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- "Kill birds."Eh.
Quest
Cycle of Life
A World of Warcraft quest in Dragonblight. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The beginnings of insanity as the Nightmare overtakes Ysera's mind. I smell expansion and raid boss epix.
Look up, their flying above your head...
Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneDragonblight
Quest ID12454
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12454))
What to do
StorylineDragonblight, step 55 of 149
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
Ysera sleeps in the Emerald Dream, watching over both the Dream and Azeroth. But a horrible nightmare has taken hold in the Dream, and now I fear that Ysera is being affected by it. Recently, I asked her to aid in the fight against the Scourge that are raising frostwyrms at the other dragonshrines. She misunderstood. Instead, she told our dragonshrine's defenders to treat those not of the green dragonflight as enemies. I need you to slay some of the skytalons. The shrine must regain its balance.
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-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #115 63.8 71.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inDragonblight 63.8, 71.9
/way #115 63.8 71.9 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Dragonblight 63.5, 73.9
/way #115 63.5 73.9
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 Dragonblight map
- Battle Pet Tamers: Northrend about 330 yards
- Scarlet Redemption about 380 yards
- A New Threat about 410 yards
- A Forgotten Enemy about 410 yards
- Apostate Liberation about 420 yards
- Onslaught Envoy about 430 yards
- Draconic Secrets about 670 yards
- The Touch of an Aspect about 680 yards
- Dahlia's Tears about 680 yards
- The Day That Chromie Dies about 680 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Dragonblight, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Dragonblight:
- Wyrmrest Temple, Dragonblight
- Venomspite, Dragonblight
- Moa'ki, Dragonblight
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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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Reward details
Reputation: The Wyrmrest Accord +250
With the Blue Dragonflight's violent upheaval against all mortal users of magic, the remaining dragonflights have banded under the leadership of the Red Dragonflight to combat their wayward kin.
Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.
Other quests in Dragonblight that reward The Wyrmrest Accord reputation: Gaining an Audience (+25), Informing the Queen (+10), Disturbing Implications (+250), One of a Kind (+250), Mighty Magnataur (+250), Reclusive Runemaster (+350).
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.
Storyline
Dragonblight
Part 55 of 149.
Previous: Tales of Destruction · Next: The Plume of Alystros
- 50The Best of Intentions
- 51Defiling the Defilers
- 52Culling the Damned
- 53Neltharion's Flame
- 54Tales of Destruction
- 55Cycle of Life
- 56The Plume of Alystros
- 57Seeds of the Lashers
- 58That Which Creates Can Also Destroy
- 59Mystery of the Infinite
- 60Mystery of the Infinite, Redux
- 61Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde
Showing steps 50 to 61 of 149.
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.
- Tales of Destruction
You can leave now, <race>. Go tell Nalice she missed out on a good slaughter.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Plume of Alystros
I can feel that the shrine is not completely back in balance. The verdant keeper has been angered by our actions, and I sense that he will not listen to reason. Alystros is an immense skytalon who perches at the south end of the Emerald Dragonshrine.
The storyline at a glance
Dragonblight has 149 steps, from The Liquid Fire of Elune to Really Big Worm.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dragonblight (144), Crystalsong Forest (5).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Dragonblight map
- Lorewalking: Arthas
- The Deaths of Chromie
- Fulfilling the Prophecy II
- Icecrown
- Light's Wrath
- Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
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.