So far, this is what I know about the quest and the event:
You don't need to hang around the platform once you vote. Any World Quest counts towards completion. If you put your cursor over the Dreamsurge icon on your map, the other quest icons light up, as well. The rares around the Citadel in Waking Shores will give zone-wide announcements when they are 'empowered'. Just hang around the area and tag one. The portal you need to close spawns arround where Captain Lancer spawns after the Dragonbane event. Kill mobs as they spawn from the portal and the boss NPC that spawns for credit. There are green glowing balls in the air under bridges and ledges. You can fly into them to collect Dreamsurge.Edit: From reading reddit I found that the Dreamsurge area will change each week and the location for the portals that spawn will also change. The rare scanner type of addon will work for these but according to the comments, you can fly back after closing one portal, vote again and then go back and wait to kill the portal boss, over and over.
To 'vote, find the NPC at the Dreamsurge hub and they should have a bar over their heads with a bar showing what buffs are available. Click on that NPC and you get a dialog choice.
Quest
Dreamsurge Investigation
Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The portals closing was rather confusing at first. Every 30 mins on the map it shows a large fire/flame icon. Mine was west of Dragonscale basecamp. A portal will appear amongs the smaller adds that are surrounded by it. Kill those and a the portal closes and a big add/boss comes up. Kill it and you are done.
..can't turn in as of Nov 9? ? is there but nooo NPC
Quest facts
The client quest POI data records no map location for this quest, so no map is shown.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(77414))
Description
The Emerald Dream bleeding over into Azeroth is unprecedented, {name}. We need to understand exactly what is being affected by this phenomenon if we're to prepare ourselves for what is to come. Perhaps we can even turn this to our advantage. Head out into the affected area and see what you can learn. Bring back anything of interest and we will see what can be done.
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Reward details
Items you receive
“Contains a random piece of Warbound armor for your class.”
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.