Daily Quest Guide: Knights of the Ebon Blade
Unless your character is a Death Knight, you won’t run into the Knights of the Ebon Blade for the first time until you’ve reach the mid-to-upper 70s in level. Your first encounter with this faction will probably be in Zul’Drak but their daily quests are actually all located in two separate areas in Icecrown.
Those two areas, The Shadow Vault and Death’s Rise, each contain three unique daily quests that I’ll go into further detail now.
The Shadow Vault Quests
The three dailies at the Shadow Vault are, in my opinion, the easiest of the six available quests for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. If I was going to pick one of the two groups to do each day during your grind for Reputation I would certainly pick these.
Shoot ‘Em Up
This is the most frustrating of the three quests from the Shadow Vault so I thought I’d tackle it first. This quest takes place on a small platform in Jotunheim (at coordinates 32, 24) that contains a row of harpoon guns. The goal is to shoot down 20 of the Proto-Drakes as they fly by you. My favorite technique for this quest is to wait patiently for one to fly by you on a low path and spam the fire button until it drops. In the upcoming 3.0.8 patch, the number you need to defeat is being lowered to 15 which should make this sometimes frustrating quest much easier.
Leave Our Mark
The goal of this quest, to plant 15 banners into the bodies of dead vrykul is incredibly easy. The trick to this quest is to understand that you don’t have to personally kill the mob in order to plant a banner in it. Since the area this quest takes place in, Jotunheim, is always crawling with other players you should be able to make short work of this quest. If you’re running short on Vykrul, make sure you check out the area around 36, 23 for a constant supply of Vyrkul to kill.
Vile Like Fire!
This quest is usually the last of the three I finish because it’s the simplest and shortest. The Proto-Drake you need to complete this one is located not far from the area with the harpoon guns from the first daily on this list. After you mount one of the stabled Proto-Drakes it’s simply a matter of flying around the small town and attacking the buildings you see. This quest should, quite literally, take you less than two minutes to complete.
Death’s Rise Quests
In all honesty, I hardly ever do these quests. I find them to be pretty obnoxious, annoying and difficult when compared to the three softballs you get from the Shadow Vault.
From Their Corpses, Rise!
For all of these quests, I find it best to stay as far away from the chapel in the center of the Scarlet Onslaught’s island as possible. It means these quests will take you longer but the level of difficulty rises the closer you get to the center. The best place to find mobs to kill for this one are around the docks and the small rocks near the water. Those areas are also best for this next quest…
No Fly Zone
The Bone Gryphon you get as a flying mount for this quest has some neat abilities. I usually open up with the Plague Strike then bombard them with Frost Breath. I only use the Bone Armor ability when I’m taking on more than one of the Scarlet Onslaught’s Gryphon Riders at a time. This one also just takes patience and awareness of your surroundings as you try and take down all ten Riders.
Intelligence Gathering
Scattered throughout the island are chests, always guarded by one or two members of the Scarlet Onslaught, that have a depressingly sad chance of dropping one of the five quest items you need to complete this daily. As you progress from chest to chest, you’ll quickly wrap up the first quest on this list for Death’s Rise. The small drop rate on this one makes it pretty brutal and if your luck is bad, and you find yourself getting closer and closer to the chapel in search of chests, you might run into trouble.
The Rewards
These quests are excellent sources of gold and Reputation with the Knights of the Ebon Blade. Each of them gives 250 Reputation and just over 13 gold at Level 80. That means on any given day you can complete all six of these dailies for 1,500 Reputation and about 80 gold.
The Knights of the Ebon Blade Quartermaster, Duchess Mynx, can be found inside the Shadow Vault. She has tons of great items and gear and practically every class will find at least one thing that makes the grind for Reputation worthwhile. Of particular note are the Head enchantments that open up at Revered status. Everyone will probably want those.
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eresin on January 21st, 2009
Awsome guide!
I managed to get revered by doing maybe half of the quests in Icecrown and wearing the tabard for maybe 4-5 heroic instances. I’ve yet to do Zul’Drak or actually finish Icecrown.
It’s definately one of the easiest to get rep with.