Dark Obelisk Investigation is a quest for level 90, added in Midnight. It rewards money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.
<race>, we have reports that the leaders of the Ritual Sites are using dark obelisks to bolster their forces with malevolent boons.
I need you to investigate the objects they are using to gain these boons.
You will receive:
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There are 5 Obelisks on the beach. They are not marked on the map and don't have any interaction option, so you just need to walk past them.
/way 38.97 76.26 Obelisk 1
/way 62.10 62.28 Obelisk 2
/way 64.92 50.17 Obelisk 3
/way 66.47 39.43 Obelisk 4
/way 50.31 42.95 Obelisk 5
The rough locations in Zul'Aman's Broken Throne are:
/way 47, 76 Obelisk 1
/way 42, 68 Obelisk 2
/way 44, 58 Obelisk 3
/way 41, 50 Obelisk 4
/way 53, 54 Obelisk 5
..... in case anyone else is lost, you gotta be *IN* a ritual site scenario to find the obelisks.
| Type | Reward | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Money | Gold | 34g 16s |
| Objective area | Silvermoon City | 1 mapped point |
|---|
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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2393 47.7 49.7
TheWoWDB
/way #2393 47.7 49.7Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Silvermoon City, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Silvermoon City:
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.
First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight patch 12.0.7, the oldest build in our datamine).
Its criteria name 8 quests; others include:
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.
Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.
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