No Fly Zone

Quest Giver: Uzo Deathcaller – Death’s Rise, Icecrown [19.7, 47.8]

Objective: Kill 10 Onslaught Gryphon Riders at Onslaught Harbor.

Quick Facts

• Type: Daily
• Location: Onslaught Harbor, Icecrown [~10, 44]
• Prerequisite: You’ll Need a Gryphon
• Provided Item: Bone Gryphon
• Pairs With: From Their Corpses, Rise!, Intelligence Gathering

Walkthrough

You have two options: use the provided Bone Gryphon (air-to-air vehicle combat) or skip it and fight on your own terms. Uzo himself says he doesn’t care which method you use.

Option A: Using the Bone Gryphon

Summon the Bone Gryphon from your inventory. It replaces your action bar with four vehicle abilities:

The gryphon also has melee auto-attacks (press T or right-click the target to enable), which adds noticeable DPS on top of your abilities.

Combat strategy: Apply Bone Armor before engaging. Open with Plague Strike at melee range, then pull back and kite in circles while spamming Frost Breath. The riders deal heavy melee damage, so circling them rather than hovering stationary makes a significant difference. One or two riders at a time is manageable; three or more patrol packs will likely kill your gryphon.

If the gryphon dies: You eject and parachute to the ground. Land somewhere safe, resummon a fresh gryphon from your inventory, and continue.

Option B: Using Your Own Abilities (Often Faster)

Many well-geared players skip the Bone Gryphon entirely. The advantages are significant: you can loot rider corpses for Scarlet Onslaught Trunk Keys (for Intelligence Gathering) and use the Darkmender’s Tincture on them (for From Their Corpses, Rise!). You can’t loot corpses while mounted on the Bone Gryphon.

• Ranged classes: Fly on your own mount, land near riders, pull and kill them normally.
• Melee and tank classes: Land on tall tower tops around the harbor (particularly the first tall tower as you enter the harbor area). Riders patrol close enough to aggro from the tower tops. AoE-heavy specs can burn down multiple riders pulled this way. A feral druid or tank class can comfortably handle 5-7 at once from a tower position.
• Caution: Don’t fly low near ground mobs. If your Bone Gryphon dies near the ground, you’ll parachute into ground patrols and get overwhelmed.

Efficiency Tips

• The ultimate three-daily combo: Kill riders (No Fly Zone), loot keys from corpses (Intelligence Gathering), use tincture on corpses (From Their Corpses, Rise!). This requires using your own abilities rather than the Bone Gryphon, but it knocks out three dailies simultaneously.
• Avoid patrol pairs. Riders sometimes patrol in groups of two or three. Single stationary riders near cliff edges are the safest targets for the Bone Gryphon.
• Don’t try to fly the Bone Gryphon back to Death’s Rise. It can despawn if you fly too far from the quest area, dropping you mid-air. Use Speed Burst if it happens and pray for a soft landing (parachute effect activates on dismount).
• Addon warning: The Bone Gryphon uses the vehicle action bar. Bar replacement addons (Bartender, Dominos) may cause abilities to not display. If this happens, try the default keybinds (1-4) even if the buttons aren’t visible, or disable bar addons temporarily.

Lore Context

This daily is the payoff for the entire Death’s Rise chain. You captured a gryphon in You’ll Need a Gryphon, Uzo Deathcaller transformed it using the shark blood you collected in Blood in the Water, and now you ride the resulting bone gryphon to turn the Onslaught’s air superiority against them.

The Ebon Blade’s approach to warfare in a nutshell: take what the enemy has, corrupt it, and weaponize it.

Explore Icecrown’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Icecrown Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.