Cracking the Code

Reward details

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.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Borean Tundra:

• Transitus Shield, ColdarraAlliance and Horde · at the same spot
• Amber Ledge, Borean TundraAlliance and Horde · about 680 yards east
• Warsong Hold, Borean TundraHorde · about 770 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

• Objective areaabout 260 yards north
• Objective areaabout 260 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.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• Drake HuntBorean Tundra · Level 10-30

  The blues have begun to cover their drakes in mysterious runes. I must discover their significance. <Raelorasz pokes his hand with a spear and coats the tip with his blood.> Take this and use it on one of them. Wait for it to become subdued, then bring it here to me before it expires.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• Puzzling...Borean Tundra · Level 10-30

  Something about this scrap of metal prevents you from casting it aside. Perhaps Raelorasz might be able to shed some light on its purpose.

Also counted by Nothing Boring About Borean

Its criteria name 19 quests; others include:

• Them!
• Succulent Orca Stew
• Surrender... Not!
• Keymaster Urmgrgl
• Escape from the Winterfin Caverns
• The Emissary
• Traversing the Rift
• The Hunt is On

Also counted by Nothing Boring About Borean

Its criteria name 23 quests; others include:

• Them!
• Succulent Orca Stew
• Surrender... Not!
• Keymaster Urmgrgl
• Escape from the Winterfin Caverns
• The Emissary
• Return My Remains
• The Plains of Nasam

The storyline at a glance

Borean Tundra has 182 steps, from Enlistment Day to Across Transborea.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Borean Tundra (178), Sholazar Basin (2), Wintergrasp (1), Dragonblight (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

• D.E.H.T.A's Little P.I.T.A. Uphold D.E.H.T.A's beliefs by completing all of the quests up to and including the Assassination of Harold Lane.
• Mrglgrgl of Grglmrgl Complete the storylines involving King Mrgl-Mrgl in Borean Tundra, Highmountain, and Zul'Aman.

Other storylines on the Borean Tundra map

• Winterfin Retreat13 steps, starts with King Mrgl-Mrgl
• Light's Wrath8 steps, starts with The Light's Wrath
• Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna7 steps, starts with Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
• Gnome Heritage Armor11 steps, starts with Shifting Gears
• The Veiled Ossuary20 steps, starts with Keeper of the Ossuary
• The Blue Dragons63 steps, starts with Keeper of the Ossuary

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.