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Lifting the Curse

Lifting the Curse is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Wetlands. It is step 19 of 40 in the Wetlands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Wetlands at 14.4, 24.1. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 4,100 experience.

Description

To break the curse, there must be a reckoning. Captain Halyndor damned us all to covet a forbidden artifact; the Eye of Paleth. His spirit still covets it, standing guard over the strongbox of his old ship, the Intrepid.

Vanquish the soul of the one who cursed us so, <class>. Defeat the Captain, claim his key, and spirit the Eye of Paleth far from this place.

Rewards

Experience4,100 XP
ReputationStormwind +75
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
Dioblique+36via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

It's hell when the yellow question mark is right on the screen and you can't find it, especially for blonde mages. After you kill 'him' and get the key, jump ship toward the open sea to the north, turn and swim to the bottom, on the north side of the ship there's a hole you can swim through and viola, "work complete".

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progz+24via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The chest is at the bottom of the ship. The last floor, you'll notice one of them big boat guns at the ground, then towards the left is the chest, with a mob near it. I had some issues finding it, so I thought it be helpful to post this on wowhead.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
ReputationStormwind+75

Reward details

Reputation: Stormwind +75

One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Wetlands that reward Stormwind reputation: When Life Gives You Crabs (+250), Claws from the Deep (+250), Reclaiming Goods (+75), The Search Continues (+25), Search More Hovels (+75), Return the Statuette (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapWetlandsTurn-in marker at 14.4, 24.1, 3 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.

Wetlands Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Wetlands map showing where to go for Lifting the CurseTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #56 14.4 24.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inWetlands 14.4, 24.1/way #56 14.4 24.1
  • Objective areaWetlands 15.4, 23.6/way #56 15.4 23.6
  • Objective areaWetlands 15.2, 29.4/way #56 15.2 29.4

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 Wetlands map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Wetlands, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Wetlands:

  • Menethil Harbor, WetlandsAlliance · about 1,000 yards south
  • Whelgar's Retreat, WetlandsAlliance · about 1,100 yards east
  • Dun Modr, WetlandsAlliance · about 1,500 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 50 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 150 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

Wetlands

Part 19 of 40.

Previous: The Cursed Crew · Next: The Eye of Paleth

  1. 14Search More Hovels
  2. 15Return the Statuette
  3. 16The Third Fleet
  4. 17Cursed to Roam
  5. 18The Cursed Crew
  6. 19Lifting the Curse
  7. 20The Eye of Paleth
  8. 21Dinosaur Crisis
  9. 22I'll Call Him Bitey
  10. 23Crocolisk Hides
  11. 24The Mosshide Job
  12. 25Gizmos and Gadgets

Showing steps 14 to 25 of 40.

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.

  • The Cursed CrewWetlands · Level 10-30

    The sailors of the Third Fleet are damned, forever cursed to wander these shores in agony. Fitzsimmons' anguish is tied to us; so long as we suffer, there can be no rest for him, either. You must end the suffering of my crewmates' spirits. Purge their ghosts from this plane, and return to me.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Eye of PalethWetlands · Level 10-30

    Opening the chest reveals a blackened orb, pulsing with an eerie light. This must be the foul Eye of Paleth that damned these sailors' souls. Such corruption should be purged. Perhaps a priest in Menethil Harbor could help you.

The storyline at a glance

Wetlands has 40 steps, from Fight the Flood to The Battle of Thandol Span.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Wetlands (40).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Wetlands 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.

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Guides and routes on this site that cover Wetlands.

Database

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