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Comment by Ormriss

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.

Comment by 5909

Each of these keys are attained by killing different elementals all located in Arathi. The middle stone surrounded by the 3 elementals needs you to open it to get each key. The elementals have a Very quick spawn rate so get in and out quickly. Once this Quest is completed you will be asked to gather the Rod of Order (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=4469) and get Quest (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=652)

Comment by 32774

Burning Key - 25,30
Cresting Key - 66,29
Thundering Key - 52,50

Comment by 38084

Inner Binding - 36,58

Comment by Anatis

Just for info

Thundering drop stones to banish Cresting
Cresting drop stones to banish Burning
Burning drop stones to banish Thundering

Comment by 33946

Now gives 3900xp as of patch 2.3

Comment by mrdummy

Charms are useful, but there is short warning: you get lesser XP. For example killing with charm is 290 XP, and killing it yourself without charm is 440 XP. That is around 25% lesser XP.

Only Thunderings are most heavy for me as Shaman. They don't damage much with Earth Shock and Lighting attacks. Use Frost Shock for more dps result. And they're only with ranged attack. The attack is also pretty hard. Your health drops fast.

Charming is next after Thundering. They're more easier with only melee attacks. Even they use frost, killing is more faster with Earth Shock and pulling is no problem.

Burning same as Charming. Killing is also no problem with only melee attacks.
Only careful with Thundering, your health goes fast down.

Don't start first with Thundering, but first with Charming or Burning. You get charms to kill annoying Thundering faster.

Remember Kobolds in the north of Charming can drop charms for banish Charming. Killing them outside cave is not bad idea (even it's part of quest!)

Done with L39 Ench Shaman.

Comment by 136014

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?

Comment by 203775

35 Balance druid jsut got all keys.

cat form stealth in bear form kill 2 heal as needed root last one. Burning key.
Repeat with cresting.
then with thundering kill one banish last 2.

Comment by Culstire

I just did this quest, it may be bugged, its from the stone in the middle, u dont need to banish or kill any of the elementals, just head in there and loot the stone, and the keys appear in ur keyring btw :P

Comment by 297139

One of the worst directed quest in WoW. Trying to do it with out reading here is a joke.

Comment by Gingex2006

Quest helper keeps telling me to got to Ogrammar.

Comment by purko87

http://www.wowhead.com/?maps=45:251302660291518500360580

Comment by 232887

This quest is really easy for a rogue or druid.
use stealth/prowl, walk in take key and use sprint/dash out.

Comment by 364359

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.

Comment by 370444

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. :)

Comment by 362104

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.

Comment by 364359

sometimes i get really tired of some people -.- look at all the latest comments..everyone has rating: 0
since ur comment start with 1+ rating i have a feeling some1 with no life is rating down every1 just for fun -.- All 13 comments here that has been downrated is not bad lawl.

Comment by evell

Have done two keys but the burning is impossible for me to do, even with using my minion as a distraction. Too many elementals to take. As a warlock I use my immolate and wand for killing but as these are fire elementals, they are immune. Anyone able to help with this.

Comment by 463929

solo'ed as 33 pally (ret)...it tooks looong time like 35-40 min -1 death...used invisibility potion...

Comment by kurtiffrig

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.

Comment by 279787

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. :)

Comment by 609114

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.

Comment by diondepp

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.

Comment by darkpanda

This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Why is this here?
i just completed this 1min ago...

Comment by perculia

This is the older pre-Cataclysm version of the quest, tuned for higher levels. The current version of the quest is found here: Stones of Binding.

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Stones of Binding

This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

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 (1)
	Cresting Key (1)
	Thundering Key (1)

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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.

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(651))

Stones of Binding

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