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A Hero's Burden

A World of Warcraft quest in Sholazar Basin. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Bengarion+199via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Seems like no one has said who to kill/save for which faction:

If you want Oracles: Kill Zepic

If you want Frenzyheart: Kill Jaloot

Then accept the quest from the one you 'saved'.

p.s. Choose wisely! If you save the wrong one you'll have to wait until tomorrow to redo it. The quest operates like a daily so it can only be completed once a day.

Edited for content.

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22114+76via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Depending on who you kill during the fight (Gorloc or Wolvar), they open the quest to change faction and consequently their dailies. You can kill the lich again if you want to change faction.

For oracles:
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12689
For frenzyheart:
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12582

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 20-30
ZoneSholazar Basin
Quest ID12581

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12581))

What to do

StorylineSholazar Basin, step 52 of 65
RewardsBlood-Infused Pendant, Choker of Binding, Artruis' Focus Stone, 31g 50s, 6,200 XP

Description

Perhaps the crystals will ward off the undead gradually, but there is one more thing that must be done. We need to find the leader of these undead and kill him to ensure there's no one to push the wretches back upon us. If my suspicions are correct, he will be somewhere inside the fallen pillar... the Sundered Shard. The corpses being dragged there would suggest as much anyway. I'll place the shards and bring the news to Soo-say... I'll leave the rest up to you.

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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.

Sholazar Basin Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Sholazar Basin map showing where to go for A Hero's BurdenTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #119 72.0 57.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSholazar Basin 72.0, 57.7/way #119 72.0 57.7
  • Objective areaSholazar Basin 72.1, 57.6/way #119 72.1 57.6
  • Objective areaSholazar Basin 54.5, 56.6/way #119 54.5 56.6

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 Sholazar Basin map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Sholazar Basin, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Sholazar Basin:

  • Warsong Camp, WintergraspHorde · about 600 yards south
  • River's Heart, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 960 yards west
  • Valiance Landing Camp, WintergraspAlliance · about 1,700 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 760 yards west

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.

Related

Choose one of these rewards:

Money31 gold50 silver
Experience6,200 XP

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeArmor Neck
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+4 Strength, +6 Stamina, +6 Dodge
Suited toProtection, Fury, Arms, Retribution, Unholy, Frost, Blood
Sells to vendors for62 silver7 copper
TypeArmor Neck
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+4 Intellect, +6 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike, +6 Versatility
Suited toDiscipline, Balance, Restoration, Arcane, Fire, Frost, Mistweaver, Holy, Devourer, Destruction, Demonology, Affliction, Elemental, Shadow, Augmentation, Preservation, Devastation
Sells to vendors for61 silver60 copper
TypeArmor Neck
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+4 Intellect, +6 Stamina, +6 Haste
Suited toDiscipline, Balance, Restoration, Arcane, Fire, Frost, Mistweaver, Holy, Devourer, Destruction, Demonology, Affliction, Elemental, Shadow, Augmentation, Preservation, Devastation
Sells to vendors for66 silver10 copper
TypeArmor Neck
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+4 Agility or Strength, +6 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike, +6 Haste
Suited toVengeance, Enhancement, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Windwalker, Feral, Guardian, Havoc, Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival, Brewmaster, Protection, Fury, Arms, Retribution, Unholy, Frost, Blood
Sells to vendors for61 silver83 copper

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Storyline

Sholazar Basin

Part 52 of 65.

Previous: The Mosswalker Savior · Next: The Fallen Pillar

  1. 47Forced Hand
  2. 48Home Time!
  3. 49The Angry Gorloc
  4. 50Lifeblood of the Mosswalker Shrine
  5. 51The Mosswalker Savior
  6. 52A Hero's Burden
  7. 53The Fallen Pillar
  8. 54Salvaging Life's Strength
  9. 55Cultist Incursion
  10. 56Exterminate the Intruders
  11. 57Weapons of Destruction
  12. 58The Lifewarden's Wrath

Showing steps 47 to 58 of 65.

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Mosswalker SaviorSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    There's some small chance that the Mosswalkers are not all dead yet... and at the very least, they deserve to not be butchered like this. Let's find some revenge for this slaughter and see if there are any to be saved in the process.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Fallen PillarSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    The titans shaped entire life forms here, fostering their unfettered growth. The five crystal pillars that surround the basin emanate pure lifeforce. The Scourge should've never been able to penetrate the basin, but one of the pillars was destroyed.

Also counted by Into the Basin

Its criteria name 7 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Sholazar Basin has 65 steps, from Need an Engine, Take an Engine to Reclamation.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Sholazar Basin (63), Un'Goro Crater (2).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • The Snows of Northrend Complete all of Hemet Nesingwary quests in Northrend up to and including Post-partum Aggression.

Other storylines on the Sholazar Basin map

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.

Into the BasinComplete the Sholazar Basin storylines listed below.10