Cutting the Swarm

Use a Dragon Launcher to kill 50 swaming mantid.

• slain x50

The mantid numbers have been increasing since you left for the cleft. Let's put these orbs you gathered to use.

Get down on the blockade and man one of the cannons. Let none through.

You will receive:

I can't remember the last time they swarmed this thickly. They probably haven't within my lifetime.

We're not done yet...

• 196000 XP
• +75 reputation with Shado-Pan

Back to the southwest. and s are swarming the barricades. Mount one of the Dragon Launchers. They have one ability: The cannons can one-shot all of the mobs in its targeting circle, so take as many as possible. The cannon does not have a cooldown.

Once the fiftieth mantid has been slain, a cutscene pulls the camera out to the battlefield to show, the terror of the Dread Wastes, coming out of the ground! Speak to Taoshi, a yard from the player, to continue.

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