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As the Smoke Rises

As the Smoke Rises is a quest for level 20-40 in Talador. It is step 1 of 10 in The Plight of the Arakkoa storyline, the opening step. The quest's turn-in marker is in Talador at 73.1, 38.7. It rewards 675 experience and money.

Description

Aruuna burns.

The arakkoa swooped down from their spires and are turning everything to ash. Draenei, talbuk, even orc; they care not for allegiances. They merely want to watch the world burn.

I barely escaped with my life, but my best friend, Barum, stayed behind to find his daughter. The others all say you are a great champion. Please, I beg of you, go to Aruuna and find them.

Rewards

Money1 gold69 silver80 copper
Experience675 XP
Top Comments

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amirof+13via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Found out I cannot find [npc=79573] in my outpost, aliance side, nor in horde side. After asking player with As the Smoke Rises to share it with me, the player said "You are not eligable" meaning As the Smoke Rises is not marked as finished for me, rather than I am missing quests on the way. after finishing "Establishing your Outpost", i.e Due Cause to Celebrate(A) / Due Cause to Celebrate(H), [npc=79573] have appeared. YAY :)

Remember, do not pick quest down the chain, i.e. Pyrophobia, They Came From Above, Burning Sky

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP675
MoneyGold1g 69s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapTaladorTurn-in marker at 73.1, 38.7, 2 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.

Talador Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Talador map showing where to go for As the Smoke RisesTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #535 73.1 38.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTalador 73.1, 38.7/way #535 73.1 38.7
  • Objective areaTalador 71.7, 30.0/way #535 71.7 30.0

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 Talador map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Talador:

  • Vol'jin's Pride, TaladorHorde · about 390 yards north
  • Zangarra, TaladorAlliance and Horde · about 680 yards north-east
  • Fort Wrynn (Alliance), TaladorAlliance · about 710 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 360 yards north

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

The Plight of the Arakkoa

Part 1 of 10.

Next: Burning Sky

  1. 1As the Smoke Rises
  2. 2Burning Sky
  3. 3Pieces of Us
  4. 4Barum's Notes
  5. 5Pyrophobia
  6. 6What the Draenei Found
  7. 7The Purge of Veil Shadar
  8. 9Forbidden Knowledge
  9. 10Kura's Vengeance

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Burning SkyTalador · Level 20-40

    It happened so fast. A white-hot flash of light ignited the nearby woods, followed by terrible winds that swept the flames across Aruuna. Moments later, arakkoa began descending through the smoke. I need to get Melani to the Pilgrim's Road.

The storyline at a glance

The Plight of the Arakkoa has 10 steps, from As the Smoke Rises to Kura's Vengeance.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Talador (9).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Talador map

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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As the Dust Settles
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Ascendant of Flames
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Database

Quest Location and Connections

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