Quest

Cold Hard Science

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

Top Comments

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Zakuren2022-12-07T16:00:10-06:00+56via Wowhead

There are missing handholds currently, this has been reported on the forums and through bug reports to be fixed. Blizz Forum Post

Brattyone662023-01-14T12:34:06-06:00+16via Wowhead

As of 1/14/2023 Still bugged. Come on Blizz get your act together.

ursacian2022-12-14T12:43:35-06:00+8via Wowhead

still bugged on season 1 start

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 30-70

LocationThe Azure Span

SideBoth

SharableNo

Added inDragonflight

Quest ID70653

The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(70653))

Requirements

Quest typeWorld Quest

Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.

Objectives

Excavate Infused Glacier Samples from the ice x 8
Climbing Gear acquired
Find a handhold on the cliff

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.

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 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 SpanAlliance and Horde · about 240 yards south-west
Cobalt Assembly, Azure SpanAlliance and Horde · about 510 yards north

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.

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Other quests on the Azure Span map

Where this quest fits

Other storylines on The Azure Span map

Iskaara Tuskarr Renown70 steps, starts with Stolen Tuskarr Totems
The Azure Span52 steps, starts with To the Azure Span
The Blue Dragons63 steps, starts with Keeper of the Ossuary
Azure Span Chapter 120 steps, starts with Into the Azure
Into the Archives17 steps, starts with Into the Azure
Tuskarr Troubles12 steps, starts with Ask the Locals

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.10 Lead 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.