Lost Research is a quest for level 60.
We have uncovered a promising source of Korthian research. Previous Archivists hid knowledge within repositories that were then placed within the rift.
I fear that the repositories are no longer safe and that shades of that realm will consume them. It is imperative that we secure this research before it is lost forever.
Use a Repaired Riftkey to enter the Korthia Rift. Recover the Korthian Repositories.
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"For this quest, we'll send you into a different dimension, which is really the same place you're already at, just with a gray filter. There you will have to grind for an abstract item so generic we couldn't even give it a proper name, which only drops from a few mobs, and even those have a drop rate under 25%. For your convenience, the mobs are so far apart from each other that you can't even pull a group, or some of them will reset. So you'll have to kill over 100 of these HP sponges one by one, or at most in pairs (actually, you'll have to kill a lot more, because each of the mobs that can drop it is surrounded by mobs that can't). Oh, but after a few minutes we'll teleport you back to the normal 'dimension', and you'll have to go buy a new 'key' (which requires grinding yet another random currency) and walk all the way back to the 'door' to continue this exciting and fulfilling activity. Have fun!"
Dull, slow, mind-numbing, vexing. This quest is a great summary for Shadowlands as a whole. It's like you're paying Blizzard for the privilege of being trolled.
I guess they were too busy changing the name of a pink rocket from "love" to "heartbreak" (because that's such a positive change, eh?) to actually playtest their own "quests"...
As a get-dropped-items-from-killed-mobs quest, this is a wretched, frustrating experience.
That said, 4 [item=188740]s drop from each of the four [object=369439]s, as Zieda points out elsewhere on this page, so I think my strategy is gonna be to loot the caches six or seven times over the week (since it's a weekly quest) and to ignore the mobs as much as possible.
Update: I've found an additional way to ease the pain of this quest: The three mobs that you can pull out of the Rift, [npc=179913], [npc=179608], and [npc=179911], each consistently drop 3 [item=188740]s when they're yoinked into regular Korthia and killed while you're on this quest.
Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(65266))
The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.
"For this quest, we'll send you into a different dimension, which is really the same place you're already at, just with a gray filter. There you will have to grind for an abstract item so generic we couldn't even give it a proper name, which only drops from a few mobs, and even those have a drop rate under 25%. For your convenience, the mobs are so far apart from each other that you can't even pull a group, or some of them will reset. So you'll have to kill over 100 of these HP sponges one by one, or at most in pairs (actually, you'll have to kill a lot more, because each of the mobs that can drop it is surrounded by mobs that can't). Oh, but after a few minutes we'll teleport you back to the normal 'dimension', and you'll have to go buy a new 'key' (which requires grinding yet another random currency) and walk all the way back to the 'door' to continue this exciting and fulfilling activity. Have fun!"
Dull, slow, mind-numbing, vexing. This quest is a great summary for Shadowlands as a whole. It's like you're paying Blizzard for the privilege of being trolled.
I guess they were too busy changing the name of a pink rocket from "love" to "heartbreak" (because that's such a positive change, eh?) to actually playtest their own "quests"...
As a get-dropped-items-from-killed-mobs quest, this is a wretched, frustrating experience.
That said, 4 [item=188740]s drop from each of the four [object=369439]s, as Zieda points out elsewhere on this page, so I think my strategy is gonna be to loot the caches six or seven times over the week (since it's a weekly quest) and to ignore the mobs as much as possible.
Update: I've found an additional way to ease the pain of this quest: The three mobs that you can pull out of the Rift, [npc=179913], [npc=179608], and [npc=179911], each consistently drop 3 [item=188740]s when they're yoinked into regular Korthia and killed while you're on this quest.
Rift is in a cave at 41.04 42.21
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