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Monitoring the Rift: Winterfin Cavern

Monitoring the Rift: Winterfin Cavern is a quest for level 10-30 in Borean Tundra. It is step 77 of 182 in the Borean Tundra storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Borean Tundra at 45.0, 33.4. It rewards 4 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 5,150 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 2 achievements.

Description

I need to compile my notes and prepare a presentation for my colleagues in Dalaran.

While I do, I must ask that you visit the Winterfin Cavern to the north. You must use the Arcanometer while standing in the mouth of the cavern.

Return to me at once when you have the data. My documentation will be incomplete without it.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money21 gold
Experience5,150 XP
ReputationKirin Tor +350
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP5,150
MoneyGold21g
ReputationKirin Tor+350

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Hands
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+6 Intellect, +8 Stamina, +8 Haste
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for23 gold8 silver
TypeLeather Shoulder
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor8
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +5 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for34 gold9 silver
TypeMail Wrist
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor8
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +5 Haste, +4 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for23 gold97 silver
TypePlate Waist
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor14
Stats+6 Strength or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for23 gold35 silver

Reputation: Kirin Tor +350

The mages and archmages running the city of Dalaran. Faced with the rising threats of the Blue Dragonflight and the Scourge, they've transported their city to the heart of Northrend.

Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.

Other quests in Borean Tundra that reward Kirin Tor reputation: Monitoring the Rift: Cleftcliff Anomaly (+150), Monitoring the Rift: Sundered Chasm (+150), Prison Break (+250), Abduction (+250), The Borean Inquisition (+25), The Art of Persuasion (+150).

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.

3D Model

First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapBorean TundraTurn-in marker at 45.0, 33.4, 2 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.

Borean Tundra Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Borean Tundra map showing where to go for Monitoring the Rift: Winterfin CavernTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #114 45.0 33.4

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBorean Tundra 45.0, 33.4/way #114 45.0 33.4
  • Objective areaBorean Tundra 39.9, 20.1/way #114 39.9 20.1

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 Borean Tundra map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Borean Tundra:

  • Amber Ledge, Borean TundraAlliance and Horde · about 30 yards south
  • Transitus Shield, ColdarraAlliance and Horde · about 680 yards west
  • Warsong Hold, Borean TundraHorde · about 740 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 590 yards north-west

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

Borean Tundra

Part 77 of 182.

Previous: Monitoring the Rift: Sundered Chasm · Next: Prison Break

  1. 72Unfit for Death
  2. 73The Culler Cometh
  3. 74The Assassination of Harold Lane
  4. 75Monitoring the Rift: Cleftcliff Anomaly
  5. 76Monitoring the Rift: Sundered Chasm
  6. 77Monitoring the Rift: Winterfin Cavern
  7. 78Prison Break
  8. 79Abduction
  9. 80The Borean Inquisition
  10. 81The Art of Persuasion
  11. 82Sharing Intelligence
  12. 83A Race Against Time

Showing steps 72 to 83 of 182.

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.

  • Monitoring the Rift: Sundered ChasmBorean Tundra · Level 10-30

    Did you feel that?! That was just an aftershock... you should've been here a few minutes ago! I'm afraid I must call upon your services again. My instruments indicate that there is an immense disruption just west of here, far beneath the water's surface.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Prison BreakBorean Tundra · Level 10-30

    Greetings, <class>. I am Donathan, a loyal representative of Dalaran. Forgive my abruptness, but we find ourselves in the midst of a crisis. Mages all across Azeroth are being abducted and I have been authorized to conscript anyone able to assist in the unraveling of this mystery.

Also counted by Nothing Boring About Borean

Its criteria name 19 quests; others include:

Also counted by Nothing Boring About Borean

Its criteria name 23 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Borean Tundra has 182 steps, from Enlistment Day to Across Transborea.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Borean Tundra (178), Sholazar Basin (2), Wintergrasp (1), Dragonblight (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • D.E.H.T.A's Little P.I.T.A. Uphold D.E.H.T.A's beliefs by completing all of the quests up to and including the Assassination of Harold Lane.
  • Mrglgrgl of Grglmrgl Complete the storylines involving King Mrgl-Mrgl in Borean Tundra, Highmountain, and Zul'Aman.

Other storylines on the Borean Tundra 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 these achievements.

Nothing Boring About BoreanComplete the Borean Tundra storylines listed below.10Nothing Boring About BoreanComplete the Borean Tundra storylines listed below.10
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