Artifact or Fiction is a quest for level 30-70, added in Dragonflight. Completing it counts toward 2 achievements.
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This one and all the other climbing quests are severely bugged. Or worse, Blizzard has no interest to complete this so that all functions work as designed. I maxed out on all the benefits but most don't work. The timer basically kills all options you might want to try. In addition, there are missing grips, and challenges like getting an artifact, cannot be completed in one run. Some are out of reach since no grip is nearby. My only (and poor) option is to get out of the climbing gear and put it back on. That way, some items come back in lower locations and you can get those to complete the quest.
Personally, I am a hobby climber and was excited when I saw my favorite thing in the game. Now It just sucks, luckily just in WoW.
Don't click on the blue "crumbling ice" hand holds. I can't believe it took me so long to figure out something so obvious.
Don't know if it's just me, but I cannot find the first hold to actually start climbing.
| Objective area | The Azure Span | 1 mapped point |
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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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2024 71.9 21.0
TheWoWDB/way #2024 71.9 21.0Map 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 The Azure Span, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on The Azure Span:
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.
First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight patch 12.0.7, the oldest build in our datamine).
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.
Completing this quest counts toward these achievements.
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