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Comment by 60300

This is a very easy quest to complete and is fun as well. I recommend getting the bombing portion done first and then taking care of the Gargoyles after. Just make sure to keep your shield up and put out any fires asap so you're not knocked out of your plane.

Comment by speeddemon

Who do you get rep with for this quest?

Comment by Mafan

For some reason this quest is horribly bugged. Very often you will lose the infra-green vision in midflight. This causes you to no longer see the gargoyles (they still attack you) and be stuck in whatever position on the plane you were in at that time.
You'll have to wait until your plane is shot down und you are picked up and brought back to try again. Even if you finish the flight with the bomber in-tact somehow you're still thrown out at the end and flown around by the rescue-plane.

Comment by 270473

This quest is easy to complete and a lot of fun, but a lot of people will skip it because it doesn't reward any kind of rep after turning it in for the first time. Which is a shame, really.

The plane drives itself (think of it as a turret on rails) so you're free to just keep firing without worrying about steering. As most people have said, the plane switched between three modes - Air to Ground (Bombs), Air to Air (Missiles), and Engineering (Allows putting out fire and recharging of shields.)

The easiest way I've found is to open with bombing. Keep dropping bombs until there are too many gargoyles on your tail (when your plane is on fire, that's a good sign) then switch to missiles and clear the sky. Missiles are on a fairly short cooldown and you dont have to really steer the ship, so feel free to pound away on the button launching barrage after barrage to clear the sky, then switch over to engineering to put out the fire, then recharge the shields while you're in that mode. (Each recharge adds 30 up to 100.) Then, flip back to bombing until complete.

Once you're done bombing, stay on missiles - shoot down your last few gargoyles, and you're home free. Additionally, if you come across any planes of the opposing faction (which happens about once or twice a flight) feel free to blow em out of the sky by raining down missiles upon them. You'll get a "Confirmed Kill" buff if successful, although I have yet to find a use for it apart from cosmetic purposes.

Comment by Norseguy

Speak with "Karen No" to mount the bomber. She's right behind the quest giver.

Comment by 41652

Watch for enemy faction planes! You can shoot them down to get Confirmed Kills. And they can shoot back.

Keep those shields up!

Comment by 291541

have tried this several times & its still bugged

Comment by adashiel

When you're dropping bombs, make sure you don't switch out to one of the other modes (i.e, to the turret or repair) before the bombs actually land and detonate. If you do, you won't get any kill credits.

Also, for those of you who play on PvE ruleset servers, you can attack Horde planes even if neither you nor they are flagged for PvP. Firing on them will not flag you, either. If you do shoot them down, you won't earn any Honor for it, as you're just destroying their plane. A rescue ship will arrive to save them just as if they'd been shot down by the gargoyles. If you do get attacked and don't want to fight, put out any flames, and just spam your shield refresh. No matter how much they fire on you, they won't be able to shoot you down or really even dent your plane's health. Eventually they'll be carried out of range and you'll be able to continue with your quest.

Comment by 236368

Does anyone know where the captains chill out? That's always the hardest part for me I can never seem to find enough captains.

Comment by amdaar

The captains are the Abominations roaming around with the infantry. Kinda hard to miss them.

Comment by Whiterock

THE SKYBREAKER Quest Tree From Whiterock

The Crusaders' Pinnacle* 1)Preparations for War
|->Orgrim's Hammer(H)* The Shadow Vault*
| |
1)The Skybreaker------->Exploiting an Opening*
|__________________________________________
| |->2)Mind Tricks |->D)Blood of the Chosen
3)The Broken Front |->D)Slaves to Saronite |->2)Joining the Assault
| +3)Finish Me! |->2)Get to Ymirheim! |->D)Assault by Air
|->D)No Mercy! D)King of the Mountain |->D)Assault by Ground
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|--------------------------->1)Your Attention, Please
1)...All the Help We Can Get. 3)Borrowed Technology-->D)The Solution Solution
3)Poke and Prod 5)Killohertz
|_________________________ 6)Leading the Charge
| | |->D)Static Shock Troops: the Bombardment
3)That's Abominable! | |->D)Putting the Hertz: The Valley of Lost Hope
|->D)That's Abominable! |
| 4)Against the Giants
5)Sneak Preview |->4)Coprous the Defiled
|->5)Chain of Command |->4)Basic Chemistry-->D)Neutralizing the Plague
|->5)Cannot Reproduce
| 5)Retest Now-->D)Retest Now
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5)Drag and Drop-->D)Drag and Drop
|->5)Not a Bug-->D)Not a Bug
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5)Need More Info------------>5)No Rest For The Wicked
| |->D)No Rest For The Wicked
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7)Raise the Barricades------>8)The Ironwall Rampart
|->8)Get the Message |
| D)Capture More Dispatches |
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8)Bloodspattered Banners |
|____________________________|
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9)Before the Gate of Horror
| \
9)Shatter the Shards 9)The Guardians of Corp'rethar

Watts My Target(doesn't work/exist)
Quest Zones:
1)Scybreaker_____2)Ymirheim_____3)Broken Front_____4)Mord'Rethar_____5)Aldur'thar_____6)The Bombardment_____7)Valley of Lost Hope_____8)Valley of Fallen Heroes_____9)Corp'rethar
D)Daily
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.

Comment by Azaram

You don't have to wait for the whole flight to finish, once you've blown up your quota; let the bomber be shot down, you get grabbed by the rescue plane and flown directly back to the hub, and can turn it in as successful with no penalty.

Edit: Looks like they're adding an 'eject' button to the bomber, upon which a rescue plane will fly you back to the platform. So, basically the same as letting yourself be shot down, but faster. (Info from mmo-champion's list of 3.3.0 patch notes)

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Static Shock Troops: the Bombardment

Kibli Killohertz wants you to kill 50 Bombardment Infantry, 10 Bombardment Captains and 20 Gargoyle Ambushers.

	Bombardment Infantry slain (50)
	Bombardment Captain slain (10)
	Gargoyle Ambusher slain (20)

Description

This is a short-ranged mission, over The Bombardment. A good warm up. Ready?

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The following spell will be cast on you:

	Mission Complete

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13404))