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Crushing the Cores

Crushing the Cores is a quest for level 30-35 in Mount Hyjal. It is step 35 of 118 in the Mount Hyjal storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Mount Hyjal at 26.3, 41.8. It rewards 3 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 4,800 experience and money.

Description

These searing guardians are murderous! We destroy them, and within minutes, they reignite from the ashes.

I think there's a way to destroy them permanently, but we'll need someone who can fight through the front ranks.

<name>, kill the searing guardians and take their smoldering cores to the nearby anvils. Smash them on the Twilight Anvils, and destroy them for good!

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
ReputationGuardians of Hyjal +250
Top Comments

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LSBeene+74via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Found it: After you go past the initial barrier, as the bottom of the "ramp" you can go left or right.

To the right is the long way to the guy with the huge anvil: this is the wrong one.

To the left should be two flame elemtal types and a single dwarf - in the middle of that mini "cul-de-sac" is the anvil to crush the cores.

Hope this helps.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,800
MoneyGold13g 74s
ReputationGuardians of Hyjal+250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Back
Item level35
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+4 Agility, +7 Stamina, +4 Critical Strike, +5 Haste
Suited toVengeance, Enhancement, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Windwalker, Feral, Guardian, Havoc, Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival, Brewmaster
Sells to vendors for36 gold66 silver
TypePlate Wrist
Item level35
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor13
Stats+4 Strength or Intellect, +7 Stamina, +3 Critical Strike, +5 Haste
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for24 gold44 silver
TypeMail Waist
Item level35
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +6 Versatility, +5 Haste
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for24 gold53 silver

Reputation: Guardians of Hyjal +250

Faced with the impending devastation of Mount Hyjal, the most powerful members of the Cenarion Circle have joined forces with their Emerald Dragonflight allies to fend off Ragnaros' elemental hordes and the Twilight's Hammer.

Reputation group: Cataclysm.

Other quests in Mount Hyjal that reward Guardians of Hyjal reputation: Trial By Fire (+250), In Bloom (+250), End of the Supply Line (+250), In the Rear With the Gear (+250), Harrying the Hunters (+250), The Voice of Goldrinn (+10).

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 mapMount HyjalTurn-in marker at 26.3, 41.8, 21 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.

Mount Hyjal Quest turn-in 21 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #198 26.3 41.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inMount Hyjal 26.3, 41.8/way #198 26.3 41.8
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Mount Hyjal 29.0, 41.4/way #198 29.0 41.4
  • Objective areaMount Hyjal 26.3, 41.9/way #198 26.3 41.9

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 Mount Hyjal map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Mount Hyjal:

  • Grove of Aessina, HyjalAlliance and Horde · about 320 yards north-west
  • Sanctuary of Malorne, HyjalAlliance and Horde · about 620 yards south
  • Shrine of Aviana, HyjalAlliance and Horde · about 630 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 120 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 120 yards east

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

Mount Hyjal

Part 35 of 118.

Previous: Rage of the Wolf Ancient · Next: Cindermaul, the Portal Master

  1. 30Lightning in a Bottle
  2. 31Gar'gol's Gotta Go
  3. 32Get Me Outta Here!
  4. 33Forged of Shadow and Flame
  5. 34Rage of the Wolf Ancient
  6. 35Crushing the Cores
  7. 36Cindermaul, the Portal Master
  8. 37Forgemaster Pyrendius
  9. 38Return from the Firelands
  10. 39Return from the Firelands
  11. 40Disrupting the Rituals
  12. 41Save the Wee Animals

Showing steps 30 to 41 of 118.

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.

  • Rage of the Wolf AncientMount Hyjal · Level 30-35

    Here we are deep within the realm of the fire god and what do we find? The little puppets of Ragnaros, scurrying around to do his bidding. These Dark Iron laborers are finishing and packaging the weapons Twilight's Hammer hopes to use in their conquest of Hyjal.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Cindermaul, the Portal MasterMount Hyjal · Level 30-35

    Twilight's Hammer is using these corridors, and others like them, to move supplies from the elemental planes up into Azeroth. In order to seal these passages off, we're going to need to know how they're constructed.

The storyline at a glance

Mount Hyjal has 118 steps, from Protect the World Tree to The Firelord.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Mount Hyjal (118).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Mount Hyjal 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.

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