TheWoWDBThis quest isn't super intuitive. You pick it up and you see the black blood objects all over the place, you go to loot them and all it does is splatter you with a puff of mist.
I'm not sure if this quest works at all before you complete the quest where you escort the guy into the cave and learn how to get the effect where it allows you to see additional mobs.
First interact with Black Blood Extractors until you have 25 stacks of the Unseeming Shift debuff. This will allow you to see the pink spectral bug mobs you need to kill that actually drop Coagulated Black Blood.
Each group of stacks allows you to see more mobs that potentially drop the Black Blood.
25 is the most that you can have (during this quest) and it seems like the Black Blood has a higher drop rate off the stronger mobs that you see at 25 stacks.
Quest
A Light of the Dark
A World of Warcraft quest in The Ringing Deeps. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Three Candles for the Elven-kings above the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of shine,
Nine for Candle-Thieves doomed to dark,
One for the Candle King on his Throne of Gold
In the Cleft of Darkflame
One Candle to rule them all, One Candle to see them,
One Candle to bring them all and in its shineness bind them
In the Cleft of Darkflame where the flames are bright.
Nice Lord of the rings in that quote.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(80378))
What to do
Description
The image of a purple candle, burning with glorious power springs unbidden to your mind as you contemplate the decaying filth before you, followed by a faint whisper echoing through your mind: "One candle to rule them all, and in its brightness bind them." Bring Janky the candlesmith in Gundargaz enough Coagulated Black Blood to forge a most unfortunate candle.
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.
Turn-inIn-game waypoint: /way #2214 43.4 33.4
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Ringing Deeps 43.4, 33.4
/way #2214 43.4 33.4
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 The Ringing Deeps map
- The Machine Speakers about 30 yards
- A Wrench in the Works about 30 yards
- Back to Gundargaz about 30 yards
- Honor the Flame about 40 yards
- The Bronzebeard Legacy about 40 yards
- Into the Machine about 50 yards
- Orientation: Gundargaz about 50 yards
- The High Speaker's Secret about 50 yards
- Pomp and Dire Circumstance about 50 yards
- Cogs in the Machine about 50 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Ringing Deeps, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Ringing Deeps:
- Gundargaz, The Ringing Deeps
- Shadowvein Point, The Ringing Deeps
- The Aegis Wall, Hallowfall
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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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Storyline
Kobold Culture and Integration
Part 14 of 20.
Previous: Deep Wax Galactic · Next: Kobold Kleanup
- 9Hot Pollenate-o
- 10Beebiter
- 11Janky Candles
- 12Holy Hydrocarbons
- 13Deep Wax Galactic
- 14A Light of the Dark
- 15Kobold Kleanup
- 16On the Job Training
- 17Pipe Patching
- 18Plumber Power
- 19Critical Pressure!
- 20Home Is Where the Candle Is
Showing steps 9 to 20 of 20.
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.
- Deep Wax Galactic
While sourcing it may not be pleasant, this waxy substance seems like it might make a fine candle. Janky the candlesmith in Gundargaz might be interested in this.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Kobold Kleanup
New home little shabby. Not good, full of fun stuff and good bits shabby. Old, everybody died and now it fall apart shabby. We help! Lots of kobolds, now, so we make place presentable for stonehead friends. Make feel like home. You help, too. Grab broom, get going!
The storyline at a glance
Kobold Culture and Integration has 20 steps, from Dripsy Forgot Her Candle to Home Is Where the Candle Is.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Ringing Deeps (15), Isle of Dorn (5).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on The Ringing Deeps map
- By Candlelight
- Trust Issues
- The Machines March to War
- Fearbreaker
- Dark Revelations
- Dread in the Den
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.