TheWoWDBYou don't have to go anywhere. You can summon him as soon as you get the staff. I summon him in area 52 right next to the quest giver. The quickest 3,050 xp I have made so far in 67 levels lol
Quest
Curse of the Violet Tower
A World of Warcraft quest in Netherstorm. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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In fact you can summon the "archmage," just about anywhere! So you don't have to be near the tower at all. Was able to summon him at Manaforge Duro.
Area 52*, we don't speak of Area 51 anymore...
Quest facts
LevelLevel 25-30
ZoneNetherstorm
Quest ID10174
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10174))
What to do
Description
Now, you will be able to use the archmage's staff to contact him. He resides in the Violet Tower, on an 'island' to the southeast. The tower is both sanctuary and prison to him, cursed as it is. Kirin Tor can neither enter nor leave, keeping me apart from my master. The staff's magic can penetrate the tower's defenses, but only if invoked by one outside the Kirin Tor. Take the archmage's staff and use it to conjure his image. Tell him what has happened and that I have not completely failed him.
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.
Turn-inIn-game waypoint: /way #109 31.4 66.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inNetherstorm 31.4, 66.1
/way #109 31.4 66.1
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 Netherstorm map
- Warchief's Command: Netherstorm! about 90 yards
- Hero's Call: Netherstorm! about 90 yards
- Honor the Flame about 90 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 100 yards
- Nexus-King Salhadaar about 1,750 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Netherstorm, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Netherstorm:
- Area 52, Netherstorm
- Mok'Nathal Village, Blade's Edge Mountains
- The Stormspire, Netherstorm
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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Experience1,050 XP
Storyline
Netherstorm
Part 68 of 103.
Previous: Destroy Naberius! · Next: The Sigil of Krasus
- 63The Annals of Kirin'Var
- 64Searching for Evidence
- 65A Lingering Suspicion
- 66Capturing the Phylactery
- 67Destroy Naberius!
- 68Curse of the Violet Tower
- 69The Sigil of Krasus
- 70The Sunfury Garrison
- 71Down With Daellis
- 72A Fate Worse Than Death
- 73The Unending Invasion
- 74Potential Energy Source
Showing steps 63 to 74 of 103.
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.
- Destroy Naberius!
Archmage Vargoth saw the danger in Naberius's pursuit of necromancy, but I don't think he ever anticipated that his own apprentice would wreak this much destruction upon the Kirin Tor.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Sigil of Krasus
Before we departed Azeroth all those years ago, the Kirin Tor entrusted our expedition with a powerful artifact, the Sigil of Krasus. It was a great boon to us in our battle against the orcs and it could play a key role in helping me break the enchantment that imprisons me.
The storyline at a glance
Netherstorm has 103 steps, from Distraction at Manaforge B'naar to Dimensius the All-Devouring.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Netherstorm (98), Shattrath City (4), Terokkar Forest (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Netherstorm map
- Lorewalking: Ethereals
- Burning Crusade Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.