TheWoWDBAfter getting the key, he respawned on me within 30 sec, luckily I was on my mount and I could ride off. So don't spend too much time reading the followup quest.
Quest
Gahrron's Withering Cauldron
A World of Warcraft quest in Western Plaguelands. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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It's not listed but it seems I had a prerequisite for this either An Audience with the Highlord or The Long Trip Home.
I had to complete an Audience with the Highlord as well before I could get this quest
Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-30
Quest ID27053
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27053))
What to do
StorylineWestern Plaguelands, step 52 of 63
Rewards5g 25s, 2,050 XP
Description
My analysis is complete! The blight that affects the animals here is no residual disease. No, it is something new... and I think I know what it is. The Cult of the Damned maintains a plague cauldron on a farm called Gahrron's Withering. This farm is due southeast of us, close to where the Eastern Plaguelands begin. I need a sample from this cauldron to verify my suspicions. Eliminate the cauldron lord present there for its key. You will then be able to access the cauldron and obtain my sample.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #22 62.6 58.5
Coordinates
- Turn-inWestern Plaguelands 62.6, 58.5
/way #22 62.6 58.5 - Objective areaWestern Plaguelands 62.7, 58.9
/way #22 62.7 58.9 - Objective areaWestern Plaguelands 49.3, 54.9
/way #22 49.3 54.9
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 Western Plaguelands map
- Finding the Scepter about 660 yards
- Seeking Guidance about 760 yards
- Sacred Ground about 760 yards
- Keeping the Peace about 760 yards
- The Light Reveals about 840 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,070 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,070 yards
- At War With The Scarlet Crusade about 1,550 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Western Plaguelands, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Western Plaguelands:
- Thondroril River, Eastern Plaguelands
- The Menders' Stead, Western Plaguelands
- Andorhal, Western Plaguelands
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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Other quests on the Western Plaguelands map
Reward details
Reputation: Argent Crusade +75
Led by Tirion Fordring, the Argent Crusade combines the reformed Order of the Silver Hand with the Argent Dawn in one final push against the forces of the Lich King.
Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.
Other quests in Western Plaguelands that reward Argent Crusade reputation: Northridge Lumber Mill (+10), The Long Trip Home (+25), A New Era for the Plaguelands (+250), Learning the Ropes (+250), This Means WAR (Wild Arachnid Roundup) (+250), An Audience with the Highlord (+350).
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
Western Plaguelands
Part 52 of 63.
Previous: A New Era for the Plaguelands · Next: Return to the Stead
- 47The Reckoning
- 48Learning the Ropes
- 49This Means WAR (Wild Arachnid Roundup)
- 50An Audience with the Highlord
- 51A New Era for the Plaguelands
- 52Gahrron's Withering Cauldron
- 53Return to the Stead
- 54Desperate Acts
- 55Students of Krastinov
- 56Zen'Kiki, the Druid
- 57A Different Approach
- 58Zen'Kiki and the Cultists
Showing steps 47 to 58 of 63.
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.
- A New Era for the Plaguelands
No longer does the Scourge hold this area. We, the living, are retaking Lordaeron. We have taken great strides already, as you have already seen. The earth flowers, the trees grow tall and green, and the wildlife is beginning to return. Yet a few remnants of undeath remain.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Return to the Stead
You carefully close the spigot in the control panel, watching the cauldron's putrid ichors drip into the empty bottle. With the poison in hand, it is time to return to Field Agent Kaartish at the Menders' Stead.
The storyline at a glance
Western Plaguelands has 63 steps, from Scourge First... Horde Later to Turning Yourself In.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Western Plaguelands (63).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Western Plaguelands map
- The Ashbringer
- Tirisfal Glades
- Scepter of Sargeras
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.