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Designed to Fail

Designed to Fail is a quest for level 60 in Maldraxxus. It is step 20 of 25 in The House of Rituals storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Maldraxxus at 70.8, 28.3. It rewards 1,000 experience and money.

Description

The pieces are all coming together. The kyrian, the Paths of the First Ones, and runes of domination?

Kel'Thuzad is looking to breach the Maw!

We cannot allow this to happen! The Maw has been locked away from the Shadowlands for good reason. Opening that floodgate could be catastrophic!

The baron is too powerful to confront headlong, so we will stop his ritual instead. Return to him with his reagents. I have made some "modifications" that should provide a calamitous end to his scheme.

Rewards

Money2 gold57 silver40 copper
Experience1,000 XP
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
Kenthenerd+23via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

For the warriors on this quest:

If you leap through the rooms to the quest turn in and aggro stuff, you will lose your guise and have to kill enemies back to the entrance.

Once you are back to the top of the steps and out of combat, you can hit the special button and use your guise again.

2
Tziva+9via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If KT is hostile and you can't turn this in, it's because your disguise fell off. Run back out to the entrance and you should get the extra action button again to reapply it and run back. You don't need to abandon the quest.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP1,000
MoneyGold2g 57s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapMaldraxxusTurn-in marker at 70.8, 28.3, 2 mapped points
Turn-in mapVault of Souls
World Map

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.

Maldraxxus Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Maldraxxus map showing where to go for Designed to FailTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #1536 70.8 28.3

Vault of Souls Quest turn-in

Coordinates

  • Turn-inMaldraxxus 70.8, 28.3/way #1536 70.8 28.3
  • Objective areaMaldraxxus 66.2, 32.1/way #1536 66.2 32.1

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 Maldraxxus map

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

Getting there

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

  • Renounced Bastille, MaldraxxusAlliance and Horde · about 760 yards south
  • Keres' Rest, MaldraxxusAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards west
  • Theater of Pain, MaldraxxusAlliance and Horde · about 1,700 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 330 yards south-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.

Quest Line

Storyline

The House of Rituals

Part 20 of 25.

Previous: Blinding the Brokers · Next: Caught in the Act

  1. 14Heart of the Forest
  2. 15Cage Free Spores
  3. 16The Final Reagent
  4. 17Explosive Schemes
  5. 18No Crate Unturned
  6. 19Blinding the Brokers
  7. 20Designed to Fail
  8. 21Caught in the Act
  9. 22Improvised Implements
  10. 23A Helpful Hand
  11. 24The Traitor Unmasked
  12. 25The Better Part of Valor

Showing steps 14 to 25 of 25.

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.

  • Blinding the BrokersMaldraxxus · Level 60

    We cannot allow Kel'Thuzad to discover who stopped his shipment. None must be left to tell the tale of what transpired here.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Caught in the ActMaldraxxus · Level 60

    Well then, since it was you who managed to procure the missing reagent, I find it only fair that you assist me with the final ritual! I can guarantee that this incantation will see you promoted to a full sorcerer of the house! The preparations are already made. We can begin as soon as you are ready.

The storyline at a glance

The House of Rituals has 25 steps, from House of Rituals to The Better Part of Valor.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Maldraxxus (21), Vault of Souls (3), Seat of the Primus (1).

Other storylines on the Maldraxxus 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.

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