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Defiling the Defilers

A World of Warcraft quest in Dragonblight. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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ZoraLink+18via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

"There were mighty runes of destructive and necromantic magic in the cave?" "Yeah." "Well hurry up and destroy them!" "All right! What have you got for me? A destructive trinket? A specialized wand?" "...Are you wearing shoes?" "Yes, why?" "...Go destroy the runes."

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261370+9via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

You can do this quest with http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12264 (Culling The Damned)
Those runes look like big purple circles on the floor, whenever you get around one just get close to it then right click.
They are located deep into the cavern.
37,32 is the coords for the entrance to the cavern.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneDragonblight
Quest ID12265

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12265))

What to do

StorylineDragonblight, step 51 of 149
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

I sensed a large accumulation of magic in the runes that we witnessed when you were scouting the cave. I will not have you toy with extracting the magic... often the most straight forward solution is the most effective one. Destroy the runes... stamp them out and ensure that the Cult will not have access to whatever power that they've accumulated there.

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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.

Dragonblight Quest turn-in 8 mapped points
Dragonblight map showing where to go for Defiling the DefilersTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #115 35.2 30.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDragonblight 35.2, 30.1/way #115 35.2 30.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Dragonblight 32.9, 28.1/way #115 32.9 28.1

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 Dragonblight map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Dragonblight:

  • Fordragon Hold, DragonblightAlliance · about 290 yards north-east
  • Agmar's Hammer, DragonblightHorde · about 600 yards south
  • Kor'kron Vanguard, DragonblightHorde · about 690 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 150 yards north-west

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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThe Wyrmrest Accord +250

Reward details

Reputation: The Wyrmrest Accord +250

With the Blue Dragonflight's violent upheaval against all mortal users of magic, the remaining dragonflights have banded under the leadership of the Red Dragonflight to combat their wayward kin.

Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.

Other quests in Dragonblight that reward The Wyrmrest Accord reputation: Gaining an Audience (+25), Informing the Queen (+10), Disturbing Implications (+250), One of a Kind (+250), Mighty Magnataur (+250), Reclusive Runemaster (+350).

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.

Storyline

Dragonblight

Part 51 of 149.

Previous: The Best of Intentions · Next: Culling the Damned

  1. 46Informing the Queen
  2. 47The Obsidian Dragonshrine
  3. 48No Place to Run
  4. 49No One to Save You
  5. 50The Best of Intentions
  6. 51Defiling the Defilers
  7. 52Culling the Damned
  8. 53Neltharion's Flame
  9. 54Tales of Destruction
  10. 55Cycle of Life
  11. 56The Plume of Alystros
  12. 57Seeds of the Lashers

Showing steps 46 to 57 of 149.

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.

  • The Best of IntentionsDragonblight · Level 15-30

    The Cult of the Damned has not come just to extract power from dead dragons. I suspect I know what they are up to, but I need you to prove me correct. I will grant you the guise of this dead necrolyte. Proceed to the back of the cave and confirm their intentions for being in this sacred place.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Culling the DamnedDragonblight · Level 15-30

    The cave beyond was swarming with Cult atrocities. There is only one way to deal with such creatures... you know what to do.

The storyline at a glance

Dragonblight has 149 steps, from The Liquid Fire of Elune to Really Big Worm.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dragonblight (144), Crystalsong Forest (5).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Dragonblight map

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.