The Hawk's Essence

The Hawk's Essence
Start	Arthorn's Sparrowhawk
End	Arthorn Windsong
Level	70 (Requires 70)
Category	Druid
Experience	12650 xp (or 11 99 at 80)
Reputation	Cenarion Expedition 150
Rewards	[Charm of Swift Flight] 4 40
Previous	[70] The Falcon's Essence
Next	[70] Return to Cenarion Refuge

The Hawk's Essence
Level: 70 (Requires 70)
Arthorn's Sparrowhawk
Arthorn Windsong
XP: 12650 xp (or 11 99 at 80)
Rep: Cenarion Expedition 150
Rewards:
[Charm of Swift Flight]
4 40

The Hawk's Essence is part of the Druid's Swift Flight Form quest chain.

Objectives

Defeat the Guardian of the Hawk and bring the Essence of the Hawk to Arthorn Windsong at Evergrove.

• [Essence of the Hawk]
• [Arthorn's Sparrowhawk Whistle] (Provided)

Description

Shrine of the Hawk

<Arthorn's voice addresses you.>

The last, and strongest, of the spirits spoken of in the Book of the Raven is that of the hawk. It was imprisoned far from Skettis, in a shrine on a remote island southeast of Auchindoun.

I believe this description best matches the island we know as Sorrow Wing Point.

The tablet describes the hawk's guardian as nearly invulnerable to the bird's claws. Forsake physical attacks and call down the fury of the stars to defeat this foe. Do not repeat the hawk's mistake.

Progress

Did you overcome the hawk's guardian and win its essence?

Completion

Now that we have all the essences, Morthis Whisperwing must find a way to combine them into an amulet that you'll be able to use to challenge the raven god, draw him out of the Emerald Dream and defeat him. I'll be sending him my notes on the spirits with the hope that he'll realize the value of my insight.

Each of the spirits has blessed a charm I've prepared for you.

Reward

Charm of Swift Flight Item Level 70Disenchants into:  [Small Prismatic Shard]: 1 (99.5%)  [Nexus Crystal]: 1 (0.5%) Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Trinket Equip: Reduces the base mana cost of Flight Form and Swift Flight Form by 115.

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

• 150 reputation with Cenarion Expedition

Notes

Sorrow Wing Point is a large island very close to due south from Lake Ere'Noru, where you fought the Falcon guardian. The Shrine of the Hawk ^[45, 92] is on the east side of the central peak. When you summon him, don't panic when you see he has 50k HP. He CAN be overcome, it just requires the right tactic.

This guardian melees for about 1,000 damage on average, putting you very much at a disadvantage in melee. However, his ranged damage is comparably weak. He does do a version of [Viper Sting] (drains mana) and Curse of Blood (doubles damage done to you), which can be countered by [Abolish Poison] and [Remove Curse] respectively.

This guardian take enormous amounts of damage from magic, and if your casting criticals, it does even more. A report of Roots doing 300 damage every 3 seconds, [Wrath] doing 2650, [Moonfire] doing 1850, and [Starfire] doing 4200 may well understate the case. Recent experience, with moderate-good casting gear, had Starfire doing 10-12k per strike. This makes the fight fairly short despite his having some 50k HP.

Regardless of how you are spec'd, then, this fight is a "Root and Nuke". Recast Roots in time to prevent the guardian from getting melee attacks off against you.

Progression

This is the full quest line for the Druid [Swift Flight Form].

1.   [70] Morthis Whisperwing
2.   [70] The Ward of Wakening
3.   [70] Waking the Sleeper
4.   [70] No Mere Dream
5.   [70] Return to Morthis Whisperwing
6.   [70] To the Evergrove
7.   [70] The Book of the Raven
8.   [70] Eyes in the Sky
9.   [70] To Catch A Sparrowhawk
10.   [70] The Raven Stones
11.   [70] The Eagle's Essence
12.   [70] The Falcon's Essence
13.   [70] The Hawk's Essence
14.   [70] Return to Cenarion Refuge
15.   [70] Chasing the Moonstone
16.   [70D] Vanquish the Raven God
17.   [70] Eternal Vigilance

External links

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