TheWoWDBread the description first, i wandered for twenty minutes looking for that thing in screenshot.. then i read few lines of description and saw "Test the Lifebringer Sapling on any nearby healthy Grizzled Thistle Bear, Whitetail Stag, or Moonstalker Matriarch/Sire"
Quest
An Ounce of Prevention
A World of Warcraft quest in Darkshore. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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What was the "angry presence"? It all happened too quickly and I was too far away.
Here is a demonstration of the completion of this quest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ZFcnXz8FY
Quest facts
LevelLevel 5-30
ZoneDarkshore
Quest ID13925
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13925))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineDarkshore, step 41 of 55
Rewards7g 87s 50c, 3,100 XP
Description
Are you familiar with the Old Ones, {name}? Onu and I agree that the artifact you found in the lake can only be their work, and it's devouring Darkshore. Something is stirring up terrors we thought dead long ago. This is bigger than you or me, but my first concern is protecting the wildlife. Here, this sapling contains the life essence you gathered for me. I believe it can protect the local fauna. Test it out on a nearby un-consumed bear, stag, or moonstalker, and let me know what happens!
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #62 45.2 74.6
Coordinates
- Turn-inDarkshore 45.2, 74.6
/way #62 45.2 74.6 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Darkshore 42.8, 88.4
/way #62 42.8 88.4 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Darkshore 41.1, 71.5
/way #62 41.1 71.5
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 Darkshore map
- Garden Grove about 20 yards
- Enraged Furbolgs about 20 yards
- Hidden Amongst the Leaves about 120 yards
- Mercy for the Mad about 130 yards
- Malfurion Returns about 380 yards
- "Rock" The World about 380 yards
- Elves in the Machine about 440 yards
- A Soft Glow about 650 yards
- Azerite Denial about 810 yards
- The Wake of Something New about 820 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Darkshore, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Darkshore:
- Grove of the Ancients, Darkshore
- Wildheart Point, Felwood
- Blackfathom Camp, Ashenvale
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Money7 gold87 silver
Experience3,100 XP
Storyline
Darkshore
Part 41 of 55.
Previous: The Seeds of Life · Next: In Defense of Darkshore
- 36Leaving the Dream
- 37The Eye of All Storms
- 38Leave No Tracks
- 39Consumed
- 40The Seeds of Life
- 41An Ounce of Prevention
- 42In Defense of Darkshore
- 43The Devourer of Darkshore
- 44The Bear's Paw
- 45The Bear's Blessing
- 46Cleansing the Afflicted
- 47The Defiler
Showing steps 36 to 47 of 55.
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.
- The Seeds of Life
Something is trying to devour the life of Darkshore from within! I'll ask around to learn more about the - thing - you discovered in the lake. Meanwhile, we need to protect the local wildlife from further harm. Can you gather some materials for me? I'll need life in all its incarnations.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- In Defense of Darkshore
Now that we know our preventative measures work, we should cover as much ground as possible. I've arranged to commandeer one of our hippogryphs, but I can't do this alone. Talk to my friend Orseus, next to the flight master right outside the grove here.
The storyline at a glance
Darkshore has 55 steps, from The Last Wave of Survivors to The Battle for Darkshore.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Darkshore (55).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Darkshore map
- The Warchief's Command
- Legion Skinning
- Legion Mining
- Felwood
- In Darkest Night
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.