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Tainted Core

Item Level 1
Miscellaneous
Use: Opening
Use: Throw Key
Not sold on the Auction House

This item is acquired in-game. See its sources below.

Not sold on the Auction House Miscellaneous

A Common Miscellaneous, item level 1. Crafted with Throw Key.

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Where it comes from
CraftedThrow KeyRecipe
Build history

First seen in build 2.5.6.69795 (The Burning Crusade).

Related
Other versions
Across game versions
VersionItem levelQuality
Retail (Midnight)1Common
The Burning Crusade1Common
Wrath of the Lich King1Common
MoP Classic1Common
Tainted Core Game Data

Crafted By

Requirements & Properties

Duration
5 minutes

Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.

Where Tainted Core Fits

Where Tainted Core Works

Restrictions the game client stores on Tainted Core itself.

Bound to instance
Coilfang: Serpentshrine Cavern

Other Items Named Tainted Core

1 other item in the current build is also called Tainted Core. Same-name entries are usually a different rank, faction, quest stage or reward track of the same object.

  • Tainted Core ID 97553 · Miscellaneous "Teaches you how to summon a Tainted Waveling."

Items That Share Tainted Core's Icon

Tainted Core uses icon file 136030, which 9 other items also use. The 8 closest by item ID:

  • Fel Cannonball ID 31757 · Quest "It reeks of felfire and brimstone."
  • Naturalized Ammunition ID 31807 · Quest
  • Sunmote ID 34664 · Trade Goods · item level 15
  • Muck-Ridden Core ID 24469 · Quest "Oozing with tainted muck."
  • Burned Out Sunmote ID 92926 · Miscellaneous · item level 35 "Its once-bright glow is now only an occasional flicker."
  • Tainted Core ID 97553 · Miscellaneous "Teaches you how to summon a Tainted Waveling."
  • Eye of Skovald ID 133641 · Armor · item level 50
  • Archimonde's Hatred Reborn ID 144249 · Armor · item level 50 "Archimonde the Defiler, overlord of the legion army and wielder of limitless magics, has destroyed countless..."

Items Numbered Next to Tainted Core

Blizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 31088 (31080 to 31093) were usually added in the same batch as Tainted Core: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.

Tainted Core Client Record

The raw ItemSparse values for item 31088 in the current client build.

Unique (max carried)
1
Material
Cloth
Expires after
300 seconds in your bags
Flags
8454144 / 8192 / 0 / 0 / 0

Read from the World of Warcraft client build files: Item, ItemSparse, Lock, Holidays, AreaTable and CollectableSourceVendor.