TheWoWDBThe book is on the display case in front of Samuel D. Colton III. You must have jewelcrafting 150 to use it. But I'm not sure what else is required as I have jc 150 and I can't open the dam book.
Quest
A Rocky Start
A World of Warcraft quest in Boralus. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Full Questline for 8.1.5 to get [item=153716]
A Rocky Start
Digging Through the Past
The Shrine of Storms
Cracking the Surface
[quest=55585]
The Shrine of the Eventide
High Prospects
[quest=55586]
The Shrine of the Sea
Tol Dagor: Jewel of the Tides
[quest=55590]
The Missing Chapter
Any information on where this starts? No detail on where the mentioned "book" is
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Quest facts
LevelLevel 50
LocationBoralus
CategoryJewelcrafting
Quest ID49570
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(49570))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
<As you thumb through the book, the pages are unusually thick and embedded on their surface are runic-shaped jewels. Samuel Colton notices you looking and approaches.> Ah, now that's a treasure I've had for many years. Beautiful, isn't it? No clue what it says, but I've always reveled at the thought of something being transcribed in jewels. Come to think of it, I wonder if Zooey Inksprocket would be able to decipher it. Say, {name}, would you mind taking it over to her and see if she can translate it?
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.
Nearby on the Boralus map
- Drawing Blood same spot
- Casting the First Stone about 20 yards
- Ocular Extracts about 20 yards
- Changing the Scenery about 20 yards
- A Recipe for Success about 20 yards
- Hammering Out Information about 30 yards
- A Recipe For the Ages about 30 yards
- Anvil's Away about 30 yards
- Digging Through the Past about 50 yards
- The Missing Chapter about 50 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Boralus, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Boralus:
- Tradewinds Market, Tiragarde Sound
- Hatherford, Tiragarde Sound
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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Money2 gold34 silver
Experience850 XP
Where this quest fits
Other quests with this name
This one: Alliance only · Level 50.
Other storylines on the Boralus map
- Trouble in Tiragarde Sound
- Welcome to Mechagon
- Mission from the King
- The Battle for Stromgarde
- Enemies Within
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.