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Quest

Discovery Requires Experimentation

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

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Generationz+8via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Most likely an Agents of Shield reference, which wouldn't be the first I've seen this expansion.

Daniel Whitehall, a Hydra scientist, whom experimented on another gifted individual, often said this line before performing his research on how said gifted individual's body could withstand age.

An even more brutal line up to my theory; the quest ask you to retrieve spines. If you've see the show, you should understand the relation.

That is every comment on this page.

Quest facts

LevelLevel 45
ZoneSuramar
Quest ID40683

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(40683))

What to do

StorylineResearch Gone to Fel, step 2 of 8
Rewards20g 22s, 6,150 XP

Description

I can sense residues of magic all over you. You will be useful. I must study how the demon bodies can handle the fel energies in such large quantities. I have plenty of flesh to sample, but there must be something... Go retrieve some spines from the nearby basilisks so that I may analyze their magical residues. No sense in both of us getting our hands dirty, is 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.

Suramar Quest turn-in 7 mapped points
Suramar map showing where to go for Discovery Requires ExperimentationTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #680 26.8 70.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSuramar 26.8, 70.8/way #680 26.8 70.8
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Suramar 29.3, 61.9/way #680 29.3 61.9

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 Suramar map

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

Getting there

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

  • Felblaze Ingress, AzsunaAlliance and Horde · about 530 yards south-west
  • Meredil, SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 890 yards north-east
  • Western SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 920 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 360 yards north-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
Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP

Storyline

Research Gone to Fel

Part 2 of 8.

Previous: A Different Source · Next: The Road to Fel

  1. 1A Different Source
  2. 2Discovery Requires Experimentation
  3. 3The Road to Fel
  4. 4One Small Step for Magic
  5. 5The Black Tome
  6. 6Fel Bent for Leather
  7. 7Power! Get The Power!
  8. 8The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fel

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.

  • A Different SourceSuramar · Level 45

    I need you to fetch me something. I think I might be on the verge of a breakthrough of a new source of magic, but I require tools. I can no longer access my workshop, but I have seen the smaller demons below using tools. Bring me one of their tools and I can save our people.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Road to FelSuramar · Level 45

    An early step to understanding how magic works is to understand and study materials made using that magic. That was how I made my breakthrough on warlock soul crystals, after all. The wyrmtongue minions in this pit hammer plates into their structures for support and maintenance.

The storyline at a glance

Research Gone to Fel has 8 steps, from A Different Source to The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fel.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Suramar (8).

Other storylines on the Suramar 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.