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Breaking the Keystone

Breaking the Keystone is a quest for level 10-30 in Arathi Highlands. It is step 27 of 29 in the Arathi Highlands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Arathi Highlands at 29.9, 59.7. It rewards 4,100 experience.

Description

Opening the Stones of Binding loosened much of my confinement, but a lock still holds me chained. It is the Keystone you see among this circle of stones. And the key is held by one of my captors, the stone watcher Fozruk.

You must obtain that key, which the stone watchers call the Rod of Order, from Fozruk and use it to open the Keystone.

<name>, you have done so much to aid me. Just a little more...and my gratitude will shake the very foundations of the earth!

Rewards

Experience4,100 XP
Top Comments

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You need to find and slay the once-elite rock elemental that used to wander the whole zone with his little kobold buds and is now, thankfully, stationary and alone: Fozruk

Once you get the Rod of Order from him, you turn it in to the Keystone, at which point this big ugly jerk spawns and tries to smoosh you. Rude! Kill him a lot.

After you deal with that unpleasant business, you will notice that the Stone of Inner Binding has a quest available:

When you turn in Myzrael's Tale, you'll get to find out that, probably not for the first time, you did a bad, bad thing.
(srsly, Zenn's Bidding, anyone? yes, we were naïve to trust someone with a last name like Foulhoof, but he seemed so sincere! and they probably deserved it anyway. also, the sun was in my eyes...yeah)

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapArathi HighlandsTurn-in marker at 29.9, 59.7, 3 mapped points
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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.

Arathi Highlands Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Arathi Highlands map showing where to go for Breaking the KeystoneTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #14 29.9 59.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inArathi Highlands 29.9, 59.7/way #14 29.9 59.7
  • Objective areaArathi Highlands 43.7, 67.0/way #14 43.7 67.0
  • Objective areaArathi Highlands 30.0, 59.0/way #14 30.0 59.0

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 Arathi Highlands map

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

Getting there

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

  • Refuge Pointe, ArathiAlliance · about 450 yards north-east
  • Galen's Fall, ArathiHorde · about 820 yards north-west
  • Dun Modr, WetlandsAlliance · about 1,200 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 510 yards east

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

Arathi Highlands

Part 27 of 29.

Previous: Stones of Binding · Next: The Princess Unleashed

  1. 18For Southshore
  2. 19Goggle Boggle
  3. 20Sunken Treasure
  4. 21Speak to Shakes
  5. 22Death From Below
  6. 23Raising Spirits
  7. 24Guile of the Raptor
  8. 25The Princess Trapped
  9. 26Stones of Binding
  10. 27Breaking the Keystone
  11. 28The Princess Unleashed
  12. 29The Princess Unleashed

Showing steps 18 to 29 of 29.

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.

  • Stones of BindingArathi Highlands · Level 10-30

    Four Stones of Binding are scattered throughout Arathi. These stones keep me pinned beneath the earth. To unlock them you must unlock the strongest: the Stone of Inner Binding. And to do that, you must gather keys from the other three.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Princess UnleashedArathi Highlands · Level 10-30

    Myzrael is a deceiver. She is an ancient force sealed long ago, and must be kept that way. You must confront her at the Shards of Myzrael where you first spoke with her. Summon her with this scroll, and when she has been fully brought to the surface, defeat her.

The storyline at a glance

Arathi Highlands has 29 steps, from First Blood to The Princess Unleashed.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Arathi Highlands (27), Hillsbrad Foothills (2).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Arathi Highlands 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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