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Portal Overload

A World of Warcraft quest in Twilight Highlands. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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LOL I was so lost trying to find Aetharon. I was flying at a medium height, enough not to pull aggro on anything, and couldn't find him. I assumed maybe he was in a cave or downstairs in a building or something... till I came here and saw that he's on a floating platform, and was right above me the entire time.
/headdesk

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 30-35
ZoneTwilight Highlands
Quest ID27659

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27659))

What to do

StorylineTwilight Highlands, step 213 of 236
RewardsDarklight Torch, Portal-Sealer's Breastplate, Deepdigger Helm, 13g 74s, 4,800 XP

Description

I used to be the caretaker of the Earthen Ring's portals here. But while we were away helping to save Deepholm, the Twilight's Hammer moved in and corrupted the area. They're using powerful ascendants to guard our portals. That's where they've made a critical error. I want you to go to the portals and use the controllers to overload them. This will unleash all of the portal's energy, debilitating the ascendant. Slay it.

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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.

Twilight Highlands Quest turn-in 4 mapped points
Twilight Highlands map showing where to go for Portal OverloadTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #241 37.5 88.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTwilight Highlands 37.5, 88.7/way #241 37.5 88.7
  • Objective areaTwilight Highlands 38.3, 80.2/way #241 38.3 80.2
  • Objective areaTwilight Highlands 44.5, 81.5/way #241 44.5 81.5
  • Objective areaTwilight Highlands 32.7, 62.2/way #241 32.7 62.2

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 Twilight Highlands map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Twilight Highlands:

  • Farstrider Lodge, Loch ModanAlliance · about 430 yards south
  • Crushblow, Twilight HighlandsHorde · about 620 yards north-east
  • Victor's Point, Twilight HighlandsAlliance · about 1,200 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 300 yards north
  • Objective areaabout 450 yards north-east
  • Objective areaabout 960 yards north

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.

Related

Choose one of these rewards:

Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
ReputationThe Earthen Ring +250

3D Model

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

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeWand Ranged
Item level36
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon3 - 6 damage, speed 2.0
Stats+4 Intellect, +6 Stamina, +4 Haste, +3 Critical Strike
Suited toFrost, Fire, Arcane, Destruction, Affliction, Discipline, Holy, Shadow, Demonology
Sells to vendors for88 gold63 silver
TypeLeather Chest
Item level36
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor12
Stats+8 Agility or Intellect, +12 Stamina, +8 Haste, +8 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for49 gold45 silver
TypeMail Head
Item level36
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor13
Stats+8 Agility or Intellect, +12 Stamina, +7 Haste, +9 Mastery
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for36 gold88 silver

Reputation: The Earthen Ring +250

This gathering of the most powerful shaman of Azeroth seeks to maintain the balance between the world's elemental forces. Their main focus during the cataclysm has been to repair and stabilize the damage caused by Deathwing's arrival.

Reputation group: Cataclysm.

Other quests in Twilight Highlands that reward The Earthen Ring reputation: Torn Ground (+250), Pushing Back (+250), Unbroken (+250), Simple Solutions (+250), Mercy for the Bound (+250), The Maw of Madness (+25).

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

Twilight Highlands

Part 213 of 236.

Previous: Help from the Earthcaller · Next: Unbinding

  1. 208Dark Assassins
  2. 209Bring the Hammer Down
  3. 210Bring the Hammer Down
  4. 211Help from the Earthcaller
  5. 212Help from the Earthcaller
  6. 213Portal Overload
  7. 214Unbinding
  8. 215Spirit of the Loch
  9. 216The Elementium Axe
  10. 217Distract Them for Me
  11. 218Distract Them for Me
  12. 219The Elementium Axe

Showing steps 208 to 219 of 236.

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.

  • Help from the EarthcallerTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    My investigation into Cho'gall's artifact has hit a dead end. The Twilight's Hammer enslaved a group of Wildhammer smiths and then drowned them in the lake when they were done with their services. <Garona spits.> I hate to say it, but we need help.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • UnbindingTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    Look, if there's one thing I know, it's elementals. I've been able to really gain an appreciation for how they feel. Let me tell you, they don't appreciate being enslaved one bit!

Quests that require this one

The storyline at a glance

Twilight Highlands has 236 steps, from Twilight Shores to Skullcrusher the Mountain.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Twilight Highlands (222), Azshara (9), Orgrimmar (4), Stormwind City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Twilight Highlands 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.