TheWoWDBSo is it just because I made my Demon Hunter early on in the beta, or do they give you this mission before they give you a follower that can counter one of the abilities?
Quest
Back in Black
A World of Warcraft quest in Mardum, the Shattered Abyss. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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So let me get this straight. We have three counters for this mission to get the bonus reward: Vengeance, Fel Rush and Consume Magic. Consume Magic is the counter for the Cursed ability and you don't get Consume Magic until you get Shade of Akama and you don't get him until after turning in the quest for completing this mission? So why even give the option for bonus loot when there is no way to get it?
This quest leads into Confrontation at the Black Temple.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-45
LocationMardum, the Shattered Abyss
CategoryDemon Hunter Campaign
Quest ID42801
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(42801))
Requirements
ClassDemon Hunter
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
Before you head into the Black Temple, we need more information. The last thing we want is for you to teleport into a trap. We must discern their force structure, patrol schedule, new defenses, and what Akama eats for breakfast. <Belath grins.> I suggest you send our broken warriors to handle this. They can blend in with the rest of Akama's Ashtongue forces inside the temple. We'll get what we need to know from the ones that make it back. A champion handler or two can scout outside the temple.
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.
Nearby on the Mardum, the Shattered Abyss map
- Demonic Improvements same spot
- Vault of the Wardens: Vault Break-In about 10 yards
- Deal With It Personally about 10 yards
- Livin' on the Ledge about 20 yards
- To Fel and Back about 20 yards
- Defense of the Fel Hammer about 20 yards
- Return to the Fel Hammer about 20 yards
- Rise, Champions about 20 yards
- Things Gaardoun Needs about 20 yards
- Broken Warriors about 20 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Mardum, the Shattered Abyss, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
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Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP
Storyline
Destiny of the Illidari I
Part 6 of 17.
Previous: Move Like No Other · Next: Confrontation at the Black Temple
- 1The Blood of Demons
- 2Immortal Soul
- 3Leader of the Illidari
- 4The Arcane Way
- 5Move Like No Other
- 6Back in Black
- 7Confrontation at the Black Temple
- 8Confrontation at the Black Temple
- 9Into Our Ranks
- 10Into Our Ranks
- 11Champion: Akama
- 12Champion: Shade of Akama
Showing steps 1 to 12 of 17.
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.
- Move Like No Other
Sorry about the holographic projection... I literally need to be in two places at once these days. A holy barrier that protects against fel magic, you say? I have just the thing to bypass it and enable Malevolence's teleport.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Confrontation at the Black Temple
The book from Lan'dalock is very enlightening. It describes a technique which will provide a simple and elegant bypass around the Black Temple's holy barriers. I will need but a moment to summon a gateway. Stand back, please.
The storyline at a glance
Destiny of the Illidari I has 17 steps, from The Blood of Demons to Working With the Wardens.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Mardum, the Shattered Abyss (13), Mardum, the Shattered Abyss (3), Dalaran (1).
Other storylines on the Mardum, the Shattered Abyss map
- The Illidari
- Destiny of the Illidari III
- Destiny of the Illidari II
- Destiny of the Illidari IV
- Weapon of Legend
- Weapons of Legend
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.