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Quest
Darkheart Thicket: A Burden to Bear
A World of Warcraft quest in Val'sharah. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Just completed this. After we went through most of the instance also missing 2 bears we needed, we ended up going to kill Xavius and teleporting out and back in to be closer to the beginning of the instance. We found the last two bears in a little den in the top left of the map. Think of it as a den in a den when you find the two bears. Their mini-den dips down a bit lower into the main den where you can find the other bears that most of us skip when we aren't on this quest.
So you can do it all in one go. Hope this helps!
I've got 7/9 bears in heroic mode, remaining 2 I've grabbed in a group in normal mode - so it works in such as well. ~
Quest facts
Quest ID42745
The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(42745))
Requirements
Quest typeDungeon World Quest
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Defeat Bears x 9
- Shade of Xavius defeated
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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #641 60.0 31.7
Coordinates
- Objective areaVal'sharah 60.0, 31.7
/way #641 60.0 31.7
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 Val'sharah map
- Ruins of Shala'nir about 160 yards
- Close Enough to Touch about 290 yards
- Softening the Target about 430 yards
- Given to Corruption about 580 yards
- Heart of the Nightmare about 590 yards
- Reading the Leaves about 590 yards
- Dark Side of the Moon about 780 yards
- Mending the Filter about 790 yards
- The Shrine of Ashamane about 800 yards
- Seeds of Renewal about 800 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Val'sharah, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Val'sharah:
- Starsong Refuge, Val'sharah
- The Dreamgrove, Val'sharah (Druids Only)
- Garden of the Moon, Val'sharah
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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Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Val'sharah map
- Into the Nightmare
- All Nightmare Long
- The Black Rook Threat
- Archdruid of the Claw
- Bradensbrook
- Black Rook Hold
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.
- Variety is the Spice of Life: its criteria name 967 quests, this one included.
Defeating Defeat the Shade of Xavius while he has 10 stacks of Apocalyptic Empowerment, this quest’s target, counts toward this achievement.
