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Gauging the Resonant Frequency

Gauging the Resonant Frequency is an Alliance-only quest for level 20-30 in Blade's Edge Mountains. It is step 45 of 95 in the Blade's Edge Mountains storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Blade's Edge Mountains at 60.2, 68.9. It rewards 4 reward items, 4,100 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

Take these scanners to the Singing Ridge. By dropping them in a pattern on the ground, you will create overlapping fields that will read the amplitude of the crystals. Stand amidst them in such a way that you're in five oscillation fields and I'll have the information that I need!

Your scanners will even work with those that others drop.

Oh, and it's likely that a rift will be formed! I have no idea what, if anything, will come out of it, but be prepared for the worst.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Top Comments

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1
106847+220via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Something exactly you need to know.
Make any shape that produces five or more beams.
Run ACROSS five beams (not along them) quickly. It's done.
With eacn beam you ran across, you get a buff which lasts only 2 seconds.
You need to collect all these five buffs before they fade and that will complete the quest objective.
It took me an hour before I figure out what it means, since no one here mention that.

2
Flyv+84via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

To do this quest you need to be in Singing Ridge, in the vicinity of 60, 76. Clear a large area (5-6 mobs worth) and then start dropping scanners. Every time you drop a scanner there's a chance a Wyrm from Beyond (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=21796) will spawn. Not too hard to solo, but keep an eye out.

You have to work fairly quickly, the scanners are on a short timeout. The scanners have some restrictions on where they can be placed, but it's not simply distance; I've put two within five yeards of each other Look to your buffs for plus-sign shaped buffs showing you the scanners in range, and a minus-sign shaped debuff if you can't drop a scanner where you're staying.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Legs
Item level31
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+7 Intellect, +11 Stamina, +9 Versatility
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for47 gold86 silver
TypePlate Waist
Item level31
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor14
Stats+6 Strength or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for24 gold32 silver
TypeLeather Chest
Item level31
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor11
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +11 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for48 gold3 silver
TypeMail Head
Item level31
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor12
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +11 Stamina, +7 Versatility
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for36 gold8 silver

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 mapBlade's Edge MountainsTurn-in marker at 60.2, 68.9, 2 mapped points
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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.

Blade's Edge Mountains Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Blade's Edge Mountains map showing where to go for Gauging the Resonant FrequencyTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #105 60.2 68.9

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBlade's Edge Mountains 60.2, 68.9/way #105 60.2 68.9
  • Objective areaBlade's Edge Mountains 60.7, 76.7/way #105 60.7 76.7

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 Blade's Edge Mountains map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Blade's Edge Mountains, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Blade's Edge Mountains:

  • Toshley's Station, Blade's Edge MountainsAlliance · about 70 yards south-east
  • Evergrove, Blade's Edge MountainsAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards north
  • Sylvanaar, Blade's Edge MountainsAlliance · about 1,200 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 280 yards south

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

Blade's Edge Mountains

Part 45 of 95.

Previous: Crystal Clear · Next: Ridgespine Menace

  1. 40Test Flight: The Zephyrium Capacitorium
  2. 41Test Flight: The Singing Ridge
  3. 42Test Flight: Razaan's Landing
  4. 43Test Flight: Ruuan Weald
  5. 44Crystal Clear
  6. 45Gauging the Resonant Frequency
  7. 46Ridgespine Menace
  8. 47More than a Pound of Flesh
  9. 48Cutting Your Teeth
  10. 49What Came First, the Drake or the Egg?
  11. 50A Date with Dorgok
  12. 51Favor of the Gronn

Showing steps 40 to 51 of 95.

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.

  • Crystal ClearBlade's Edge Mountains · Level 20-30

    The damned rock flayers are keeping me from my research down in the Singing Ridge! By digging at the crystals there, with every scratch they are ruining my chances of studying the harmonics of the singing crystals. You look like someone who can help me deal with this problem.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Ridgespine MenaceBlade's Edge Mountains · Level 20-30

    We hired on to help Toshley when he decided to move to Outland, and we've been on the move ever since. Now it looks like we've finally put down some roots. All of the crazy scientists have their projects going, and us Roughriders are here to protect them.

Also counted by On the Blade's Edge

Its criteria name 21 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Blade's Edge Mountains has 95 steps, from The Encroaching Wilderness to Maxnar Must Die!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Blade's Edge Mountains (95).

Other storylines on the Blade's Edge Mountains 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

On the Blade's EdgeComplete the Blade's Edge Mountains storylines listed below.10
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Gauging Success
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Gava'xi
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