Quick Facts

Series

1.	Leave No Tracks
2.	Stepping Up Surveillance

Storyline
Darkshore The Last Wave of Survivors Threat from the Water Buzzbox 413 No Accounting for Taste Buzzbox 723 The Corruption's Source A Cure In The Dark A Lost Companion Unsavory Remedies Ritual Materials Twice Removed The Ritual Bond The Shatterspear Invaders Shatterspear Laborers Remnants of the Highborne Denying Manpower War Supplies Strategic Strikes On the Brink The Front Line Ending the Threat Disturbing Connections The Land Is in Their Blood The Last Wildkin Protector of Ameth'Aran Mutual Aid Aroom's Farewell Calming the Earth Soothing the Elements Elune's Fire Sworn to Protect The Blackwood Pledge The Wildkin's Oath The Emerald Dream The Waking Nightmare Leaving the Dream The Eye of All Storms Leave No Tracks Consumed The Seeds of Life An Ounce of Prevention In Defense of Darkshore The Devourer of Darkshore The Bear's Paw The Bear's Blessing Cleansing the Afflicted The Defiler Stepping Up Surveillance Unearthed Knowledge Soggoth and Kronn The Slumbering Ancients Naga In Our Midst The Darkscale Warlord The Offering to Azshara The Battle for Darkshore

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Comments

Comment by Squiji

If you move to the high land above the excavation, you will come to a place where you will be facing the long snakelike structure coming down from the top of the thing they are working on. Move then to your right and you will see a ramp going up into the works; it appears to be made of metal plates and it twists up over open air. Follow that ramp up to a platform above; you will see several of the cultists grouped there. Pause to listen to their conversation and you will complete the quest. Beware of roaming Faceless Ones, they can detect stealth.

Comment by 239616

Ramp up starts at 41.85 also even 1 point of damage breaks your stealth.

Comment by 666059

This quest is one of those moments where I'm really glad I'm on a druid. If you're not (and not a rogue), be very careful of falling damage, as I'm pretty sure it knocked me out of the figurine-stealth when I tried it out.

Also, at present the turn-in message is typo'd: "Return to Balren fo the Claw at the Grove of the Ancients in Darkshore."

Comment by 196807

The dialog you are spying on is simple but further confirms that Soggoth is the old god the twilight cultists are trying to summon or revive.

Doomspeaker Trevellion says: Our men are almost finished unearthing great Soggoth. Is the ritual ready?
Thalya the Voidcaller says: Not quite. We shall need a great many offerings of sacrifice before the Herald of the Old Gods roams the land again.
Doomspeaker Trevellion says: Do not worry. Like I said, our men are almost done unearthing the Slithering One. They will make for a suitable -- and even voluntary -- sacrifice. Soggoth will rise!

Comment by 726777

Its faster if you kill them and wait till they respawn. When they do they immediatly talk.

Comment by 768919

I'm having trouble waiting to hear them say something what am I doing wrong? I have waited for 3 hours now. I tried killing them off and wait for them to re-spawn they speak but no change in my Quest log it still shows that 0/1 for the Quest. Is there something that I missed?

Comment by 784795

I have stood in space for a few hours and nothing happened. I killed them and waited for them to respawn. I have no clue how to continue it.

Comment by leriana

You don't need to be at the bottom of the ramp to rebuff the panther. I did it at the top at the ramp and they started to talk after I rebuffed.

Comment by 948149

Note: the Worgen racial Darkflight (movement speed increase) does not break the stealth provided by the panther figurine.

Comment by janan2

Actually to make sure I wouldnt be detected by the Faceless One wandering around, I waited for the guy to show up at the top of the small grass ramp to the right of the big snaky pipe. I killed him and then went into stealth and walked down the short ramp. Then go to the right and you will find a tile like ramp winding up to where Doomspeaker Trevellian and his group are and you will eventually hear their conversation and the quest will be complete. Note: the stealth mode turns off when you reach the road.

Comment by Goddessa39

I had to jump down and do the previous quest too. (Newbies, be aware that you should search around for a better jump spot so u dont go and die!) But then I went back up the bonish ramp.

I walked up the screwy ramp in the panther suit and walked around the four or so NPCs and nothing happened. So I walked a couple yards away on teh ramp, unstealthed, restealthed, and walked back to the NPCs. This time, I got the "Do not worry.." dialogue which did not count.

So I walked back to the ramp, unstealthed, restealthed again and then walked back to the NPCs. This time the main girlie NPC spoke, then I got the "Do not worry..." dialogue and the quest was finished.

Comment by 1036257

This quest is impossible. Which bugs since leaving quests unfinished is rather annoying :(

Comment by 1127245

All you have to do is as soon as you are in the 'Master's Glaive' area select the 'Panther Figurine' to stealth your way undetected in the lower area where the Twilight diggers are digging...

You'll find a group of 5 standing around somewhere in the middle at the base of the Hammer structure (3 or 4 diggers). Once you approach them in stealth (Panther) mode they'll start a conversation and end with one of them saying ".... shh, the bosses are listening on the platform above, get back to work..." or something like that.

This will activate completion of the first phase of surveillance...

After that, you then need to 'stealth' (in panther form) your way up to the top of the Hammer snakelike structure to find the twisted ramp made out of metal plates going upwards... walk up this until you find a group of Cultists grouped together right up the top (4 I think). As soon as you are close enough it will trigger one to start the conversation which will eventually (after another one speaks) complete that mission...

Good luck!

Comment by StarFire2686

I had a hard time finding the place where I was supposed to go. (41.2,85.4) is the location of the entrance of the stone-like ramp you need to go up to hear the conversation. Since you are coming form the previous listening quest you need to stealth around the left to higher ground. (41.6,85.9) face NW is on the edge of a cliff and you can see the pathway down in front of you. You will barely be able to see the tents down to the right. Since even fall damage will break the stealth you need to take the path down to the left but be careful to avoid the faceless one because they see through the stealth.

Comment by AnrDaemon

Leads to: Unearthed Knowledge

Comment by Grayy

After doing this quest you are sent to Archaeologist Groff who gives you the quest Soggoth and Kronn

Comment by 1440987

Stepping Up Surveillance http://youtu.be/NOaM2Qz02Ws

Comment by Zidane3838

I didn't get a Panther Figurine and just walked up to them and the quest continued.

Comment by VGPlays90

Here is a demonstration of the completion of this quest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edszXYzJexs

Comment by Boxofbeer

Stepping Up Surveillance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJ9Re2o#$%

Comment by WoWGnGP

I made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UraJrh782Cw&feature=youtu.be

Comment by IBPwNin

I completed the prequel quest and a quest window popped up to begin this one but I accidentally closed the window before accepting it and it wasn't added to my log like usual.

All you need to do is go back to Balren of the Claw to get another chance at beginning this quest.

stupid GUI window limits - forcing one closed to open another.

Comment by dirch

"Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes - viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells - rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and ductile - slaves of suggestion, builders of cities - more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative! Great God! What madness made even those blasphemous Old Ones willing to use and carve such things?"
HP Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, 1931
The writer Lovecraft shows his insane madness, even in WoW. The guardings are pure Lovecraftian horrors. Nice

Comment by Incandio

The behemoth statue thing looks kind of like an elephant. The platform you need to reach is on its trunk.

Whatever you do, and I mean this sincerely, do not kill the fools you are supposed to listen to. Their respawn timer runs on Pluto minutes.

Comment by Sylicaa

Need to stand where the platform connects to the ramp in order to trigger this quest! I stood right next to them for so long and it didn't trigger till I started walking away and hit that spot

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Stepping Up Surveillance

Sneak into the Master's Glaive using the Panther Figurine and spy on the Twilight's Hammer leaders on the platform above.

	Master's Glaive surveillance (1)

Provided item:

	Panther Figurine (1)

Description

The cultists appear to be digging out the remains of a being known as Soggoth the Slitherer.

Perhaps their superiors on the rafters above have more information.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13948))