TheWoWDBThe azsharite samples have a couple different looks. One looks like crystals sticking up out of the ground. The other looks like a person turned into crystal (I have seen troll and human forms, but other races may be frozen as well). Either of these forms counts as a sample.
After completing the quest line you find out that the azsharite samples are really Giant droppings. Which brings to mind the question why some of the droppings look like frozen people?
Quest
Mysterious Azsharite
A World of Warcraft quest in Azshara. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The Crystallized Note you may find reads this:
'To Whom It May Concern:
If you are reading this note, then you are in one of two places:
(1) On the southern peninsula of Azshara.
(2) Inside the belly of a Cliff Giant.
Both are equally undesirable.
It should be noted that I was the former at one time and as of the writing of thise note, the latter.
PAGE TWO
Being inside the belly of a giant gives one time for reflection.
As my body slowly crystallizes, I recall my days in Eversong, contemplating a life of adventure on the savage frontiers across the great sea. I was young. And stupid. If I somehow get out of here, I'm taking up gardening or whittling instead.
- Windan Shay'
I thought this would interest some people. I keep this note in my bank for keepsakes.
I'm not sure if this has been said anywhere else but the entire quest line hints at it and throws little jokes in about what Azsharite really is. When you are escorting the hot Azsharite, the giant, Gormungan, comments on what a load you have there. Assistant Greely says she will be up to her neck in it. There are more but I've forgotten what they were. I think the Blizz devs might have been running low on ideas considering the number of excrement related quests and jokes in Cata.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 5-30
ZoneAzshara
Quest ID14370
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(14370))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineAzshara, step 35 of 88
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
Azsharite! This mysterious crystalline substance has been used to forge weapons of fel power, but in our hands, we've discovered that it's capable of focusing enormous amounts of energy. It may be the biggest goblin discovery since kaja'mite. But what is it? Where does it come from? Why is it located only here? Science demands an answer! I need more samples to study. Search out Azsharite deposits all along the nearby cliffs.
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 areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #76 50.6 74.2
Coordinates
- Turn-inAzshara 50.6, 74.2
/way #76 50.6 74.2 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Azshara 46.0, 76.1
/way #76 46.0 76.1 - Objective areaAzshara 50.4, 74.3
/way #76 50.4 74.3
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 Azshara map
- Twilight Skies about 10 yards
- Weigh Anchor about 810 yards
- Ready the Air Force about 870 yards
- Smoot's Samophlange about 870 yards
- Ready the Navy about 1,000 yards
- Pre-Flight Checklist about 1,020 yards
- Where Is My Warfleet? about 1,020 yards
- Beating the Market about 1,020 yards
- Ready the Ground Troops about 1,020 yards
- All Aboard! about 1,050 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Azshara, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Azshara:
- Southern Rocketway, Azshara
- Bilgewater Harbor, Azshara
- Orgrimmar, Durotar
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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Reward details
Reputation: Bilgewater Cartel +250
Run by the ruthless Trade Prince Gallywix, the Bilgewater Cartel is the most powerful trading company on the Isle of Kezan. From their headquarters at Bilgewater Port, the cartel dominates trade all over the South Seas.
Reputation group: Horde.
Other quests in Azshara that reward Bilgewater Cartel reputation: Runaway Shredder! (+250), The Captain's Logs (+250), Up a Tree (+250), Defend the Gates! (+250), Arborcide (+350), Basilisk Bashin' (+250).
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
Azshara
Part 35 of 88.
Previous: Raptor Raptor Rocket · Next: A Gigantic Snack
- 30Sisters of the Sea
- 31When Science Attacks
- 32Segmentation Fault: Core Dumped
- 33Nine's Plan
- 34Raptor Raptor Rocket
- 35Mysterious Azsharite
- 36A Gigantic Snack
- 37Befriending Giants
- 38Azsharite Experiment Number One
- 39The Terrible Tinkers of the Ruined Reaches
- 40Azsharite Experiment Number Two
- 41Operation Fishgut
Showing steps 30 to 41 of 88.
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.
- Raptor Raptor Rocket
Shortly after my intellect was augmented, I bred with Subject Four in order to create a unique race of cognitively superior raptors. Subsequently, Subject Four neither called nor wrote: I have determined to disembowel him upon our next encounter.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- A Gigantic Snack
While you're here running around the cliffs, perhaps you can help me with another line of investigation. The giants who walk these cliffs have been here since these mountains formed. Maybe they know where the Azsharite comes from? It's in our best interest to befriend these giants and find out.
The storyline at a glance
Azshara has 88 steps, from Runaway Shredder! to The Conquest of Azshara.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Azshara (88).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Azshara map
- Twilight Highlands
- Xylem Challenge
- A Golden Opportunity
- The Jade Forest, The Remains of Hellscream's Fist
- Mists of Pandaria
- Legion Blacksmithing
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.
Guides for this zone
Guides and routes on this site that cover Azshara.
