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Assessing Your Strength

Assessing Your Strength is a quest for level 10-51 in Bastion. It is step 11 of 27 in The Aspirant's Crucible storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Bastion at 51.7, 81.0. It rewards 6,950 experience and money.

Description

The trial to come will test you in ways you can likely only imagine.

I can see both from your past and from your demeanor that you are no stranger to combat. I would like to know where your strengths lie so we may address any weaknesses we find before your trial.

You will find three praetorian soldiers created for this purpose, each stronger than the last.

Defeat them all and I will consider your strength sufficient to continue at this time.

Rewards

Money23 gold63 silver40 copper
Experience6,950 XP
Top Comments

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Boxofbeer+2via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

To complete this quest you need to defeat the 3 Praetorian Sparring Assistants.
[npc=158867] can be found at 50.57 82.09 coordinates.
To find [npc=158870] move to 50.19 80.53 coordinates.
And the last one - [npc=158869] - is at 50.57 78.94 spot.

TomTom coordinates:

/way 50.57 82.09 Archilon location
/way 50.57 78.94 Epilon location
/way 50.19 80.53 Straticus location

Assessing Your Strength - https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=805

There is a table covered by spoiler, you can check you progress through [storyline=1055] quest storyline.

Spoiler
[storyline=1055] quest storyline / The Path to Ascension
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Order
Quest Title
Video Time Link
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#1
The Aspirant's Crucible
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=7
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#2
A Life of Service
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=55
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#3
A Forge Gone Cold
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=225
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#4a
The Cycle of Anima: Etherwyrms
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=270
x
#4b
The Cycle of Anima: Flower Power
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=270
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#4c
The Cycle of Anima: Drought Conditions
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=270
x
#5
Light the Forge, Forgelite
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=550
x
#6
The Work of One's Hands
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=636
x
#7
The True Crucible Awaits
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=775
x
#8a
Assessing Your Stamina
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=805
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#8b
Assessing Your Strength
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=805
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#9
Assessing Your Spirit
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=1082
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#10
The Chamber of First Reflection
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=1132
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#11
The First Cleansing
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=1185
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#12
The Archon's Answer
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=1406
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#13
All An Aspirant Can Do
https://youtu.be/YAlV_ws-G-o?t=1484
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Mypciscraze+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Hi all

I present The Aspirant's Crucible part of The Path to Ascension Storyline Quest Chain in Bastion

See Video Full Quest chain if need it - https://youtu.be/kfTO7RzS1Cs
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Quest Name:
Start and description
1. The Aspirant's Crucible
Ride [npc=158686] 48 74.1
2. A Life of Service
Press on [object=337094] 57 81.3 then kill 3 waves of mobs. To call new wave use [object=337094].
3. A Forge Gone Cold
Speak to [npc=166577] 52.7 82.6
4. The Cycle of Anima: Etherwyrms
Collect 25 [item=172516] dropping from [npc=157274] or [npc=157277]. This quest can be done in same time with The Cycle of Anima: Flower Power and The Cycle of Anima: Drought Conditions.
5. The Cycle of Anima: Flower Power
collect 6 The Cycle of Anima: Flower Power from big flowers from ground.
6. The Cycle of Anima: Drought Conditions
Activate and defend Anima Extractor 55 79.5. after you will kill [npc=158771] pick up [item=177954] is on mid in Anima Extractor.
7. Light the Forge, Forgelite
Just follow NPC but don't forget to pick up [object=349869] and drop in to [object=338216]. Then clean 2 [npc=166744] then Tidy up 5 elements inside forge
8. The Work of One's Hands
Speak to Sika next to forge then use 5 raw material then open a vent. Now the hardest think xD you need to keep the heat ( i throw 10 raw materials and when Sika call that is to hot i use only 1 vent then i throw more raw material and that work xD ). At the end you need to help pressing on Armor.
9. The True Crucible Awaits
Speak with [npc=158862] 51.8 81
10. Assessing Your Stamina
You need to Sparring with Aspirant 8 times just speak with them and they will attack you. You can do this quest together with Assessing Your Strength
11. Assessing Your Strength
You need to Defeat the 3 Praetorian Sparring Assistants: [npc=158867] 50.6 81.7, [npc=158870] 50.2 80.6, [npc=158869] 50.4 79.3.
12. Assessing Your Spirit
You will challange [npc=158891] you will lose but that normal xD.
13. The Chamber of First Reflection
Speak with [npc=159583] She is inside chamber 57.2 86.6.
14. The First Cleansing
Pick up 3 item from left chamber ( one of them is to take bathe in pool use extra skill to activate ) then back to [npc=159583] speak with Her and go to right chamber to activate 3 [npc=159592] one by one and every activation you will need to kill mobs. after finish with last mirror move out from chamber to speak with [npc=159583].
15. The Archon's Answer
Speak with [npc=156217] 53.5 87.2
16. All An Aspirant Can Do
Go to [npc=158471] She is behind bridge 48.3 72.9.


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Thank You i Hope that Help You

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gibster99+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I am surprised this wasn't brought up. This is a gear check at the beginning of the expansion. Interesting! I went into it with ilvl 50 gear and got defeated. You will need about ilvl 80 to do it. There isn't much gear to be had via questing before that, so you can either hit the AH, do some dungeons (which have a min ilvl too), do timewalking dungeons if possible, or go back to an earlier expansion. I came back at level 52 and ilvl 80 and it was fine.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,950
MoneyGold23g 63s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapBastionTurn-in marker at 51.7, 81.0, 5 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.

Bastion Quest turn-in 5 mapped points
Bastion map showing where to go for Assessing Your StrengthTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #1533 51.7 81.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBastion 51.7, 81.0/way #1533 51.7 81.0
  • Objective areaBastion 50.5, 82.2/way #1533 50.5 82.2
  • Objective areaBastion 50.5, 78.8/way #1533 50.5 78.8
  • Objective areaBastion 50.1, 80.5/way #1533 50.1 80.5
  • Objective areaBastion 51.7, 80.9/way #1533 51.7 80.9

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 Bastion map

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

Getting there

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

  • Aspirant's Rest, BastionAlliance and Horde · about 390 yards north-west
  • Temple of Purity, BastionAlliance and Horde · about 540 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 100 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 130 yards north-west
  • Objective areaabout 110 yards west

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 Aspirant's Crucible

Part 11 of 27.

Previous: Assessing Your Stamina · Next: Assessing Your Spirit

  1. 6The Cycle of Anima: Drought Conditions
  2. 7Light the Forge, Forgelite
  3. 8The Work of One's Hands
  4. 9The True Crucible Awaits
  5. 10Assessing Your Stamina
  6. 11Assessing Your Strength
  7. 12Assessing Your Spirit
  8. 13The Chamber of First Reflection
  9. 14The First Cleansing
  10. 15The Archon's Answer
  11. 16The Archon's Answer
  12. 17The Archon's Answer

Showing steps 6 to 17 of 27.

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.

  • Assessing Your StaminaBastion · Level 10-51

    The trial ahead will test you on many levels. I, like Kleia, wish to assess your willingness to endure. Look around you. All the aspirants here train for the very trial you are to attempt. Some have been here, honing their skills, for centuries. Ages. Some grow quickly, some do not.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Assessing Your SpiritBastion · Level 10-51

    It is clear to all that you are indeed a skilled combatant. There is one challenge here that continues to test even the strongest among us. I would have you attempt to best a well-known centurion, beloved by all aspirants. It is called Athanos. Consider this a test of your spirit.

The storyline at a glance

The Aspirant's Crucible has 27 steps, from The Aspirant's Crucible to All An Aspirant Can Do.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Bastion (27).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Bastion 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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Quest Location and Connections

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