TheWoWDBQuest
Burn Before Reading
A World of Warcraft quest in Maldraxxus. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(61180))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
The scroll you recovered details all manner of horrific ways to 'integrate' fallen kyrian into Gharmal's constructs. It is also incomplete. There must be more of these among Stitchflesh's remaining followers. I saw a number of surgeons and their lackeys retreat into the Hall of Chains just ahead as we arrived. I suspect they hold more of these scrolls. We must ensure they are never read again.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #1536 35.2 26.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inMaldraxxus 35.2, 26.9
/way #1536 35.2 26.9 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Maldraxxus 35.4, 29.7
/way #1536 35.4 29.7
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 Maldraxxus map
- Dark Developments same spot
- Burn Before Reading same spot
- Fight and Flight about 30 yards
- Justice from Above about 30 yards
- Descended about 30 yards
- The Butchers of Bastion about 40 yards
- An Early End about 40 yards
- In The Flesh about 180 yards
- Archon Save Us about 190 yards
- Army of One about 200 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Maldraxxus, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Maldraxxus:
- Spider's Watch, Maldraxxus
- Keres' Rest, Maldraxxus
- The Spearhead, Maldraxxus
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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.
Storyline
A Golden Dawn
Part 8 of 21.
Previous: Descended · Next: An Early End
- 3Fight and Flight
- 4The Butchers of Bastion
- 5Justice from Above
- 6Dark Developments
- 7Descended
- 8Burn Before Reading
- 9An Early End
- 10Trouble on the Western Front
- 11Charging The Blade
- 12Aerial Advantage
- 13Grave Intent
- 14Power of the Chosen
Showing steps 3 to 14 of 21.
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.
- Descended
Though we have stopped the creation of more juggernauts, one of their most vile creations yet draws breath. It was born of one of the most pained souls they took from my temple in Bastion. As I flew above their ranks I could hear their surgeons chanting its name above the din of combat--Woeblade.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- An Early End
Within the Hall of Chains lie more constructs that are nearly complete. As we speak, the Margrave's forces work fervently to graft the last pieces of flesh to their horrific visages.
The storyline at a glance
A Golden Dawn has 21 steps, from Machinations of War to Pride of Place.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Maldraxxus (21).
Other storylines on the Maldraxxus map
- The House of Rituals
- Theater of Pain
- Righteous Retribution
- House of Constructs
- The House of Eyes
- Loyal to the Primus
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.