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On Borrowed Wings
On Borrowed Wings is a quest for level 45, added in Legion. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.
Quest Objectives
- Defeat 10 targets in Broken Shore
Battleship Power Core x 3- Power Core replenished
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Step 1: Kill the engineers to get 3 power cores
Step 2a: If you have flying, fly into the floating orbs to charge the power cores. Go to step 4
Step 2b: If you don't have flying, walk onto the glowing green circles in the area and they will shoot you into the air
Step 3: Use your extra action button to activate DH wings while in the air and glide through the orbs to charge the power cores. Repeat step 2b until fully charged.
Step 4: You're done!
HORRIBLE lack of quest description from the game. HAD to look up the comments here to know what in the world to do after collecting the cores. Thankyou everyone who explained it so well!
If you have unlocked flying you don't have to use the fissure on the ground, but you can simply fly into the orbs. To actually trigger an orb it seems best to fly into it and wait a few seconds.
| Objective area | Broken Shore | 1 mapped point |
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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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #646 66.3 17.4
Coordinates
- Objective areaBroken Shore 66.3, 17.4
/way #646 66.3 17.4
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 Broken Shore map
- The King's Path about 300 yards
- Missing in Action: Lord Darius Crowley about 360 yards
- Runes of Rending about 360 yards
- Lost Souls about 390 yards
- To the Broken Shore about 390 yards
- Where He Fell about 430 yards
- Where it's Thinnest about 460 yards
- Resource Management about 460 yards
- Kvaldir on Call about 470 yards
- Missing in Action: Eitrigg about 470 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Broken Shore, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Broken Shore:
- Vengeance Point, Broken Shore
- Aalgen Point, Broken Shore
- Eastern Suramar
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.
Objective targets
Battleship Power Core
KindItem
Needed3
Item typeQuest
“A standard hyper-injection fel matter anti-matter device used to power the Burning Legion's battleships.”
Creature, object and item facts from the current retail client; “also asked for by” lists other quests whose objectives name the same target. Prices are the US commodity auction house’s lowest listed price.
First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight patch 12.0.7, the oldest build in our datamine).
Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Broken Shore map
- Legionfall Campaign
- Chronicles of Skyhold IV
- Excavations
- Watchers in the Wild IV
- Saga of the Shadowblade IV
- The Elemental Lords IV
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 this achievement.
- Variety is the Spice of Life: its criteria name 967 quests, this one included.
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