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Quest

Charging The Blade

A World of Warcraft quest in Maldraxxus. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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

Yes, since every character is supposed to have been through the storyline, and that includes creating the runeblade. Even if you later selected another covenant, you kinda have that blade. This is of course a bit confusing on an alt after Threads of Fate.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 60
ZoneMaldraxxus
Quest ID60044

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(60044))

What to do

StorylineA Golden Dawn, step 11 of 21
Rewards25g 74s, 8,150 XP

Description

We can't advance with those juggernauts bombarding our position! I led a strike against the nearest one, but conventional weapons do nothing against their imbued hides. Thankfully, I have an idea. Your runeblade can't deal with them as it stands, but if you could purge Gharmal's empowered masses and absorb their essence into the blade...

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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.

Maldraxxus Quest turn-in 13 mapped points
Maldraxxus map showing where to go for Charging The BladeTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #1536 28.8 38.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inMaldraxxus 28.8, 38.2/way #1536 28.8 38.2
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Maldraxxus 26.9, 35.3/way #1536 26.9 35.3

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

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, MaldraxxusAlliance and Horde · about 670 yards north-east
  • The Spearhead, MaldraxxusAlliance and Horde · about 970 yards south-east
  • Theater of Pain, MaldraxxusAlliance and Horde · about 1,500 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 170 yards north-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.

Related
Money25 gold74 silver
Experience8,150 XP

Storyline

A Golden Dawn

Part 11 of 21.

Previous: Trouble on the Western Front · Next: Aerial Advantage

  1. 6Dark Developments
  2. 7Descended
  3. 8Burn Before Reading
  4. 9An Early End
  5. 10Trouble on the Western Front
  6. 11Charging The Blade
  7. 12Aerial Advantage
  8. 13Grave Intent
  9. 14Power of the Chosen
  10. 15The End is Now
  11. 16Pursuit of Justice
  12. 17An Abominable Discovery

Showing steps 6 to 17 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.

  • Trouble on the Western FrontMaldraxxus · Level 60

    The Ashbringer and your fellow Maldraxxi need reinforcements at the western gate. They are barely holding on! Xandria and my kin will reinforce our position here and push forward towards Gharmal. We must make haste to Mograine--without both flanks, we cannot hope to achieve victory.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Aerial AdvantageMaldraxxus · Level 60

    Gharmal's rocs dominate the skies above, striking at our forces as we advance. We cannot move the necropolis into position until they are cleared out! I would slaughter them myself, but the cowards remain out of reach, and I am not constructed for flight. You, however, seem slight enough of build.

Quests that require this one

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

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.