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Kommentar von lhug

Technisch gesehen ist die Erfolgsbedingung falsch formuliert.

Man benötigt zwar die Quest Schwarmruf, um das Questitem zu kriegen, aber man muss die Quest nicht aktiv haben.

Soll heissen: Quest annehmen, Verwandeln, Quest abbrechen, sammeln.

Durch das Abbrechen der Quest wird man nicht aus der Vogelgestalt geworfen, aber man verliert das Questitem. Allerdings kann man dann Vögel ohne Begrenzung sammeln. Von daher:

Eigentlich ist der Erfolg geschenkt, wenn man das weiss =)

€dith sagt: Nach Annehmen der Quest einfach einer Schlachtgruppe beitreten hilft auch, da der Questfortschritt nicht aktualisiert wird und man somit auch alles einsammeln kann was da ist.

Kommentar von Milandas

Während der Quest Schwarmruf (eine der möglichen täglichen Quests im Hyjal) muss man drei verschiedene Vogelarten sammeln. Jeder gesammelte Vogel gibt einen Speedbuff Segeln für 7 Sekunden, der mit jedem gesammelten Vogel hochstapelt. Mit jedem Sammeln wird ausserdem der Timer auf 7 Sekunden zurückgesetzt. Die verschiedenen Vögel geben eine unterschiedliche Anzahl Stapel von diesem Buff:

Für die Quest muss man 2 Goldschwingenfalken, 5 Waldeulen und 12 Gebirssingvögel sammeln. Da man während der Quest auch nicht mehr sammeln kann, kann man maximal 2*15+5*5+12=67 Stapel erreichen.
Da man 65 brauch um diesen Erfolg zu erhalten braucht man alle bis auf 2 Gebirgssingvögel in Folge, ohne dass der Buff von 7 Sekunden ausläuft.
Die 2 extra Gebirgssingvögel kann man benutzen um den Buff zwischendurch wieder aufzufrischen.

Nun gibt es (momentan noch) 3 Möglichkeiten die Vögel ausserhalb der Quest zu sammeln, so dass man nicht der Beschränkung von 2 Goldschwingfalken u.s.w. unterliegt.

Man sammelt alle Vögel, gibt die Quest "on the fly" ab und nimmt die Folgequest an. Man bleibt in der Vogelform und kann nun noch beliebig weitersammeln
Man ist in einem Schlachtzug. Da im Schlachtzug die gesammelten Vögel nicht für die Quest zählen kann man auch hier beliebig sammeln
Man benutzt Federkiel der Vogelkönigin um in die Vogelform zu kommen. Dann bricht man die Quest ab, bleibt aber in Vogelform und kann nun beliebig sammeln

Und ohne die Questbeschränkung kann man 4 Goldschwingenfalken und etwas Kleinzeug oder 5 Goldschwingenfalken relativ einfach einsammeln.

Kommentar von kaimox

Me too. Never ever seen the buff.

Edit: Wieso landet das hier? Ich wollte auf einen englischen Beitrag antworten ...

Kommentar von Boxofbeer

Lächerliche Geschwindigkeit https://youtu.be/tFNZDuXt6iU

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Kommentar von goatsicle

"They've gone to plaid"

Kommentar von Chilela

As implied by this statement, this achievement is a reference to the movie Spaceballs.

This is the scene in question.

Kommentar von 787747

In order to get this achievement for Ludicrous Speed, you must get all but 2 little birds without the speed increase dropping off you. you get 15% speed buff for the 2 big birds, 5% for each of the 5 medium birds and 1% for each of the 12 small birds. You can get 67% but only need 65% for the achievement.

For example, once you get both big birds you would be at 30%, but you can no longer grab another one of that type of bird to keep the stack up, so timing is everything.

Kommentar von 179086

This achievement is all but impossible unless you pretty much have the place to yourself.

You will need to use your flying mount to plan your path through the trees, with the "bear cub" area being a perfect starting point. Remember what path you take through the trees to pass each of the required number and type of birds. Practice flying this path.

When you're confident, activate your "feather", then head off.

Note that you ONLY get stacks of Soar for quest progression. Once you've collected the required amount of birds for the quest, you WILL NOT GAIN stacks of Soar for any further birds of that type you collect. However, zapping them WILL make them disappear regardless of whether you need quest credit for them or not.

Try to fly directly over (or through) the top of the trees on your path, hitting your "Call" button as you do so. The radius of the effect is such that you should get all birds in or around that tree.

If there's more than 3 other players collecting at those same trees during this, you lose due to the pitifully short buff timer of 7 seconds or so. Abandon the quest and try again. Yes, painful as it is, if the Soar buff wears off at any time, abandon and try again.

The birds do respawn quickly, though, so you may be lucky to get some in your planned path after another player has zapped the tree, provided it was more than 2 seconds flight time away.

Just stick to your path, time the zaps, hope no-one else is just randomly zapping everything, and the achievement should be yours.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##asakawa##DELIM##

Kommentar von Koala

Not sure if it's bugged, but most likely.

Anyway, a guild mate did this by accident, than showed me how to after words. When you are on the follow up quest to kill Millagazor, if you are still in bird form (or harpy) than you can use your call to collect even more birds, as there is no longer a quest limiter. With this you can just fly and collect as many eagles as you want, as they respawn quickly. I just kept bouncing among the same to birds spawning and got 75 stacks of the buff easily.

Kommentar von Potatoshoes

Actually, abandoning the quest is how you can get this achieve easy. While still in the Wings of Aviana form, abandon the quest. You will stay in form and still be able to collect birds. However there will be no limit to the number of birds you can gather. Just fly around grabbing birds until the achieve pops, then go reacquire and actually do the quest. Did this achieve in no time at all this way.

Kommentar von 636744

Didn't see this while scrolling though all pointless comments on this achievement, so I figured I would add it in.

Since you can't increase your soaring stacks once you have found all of that certain type of bird for the quest, I figured you could just join a raid group so you would not get credit for the bird and continue to get as many of those birds as I like, and with this new-found idea I just joined a raid, flew up, and grabbed a few Goldwing Hawks then, voilà (edit), a brand new chieve.

Kommentar von Malvenue

Easiest way to do this is simply form a raid after picking up the quest and zoom around picking up the birds. The Goldwing Hawks are the most profitable to focus on.

Kommentar von wowgeek123

This achievement is very easily bugged.

Simply accept the quest, transform into a bird, then abandon the quest. You can do any combination of birds this way, 5 hawks, or a dozen owls, instead of getting all of them within your setbacks.

This worked for me, hopefully it will for you too :)

Kommentar von 850758

In order to get the Achievement Easily:

1. Finish the quest and when the reward pops up, hand it in.
2. Stay in Wings of Aviana Form.
3. Fly up high, and use "Call of the Flock" skill next to 5 Goldwing Hawks (Biggest Birds) before the buff time 8 seconds run out.
(You wont get more Stacks of Soar from the birds you collected already, if you don't hand in the quest)

Since the quest is finished you don't have 2 Goldwing Hawk limit now, you can get "Soar" from all the birds you use "Call of the Flock" next to without a limit (up to a maximum of 75% speed actually)

Tips:
1. I used 5x Goldwing Hawks since its pretty easy to Locate them up there alone while nothing blocks your vision like trees, and 15% speed from each one of them helps you reach next one much easier.
2. Make sure you are not doing this on a crowded time, since you might not find as many birds as you want before buff runs out while lots of other people are collecting them too.

One thing that bugs me is that Achievement explanation says: Collect 65 Stacks of Soar "While" you are on the quest "Call of the Flock". So i am not sure if it is a mistake, or was intended to be like this.

After trying the achievement 6-7 times (abandoning and re-taking the quest) and giving up, i finished it normally and on my way back to another quest i pressed 1 next to a bird and got 15% Speed buff than realized it can be finished like this too.

Kommentar von 783506

It's just a matter of time til those exploits will be fixed.

If you have to do this achievement the legit way, make sure to activate friendly nameplates - default-shortcut for that is shift+v. Also make sure, that in the "Esc/Interface/Names" menu friendly players pets and guardians are disabled.... you'll have it much easier now to spot free birds, as only their nameplates will appear.

Kommentar von Tharama

Having trouble seeing those pesky Alpine Songbirds?

Just hold control and press V my friend and they will have a big green health bar over their heads.

Hope this helps and good luck if you're going at ludicrous speeds!

Kommentar von 327014

There are too many people picking up the birds and the buff from the birds only last a few seconds.
So could I pick the quest today and wait for tomorrow when no one has it to do the quest (in raid group).
Will that work. Any thoughts.

Kommentar von EonDrache

Was trying to do this for like an hour while on the quest. It is early morning so I had the place to myself and couldn't get this for the life of me. I found the exploit on here, got in form, quit quest, bam, got it in 10 seconds because 2 of the eagles fly next to each other with a really fast respawn.

Kommentar von CleonanTehGnome

REALLY, REALLY HELPFUL TIP!:
Ok I was getting REALLY mad so I started trying a few other things and one worked really well...

Step 1: Get the daily
Step 2: Use the item the quest gives you
Step 3: Press 'Shift + V' so green nameplates pop up when you get close to a hawk
Step 4: Fly over to where the birds are, and get some fairly high altitude (Where the Hawks are)
Step 5: Zoom your camera all the way out
THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP! Step 6: ABANDON THE QUEST!
Why?: Because if the quest isn't in your log, it doesn't limit you to only 2 Hawks, so you can get tons of them!
Step 7: JUST aim for the hawks! They're 15 Stacks each!

Good luck, & rate up! :P

Kommentar von Remae

Easy Completion:

1. Abandon the Quest
2. Stay in Aviana form
3. Go to the middle area of the Grove and fly near the top, near where 2-3 goldwing hawks spawn
4. Fly back and forth between the hawk spawns, they respawn nearly instantly.
5. Complete in 4-5 collections.

Kommentar von fai1

I kept trying to grab the hawks like everyone said but there just weren't enough of them. At any one time I could only see 4, and when I went near them they'd do an odd little croak and disappear. So I followed my gm's advice and instead went from tree to tree grabbing all the little songbirds. That worked.

Kommentar von Ikayuro

Is there some way to tell how many stacks you have? There's no buff or anything while I'm gathering birds.

Kommentar von 852900

Easy way to do this!
Step 1: Obtain the quest
Step 2: Use the feather to transform into the bird/harpie
Step 3: Abandon the quest
Step 4: Fly to the quest zone
Step 5: Fly to where the big brown birds are up in the sky and keep useing the spell (only 1 spell) to get them.

-Seeing that you are in the bird/harpie form, you are able to "call" the big brown birds up top in the sky and you also won't have a limit on how many you can get becuase your not in the quest, yet it counts for the achievement. This might be fixed later so get it while you can.

-Founded by Shadöwknight who found out by Bubletrouble who found out by Gatoo

Kommentar von Diabolic

Thanks to ludicrous amounts of phasing bugs this is not a easy achievement all the time.

Kommentar von 327014

Even better idea for you guys. Pick up the quest, dont do it the same day, go next day when that quest is not available, get in a raid group and you can pick up all the birds you want with no competition. See attached screenshot.

Kommentar von 24880

Getting this achievement will be a lot easier if you join a raid party instead of abandoning the quest.

Being in a raid means you do not get any quest credits and can go for Haws only, but still being on the quest allows you to very easily spot them at a very large range since they will have their name visible in green (and that has no range limit, as compared to the shift-V nameplates)

Kommentar von 620986

To achieve Ludicrous Speed you will need to:

Get the quest "Call of the Flock."
Use the "Quill of the Bird-Queen"
Drop the quest after turning into a bird or harpy.
Hold -shift- and -v- to see friendly name plates. (this is needed to see birds hidden in the leafy tree tops in "Grove of Aessina.")

-Goldwing Hawk = 15 Stacks of "Soar" for 8 seconds
-Forest Owl = 5 stacks of "Soar" for 8 seconds
-Alpine Songbird = 1 stack of "Soar" for 6 seconds

You now have unlimited tries! You can do this any time.

I know there are some real warcraft genius' out there that can do this without dropping the quest.
We salute you Mr. Elitist (one-upper, @ss-hat jerk) who is not satisfied with simple solutions. You genius' make an ego statement by doing things the hard way.

The rest of us will kick back and crack open some Morning Glory Dew to get that achievement.
=P

Kommentar von lightclaw

For people who are interested in doing this the intended way, so that it's still possible once they fix all these exploits, here's how I've done it.

1) I've got it set so that quest mob's names show up, nameplates would be handy too, I suppose, but that hasn't been necessary thus far.

2) If it's INSANELY crowded there isn't much point in trying, but I've gotten it at least twice while there were 4 or 5 people in the area questing. You just have to be flexible.

3) Remember that the stacks that you're getting are a speed buff. You want as much speed as possible, so if you're choosing between two areas with birds, try to choose the one with the higher speed buff return.

4) Specifically, I always start with 2 hawks (30% speed ftw.) If you watch where they fly, there is a point where two of them nearly cross paths. It's possible to get them with 1 shout, but you can also just hang out until it refreshes and get the second if you miss the first time. What you don't want to do is chase a hawk all over the place trying to catch it, cause you'll run out of time more often than not. After I get my hawks I immediately descend and pick up the first bird that I can to refresh my stack. Go along the south edge of the area from east to west then head north along the cliff. You should be able to pick up at least 3 owls (and often all 5) along that path (of course pick up songbirds as opportunity allows and if necessary head elsewhere to keep your stack going.) Finish up the songbirds/owls now that you're flying at 150%+ speed and it's easy.

I haven't gotten it on all of my toons yet, but 4 or 5 of them at least, and that's just doing the daily once when it happens to come up. There's really no need to cheat this one.

Kommentar von Woundheir

Great, an achi that mainly depends on luck and requires you to abandon quest and run all the way back to get it again. Seriously.. its been like 5x now that I was almost done and people steal every bird in the area.

Kommentar von 131549

Completed this without trying for the achievement.

Early Saturday morning, only one other player on quest. I just flew as fast as I could to anything that had a green "title" meaning that it was fair game, and got the achievement.

Kommentar von Alrick

First didnt see the stacks, disabled all addons, worked.

Super easy after that.

Kommentar von 399950

Is anyone else having issues with the Call just not grabbing the birds?

I get to about 55 every time and then the spell just doesn't work. It's about the most annoying thing to happen on an achievement that already makes me feel like throwing something.

Kommentar von ArgentSun

Paladins, you can use Aura des Kreuzfahrers to make this a little easier on yourselves. It boosts your flying speed from 110% while in Wings of Aviana form, up to 120%.

Kommentar von Hairband

Ok I decided to give the "get the quest and then drop it" technique a go. Here is what I learned:

(1) the hawks are work 15 per; the owls 5 and the songbirds 1 Soar each. Don't waste time on a songbird or owl unless you are losing your stack.
(2) you must be in close range before you call the bird. Otherwise you've just wasted a cooldown.
(3) for each time you use your call bird button, you get a very short amount of time to get your next bird before the Soar stack goes away. I think it's about 10 seconds but every time I looked up it was 5 or fewer. I was a bit keyed up when doing this.
(4) they say to have your next target on radar after you called your bird. But, even if you have your eye on the hawk or bird, sometimes they just despawn.
(5) for unknown reasons, I was doing this quest and had an entourage of about 50 birds that I had picked up and got a buff for but later after the buff faded, they would not despawn. Of course I got no credit for them twice. You may have this happen to you. What I did was just wait and they despawned eventually.

My final conclusion is that this is probably the best way to go but isn't going to be a 2 minute deal either unless you are just lucky. Yes there were 3 or 4 other people doing this quest today but I am not sure this impacted my achievement much. I think it took 10 minutes to do quite honestly.

Kommentar von Welk

After reading so many entries which said to abandon the quest, I instead decided to try something else I'd read which said to complete the initial quest but not accept the follow up yet. And after completing this easily on three toons afterward, I can say that this truly is the way to go about it. Abandoning the quest means you have to go back and pick it up again but this method allows you to finish, then get the achieve done. So, just complete the quest, turn it in but don't accept follow up yet. Fly up high and start looking around for hawks and you'll get the achievement within 30 secs to a minute :)

Kommentar von rednikolaou

for anyone who is interested, the exploit that lets you complete the achievement easier after you drop the quest still works. just go striaght for the brown hawks which fly up high

Kommentar von Pouned

I really don't know how people do it.
1. I took the quest and dropped it after having transformed.
2. Been flying and trying to do the achivement for 1h54m (almost 2 hours non stop)

The stack keeps dropping. I have been going only after big eagles, and after 4/5 of them, nothing
happens + the stacks drop. I have tried to go from tree to tree and grab all birds. It drops.
First bird, it works. Second, it works. Third, bird is within 1 m, I press key 1 and stacks drop.

I tried going only after eagles, been able to do 5 or 6 in a row, and achievement does not proc.
5 eagles = 5 x 15 = 75
I tried to to the same with any kind of birds + adding 4/5 eagles : doesn't proc

This achivement is either bugged or can no longer be done.

And to make things fun, it's required in the meta achievement.

Kommentar von 747720

Hmm, ok.

Disabled all my addons and the buff still doesnt show. Perhaps on thing that should be worth noting is that you cant just go round spamming the keyboard trying to tag the birds, you must target the bird you want first, which hasn't really been covered in the posts so far. Perhaps that's because it's obvious to most.

Anyway. 75 soar later and acheivemnt in the bag, thats me done!

Kommentar von Falquan

Even with there being no quest limiter, if you are like me and on a high population server and playing from outside the US, then you may as well give up on this quest. Unless your ping time is under 150ms, your latency means the birds aren't where they appear to be, and often birds will vanish to people who have not rendered on your screen because they have moved away from your range limitation.

Yet another Achievement where the text may as well read "Login to your WoW account from somewhere in the US and...."

Kommentar von ropiv

Not sure if this has been posted yet (didn't read through all 125+ comments), but here is a way to help get this, if you don't want to use the exploit and if you are having trouble with all the others doing it:

Pick up the quest -- and don't do it until the next day (assuming Call The Flock isn't the daily the same day in a row of course.) Since everyone would have done it the day before, you can complete in relative seclusion.

Kommentar von kragragh

Go for the 15 soar hawks, and start with an owl for 5. Fly up high, and just chase down 4 hawks or whatever the big brown birds are. Don't bother down at the ground. The high point guys are up high

Kommentar von Alcasczar

"What's the matter Col Sanders? .. CHICKEN?"

Kommentar von 817934

Even while using the abandon technique, I still have trouble with this. People keep grabbing up my birds! >:(

Kommentar von lile130

Anyone else having this problem?

When I did the daily, I never (EVER) got stacks of soar. Is this a bug or is it just me?

Will update if I determine what the problem is.

Kommentar von linny

I completed this today on my 2 mains. I tried both ways..completing the quest and also dropping the quest. I ended up having to drop the quest both times to complete it. When I completed the quest it would not give me any more soar buffs no matter how many times I tried to get birds. I guess if you do the complete quest option you MUST TURN IN THE QUEST and stay in bird form (I didn't think of that until I had already gotten the achievement). I did not do that and didn't get a single soar timer/amount once the quest was complete but when I dropped the quest I started getting the timer again. I ignored all birds except the brown eagles. Takes 5 of those (15 soars each). Try to find an area where they are relatively close to one another. Otherwise as you get one then fly a long way to another you run out of time. I did it during peak hours and during off hours with same results. I just flew up really high so I could spot where the biggest concentration of eagles were and went from there. Quest goers only need 2 of the eagles and they respawn pretty quickly so I didn't have much trouble finding one to catch. And, both times there was a delay in getting the achievement. I hit 70 stacks and nothing for a few seconds then it finally gave it to me. Took about 10 mins each time.

Kommentar von 771700

The range is kind abuggy, i had 62, and was near an owl but somehow missed it with only 1 second left. I was on the tree while it was orbiting it : /

Kommentar von vampiresnake

abandon quest way still working , idk if its normal or not but i didnt got any buff to count it , i thought it buggy or smt and i cant do this in this way , but once i tried with abandon quest and ignore buggy buff just fly around and got birds till achievement popped up , and as other people said use shift + v to see friendly mobs hp plate so u can find em faster
good luck ;)

Kommentar von 443789

I can confirm completing the achievement after completing the first portion of the quest, accepting the quest to kill Millagazor, and staying in bird form.

I stayed up where the hawks spawned. Hit detection on the CALL ability was a bit wonky, it took me about 3 tries just to figure out the sweet spot of where to use it to ensure i didn't miss, but once i got that down it took about 10 seconds to get the achievement.

Kommentar von 839525

I have done it on toons with people in the area then on other toons can't seem to do it because of to many people in the area lol. So my solution to this to many people in the area problem, wait until you have all the marks you need to have everything opened up when you no longer need the marks, except for purchasing rep points, save the quest for the next day or the day after that even and do it when no ones there in the way. It should be painfully simple then.

Kommentar von padkimow

does this trick still work? I can never find but 2 or 3 big hawks around, and the buff only lasts 5 seconds. Am i doing something wrong? I have tried this like 10 times and cant get the achieve even using the trick. Help!

Kommentar von 728743

This is more a problem....I seem to be unable to see the Soar buff. I see my other buffs, just not the Soar buff. Has anyone else had this problem or know of a solution?

Kommentar von 845973

Trick still works as of today (9th Sep 2011). Accept the quest, fly to the area where the birds are, use the feather to transform and then abandon the quest (after you have fully transformed). Leaves you free to fly around and collect the birds at your leisure. Can also confirm that you can still collect more than the quest's quota of each bird, i.e. you can collect only the biggest birds which offer the most 'speed points'. If you aren't in a desperate hurry to get this, accept the quest and come back the next day, you will have less competition ;-)

Although I didn't try it, I did think of something as I flew in. Someone had just killed the boss using the birds (the next phase of this quest chain) and as the boss dropped to earth, the birds all flew away. It is possible that you can wait for someone to get this boss, and as soon as it is killed use the screech attack and try to collect all of the birds that were attacking it? As I say, I did NOT try this, so this is UNCONFIRMED. Maybe someone could reply if they try it?

Kommentar von athenerus

Still working. Try another alt char and done it.
Simple, take quest, transform bird, abandon quest.
Catch the birds. Gain Stacks.
Done Achievement.

Halen daha işliyor bu sistem. Alt karakterle denedim ve oldu.
Basit şekilde;
Görevi alın, tüyü kullanıp kuşa dönüşün, görevi abandon edin.
Bir alay kuş toplasanız da sıkıntı yok. Gerekli stack'leri toplayana kadar devam edin ve achievement ı alın.

Kommentar von Imbahitz

What to do if i have already done the quest unaware of achi:(

Kommentar von 883942

Easiest way to complete in one shot.

youtu.be/U5h1i6VeUAg?hd=1

Kommentar von Esalyn

I was able to do this today - completed the first part of the quest, accepted the next, and then dropped it. It wouldn't work until I turned off ALL my addons.

So don't lose heart, if its not working for you, just turn off your addons (I recommend "addon control panel" so you don't have to log out to turn your addons off.) and you should be able to get it in no time.

I did mine after I dropped the quest, and my boyfriend got his with the quest still in his log. As of today (Sept 30, 2011) both ways are still working :)

Kommentar von Kittay

I just flew around (after completing the quest), and by claiming those hawks hiiiigh up in the sky (that nobody's looking for) and keeping up the buff with owls and a few small birds while flying over the trees I got this one.

There were several other players doing the quests while I did this so it ain't hard.

Kommentar von Warrok

I just did it the "easy" way (i.e. get quest abandon quest and do it). I needed some practice to do it right. Afterwards when I did the quest I got my 67 stacks of Soar, so the "hard" way is not that hard at all with some practice. When you are on the quest the birds you need are highlighted, which clearly helps. Of course if the area is overcrowded you might get problems with both methods.

Kommentar von Elosha

It's buggy and extremely hard to achieve now. The exploits which allow you to collect even more birds have the side effect of needing two casts to collect a bird if you already collected more than neccessary – even if you don't have the quest anymore. With the need of waiting a extra cooldown (3 sec.) before you can collect the next bird, you will lose your debuff. It seems to reset from time to time. I'm going to give up now ._.

Kommentar von Eclipsegirl

I just did it today on Alterac Mts.

The quest was originally given on Monday. I didn't do it, I just saved the quill.

I went back this morning, because the quests were for Between the Trees, and the Spirits of Malorne. No one was going to be in the area.

I then when into AddOns saved my current UI and then disabled all.
I changed into bird form. I abandoned the quest. I couldn't use the keybinding for the Call the Flock ability because it had been disabled.
Several times I was able to get up to 60, sometimes 61 or 62 because of a songbird but I couldn't get the last hawk.

So the time I was successful,
I got about 20 SOAR from songbirds and owls, first and then hit the hawks.
I knew where they would be. I ended up with 71 SOAR buffs when I was granted the achievement.

It probably took me about 10 - 15 mins to finally get it.
I am glad it is done.

Kommentar von Drauken

ok, don't kjnow if someone already said that, but the best way to do this achiev is:

get the quest... don't do the quest at that day, cause there's too much people trying to get them.. wait 1 or 2 days to do it, then you have all the birds only for yourself=]] it makes it quite easyer =]

Kommentar von cheesemonster

Does anyone read before posting? I saw 104 posts and thought great, there's been a lot of discussion of this. Nope. A couple of exploits, a couple of tips and 80% repetition. If y'all don't read what was written before you got there why do you bother to post more crap that will get skipped by people who are similarly impatient?

Kommentar von Tebok

Been trying this for over an hour. I can get up to 58 stacks then miss a bird because the timer runs out when I am less then one millions of an centimeter away from the bird.

This is the best thing you should do - Go to blizzard HQ, find the guy who came up with this quest, have him fired, sue him for every red cent he owns so he is forced to live in the streets, then have him arrested and thrown in jail for the rest of his life.

Kommentar von 817145

This achievement was kind of tricky at first - I followed peoples' advice and finished the first quest but didn't drop the bird form. I also tried to go for the hawks as they give 15points each but I struggled to find them quickly enough before the buff timed out.

So instead I would look for one or two hawks together, get them, then fly low for a couple song birds or owls just keep the timer going while I got closer to the next hawk. With this method I was able to do it in one attempt.

Hope this helps - happy flying!

Kommentar von gamerunknown

As far as I'm aware, the quest is one of three given at random. I got mine on the second day of dailies.

Kommentar von 906618

I have been trying to get this achievement for a while now, and my biggest problem is that i can't see the speed buff/stacks... very annoying.. any1 know how i can make this visible?

Kommentar von 645398

"Fasten all seatbelts, seal all entrances and exits, close all shops in the mall, cancel the free-range circus, secure all animals in the zoo!"

Kommentar von 628734

Quest dropping no longer allows you to pick up additional birds, and you must dismount (drop bird/harpy form) to summon Millagazor. Have not tested the raid group loophole but I would imagine that if it isn't fixed yet, it soon will be.

Kommentar von 910215

I used the abandon quest option and worked just fine 10/09/11. Grabbed a few of the big hawks in the sky, dove to grab an owl or little bird in between so the timer didn't run out.

Noteworthy to Paladins: I had crusader aura on and never got the soars and noticed that the vehicle was receiving the buff too. I dropped it and then was able to see the soar count. That could possibly be related, not sure!

Kommentar von Shadowpint

That's not possible anymore. I thought I could keep stacking until I handed in the quest by clicking the question mark but when I had all the birds needed, I couldn't get anymore stacks.

Kommentar von jquintel

I completed this Ach. while on the quest today.

Kommentar von potcha

Heh, completed this quest completely by accident. Was just questing like normal and suddenly the achievement popped up. Looked at raptr and found a extremely low % of people have this one. Weird, but I wont complain. Good luck!

Kommentar von Cypzik

Just got this done.
Basically.
Take the quest. Change it to the bird form. Drop the quest while in the bird form.
Then set your graphics to Ultra in View Distance.
Fly a bit up and check out where the hawks are because they give you 15 each.
And just bombard the hawks.

I had 4 hawks and went for the smaller one in the trees - done.

Kommentar von Calabra

Just wanted to add, that you can do this achievement even after you have obtained all of the birds for the quest. I just did it in that fashion. I just kept looking around for hawks, since they give you the most flight burst. The trick for me was to get close to the hawk stop and spam the 1 button. Then do the same for the next bird. You may have to get a couple of the lower buff birds just to continue the timer, but try your best to get the high level speed birds. Good luck.

Kommentar von Killovolt1

Hello, it's my first comment as a user on wowhead and i hope it's very useful.
Now you no longer need to abandon the quest to get more than 2 big birds, tested it and is working, i personally gained the speed from 3 big birds.

Kommentar von 310862

As with the other few comments posted after patch 4.3.0, it's now possible to gain Soar from more than two hawks while on the quest Schwarmruf"Call the Flock", so you've got a pretty easy game to get above 65 Soar by calling five hawks.

I'm not sure if this was changed without announcement in patch 4.3.0 (nothing in the patch notes, but it seems back in 4.2.2, you were still limited to gaining Soar from two hawks while on the quest) or in a hotfix, but I've tested this the two times I got the daily so far (waited until November to get started on Cata ;) ), and I was able to gain 75 Soar (5*15) from hawks while on the quest, and get the achievement that way.

The thing to watch out for is that you call hawks that aren't following you. The hawks you have called already fly around in your general area, but not necessarily behind you in your flight path, and there's no distinguishing feature from other hawks except that they don't award Soar. So, get the quest, turn on nameplates (Shift+V), fly around the central area of the questing space, pinpoint a hawk that's flying around a little further away from you, fly straight into it and call to it just before you fly through it. Unless there are tons of other people on the daily quest, you should be able to pick up more than 65 Soar quite quickly that way.

Kommentar von 818820

The way I got this achivement was I got the quest and waited till the next day when it wasn't the daily anymore and then did it. really easy cause noone else was around since it wasn't that day's daily, otherwise most of the other advise is right on point and doing this didn't interupt mark gains cause I still got full quests the next day

Kommentar von Frozenhades

A very simple process to receive this achievement...

Accept the quest and head out to the quest area..
Once there, use the Quill of the Bird-Queen quest item to change into the Wings of Aviana.
After changing into the Wings of Aviana, drop the quest before calling any of the birds.
Concentrate on spamming only the Goldwings Hawks with Call the Flock right before flying into them while trying to gather 5 or 6 of them as quickly as possible.
After the 5th or 6th hawk you will have the achievement.

As of today's date 2/18/2012, dropping the quest still works. It's possible that Blizzard may patch this at some point to remove Wings of Aviana if/when the quest is dropped...but if they do, I imaging a lot of people are going to unwittingly begin working on the Going Down? achievement instead. :sarcasm:

Kommentar von baboulas7

All you have to do is while in wings form to use the call on 3 Goldschwingenfalke.
There are plenty of them near the lake and you do not have to worry about the time expiring.
Took me 25 secs to get the achievement

Kommentar von kharth

Not sure why people say drop the quest, all you do is target the brown birds and after 4 you get it.

Kommentar von Reignac

I just got it by flying around in a figure 8 and pressing my 1 key like a madman.

Kommentar von Landon

Confirming that once you attain bird form you can drop the quest and obtain the achievement easily as of 9/29/2012.

Kommentar von ndoty87

As of Dec 14, 2012, you can still drop the quest to get this achievement. Just completed.

Kommentar von 196272

So I did this the cheap way one doing lunar festival npcs I noticed I didn't have the achievement and it was the daily. I first did it the cheating way where you abandon the quest and gather them. Then I decided to do the daily while I was there and got all of my birds without dropping the stack at all during it, was able to get 75% then collect the last 6-7 birds.

Kommentar von Crepusculum

I just did this achievement in 30 seconds.

The bigger birds, the Goldwing Hawks gives 15 stacks of the buff when you use the ability next to them. I simply found an area where 4-5 of them were present and I used the special ability on them.
That's it, no need to get the smaller birds!

If you can't find an area with 4-5 of these but where there's plenty of smaller ones, it should be easy to complete.

Good luck!

P.S.: Got this on february 7th 2013 (5.1.0) So yeah it's still obtainable

Kommentar von sammipeterson94

I can confirm this bug still works, just did it today. 4/17/2013

Kommentar von Lerna

I found a nice and easy way to do this mint.

Here is the youtube link for it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5h1i6VeUAg.

Kommentar von Boxofbeer

Ludicrous Speed https://youtu.be/tFNZDuXt6iU

Kommentar von Nissarevane

this was a pretty bad ach for me. Used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5h1i6VeUAg and I got it on the second attempt.

Kommentar von mRshykid

Quite easy:
Pick up the quest
Find a good area with 3-4 or more big birds(each big bird gives 15 stacks)
Transform yourself into a bird(quest item)
Abandon quest
Do the achievement

If you're about to lose the buff, find the nearest small bird to reset your stack timer
p.s. If you fail the first time, go back pick up the quest and repeat. Hopefully this helps, happy birding

Kommentar von Macromonarch

Abandoning quest after turning into harpy after reaching quest zone bug still works as of June 4th, 2021. Just got the achievement today.

Kommentar von globalmenace

As of 2022 (9.2.5), the “abandoning” trick still works (i.e., unlike what the achievement description says, you do not have to be on the quest): 1) Pick up quest, 2 ) activate the quest item to enter vehicle, 3) abandon quest (but stay in vehicle), 4) do the achievement.

You still have to be reasonably quick though, since the buff lasts only 6 seconds or so. If you don’t see the buff stacks at the nameplate of your vehicle (the bird/Harpy you are flying), then simply target or focustarget your vehicle. Then the buff icon with the stacks should be visible at the target/focus frame (assuming you have set that frame to show buffs).

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