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Stones of Binding

Gather the Burning Key, the Cresting Key and the Thundering Key from the Stone of West Binding, the Stone of East Binding and the Stone of Outer Binding.

Bring them to the Stone of Inner Binding.
Burning Key
Cresting Key
Thundering Key

Description

Four Stones of Binding are scattered throughout Arathi. These stones keep me pinned beneath the earth.

To unlock them you must unlock the strongest: the Stone of Inner Binding. And to do that, you must gather keys from the other three.

These stones are watched by guardians, but if you are clever, or lucky, you may find ways to banish them.

Progress

This is the Stone of Inner Binding. It is the strongest of the binding stones and must be unlocked for the others to open.

Completion

<Myzrael speaks through the stone.>

You have done it! You opened the Stones of Binding! I can feel the shackles about me loosen, and freedom draws ever closer.

You are a noble <class>, <name>. My rescuer!

Gains

Upon completion of quests, get:
  • 285 experience (17 10 at max. level)

Related

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By Ormriss on 11/10/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
You just have to use the stones in the middle of the various rock formations in this zone. You will likely have to take out four or five level 39 elementals at each circle in order to get to the middle stone. Each middle stone is surrounded by three elementals, and you have to defeat all three. They will aggro together if you try to use the stone without beating them.

Fortunately, not-so-bright players tend to farm these elementals for their drops (I say not-so-bright because it's almost always better to farm something else)( Moderator - Xp is good there, hence people farm em.). Warriors also have a quest to take out elementals, so if you do this at your server's peak time, there is a good chance you can just walk up to each stone and get the appropriate key.

Take the three keys to the southernmost circle, with all the earth elementals, to finish this part of the quest.
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By XFGREAPER on 11/28/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
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By Zubki on 12/02/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
Burning Key - 25,30
Cresting Key - 66,29
Thundering Key - 52,50
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By bigtexs on 03/29/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
Inner Binding - 36,58
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By Anatis on 07/09/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)
Just for info

Thundering drop stones to banish Cresting
Cresting drop stones to banish Burning
Burning drop stones to banish Thundering
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By vethon on 09/30/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
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By mrdummy on 02/25/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
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By JazzRock99 on 03/03/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
Do you have to kill all three of the guards in the middle to get a key at all because I can't get the burning key but I'm at the inner circle part clicking on the rock?
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By Tribut on 05/08/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
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By Culstire on 07/01/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
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By Wanderzen on 01/02/2009 (Patch 3.0.3)
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By Gingex2006 on 02/02/2009 (Patch 3.0.8)
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By Darkzun on 01/03/2009 (Patch 3.0.3)
This quest is really easy for a rogue or druid.
use stealth/prowl, walk in take key and use sprint/dash out.
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By HordieFtw on 12/04/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
Wait abit with doing this quest, even if it is yellow. The guardians of the keys (mostly the thundering) can be hard and very anoying to kill.(if u dont have the items that banishes them ofc) Done this on my hunter and i let my pet aggro the npc's and then i just took the key and ran away. I guess warlock can do that to.
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By SilencedAssault on 05/22/2009 (Patch 3.1.2)
As a feral druid, Cat form, Prowl, Loot, shift to travel form till you get out of the middle. Shadowmeld to get out of combat, travel form. Off to the next crystal, rinse 'n repeat. :)
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By tintri on 10/05/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
If you are at the Circle of East binding and think you are at the correct place, but nothing to kill and the rock won't drop, try going North East, be sure your coords are correct. There's a little area that looks correct, but isn't. The correct one is not too far away, but it is out of sight from the red herring site.
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By HordieFtw on 10/06/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
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By evell on 07/20/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
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By thunderblood on 11/22/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
solo'ed as 33 pally (ret)...it tooks looong time like 35-40 min -1 death...used invisibility potion...
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By kurtiffrig on 03/02/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
This quest is laughably easy for a rogue. Just stealth to the center stone of each circle, loot the key and when you're attacked hit your Vanish button. You won't have to kill a thing. Yes, you'll have to hit it quickly, but if you don't quite make it hit the sprint button and book it outa there.
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By pathanb on 10/02/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
There seems to be some confusion about where to get these keys. Let me try to clarify:
  • In Arathi there are a handful of stone shrines, looking a bit like Stonehendge. Only 3 of those are relevant to this quest. You can see which on your map, with the new Blizzard quest objective UI.
  • Every one of those 3 circles has a rather small rock in its middle. If you are on this quest, it glitters. This is the key.
  • You don't really have to kill anything to get the keys although you will probably need to, just for survival's sake. The keys are usable (cog icon).
I hope this helps. :)
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By Lysimachia on 09/07/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
This quest can be a fun exercise if you're levelling a warlock. I hadn't previously used Banish or Curse of Tongues/Exhaustion, but found these abilities to be quite useful. Of course I could have just sacced the voidwalker, but that wouldn't be as fun. Keeping one chain-feared and dotted and another banished works if you accidentally aggro extra.
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By diondepp on 10/27/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
i read somewhere on wowhead a few times that there were only 7 rows of keyslots on our keyrings, and that the leftover keys will go to a bag slot, but the keys from this quest opened an 8th row of keys for me. just an fyi.
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By darkpanda on 01/21/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Why is this here?
i just completed this 1min ago...
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By perculia on 07/01/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
This is the older pre-Cataclysm version of the quest, tuned for higher levels. The current version of the quest is found here: https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=26041"">(Quest #26041).

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