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Stones of Binding

Gather the Burning Key, the Cresting Key and the Thundering Key from the Stone of West Binding, the Stone of East Binding and the Stone of Outer Binding.

Bring them to the Stone of Inner Binding.
Burning Key
Cresting Key
Thundering Key

Description

Four Stones of Binding are scattered throughout Arathi. These stones keep me pinned beneath the earth.

To unlock them you must unlock the strongest: the Stone of Inner Binding. And to do that, you must gather keys from the other three.

These stones are watched by guardians, but if you are clever, or lucky, you may find ways to banish them.

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
  • 2850 experience ( 17 10 at max. level)

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By Anonymous on 09/29/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
Thundering Key from 52.50
Burning key from 25.30
Cresting key from 66.29 (go up the hill, then you'll see the water element, dont get fooled by the first circle you see! must go up hill)

After getting all 3 keys, go to south west of refuge camp and turn it in.
At 36.57, not the large crystal, its a little stone beside it

ps. this circles should be spotted on map
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By Zubki on 03/12/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
Burning Key - 25,30
Cresting Key - 66,29
Thundering Key - 52,50
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By Ormriss on 11/11/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
You just have to use the stones in the middle of the various rock formations in this zone. You will likely have to take out four or five level 39 elementals at each circle in order to get to the middle stone. Each middle stone is surrounded by three elementals, and you have to defeat all three. They will aggro together if you try to use the stone without beating them.

Fortunately, not-so-bright players tend to farm these elementals for their drops (I say not-so-bright because it's almost always better to farm something else)( Moderator - Xp is good there, hence people farm em.). Warriors also have a quest to take out elementals, so if you do this at your server's peak time, there is a good chance you can just walk up to each stone and get the appropriate key.

Take the three keys to the southernmost circle, with all the earth elementals, to finish this part of the quest.
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By bigtexs on 03/31/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
Inner Binding - 36,58
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By Anonymous on 09/29/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
One of the keys is just west of Norfolk Manor.&nbsp The other key is just northeast of the Circle of binding (just NW of Hammerfall). the last key is in the circle NW of Go-Shek farm.

You can get drops from the elements that banish other elements you will face.

Once you have all three keys, you go to the cirlce, just south of the road on the way to Stromguard.&nbsp If you go directly south of Refuge pointe, you should hit it.

Once you complete, you will get another quest.
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By Anonymous on 07/18/2006 (Patch 1.11.2)
The chain of quests started here actually goes much longer than just the three shown. In the end, when you free the Princess, she turns on you and attacks you.&nbsp As you fight her, she will summon all types of elemental adds and if you take too long fighting her, there can be a lot of them (lol - I got to about 8 of them...).

As you kill the elementals in the process of doing this quest, you will pick up charms that banish a different kind of elemental (Buring Charms banish Water Elementals, or something like that...). Save these charms for killing the Princess - they are perfect for knocking out the various elementals she summons. The charms don't give you xp when you use them to kill the elementals so there is no real point to using them to complete this quest, but plenty of reason to keep them for the last quest. I imagine you could solo the final quest if you had enough charms (4-5 of each type ought to do it). The Princess isn't that hard to kill, but has a lot of health and fighting 8+ creatures after she has summoned a bunch of elementals gets pretty tough. If you can banish each elemental as they appear, it will keep the Princess alone and vulnerable....

Wish I had kept some....
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By Anonymous on 09/29/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
When you fight the exiles, you receive sometimes charm-loot for banishing exiles.

Burning exiles have charms for banishing Thundering exiles
Thundering exiles have charms for banishing Cresting exiles
Cresting exiles have charms for banishing Burning exiles.

It's recommended that you keep this order, so you can use charms to quickly kill the exiles.
Burning exiles are on West circle, then Thundering exiles on Outer circle, and then Cresting exiles on East circle.

The row upper circle -> lower circle -> left circle is not recommended.

If you have some charms over, use it on exiles for little free experience points and loot
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By Anonymous on 03/30/2006 (Patch 1.10.0)
It is really good what out friend posted before..I am just posting to conform it..that those coords are perfect..so if you dont know where it it follow this and you will have you quest done:

Thundering Key from 52.50
Burning key from 25.30
Cresting key from 66.29 (go up the hill, then you'll see the water element, dont get fooled by the first circle you see! must go up hill)

After getting all 3 keys, go to south west of refuge camp and turn it in.
At 36.57, not the large crystal, its a little stone beside it

ps. this circles should be spotted on map

Good Luck!
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By Anatis on 10/07/2007 (Patch 2.2.2)
Just for info

Thundering drop stones to banish Cresting
Cresting drop stones to banish Burning
Burning drop stones to banish Thundering
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By Anonymous on 09/29/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
Can someone share where they found the cresting key?&nbsp The othere two were intuitive, however, at the circle of east binding there are no elementals and no crystal to drop the key.&nbsp Is is dropped from one of the raptors in the area?

Never mind ... it is on the hill northeast of the crystal the princess communicates through.
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By Anonymous on 09/29/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
you can also use cresting charms, thundering charms, and burning charms to very easily banish the exile and kill them, find the charms in the AH
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By Anonymous on 03/30/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
the thundering key is at the circle of outer binding which is south east of refuge pointe. there are a bunch of thundering exiles around there. you have have to kill them to get to the center. click the stone to get the key.

the cresting key is at the circle of east binding. it up at the top of the map not far west from hammerfall. it is surrounded by cresting exiles. click on the stone of east binding to get the key.

the burning key is at the cicle of west binding. it is just inside arathi (west of northfold manor) and is surrounded by burning exiles. once again click the center stone to get the key

once you've got all the keys go to the circle of inner binding. it's NE of stromgarde keep on the map. just south of the main road.surrounded by rumbling exiles.

good luck!
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By Anonymous on 11/04/2005 (Patch 1.8.2)
To the person wondering why the key never dropped from the elementals, it's because you have to click on the main stone in the center of the circles. If you slick on it you should see a gear.
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By Anonymous on 03/30/2006 (Patch 1.10.0)
I confirm with those coords. Worked fine with me, did the quest in 20 mins.
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By Anonymous on 03/30/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
After you get the keys, the Stone of Inner Binding is located at 35,60. Slightly Northeast of Stromguard Keep. (Not South!)
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By JazzRock99 on 04/03/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
Do you have to kill all three of the guards in the middle to get a key at all because I can't get the burning key but I'm at the inner circle part clicking on the rock?
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By Anonymous on 12/18/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
the cresting key stone is not working anyone know if quest bug.
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By Anonymous on 02/27/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
However, the elite is friendly.
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By Anonymous on 10/04/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
I'm on the stones of binding quest, and am at the circle of east binding. But there are no elementals and the stone in the center is inactive. I already have the burning key and the thundering key. What's going on? Why can't I continue on the quest? Why aren't there any elementals here?
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By Anonymous on 03/21/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)
Clicking the small stone (not the obilisk in the centre) generates a lvl 39(?) elite giant earth elemental. He's yellow to you so won't attack and has 3 minions with him. If you attack at the Earth elemental area be sure to clear out all the normal elementals here or they will be aggroed and join the fight.

He goes for a wander around the land (we found him and his escort behind Hamerfall). Focus on the two of his minions that have mana as they heal him. After killing them concentrate on the big fellah until dead. The last minion is just a fighter and not too much of a threat.
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By Anonymous on 03/30/2006 (Patch 1.10.0)
Do you have to kill this last elite (Fozruk?)?
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By Anonymous on 02/02/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)
This was fairly easy was a lvl 34 Shaman had help from a 36 mage The Loc for each Key is for the west is 25,30 east is 66,29 and center is 51,50 Good Luck
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By Anonymous on 05/10/2005 (Patch 1.4.2)
clicking the stone generates a level 42 elite guy.. I had a lvl 60 helping me out there :)
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By Anonymous on 04/24/2006 (Patch 1.10.1)
The Thundering drop charms for the Cresting, the Cresting drop charms for the Fire ones and the Fire elementals drop charms to banish the Thundering ones. Sometimes the Kobolds from the first part of the quest drop charms too. Just a suggested order to get each of the keys in :)
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By Anonymous on 10/16/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
I didn't have any problems finding the other keys and I know where to go to end the quest, my problem is finding the west binding circle, I've looked everwhere and can't find it. I've asked and asked and no one knows. Please help.
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By Anonymous on 04/19/2006 (Patch 1.10.1)
solod at 35 mage, just be careful...pretty easy if you dont rush anything, just bring 2-3 healing pots for the 39s
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By Anonymous on 05/14/2005 (Patch 1.4.2)
Cresting Key is at the Circle of East Binding 66,29.
Thundering Key is at the Circle of Outer Binding 52,50.
Burning Key is at the Circle of West Binding 25,30.
And finally the Circle of Inner Binding is just south of the Refuge Pointe at coords 36,57 guarded by Rumbling Exiles. You will notice some elementals drop charms. These will instantly banish one elemental at another circle. For example the Cresting Charm dropped at East Binding Circle will banish a Burning Exile at the West Binding Circle. Enjoy :)
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By kolg on 02/15/2019 (Patch 1.13)
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By XFGREAPER on 11/29/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
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By vethon on 01/10/2008 (Patch 2.3.2)
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By mrdummy on 02/26/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
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By Anonymous on 01/14/2007 (Patch 2.0.4)
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By Anonymous on 01/13/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)