Quest is bugged now, showing in the wrong place, right place is on the map above here.
Quest
Defense of the Ancient
A World of Warcraft quest in Broken Shore. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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This is the Druid-only version of the Rules of the Hunt world quest.
This world quest is showing as being at 79.03, 40.84 on the Broken Shore for me, however I went to 65, 31 as shown here on wowhead and was able to complete the quest.
Quest facts
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(45969))
Requirements
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Defeat 7 targets in Broken Shore
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 #646 67.8 29.3
Coordinates
- Objective areaBroken Shore 67.8, 29.3
/way #646 67.8 29.3
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 Broken Shore map
- Missing in Action: Lord Darius Crowley about 140 yards
- Resource Management about 150 yards
- Kvaldir on Call about 160 yards
- To the Broken Shore about 180 yards
- Where He Fell about 210 yards
- Missing in Action: Eitrigg about 240 yards
- The King's Path about 300 yards
- Runes of Rending about 310 yards
- Operation Felrage about 350 yards
- Rise Up about 360 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Broken Shore, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Broken Shore:
- Aalgen Point, Broken Shore
- Vengeance Point, Broken Shore
- Deliverance Point, Broken Shore
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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Other quests on the Broken Shore map
Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Broken Shore map
- Legionfall Campaign
- Chronicles of Skyhold IV
- Excavations
- Watchers in the Wild IV
- Saga of the Shadowblade IV
- The Elemental Lords IV
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.