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Friends With Benefits

Friends With Benefits is a quest for level 45 in Suramar. It is step 10 of 10 in the Statecraft storyline, the final step. The quest's turn-in marker is in Suramar at 36.9, 46.6. It rewards 1 reward item, 1 reputation reward, 775 experience and money.

Description

The Lunastre Attendant, silent as ever, offers you a wax-sealed scroll.

It reads:

"Dearest <name>,

I asked my attendant to catch you, should things go in my favor.

The role of Advisor will keep me away from the estate for some time and I settled on a gift for Thalyssra.

I have sent a detachment of attendants to Shal'Aran with some comfort items. Treat them well- they need someone to wait on and I could think of none better!

Give the others my thanks, and my love,

Advisor Ly'leth Lunastre"

Rewards

You will receive:

Money2 gold2 silver20 copper
Experience775 XP
ReputationThe Nightfallen +1,000
Top Comments

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1
varenne+28via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Friends With Benefits comes after Good Suramaritan - Statecraft storyline. More questchain info
Need to have 8000/12000 Honored with [faction=1859] to start this questline
This questchain is attune for The Arcway and Court of Stars Mythic only dungeons

Here is Friends With Benefits video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcUsDGTd_No

And here is storyline related to this quest:


№
Quest
Note
Video
73
The Perfect Opportunity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_qeZ8tghI
74
Or Against Us
AP Need 1200 [currency=1155]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0GLCi-7XiU
75
Death Becomes Him
[item=141955]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-RMU423Sx4
76
Rumor Has It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nmGfNJ9Wlg
77
Either With Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r1E_bKOcxY
78
Thinly Veiled Threats
[item=141680]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsSZGFnWtzg
79
Vote of Confidence
[item=140255]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmEXXk5qva8
80
In the Bag
[item=140255]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9w834jKAl0
81
Ly'leth's Champion
[item=140422]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipaACK8Vfjk
82
Friends With Benefits
[item=140255]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcUsDGTd_No
83
The Arcway: Opening the Arcway
[item=140409] The Arcway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy-qf0bmtXo
84
Court of Stars: Beware the Fury of a Patient Elf
[item=140421] Court of Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7gyknf33ec
85
The Arcway: Long Buried Knowledge
The Arcway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tzGEIfvb6c


№ column is quest approximate order in Suramar storyline

3
Trylion+2via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you are getting frustrated like I was because you hadn't completed all of Suramar and don't have flying yet. This is why. I am pretty sure this is how you complete the "A Growing Crisis" and also "Change of Seasons" quest chains, which are all bundled as part of the Samaritan chain although don't ask me why or what that means.

Once you accept the "Friends with Benefits" quest from the Lunastre Attendant (located in The Waning Crescent building where the repair and food vendors are), you need to return to Thalyssra to turn in. Thalyssra will have moved slightly and there is new activity in Shal'Aran as you will note. A glowing electricity coming from the tree you planted is evident.

Back in Shal'Aran, First Arcanist Thalyssra will have a ? over her head for turn in and Valewalker Farodin will have a quest. Thalyssra will then have two new quests for "Arcway: Opening the Arcway" and "Court of Stars: Beware the Fury of an Angry Elf".

Valewalker Farodin will have the quest for "A Growing Crisis".

[NOTE: If you accept a drink from the Lunastre Attendant you get an arcwine that gives you one ancient mana point.]

Also while exploring the new cavern in Shal'Aran. Disappointed there is more to the caverns but nothing really important otherwise.

Read all 8 on Wowhead ↗

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP775
MoneyGold2g 2s
ReputationThe Nightfallen+1,000

Reward details

Items you receive

TypeConsumable
Item level1
BindingBinds when picked up
Sells to vendors for25 gold

“Handed down for generations, this coin holds lingering knowledge from all its previous holders.”

Reputation: The Nightfallen +1,000

These exiled Nightborne elves suffer withdrawals after being cut off from the Nightwell. They oppose their people's alliance with the Legion and fight for some kind of redemption.

Reputation group: Legion.

Other quests in Suramar that reward The Nightfallen reputation: Answering Aggression (+250), Regroup (+250), Crackdown (+250), No Reason to Stay (+250), Trail of Echoes (+250), The Only Way Out is Through (+250).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapSuramarTurn-in marker at 36.9, 46.6, 2 mapped points
World Map

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 2 mapped points
Suramar map showing where to go for Friends With BenefitsTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #680 36.9 46.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSuramar 36.9, 46.6/way #680 36.9 46.6
  • Objective areaSuramar 47.8, 82.9/way #680 47.8 82.9

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:

  • Meredil, SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 180 yards south-west
  • Irongrove Retreat, SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 840 yards north-west
  • Obsidian Overlook, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,500 yards south-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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Statecraft

Part 10 of 10.

Previous: Ly'leth's Champion

  1. 1The Perfect Opportunity
  2. 2Either With Us
  3. 3Thinly Veiled Threats
  4. 4Vote of Confidence
  5. 5Or Against Us
  6. 6Death Becomes Him
  7. 7Rumor Has It
  8. 8In the Bag
  9. 9Ly'leth's Champion
  10. 10Friends With Benefits

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.

  • Ly'leth's ChampionSuramar · Level 45

    Tal'ashar is an honor duel. If I lose, then I must forfeit my title to Coryn Stelleris. <Ly'leth smiles gently.> That is why you are going to fight for me. I will grant you a more powerful disguise for this task, and together we will put Coryn in his place.

The storyline at a glance

Statecraft has 10 steps, from The Perfect Opportunity to Friends With Benefits.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Suramar (10).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

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.

Related
Friends in Low Places
Friends In Need
Friends in Strange Places
Friends On the Outside
From Bad to Worse
From Bad to Worse
From Bones They Rise
From Darkness
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