TheWoWDBAn Exceptional Platinum Shard quest is obtained from [item=161078] item, which you have a chance to get from any Platinum Ore node.
It's a part of [spell=265852] quest line to obtain [spell=253356].
You can use Enchant Gloves - Kul Tiran Mining to speed up ore gathering.
To complete the quest bring [item=161078] to [npc=136091] in BolarusI think that the best place to farm Platinum is Stormsong Valley
My regular path was like this: https://imgur.com/a/lv0AL0GFor TomTom users:
/way Boralus 75.24 7.51 Myra CabotAn Exceptional Platinum Shard video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYePowX8mm0
Table with all [spell=265852] quests:IdQuestSkillQuestgiverZoneVideo10130[item=161078]Node Drop Itemhttps://youtu.be/yy4DxA3JYic
Skill column is an approximate level you need to have to get this quest. It can be a little bit lower, i provide an info at which level i was able to pick up the quest.
Drop items can drop from related mining node in any zone.
Quest
An Exceptional Platinum Shard
A World of Warcraft quest in Tiragarde Sound. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The Exceptional Platinum Shard may stay in your inventory after turning this in. If it does you can safely delete it. To verify you can't try to activate the quest again but you will get the error that you have already completed the quest.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(52044))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
Out of dumb luck, you've managed to extract an exceptionally large shard of platinum, instead of several smaller chunks. You wonder to yourself if Myra could teach you to harvest this much every time.
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-inIn-game waypoint: /way #895 75.9 22.5
Coordinates
- Turn-inTiragarde Sound 75.9, 22.5
/way #895 75.9 22.5
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 Tiragarde Sound map
- A Need For Coal same spot
- Spiderphobia same spot
- Don't Pick a Fight same spot
- Seams Familiar same spot
- Brined Justice same spot
- Ritualistic Preparations same spot
- Ivory Handled Dagger about 40 yards
- Brinepinch about 40 yards
- In Pursuit of Fashion about 40 yards
- Turtle Soup about 40 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Tiragarde Sound, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Tiragarde Sound:
- Tradewinds Market, Tiragarde Sound
- Hatherford, Tiragarde Sound
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.
Community notes from Wowhead · 3 comments
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Horde Short answer, Deliver item to [npc=122694]
Horde Long answer, check An Exceptional Platinum Shard.
Spell: Mining Technique: Platinum Deposit (Rank 2)Teaches you how to gather platinum even more effectively.
Where this quest fits
Other quests with this name
This one: Alliance only · Level 10-60.
Other storylines on the Tiragarde Sound map
- Trouble in Tiragarde Sound
- The Shadow Over Anglepoint
- A Mountain of Ice
- The Norwington Estate
- Beware the Daughter of the Sea
- Freehold
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.