TheWoWDBThe Cipher of Damnation is an extremely long quest line in Shadowmoon Valley. It is a prerequisite for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.
"*" Indicates quests with rewards.Quest Line
1[A] - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10680 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
1[H] - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10681 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10458 - "Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth"
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Water"
4* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Air"
5 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10513 - "Oronok Torn-Heart"
6* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10514 - "I Was A Lot Of Things..." - Most annoying quest ever implemented in World of Warcraft.
7 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10515 - "A Lesson Learned"
8 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10519 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History"At this point, the quests diverge into three separate lines (which can be done in any order) for each of Oronok's three sons who will in turn help you obtain the three Fragments of Damnation.
Quest Line I - First Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10521 - "Grom'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10522 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge"
3* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10523 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered"Quest Line II - Second Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10527 "Ar'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10528 - "Demonic Crystal Prisons"
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10537 - "Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart"
4 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10540 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge"
5* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10541 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered"Quest Line III - Third Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10546 "Borak, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10547 - "Of Thistleheads and Eggs..."
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10550 - "The Bundle of Bloodthistle"
4 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10570 - "To Catch A Thistlehead"
5 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10576 - "The Shadowmoon Shuffle"
6 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10577 - "What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets..."
7 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10578 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge"
8* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10579 "The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered"After completing the quests for the three Fragments of Damnation, the lines converge and you need to kill one last boss.
Final* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10588 - "The Cipher of Damnation"Rewards:
Everyone gets http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31074 - Fire Resist Neck
Choose one of the following:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31036 - Caster Staff
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31038 - Healer Staff
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31062 - Paladin/Shaman 2H Axe
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31071 - Tanking 1H Axe
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31072 - Bow
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31073 - Melee DaggerAfter completing the quest, you will get a message in the mail from Khadgar. If you go to Shattrath, he will tell you to talk to A'Dal, who unlocks the the three Trials. These are prerequisites for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.
Quest
I Was A Lot Of Things...
A World of Warcraft quest in Shadowmoon Valley. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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In order to loot a Shadowmoon Tuber you first have to find a Shadowmoon Tuber Mound, a tooltip will pop up when you hover over it, then you have to use Oronok's Boar Whistle when a boar is nearby and the boar will come dig up the tuber, then a lootable Shadowmoon Tuber appears and you loot the tuber from that.
The only real difficulty in this is finding a spawn that is near a felboar, and also keeping the felboars alive because the Ravenous Flayers all around the are are constantly killing the boars.
Note: aggroing one of the felboars to make it follow you and then using the whistle while standing on a tuber, Does NOT work, just means you have to kill the felboar, which is pointless.
If you can get one where two boars come over simultaneously (or more I suppose) you can loot multiple tuber's per mound.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10514))
What to do
Oronok's Tuber of Spell Power, 
Oronok's Tuber of Strength, 
Oronok's Tuber of Agility, 4,100 XPDescription
I've been a lot of things, stranger, but what I once was isn't what's important. What I am now is what matters and what I am now is a farmer. I use trained felboars to dig up tubers from the hardened earth of the Shattered Plains. Recently, though, flayers from a nest to the northeast have been attacking my animals, preventing me from gathering tubers. Would you go to the area north of here and gather tubers for me? Use this whistle while standing on a tuber mound and a boar will come dig one up!
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #104 53.9 23.5
Coordinates
- Turn-inShadowmoon Valley 53.9, 23.5
/way #104 53.9 23.5 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Shadowmoon Valley 52.9, 16.6
/way #104 52.9 16.6
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 Shadowmoon Valley map
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,150 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,160 yards
- Warchief's Command: Shadowmoon Valley! about 1,330 yards
- Hero's Call: Shadowmoon Valley! about 1,360 yards
- Grand Master Antari about 1,450 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Shadowmoon Valley, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shadowmoon Valley:
- Altar of Sha'tar, Shadowmoon Valley
- Sanctum of the Stars, Shadowmoon Valley
- Shadowmoon Village, Shadowmoon Valley
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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Choose one of these rewards:
- Oronok's Tuber of Spell Power
- Oronok's Tuber of Strength
- Oronok's Tuber of Agility
Oronok's Tuber of Healing
Reward details
Pick one of these
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
Shadowmoon Valley
Part 82 of 147.
Previous: Oronok Torn-heart · Next: A Lesson Learned
- 77Teron Gorefiend, I am...
- 78Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth
- 79Enraged Spirits of Water
- 80Enraged Spirits of Air
- 81Oronok Torn-heart
- 82I Was A Lot Of Things...
- 83A Lesson Learned
- 84The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History
- 85Grom'tor, Son of Oronok
- 86The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge
- 87The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered
- 88Ar'tor, Son of Oronok
Showing steps 77 to 88 of 147.
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.
- Oronok Torn-heart
I do not know how we can acquire the spell that the spirits mentioned, <name>. Truth be told, I don't even know where we would start such a search. <Torlok stares off in the distance, lost in thought.> Hrm... It is a long shot but it might be our only chance.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- A Lesson Learned
We need to show those flayers what happens when you mess with Oronok's business! I want you to go back to the Shattered Plains and destroy every flayer egg that you see. They'll be deep in flayer territory so keep your guard up.
The storyline at a glance
Shadowmoon Valley has 147 steps, from Spleendid! to A Job Unfinished....
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shadowmoon Valley (129), Terokkar Forest (10), Nagrand (7), Shattrath City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Shadowmoon Valley map
- Battle Pet Tamers
- Burning Crusade Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.