TheWoWDBIt's south, but not immediately south.
If you are in the right house you will see a label The Deadmines - Defias Hideout pop up as you enter. As for the advice "follow the homeless" it was meaningless to me - there was no pattern to the movements of the homeless here or inside the mines that I could work out. Perhaps this was a bug and others see a stream of homeless making their way to the entrance. Whatever.
From the house, you go up the stairs, and this will get you to the the entrance to the mine.
It all gets twisty at this point, but I went to the southernmost area of the dungeon - lots of undead
and with a different colour on the minimap. I was wrong - go south but before you reach the undead part turn west, that's where the instance portal is. After entering the portal, light the incense.There are dungeon quests following this one if you need/want them.
Quest
A Vision of the Past
A World of Warcraft quest in Westfall. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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That group must have been from an RP server :D
Am I the only one reacting to the fact that this was for only 5 years ago, and Vanessa can't have been more than about 7 or 8 years old at the time, which means that she's now, 5 years later, 12-13 years old... And I'm supposed to kill her knowing that? O_O
I think Blizzard might have failed on that part...
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26320))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
This incense will put your body and mind in a deep meditative state. Once the trance begins you will be pulled into the spirit world. Do not fight the trance once it has begun, {name}. Allow the spirits to show you what they know. You must leave now. Go to the Deadmines, a place which I am told holds great significance in the history of Westfall. Once inside, use the incense. You may enter the Deadmines through the old farmhouse south of here. Follow the homeless. Return to Gryan with your discovery.
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-inObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #52 56.3 47.5
Coordinates
- Turn-inWestfall 56.3, 47.5
/way #52 56.3 47.5 - Objective areaWestfall 43.0, 72.9
/way #52 43.0 72.9 - Objective areaWestfall 43.0, 65.0
/way #52 43.0 65.0
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 Westfall map
- Honor the Flame about 530 yards
- Supply Only the Finest Goons about 560 yards
- Misdeeds in Moonbrook about 560 yards
- Betrayal of the Brotherhood about 560 yards
- Old MacDonald about 700 yards
- A Hungry Heritage about 740 yards
- Settled Dust about 1,290 yards
- Cut After Cut about 1,290 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Westfall, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Westfall:
- Sentinel Hill, Westfall
- Moonbrook, Westfall
- Furlbrow's Pumpkin Farm, Westfall
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- 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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Reward details
Reputation: Stormwind +250
One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.
Reputation group: Alliance.
Other quests in Westfall that reward Stormwind reputation: Furlbrow's Deed (+250), Murder Was The Case That They Gave Me (+250), Hot On the Trail: The Riverpaw Clan (+250), Hot On the Trail: Murlocs (+250), Lou's Parting Thoughts (+150), In Defense of Westfall (+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
Westfall
Part 21 of 23.
Previous: Secrets Revealed · Next: Rise of the Brotherhood
- 12Feeding the Hungry and the Hopeless
- 13In Defense of Westfall
- 14Find Agent Kearnen
- 15Secrets of the Tower
- 16Big Trouble in Moonbrook
- 17To Moonbrook!
- 18Propaganda
- 19The Dawning of a New Day
- 20Secrets Revealed
- 21A Vision of the Past
- 22Rise of the Brotherhood
- 23Return to Sentinel Hill
Showing steps 12 to 23 of 23.
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.
- Secrets Revealed
There is a shaman here, Thoralius, who might be able to aid us. He is a friend of Gryan's who has recently come to Westfall to study the elemental devastation that has befallen us.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Rise of the Brotherhood
I had no idea that VanCleef had a daughter, <name>. If there was one thing that man was exceptionally skilled at, it was keeping secrets. How tragic. Poor thing witnessed a horrible act. Had I only known. What was that? Did you hear something? It seems as if the gnolls are pulling back...
The storyline at a glance
Westfall has 23 steps, from Murder Was The Case That They Gave Me to Return to Sentinel Hill.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Westfall (22), Stormwind City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Westfall map
- Homecoming
- Battle Pet Tamers
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.