This may be obvious, but in these days of max-level alts who didn't go through BFA... You have to complete The Heart of Azeroth and receive your [item=158075] before you can complete this quest. Without the Heart of Azeroth, you can't get into the Chamber, so you can't proceed with this quest. However, as long as you have A Dying World in your quest log, you can complete both the initial HOA quest and this empowerment quest on the same trip to Silithus -- you'll just have to teleport out of, and then back into, the Chamber of Heart once you receive the Heart.
Quest
Essential Empowerment
Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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As of patch 8.2, the original Heart of Azeroth upgrade quests (that required reputation) were removed from the game.
To upgrade your Heart of Azeroth, you just need to do the 8.2 War Campaign starting with Horde: The Warchief's Order or Alliance: The Wolf's Offensive until you get to this quest.
This is the Magni questline to unlock the Heart Forge and upgrade your Heart of Azeroth:
1. Essential Empowerment
2. MOTHER Knows Best
3. A Disturbance Beneath the Earth
4. Take My Hand
5. Calming the Spine
6. Dominating the Indomitable
7. A Friendly Face
8. The Heart Forge
9. Harnessing the Power
10. Horde: Back Out to Sea or Alliance: Back Out to Sea
11. Horde: Scouting the Palace or Alliance: Scouting the Palace
If you can't click on the portal in Silithus and you dont have Hearth of Azeroth necklance, just finish the dragonisle intro quest where you need to ride the zeppelin to the isle. Then you can accept the quest from Earhen Guardian in any BFA main city (Boralus/Dazar'alor). After you obtain the necklace you can use the portal on the ground in Silithus!
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
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Description
Champion, excitin' news! I know yer busy dealin' with the naga threat right now, but we need ye to come back tae the Chamber of Heart! MOTHER's finally finished her calculations and she's got an idea of what tae do next! Hurry back tae Silithus as quick as ye can. Azeroth needs ye!
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.
Coordinates
- Turn-inSilithus 43.2, 44.5
/way #81 43.2 44.5 - Objective areaNazjatar 40.0, 55.1
/way #1355 40.0 55.1 - Objective areaNazjatar 48.3, 62.5
/way #1355 48.3 62.5
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 Chamber of Heart map
- Forging Onward same spot
- Where the Heart Is same spot
- Network Diagnostics same spot
- Whispers in the Dark same spot
- Into Dreams same spot
- Ny'alotha, the Waking City: The Corruptor's End same spot
- Power Protocol Initiation same spot
- Magni's Findings same spot
- Restored Hope same spot
- The Long Awake about 20 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Chamber of Heart, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
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Storyline
Empowering the Heart
Part 1 of 9.
Next: MOTHER Knows Best
- 1Essential Empowerment
- 2MOTHER Knows Best
- 3A Disturbance Beneath the Earth
- 4Take My Hand
- 5Calming the Spine
- 6Dominating the Indomitable
- 7A Friendly Face
- 8The Heart Forge
- 9Harnessing the Power
Also part of: Welcome to Nazjatar (part 11 of 47), Welcome to Nazjatar (part 12 of 47).
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- MOTHER Knows Best
Now that this chamber's not fallin' tae pieces anymore, we can focus on makin' the Heart stronger! MOTHER says she's finished her fancy calculations. Have a word with her, champion. See if we can further empower the amazin' gift Azeroth gave ye.
The storyline at a glance
Empowering the Heart has 9 steps, from Essential Empowerment to Harnessing the Power.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Chamber of Heart (4), The Dragon's Spine (4), Highmountain (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Chamber of Heart map
- Visions of N'zoth
- Through the Darkness
- On the Trail of the Black Prince
- Return of the Black Prince
- Whispers in the Dark
- The Engine of Nalak'sha
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.

