Dead Zone

Reward details

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.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Dread Wastes:

• The Briny Muck, Dread WastesAlliance and Horde · about 610 yards south
• Klaxxi'vess, Dread WastesAlliance and Horde · about 860 yards east
• The Sunset Brewgarden, Dread WastesAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards north-east

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.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• Not Fit to SwarmDread Wastes · Level 30-35

  Newly hatched mantid have only two instincts: kill and feed. They turn on one another, devouring the weak and leaving the strongest to mature. Those hatched during a swarm - the swarmborn - are turned loose on our enemies instead. The swarmborn in the Clutches of Shek'zeer have been tainted.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• In Her ClutchDread Wastes · Level 30-35

  The crystal sings to the Klaxxi. They sense a paragon in the clutch, east of the tower. Clutch-keepers are trying to pollute this one. The Klaxxi will not permit this. Go and find the paragon. Place your hands on his chamber, and the Klaxxi will channel their whispers through you to break him free.

The storyline at a glance

Dread Wastes has 58 steps, from Falling Down to Mazu's Bounty.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dread Wastes (55), Vale of Eternal Blossoms (3).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

• Amber is the Color of My Energy Recover the following Klaxxi Paragons.
• Campaign: Dread Wastes Complete the Dread Wastes storylines listed below with a Timerunner.
• Dread Haste Makes Dread Waste Complete the Dread Wastes storylines listed below.

Other storylines on the Dread Wastes map

• The Mantid Threat9 steps, starts with Reflections in Amber
• Townlong Steppes53 steps, starts with A Foot in the Door

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.