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Creating the Ink (Horde)

Creating the Ink is a Horde-only quest for level 20-40 in Talador. It is step 16 of 27 in the Establishing your Outpost storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Talador at 84.5, 31.8. It rewards 5,450 experience and money.

Description

We're going to need a way to create an artificial nexus at your tower.

I know where we can get what we need, but it's heavily protected. We don't have the firepower to just waltz in the front door.

I have a plan - a scroll of mass teleportation.

The fungal giants and spore creatures down below are covered in pustules filled with an oily substance. If we gather enough of the oil I can craft a makeshift ink substitute for the scroll.

Rewards

You will receive:

Money16 gold98 silver
Experience5,450 XP
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
CurrencyGarrison Resources35
ExperienceXP5,450
MoneyGold16g 98s

Reward details

Currency: Garrison Resources x 35

Earn resources to build-up and expand your garrison.

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapTaladorTurn-in marker at 84.5, 31.8, 18 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.

Talador Quest turn-in 18 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #535 84.5 31.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTalador 84.5, 31.8/way #535 84.5 31.8
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Talador 82.8, 28.8/way #535 82.8 28.8
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Talador 81.5, 29.4/way #535 81.5 29.4
  • Objective areaTalador 84.7, 30.7/way #535 84.7 30.7

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 Talador map

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

Getting there

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

  • Zangarra, TaladorAlliance and Horde · about 350 yards north-west
  • Vol'jin's Pride, TaladorHorde · about 820 yards west
  • Sha'naari Refuge, Tanaan JungleAlliance and Horde · about 850 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 160 yards north-west
  • Objective areaabout 200 yards north-west
  • Objective areaabout 50 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Establishing your Outpost

Part 16 of 27.

Previous: Making Acquaintances · Next: Forming the Scroll

  1. 11The Lord of the Gordunni
  2. 12The Only Way to Travel
  3. 13Armor Up
  4. 14An Audience With The Archmage
  5. 15Making Acquaintances
  6. 16Creating the Ink
  7. 17Forming the Scroll
  8. 18Gathering the Spark
  9. 19Next Steps
  10. 20The Foot of the Fortress
  11. 21Dropping In
  12. 22While We're in the Neighborhood

Showing steps 11 to 22 of 27.

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.

  • Making AcquaintancesTalador · Level 20-40

    It's nice to see someone else taking a vested interest in the arcane arts, you know. It's all too rare these days if you ask me! Unfortunately, I must meet Cordana to handle an important matter, but we're in luck!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Forming the ScrollTalador · Level 20-40

    For this plan to work, we'll need infused parchment. The latent arcane energy at this nexus quickly froze the ancients in place and settled in their bark. If we rip off strips from the few that haven't been destroyed by the fungal creatures, I can form them into parchment.

Quests that require this one

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Talador · Level 20-40.

The storyline at a glance

Establishing your Outpost has 27 steps, from The Quarry Quandary to Joining the Ranks.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Talador (27).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Talador 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 Creating the Ink. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Creating the Ink (this page)Horde34634
Creating the InkAlliance34609
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