TheWoWDBJust a heads up to all classes using a pet. Be sure not to send in your pet on the crystals before attacking them yourself. The crystals just need one hit to be destroyed and if your pet gets that hit you won't get any credit for it.
Edit: Also, the crystals seem to be on a 2 or 3 min respawn timer so if the place is crowded with other players you are probably better off waiting for the same crystal to pop 3 times than to run around looking for spawned ones.
Quest
Bring Down Those Shields
A World of Warcraft quest in Howling Fjord. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Use the Scourging Crystal Controller, and when the shield is down... destroy the crystal. Easy quest!
It's extremely disappointing to have to make this comment but do be watchful of your surroundings if you're attempting this quest.
From my own personal experience, there are people who will gleefully jump in and shoot/attack/AoE for the very moment that you lower the shield around the crystal.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneHowling Fjord
Quest ID11396
The client quest POI data records no map location for this quest, so no map is shown.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11396))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
Look at the button on the side of the controller here. I bet if you got close enough to one of those scourging crystals, you could use the controller to bring its shield down. Then it would simply be a matter of destroying the thing before its shield goes back up. What do you say, {name}? You up for it? I can guarantee a nice reward for you if you can bring down those shields and destroy the crystals. It's the least we can do to keep the Scourge from making more of their own kind.
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TypeArmor Trinket
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+9 Critical Strike
UseRunic Infusion
Sells to vendors for85 silver79 copper
TypePlate Feet
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor16
Stats+6 Strength or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +12 Haste
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for35 gold41 silver
TypeMail Head
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor13
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +11 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for35 gold28 silver
TypeArmor Finger
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+4 Intellect, +6 Stamina, +10 Versatility
Suited toDiscipline, Balance, Restoration, Arcane, Fire, Frost, Mistweaver, Holy, Devourer, Destruction, Demonology, Affliction, Elemental, Shadow, Augmentation, Preservation, Devastation
Sells to vendors for62 silver21 copper
Reputation: Explorers' League +350
This organization seeks to find the origin of the dwarven race by collecting Titan artifacts. Their most recent research has led them to various archeological sites in Northrend.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward Explorers' League reputation: My Daughter (+10), See to the Operations (+10), Danger! Explosives! (+250), Send Them Packing (+250), Leader of the Deranged (+250), The Book of Runes (+250).
Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.
Where this quest fits
Other quests with this name
This one: Alliance only · Howling Fjord · Level 10-30.
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.