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Cracking the Surface (Horde)

Cracking the Surface is a Horde-only quest for level 50. The quest's turn-in marker is in Stormsong Valley at 60.6, 58.5. It rewards 6,800 experience and money.

Description

<Upon your investigation you discover that the shrine has a couple locations where jewels appeared to have been located, but no longer exist.

Additionally, the center jewel appears to have several cracks in it as well.

Checking your notes, the earthen mentions having prospected the jewels from a nearby mountain to the northwest.

Perhaps you can prospect the earth in that area to find more of those jewels.>

Rewards

Money23 gold40 silver
Experience6,800 XP

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Known issues

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

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NessieMo+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

After creating a [item=153716], jewelcrafters can pick up free gems every day from of six shrines, each corresponding to a gem colour.

Only shrines that have been unlocked (by completing a quest) show on the map, and can be interacted with.
Some quests may have already been completed during the previous questlines, if they're not showing you can confirm they're complete with the following macros:

Tiragarde Sound, Blue Gems - Tol Dagor: Jewel of the Tides, Tol Dagor dungeon, completed during jewelcrafting questline
/run local id=55578 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Drustvar, Purple Gems - High Prospects, completed during jewelcrafting questline
/run local id=55580 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Stormsong Valley, Yellow Gems Cracking the Surface, completed during jewelcrafting questline
/run local id=55579 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Zuldazar, Green Gems - Atal'Dazar: Not All That Glitters..., Atal'Dazar dungeon
/run local id=55582 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Nazmir, Red Gems 4 - Out With the Old, Hand in 4 Insightful Rubellite
/run local id=49583 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Vol'dun, Orange Gems - Sun-Speckled Dunes, Collect gems and polish as per DMF glass quest
/run local id=49581 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Corrected coordinates are:
/way Tiragarde Sound 46.36 23.45 Blue Gems - Shrine already unlocked
/way Drustvar 34.13 35.46 Purple Gems - Shrine already unlocked
/way Stormsong Valley 60.70 58.51 Yellow Gems
/way Zuldazar 43.14 64.35 Green Gems - Atal'Dazar dungeon to unlock
/way Nazmir 61.32 37.24 Red Gems 4 - Insightful Rubellites to unlock
/way Vol'dun 44.18 38.05 Orange Gems - Collect gems and polish as per DMF glass quest to unlock.

That is every comment on this page.

Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(55579))

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
NessieMo+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

After creating a [item=153716], jewelcrafters can pick up free gems every day from of six shrines, each corresponding to a gem colour.

Only shrines that have been unlocked (by completing a quest) show on the map, and can be interacted with.
Some quests may have already been completed during the previous questlines, if they're not showing you can confirm they're complete with the following macros:

Tiragarde Sound, Blue Gems - Tol Dagor: Jewel of the Tides, Tol Dagor dungeon, completed during jewelcrafting questline
/run local id=55578 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Drustvar, Purple Gems - High Prospects, completed during jewelcrafting questline
/run local id=55580 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Stormsong Valley, Yellow Gems Cracking the Surface, completed during jewelcrafting questline
/run local id=55579 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Zuldazar, Green Gems - Atal'Dazar: Not All That Glitters..., Atal'Dazar dungeon
/run local id=55582 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Nazmir, Red Gems 4 - Out With the Old, Hand in 4 Insightful Rubellite
/run local id=49583 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Vol'dun, Orange Gems - Sun-Speckled Dunes, Collect gems and polish as per DMF glass quest
/run local id=49581 print(("The quest with ID %s is %scomplete."):format(id, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(id) and "" or "not "))

Corrected coordinates are:
/way Tiragarde Sound 46.36 23.45 Blue Gems - Shrine already unlocked
/way Drustvar 34.13 35.46 Purple Gems - Shrine already unlocked
/way Stormsong Valley 60.70 58.51 Yellow Gems
/way Zuldazar 43.14 64.35 Green Gems - Atal'Dazar dungeon to unlock
/way Nazmir 61.32 37.24 Red Gems 4 - Insightful Rubellites to unlock
/way Vol'dun 44.18 38.05 Orange Gems - Collect gems and polish as per DMF glass quest to unlock.

That is every comment on this page.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,800
MoneyGold23g 40s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapStormsong ValleyTurn-in marker at 60.6, 58.5, 11 mapped points
World Map

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.

Stormsong Valley Quest turn-in 11 mapped points
Stormsong Valley map showing where to go for Cracking the SurfaceTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #942 60.6 58.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inStormsong Valley 60.6, 58.5/way #942 60.6 58.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Stormsong Valley 55.6, 51.6/way #942 55.6 51.6

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 Stormsong Valley map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Stormsong Valley, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Stormsong Valley:

  • Diretusk Hollow, Stormsong ValleyHorde · about 500 yards north-west
  • Ironmaul Overlook, Stormsong ValleyHorde · about 890 yards east
  • Hillcrest Pasture, Stormsong ValleyHorde · about 940 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 390 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.

Quest Line

Where this quest fits

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Level 50.

Other storylines on the Stormsong Valley 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Cracking the Surface. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Cracking the Surface (this page)Horde55579
Cracking the SurfaceAlliance49577
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