Netherwing

Netherwing
Main leader	Neltharaku
Race(s)	Nether Dragons
Base of operations	Netherwing Fields, Shadowmoon Valley
Reputation
Quartermaster	Barthamus
Notable reward(s)	Nether Drake mounts

Netherwing is a faction of Nether dragons in Outland. The unusual brood was spawned from the eggs of Deathwing's black dragonflight, and infused with raw nether-energies. Now, they seek to find their identity beyond the shadows of their father's destructive heritage.

File:Netherdrake.jpg
A nether drake mount

Although generally hostile to most humanoids based on their treatment by the Dragonmaw Clan of orcs in Shadowmoon Valley, they can be swayed to change their attitude, if tasks to aid them are completed. They prefer to take the form of goblins and elves.

Reputation

Netherwing Dragonflight/Reputation table

The reputation numbers provided in the Quests row of the table above indicate the amount of reputation rewarded for completing the non-daily/repeatable quests available at that reputation level, not the total amount of reputation needed to advance to the next level.

Players begin at 0/36000 Template:Hated with Netherwing, and must be Template:Exalted to obtain a Nether Drake mount. The quest chain/reputation grind is a mostly solo endeavor involving daily quests (quests that can only be completed once daily), one 5-person group quest on the way to , and daily 3-person group quests once reaching Template:Revered. A flying mount is required for this reputation grind, and 300 riding skill is necessary to advance past neutral.

It seems that Netherwing is one of the only factions in the game where you do not lose reputation by attacking and killing its members.

Ignoring the egg quest because it is a random drop, and human player's reputation bonus, the fastest reputation progression possible by completing the daily quests is:

• by the end of day 1
• Template:Friendly by the end of day 2
• Template:Honored by the end of day 4
• Template:Revered by the end of day 7
• Template:Exalted by the end of day 14

The egg quest can significantly reduce the total number of days needed to reach exalted. Some players have reported getting there in three to four days.

Rewards

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Choosing a Nether Drake mount in the Lower City.

Completing the entire Netherwing quest chain rewards a Nether Drake mount:

The Nether Drake is a special 280% speed epic flying mount that is obtainable through solo and small-group play. The quest to obtain one will be difficult, but the reward will surely show your dedication to the Netherwing cause as you soar through the skies of Outland on your very own ethereal drake.

Upon reaching exalted reputation, you can start a short quest chain that lets you choose one of six Nether Drake mounts. The mount you choose will be given to you as a quest reward free of charge. The various models can be previewed in the Lower City section of Shattrath.

Note that it is not possible to choose the exact color drake which is used for the mounted Fel Orc costume; it is a combination of the Cobalt, Purple, and Violet color choices. However, your drake will still change into this special coloration (i.e., it will appear to have the Fel Orc costume colors) upon entering Netherwing Ledge thereafter.

Drake Dealer Hurlunk sells replacement Nether Drake mounts to players who are Template:Exalted with the Netherwing at the Dragonmaw Base Camp. Drake Dealer Hurlunk/Items

Quests

Most daily quests reward 12, so players may wish to continue repeating them for cash even after reaching Template:Exalted.

Hated to Neutral

The quest chain begins by speaking with   Mordenai, an NPC wandering the surface of the Netherwing Fields, in the southeast corner of Shadowmoon Valley. You will need a flying mount (any will do) for this chain.

1.  [70] Kindness
2.  [70] Seek Out Neltharaku
3.  [70] Neltharaku's Tale
4.  [70] Infiltrating Dragonmaw Fortress
5.  [70] To Netherwing Ledge!
6.  [70] The Force of Neltharaku
7.  [70G5] Karynaku
8.  [70G5] Zuluhed the Whacked
9.  [70] Ally of the Netherwing (+42000 reputation)

 

See also: Ally of the Netherwing quest chain

Note: The quests in the Hated-to-Neutral chain are not daily quests. These are one-time-only quests that upon completion bring your reputation with the Netherwing up from Hated to Neutral. You cannot start any of the daily quests until after you successfully complete this entire chain, at which point you can start working on your dailies.

The +42000 reputation for Ally of the Netherwing is not subject to the human +10% reputation bonus.

Neutral to Friendly

A Netherwing Egg

The questline resumes by speaking with Mordenai, 300 riding skill is required to continue. However, an epic flying mount is *not* required (but a flying mount of some sort is required). Players who accept the introduction quest have Mordenai use the Dragonflight's magic to spell them to appear as a fel orc riding a nether drake while in the vicinity of Dragonmaw Fortress and Netherwing Ledge. This makes all fel orcs in the region excluding Dragonmaw Ascendants, Dragonmaw Skybreakers and Dragonmaw Transporters appear friendly to the player. Note that your fake mount provides the same speed bonus as the real thing, giving a nice preview of what all your hard work is for.

•  [70] Blood Oath of the Netherwing, 300 riding skill is required to accept this quest.
  •  [70] In Service of the Illidari (+250 reputation)
    •  [70] Enter the Taskmaster
      •  [70G2] A Job Unfinished... (+250 reputation)
      •  [70 Daily] Nethercite Ore (requires mining), Netherdust Pollen (requires herbalism) or Nethermine Flayer Hide (requires skinning) (+250 reputation) Only one may be completed per day.
      •  [70 Daily] Netherwing Crystals (+250 reputation)
    •  [70] Your Friend On The Inside
      •  [70 Daily] A Slow Death (+250 reputation)
      •  [70 Daily] The Not-So-Friendly Skies... (+250 reputation)
      •  [70] The Great Netherwing Egg Hunt (+350 reputation)
        •  [70 R] Accepting All Eggs (+250 reputation)

Players who do not have at least one gathering profession will only be able to complete Netherwing Crystals, and are therefore at a slight disadvantage to players who have a gathering skill.

Friendly to Honored

Players receive a trinket that summons a combat pet while in Shadowmoon valley and open up an additional 3 daily quests. Earlier repeatable quests are still available.

•  [70] Rise, Overseer! (+250 reputation and  [Overseer's Badge])
  •  [70] The Netherwing Mines (+75 Reputation)
    •  [70 Daily] Picking up the Pieces... (+350 Reputation)
    •  [70 Daily] Dragons are the Least of Our Problems (+350 Reputation)
    •  [70] Crazed and Confused (+350 Reputation)
    •  [70] The Great Murkblood Revolt (+350 Reputation)
      •  [70] Seeker of Truth (+500 Reputation)
  •  [70] Overseeing and You: Making the Right Choices (+250 Reputation)
    •  [70 Daily] The Booterang: A Cure For The Common Worthless Peon (+350 Reputation)

Honored to Revered

Players receive an upgraded trinket once reaching Honored, allowing players to summon a combat pet in all zones and open up another daily quest as well as the races. All previous repeatable quests are still available.

•  [70] Stand Tall, Captain! (+500 Reputation and  [Captain's Badge])
  •  [70 Daily] Disrupting the Twilight Portal (+500 Reputation)
  •  [70] The Soul Cannon of Reth'hedron (+500 Reputation)
    •  [70] Subdue the Subduer (+500 Reputation)
  •  [70] Earning Your Wings...
    1.  [70] Dragonmaw Race: The Ballad of Oldie McOld (+350 Reputation)
    2.  [70] Dragonmaw Race: Trope the Filth-Belcher (+350 Reputation)
    3.  [70] Dragonmaw Race: Corlok the Vet (+500 Reputation)
    4.  [70] Dragonmaw Race: Wing Commander Ichman (+500 Reputation)
    5.  [70] Dragonmaw Race: Wing Commander Mulverick (+500 Reputation)
    6.  [70] Dragonmaw Race: Captain Skyshatter (+1000 Reputation)

Revered to Exalted

Players receive yet another upgrade to the trinket, this time adding 45 stamina, and open up a daily group quest. All earlier repeatable quests are still available. The questline after Hail, Commander! depends on which of the Shattrath City factions players are allied with.

•  [70] Hail, Commander! (+500 Reputation and  [Captain's Badge])
  •  [70] Kill Them All! (Scryer) / (Aldor) (+250 Reputation)
    •  [70] Commander Hobb (Scryer) / Commander Arcus (Aldor)
      •  [70G3 Daily] The Deadliest Trap Ever Laid (Scryer) / (Aldor) (+500 Reputation)

Exalted

•  [70] Bow to the Highlord
  •  [70] Lord Illidan Stormrage (+1000 Reputation)

Players may then choose to talk with ONE of the six Netherwing drakes standing next to Barthamus in the Lower City of Shattrath. The mount rewarded depends on which drake the player talks to:

•  [70] Jorus the Cobalt Netherwing Drake rewards [Reins of the Cobalt Netherwing Drake]
•  [70] Malfas the Purple Netherwing Drake rewards [Reins of the Purple Netherwing Drake]
•  [70] Onyxien the Onyx Netherwing Drake rewards [Reins of the Onyx Netherwing Drake]
•  [70] Suraku the Azure Netherwing Drake rewards [Reins of the Azure Netherwing Drake]
•  [70] Voranaku the Violet Netherwing Drake rewards [Reins of the Violet Netherwing Drake]
•  [70] Zoya the Veridian Netherwing Drake rewards [Reins of the Veridian Netherwing Drake]

However if you change your mind later, you can buy another one from Drake Dealer Hurlunk at Netherwing Ledge for 200g.

Additional Quests

There are a few quests available from items that drop from mobs on the island.

Starting at after completing  [70] Enter the Taskmaster, Arvoar the Rapacious will drop the [Partially Digested Hand] as loot, which starts the quest  [70 G2] A Job Unfinished... (+250 Reputation)

The Black Blood of Draenors and Draenor Blood Terrors in the Netherwing Mines drop [Sludge-covered Objects]. Starting at Template:Friendly reputation after completing  [70] The Netherwing Mines, opening these may reveal the [Murkblood Escape Plans]. This item leads to the following questline:

•  [70] The Great Murkblood Revolt (+350 Reputation)
  •  [70] Seeker of Truth (+500 Reputation)

Known members

Nether dragon names often end in "-aku" or "-us". They sometimes instead have names related to the nether.

Name	Role	Type	Condition
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Barthamus	First of the Nether Dragons. Nether drake caretaker and mount keeper. Located in the Lower City of Shattrath.	Dragon	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Dreadwing	Broodmother located in the Singing Ridge of Blade's Edge Mountains.	Dragon	Killable
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Karynaku	Netherwing matriarch. Held prisoner by Zuluhed the Whacked at the Dragonmaw Fortress in Shadowmoon Valley.	Dragon	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Mordenaku	Netherwing prince and son of Neltharaku and Karynaku. Located in the Netherwing Fields of Shadowmoon Valley.	Dragon	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Neltharaku	Netherwing patriarch. Flies through the skies above the Netherwing Fields of Shadowmoon Valley.	Dragon	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Netherspite	A rogue nether dragon, the first of his kind seen on Azeroth. Located inside Karazhan.	Dragon	Killable
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Toranaku	A nether dragon found inside the Netherwing Mines of Shadowmoon Valley.	Dragon	Killable
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Veraku	A corrupted nether dragon who rules the Netherwing at the Celestial Ridge of Netherstorm.	Dragon	Killable
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Yarzill	A nether dragon working undercover against the Dragonmaw Clan in the guise of a goblin. Found in the Dragonmaw Base Camp in Shadowmoon Valley	Dragon	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Jorus	A cobalt nether drake mount, found in the Lower City of Shattrath.	Drake	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Malfas	A purple nether drake mount, found in the Lower City of Shattrath.	Drake	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Nazan	Vazruden's mount, found flying above the Ramparts of Hellfire Citadel.	Drake	Killable
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Nethrandamus	Altruis the Sufferer's mount, found northwest of Sunspring Post in Nagrand.	Drake	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Onyxien	A onyx nether drake mount, found in the Lower City of Shattrath.	Drake	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Suraku	A azure nether drake mount, found in the Lower City of Shattrath.	Drake	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Voranaku	A violet nether drake mount, found in the Lower City of Shattrath.	Drake	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Zoya	A veridian nether drake mount, found in the Lower City of Shattrath.	Drake	Alive
File:IconSmall Netherwing.gif Or'kaos	Known as the Insane. Inhabits a small island off Netherwing Ledge in Shadowmoon Valley.	Drakonid	Killable

Known bugs

• Currently there is a bug with the racing quests. Some of the racers will constantly phase in and out preventing you from interacting with them. (Blizzard is currently working on a hotfix for this)

  GMs can not reset the racers manually at the moment, so opening a ticket will not make them usable again earlier. <GM>Harnbog suggested this temporary solution: "Unfortunately there is no way for us to reset these NPC's at the moment, but it is possible if there is a player with the quest you are supposed to get next, who then shares this with you in a party."

• The spell effects that knock a player off during races can cause the effects while not displaying the animation visibly making for unavoidable mid-air dismounts.
• For the Slow Death quest, some of the peon camps are bugged and will not eat the poisoned meat. Generally, the peons in a bugged camp just stand still, doing nothing. After a peon has been disciplined using a Booterang, it also will not accept the meat. Make sure to only poison camps where at least two peons are mining to avoid wasting any Fel Glands. In addition, to avoid causing them to bug out, don't place the meat directly under a slanted crystal formation as these crystals might cause them to not have a place to stand for whatever coding is used to make them run to the meat. However, sometimes this bug can not be avoided as peons that appear to be functioning normally will not accept the mutton.
• The Dragonmaw Netherdrake Buff can often bug, thus you keep it once you leave Netherwing Ledge/Dragonmaw Fortress. Sometimes the mount also isn't properly replaced and instead you may get dismounted midflight and fall to the ground, or continue flying with the dragonmaw netherdrake instead of having it revert back to your gryphon or wyvern mount. Gaining the buff can also cause hunters' pets to be auto-summoned (as they are when dismounting normally); if your pet appears while you're flying over the void he'll fall to his death.
• Typically, you can perform a mid-air dismount by right clicking on your mount's item icon in your bags/toolbar. However, since your access to the Dragonmaw Netherdrake is a buff, you will not receive it in your bags, and therefore not be able to dismount mid-air by right clicking your normal mount. You can still right click the buff however to disable it. Note that this only occurs when you are under the buff, not the when you own the actual Nether Drake.
• Gaining or losing the Dragonmaw Illusion Buff bugs the visuals of the priest spell [Shadowform]. While flying into Netherwing Ledge/Dragonmaw Fortress in [Shadowform], your character loses the dark purple shade and you only look semi-transparent with a purple glow effect. Removing and re-casting [Shadowform] fixes this.
• There are a few Netherbrush nodes and Nethercite nodes that are on the shattered islands around the Netherwing Ledge that players can't get, because being as far out as the nodes are removes the Fel Orc costume.
• Sometimes the script doesn't recognize you are on daily quests and you can't do them. (for example you smash a peon with your  [Booterang] but it doesn't count, also quest items won't drop.) Dropping the quest and picking it up again often fixes the problem.
• During "The Not-so Friendly Skies" the Dragonmaw Transporters can become bugged and Evade attacks; sometimes they even begin swimming in the sky. Killing the "swimming" Transporter will reset this mob.
• Warlocks with a pet out may automatically have their pet dismissed whenever they use their flying mount, and the warning will be given that "You already have an active summon."

External links

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