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Deteriorating Knowledge

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 50
ZoneNazjatar
Quest ID55863

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(55863))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineSecrets in the Sea, step 2 of 14
Rewards23g 40s, 6,800 XP

Description

The kelfin are no strangers to Azshara's cruelty. She commands creatures of darkness that entrap my kind and warp their minds. They eat away at their memories until nothing's left but an empty husk. If you can get to them soon, perhaps they'll still be in a state worth saving.

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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.

Nazjatar Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Nazjatar map showing where to go for Deteriorating KnowledgeTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #1355 39.0 30.4

Coordinates

  • Turn-inNazjatar 39.0, 30.4/way #1355 39.0 30.4
  • Objective areaNazjatar 41.2, 34.4/way #1355 41.2 34.4
  • Objective areaNazjatar 50.2, 65.0/way #1355 50.2 65.0

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 Nazjatar map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Nazjatar:

  • Ashen Strand, NazjatarHorde · about 280 yards south-west
  • The Tidal Conflux, NazjatarHorde · about 560 yards east
  • Newhome, NazjatarHorde · about 1,000 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 180 yards south
  • Objective areaabout 80 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 150 yards south-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.

Related
Money23 gold40 silver
Experience6,800 XP
ReputationThe Unshackled +75

Reward details

Reputation: The Unshackled +75

Oppressed by the Naga, these refugees have banded together to rise up and seize their freedom.

Reputation group: Battle for Azeroth.

Other quests in Nazjatar that reward The Unshackled reputation: Stay Low, Stay Fast! (+225), Creature Study: Zanj'ir Naga (+150), The Laboratory of Mardivas (+500), Settling In (+75), Scouting the Pens (+75), What Will It Grow? (+50).

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

Secrets in the Sea

Part 2 of 14.

Previous: Insight into Our Enemies · Next: The Price is Death

  1. 1Insight into Our Enemies
  2. 2Deteriorating Knowledge
  3. 3The Price is Death
  4. 4What We Know of the Naga
  5. 5Scouting Undercover
  6. 6Sating Snapdragons
  7. 7Working with Purpose
  8. 8We Can't Have Dull Weapons
  9. 9Stealing the Naga's Secrets
  10. 10Sea Slug Liquidation
  11. 11Coveted Crystals
  12. 12Let the Residue Lead You
  13. 13Clearing Out the Cache
  14. 14Down But Not Out

Also part of: Welcome to Nazjatar (part 27 of 47).

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.

  • Insight into Our EnemiesNazjatar · Level 50

    There's no telling what awaits us within this land. We cannot press forward without first knowing exactly what we're up against. Although our new allies have suffered greatly at the hands of the naga, their hardships will not be in vain.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Price is DeathNazjatar · Level 50

    We've long believed that the ocean is big enough for all that wish to call it home. Unfortunately, the naga don't see it that way. They kill and capture our kind without remorse, and it's about time they paid the price.

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Nazjatar · Level 50.

The storyline at a glance

Secrets in the Sea has 14 steps, from Insight into Our Enemies to Down But Not Out.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Nazjatar (14).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Nazjatar 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.