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A Strange Device

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

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popnfresh+9via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

A lot of misinformation here. The device will drop even if you don't have Prevent the Accord, as long as you've completed and turned in Rifle the Bodies (which has already been said in these comments). If you're not getting it then you either forgot you finished the quest chain already, or haven't finished Rifle the Bodies yet.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
Quest ID12059

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12059))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineDragonblight, step 18 of 149
Rewards2,050 XP

Description

Picking up this strange device, you are certain that it is magical in nature. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to connote any other kind of use. Perhaps the archmage back at Agmar's Hammer to the northeast of the Moonrest Gardens would be able to tell what it's used for?

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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.

Dragonblight Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Dragonblight map showing where to go for A Strange DeviceTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #115 38.1 46.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDragonblight 38.1, 46.2/way #115 38.1 46.2
  • Objective areaDragonblight 19.5, 58.1/way #115 19.5 58.1

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 Dragonblight map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Dragonblight:

  • Agmar's Hammer, DragonblightHorde · about 40 yards north-west
  • Kor'kron Vanguard, DragonblightHorde · about 1,100 yards north
  • Moa'ki, DragonblightAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,100 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 1,100 yards south-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
Experience2,050 XP
ReputationKirin Tor +75

Reward details

Reputation: Kirin Tor +75

The mages and archmages running the city of Dalaran. Faced with the rising threats of the Blue Dragonflight and the Scourge, they've transported their city to the heart of Northrend.

Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.

Other quests in Dragonblight that reward Kirin Tor reputation: Your Presence is Required at Stars' Rest (+10), Your Presence is Required at Agmar's Hammer (+10), Rifle the Bodies (+250), Prevent the Accord (+350), A Strange Device (+75), Projections and Plans (+250).

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

Dragonblight

Part 18 of 149.

Previous: Prevent the Accord · Next: Projections and Plans

  1. 13Blood Oath of the Horde
  2. 14Agmar's Hammer
  3. 15Victory Nears...
  4. 16Rifle the Bodies
  5. 17Prevent the Accord
  6. 18A Strange Device
  7. 19Projections and Plans
  8. 20The Focus on the Beach
  9. 21Atop the Woodlands
  10. 22Search Indu'le Village
  11. 23Let Nothing Go To Waste
  12. 24Slay Loguhn

Showing steps 13 to 24 of 149.

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.

  • Prevent the AccordDragonblight · Level 15-30

    We need to kill two birds with one stone here, <class>. You're the stone. Our two birds are Wind Trader Mu'fah and Goramosh. They should be somewhere in the western half of the Moonrest Gardens. Most likely they're in the larger two-story building overlooking the pit.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Projections and PlansDragonblight · Level 15-30

    This is a teleportation device. If I had to guess, I'd say that it leads to the surge needle platform floating above the Moonrest Gardens to the southwest. <name>, I need you to use it to investigate what's up there. It appears that the device works both ways so you shouldn't have to jump off.

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Dragonblight · Level 15-30.

The storyline at a glance

Dragonblight has 149 steps, from The Liquid Fire of Elune to Really Big Worm.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dragonblight (144), Crystalsong Forest (5).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Dragonblight 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.