Comment by thejames

If you get stuck in mid-flight, you've got no choice but to leave party and try it again.
You *should* try /script LeaveParty()
That will boot you out of the party and also boot you out of the instance.. requeue and you should hopefully have no problems.

Comment by magda1ena

I'm having problems figuring out to move while riding the dragon over towards the mines. I got jumped over onto the first bad guy, then I got stuck. I couldn't hit him, I couldn't jump back.
What should I be looking for? (I'm not seeing any extra action buttons after the jump).

Comment by Quackie

DC'd during the fight and died as a result. Logged back on and I was stuck in the scenario, unable to do anything or interact with any NPCs. Had to hearth out, fly back to the Isle, and restart the scenario and redo all the previously completed steps.

Comment by BossInvader

If you are curious about who the Dino you ride in stage 1 and 2 is, his name is Thunderwing.

Comment by Henderman

The 4th phase asks you to blow the door and move to the mine entrance. Well, the 'mine entrance' is well inside the mine. Make your way to the boss, at the skull icon, and you will clear the mine entrance.
Don't miss out on the stacking buffs when you kill the mobs!

Comment by 1105392

At the stage 2 fight with the attackers and press on the center button when it comes on the screen.
At the stage 3 defeat Horaki. Move away when the yellow warning says about arrows.
At the final stage defeat Shiaxu. He will catch the player with chain spells. Slowly move away from these traps to avoid Deadly Kick.
Video: To the Skies!

We can use the Terrorwing that you found to strike a decisive blow against the Mogu

Comment by Azshen

I'm a Fury Warrior so DPSing the mobs is not a problem. However, I get the button telling me to jump to the first enemy terrorwing, and then nothing. I ride that same bird until the 2nd mob kills me. Any ideas?

Comment by multiversekyle

For BM Hunters (or any hunter really), Feign Death is your best friend in this scenario. I kept dying after I got to where you have to kill more than two in a row and with no way to heal I thought I was doomed. Kill two, then Feign Death for a minute and heal up, then the rest is no problem at all. Or you could just keep attacking until you get to low health and then Feign Death but the heal would take longer. Doing it after every two or so will maximize the healing buff.

Comment by Propulson

Don't bother with this one,just stick with the dailys that offer far more VP's etc.

Comment by 1127874

I did this one after a few failed attempts, I swapped specks to marksman, then used the feign death between each fight when able. Failed the first time, was more diligent about feigning and made it through fine. Swapped back to BM once I was able.

Comment by mlowther

Ugh, I am a mage and stupid weak. I haven't figured out a good way to do this, however, I noticed many people saying you have to leave instance once you die. Not true. Find the break in the wall near where you blew it up and just go back to Kirin Tor base and remount. No need to start over. Hope this helps.

Comment by nurseferatu

How I got this on my Warlock:
At stage 2 when you are hopping from mount to mount, not only are you fighting the rider of the mount but you are also being attacked by other flyers. I kept howl of terror and fear on all riders as often as I could, since they aren't pounding on you when they are feared. Also spammed drain life to keep my life up, used whatever damage was off cooldown in between (mostly soul fire) and kept life tap up to keep from running out of mana. Most of the damage I did was from drain life, which made that stage long, but after dying a couple of times figuring it out I managed to survive and could then land and beat the next boss.
Horaki is a basic tank and spank, stay out of the fire fight.
Shiaxu has given me a lot of trouble on other classes, this one was actually really easy. Voidwalker tanked. Placed demonic circle in middle of hall where Taoshi is working. Move to other side of center area so you are pointed away from cone of damage from his kicks. When he chains you, hit teleport which breaks the chains!
Hope this helps!

Comment by ErosDawnsong

The first time I attempted this as my Arcane Mage, I really wasn't ready for the second stage, after thinking about it for a while and coming back to it, I found the easiest way to get though it was to burn out all your Mana just on Arcane Blast, then use the talent Invocation to restore Mana when needed/in between fights.
Doing this you should be able to burst down the riders fast enough to stay alive, obviously using Molten Shield and anything else you have to boost your critical chance helps a lot.
Good luck fellow Mages ^_^

Comment by FknGenuine

If you happen to die in a completely unreachable place like the conglomeration of rocks (like I did unfortunately), leave the instance, then teleport to the nearest graveyard. It will tell you you don't belong in the instance, and hopefully kick you out alive like it did me so you can start over.

Comment by Fellwing

So what happens when you're a warrior and the scenario bugs out, and it won't let you jump from mount to mount? When I click on my own mount it says 'There are no seats available'. There's no way to click on the other mounts.
Weeee. Submitted a bug report, buuuttt.. Yeah. Haha.

Comment by Pixis1

If you can't get past the first flying stage of this, I may have found an exploit.
I died during the flying part, hoofed it back to my corpse, and found myself near the back of the mine where a pile of rocks that looks like a cave-in blocks an entrance. I didn't know what to do, but I wasn't ready to give up & start over.
I was able to jump through the rocks & get into the mine. I killed Slavemaster Shiaxu, which was relatively easy as a hunter, even though I'm undergeared. I just kept my pet on him, stayed at max range while burning him down & healing pet, and ran out of his chains when they got me. I may have used one bandage during the fight.
I was trapped inside the mine (couldn't get back out through the rocks) so I Camouflage snuck (watch out for slaves - they can see you if you get close!) to the front entrance, dimissed pet, took off all my gear & aggroed one of the mobs to come kill me by the door. I then rezzed outside the mine, re-geared & snuck past the mobs there.
There was a guy w/ an exclamation point next to his name in the courtyard outside the mine. I don't know if he was Beastmaster Horaki or just some unrelated mob, but he looked important so I killed him too. Then I gave up & left the instance. When I got back to the Sunreaver camp, it said I had successfully completed the scenario!
I don't know if this will work for anyone else. And if it does, I don't know if it was only necessary to kill Slavemaster Shiaxu inside the mine, or if it was necessary to kill the guy outside as well. But if you can't get past the first flying stage, this is worth a try! :)

Comment by eilensar

Just 'completed' this on my hunter. Had the same problems as the others, plus one more. When I got killed I was over the mine. When I did my corpse run and looking for it, I ended up in the mine. Lucky I was backed in a corner where I had the option to res. It was next to the caved in entrance, so couldn't exit that way. Made my way around to the next exit and found the end boss. Killed him and got the 'work complete.' So I tried the door there, it was locked. More searching found a third exit I couldn't use. So I just hearthed out. Just so happens my stone is set for Violet Rise. Then I turned in my quest and off to so the next one. I hope my next toon can make it through all the stages. I am curious to see what they are about.

Comment by datundra

As of 6.0.2, I have no problem with stage 1 through 3. Stage 4 says ' 0/1 Joined with Taoshi '. I see her jumping down the mountain with a chat bubble over here head. But as soon as she lands on the ground she phases out and I can not communicate with her. I am stuck at this point.
Here is what they had to say at support:
Game Master Kalelmhatt here. Thanks for getting in touch with us today regarding the quest 'To the Skies'. Since you're contacting us today, you've discovered that Taoshi gets a bit overzealous and disappears before you're able to interact with her.
The good news is that our Dev Team is aware of her speedy departure and a hotfix to get her to stick around is already in the works. While we're not able to mark this quest as complete, once that hotfix goes live you'll be able to finish this up without issue and move forward.

Comment by Rys37cotp

How the hell dya change mounts? I can't get close enough?

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=OqakSJqlWtE&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Yotingo

Well..doing this (at level) with a Shadow priest. I killed all the mobs okay, but then my original mount disappeared, and the birdie I was on plummeted to the ground.
Managed to cast Levitate before I went splat, but there was nothing to do but drop group and retry the instance--no way to remount or get up to the mines entrance without flying, unfortunately.
Second time, got through that phase with no problems, and it automatically put me back on the birdie after all the mobs were dead. Bug I guess?
Anyway, tip for defeating Slavemaster Shiaxu: stand right at his feet so that when he tries to use the Chained spell, you just run right through him. You may not have time to get out of the AOE standing anywhere else, and his Deadly Kick can hurt while you're rooted there.

Comment by Draalei

For anyone trying to do this after patch 7.3.5 (the level scaling), the mobs (at least at stage 2, couldn't get any farther) do not scale. They are level 90.
Tried to do this at level 86 hunter, only managed to kill one. My health just drops to fast.

Comment by Lazlo

I just recently started playing again, hadn't played since Cataclysm. So I just encountered this quest for the first time and it is still buggy. Got killed once, read the comments here and tried again. My second attempt went differently than anything I've read here. Didn't die but ended up flying around with nothing to do. I noticed that for a very short time, in one spot, the jump to another mount button would reappear. So I waited and hit it and jumped to the mount of one of three attackers that were not visible until suddenly I was on one of their mounts. It automatically jumped me to the next mount as I killed each one, and then it automatically jumped me off that mount to land in the sea. As I swam closer to shore, I could see my original mount hovering in place over the plaza where Horaki is supposed to spawn and the rubble blocks the mine entrance. My mount indicated that I could remount it if when I put my the cursor over it so I proceeded to try to get up there. It took a bit, but with some persistence and slow fall to get over some gaps, I got there. My mount was far too high up to possibly reach. Horaki hadn't spawned and the objective still said to deal with the attackers. I noticed that I was able to partially walk into the rubble blocking the mine, so I started jumping forward and to my surprise I was eventually able to get through the rubble. I started killing the mobs and found the Slave Master and I could see Taoshi by the door. Talking to Taoshi, she said she'd destroy the rubble so we could come in through the back, but after agreeing to that the original Taoshi remained even though a new one, with her name in blue instead of green, spawned. The new Taoshi said the same thing and offered the same dialog and spawned yet another blue named Taoshi while the first blue named Taoshi faded out but neither of them would follow me at all. Figuring it was completely broke, I attacked and killed the Slave Master at which point it advanced the achievement, the objective switched to Kill Horaki, the door opened and the blood elves came in and set up a portal, and all the remaining mobs in the mine disappeared. I went back up to the rubble and was unable to get through. Went down and spoke to Taoshi again but she still wouldn't follow me. I then noticed that when I spoke to her and spawned a new Taoshi, it appeared in front and to the left of my character. Using that I was able to spawn-walk her up to the rubble, where she promptly faded out completely. Just as I was about to quit, the rubble cleared, Taoshi had activated on the other side and finally cleared it, and Horaki had spawned! I killed Horaki and the next objectives showed cleared and the quest was ready to turn in. Went back down to the door and used the portal and turned in the quest. To sum up what worked for me:
- If you die or are dismounted in some way, Try to get to where Horaki spawns.
- Make your way through the rubble into the cave, it isn't as solid as it appears.
- Kill the slave master.
- Position yourself so that when you talk to Taoshi she will spawn a new version of herself in the direction of the path leading up to the rubble.
- Once you get Taoshi to the rubble and she fades out, wait for her to clear the rubble.
- Kill Horaki.
- Turn in the quest.
I did this as an arcane mage, but I think any class or item that gives you slow fall or some way to bridge the gaps in order to get up the rear mine entrance will work. Be careful about straying too far or it will port you to the graveyard.

Comment by Doloria

So now it’s Battle for Azeroth 8.0.2
Why does Thunderwing keep flying in circles trying to aggro flying mobs? There’s no “exit vehicle” arrow or you could jump off during a flyover. Unfortunately you have to survive this segment to kill the mine boss.
Why is this quest still in the game?
Watch Youtube video before you start:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du9V1tThqzw

Comment by Klodvig

If it gets bugged while you have to cover Taoshi, simply leave the scenario, and you can turn in the quest.

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