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Quest
Investigating the Highlands
Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Alliance, take the portal from Boralus to Stormwind. In Stormwind, fly to the small island in the upper Northeast corner. There is a portal to Twilight Highlands!
Full 8.2 questchain:
To upgrade your Heart of Azeroth, you just need to do the 8.2 War Campaign starting with Horde: The Warchief's Order The Warchief's Order or Alliance: The Wolf's Offensive The Wolf's Offensive until you get to this quest.
Magni questline to unlock the Heart Forge:
1. Essential Empowerment Essential Empowerment
2. MOTHER Knows Best MOTHER Knows Best
3. A Disturbance Beneath the Earth A Disturbance Beneath the Earth
4. Take My Hand Take My Hand
5. Calming the Spine Calming the Spine
6. Dominating the Indomitable Dominating the Indomitable
7. A Friendly Face A Friendly Face
8. The Heart Forge The Heart Forge
9. Harnessing the Power Harnessing the Power
10. Horde: Back Out to Sea Back Out to Sea or Alliance: Back Out to Sea Back Out to Sea
11. Horde: Scouting the Palace Scouting the Palace or Alliance: Scouting the Palace Scouting the Palace <- (Not required for future Heart of Azeroth quests)Level 54:
1. In Darkness, I Dream In Darkness, I Dream
2. Enter the Dreamway Enter the Dreamway
3. Shards of Emerald Shards of Emerald
4. Null the Void Null the Void
5. Don't Close Your Eyes Don't Close Your Eyes
6. We Must Go Deeper We Must Go Deeper
7. Before I Wake Before I Wake
8. The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of
9. The Long Awake The Long AwakeLevel 60:
1. Investigating the Highlands Investigating the Highlands
2. In the Shadow of Crimson Wings In the Shadow of Crimson WingsLevel 70:
PTR Info - quest not yet in WoWhead(might no longer be true):
https://ptr.wowdb.com/quests/56401-a-bolt-from-the-blue
Complete A Bolt from the Blue, after leveling your Heart of Azeroth to 70.
Quest facts
Quest ID56167
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(56167))
Description
When I first sensed these essences, I did not anticipate the importance of the role they would play. It is only a matter of time before all of the dragonflights are brought into the fold. Though I have reached out to the other Aspects, I have yet to hear from Alexstrasza. It is odd that she would be silent while these powers manifest. She was last seen in the Vermillion Redoubt in Twilight Highlands. I fear she may be in trouble. We must hurry.
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-inIn-game waypoint: /way #241 35.8 50.6
Coordinates
- Turn-inTwilight Highlands 35.8, 50.6
/way #241 35.8 50.6
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 Twilight Highlands map
- If The Key Fits about 360 yards
- Paving the Way about 360 yards
- Fury Unbound about 440 yards
- Call in the Artillery about 440 yards
- Ogres & Ettins about 460 yards
- Skullcrusher the Mountain about 460 yards
- Victors' Point about 460 yards
- SI:7 Drop about 460 yards
- Four Heads are Better than None about 460 yards
- The Gates of Grim Batol about 470 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Twilight Highlands, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Twilight Highlands:
- The Gullet, Twilight Highlands
- Victor's Point, Twilight Highlands
- Vermillion Redoubt, Twilight Highlands
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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Money2 gold34 silver
Experience850 XP
Storyline
In the Shadow of Crimson Wings
Part 1 of 2.
Next: In the Shadow of Crimson Wings
- 1Investigating the Highlands
- 2In the Shadow of Crimson Wings
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- In the Shadow of Crimson Wings
It is unlike Alexstrasza to remain out of contact for so long, particularly when the very essences of the dragonflights' power are being made manifest. While our allies here tend to the injured, we must seek out the Life-Binder at once.
The storyline at a glance
In the Shadow of Crimson Wings has 2 steps, from Investigating the Highlands to In the Shadow of Crimson Wings.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Twilight Highlands (1), Chamber of Heart (1).
Other storylines on the Twilight Highlands map
- Twilight Highlands
- Allies of the Horde: Vulpera
- The Cult Within
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.