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A Necessary Distraction

A Necessary Distraction is a quest for level 25-30 in Shadowmoon Valley. It is step 106 of 147 in the Shadowmoon Valley storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Shadowmoon Valley at 55.7, 58.2. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 4,100 experience.

Description

The weapons are authentic, as we feared. Illidan is training demon hunters at the Ruins of Karabor and we must put an end to it.

Do not be fooled by their name, <name>, their power will be used against us as often as against any demon.

Their warlocks summon and subdue demons to be used as part of the initiates' training. A pit lord named Azaloth has proven too strong to be used in training and is kept banished. Find a way to let him loose on his captors. That should buy us the time we need.

Rewards

Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThe Scryers +250
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
ReputationThe Scryers+250

Reward details

Reputation: The Scryers +250

Voren'thal the Seer leads the dissident blood elves who've rejected Kael'thas' path to power. They've joined forces with the naaru of Shattrath City, much to the dismay of the Aldor.

Reputation group: Shattrath City.

Other quests in Shadowmoon Valley that reward The Scryers reputation: Tablets of Baa'ri (+250), Oronu the Elder (+250), The Ashtongue Corruptors (+250), The Warden's Cage (+75), Karabor Training Grounds (+250), Return to the Scryers (+75).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapShadowmoon ValleyTurn-in marker at 55.7, 58.2, 9 mapped points
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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.

Shadowmoon Valley Quest turn-in 9 mapped points
Shadowmoon Valley map showing where to go for A Necessary DistractionTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #104 55.7 58.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inShadowmoon Valley 55.7, 58.2/way #104 55.7 58.2
  • Objective areaShadowmoon Valley 69.8, 51.4/way #104 69.8 51.4
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Shadowmoon Valley 71.2, 50.5/way #104 71.2 50.5

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 Shadowmoon Valley map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shadowmoon Valley:

  • Sanctum of the Stars, Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance and Horde · about 40 yards east
  • Wildhammer Stronghold, Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance · about 1,000 yards west
  • Altar of Sha'tar, Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 820 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 900 yards east

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Shadowmoon Valley

Part 106 of 147.

Previous: Karabor Training Grounds · Next: Altruis

  1. 101The Cipher of Damnation
  2. 102Karabor Training Grounds
  3. 103A Necessary Distraction
  4. 104Altruis
  5. 105Karabor Training Grounds
  6. 106A Necessary Distraction
  7. 107Altruis
  8. 108Against the Legion
  9. 109Against the Illidari
  10. 110Against All Odds
  11. 111Illidan's Pupil
  12. 112The Book of Fel Names

Showing steps 101 to 112 of 147.

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.

  • Karabor Training GroundsShadowmoon Valley · Level 25-30

    Our scouts have reported a massive influx of Sunfury blood elf recruits heading to the Ruins of Karabor. Normally this would represent a purely military threat, however we believe something else is amiss.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • AltruisNagrand · Level 25-30

    You don't see many demon hunters nowadays. They're viewed with suspicion by their own people and it's very rare to find one that doesn't have some sort of allegiance to Illidan. There are rumors of one such demon hunter out in Nagrand. His name is Altruis.

The storyline at a glance

Shadowmoon Valley has 147 steps, from Spleendid! to A Job Unfinished....

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shadowmoon Valley (129), Terokkar Forest (10), Nagrand (7), Shattrath City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Shadowmoon Valley 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.

Other versions of this quest

These quests carry the same name and the same data in every field we hold. Quest 10637 is the main entry.

QuestID
A Necessary Distraction (this page)10688
A Necessary Distraction10637
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