The Hawk's Essence

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

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.

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.

Rewards

You will receive:

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.

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 uses 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.

Patch changes

Progression

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

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

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