I repeat the ideas of knowing the path ahead of time and trying to fly in front of him.

Best of luck to you.

Edit: The amount of money listed is incorrect; you recieve 24g 60s.

Commento di 41568

Basically the best way to do this is to take the very popular strategy from Mulverick (staying right on top of him) and doing one better to stay above and ahead of Skyshatter.

Granted, the execution of it is tricky as hell, and it took me a couple of hours to perfect, but it's by the far easiest way to do it. If you tag along beside him, you will get shot down a lot of times simply because you don't have that little head start to adjust when he moves, and it's far harder to see where you're going in terms of crystals and other nasty stuff sticking out from the walls around you.

There's been some talk about using a "meteor" tank, which I tried with one of my friends. He had me doing my thing above Skyshatter, attracting all the meteors, while he tagged along behind him completely out of danger. Problem with that is if your meteor tank gets shot down, you're on your own again, as well as the obvious challenge of finding a guy good enough to fly ahead of you in the first place. If you can though, it'll be a load off your mind.

As many others have said, keep trying at this guy, don't get discouraged. Once you have his route down, try flying above and ahead of him, it's damn rewarding when it works, and you very rarely have to worry about his meteors.

It goes without saying that I fully recommend using a Riding Crop. Those are cheap on most servers anyway, and come on, if you've done the Netherwing daylies to Honored, you can damn well afford it by then.

Commento di 11451

this was easy as a pally, aura of crusader, got it on 2nd try :) fun quest.... i <3 racing

Commento di 69490

How big is the range of the explosion of the meteors? I seem to get knocked off while those meteors pass me on about 5+ yards distance.

Commento di 51719

A note for anyone who is determined to dodge the meteors: In a typical example of Blizzard laziness, the explosions do not always line up with where the meteor vanishes, and the area in which they'll knock you off your mount is noticeably bigger than the explosion animation. I find that the meteors never seem to explode above him though, so directly above him seems to be the safest place. Be careful not to get too high though, as doing so counts as being too far behind, and you fail.

Either way, this one is pretty hideously difficult. Have something else to do during the frequent waits for him to crawl to the end of the runway.

Commento di 34364

Am I the only one who doesn't find this quest to be worth the effort? The races leading up to this one were great, but a riding crop is not a great reward for a quest that it's a good idea (not necessary though) to have a riding crop on while doing it to begin with.

Honestly, the 1000 rep is great, but considering rep grinding for this faction is so easy to do in the first place - this quest is hardly worth the effort and meaningless/unnecessary aggravation it creates to achieve the goal.

This is really the only quest in the game, it seems, that it takes a double-digit number of attempts to complete; and doesn't offer a reward that merits its difficulty.

Commento di 74445

What I would recommend for this quest is to download the mod called ImprovedCamera to be able to zoom out a larger distance, and therefore get a better view of where he's flying. Get in front of him and cut his turns. Didn't take me long and without help too (other than the mod ofcourse!).

ImprovedCamera 2
http://downloads.curse.com/details/5098/

Commento di Vorph

Dragonmaw race quests are the most entertaining quests I've completed by far. I have not yet managed to beat Skyshatter but just an advice, when you got aggravated, stop trying to do the quest for a while, because it takes all the fun part and since you get more distracted when you get angry, you wont be able to do quest therefore wasting a huge amount of time. This quest requires a good connection, a good memory, good control over your mouse and keyboard and preferably a riding crop :), nothing else.

By the way Skyshatter sometimes go in circles at the same location for around 30 seconds when doing this quest, towards the end. This is somehow pure luck as far as I know, because several times I experienced that sequence and most of the time I didn't. It's also noticable on youtube videos having different time lengths because of this difference during the flight sequence.

Commento di 75703

Is this quest still available after a person has reached Exalted with Netherwing? I'm very close to reaching Exalted through dailies alone (I didn't try Skyshatter very much after my first few fails), but I'd like to know if I'd be able to try him again even after I reach exalted, just for the sake of seeing if I can succeed.

Commento di 20327

absolutely doable without any and i mean it trinkets, auras, spurs.
I did it in my like 2nd try, i actually asked pala to help me with aura, i turned my UI off (alt+z) and i started, when i finished i wanted to say thx to pala, i turned my UI back and i was he said sorry coz he was knocked down at very beginning :D so have a little faith in yourself, dont think its impossible after few tries and gl :)

Commento di 78845

This is by far not easy. I have been working on this quest for over 2 hours. I have watched videos of others doing it, and I follow the tips, and yet i still get knocked off, or he goes outta range. There has been several times where i am right next to him and he disappears, and the quest is failed. I am going to continue trying. The best thing that has worked so far is staying in front of him like the video, but be careful because he does a juke in a few spots which will cause you to loose him if you are too far ahead.

Commento di 20383

Do we HAVE to complete this quest in order to hit exalted?

Commento di Zalina

i just checked the quest giver and it says it gives 24g and 60 silver

and no psychosam you do not have to complete this quest in order to reach exalted its just a nice boost in rep 1000 rep is nice no matter how you get it :)

Commento di 83986

But what about us poor people sitting on our mounts AFK ect around the area where skyshatter flies, remember you dont have to be doing the Quest to get knocked off your mount and fall to your death by one of his 100 fireballs >.< twice I have died from that before :P

Commento di Oswald

Just a note:

Skyshatter is *very* bugged. He occasionally won't launch meteors where he normally would, he also occasionally does his meteor attack, but some of the meteors won't show (like the graphic is missing) but they can still knock you off your mount., he'll sometimes forget to shout, or give you his little message before the start, he'll random "waddle", by that I mean that he will be going, and all of a sudden he turns backwards, for a split second, and continue in the way he was originally going.

Just a head note, I haven't been able to finish this a few times because of the meteor bug, Ill be doing great, and all of a sudden im knocked off by an invisible meteor.

Commento di 24102

It took me at least 30 tries to do it without any speed buffs. Get to know his route and make sure you fly *in front* of him all of the time. You won't ever get meteors on you if you manage to do so.

Commento di 87662

This took me something like 75 tries (like 72 without riding crop)
Maybe I just got lucky but I can say this quest, as far as i can tell, is pretty impossible without a riding crop.

Tips:
1. On the first time dont try, just kind of try and memorize his flight path.
2. try to stay above and left of him.
3. When he makes his turns try to stay on the inside so you dont get to far behind.
4. Near the beginning in the crystals where he makes his second spin around do NOT follow him in,just stay above,ahead,and to the right.
5. He goes up several mountains so just go around the base instead of following him up the tip.
6. Do not fly to close to him because if you touch him it will dismount you.
7. At the beginning he does a U turn so just go about half way into the U and then turn back around and almost immediatly start flying for the top of the tower to the right of the runway.

I hope these help!

P.S.
If you are a druid you can just reshift if knocked off your mount, shouldn't take but a couple tries for you.

Also this quest is much easier if you are/with a paladin.

Lastely, don't try to put someone on follow and hae them do it for you, it won't work because when he dodges a ball you'll just be put where he was and get knocked off.

Commento di Devonitar

Much easier quest than Mulv's one.

You must remember about some things:

1. Don't fly behind him. Fly some at right or left.
2. He uses a lot more tricks than previous riders. He does some back-forward moves, and very often big dive in air. That can allow him to run off from you.
3. Noggenfogger Elixir helps here A LOT. Drink it until you'll be small, then accept quest. With that buff you can practily ignore meteors.

I did that quest at 3rd attempt, first with Noggenfogger buff. Good luck and have fun =)

Commento di 86971

Took me only 10 tries to beat this guy. I tried to find all sources of information on how to win the race, some good ones I've found:

- AddOn ImprovedCamera: Increases limit of the Max Camera Distance slider in Interface Options to the very maximum possible (from 30 to 50).

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/5098/

- Youtube videos: Learning his path makes things much easier, watch it over and over:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnAsBOEt7BY

- Turn off your UI: Press alt+Z to turn off your interface, so everything on the screen disappears and you can see Skyshatter easier when he gets distance.

- Raid Mark him: Invite some guildmate or random guy to a party, so you can add a mark icon to his head. Personally I used the blue square.

- Buy a Riding Crop: If you're farming for your netherdrake, you surely have 60-100g to spend on a riding crop. It sucks that after you win this chain of quests you get a riding crop as a reward, but to beat mulverick and captain skyshatter you MUST have this, otherwise it gets close to impossible.

With the tips above, you can easily solo this guy. If you have friends, call them to be hit by his bolts instead of you, and a pally to give you crusader aura.

Hope you all can do it faster than I did, good luck!

Commento di 70115

For me personally, I found this is too easy. Out of the 6, the 5th guy was the hardest because I have to stay out of range at the same time maintain my speed. For this guy, don't fly high over him or under him, fly either left or right to him. Without Crusader or a Riding Crop, I maintained to stay next to him the whole time even when he made u-turns. Another tip, don't fly too close. He discharges a little firestorm and it can be easily avoided. For those meteors, it hits like 5% of the time if you fly zig zag.

3 attempts at Skyshatter. 5 attempts Mulverick. 1 attempt the rest. It took me like an hour and 20 mins to finish the whole chain.

Commento di 68342

Edit: The amount of money listed is incorrect; you recieve 24g 60s.

That's what you receive with the experience to gold conversion, it is not the actual gold reward for the quest.

Commento di tehsYs

I dont know what are you doing guys, this is ez-mod, way more easier then Mulverick, did on the 1st try with riding crop.

Commento di Vacc

Very easy race, much easier than the previous ones. The metoers are a none issue if you just stay high and wide and cut corners. 1 shotted this whislt Mulv took three goes.

Commento di 16380

I would like to make some stuff clean if it is not yet:
1: Skyshatter do have an armored nether drake, but only 280% speed incrase, so he is not faster than you.
2:You do not need to be a pally or to have a riding crop, just did it with my hunter.
3:The best way to win this race is to stay in Front of him, as he drops the meteors behind himself, that way you wont get hurt. Still youll have to learn the path he flys, so it will take several trys, but this is the best way to show him who is the bos:)

I recomend everyone to do this quest nacked, so you would not loose any duration, as he likes to knock you of meanly, I allways died, fell down from the island.

Hope it helps

Commento di 96968

IIRC the time for the race is around the same length of time as the song "Danger Zone", part of the Top Gun OST. Fun to listen to while flying around.

Commento di 110002

"Edit: The amount of money listed is incorrect; you recieve 24g 60s."

13g 20s + 11g 40s from XP at 70= 24g 60s

Commento di dajbre

Have tryed it 167 times no luck! plz tell me what to do really im lock 70 lvl with riding crop!

Commento di 59797

I've done this quest twice, one for each of my lvl 70s with epic flying mounts. The first time I didn't use any riding speed enhancements. The 2nd time I remembered to keep my carrot on the stick for it. Yes it was a bitch to do, both times.

I like to think of this quest as a test of skill. I know quite a few people who have this quest but have never completed it, and still think they are "pro" at the game. The fact is, is that this quest is a solo quest that blizzard put in the game. Anyone who considers themselves pro shouldn't say a solo quest is too hard for them.

Commento di tombo800

I have attempted this quest too many times to count, it really needs to be nurfed, Skyshatter just shoots way too many meteors, I've tried several different strategies to avoid them, but it is just too hard, and so not worth the effort.

Commento di 98060

Been doing this for four hours now without much luck. Been trying all kinds of strategies, flying in front of him, behind him, above him and under him, but sometimes I manage to get either hit by meteors or he just boosts away from me (even when I'm wearing pretty much every speed enhanching item / enchant in game). The previous opponents were very easy, got them all on one try. This truly is the hardest quest I've ever done in WoW, ever.

**Edit**
Completed it today *yay*. Used that addon (ImprovedCamera2, http://downloads.curse.com/details/5098/download/42290/ ) and also Noggenfogger to make me small. Wasn't that hard then, just sticked slightly behind and above him all time and followed him around. Had no paladin with me, but all other speed increasing elements I could find.

Commento di 104367

One thing that helped me was to group with some random guy and raid mark him to easily see him quickly.

Hope this helps

Commento di 54671

loads easier then the last race

beat it on the second try

i just hovered above behind him, and strafed away from the meteors, easy peasy

Commento di 35072

I found Skyshatter to be about as hard as Mulv. Shorter path, less tricky, but avoiding the meteors seemed more random. A couple pointers:

1) As others have said, you need to stay closer to Skyshatter than the other riders. Dunno why, but that's how it is. So rather than tracking the flight from above like I did with Mulv, I tried to stay roughly side-by-side with Skyshatter, with him being a bit ahead because I hadn't memorized his route. Only a few of the meteors were problematic from this angle, I sporadically hit "jump" to avoid them.

2) He moves about as fast as you do with a riding crop, so the way to keep up with him while still having room to manuever is to be able to cut corners when he turns. It helps to know the route for this, but it's not necessary.

3) The hardest part, I believe, is about 2/3 of the way through when Mulv climbs up the highest mountain in the middle of the isle. I had previously tended to use "jump" to ascend rather than actually pointing up or down, and so my trying to follow him by doing so meant that I couldn't jump to shake the meteors.. and so I got hit by one and died. Next try I actually angled up and still used jump, but jump isn't as effective for shaky movements when you're rising. Still, it helped and that was the attempt I beat him.

Commento di Rygaux

Best way to do this is to fly in circles behind him. Not huge circles, but click both mouse buttons and just move in circles behind him. Avoid moving in straight lines at all times. (only if you seem to fall behind due to circles, and if thats the case, your circles are a little too large) I maybe got 4 spells casted the whole time. I've given the advice out on the Lothar server and at least 10 people got it on first or second shot.

Commento di 117643

Got him after like 8 tries. Without riding crop or any speed increase, the best trick is to learn the whole route and ALWAYS be ahead of him, aside of him, under och over. Never fall behind him, not by a mere inch.

Commento di Althalus0

An interesting fact: this race is exactly as long as the song "Danger Zone" from the movie Top Gun.

Commento di 105660

finally beat him. not because i memorized his flight path. it's just damn simple: change viewing distance to max. This does everything. I beat him with the first try with max distance.

he does 360 turning drill twice. The first one is actually pretty long and with tons of fire balls, about 10-20 seconds. with max distance, all you need to do is stay on top of him.

good luck.

Commento di Eversion

Completed Mulverick's race at the 7th try.
Completed Skyshatter's race at the first try, it's easy as cake. Just stay slightly above and before him.

Commento di thycondrius

riding crop is very helpful for done this quest. he is an investment for ur netherdrake ^^

Commento di 41331

Think i was extremely lucky, but i read all tactics in here first then had a go and complete first time, thanks

Commento di 97434

For people who come here, read these comments, and are worried that they're going to have to memorize the whole race, let me reassure you that it's entirely possible to do this one "normally". I just did it with normal epic mount + riding crop and it only took a few tries. Here's some hints that help:

1.) Make up distance on his long wide turns.
2.) If you're fairly close to him avoiding the fireballs is easy. In fact, the times I failed were all because he got too far away. I was never dismounted. Strafe left, strafe right, jump are all you really need.
3.) The hardest part of the race by far (if you don't have it memorized, which I didn't) is staying close when he does his little "stop, turn, go in some other direction" moves. It's very easy to lose track of him. Keep him targetted. He looks very similar to the other riders around the island.

Enjoy your new trinket! (which you most likely don't need)

Commento di 91498

He is truly annoying!!! I got exalted with netherwing about a month ago and i still cant finish this quest. I must be not that kind of "speedy gonzales" dude o_O Always try it like an hour every day until now. I try to stay close to him, dodge the meteor, but somehow, when it goes to "straight", he always left me behind and got failed on that quest. And yea, Crop really helps a lot...
Well, gonna try it again 2day..Wish Me Luck ^_^

Commento di Rednights

Look at the youtube video posted here. It helps. For the first half just stay in front. Second, I just winged it and stayed as close as possible.

The second half is easy .... assuming you have a solid connection.

Commento di 4679

Unfortunately, a lot of the comments and tactics listed here dont make sense until you can or have beaten Skyshatter. However, here's a play by play of how I beat him without a riding crop, or wingman:

Takeoff: Skyshatter goes left and swings around in a loop back towards the runway. Fly forward and drift to the right, about half the distance he does. When he finishes the corner, turn aorund and lead him back across the runway.

First Turn: As you pass the tower, Skyshatter will catch up to you. Drift above him and to his left and follow him with the camera (side strafing you move just as fast, that's how I watched him and kept up). When he turns left into the first corner, turn left too and you're back out in front.

First Straightaway: Skyshatter will start high and drop low. Stay centered at a medium altitude and you wont lose too much ground. At the southeast corner of the island he will swing north. At that point, he will be caught up again, so again drift above him and to his left, and turn when he does to stay out in front.

The Mountains, Third and Fourth Turns: There are two large hills he passes, the first one, stay on his inside and hug the hill to keep your lead, you'll pass over the second hill at about the same time as Skyshatter. Keep on his left and above him through two quick turns, and move to his right and above him once you're headed south.

Turn Five, and the Gulch: On the fifth turn, if you're close to falling behind, go over the cliff edge and cut the corner to get out ahead. If you're not definitavely ahead of Skyshatter through the Gulch, you'll probably be hit by an invisible meteor and be dismounted.

The Loop: Coming out of the Gulch and into a wide loop over the Netherwing base, Skyshatter tends to get buggy and backtrack often, keep an eye out and make sure you dont get too far ahead. He's turning north so the inside is on his right, stay on it and above him, but dont cut too far inside or you'll get too far ahead.

Flayer Plateau: Next he'll go up and over the Plateau in the middle of the island. Staying above him is more important than ahead of him, just dont fall too far behind that you lose. You can catch up in the next leg. He also has a tendency to backtrack a lot in this area, both now and on the way back.

The Turnaround: Coming off the Plateau he'll turn north and do a couple s-turns and swing back around south towards the plateau. Honestly, every time I ran it I lost track of his positioning in this area, but I stayed above and behind him, and when I was sure he was headed south again I cut out in front to retake the lead.

Home Stretch: He'll cross the Plateau again and drop down towards the north end of the runway. Again, I tended to lose him here, and at least twice I panicked and got too close, only to be shot down here. Just try not to fall behind, and stay above him. If you are going to pick a side, stay to his left I think. He'll swing out north of the runway and then cut in. If you're south of him and get shot down, you should complete the quest before you fail it as long as you land near the runway.

Did run naked, took me many tries, but that's the path that got me there. Good luck to those trying it.

Commento di gaashura

A Parachute cloak is HIGHLY recommended for these quests, the engineering one is perfect since it only has 30 seconds cooldown, and will save your butt, but most likely your gold.

the only thing you need to do, is wear your cloak, and move the icon to a hotkey, take will help you react faster when you are falling, rather than clicking on the icon in your inventory.

-Gaash

Commento di 82616

i would suggest using noggenfogger to become small so the fireballs will have a smaller chance to hit you and also racing naked saves u lots of repair bills because u WILL DIE alot

Commento di 25329

copying thott here, but alot of people over there belive that using a noggenfogger (the one that shrincks you) will eaze up on the meteor dodging part. only tried 2 times yet, without noggefogger, but for no it is alot of fun, and im not far from beating the dirty orc. :)

Commento di Harpst3r

DO A BARREL ROLL!

Commento di 136518

Here's another little tip, use noggerfogger elixir to make yourself smaller, it really does a big difference, atleast to me because i got really annoyed of how big the damn orcs are on netherdrakes and with noggenfogger & alt+z (interface removal) it's alot smoother ^^

Ah..i see some1 already mentioned noggenfogger.. my bad :P

Commento di 53766

The worst part about this quest is that he takes about a minute (literally) to actually start. What is the purpose of this?

Commento di 69860

I've finally managed to complete this quest, after sixty or seventy tries (I lost count).

In the end, my winning strategy was to memorise the entire route and try to stay above and in front of him. While this strategy helps to avoid the fireballs, it also makes things tricky because sometimes he momentarily backs up on himself, thus making you fly out of range (failing the quest). The only solution here is to, again, memorise his flight pattern and pause briefly when you anticipate this move.

After you reach the flayer plateau his flight pattern becomes even more erratic and unpredictable. I managed to beat this stage by flying quite far above him (but not far enough to get out of range) so that the fireballs would spawn under me instead of right in my face.

A very frustrating quest.

Commento di v3rsus

I didn't want to buy a speed trinket for this since the reward was identical to riding crop.Kept trying, failing over 20 times, at 280% but either i would lose him trying to avoid the meteors or getting hit by the meteors while trying to stick to him.Eventually i got fed up with failing, bought a raiding crop and made it with 1st try.That trinket made a huge difference

Commento di 130447

This quest was extremely easy after I realized what you have to do. First thing is that I had the riding crop on, all the rest of my gear in my bags to save the durability loss. This only took me one try, I zoomed the camera out as far as I could, alt-z to remove my bars, used my "w" key for forward and used my mouse right click to control all the movements. Basically once you're following him all you do is weave up and down every second continuously through his flight and the meteors will never hit you and keep on him during his many quick turnarounds. Hope this helps!

Commento di Cromulon

Took me like.. 10-15 tries.

Hardest quest I've ever done. 90% of my tries I got no further than the first 20 seconds, last time I tried I thought "Meh I'm gonna lose anyway" So I was really reckless and just flew constantly in front of him with my camera facing him and my UI off. Always turn your UI off, even if its a custom minimal one like mine.

Luckily I completed this quest, tomorrow I will have my drake, 18500/21000 at the moment :)

I think I will use my Riding Crop over this, Its served me well.

Commento di Bloedhoer

It took me a couple of times.
The key to my success was turning the view to first person.
You will not be distracted by the fireballs that are already passed you and you will have a better view on what is really coming your way. I am also convinced that you will see more depth perspective between you and the fire casts.
It was a piece of cake, staying behind him and staving/jumping besides some of the meteors/fire.

No crop.
No learning track.
Lazy me

Commento di 141846

Well the end is pure #$%^, he spins like an idiot.

Commento di Atahan

did someone try to do it with %60 mount ??

Commento di 145339

This quest isn't hard when compared to Mulverick. Mulv has his attacks homing on you and this guy doesn't. He throws a ton of meteors but they move straight (doesn't home in on you) and it is easy to avoid them while going straight on with him.

I did it on my 2nd try and had no prior experience nor did I watch any videos. Granted I wiped 10x on Mulv and that taught me a lot.

Cut corners (its easy to judge where he is turning as he ain't as tricky as Mulv) and dodge the meteors simply by strafing and/or moving up and down a little. I did it with a riding corp and no pally aura. (TBH, Mulv felt like a faster flier to me cause I had to move a lot to dodge and keep a far range)

The whole flight is like that except for 1 tricky point. At around the area where Barash the Den Mother roams, he will make 4 U-turns back and forth in quick succession, making something like a small tight "O". He will continually release meteors so you'd be facing PLENTY of them. At this point, stay focused and keep dodging, you don't have to follow him as his sharp U-turns mean you won't be out of range and fail the quest. After about 4 tight elongated circles he will move forward and you should quickly follow him.

At this point just keep doing what you have been and you win.

Mulv's a lot worse, imo.

(Sidenote: I heard from a druid that they could no re-enter flight form when in combat which happens due to those irritating flying pats, so druids go naked as well to save gold)

Commento di 120688

Did this quest without a paladin, or riding crop. I would say its fairly easy (Completed it on my fifth try).

Ofc its alittel bit safer to use riding crop but when the price is the same why buy it?

Just ride infront of him and alittel bit to the right/left and you will do fine!.

GL

Commento di 65156

For me the easiest way was to vaguely memorize the pathway of the race and stay ahead of him.

The riding crop is a MUST for this race.

Commento di Rygaux

Alt-Z the screen, use max distance for camera view, and fly behind him in tight circles and cut corners whenever possible. The tight circles cause him to NOT throw ANY fireballs at you. Druids that can shapeshift have it fairly easy. If anything, get someone to fly in front of you in circles to absorb the fireballs that may somehow come. I have helped a ton of people on Lothar this way.

Commento di 100453

i stered with my mouse and when the meteores came i just shaked with the mouse

Commento di 156571

it seems that they nerfed the range on him, i was able to be just as far as on the other races. did it on my first try.

Commento di Dhazy

I beat all of the other races in one try. I lost count on how many times I attempted this particular one.

To beat him, I personally did not use the alt+z interface thing that everyone suggests. It may help others more, but it looked very strange to me. Plus, I got to target Skyshatter and view this icon pops up under his name, alerting when he's about to throw crap at you.

It also helps to see a youtube video of the race and memorize the path so you don't lose track of him when you get in front.

Good luck!

Commento di 56050

Guys, can I use riding crop and Skybreaker Whip at the same time?
And what rep need I to obtain the quest? Thanks

Commento di 167549

Mmmmk, I just want to start out by saying this quest just plain sucks. I started out by goin to all the posts and guides, but they failed to mention some stuff.

Requirements:

Epic flyer (obvious)
not much lag
crapload of luck

and thats about it :)

When you first start the race Skyshatter runs off the runway and does a U turn and flies back over the runway at low altitude, i found the best thing to do was to wait at the center point of his U-turn and wait for him to start turning back. When he is getting to the point wer he will be flying back towards the runway you want to be flying towards the rear of the airstrip.

Skyshatter then flies towards one of the mine entrances and then heads to the other end of the island. I found what worked for me was to fly to one of the spires of rock nearby, which kept me on the inside of his loop, and then intercept his flight to then other side of the island. The key to this part is to stay ahead of him until you get to a cliff with a large crystal jutting out of it. If you are losing space between you and skyshatter, this is a good spot to regain some distance ( don't get to far ahead!)

Next skyshatter heads to the very tall mountain thingy and flies up it at a very steep angle. If you can make it this far the rest is pure luck ! After skyshatter reaches the top he goes on a horizontal curve in the general direction of the dock then goes back to the ravines that are near were you just came from. Remember to stay in the curve and stay in front of him to avoid meteors.

Skyshatter snakes through the ravines until he reaches the town. Next he will gain altitude and go around the really big rock thing. After he rounds this he heads towards the ravagers, gaining altitude very fast. This is probably the hardest part. Once he reaches the highest point of his flight, he boomerangs back and forth on the way down. Once he reaches the landing pad, don't get to comfortable, he tends to freak out and launch meteors everywhere.

This race takes a lot of luck, he can double back at anytime, forcing you to fail.

If you completed this, grats! This took me about 5 hours to do, with only an epic flyer. I found it helpful to mark skyshatter with a raid target icon. ( need a group for this). Noggen Foggers also helped, but wer not required. Remeber to take breaks and stay ahead of him.

Hope this helps

Commento di 60273

63 tries. Couldn't get him.

Got a Paladin, and I seriously one-shotted him.

I sincerely recommend doing this with a Paladin, it makes it unbelievably easier. 63 tries without < 1 try with imo.

Commento di 54672

Did it on first try. Dunno why everybody has so much trouble with him (maybe i really am the top orc :P) , the orc wing commander was harder.

Commento di 172167

OK guys i got a trick that worked on mulv and this dude too..... what u have to do is spend some time learning their route(not memorize just learn it) the real trick is to stay in front of him and about 10 yards above him. the projectiles have no chance at hitting u like that the only prob is that he is faster than u and he will bypass u if u dont cut corners. when he does that quick turn around just stay there for 2 sec and then keep moving

HOPE that helps takes some time but better than moving left and right hoping they dont hit u.

Commento di Finko

I actually failed this quest by accepting it and walking to the end of the runway while waiting for him.

Yeah...annoying.

Commento di 176989

Dont try this Stoned. I threw up !!!

Commento di 177522

gold hint : fly naked .... if u may fall u don't have to pay for repair =)

Commento di 170839

hate this quest so much. have yet to complete it. its so god damn annoying.

Commento di 179700

I know it only helps engineers but Parachute Cloak is super duper handy for this and all other races.

Commento di 173862

As a Druid with epic flight form I found this very easy haha he knocked me out of fly form a couple times I just went back in as soon as he knocked me out and caught up to him. I also used the Trinket of Swift flight or w/e it's +10% to druids in flight form.

Commento di 138585

Was finally able to finish it after 2/2.5 hours. Without pala and riding crop at that! Was definitly doable. I didnt use the youtube video's but rather did it with trial and error, i found my own shortcuts that way. Good luck everyone!

Commento di 154572

I beat this one on my first try. Was cake compared to Mulverick, for me.

Try to cut corners as much as possible.
Drink a Noggenfogger Elixir as well! (To get the reduced size buff)
It looked like I was able to almost fly through the comets he was throwing out and I was not hit at all.

He does a lot of back and forth flying above the Flayer camp so don't fly too far ahead.
The elixir really would come in handy here.

Commento di 178546

I did this on my second try, not really hard at all. I studied a youtube video first, watched it about 10 times, to learn his route, and managed to complete it on my second attempt. No riding crop or pally aura used.

The key to this race is to stay as far ahead of him as possible, without going out of range and failing. If you can do that, then its the easiest race out of them all, except for the last 1/4 of the race where begins to catch up, by going round in circles to make you stop.

Commento di 152252

The trick is to stay ahead of him actually and on his sides far on his sides staying on his path staying ahead of the 'game' so to speak, you will never be hit with this tactic and if you learn his path it is easy to do. Good Luck Top Orc!

Commento di Bobblehead

Using Noggenfogger elixir to make yourself smaller helps a ton with avoiding the meteors.

Commento di slivki

Too many comments to see if this has been said before... I'll just add what I learned after several nights of attempts:

Everyone says to stay ahead of him which works, but the degree of difficulty there is insane, at least for me. While other people were running Skyshatter, I used about 5-6 runs to practice this tactic and I'm just not used to working the camera like this.
By far what helped the most was getting the Mithril Spurs. On my first few attempts, I just couldn't keep up, even cutting him off at the turns I was falling too far behind. Once I had the Spurs equipped, I didn't have this problem. It's not that he was too fast, it's that I needed some breathing room while staying away from him.
Like most others, I stayed above and to his left. My biggest problem was staying TOO FAR above and to his left. I ran into crystals a few times, stopped and was knocked off almost immediately.

There are two difficult parts at the end of the run where you're particularly vulnerable:

When he ascends past the flayer peak, which causes you to slow down and lose forward momentum if you use the up arrow - DON'T! Just change your camera angle and fly upwards.
Almost immediately afterward he goes into what I'll describe as a "freak out". Spinning in circles, not really making any forward progress, shooting fireballs everywhere. My strategy here was to just circle above him waiting for this crazyness to end.

It's important to set your expectations here. He's MUCH harder than the others, all of which I beat on the first attempt after zooming in to FPS and ALT-Z'ing away my UI.

Commento di 195180

Must have took me around 70 tries until I finally beat him. I didnt use noggenfogger or anything to help, i didnt even have a riding crop. The KEY to beating him is you MUST always stay infront of him far enough away so you can avoid his bullshat meteors and for him not to despawn. When he shoots them at you press your space bar to rise and go back down once you dodge them.

You NEED to stay infront of him if you want to beat this guy, theres no other way.

Commento di Lorielle

This quest is very easy if you remember that the fireballs aren't dangerous until they explode. I flew above him the entire time, and never had a problem. I completed this on my second try; the first time I lost him towards the end.

My advice to those doing it is to make sure and stay pretty high above him, and try to stay either far to his left or right. The fireballs are very easy to dodge, and don't allow him to fake you out. Normally I would stop when I saw him turn around and immidiately hit my auto run again so I didn't lose him. Don't even bother to turn around when he does that, he will turn back around. Make sure and hide interface, it will make this whole race much easier. ( Ctrl+Alt-z ) Also make sure to target him. The green letters above his name help you in case you get confused.

P.s: I also had a riding crop since I had a lot of problems with the previous race. It really does help with both, especially the last one. You can keep up with him easily. ( It sucks that you get a crop at the end of this quest. ) I also used Noggenfogger just to make myself smaller, which helped quite a bit. I was never dismounted because of the fireballs.

Good luck everyone!

Commento di 202259

The riding crop is definately not necessary for this quest - half my fails have been being hit by his bombs and the other half have been leaving him behind unintentionally. Learn his route, cut him off at the corners and stay ahead of him most of the time. However, you kinda have to learn when to let him overtake you and just hang back a bit - give him the lead on the really long straightaways, fly almost parallel maybe ten feet away and a bit behind, and take it back over his next spin or sweeping curve, or else you're gonna eat a point-blank fireball, which sucks. Also, the addon that lets you move your camera back even further is awesome here.
Good luck!

Commento di 151106

this quest suck hard

Commento di 204415

This must have changed recently...

If you fly too close, he does a "flare" which will knock you out of the sky.
Stay to the inside of him (island side). You'll be able to keep up that way.
Luck is a big part - you will get knocked out of the sky by meteors you can't see.
He is buggy - expect to hear the quest failure "bong" when everything is running smoothly.
Be careful getting ahead of him - he can now throw meteors out front.

Commento di 204415

I finally got him. Stay high and to his left as much as you can.

There will be a few times you need to duck and swerve to the right, but I used alt-z to hide my UI, scrolled my camera in to go first person and *lots* of perseverance. Make sure you start each run with full health - a lot of times the landing dropped me down to 10% (or less) health.

Commento di psxchelly

Maybe someone who has completed this recently can comment:

I think they nerfed how far you can be away from Skyshatter, because the minute he gets too far away you fail quest. I have failed this quest numerous times because he gets too far ahead of me. Dodging the bombs is a cakewalk, but I cant seem to stay close enough... i think i am staying within about 10-20 yards.

Any suggestions are appreciated, as the comments above don't seem to work anymore.

you cant even walk to far a head of him on the runway before the race starts or you get "Failed"

Commento di 171812

What is the point of flying naked? Is there supposed to be some advantage you get?

Commento di 215887

There's no real way to dodge his meteors since there are no audio cues because they are completely silent so leading him from above is the best bet. However even that is proving difficult since he'll suddenly do his 180 degree "Im quitting the race, therefore I win" move or theres the occasional happen stance where one of his silent meteors randomly catches me from nowhere even when taking precautions to keep my distance. Im on attempt 1,203,423.

Commento di 221009

Finally beat this today. The video posted euebi is awesome, use it to learn the path. And pay attention to the cut-backs he does.

I then tried to stay ahead of him as much as I could, the fireballs cannot hit you if you are far enough ahead. But be careful, if you're ahead enough and he does a cut-back, you lose.

Commento di 207529

Oh, man! That was INTENSE! I got him after three tries -- failing the first two within five seconds simply because I didn't understand just HOW CLOSELY I had to follow him. I was accustomed to floating a good distance away from the previous racers. Once I got a feel for his quirks, Skyshatter seemed like a total pushover. Mulv was definitely tougher.... But -- whoa! These races are the most fun I've ever had in WOW!

Not sure how to describe my tactics.... I bobbed and strafed, and kept as close to Skyshatter as I dared -- which was, I think, about forty yards away, behind and to the left side of him. Sometimes I flew above and behind him, and sometimes directly above his head. It was certainly a thrilling ride, but I did not experience the difficulty and frustration I expected from my research. What a rush!

Commento di Allara

After many attempts at this, I finally realized the trick that helped me succeed. This may or may not help you.

For me, this race worked best if I stayed behind him, slightly under or to the side. The problem I kept having (hunter with riding crop, no paladin helping) is that I actually went too fast for him during several portions of the race. This invariably led to me getting hit and dismounted. (It seems if you pause in the flames in the air, you'll get dismounted, whereas if you blast through them at full speed you almost never do.)

The trick that finally did it for me was this: keep going forward full blast at all times, but to keep from getting in front of him, strafe left and right any time you need to slow down. I never paused at all, just used strafing to slow down during tight turns and especially when he started doing the back-and-forth deal a few times.

Commento di 61232

YouTube Video of Skyshatter

I personally would not trust myself to fly in front of him like this guy does; I tend to get too far ahead. But, this method is a popular one, and at the very least, the video is helpful to learn his route and several other techniques for defeating him.

Commento di Kiira

I got this at my first try, without a riding crop. It was much easier than I thought.
As Mirel said earlier, trust your instincts, just try and cut the corners you see he's about to make. Stay as close to him as you can, and just duck and rise whenever you see a hail of meteors coming. The way the projectiles are launched are based on where you are going to be in a few seconds, so if you change directions fast, the meteors will fly far off the direction you were going when they were launched.

Commento di 233528

I just finished beating this dude after like 20 tries. I finally looked for some advice on this forum, and I have to say that I agree with most when they say fly above him. However, I suggest flying above and BEHIND him as opposed to above and AHEAD of him, because flying slightly behind him (and to the side of him) gives you the advantage of seeing when he's going to throw meteorites. Flying above him also allows you to see the Dragonmaw Skyguards in advance, so you can dodge them accordingly. Also, be careful because he sometimes stops in midair, and he also makes 360 turns, which makes it easy to fall behind and fail the quest. He makes a 360 turn approximately twice, one of these instances being shortly after you follow him back to the camp the first time around. Also, fly naked, because your repair bill will be high if you don't. Good luck!

P.S.:

Did I forget to mention that you should maneuver up and down to avoid the meteorites in addition to flying ABOVE and BEHIND him.

Commento di 127372

Has anyone done this in Druid swift flight form since our trinket nerf in the last patch

Commento di roguezftw

Yes, I just completed it on my 4th try with swift flight form. :D The trick is as said before to stay ahead of him.

Commento di Ebaya

i.. hate.. this.. quest..
god its hard :(
i guess its some kind of fun...
but anyways after using 2 hours NON STOP failing on it
i decided the only way to win is listening to In Flames it worked lol.
winning i saw something pretty kewl :o a group was w8ting on the mountain waiting for that dragon to fly by so they could get their helm.. well.. skyshatter didnt think that was smart so he threw a few fireballs in their face and BAM repairs for them lol
this quest WILL drive u crazy.. and u dont need a mount speed increasement item.. it may make it easier i dont know, but its not needed

Commento di 113359

If you're fed up trying to memorize each little turn and trying to stay "above and ahead" of him, and panning your camera around all insane-like, try my method. This method is not a "Quick and Easy Scheme" as far as I'm concerned there is none, you will be doing this multiple times as sometimes he doesnt get hit by meteors and will make too far of a gap on you and disappear... don't get discouraged just fly back and start over.

What I do is:
1. Zoom my camera ALL THE WAY IN, FIRST PERSON.
2. Alt+Z of course, remove the clutter from your screen.
3. a)Thumb on Space bar, that is your "Up"
b)Index Finger on E, that is your "Right"
c)Middle Finger on Z, that is your "Down"
d)Ring Finger on Q, that is your "Left"
4. "Thrust" by holding down both mouse buttons, do not use the W key
5. Follow him, stay slightly behind and stay LOW, Z is your friend here... the biggest hurdle here is getting your START timed properly after that is not so bad. You should always be pointing yourself right at him so your camera should always be following him, you want to see his dragon's belly as much as you can. Don't dare blink, keep your eyes on him at all times and just mimic his movements sticking underneath... if he pauses and you pass him or will collide with him, let off the gas for a split second and then right back on.. you need to always be moving forward to keep up.

If you stay close, but slightly behind and always always stay low, underneath him, he will act as an umbrella for you and eat a lot of meteors both shielding you and slowing him down so you can keep a close pace.
When dodging meteors you should be almost exclusively using Space and Z, (UP and DOWN), use your strafe when absolutely necessary but keep in mind you will lose some ground and once he gets a good distance on you you will either get pelted by meteors or he will disappear on you and you fail.
**There are a few BRIEF spots where he will fly very low himself and you will have to scoot above him for a few seconds, but he will jump back up very soon, always remember to fly low... just like a fighter ace!

Commento di raymix

peace of cake,, once u manage the system it works

disable your UI, zoom in. Keep flying exactly over him about 100+yd, not to high and keep it like that.
only strafe using your A or D buttons and adjust exact distance from him using W to go down or SPACE to go up. Went all the way to finish, the way the projectile system is made, it is impossible to collide with you, so you only need to worry of keeping tracking him like an aimbot

good luck

Commento di AxelF

This Quest is now a achivement "Skyshattered"

Commento di udiya

For all those (like me) that do not quite get the picture from youtube movies, this helped me a lot.
Its a picture with the flight path made by someone and posted on thottbot. http://i.thottbot.com/ss/o/63136.jpg

You need three things to complete this: patience, luck and chocolate.
Good luck.

edit - the picture does not exist anymore on thottbot but there should be easier than 4 years ago :)

Commento di 188679

In my opinion, not worth it.
Try it a few times, but i spent more then a few hours on this quest, and still no.
I could of gotten more rep doing the dailys instead.

Commento di greenskye

Tried this quest about 25 times, mostly you fail due to stupid mistakes (get too far ahead; he doubles back and you don't see it) Was very frustrated. Finally saw a pally wander by so asked him if he could help. Still took about another 4 tries, so that the pally could learn where I was headed. Finally got it, was so happy.

Bottom line: Try a few times w/out speed increases (if you don't have any). But don't bash your head trying to do it. Not only do you need to perform flawlessly, you have to be extremely lucky to finish.

Find a pally, or get a speed increase of some sort. It'll save you loads of time and frustration.

Commento di Mjolnir

This has to be one of the toughest quests in WoW. Finally completed this today after three or four days, at least a dozen or more runs per day. All I can say is, practice makes perfect. Once you learn his route, it comes down to looking over your shoulder, making sure you pause if he does so you don't get too far, and strafing. A lot.

(Personally I found the stumbling blocks to be a) when he gets hit with one of his own meteors and stops for a sec and b) near the end, when he strafes back and forth a lot over the hill with all the flayers. Just some things to keep in mind.)

Good luck to all the Netherwing hopefuls, this is a doozy but it feels great when you beat him. =)

Commento di 49230

If you are a tailor, you can use your flying carpet and just follow him, his meteor won't dismount you or anything.

Commento di Auroron

This race is much harder than mulverick. Mainly because his meteors are much harder to dodge, and the safe range you must be within is so short.

I did this on level 80, no riding crop, no paladin buff. Only me and my mount. Hard, but doable.

DodWhat you absolutely need to know is his flight path. He will out fly you if you stay behind him, so it's crucial that you stay in front of him. He makes several paths that you can cut corners on and always stay ahead of him. At the very start, he makes a U turn. Simply wait for him to turn back, and fly in front of him. When he flies over the tower, he makes a rather large turn which you can cut to gain a lead over him.
After the tower, you should be in front of him. A large stretch along the edge of the island. you should be in front of him always, since he sometimes hit himself with his own meteors. Be careful not to fly too far ahead, so always take a look back to see if he's there.

Near the end (When he goes over the mountain, after visiting the landing strip), you may loose lead. Here he sometimes bugs and goes back and forth spamming meteors. Simply wait for him to get to his senses again. This may get you a lead. From there on it's a small stretch of meteor dodging before you make it!

Took me three days of practise before I got it. If you struggle with it, it's no big deal. It's only 1000 rep. Meaning 4 netherwing eggs are gives the same amount as this quest. But the whole chain itself gives much more.

Dodging meteors are hard and unpredictable. I found strafing useful, but the unpredictable nature of the meteors makes it much harder. Good luck!

Commento di 286091

Forget all this complication. I completed this quest line successfully in 2 days with a touchpad, all graphics options set to low on a 9" screen and on 3g broadband. If I can do this inmy situation then anyone else can... all the advice you need is to use noggenfogger elixir. This can be bought in Tanaris from the same guy who you completed the quest with back then. Even for skyshatter, i'm a rogue so all I had was a 280% mount and I managed to win even though i stayed behind him all the time. Only managed to win because of the elixir and how small it makes you.

Commento di 273341

theres a bug right now that doesnt allow any of the racers to knock you off a magic carpet, due to this i one shot every one of the races

Commento di Erethzium

WARNING! If you get too far ahead of him ON THE GROUND before he takes off, or while he's landing after the race, it fails you!

Also, yes, WATCH OUT FOR WHEN HE HITS HIMSELF! He'll stop completely in midair for about a second, and can cause you to fail if you're not paying attention.

And having an addon that allows you to draw routes in the minimap helps, too.

NoggenFogger elixir helps as well, seeing as it can give you a buff that makes you tiny, making you a LOT harder to hit with meteorites. Be sure to buy at least two stacks of it though, because I went through fifteen, yes, 15 of them to get a shrink buff.

Commento di Gosgosgosu

Currently in 3.03 this quest is almost impossible to complete due to Riding crops not working above lvl 70. And since Skyshatter has a 310% speed mount It's almost impossible to even keep up for classes who don't have a speed bonus talented in :(

Though Blizzard says that they will be implimenting something to replace the Riding Crop for lvl 71+ they haven't said what or when it will be. So just gotta be hopeful it comes out soon...

Commento di KillerLoop

Instead of using elixir, i think nowdays you can use small feast and baby spices

Commento di 267858

As a lvl 80 Blood spec DK I finished this quest with no speed enhancing trinks or talents. It is definitely do-able, however it does take knowing his entire path and a healthy dose of luck. After about 50 runs I finally made it to the end only to be knocked off last second, 10 tries later I finished it.

All of the suggestions on this site are good in their own way:

Use Nogginfogger elixir
Stay above/behind/beside/under him (pick your location, it depends on the player as to what works best)
Watch the youtube videos
Practice, practice practice
Finally, don't give up

There are others in the older comments, just try a few things and see what works best for you and you can do it.

Commento di Validity

I would like to point out that while on vehicles, such as a flying carpet, the fire bombs do nothing more to you than lower your FPS.

This enables focusing purely on Skyshatter. Hope this helps.

Commento di 97138

If your going to do this quest you might as well sign up for therapy right now, this might be one the the hardest and most annoying quest in the game.

Commento di mbrent4235

The meteors stunning him in the air and Mulveriks lightning stunning him is a bug; it never used to do that. This makes it much harder than it ever was and almost completely negates staying in front of Skyshatter while flying. Doing that will ensure he is hit by meteors every time they fall. It can still be done, it is just much, much harder than it was.

Commento di eljimmystrappo

I have attempted the quest several times and still haven't cleared it. I opened a ticket and said that it seems bugged because Skyshatter disappears even if I am near him, resulting in a fail. I got an e-mail back saying that Blizz was aware of the issue. Never spoke with a GM.

Attempted the quest several more times, same problem and opened another ticket. I spoke with a GM this time and they said that the quest seemed fine to them and that it wasn't buggy. They said that he is supposed to disappear. They did tell me to stay in front of him. That will probably help everyone the most, you just have to know what his path is. The GM said "Think like a champ!" and told me to keep trying. Thanks Blizz.

My own opinion is that for the trinket, the quest isnt worth it. The rep would be nice but could easily be replaced by some eggs. (On my server I have been able to collect about 70 eggs in a couple days and that isn't all day grinding.) If the achievement is what your after, and that is enough motivation to get it done, power to ya.

Commento di 71624

Any 310% mount you have will get transformed into a 280% Netherdrake once you hit the island. With the 'removal' of trinkets past level 70, there are now no other ways to 'cheat' this other than mount auras.

Commento di Fangerrae

So yeah, it made me feel like a total bad, but I finally got this done after like 60 tries. And I'm a druid lol. People who did it back in the day made it sound like dodging meteors was easy, but I found it to be pretty much impossible. If I stayed behind him, it was impossible to keep up with him. So I stayed in front of him, and the thing about him getting hit by his own meteors was a real big issue. The problem was that, when he got stunned, I had to stop moving forward in order to stay in range, and this seemed to really increase the chance of getting hit. But anyway, after memorizing his path and getting a little luck in, I was finally able to get it done. Yay for achievements. Best I can say is to just keep at it.

Commento di KaiBo

For some reason he now seems to knock himself back when being struck by those fireballs. Doesn't really make it any easier... :(

Commento di 95657

just practice and make sure to try your best to cut corners and stay ahead. dont stop when he does his wierd little spazzy thing

Commento di 177596

I have to say this quest is near impossible. I've been trying for months now and a paladin just comes in and one shots with with his haxx aura, where I fail it because even after i take shortcuts he still manages to get ahead of me.
It's dumb :/

Commento di terastios

dont follow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq87HikhdNo in the video when capt.skyshatter gets hit by his meteor he doesnt stop but when i tried him he does...for me the hardest part it was the beginning coz for me he always getting hit by his metoer

Commento di terastios

dont do what http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq87HikhdNo did coz for me when capt.shatter gets hit by his meteor he ''stun'' for 2-3 and the start again running try to be in front of him but have your eyes 14 for the ''stuns''
For me the hardest part was the beginning coz i did what http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq87HikhdNo did and for me he always stops

Commento di DerSenf

This quest is very unfair if you have a slow pc.
Even with low details i only get about 10-15 fps in Netherwing Ledge. For me, it is simply impossible to beat at normal means, i had to skill the 20% extra riding from unholy, but even then he was able to outrange me sometimes. Not to mention it makes avoiding the meteors alot harder.
When your system lags often, be ready for a veeery frustrating trip.

Commento di wargesh

This mission is enough to make a person quit WoW. I've tried every tip in this thread and always a random meteor gets me near the end. There's a special place in hell for the dev that thought this was a good idea.

Commento di Kaztera

This race is almost imposible to try any stratgies now. Every move seems so random. He has stopped right after his first turn and set himself on fire and other times ive made it almost to the end before he will set himself on fire and almost everytime he shoots a meteor instantly at that moment which is hard to see coming with him being on fire. Also he seems to toss some meteors that seem to be stealthed.

Alot of comments say to stay ahead of him. Everytime i try that he stops completely but still tosses meteors until you get behind him.

Possible some changes might have been made but very big pain in the butt lol.

Dont care for the reward since it wont work with my toon being at 80 but the extra rep towrards the drake is nice.

Commento di 193572

The trick to this is, if you are having trouble, stay above him at ALL TIMES! Stay far enough above just so he doesn't hit you with meteors, but don't go to far cuz you might fail the quest. Also, if he goes up, you go up, if he goes down, you go down, etc.

HOPE THIS HELPS :D!

Commento di 265330

When I logged on this morning I noticed that my MS wasnt higher than 70 constantly - so I thought, now is my time.
And so it was, I got it today after been trying couple tries a day with 250ms or so as I normally have.

So it deffinately matters what ms u have. The lower MS - the more range can u get to him.

Commento di 357770

If you don't get this on you first 5 tries like some have posted and it looks hopeless give up imo. It's only worth 1k honor and I've been working on it for 8 hours straight now and still no luck. If you want the achieve go for it, but it's a lot of pain. If you're a priest have levitate ready to try and save you from some of the many deaths you are sure to encur lol

Edit: Okay after 2 more hours I worked out a routine that could get you to the end, but I give up for now. Riding crops dont work past 70 so in WotLK with no pally you cant get ahead of him. All other posts are outdated, he stops a lot now if you try to race ahead of him chances are he'll stop and you'll get too far ahead and fail, he also now shoots fire balls up so trying to stay above the rain doesn't work. Also as someone I read had said he doesn't shot these randomly a large percentage of them are targeted on your position (try flying above him for about 15-20 seconds into the race all the fire balls will be coming straight up at you).

So I worked out this. try to stay a decent way behind him, about half of the total distance you can go wihout failing. Hold down both mouse buttons to go forward and trail him, use "A" and "D" to strafe when fireballs appear, most of them will come in your general direction so strafe when they appear. when he gets hit and stops moving you stop moving as well, sometimes his fire balls will start attacking before he starts moving again, strafe back and forth in place to avoid them till he starts moving again, always wait till you see the first fire ball ad be ready to MOVE! never get to close to him or you'll get lit up quick, but dont fall to far back or you risk getting out of range during some evasive manuvers.

Commento di 359202

Ok, I just completed this after around 30 attempts. I did this as a level 80 warrior naked to avoid durability loss when I die. I had no speed buffs. What I did on the successful attempt was Alt-Z to remove the UI and I zoomed all the way in to first-person view. I then followed above and a bit to the side. At least, that is what I tried to do. And, I kinda learned the major portion of the route by this time so I would cut corners short to make up ground on him. When he got stunned and stopped for a second, if I was close, I'd also stop to keep him in view. I just did this and dodged the fireballs and aoe spots they make.

Funny thing is as I was attempting this Top Gun came on Bravo which I just had on in the background. I had no idea Top Gun was going to come one. And, the second attempt was successful after Top Gun started. It must have inspired me. :)

Commento di 254627

Flying above him doesn't do anything. They meteors seem to always explode near me right when they are summoned.

Commento di ekgew

Just completed it, as of 1:13pm (AEST) on 13/05/09 (Australian date) with 196ms.

I'm a warlock with no speed enhancing buffs or abilities.

The key to doing him, fairly easily is to learn his course. There are points in the flight where you really need to make sure you watch him, since he stuns himself.

These common points of when he hits himself are right at the start, when he does the small loop out front of the take of area. The second and more important one is about halfway through the flight, when he is going through the middle of the island inbetween the mountains.

With the positioning of yourself, you NEED to position yourself in front of him for the majority of the flight as he catches up to you quite easily, but when he does catch up, make sure to strafe a bit to either side to ensure the meteors don't hit you. The main issue with flying in front of him is knowing the flight route, and also he gets hit a fair bit with meteors at random points, so make sure to keep an eye on him.

Good luck to everyone still attempting him.

Commento di 366561

I registered here just to tell you that this quest is so annoying if you won't make it on the first 5-10 tries then don't bother, ive been close but after wasting so many hours on this crap it's just a big time waste for 1000rep.

Commento di 33892

A Noggenfogger Elixir with the shrinking effect could really come in a handy for this quest, it will help you avoiding his fire stuff easier, at least for me it did.

I personally tried it twice, managed to beat him on my second try (was also using the elixir lol).

Best of luck.

Commento di 173699

Did this last part yesterday and the day before and failed it about 20-25 times. Either got hit by an explosion or was being too slow (L80 non pally). Tried again today (as I did all the dailies and saw a lot of people around looking for eggs already) and did it on the second try!
Like every other time I was flying about 1,5 / 2 drakeslenght behind him, following him with autoflight, using the mouse to turn a bit (up or down left or right) and dodging the explosions by pressing left/right on my keyboard. He stopped frequently when he got fire, take the opportunity to catch up with him (I flew around him in circles here, to keep dodging), and try to cut off his curves to keep up with him. I did not use noggenfogger.
Goodluck!

Commento di 321602

Yeah, not worth it at all in WotLK unless you're gathering achievements like a squirrel gathers nuts in the Fall. The endless tries necessary to do this (mod luck) aren't worth the reward. As said, time would be better spent farming the eggs.

Commento di Lurtzello

I did this at my 7° try within 2 days as Pally with Crusader Aura.

I did 3 tries staying Below Skyshatter. It never worked: as he stopped, I died.

The trick I used was to stay far away behind him: you can see any incoming fireball and dodge it. I beaten Skyshatter at the 3° try with this method. (The very first time I tried him, I had no method).
It probably works only with speed boost.

Commento di AchillesJG

It's not the failing that $%^&es me off, it's the loooooong sloooooow walk he takes to the END of the runway before he flies off each time. As a matter of fact I wrote this entire post waiting for him to take off!

Commento di 348920

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq87HikhdNo , you should watch this is the best way to complete this quest

Commento di TearOfear

can i ask i must do this Q if I want dragon. Only asking if is it important Q for mount

Commento di 177609

A real problem I'm having now is he hits himself quite frequently and trips me up often, getting way far ahead of him.

Commento di Nautical

This is not worth it. You know why? Not only is the whip not usable above level 70, you can farm eggs faster then you can do this quest! I spent 3 hours straight attmpting this last night, and boy oh boy was it painful. He has a 310% mount AND the whip, meaning he's 40% faster than you on an epic flying mount. Even if you happen to have a 310% mount he's 10% faster. Don't do this unless you're exalted and just want the achievement, the rep isn't worth it.

Commento di Mattboy

I hope whoever thought this god-awful quest at Blizzard got fired.
I can practically hear the pitch.

Idiot: "Hey guys, lets have a racing mission with flying mounts!"
Blizz team: "Ok. Sounds pretty fun."
Idiot: "Now, lets have the npc opponent throw objects that can hurt the player... better yet, dismount them!"
Blizz team: "O... k. Sure! A little challenge is just what we need."
Idiot: "Now, lets have the projectiles spawn from random points in the sky... and explode!"
Blizz team: "Like meteors?"
Idiot: "Exactly! And, uh, we can make some explode as soon as they spawn, to mix it up!"
Blizz team: "Al...right..."
Idiot: "Yeah! and the player will have to follow npc exactly, so he cant see them well."
Blizz team: "I don't know... thats a little unforgiving."
Idiot: "Nah! Unforgiving would be where we make them stay within 15 yards or they lose. HEY, lets do that!"
Chris Metzen: "We'ren't you the same guy who suggested making a faction of mushroom men?"
Idiot: "Yeah! You liked that?"
Chris Metzen: "You're fired. Make sure the Lich King dev team never meets that guy."

Commento di 251259

Kraelos (Druid) - Dragonmaw

Just did this quest on my second try with no flight trinket, crop, wingmen, or paladin buff. Mulverick took me far more tries than this guy, if that means anything.

Here's a few tips:

1) Though you may not be able to control it, having little to no latency is optimal. I did this with 32ms ping. Try turning down everything except for object rendering distance and spell effects, I found that these were the only two things necessary and everything else (view distance especially) gave me a lot more FPS.

2) As was suggested when I did Mulverick, ALT+Z to turn your UI off, you won't need it and the extra viewing room helps a ton. If you're a druid, be sure to bind flightform to something you can hit reflexively.

3) Turn on max camera distance and zoom as far out as you can. In fact, there are some mods that can actually break the limit and you can zoom out incredibly far. If you really have an issue with overhead fireballs, I suggest looking into these things.

4) Stay in front of him and above him, this way roughly a third of the fireball spams will slam into him and you can use this time to stay even farther ahead of him. I'm sure it helps to know his route, too, but I didn't have to bother with looking it up, it's pretty short comparatively.

5) The biggest tip that I can give, aside from reducing latency and increasing view distance, is to /strafe/ while flying. If the tip of your nose had a giant stick growing out of it, you would want to have that be perpendicular to Skyshatter's nose-stick. I'm not kidding, using the right mouse button to keep aimed at him and constantly pressing "left" or "right" while strafing in front of him helped me out a ton. It made it so I could always see his jagged and insane movements without losing any speed (think of a hunter's kiting). This also made it so I could see where virtually all of the fireballs were. Obviously this is only useful if you're in front of him or beside him, if you are behind him than it's best to try your damndest to cut corners and cut him off. Seriously though, learn to steer/strafe while flying with the right mouse button. Earthmother save your soul if you keyboard turn.

6) If you have to dodge a flak spot in mid-air, do it with as little movement as possible. The first time I ended up losing on that long straight stretch he does from the east end of the field to the main hub again because I wasn't far enough ahead of him, and moved too erratically when dodging, and he ended up sailing past me.

7) Good luck, and God speed.

Commento di 233449

Probably the stupidest thing about this quest and guy is that he can easily hit himself with his own meteors at any point. All of the ideas on how to beat him work fine, but when he hits himself constantly and backtracks at the same time when I'm at a decent distamce away causes me to fail instantly.

Commento di 438835

done it after like 20 attemps, watched the video, to be completely honest, dosent help much.

my stupie tip is: do it until u learned the path and get used to it, as soon u feeling relax , u are not far from success.

Commento di 267801

The Dragonmaw racing quest chain:
Earning Your Wings... (just a prerequisite)
Dragonmaw Race: The Ballad of Oldie McOld (350 rep)
Dragonmaw Race: Trope the Filth-Belcher (350 rep)
Dragonmaw Race: Corlok the Vet (500 rep)
Dragonmaw Race: Wing Commander Ichman (500 rep)
Dragonmaw Race: Wing Commander Mulverick (500 rep)
Dragonmaw Race: Captain Skyshatter (1000 rep + Skybreaker Whip)
Total rep: 3200

Commento di 57826

This is sooo annoying. I mean honestly this guy is such a !@#$ty pilot! I'm trying this 'fly ahead of him' strategy, but all the time he's flying into his own meteors and stops for 3 seconds. Then I have to wait for him to catch a bit up, and sometimes I don't react quickly enough and fly just a little too far ahead of him, causing me to fail the quest. God damn!

Commento di orisai

This one is for sure the worst quest in WoW. I have done all quests, on alliance side but after countless tries I still can't finish this one. I can't keep up with him, there is no riding crop anymore and he simply run away from me on a straight paths. I really bow to anyone who done this quest on lvl 80 with 280 speed mount.

Commento di 342407

Okey dokey

This is by FAR the hardest flying quest in the entire game, (The Wyrmwrest flyer has been nerfed a lot now, and there are no fancy double bombs like in Blade's Edge) more than 140 comments on this quest now speaks for itself.

So, just completed this f*cker on my lv 80 with 280 speed mount.

As a rogue, so no pala speed increase, or epic druid fly form (and ofc no crop increase either) with UI on, latency of over 200 ms, and no fancy flying ahead of him stuff.

So here is how.

Max your camera range, and use first person perspective. You just are NOT gonna do this quest without it.

AND contrary to popular belief, do it with all your gear on so that if you do get knocked off, you probably won't die and have the frustration of having to fly all the way back there again.

I would also recommend putting on your stopwatch and starting as soon as you click on the quest, as this will give you an idea how you are doing, time wise, he doesn't start flying till about 1.12, at which point you want to be hovering above him. And in total, allowing for a few flame stops, it will be almost 5 mins before the race is finished.

Follow BEHIND him, but do NOT, and I repeat do NOT, follow in a straight line. Because following straight really f*cks him up and causes him to engulf himself in flames a LOT of times, and basically, the easiest way to do this quest, is to have him in flames as few times as possible (for the simple reason you will have to stop, avoid the bombs he sends while stationary, PLUS keep an eye on him too. No way Jose)

Therefore just move from side to side a little every few seconds, as A: The bombs won't be near you, and B: They won't be near him much either.

Folowing such strategy, basicaly the only times he is gonna be in flames is when he is turning sometimes and has got too near a previous bomb that he sent towards you a few seconds earlier. And unless your latency is something stupidly high your 280 speed mount to his 310 still allows you to keep within that extremely short leash he is on as long as you keep coming inside him every so often to cut down the distance he is ahead.

This strategy should quite easily get you back to base camp without too much trouble

However this is when things start to get sh*t difficult, as with all the manouvers he does from here on in until the end (deliberately stopping to change direction etc) plus loads of corners where no matter what you do he is gonna get himself in flames, you therefore need to fly above him from this point on, and be ready for those sudden stops and direction changes, you also need to use your gut feeling too, as if it looks as if he is gonna climb, you need to anticipate that and start climbing BEFORE him, otherwise if he suddenly decides to stop for no reason at all then you are gonna lose him, it is as simple as that.
So from above try to use a 'down' view as much as possible as it will greatly help you to see just what on earth he is doing (or going to do).

Towards the end he will do his most difficult manouver,

HE WILL SUDDENLY STOP, CHANGE DIRECTION, THEN STOP AND CHANGE DIRECTION BACK AGAIN ALL WITH THE SPACE OF A FEW SECONDS.

If you are NOT ready for that by using a 'down' view, you are gonna be left crying as to just how close you were. (So basically, just like he should be for most of the race, let him be a little ahead)

And whether THAT move is purely random or not, he did it TWICE near the end while I earned my achievement.

For those of you who do manage to do this at lv 80 on chars that can not increase their speed, congratulations and welcome to the club. Definitely one of the hardest and most frustrating achievements in the game. And therefore one of the utterly most satisfying to have.

Tatyana
Anachronos

Commento di Moleculor

The most painful and difficult part to this entire quest is not the fact that it's nearly impossible to do the flight... it's the sheer amount of WAITING you have to do between each attempt. You have to wait for the respawn, which can take up to a full minute, then you have to wait the 80+ seconds for him to take off, only to fail 20 seconds into it because he hit himself with one of his own meteors.

Commento di 462789

If your wondering wat the range is its about the length of the landing strip there XD i waited too long lol

Commento di 475821

I just spent some time putting together an easy Dragonmaw race: Captain Skyshatter video toturial. Nothing fancy, just a video containing some notes on waypoints and easy encounter mechanics.

Best quest in the whole game imho! Hope you like it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwpCLnJ18ks

Marawan of Silvermoon

Commento di 431013

After about 3 hours of unsuccessful attempts, I'm gonna say that this quest is absolutely retarded at 80. It was possible before, with a riding crop, but that's obsolete now. The only way to stand any chance is to be a pally with crusader aura or a druid who can just keep popping back into flight form. And of course, if you manage to dodge all of the meteors, including those invisible ones that somehow hit you, leaving you with more frustration.

This quest is really making me want to mutilate a baby.

Commento di 477613

Wow, I just needed put add my two cents, this quest is retarded, I've tried a couple of these strategies, and I think the best one is just to keep at it until you know what to expect, seriously. The worst thing is that if you find a really easy way to do this, usually he will lock himself in place with meteors, negating the easy factor, I've sat hovering over him for as long as 45 seconds and he just kept hitting himself with them, so expect him to hit himself, and be patient, 5 hours later I finally succeeded

Commento di 401323

There's something I don't quite get... if the quest requires lvl 70+, and the reward can't be used if you have lvl 70+, then what's the reward? the Netherwing rep? If so, please remove the trinket to avoid the dissapoint, or just upgrade the level to WOTLK, so players above lvl 70 can use it...

Commento di 45715

We need more minigames like these in Wrath of the Lich King.
Now, I didn't bother to read through 140 comments, so I will mention this regardless if it has been said before.
To beat Skyshatter is nearly impossible without a paladin now that the Riding Crop doesn't work above level 70. I believe that it can be done, but unless you are/have a paladin with Crusader or are a Death Knight with the mount bonus, prepare to deal with a crapload of frustration.
Also, Gonzalitus: This used to be a nice trinket to get in The Burning Crusade. You cannot possibly expect them to upgrade old quest rewards just because you are disappointed that you can't go back and use the awesomeness of TBC.

Commento di Archivist

It takes roughly 1 minute 12 seconds for him to go from quest accept to the race start (at the end of the runway). As of 3.2.2 the item awarded for this quest has almost no function, as almost everyone doing this quest will be above level 70 (as of 3.2.2 the last line of this item reads "Does not work for players above level 70.")

Commento di 137477

Well, now with patch 3.3 online, you CAN NOT GET KNOCKED OFF YOUR MOUNT! So, I was able to easily pull this quest off with no problems.

Commento di 474836

The best advice I can give you is:
RIDE HIS BUTT!
For some reason if I fell more than TWO feet behind him I'd fail. Naturally, I got super *!@#ed and decided to just ride his butt, literally if not TOUCHING him, then almost. I found that riding that close to him caused him to hit himself more often as well. Just keep strafing and if you get hit it's not that big of a deal since he also hits himself a lot.

IT NO LONGER DISMOUNTS YOU!

If nothing else, repeat the quest and you'll get it.

***Also zooming in to first person and disabling interface (ALT+Z) helped a CRAP load for these quests.***

Commento di 491357

i was singing to myself to stay relaxed and ease the tension.. try it. it helps :D

Commento di 260859

There were a few changes in 3.3 that make this quest different.

The biggest is that you no longer dismount when hit by the meteors, you will only be disorientated for a second. However, do still be careful as a couple of times after being hit, I would "fall" while still mounted. This takes off a bunch of health off when you land and takes up a lot of time. I found no movement button to get out of "falling" mode and back into flying.

Skyshatter can be hit with his meteors, so be careful not to outrun him. If he gets hit he will disorientate himself for a second before getting back on the flight path. If you sit on him, he will keep blowing himself up, which slows the whole thing down a lot.

Skyshatter is human, so hunter's Track Humanoid can help a little in watching him on your minimap.

Since a lot of people have 310% mounts from the holiday achievements and raids, be aware that your mount gets replaced with a Netherwing, which has the tooltip of only 280% fly speed. I tried to get rid of the diguise by putting Netherwing "at war" but that did nothing.

Good luck!

Commento di lormus

As of patch 3.3: “Knockbacks no longer dismount players. If on a flying mount, you will be knocked back a short distance before being able to resume flying”.

This achivement is incredibly easy now.

Commento di 501637

By constantly veering from side to side, it's a breeze. And if he hits himself, just remember to keep moving, and do a little circle around him-- that way you keep moving, and he has enough time to recover and keep going. Whatever you do, do not stay in the same place. Constantly move side to side. I did this with a touchpad, so I used the insert and delete keys a lot.

P.S.
Listen to some happy music.

Commento di Aenonar

This quest was pretty damn easy in the first place, but now when you no longer get dismount it's just easymode. -.- Even more so because they often blow themselves up so they get disoriented for a bit.

The only issues I had was when Ickman blew himself up and disappeared, Mulverick got mission fail right at the finish line for some reason. And then at the final straight with Skyshatter, he bugged and went back and forth like 20 times before I managed to unbug him by making him blow himself up a couple of times (doable since you no longer get dismounted

Commento di 505896

Since patch 3.3 the meteors no longer throw you off your mount. That makes it REALLY easier to complete and the quest shouldn't be a problem anymore. It used to be a real pain :)

Commento di drdoom5081

I found that if you attempt to get near him, sometimes he'll get caught in his own meteors, which will give you a bit of time to catch up. Use strafe a lot too, it seems to throw off the targeting system of the meteors.

Commento di 293593

One word of warning to anybody who is on the Netherwing Ledge while some random player is doing one of these races...

The projectile attacks from the enemy riders seem to knock any players back, even if that player is not in the same party as some random player who is doing one of these races. I was on the ground, casually minding my own business and gathering some Netherdust Pollen when one of the projectiles from one of these enemy riders just happened to hit me... I got knocked back and fell to my death...

So if you see anybody doing one of these quests, be careful.

Commento di Therulnig

!ATTENTION DRUIDS!

Many comments on here are hailing these quests as easy now because the attacks do not dismount. Druids BE AWARE that the projectiles from all these quests can STILL knock you out of Swift Flight Form.

I wasted 30 minutes of my life attempting this quest and failing because of falling more than 15 yrds away from him.

SOLUTION: Don't use Swift Flight Form, go buy a normal epic speed mount if you don't have one from acheivements/dungeons and ride it for the proposes of this quest.

The meteors then no longer dismount you and don't even appear to disorient much you anymore (You catch on fire, but fall no further behind him than you were) - He however gets stopped in his tracks when hit. This is very useful in his straightaways as he gains good distance on you and when hit it instantly closes the gap.

Commento di 527720

This was not as hard as the guy before, in my opinion. My biggest problem with Mulverick was that he was so small, and his projectile volley covered my view of him. He took three goes. Skyshatter took four, the first time being snagged on terrain and falling out of range (stupid mistake, always fly over him if you can). Second and third tries lost sight of him (do NOT overmaneouvre, the fireblasts can make you lose sight of him even briefly and in that time he could have flown out of his much shorter following range causing you to fail). Stick close, sides or above, stay away from the fireball explosions that can knock you out of range, and cut corners to make up for any distance lost. I did this with no help, trinkets etc, it really isn't that bad.

Commento di Neeru

For people looking to do this quest because the others were impossible to fail, I advise you skip this quest completely unless you really want to take the time to learn to do it like everyone did before they nerfed the races.

This one is still incredibly difficult, and even though you cannot be dismounted, there have been instances where I was forced to fail, because I was hit by a meteor and my character fell(while on my mount no less), and the fall killed him.

All in all, this will only save you 4 eggs, and most servers are usually so dead that you can farm eggs easily, so all in all, unless you want the achievement surrounding this quest, I advise you save yourself a lot of tears and frustration and skip this.

Commento di Carusun

Finally managed it today, first try after the nerf. I'd already hit exalted, I was just annoyed that there was the one quest that kept eluding me.

I ARE NOW DA TOP ORC!

Commento di nomorejazz

OK... I finished this with my druid in swift flight form, no trinkets. It took 3 tries. The basic strategy was not up and down, but mostly left and right... I would trail fairly close directly behind him, then when the fireballs (or whatever they were) began to come out, I moved up and either left or right depending. Using "W" to move forward at all times, I used my mouse to fly sideways into his turns. Same strategy as the other flyers, just have to stay within distance. I did not need speed enhancements.

He can and will still as of 3.3 knock you out of form and/or off your mount. Honestly It would have taken me lots longer if not being a druid with an instant flight form. Middle mouse worked great for hot key.

Good luck all!

Commento di Mafan

Whoever allowed Skyshatter (or the other NPCs) to be hit by their own projectiles deserves to be fired. At some point in the race he'll get stuck in mid-air, constantly keeping himself in place by getting hit with his own meteors: Quest Failed.... every... single... time....

Commento di mattdel

Just did this, 2nd try. Unholy DK with 15% speed buff with unholy aura, not talented.

Maintain a few yards above him and behind him, the meteors are easy enough to dodge. The hard part is when he stops and goes back and forth for a couple minutes in the middle of the field. There's a probably 40x40 yard square that he just slams with meteors as he's going back and forth, I found strafing in a circle around him to work well, but you must have good mouse skills to keep an eye on him, because as previously posted, his range is smaller than others. If you get too far from him, he despawns and fail quest.

FYI, if you eat a couple meteors in a row, the knockback will fail you for being out of range.

Commento di Slayershinigami

Thanks to patch 3.3.0: "Knockbacks no longer dismount players. If on a flying mount, you will be knocked back a short distance before being able to resume flying." This was a !@#$ easy flight.. This really now is a walk in the park, just stay close enough to him :D

I did this on my paladin, with a crusader aura, so even when I got knocked back 4 times in a row, it was easy to catch up ;D
Also, got it in the first try :P

Commento di bigfluffy

For all the people who are memorizing the flight on the first run and completing it on the second, all I can say is "mmmmhmmmm". You practically have to stay inside his wingspan to stay in range, and without crusader or similar he'll flat walk away from you on his long shot across the island. Requires good reflexes and a very precise feel for his range and turns.

Commento di 59976

After doing this lots and lots of times I finally managed it by staying in front of him - for most of the way. He only got in front of me near the end when gets into some tight corners and managed to hit me but I was still able to cut a couple of corners and keep up with him. In fact, most of the times I failed it was because I was too far in front of him. You pretty much have to be driving forwards while looking backwards to see where he is and what he's doing.

Commento di 579156

Did it by myself on 4th try, just stay real close behind him and cut corners if you're getting too far behind. Found him MUCH easier than mulverick

Commento di 304428

when you defeat him he says "I... I am undone... the new top orc is <player name>" thought u might like to know =P

Commento di Gargz

Just completed this quest. I have a Black Proto but it diverted to the 280% but, I got hit a couple of times but the range is much much farther than 15 yards. Needless to say, you'd have to just be blind to not get this achievement.

So gratz me on a useless whip. :(

Commento di Kothaz

this F***ing race was killing me. Finally finished it after a few days and some very unkind words about blizzard's female family members.

Tip for droods - don't use swift flight form - you'll lose a lot less ground if you are using a regular epic flyer because the meteors will break flight form but won't dismount you. I tried for days in flight form, finally won the race after a few tries on a regular mount.

Commento di 593308

Being LVL 80 is a bonus. even if you do fall, you won't get hurt that much. And doing it as a Druid is easy as pie.

Commento di 535580

I'm not sure if this has ever been done before (I'm sure it has been), but I somehow managed to do this on the second try with no beforehand preparation. Still... there are faster and easier ways to get rep with netherwing, and in the end the only things you're getting are an achievement, 4 eggs worth of rep, and a blue trinket that becomes useless as soon as you hit level 71.

Commento di 609957

I would just like to state for the record. How would anyone over lvl 70 use any 10% speed increase trickets and what not... there for lvl 70 and lower only. so what item would anyone higher use? And if none. so the lower lvl guys get to run faster while us higher guys have to waddle in the dirt as he out flies us every time?

Commento di 526954

lvl 80 BM Hunters, you have a Mount Speed boost in your talent Tree, Use it. You also have Aspect of the Monkey Bonus in your Talent Tree, Use it (not sure if this "really" did help).

Before changing my BM Talent tree I wasn't able to fly fast enough to keep up, even if I dodged all the fireballs. After 15 tries over a few days I gave up... Today I remembered that I use to have a mount speed boost that I used while lvling... Then I saw the Aspect of the Monkey bonus as well...

Ya, first try with the mount speed increase & Aspect of the Monkey I had NO issues following him (it was a joke), even when I was hit by 2 fireballs in a row, I was always able to remain very close to him.

I hope this helps someone

Commento di proxxie

The chain is a nice break from the gather/slay X of Y, or egg-hunting for rep. The quests are simple enough with a little bit of focus and maneuvering, and the reputation gained, plus the achievement is very nice.

Commento di acu2005

Surprisingly difficult quest at level due to the fact that riding crops are useless for us anymore. Skyshatters flight speed is definitely faster that 280 so make it easy on yourself and bring a paladin along with you for crusader aura.

Commento di dwergwerper

7 attempts. the trick is to make a minor sidestep (think 1-3 yards up) in the beginning he will make a large u-turn, flying back over the landing pad. he will throw meteors once hes out of that bend, so be careful when you cut him off. that was the only problem i had

also i counted 10 glitchy-movements, where he does a u-turn, waits 0.2 to 0.8 seconds, and make another u-turn, all followed rapidply. use this to your advantage, and gain some space if you're behind. if you are close to him, stop movement and go up / down a few yards to prevent meteors he will toss while he does it.

other than that, its a fairly easy fight, just keep these things in mind. hope that helps ;)

Commento di sawier

totally easy with +20% mount speed buff, so bring pally or spec to increase you mount speed

Commento di 329454

I just did this Au-natural as a mage , no speed bonus just my trusty drake and me.
This took me a few attempts however.
From my time in the air i noticed these things:
If you grow bored and just rush to the end of the take of thing you will lose because he is to far away. (*grumble*) For the flight itself i used Alt+z to make the screen clearer, then i tried to time his turns and twists , just when he takes off you can just wait for him to take a lap around and then he will return to the take off thing. This places you in front of him, trying to stay there is a great choice. Also he will at some point do a U turn, just wait for him and continue to fly. The meteorites are quite harmless and wont knock you off your mount, but if you stay in front of him, they should not explode and as long as you don't run into them, you are safe. If you end up behind him, watch how he if flying , often you can adjust your flight so that he takes the longer route instead of just blindly following him. To earn time.

Néroan, Steamwheel Cartel.

Commento di djlinks

This quest has gotten exponentially easier now that you no longer get knocked off your mount. The hard part is just keeping up now.

Commento di 638093

OK WTF! HE GOT OUT OF MY SIGHT AS SOON HE AS HE STARTED FLYING!

Commento di 649686

For whatever reason I simply cannot finish this quest. I have no trouble keeping up with him, in fact, I literally fly inside of him at all times without falling behind. And I rarely ever get hit. What is happening is the quest randomly fails. My only guess would be that I'm lagging and not as close as my screen shows me. Sometimes the quest fails before he even makes his first turn.

I've done this about 20 times and counting..

Commento di 660591

Guys if that may help... i found a way to easy get rid of that Cap'n Skyshatter...

when u start in that first U turn, cut the half way through the turn and get yourself on the lead! (ATTENTION! u must know the route!) make your way through the race and remember to always look behind when u can so that u know if he is behind ya, although keep a distance so that meteors dont hit u :)...

now when u cross the camp (the 1st time) stick right next (preferably about 15 yards) to him coz there he does that 180 turn and confuses u which may lead to failure (believe me... i have done this soooo many times and i always failed in that spot!)

now in the last part of the race i couldnt keep the lead but i tried to stay as close as possible and avoid the meteors (which in this part i think more meteores are falling...) also dont get confused by the 180 turns...

I hope this helped!
Cheers all!
and good luck with your netherdrakes!

Apethantos, Genjuros

Commento di darksomeone

the race has been changed a bit: no longer get dismounted when hit by meteors.

(not sure when it was changed)

Commento di Koolaider

If you're doing this in Druid flight form, it is still possible to be dismounted.

Commento di BacchusZA

Either they've seriously nerfed the difficulty of this, or my love for combat flight sims in my youth really payed dividends for these quests, as I competed all of them first time round.

This last one is the trickiest of the lot, but if you treat him like a guns target, stay inside his turns, and lead him a little whenever you can you should manage to complete the quest without too much trouble. A lot of the time it's a straight up chase where he's a little ahead of you, but you can make up plenty ground on him on his turns and when he does his little "Immelmann" turns.

Commento di wye43

Apparently you can't be unmounted anymore, this quest/achievement is way easy now. And with everyone having 310% mounts, this is a joke.

Commento di Rachmaninov

I completed this on my first try in 4.0.3. The reason being is that anyone can have 310% flying speed and it really gives you an advantage.

Commento di Airman

for druids trying to do this ... it's better to do it on a mount as you get shifted out of flight form when the meteors hit you

Commento di nezzracon

Took me to the third time to complete this quest with no bonus speed items or enchants. He goes at the 310% speed but if you can stay to the inside of the island, he will turn your way every so often and you will be able to stay within range this way.
I was hit 4 times with the fireballs and still kept up enough to finish this quest. It is doable as long as you don't over compensate for his turns. Following on the inside works great if you can start close through the first long stretch where he flys almost the length of the island without turning.

I hope this helps.

Commento di 712316

Something that helped me on this one and the other races was to put a raid icon on the guys head. You can lose them behind a hill or you can't see becuase of explosions for a second, but you can always see that skull icon if it's in front of you.

Also on this one it's like others have said you have to learn the path. I was over 70 so i couldn't use a riding crop or anything, but after failing a few times i learned his path and was able to cut corners to keep up.

Commento di ShadoStep

THis race is no where near as hard as mulverick was, if you can do him, this will be no problem. As of this patch, the perk "Mount Up" in a guild helps, and I did it in unholy presence.

Commento di 749866

The hardest part of this quest now is staying close enough to him. Accepting the quest then moving to the end of the runway is to far even. I'm at 280% speed and there's very little room for dodging or getting hit. Stick with vertical dodging. Learn his route, but don't try short-cuts that put too much space between you.

Commento di Badcat

Do no try to do this quest in flight form ; because it knocks you back out of form and you get too late to catch him back. Use a normal drake with % 280 mount and if you get hit by a flame tap space twice and continue following him. Try to intercept his way while he is turning. You dont get knocked out of drake if you use a mount.Good luck.

Commento di 190011

Even with a 310% speed mount and the meteors no longer fully dismounting you I can't complete this evil quest! The meteor's now knock you back in the air. Sometimes you can recover and keep going, sometimes you just keep falling and can't keep flying. I don't know why it sometimes allows you to regain control and sometimes not.

Also, the meteors are nowhere near me and they still hit me.

WoW is not a good game to attempt to implement hit detection like this. It simply doesn't work.

Commento di Synn

Using 310% flying + 10% mounted movement speed buff from BM Hunter tree, this was actually a pretty easy quest, once you get used to the meteors.

As K82994 said, put a Raid Icon on the guys head, it helps tremendously.

Commento di 709866

grumble .. seems the length of the launch ramp is to far and fails .. don't try to walk on the ramp and wait for him to walk to the end ;(

Commento di 776452

Okay, so here is the deal...

If you can't beat this guy. Don't worry about it. You require 21000 rep to reach exalted. After beating him you receive 1000 rep and a wimpy reward.

1000 accounts for 4.76% of the grand total of the rep.

So, if you can't beat him... Just find 4 Netherwing Eggs and don't lose any sleep over it.

Dailies
-------------
Turn in the Crystals = 250
Going in the Mine for the Carts = 350
Talk to the Foreman & kill the beasts = 350
Turn in 35 Hides = 250
Not So Friendly Skies = 250
Slow Death = 250
Booterang = 350
Killing the guys in Nagrand = 500

Total = 2550 per day.

Now add your eggs that you find:

2 eggs (per day) = 500 + 2550 = 3050

21000/3050 = 6.9 days to get to Exalted

Note: If you find 7 eggs per day, you can knock it down to 4.9 days.

Just trying to help out :)

Commento di Kman4225

I found if I used the alt-z command, it was easier to see him and follow him. I hope this helps someone :)

Commento di 771700

I had no issue with him. 310% flying is great with him...everyone else seemed harder cause they are too slow. With this guy you can just fly behind him.

I failed first time, I am sure I was close, just got too far from him when he was turning was all. Still like him more than the guy before...stupid dive bombing and then flying straight up.

Commento di 715936

I watched the cool videos of people riding out in front of Skyshatter with ease - and what laugh. I was terrible at it.

Fortunately, as others have said, keeping close on his left or right rear side, within one dragon's length can do it. The fireballs rarely fall there. Use mouse for direction and down. Space bar for up and use slight vertical movements (like mini roller coaster) to avoid taking fire. Following him takes some concentration - he doubles back and drops fast at times - but not impossibly so. Contrary to some of the posts, he doesn't fly faster than you - you don't need any special gear. You don't need to fly nude (whatever provoked that weird idea) or have special abilities. Ignore the other NPC riders. They don't do much damage - fly through them if they're in your way.

They key to this is that he has probably the world's worst aim, and it is pretty easy to stay out of the way of his fire. If you can stay close, relax, and just mirror his every move, this is quite a bit easier and more enjoyable than the one before it. Watch the videos and get his flight pattern down, then ignore what they did and just pay attention to following Skyshatter's dance moves. You won't regret it. :) He's fun to fly with.

PS: Use alt z to remove your task bars, and don't go further than the middle of the runway waiting for him to begin quest.

Commento di Felidire

Failed this a bunch on my Frost DK, but then realized that my blood spec had the "On a Pale Horse" talent, and believe me, I cannot put to words just how much easier it is with that 20% mount speed boost talent.

My advice is to take whatever mount speed gains you can, because it makes a HUGE difference. I was on a 280% flyer, if you have the 310% speed as well as other applicable speed boosts, then this will be a total cake walk -- It won't even matter if the meteros hit you (I got hit with at least 8 of them on my final try and I still managed to pass it.)

Commento di 816472

This one was fairly easy for me, I just followed his path exactly and got it on my first try. At one point, he appears to dive, only to go back to normal before completing it.

I just followed him, and being a frost death knight, I had a 30% mount increase plus 15% from unholy presence. I didn't pay any attention to the fireballs whatsoever.

Commento di 708284

ITS IMPOSSIBLE!

Commento di 717646

Skyshatter seems like he has a 310% speed mount, and I have a 280% speed mount. He can outrace me, but dodging his attacks are easy.
I tried to use intersecting tactics by flanking his left or right side (turning while going forward) when he turns to get closer to him. But no matter what, he manages to elude me by being faster. Very.. frustrating.

Seems to be the only way to beat him is to have 310% training, since he doesn't turn enough for me to close in.

Commento di 832641

Like the previous posters have said, it is possible if you tail him very closely. Don't worry if you get a bit of knockback, you should be able to keep going even if it slows you down. Just stay as near to him as you can.

He'll start to dive but pick up at the last second, he does this once or twice - don't be fooled.

Commento di Xanit

Draco di Arenaria = Win. You do not dismount if you get hit as sandstone.

Commento di neo1973

Hopefully this will get voted up to green; it took me about 5 reads to find this little gem of information:

IF YOU ARE A DRUID, MOUNT UP. DO NOT USE FLIGHT FORM, YOU WILL BE DISMOUNTED.

First time on a mount: finished.

Previous 20+ tries flight form: fail.

Commento di 852901

I am not sure if someone else as already asked this, or answered it, but... Do you have to complete this quest to get the netherdrake mounts, or can you just skip it?

Commento di Fist

NAILED IT AT 1st GO!

The trick was to keep somewhat above him, and navigate both with the mouse (direction) and with the space key (fast distance when he places his meteors).

Good luck, everyone!

Commento di riaa

Tried this a lot of times on my druid flightform, I got knocked of and out of flightform numerous times. Tried mounting up and just followed him around, didnt even try to avoid metors, you cant be knocked of your mount now. So easy :)

Commento di 867778

did this first try. it was ALOT easier than the one befor him.

Commento di 753137

I don't know about everyone that has completed this quest, but I do not have max riding. I have 280% flying and as soon as he clears the landing strip when he flies back over it, he is gone. Guess this is one of those quests that I will never complete.

Commento di 879391

one that gave me the most trouble is mulverick with 4 tries. i didn't expect the sharp turns and lost sight of him.

Commento di 758309_

Just stick with it. The biggest thing I found helpful was sticking to the side of Skyshatter. But stick close. You also might end up having to do it a couple of times to figure out his route. I stuck real close to him this time and he didn't go any U-turns like the first time I did this quest. Good luck!

Commento di DebbiD

I'm not sure if Blizzard nerfed these quests or not, but all of the dragonmaw race quests seemed much easier than the first time I did them prior to Cataclysm and patch 4.2. Perhaps my flying skills have improved...I'm sure it helps that I have done them before and knew what to expect. Has anyone one else completed these recently and noticed they were considerably easier? Not that I'm complaining! I highly recommend watching Youtube videos if this is your first time around. The ones that others have posted were very helpful.

Commento di Calamityyy

This guy was definitely a pain...I got it on my 4th try, the 1st try I was used to the range of the other guys and was dodging way too much, the 2nd and 3rd tries were failed due to the meteors slowing me down just enough to make me fall out of his range.

My main tip is..
Try staying under him and to the side of him, meteors hardly hit me when I was at a distance to the side. Sometimes you can get distant from him like this, but all you need to do is cut on of his corners (which you will get used to fairly fast). I actually ended up in front of him several times during it.

Commento di 894104

I just did all of the quests right in a row. Defeated Captain Skyshatter on my first try. I recommend zooming out all the way and staying ABOVE him the whole time and angle your camera so you're looking down on yourself more than looking from behind. I only got hit with his fire ball things once at the very end, and I had pretty much already won by then. If you stay above them their glowy balls of doom cant hit you! I also kept them targeted the whole time. Hope this helps!

Commento di imthewalrus37

Just follow behind him. You have plenty of room and sway back and forth as you follow to avoid fireballs. Once you get past the s-turns then you are home free. Just keep swaying behind him and don't get cocky.

Commento di Organthrone

I blitzed through the other races without a problem. I hadn't even considered that Skyshatter might be challenging. I mean, Master Riding lock, no Paladin, no guild advancement; just good old fashioned speed. The first time I took him on, I was surprised, and lost him after about thirty seconds. Tried again, and lost him before he'd even taken off.

Next morning, I tried again, noting the wide turns he takes, and clearing the screen. I'd lose out every time at the ramp where the Transporters take off/land. Once, I even ended up being dismounted, surviving the fall, barely. I gave up watching videos, because it really didn't help much. After a few hours, and a few deep breaths, I took a different approach: focus on the targets on the minimap. Fly with your mouse, and look to the minimap, with only enough attention on Skyshatter himself to avoid the meteors. Tension mounted, I almost lost him several times, but the moment we got back to the landing strip, and the quest completed notification came up, my heart was racing with relief (oh dear, what a dire pun I just noticed).

Since I'm a stickler for achievements, this was a must-have, as well as the fact that 1000 rep really saves the hassle of farming eggs, particularly on a realm when about five other people are doing the same thing you are, every hour of every day.

My advice is: get ahead of him any time you can. Take advantage of the wide turns, and focus on the minimap. In the words of Masterplan: never give up, never give in.

Commento di cribby

As a 75 shammy with 280 flying, the trick here is to not get hit. Don't worry about the transporters flying around, they won't slow you and their damage is negligible. You can strafe to get out of the way of his fiery bombs but I found that spacebarr'ing up and down or maneuvering to get beside him was easier. If you do get hit, knowing his route is helpful as you can cut some corners. Don't give up!

Commento di RicardoZ

I found this one to be the easiest one because you don't have to worry about getting ahead of him and losing him or staying a decent distance behind. You can just get a regular distance behind him and keep an eye on your minimap and just follow Skyshatter the entire time with no problem.

Mulverick is the hardest one by far, because he spends so much time around the camp and you lag and miss his sharp turns. This guy's a piece of cake in comparison.

Commento di Wildcupcake

Got this on my second attempt. His route is actually a little shorter than some of the other ones.
Anyway, I got the achievement when he landed and 1200 rep from completing the quest.

(That means I got 200 extra rep with the Mr. Popularity spell, from my 25 guild.)

Good luck! :)

Commento di Neiara

Well, today my friend had to do these racing quests. He hates them... However, I'm one of the odd ones who absolutely love them. We were talking about how we wished that I could do it for him... then I thought: Sandstone drake.

I doubted it would work, but surprisingly, the race started, and I started to fly after Skyshatter. We got all the way to the finish line, and the quest was completed.

Was pretty fun to do that quest again, as I had completed it way back in BC and I quite enjoyed it, even if it was way harder then. My friend was pretty happy too that he didn't have to do anything. :P

Commento di 960701

I completed this quest on my third try. Before you get started, set him as your focus target (left click his portrait and select "set focus"). If you're a paladin, like me, be sure to turn on Crusader Aura. In my opinion, the hardest thing about this quest is keeping up with him so this gives you a bit of boost to keep up.

You have time to dodge most of the meteors but only if you do very slight, quick dodges using Q and E as default. Don't risk going waaay out of the way of an incoming meteor.

If you've attempted the quest before, you should know that he sometimes takes wide turns. When he does this, and you know for sure which way he's turning, cut across straight towards him instead of following directly behind him. You'll catch up to him really fast doing this if you're falling behind.

When he does his quick U-turns, glance to your mini-map immediately to see exactly where he turned to (you seriously only have a split second to do this, but it really helps if you have a problem with losing him on the U-turns).

I completed this quest pretty fast (probably took me less than 20 minutes to get it). So I hope this info is of good use to someone. :) Happy questing!

Commento di MitchTJones

Here's how I think meteors work

=+= = meteor
=== = Skyshatter
+++ = Player

--------------------------------
-------------===-------------
-----=+=--=+=--=+=-----
-=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=-
=+==+==+==+==+==
-----------+++---------------
--------------------------------

Player: "WTF I SURRENDER!"
<Player falls into the Twisting Nether>
Skyshatter: "NOOB!"
Player: "You're paying for my repairs!"
Shyshatter: "!@#$ YOU!"
<Skyshatter flies away>

Commento di 883300

I'm a level 74 druid and completed all of the dragonmaw races in 1 try, in my swift flight form. I feel kinda lucky now when I read all these comments where people have tried for days. Happiness :)

Commento di 992323

Ooohh Ooohh Ooohh!
I found an EASYYY way to do this post-cata!

Get a friend to take you on the X-53 Touring Rocket and it doesn't matter if you get hit!

Good luck! :D

Commento di Thecanman

If you want to do this quest, and don't have:
- 310% flying
- A talent or ability which increases your speed while mounted
- The bonus to speed while mounted from your guild.
You cannot afford to get hit by his fireballs at all. You have to stay pretty much on top of him, as you can't fall as far behind while racing him as you could with the others. This is going to be an exercise in perfection. I wish you luck.

If you have one of the things on the above list, then goddammit, use it! It will make the quest fairly easy, and a few hits from the fireballs are no big deal. When he makes a turn, use the opportunity to close the distance by cutting the corner. But be warned: Get hit too many times by them fireballs and you'll fall off your mount, dying and failing the quest.

When I made use of my stale talent points in my alternate survival spec to pick up the mount speed talent under the BM tree, I finished this after three tries. A hell of a lot better than 54 failures under my main spec without the mount speed talent.

Commento di 306992

Just did this quest and got achieve ! YAY ! -This quest can be annoying though my best advice to anyone doing this that's having trouble is just hang in there a few more times and u will get it, took me 4 trys!

Commento di 794340

I didn't actually have too much difficulty with this. Reading the comments, I got a little nervous that I'd have to learn his route and mess with the camera to stay in front of him. However, I decided to try it normally, just flying behind him, and I managed it on the first try.

Really all I did was stay back just a bit so that I was never right on top of him or at his tail. If you're quick enough, you can dodge the fireballs without much effort. I got hit a couple of times, but I didn't get knocked off my drake or anything. I flew in a bit of a zigzag pattern behind him, and when he made a wide turn, I cut the corner so I wouldn't get too far away and I could still avoid the fireballs. A quick glance at the minimap helps when he makes those odd turns, and thankfully this flight is a lot shorter than the wing commander before him.

Commento di Sorraxe

Just stay close to him and you will make it. I got it by the fireballs 4-5 times without dismounted, my only 2 fails before that was that i got out ranged me and got failed. Third time, i stayed so close as i could with 4-5 hits with no problem.

Conclusion, just stay close and goodluck.

Commento di Taliesen

You must be Honored with Netherwing in order to start this quest chain. In order to challenge Captain Skyshatter, you have to first defeat the 5 mounted NPCs standing in front of him. The encounters increase in difficulty with Skyshatter being the most difficult.

Before you start:
• Having 310% riding helps considerably.
• I believe the guild perk "Mount Up" (+10% mounted speed) also works.
• Set your camera to max distance. Do this by going to Interface -> Camera -> Max Camera Distance and putting the slider all the way on the right. Then use your mouse wheel to zoom out as far as you can.

During the quest:
• Skyshatter will throw a barrage of meteors at you every 5 seconds or so. There will be lots of them and then will fall at a diagonal angle. He will cast it in your general direction, but the meteors will not seek you out or follow you.
• If you get hit by a meteor, you will be knocked back a few yards.
• You need to stay close to him or you will get a "Quest Failed" message. I didn't measure, but I would guess it was 20-25 yards or so.
• You will get the achievement immediately upon defeating him. You do not need to turn in the quest to get the achievement.
• With the reputation guild perk, as a non-human, the quest gives 1100 Netherwing rep.

Tips:
• Stay in front of him if at all possible. It is better to be ahead of him than behind him in case he makes an unexpected turn.
• At least twice, he attempts to trick you and will change directions rapidly 2-3 times within a few seconds. Be aware.
• The meteors are not hard to dodge. The easiest methods I found were to strafe to the side or to fly upward slightly.
• Keep him targeted. It makes him easier to see.
• He turns pretty slowly. Take advantage of this and cut corners to catch up to him.
• Watch out for the crystal formations. If you run into one, you may momentarily land on it and fall behind Skyshatter.

Commento di phreakwently

Much easier in 5.0.5 with guild perks and 310% flying speed. I was keeping near him at 492%, got it on my second try.

Commento di KillaGuerrilla

Finally completed this quest, using some tips from wowhead!

1. Pressed Alt Z
2. Flew to the side/top of him, trying to anticipate his turns

but most importantly...

3. Listened to "Highway To The Dangerzone"

Seriously, first time listening to this song while doing the race not only made me feel epic, I won!

Commento di 1129206

whenever i try this quest i get into it for a small amount of time and he fades away and i instantly fail the quest why is this happening?

Commento di pinoymonkey

I think he's bugged in this patch. I just did did like 5 laps and he never stopped at the starting zone. He just flies past it and keeps going. I was doing that race for 15 minutes straight. So it's not worth it anymore guys. Just a heads up. (Patch 5.3)

Commento di penniah

If you've failed the quest after what seems like a ridiculously long run, go back and try agin immediately. I failed on my fourth circuit, went out again right away, and only had to do one circuit before I got this achieve. Happened to me this way with Mulverick as well. Seems like all the others were two circuits to complete.

Commento di Ondai

Just bested Captain Skyshatter! So as of this writing, this quest (or any of the preceding races, as I did them all today) is not bugged. Captain Skyshatter circuited twice before returning to the landing strip.

This was honestly trivial as a level 70 paladin (+20% mount speed), which I believe does not stack with Mount Up (+10% mount speed, level 3 Guild perk). Followed the advice of others; max camera distance with UI disabled (Alt+z).

Commento di Okonomiyaki

FINALLY finished this awful quest - totally bugged IMO.

Tried it 3 or 4 times & he just kept flying past the landing strip & kept on going, at which point I would just automatically fail the quest. I'm like "WTF?" cuz I was right on him the whole time. The races would go at least 6-7 minutes and then I'd fail. Very frustrating.

Attempted it again today & finally triggered the quest completion & achievement after only ONE circuit (took 4 minutes from accepting the quest.)

If I had to do this quest again I think I'd throw my laptop across the room. LOL

Commento di Grimnarl

Skyshatter is either bugged, or you have to have the fastest flying skill available, which is rather odd considering it's a lv70 quest from TBC and I'm attempting it in Pandaria with a lv 87 Hunter. Mine is currently only Artisan, and I simply can't keep up. First try he lost me a short distance from the landing strip... whole attempt lasted like 30 seconds... second time I tried hugging him really close... missed being hit every time so that didn't slow me down, but he was so fast that he got just a few lengths in front of me and the mission failed again. Guess I gotta save another 4k gold so I can get the last and fastest riding skill and see if that solves the problem? I hope this damn'd quest doesn't keep me from getting my drake.

Commento di Shadius

Beat Captain Skyshatter on my 1st try as a 70 DK.
The trick is to dodge the meteors:

Strafe left and right repeatedly. Keep under him for the first bit.

The best place IMO is to be above him to the right.

When he turns corners, try and cut him off a little or close the gap.

Good luck to you future Skybreakers :)

Commento di wschlichtman

Again, very frustrating run, as others have mentioned. Tip: If you make a run and fail, make sure you remove the failed quest from your quest log before making another run. I had forgotten and could not get the quest to finish. As soon as I removed the failed quest from my log, finished the quest on the first circuit!

Commento di Iamtard

As of today 28-04-14 I discovered that if you have a 310% mount you can bug several of the flights.

If you stay TOO close or head TOO far ahead, you will bug the NPC into thinking it's a reset and he will keep flying. I spent 10 minutes flying before failing that way.

After I tried staying just behind him untill the point where he is about to finish (I stayed back at the landing area there) he didn't reset.

Mind you, "resetting" his flightcourse doesn't mean you fail the quest, it just "loops".

Commento di 843605

5 times fail. I was on him the whole time. hit by bombs a couple times but stayed on him.

Commento di AddisonGrist

This is the absolute worst series of quests I have encountered in WoW.

When I got to Skyshatter, as some others have said, I followed him 5 or 6 laps (a good 15 minutes) before getting angry and flying away. I failed the quest, dropped it, and then picked it up again a few minutes later. The second time it only took one lap to get completion and the achievement.

Commento di Gaminghadou

Well as of the 6.0.2 i tried 6 times at 310 % mount

He is TOO FAST, i cant stay near him at all and the techniques are bugged because i tried with all preset on the settings from low to extreme and i still see 1 meteor of 20

We lost 31 % speed because we don't have anymore the guild bonus but this quest was supposed to be for 280 % mount for level 70

Someone else tried at 6.0.2 patch ?

Commento di paradidlle

Did it today...after many fails... try as much as you can to not fall far behind and not surpass him... just try to stay always behind him...in his tail...

Commento di joonjoon819

Looks like there is some sort of issue with this quest currently. During the race, I randomly get pushed back by an instant fire attack, as if hit by an invisible meteor. He takes no casting actions, yet I repeatedly get hit, making it impossible for me to catch up. He does cast proper meteors with casting animations, none of which I get hit by.

It feels like he flies much faster now than before. Not sure about that.

Either the difficulty was buffed up with faster flying Captain and invisible attacks, or it is a bug.

Commento di andrewnct

Confirmed that this quest is currently bugged. However, it is still doable. Press Alt-Z to make your UI fade, and fly high enough above him to keep his meteors out of range. Additionally, keep him at the very edge of your screen along the bottom while in flight. It also helps to make a couple attempts first so you are familiar with his route.

Commento di 1429633

Simple method: staying just below and behind him (not too far).
Quest validated today in one try because we only take 2 or 3 meteors in this way
Good luck !

Commento di Argentt

This race doesn't seem to be bugged anymore (at least for me? but I can run everything on ultra settings)

Easier than the La corsa delle Fauci di Drago: il Comandante di Squadriglia Mulverick race actually. Max zoomed out and I just kept him below me out of range of the fireballs, he's fast but doesn't do such sharp turns.

Commento di Drayline

This is tons easy if you try to stay slightly higher than him throughout the flight. The meteor's are easy to see and a majority of them will fire directly behind him.

Commento di AHornyEwok

This is quite simple to do, although you do require 310% flying and a quick reaction time.
Did it on my first try, and as people have reported, you don't see every fireball, but from my experience you miss a couple, which overall, if you're good, enough wont make any difference.
Good luck.

Commento di mro1337

tried to cheat by having my friend fly me on his 2 person mount. did not work.

he got hit, we all got hit. i beat it on my 2nd run total by flying myself.
close the gaps on the turns. it's a short run and you can see his bombs.

it wasnt that hard and i was on my 280 speed mount.

Commento di Rossit

His bombs come out and slow or stop you. The you fail as your too far away. Nearly all come out staright behind so stay to his Left or Right. I found in early part stay left as many of his turns are left and it gives you a chance to cut across and catch up as he is faster than you. Later stage of the run keep to his right.

Commento di cjxsutton

I know I'm super late on this but I just got it on my second try. Mouse got stuck on the cord the first time.

The easiest way for me was to zoom my character in to the point where it was as if I was looking through their eyes. To where you can't see your own character at all. Then just follow him and be ready with the space bar.

Didn't get hit by a single meteor.

Honestly felt Mulverick was harder at this level. Back in the day with slower flying I'm sure Skyshatter was worse.

Commento di frakbt

Just figured out a strategy for Mulverick that worked like a charm here as well (L100, 420 Flying speed):

Put a raid mark on him (orange is nicely visible), zoom the camera out, and use mouse-turning to keep that raid mark near the bottom center of your screen.

The result is the same as the other strategies: you end up staying ahead and/or above him for most of the flight, and you don't have to memorize the path.

Commento di Pandoriaxa35

I lost twice yesterday, and tried three times today until I finally beat him. I simply zoned out and followed him and cut a corner or two after recognizing some of the path. In order to zone out I read one of the strategies but failed to follow it as Skyshatter was moving too quickly. With the help of my obliviousness I somehow beat him and completed the quest. Good luck to all!

Commento di Cyfaeras

Just do a practice run or two to find the first few turns, listen to Danger Zone, and you'll get it easy.

Commento di Spose

Spent about 4-5 tries before I got pissed off. 280% flying didn't work for me, so I farmed together 4k gold, went to Stormwind in whilst I'm exalted with, and bought 310% flying. Made it on the first try. Really recommend to do this if you have 280% and it's hard for you! Hope this helped.

Commento di Huntercraft192

much easier than mulverick, keep above him at all times and he wont hit you

Commento di Destracerlock

Even with 310% Flight it's a bit tricky but I gave up and found my in my bag and just checked to keep 4 stacks of it active.
With 350% Flight, it's Easymode basically :)

just wanted to share it

Commento di Spilledstars

Do whatever you can in your own flying style that keeps you close to him.

Cut corners after he slows you, if he manages to hit you.
If he dives, dive to match his hitbox. same when he climbs.

For me wiggling right and left arrows helped somewhat in dodging the meteors.

IF YOU SLIP TOO FAR FROM HIM it fails. I got real tired of the sad-bong noise from my quest addon.

Commento di Kukkaspoika

Basically requires 310% flight speed no matter what. Just stay above him and you'll miss most of the fireballs even if it looks like they'll hit you. If you get hit a few times just return to cutting a bit of corners and staying above the whole time.

You'll get a pretty massive 1000 rep reward. I got 1500 rep during TBC Timewalking 50% rep event. This was the last quest I needed for Exalted, so highly worth the hassle.

Commento di xLunacyx

So normally he's quite a lot faster than you.
But I had a Bandiera a Scacchi from the Darkmoon Faire (specifically Corridore scatenato della Mega Corsa which may be considered even harder than Captain Skyshatter)
which trivialized this dragonmaw race, as I fly about just as fast as him, and could easily catch up on turns. I even got hit a whole bunch and still first-tried it.

Collegamenti

La corsa delle Fauci di Drago: il Capitano Spezzacielo

Segui il Capitano Spezzacielo restando sulla tua Cavalcatura Volante. Se riuscirai a sconfiggere il Capitano Spezzacielo, comunica la tua vittoria a Ja'y Nosliw al Campo Base delle Fauci di Drago nella Valle di Torvaluna.

	Sconfiggi il Capitano Spezzacielo. (1)

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Osi sfidare Spezzacielo? Sprofonderai nelle tenebre, mentre il cielo sarà fatto a pezzi dalle mie meteore.

Non hai possibilità, soldato. Tuttavia, se desideri morire...

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Decolliamo quando vuoi!

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