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Operation: Stir the Cauldron
Start	Overseer Oilfist
End	Mountain-Lord Rendan
Level	49
Category	Searing Gorge
Experience	975
Reputation	+1400 Thorium Brotherhood
Rewards	[Mountain-Lord's Legguards] or [Slag Pit Bracers] or [Dancer's Belt] 1 40
Previous	The Mountain-Lord's Support
Next	Slavery is Bad, Sweet, Horrible Freedom, Rise, Obsidion

Operation: Stir the Cauldron
Level: 49
Overseer Oilfist
Mountain-Lord Rendan
XP: 975
Rewards:
[Mountain-Lord's Legguards] or
[Slag Pit Bracers] or
[Dancer's Belt]
1 40

Objectives

Speak to the Thorium Point flight master, then use the Brotherhood Flying Machine's guns to kill Cauldron Defenders until the area is safe for entry.

• Secure entrance into the Slag Pit

Description

I'm putting you on a flying machine, <name>.

You'll be responsible for softening the landing into the slag pit. Speak with your flight master here in Thorium Point, then fly down into the gorge.

Once you near your landing point, there will undoubtedly be hordes of Dark Iron dwarves waiting for you. Use our flying machine's guns to take out as many of them as you can, then land at the cavern's entrance. Rendan should be waiting for you by the time you arrive.

Completion

Well, here we are.

I hope you're ready, <name>.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	[Mountain-Lord's Legguards]		[Slag Pit Bracers]
	[Dancer's Belt]

You will also receive: 1 40

Notes

Head back to the flight master and choose the second option to take the ride through the Cauldron. There, it will stop near one of the entrances to the Slag Pit and hover as Cauldron Defenders start coming from nowhere and attacking! The flying machine has a ground-targeted AoE that will one-shot the Cauldron Defenders. Once they're all dead, the flying machine will land. Run inside to talk to Rendan.

Quest progression

1. Complete all of:
   • Jack Rockleg
   1.  [47] A New Master... But Who?
   2.  [47] Dig-Boss Dinwhisker
   • Burian Coalpart
   1.  [47] The Fewer, the Better
   2.  [47] Out of Place /  [47] A Lumbering Relic
   • Lunk / Prisanne
   1.  [47] Lunk's Task
   2.  [47] Lunk No Kill
   3.  [47] A Proper Antivenom
      •  [47] Lunk's Adventure: Spider Rider
2.  [48] Thorium Point: The Seat of the Brotherhood
3. Complete all of:
   •  [48] Curse These Fat Fingers &  [48] Dark Ministry
   •  [48] Heat That Just Don't Quit &  [48] Twilight Collars
   • Optional side quests:  [48] Rasha'krak,  [48] Recon Essentials,  [48] The Spiders Have to Go,  [48] Lunk's Adventure: Cranky Little Dwarfs
   • Optional side chain:  [48] Lunthistle's Tale &  [48] Prayer to Elune
4.  [49] In the Hall of the Mountain-Lord
5.  [49] Siege! /  [49] Set Them Ablaze! /  [49] They Build a Better Bullet
   • Side quest:  [49] The Mysteries of the Fire-Gizzard
6.  [49] Deceit
7.  [49] Lunk's Adventure: Rendan's Weakness
8.  [49] The Mountain-Lord's Support
9.  [49] Operation: Stir the Cauldron
10.  [49] Slavery is Bad /  [49] Sweet, Horrible Freedom /  [49] Rise, Obsidion
11.  [50] Kill 'em With Sleep Deprivation
    • Side quest:  [50] Look at the Size of It!
12.  [50] Twisted Twilight Ties
13.  [50] From Whence He Came
    • Side quest:  [50] Minions of Calcinder
14.  [50] Welcome to the Brotherhood
    • Side quest:  [50] Lunk Like Your Style

Patches and hotfixes

• Patch 4.0.3 (15-Nov-2010): Added. 
  

External links

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