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Cold Hard Science
Cold Hard Science is a quest for level 30-70, added in Dragonflight. Completing it counts toward 2 achievements.
Quest Objectives
- Excavate Infused Glacier Samples from the ice x 8
- Climbing Gear acquired
- Find a handhold on the cliff
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There are missing handholds currently, this has been reported on the forums and through bug reports to be fixed. Blizz Forum Post
As of 1/14/2023 Still bugged. Come on Blizz get your act together.
still bugged on season 1 start
| Objective area | The Azure Span | 1 mapped point |
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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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2024 48.2 37.2
Coordinates
- Objective areaThe Azure Span 48.2, 37.2
/way #2024 48.2 37.2
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 Azure Span map
- Assemble the Defenses about 250 yards
- Preservation of Knowledge about 270 yards
- Aiding Azure Span about 270 yards
- Wrath of the Kirin Tor about 270 yards
- Camp Antonidas about 270 yards
- The Azure Wizard about 280 yards
- Ask the Locals about 290 yards
- Power Procurement about 350 yards
- Nightborne Know-How about 350 yards
- Curiosity is Key about 350 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Azure Span, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on The Azure Span:
- Camp Antonidas, Azure Span
- Cobalt Assembly, Azure Span
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.
First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight patch 12.0.7, the oldest build in our datamine).
Where this quest fits
Other storylines on The Azure Span map
- Iskaara Tuskarr Renown
- The Azure Span
- The Blue Dragons
- Azure Span Chapter 1
- Into the Archives
- Tuskarr Troubles
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.
Achievements
Completing this quest counts toward these achievements.
Isles AscenderComplete a climbing World Quest in each of the Dragon Isle Zones.10Lead ClimberComplete 10 climbing World Quests.5
- Isles Ascender: its criteria name 12 quests, this one included.
- Lead Climber: its criteria name 12 quests, this one included.
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