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Level: 54
Requires level: 52
Side: Horde
Start: Hierophant Theodora Mulvadania
End: Hierophant Theodora Mulvadania
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1.	The Rise of the Machines
2.	The Rise of the Machines
3.	The Rise of the Machines

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The Rise of the Machines

Venture to the Burning Steppes and recover 10 Fractured Elemental Shards for Hierophant Theodora Mulvadania.

You recall Theodora mentioning the golems and elementals of that region as being a source for these shards.

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10	Fractured Elemental Shard (10)

Description

The machines made themselves known to us during our initial forays into the Searing Gorge. Upon further investigation we discovered that they were being imported from Burning Steppes, possibly Blackrock Depths. That is what we need you for, <name>.

Your first task is to venture to the Burning Steppes and recover elemental shards from the rock automatons and lesser rock creations of the region. Once you have collected a sufficient amount, return to me and I shall determine their source of origin.

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You will also receive: 1 65

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

5450 experience ( 32 70 at max. level)
100 Reputation with Undercity

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By Sware on 12/13/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

Referace to the Terminator series, the 3rd installment called "The Rise of the Machines".

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By Anonymous on 10/08/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

Got all my shards off the War Reavers (53-55). They are around the Ruins of Thaurissan. This is near the north wall a little past the center of zone. Follow the main road in and bear left at the Y. The Horde has a flight outpost just a little north of the ruins , up in the hills. In the ruins, watch out for the dorfs with the flameshooter mouths. lol

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By lagoin on 03/03/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)

They can drop from the War Reavers or the Greater Rock Elems in the lava pits, seems to be about a 70% drop off of the reavers.

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By Anonymous on 10/08/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

Just click on Fractured Elemental Shards in the above quest description, scroll down to see what mobs drop it, then click map beside the name of any of the mobs you want to know about. You'll get a nice map showing you all the locations it has been killed recently. Ignore random odd dots in wierd places on the maps.

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By Anonymous on 04/08/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

To turn it in its in THE BADLANDS at 25.45

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By Anonymous on 01/25/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

Start and ends in Kargath

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By Anonymous on 12/20/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

in thottbot if u search for the quest turnin it sais begins and ends in kargath.....the turnin is actually by the dustbowl to a guy named Lotwil Veriatus.

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By aikouka on 11/26/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)

I wanted to add that the Malfunctioning Reaver (rare spawn) also drops the Fractured Elemental Shards. I happened to find him earlier while on the quest and he dropped 5 of them! Lucky for me, that's exactly how many I needed to finish :).

Last edited by adashiel on 07/25/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)

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By Anonymous on 10/08/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

head to 56,41

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By Anonymous on 10/08/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

killed about 15 war reavers and got my 10 drops.

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By Anonymous on 11/19/2005 (Patch 1.8.3)

5450 exp at lvl 57
+100 rep with UC

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By Vallencia on 06/09/2007 (Patch 2.1.1)

Just be wary of the little dwarves that are in the area. Sometimes you can't see their short statures behind the little stone walls and they aggro while you're fighting the elementals.

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By Squirrely on 10/30/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)

This quest was a complete pain in the ass for a lvl 53 mutilate rogue. Drop rate is fine but the mobs in question are immune to gouge, poisons and blind and have huge armor. Also, about half of the war reavers patrol around so you have about 50% chance of having another join in your fight at any given time. Ended up dying about 10 times and taking 2hrs -_-. Make sure you have your fights planned out well if you're melee.

Reavers are much easier to find and always drop money but they're packed in with dwarves who also like to patrol around. Greater obisidian guys are a bit easier to take down and even offer 5 Hydraxian rep per kill and frequently drop essences of earth, although they just as often drop nothing at all. Unfortunately, they're spread all over the zone and share spawning places with groups of imps which you generally want to avoid. Pick your poison, but not literally >.>

Last edited by Squirrely on 10/30/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)

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By Anonymous on 01/25/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

Soloed VERY easily at 52. 66,34 is one of the small plateaus next to the lava. Respawns were just timed perfectly for each round and some manaing up. Only issue were the various Alliance out for an easy kill of one wandering Orc Warlock. Left after an hour with 9 HK, 10 fragments, and six greens. Not to shabby.

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By Anonymous on 03/03/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)

Many centered around 59,37

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By Anonymous on 06/20/2006 (Patch 1.11.0)

i noticed that the higher lvl they were the more they dropped it....lvl 53's didnt drop it alot but lvl 55's dropped it alot more. just a suggestion to go for 55's more than anything else

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By Anonymous on 04/08/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

it drops from the war reaver in ruins of thaurissan

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By Randithyns on 08/13/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)

I just killed War Reavers (lvl 53-55) south of Flame Crest. Anyone in need of Runecloth should go ahead and kill the humanoids in the ruins as well as they drop Runecloth at a pretty decent drop rate. Took 26 War Reavers to drop 10.

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By Shajara on 12/16/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)

Greater Obsidian Elemental has high ammount of chance to drop them, War Reaver instead drop rate is very low (for me) i suggest u to kill the Greater Obsidian Elemental instead to do War Reaver, u can found them in the lava pools

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By HobgoodArathor on 05/09/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)

The previous poster is correct, these do drop off "War Reavers", I found a group of them at [67, 36]

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By lejpjj on 06/16/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)

I did this quest 16/06/08 and now the drop rates seem to be extremely increased, it must be atleast 70% on the reavers, and pretty much the same on the Greater Obsidian Elementals :p

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By Anonymous on 07/27/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)

Complete the quest to kargath badlands <3

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By Anonymous on 06/14/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)

10 for 10 on the reavers the obsidian elemntals didnt drop once. COncentrate on the war reavers

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By Anonymous on 02/16/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)

One every 3-4 kills with the reavers. So much for every single drop. Not ehough elementals to kill for good drop rate neither. But at least they only ask for 10 of these things.

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By Anonymous on 11/10/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)

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By Anonymous on 02/01/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)

The War Reavers did drop pretty much very time, the rock elementals not so much

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By Anonymous on 04/14/2005 (Patch 1.3.2)

i killed the War Reavers (elementals) instead of the rock-looking elementals..drop rate was very good

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By Anonymous on 04/28/2005 (Patch 1.4.0)

Reavers were deffinently the best, the 55's almost always dropped, the 54's dropped about every other one and the 53's never seemed to drop.
(54 rogue)

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By Anonymous on 10/04/2006 (Patch 1.12.1)

First four Obsidian Elementals (next to the flyer in Burning Steppes) each dropped one, after that it was about 3 kills to a drop from War Reavers and Elementals. It might have something to do with the level, I was 58 doing this quest.

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By Anonymous on 04/07/2005 (Patch 1.3.2)

I soloed this fairly easily by pulling the mobs to 68,41 (43 Warrior). From there you can single pull about 5 - 6 of them safely. Drop rate was not that great.

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By Anonymous on 05/04/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

Kill the War Reavers ONLY around the FP and in the ruins. They did't start dropping for me till my 3rd kill. After that out of the 13 I killed, 10 drops.
It is not as hard as mentioned above if your lucky I guess. I took me 20 minutes total. Good Luck! What out for Alliance Gankers... I had two on me killing me very few minutes for kicks.. Level 70's...

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By Anonymous on 03/26/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

completed as a 52 hunter not hard just the drop rates werent too crash hot

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By Anonymous on 05/30/2005 (Patch 1.4.2)

Loc is 56, 37 to kill 55 Dark Reaver. 1 in 4 for the drops. 5450 exp at level 55. "Reputation with undercity has increased."

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By Anonymous on 03/16/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

Found mine at Ruins of Thaurissan. 67,39. Killed War Reaver's. Dropped 1 out of 4 or 5. Gets tricky when you're near the Thaurissan humanoids.

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By sandreid87 on 07/30/2019 (Patch 1.13)

Follow-up Quest: The Rise of the Machines (Part 2)

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By Ormriss on 11/25/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)

The drops for this quest come from the war golems and magma elementals found in Burning Steppes. Any of the golems and elementals have a chance to drop them.

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By kreghx on 12/13/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

I soloed this fairly easily by pulling the mobs to 68,41 (43 Warrior). From there you can single pull about 5 - 6 of them safely. Drop rate was not that great.

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By Alariban on 02/17/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)

You can get the Shards from War Reavers near the Ruins of Thaurissan in Burning Steppes.

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By d4rkphilosopher on 02/14/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)

extremely easy as a 53 frost mage... It was like they wanted me to crit on them. I think I took about 100 dmg for the whole quest. Have fun.

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By Demurr on 10/21/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)

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