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Homeward Bound

Escort Pao'ka Swiftmountain from Highperch, and then talk to Motega Firemane in Whitereach Post.
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 Escort Pao'ka from Highperch

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Please help me, <class>! I've been hiding here in Highperch for some time now and it's been days since I've seen a friendly face. I came here to study the wyvern and I think I got a little too close. After being chased away from one of the nests I got lost.

I need to get back to Whitereach Post! Motega does not know that I am missing and will be furious to know that I ventured into Highperch by myself.

Whitereach Post is just east of here... please take me there!

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
  • 2350 experience ( 14 10 at max. level)
  • 100 Reputation with Thunder Bluff

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By Nantlas on 01/27/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)
Sometimes the rare elite mob heartrazor will be flying around in this quest area. He is a lvl 32 elite mob and hard to take solo. If you watch his path it is possible to start the quest and get out of his agro range without fighting him. As soon as he flys by the quest NPC start the quest and you should be fine.
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By Anonymous on 12/19/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
here are the coords for the NPC that ends the quest 21,31,,, gl !
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By Chek on 02/10/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)
The quest starts at 18, 41 up in the Highperch area. Go to the south-eastern "tower" on your map and you will find a narrow path going up the back of the canyon wall. Pao'ka is right on the ledge.

It's pretty straightforward. He doesn't have waves of mobs that attack him like other escort quests, but he does wander right into plenty of wyverns on the way. He's fairly strong and can almost take a wyvern by himself, so if you end up pulling 3 at a time, you can kill your two before killing his. As soon as you're out of combat, his health resets.

He is buffable, unlike some other escort mobs.
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By gammaomega93 on 08/24/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
Just did this on my warrior. The three wyverns bugged: I only had to fight one, the other two didn't aggro, and thusly despawned. I suck at escorts, so I guess I lucked out.
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By Anonymous on 12/19/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
This one is a pain to solo for a lvl 30 Shamoo (Tauren Shaman) because the guy's AI is loopy.&nbsp He'll walk right past you while your fighting a battle and into a group of three aggroing them all.&nbsp Or sometimes he just doesnt stop at all and aggros every guy on the way.&nbsp For some reason they aren't hitting him when he's walking... kinda like the hunter pet problem where the pet can't move and hit at the same time.

Im aggrivated by it.
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By Anonymous on 12/19/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Soloed as lvl 29 Warlock.
Easy when you pull those Wyverns one by one by&nbsp yourself before he agroes them himself.
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By Anonymous on 03/02/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)
The same with every escort mission. Let the NPC walk ahead of you, as soon as he draws aggro, he will stop and fight and you fight that mob with him. If you go on ahead he may not jump in the fight and walk into the next mob before you can help him. This is probably the easiest escort mission I have found. 28 Shaman and no real trouble. Just let him grab the aggro and every fight is like having your own pet.
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By Anonymous on 12/19/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
The problem I have is that I got him outside, so the quest completed, but I have no idea where Whitereach Post is.
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By Anonymous on 01/24/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
yeah hes very loopy luckly i was grinding when i found him so most of the stuff was dead already but they still respawned close to the way out and he aggroed 3 of them i bearly passed it with a 29 troll mage
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By Anonymous on 10/07/2006 (Patch 1.12.1)
very easy to do at lvl 28 as a shaman
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By Anonymous on 07/26/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
I just soloed this, and I was surprised at how easy it was.&nbsp Just stealth and follow him.&nbsp He'll aggro wyverns from time to time, just ambush them and kill them off.&nbsp Key is to make sure HE gets aggro so he doesn't continue without you.&nbsp If he gets two on him make sure you pull one off pretty quick.

There are only 2 tricky parts...first, you get poisoned sometimes so you can't always stealth.&nbsp Not too big a deal, just hang back a bit until it wears off.&nbsp Second, there is one spot right before he heads down the hill to end the quest where some wyverns spawn.&nbsp It looked like 3 spawned to me, but he only aggroed 1 of them.&nbsp I don't know if thats normal or not, if he were to get all 3 it might be tough to keep him alive.&nbsp You might have to use some tricks to kill them fast enough in that case but its probably doable.
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By Anonymous on 07/26/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
No matter how many I try to clear before starting the quest, they've all respawned by the time the slow-ass NPC makes his way down that high sloping path into the main nesting area.

I follow behind him and let him get the initial aggro, but no matter how fast we kill them, he manages to aggro 2 or 3 at a time, and then it's all over.

Screw this.
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By Anonymous on 10/04/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
Well, I thought this was pretty easy, but now I don't know. I don't know if it was a glitch or what, but once I got out in the middle area where all the wyverns were, the guy stopped helping me fight and instead just kept walking. I was soloing it, killing them pretty easy, but by the time I killed one, he was all the way across being attacked by three. I'd already had my game freeze up the first attempt, and I didn't want to try again after this failed second attempt, so I don't know if he always does that or if it was just a glitch.
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By Anonymous on 06/04/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)
Turn quest at 21,32.
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By Anonymous on 12/15/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
Because of a Lvl 32 rare elite i couldnt do the quest,,,just my luck
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By Peacenote on 03/09/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
Pao'ka is at 17,40.

I'd also like to reiterate that you have to go through the first section of Highperch, up a little path, and all the way to the end of that to find him. You're basically traveling south-east the way you came, but up in Highperch. I was running around the lower section for some time, waiting for him to spawn, before I re-read the comments here and realized there was another section!
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By Tygry on 03/20/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
This is best done along with the Wind Rider quest. Gather your eggs by clearing the mobs and make your way to the NPC. Most of what was dropped was junk and I left it to cut down on the respawn time. Once I had the tenth egg, I started the quest. Had to fight very little though I did have to take a wave of five before we cleared Highperch. Easily soloed as a 29 pally.
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By darthveda on 08/01/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
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By Gray08 on 05/04/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
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By chinmi on 07/07/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)
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By Anonymous on 03/19/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
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