Ancient Protectors is a Horde-only quest for level 15-30 in Badlands. It is step 36 of 53 in the Badlands storyline. It rewards 4,100 experience.
You heard a good amount of rumbling happen in the tomb's central chamber. Those two large statues did look awfully suspicious.
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You get this quest after completing both "The Warden's Game" and "The Sentinel's Game."
Go back into the main chamber of the ruins, with both statues. Talk to each, and they will come online and attack you. Once you fight both of them, a chest spawns in the back of the room, open it to complete the quest.
they seem to be only able to fight directly in front of themselves, so don't stand there.
This is the Horde variant of the quest. The Alliance version can be found here.
Incidentally, does anyone know how to flag a quest that needs to be updated to be faction specific?
| Type | Reward | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Experience | XP | 4,100 |
| Objective area | Badlands | 3 mapped points |
|---|
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.
Objective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #15 50.3 52.6
TheWoWDB/way #15 50.3 52.6/way #15 52.1 51.2Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Badlands, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Badlands:
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.
Part 36 of 53.
Previous: The Sentinel's Game · Next: The Titans' Trove
Showing steps 31 to 42 of 53.
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
As you place the statue in its place, several other stone statues appear in the room. One more ruby-colored statue also appears, in a small enclosure on the far end of the room. You hear a voice: "The Sentinel watches. The Sentinel protects.
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
As the second defender falls to the ground, a chest appears in the back of the chamber. Could this be what they were protecting?
This one: Horde only · Badlands · Level 15-30.
Badlands has 53 steps, from To Fuselight Proper to The Day that Deathwing Came: What Really Happened.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Badlands (53).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
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.
2 quests carry the name Ancient Protectors. They differ in the faction shown here.
| Quest | Faction | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Ancient Protectors (this page) | Horde | 27887 |
| Ancient Protectors | Alliance | 27793 |
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