Super frustrating quest. Low spawn rate, low drop rate, and the eagles can be tough to catch when they're flying. Probably took three times as long to complete as any other world quest I've done yet.
Quest
A Feathery Fad
A World of Warcraft quest in Tiragarde Sound. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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How do quests this bad get past beta?
Wasn't in the cave when I completed the WQ. I found the Matriarch at 75.79 62.16
Quest facts
The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(50322))
Requirements
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Defeat a target in Tiragarde Sound
Pristine Skyhunter Feather x 8
Where to go
Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #895 76.1 64.4
Coordinates
- Objective areaTiragarde Sound 76.1, 64.4
/way #895 76.1 64.4
Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Nearby on the Tiragarde Sound map
- A Hunt for Hawk Eggs about 70 yards
- A Grizzly End about 70 yards
- Pardon Our Rust about 80 yards
- Encase of Emergency about 90 yards
- Noble Responsibilities about 90 yards
- Miner Operation about 250 yards
- Pinch of Azerite about 250 yards
- The Start of a Monster Hunt about 410 yards
- Westward Noble about 410 yards
- An Overrun Mine about 440 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Tiragarde Sound, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Tiragarde Sound:
- Kennings Lodge, Tiragarde Sound
- Timberfell Outpost, Tiragarde Sound
- Bridgeport, Tiragarde Sound
Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.
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Other quests on the Tiragarde Sound map
Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Tiragarde Sound map
- Trouble in Tiragarde Sound
- The Shadow Over Anglepoint
- A Mountain of Ice
- The Norwington Estate
- Beware the Daughter of the Sea
- Freehold
Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.
Achievements
Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.
- Wide World of Quests: its criteria name 849 quests, this one included.