Quest Log

Dark Vessels (Alliance)

Dark Vessels is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in The Hinterlands. It is step 16 of 61 in The Hinterlands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in The Hinterlands at 63.7, 59.9. It rewards 6 reward items, 5,150 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

The Vilebranch trolls here were always worshippers of the foul god Hakkar, the loa of blood. He was a sick and twisted entity that nearly broke through to our world, but he was defeated long ago.

The Vilebranch are still stirring their dark cauldrons, ones they filled with blood years before. They're either holding onto hope for a long-dead spirit, or they're up to something new and just as sinister.

Get me those vessels, <name>. We need to examine them with the spiders and see just what's going on here!

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money10

Experience5,150 XP

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

476083Nov 26, 2010+43via Wowhead

You will be looking for very small cauldrons sitting on the ground next to the trolls in Jintha'alor. You can find most of them by going to the very top of the settlement inside of the tan rooms.

AamunkajoNov 26, 2011+21via Wowhead

This quest is actually sensible to couple with the next set of quests, not with the ones you get this (supposing you do all quests you get, return them, take next set of quests etc.) You will get Summit of Fate - the next item gathering quest - after you've turned in the other quests, Dark Vessels does not seem to be a requirement. So you can then collect both Spider Idols and Dark Vessels in the same go. Grabbing the gryphon (on alliance at least) gets you to the spot fast.

695019Nov 26, 2010+15via Wowhead

The vessels are much smaller than they were before the Shattering, so keep an eye out! There appear to be more on the upper levels than the lower ones, despite the spawn range dictated by the in-game quest tracker.
There also aren't as many of them, or otherwise have quite a long respawn timer now. A player came through doing the quest shortly before I did, and it took me about thirty minutes to find five for my quest.

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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	5,150
Money	Gold	10g 50s

Reward details

Pick one of these

Sandals of Tainted Blood

TypeCloth Feet

Item level19

BindingBinds when picked up

Armor3

Stats+4 Intellect, +7 Stamina

Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology

Sells to vendors for1 gold35 silver

Sandrene's Invisible Vest

TypeLeather Chest

Item level19

BindingBinds when picked up

Armor9

Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina

Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker

Sells to vendors for1 gold81 silver

“It's there. You just can't see it.”

Dark Vessel Breastplate

TypePlate Chest

Item level19

BindingBinds when picked up

Armor21

Stats+6 Strength or Intellect, +9 Stamina

Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost

Sells to vendors for1 gold83 silver

Spider Venom Leggings

TypeLeather Legs

Item level19

BindingBinds when picked up

Armor8

Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike

Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker

Sells to vendors for1 gold82 silver

Sandrene's Invisible Hauberk

TypeMail Chest

Item level19

BindingBinds when picked up

Armor14

Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina

Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement

Sells to vendors for1 gold94 silver

“It's there. You just can't see it.”

Spider Venom Legguards

TypeMail Legs

Item level19

BindingBinds when picked up

Armor12

Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike

Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement

Sells to vendors for1 gold76 silver

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 map	The Hinterlands	Turn-in marker at 63.7, 59.9, 13 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.

Coordinates

Turn-inThe Hinterlands 63.7, 59.9/way #26 63.7 59.9
Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Hinterlands 63.4, 73.0/way #26 63.4 73.0

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 Hinterlands map

Desecrate this Fire! about 620 yards
Honor the Flame about 1,920 yards

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Hinterlands:

Stormfeather Outpost, The HinterlandsAlliance · about 390 yards north
Refuge Pointe, ArathiAlliance · about 1,900 yards south-west
Crown Guard Tower, Eastern PlaguelandsAlliance and Horde · about 2,000 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 340 yards south

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

The Hinterlands

Part 16 of 61.

Previous: Death to the Vilebranch · Next: Ongo'longo's Revenge

Showing steps 11 to 22 of 61.

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.

Death to the VilebranchThe Hinterlands · Level 10-30
We're makin' good progress. Keep pressing on, and don't falter! The Vilebranch berserkers fight like savage animals, whipped into a blood frenzy. Their shadowcasters summon foul spirits from beyond this world! This is why we're getting rid of these depraved creatures, <name>, never forget that.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

Ongo'longo's RevengeThe Hinterlands · Level 10-30
I've got a plan to pit troll against troll. The Vilebranch have a big ol' dire troll locked up in a pit with some flimsy-lookin' chains. I've seen those things fight, and there's no way those'll hold if that big brute gets swingin' mad! I want you to find the dire troll and fight him, <name>.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · The Hinterlands · Level 10-30.

Dark VesselsHorde only · The Hinterlands · Level 10-30

Also counted by Hinterlands Quests

Its criteria name 30 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

The Hinterlands has 61 steps, from Razorbeak Friends to Starvation Diet.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Hinterlands (61).

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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

Hinterlands QuestsComplete the Hinterlands storylines listed below.10

Hinterlands Quests: its criteria name 30 quests, this one included.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Dark Vessels. They differ in the faction/rewards shown here.

Quest	Faction	Rewards	ID
Dark Vessels (this page)	Alliance	5,150 XP, Sandals of Tainted Blood, Sandrene's Invisible Vest, Dark Vessel Breastplate, Spider Venom Leggings, Sandrene's Invisible Hauberk, Spider Venom Legguards	26524
Dark Vessels	Horde	5,150 XP, Dark Vessel Breastplate, Spider Venom Leggings, Sandrene's Invisible Vest, Sandals of Tainted Blood, Spider Venom Legguards, Sandrene's Invisible Hauberk	26309

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Darkblaze, Brood of the Worldbreaker

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Dark Vessels (Alliance)

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