The Unbound Attendants seem to drop the most arcana.
Quest
Driven Mad
A World of Warcraft quest in The Azure Span. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Here we go once again with randomly different quest items. The quest before this: use your action button. This time the bag is in your inventory.
Where is the consistency?
Kill quest mobs Destabilized Elemental and Unbound Attendant at the bottom of the quest area until you've looted 40 Unstable Arcana.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(65702))
What to do
Description
The Azure Archives was once a place where the blue dragons would gather to discuss magic. Now I am the only one of my kind here. This place controls the ley lines beneath the Azure Span, but it and its servants have gone out of control. I believe if we bring order to this place that I can then reclaim the Azure Oathstone. The various constructs and elements are brimming with unstable arcane energy that needs to be redirected. Destroy them and collect what you can.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2024 40.7 59.0
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Azure Span 40.7, 59.0
/way #2024 40.7 59.0 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Azure Span 40.0, 61.1
/way #2024 40.0 61.1
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 The Azure Span map
- Booty Bay about 320 yards
- Incarnates on the Move about 320 yards
- Zeroing Debt about 320 yards
- Archives Return about 320 yards
- Archival Arrival about 320 yards
- Theramore about 320 yards
- Where in the World is a Lost Blue Dragon? about 320 yards
- Swiftly to the Archives about 320 yards
- A Peaceful Farewell about 320 yards
- Crystalsong Forest about 320 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Azure Span, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Azure Span:
- Azure Archives, Azure Span
- Camp Antonidas, Azure Span
- Cobalt Assembly, Azure Span
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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.
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Reward details
Reputation: Valdrakken Accord +50
Centered in their most ancient city, the Valdrakken Accord is the unified might of all dragonkind, seeking to protect not only their island home but all of Azeroth.
Reputation group: Dragonflight.
Other quests in The Azure Span that reward Valdrakken Accord reputation: Arcane Pruning (+50), Platform Adjustments (+50), Arcane Annoyances (+50), Aiding Azure Span (+25), Primal Offensive (+50), Lava Burst (+50).
Reputation: Kirin Tor +100
The mages and archmages running the city of Dalaran. Faced with the rising threats of the Blue Dragonflight and the Scourge, they've transported their city to the heart of Northrend.
Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.
Other quests in The Azure Span that reward Kirin Tor reputation: Arcane Pruning (+100), Platform Adjustments (+100), Arcane Annoyances (+100), Aiding Azure Span (+50), Primal Offensive (+100), Lava Burst (+100).
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
Into the Archives
Part 11 of 17.
Previous: The Many Images of Kalecgos · Next: Arcane Pruning
- 6Assemble the Defenses
- 7Preservation of Knowledge
- 8Wrath of the Kirin Tor
- 9Meeting Kalecgos
- 10The Many Images of Kalecgos
- 11Driven Mad
- 12Arcane Pruning
- 13Straight to the Top
- 14Platform Adjustments
- 15Arcane Annoyances
- 16Reclaiming the Oathstone
- 17Aiding Azure Span
Showing steps 6 to 17 of 17.
Also part of: Azure Span Chapter 1 (part 6 of 20), The Azure Span (part 10 of 52).
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 Many Images of Kalecgos
Good to formally meet you, <name>. My name is Kalecgos, Archmage of the Kirin Tor and Aspect of the blue dragonflight. I'm having difficulty repairing the Azure Archives to reclaim the Azure Oathstone. I could use an extra pair of physical hands. I'm currently up in the archives themselves.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Arcane Pruning
We cannot activate the oathstone in the Azure Archives until we fix the issue with the out of control ley energy here. Two out of the three draconic runes that are meant to control it are being choked by unstable arcana.
The storyline at a glance
Into the Archives has 17 steps, from Into the Azure to Aiding Azure Span.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Azure Span (16), Ohn'ahran Plains (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on The Azure Span map
- Iskaara Tuskarr Renown
- The Blue Dragons
- Tuskarr Troubles
- Vakthros
- The Veiled Ossuary
- Decayed Roots
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.