This item is acquired in-game. See its sources below.
The 10 items nearest to Volatile Dread Orb among Quest.
| Item | Item Level | Details | Lowest Listed Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volatile Dread Orb (this item) | 1 | Not listed | |
 Lost Mail | 1 | 16,001 gold on 82 realms | |
 Telemancy Orbs | 1 | Use: Throw Telemancy Orb | 1 silver on 61 realms |
 Iskaaran Harpoon | 1 | Use: Harpoon | 1 silver on 47 realms |
 Imbued Crystal | 1 | 300 gold on 76 realms | |
 Monstrous Egg | 1 | 300 gold on 76 realms | |
 Mysterious Grimoire | 1 | 300 gold on 72 realms | |
 Ornate Weapon | 1 | 244 gold on 74 realms | |
 A Treatise on Strategy | 1 | 300 gold on 74 realms | |
 Banner of the Fallen | 1 | 225 gold on 70 realms | |
 Captured Insignia | 1 | 100 gold on 74 realms |
The lowest listed price among them is Telemancy Orbs at 1 silver in the US Auction House.
Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.
Volatile Dread Orb is listed at 3 vendor placements. NPC 36915 stands in Kelp'thar Forest at map coordinates 45.2, 23.4.
Volatile Dread Orb uses icon file 134337, which 64 other items also use. The 7 closest by item ID:
Volatile Orb ID 88487 · Consumable · item level 32Ball of Sunshine ID 90638 · Consumable · item level 35Core of Hardened Ash ID 93035 · Miscellaneous "Teaches you how to summon an Ashstone Core."Smoldering Egg of Millagazor ID 69224 · Miscellaneous · item level 30 "Teaches you how to summon a Pureblood Fire Hawk mount. This is a flying mount."Air Raid Beacon ID 63830 · Armor · item level 37Hardboiled Egg ID 62769 · Miscellaneous "Teaches you how to summon this companion."Smoldering Energy Core ID 107394 · Miscellaneous · item level 35 "When properly harnessed, this orb can provide days of fuel."Blizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 82723 (82718 to 82722) were usually added in the same batch as Volatile Dread Orb: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.
Mountainscaler Barrier ID 82718 · Armor - Shield · item level 37Mountainscaler Shield ID 82719 · Armor - Shield · item level 37
Mountainscaler Blade ID 82720 · Weapon - Dagger · item level 37
Mountainscaler Axe ID 82721 · Weapon - One-Handed Axe · item level 37
Krik'thik Limb ID 82722 · Quest "Tiny holes in the hard shell are secreting some kind of caustic substance."The raw ItemSparse values for item 82723 in the current client build.
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files: Item, ItemSparse, Lock, Holidays, AreaTable and CollectableSourceVendor.
The game's collection data lists Volatile Dread Orb as sold by 3 vendor NPCs in Kelp'thar Forest and Mount Hyjal.
| Vendor | Zone | Map | Waypoint | Other items it sells |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NPC #36915 | Kelp'thar Forest | - | - | 221 |
| NPC #41618 | Kelp'thar Forest | - | - | 221 |
| NPC #71304 | Mount Hyjal | 63.0, 24.3 | /way #198 63.0 24.3 | 221 |
Vendor NPC, zone and position come from the client's collection source tables (CollectableSourceInfo and CollectableSourceVendorSparse); coordinates are the in-game map readout. The client does not carry these vendors' names or the price they charge, so neither is shown here.
Volatile Dread Orb is not traded on the Auction House, so it has no Auction House price. It is acquired in-game from the sources listed above. This page collects its first-party game data (identity, effects and where it comes from) from the official World of Warcraft client build.
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