TheWoWDBEasiest way I've found to complete this quickly, while questing, is to grab the arrows on the ground (easy to see with object highlight on now) and use this macro:
/target Terrorfiend Bat
/click ExtraActionButton1Takes maybe 12 of these bats to complete the quest, and if you use the road heading for the Tears of Elune, you can easily pick up the Corrupted Root Samples for the Root Cause quest along the way.
Quest
Defend The Temple
A World of Warcraft quest in Val'sharah. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Quest facts
Quest ID39029
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(39029))
Requirements
RequiresThe Temple of Elune
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Defeat 43 targets in Val'sharah
- Defend The Temple
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 59.0 54.1
Coordinates
- Objective areaVal'sharah 59.0, 54.1
/way #641 59.0 54.1
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
- Forlorn Filter about 260 yards
- Malfurion's Fury about 280 yards
- Fey Enchantments about 290 yards
- Darkheart Thicket: The Glamour Has Faded about 290 yards
- No Longer Worthy about 290 yards
- Led Astray about 290 yards
- The Other Ghostdancer about 300 yards
- The Fate of Val'sharah about 300 yards
- Darkheart Thicket: Enter the Nightmare about 300 yards
- Resupplying the Line about 300 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:
- Garden of the Moon, Val'sharah
- Starsong Refuge, Val'sharah
- Lorlathil, 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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Excellent advice - thank you
Quest chain
- 1The Temple of Elune
- 2Defend The Temple
Step 2 of 2. Chain order is read from the prerequisite data in the current retail client build, so it reflects what the game requires, not a curated storyline.
Where this quest fits
Before this quest
Taken from the quest's prerequisites.
- The Temple of Elune
Cenarius is in danger. If his condition is not reversed soon, he will be lost to the Nightmare that threatens the Emerald Dream. To spare him that fate, we must have the Tears of Elune - the same relic you were sent here to retrieve. Elune's temple is not far. Go there. Find Lyanis.
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.