Quest Log

A Window into the Future

A Window into the Future is a quest for level 70. It is step 3 of 3 in the Technoscrying: Concord Observatory storyline, the final step. The quest's turn-in marker is in The Waking Shores at 56.4, 44.0. It rewards 11,900 experience and money.

Description

Those lenses are a wondrous integration of technology and arcane artifice. I'm sure we could learn much, and maybe even upgrade my own invention.

But first we'll need to find it. You're a dragonrider, right? Can you fly up and recover the lens?

It's possible the dreadsqualls still have it in one of their nests.

Rewards

Money56

Experience11,900 XP

Stuck on this quest?

Turn in at The Waking Shores 56.4, 44.0 /way #2022 56.4 44.0

Known issues

Top Comments

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XozusJan 17, 2024+53via Wowhead

Mount.
Fly up.
Look for highlighted nests.

ZodPTRJan 17, 2024+9via Wowhead

/way 57.8, 44.4
/way 56.3, 46.1
/way 56.3, 45.6
Top of the tower

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Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(75868))

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

XozusJan 17, 2024+53via Wowhead

Mount.
Fly up.
Look for highlighted nests.

ZodPTRJan 17, 2024+9via Wowhead

/way 57.8, 44.4
/way 56.3, 46.1
/way 56.3, 45.6
Top of the tower

EhayenMar 10, 2024+4via Wowhead

Fear is probably the stupidest ability to give to mobs that you have to fight on top of a tower.
Use your anti-fall toy before you search the nest.

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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	11,900
Money	Gold	56g 18s

Where it comes from

Turn-in map	The Waking Shores	Turn-in marker at 56.4, 44.0, 5 mapped points

World Map

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.

Coordinates

Turn-inThe Waking Shores 56.4, 44.0/way #2022 56.4 44.0
Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Waking Shores 56.4, 45.8/way #2022 56.4 45.8

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 Waking Shores map

The Only Way Past Is Through about 240 yards
In Mourning about 240 yards
Sudden Isolation about 320 yards
Pressing Matters about 320 yards
Salvaging Supplies about 330 yards
Testing the Tuskarrsenal about 330 yards
Closure about 340 yards
Troubled Waters about 360 yards
Calling the Hunting Party about 370 yards
Worst Impressions about 390 yards

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Waking Shores:

Skytop Lookout (QD), The Waking ShoresAlliance and Horde · about 90 yards north-east
Uktulut Backwater, The Waking ShoresAlliance and Horde · about 410 yards north-west
Life Vault Ruins, The Waking ShoresAlliance and Horde · about 990 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 100 yards south

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

Technoscrying: Concord Observatory

Part 3 of 3.

This encapsulates the one-off quests for Technoscrying at the Concord Observatory

Previous: A Link to the Past

1Attune to the Observer
2A Link to the Past
3A Window into the Future

Also part of: Azerothian Archives (part 15 of 44).

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.

A Link to the PastLevel 70
Okay, calibrations complete! Mine too, so I'll be able to see what you see. Let's head over to that telescope and we'll see what we see.

The storyline at a glance

Technoscrying: Concord Observatory has 3 steps, from Attune to the Observer to A Window into the Future.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Waking Shores (3).

Other storylines on The Waking Shores map

Dragonscale Expedition Renown54 steps, starts with Lost Expedition Scouts
The Waking Shores52 steps, starts with Reporting for Duty
In Defense of Life18 steps, starts with For the Benefit of the Queen
Obsidian Citadel Alt Skip16 steps, starts with Wrathion Awaits
The Dragonscale Expedition28 steps, starts with The Dragon Isles Await
Dragons in Distress13 steps, starts with Reporting for Duty

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.

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