Highly recommend you take the reward that lets you socket an upgrade, especially if you already have a higher item level piece of gear. The other options will be better when you have more research and find them at a higher level, while the socketed one will remain useful (for different circumstances) at lower item levels. All three versions only provide their special bonus in outdoor shadowlands content (no raids, dungeons, instanced PVP, or legacy/future content).
To obtain a power for your socketed item you require [order-advancement=1988] from the Aealic (second) tree of your Cypher research, then activate the consoles in the three hubs of Zereth Mortis that dispense enhancements. Only the white-named powers can be socketed. Once you are no longer using your reward for combat purposes, I would recommend socketing it with [item=189724] and equipping it before turning in quests and looting treasures that provide large amounts of gold.
Available Powers:
Ordinary Stat Boosts:
[item=189731] Increase <Primary Stat> by 5%.
[item=189732] Increase Stamina by 10%.
[item=189730] Increase Critical Strike chance by 5%.
[item=189722] Increase Haste by 5%.
[item=189726] Increase Mastery by 5%.
[item=189725] Increase Versatility by 5%.
[item=189734] Increase critical damage and healing by 20%.
[item=189728] Increase Avoidance by 10%.
[item=189729] Increase Leech by 5%.
Non-standard combat effects:
[item=189560] 10% chance to deflect enemy Physical attacks.
[item=189723] 10% chance to absorb enemy Spell damage.
[item=189764] 5% chance to reflect incoming damage back to the attacker.
[item=189761] Inflict 6% max health damage to up to 5 enemies within 40 yards every 5 sec. Elite enemies suffer 2% max health damage.
[item=189727] Restores 1% of max health to raid or party members within 30 yards every 1 sec.
[item=189763] Your abilities have a 10% chance to incur no cooldown.
[item=189760] Protects the bearer from stun, root, and snare effects from enemy creatures. This effect can only occur once every 30 sec.
[item=189762] This effect will absorb a lethal attack, recovering 25% of your maximum health instead. This effect can only occur once every 10 min.
Utility:
[item=189735] Increase Speed by 10% and Mounted Speed by 20%.
[item=189733] Your equipment suffers no durability loss.
[item=189724] Increase gold from looting by 2% and completing quests by 10%.
Quest
Flora Frenzy
A World of Warcraft quest in Zereth Mortis. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Target big enemies (elites) only. They are on the sides, not in the pool in middle. The little mobs don't count almost at all to the progress bar.
Try to gather more elites and use abilities one by one. Completed 60% with one big pack.
If you see a cypher equipment with a socket, GET IT.
One of the best outdoor and group spheroids to socket into these is the [item=189727]/[item=189742] spheres. The buff becomes 'permanent' (while on the gear and you wear them), and, if for example you use it on the world boss (you'll almost definitely be in a group to kill it), watch the healing top all heals in the group (even if in a DPS role), and maintain most people alive thru the damage.
If only more people used these... (there's another that increases damage by +20% I heard, but never found it, yet, as I've only sought out this one).
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(64842))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
Those guardian automa will shoot down anything that attempts to reach the Creation Catalyst. May I suggest fighting fire with fire? Or rather, fighting the creations of the First Ones with the creation energy of the First Ones? I have had little time to adequately test my theory, but this potion should provide the boost you need to destroy them... ideally without dying from exposure to the creation energy in the process.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #1970 47.7 79.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inZereth Mortis 47.7, 79.9
/way #1970 47.7 79.9 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Zereth Mortis 47.8, 88.9
/way #1970 47.8 88.9 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Zereth Mortis 49.5, 86.8
/way #1970 49.5 86.8
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 Zereth Mortis map
- Look Who I Found! about 280 yards
- Flora Aroma about 280 yards
- Broker Beaker about 280 yards
- Cascades of Magnitude about 280 yards
- Culling the Maelstrom about 280 yards
- Can I Keep Him? about 280 yards
- Danger Near and Far about 390 yards
- A Mysterious Voice about 390 yards
- Elder Eru about 440 yards
- Testing One Two about 440 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Zereth Mortis, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Zereth Mortis:
- Haven, Zereth Mortis
- Pilgrim's Grace, Zereth Mortis
- Sepulcher Overlook, Zereth Mortis
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- 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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Storyline
Forging a New Path
Part 16 of 18.
Previous: Herbal Remedies · Next: Key Crafting
- 7Glow and Behold
- 8Where There's a Pilgrim, There's a Way
- 9In the Weeds
- 10Pluck from the Vines
- 11Nip It in the Bud
- 12Root of the Problem
- 13Unchecked Growth
- 14Take Charge
- 15Herbal Remedies
- 16Flora Frenzy
- 17Key Crafting
- 18The Pilgrimage Ends
Showing steps 7 to 18 of 18.
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.
- Herbal Remedies
Using the roots you collected, I have crafted a concoction that, in theory, will cause the plants to revert to their natural state. Hurl vials of this remedy at the lashers of the Catalyst Gardens. If it works, wonderful! If not, you will need to deal with them more directly, by killing them.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Key Crafting
With those agitated automa quelled, there is but one task ahead. We shall ferry you and your Enlightened companion up to the Creation Catalyst. The rest is up to you.
The storyline at a glance
Forging a New Path has 18 steps, from News from Oribos to The Pilgrimage Ends.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Zereth Mortis (18).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Zereth Mortis map
- Patch Intro
- We Battle Onward
- Forming an Understanding
- Crown of Wills
- A Means to an End
- Into the Unknown
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.