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Potential for Brain Damage = High

Potential for Brain Damage = High is a quest for level 25-30 in Netherstorm. It is step 98 of 103 in the Netherstorm storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Netherstorm at 56.8, 38.7. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 4,100 experience.

Description

They're using relays to transfer information around the staging grounds.

There is only one way for you to see these relays and extract the information they hold. Unfortunately, doing so may cause you irreparable brain damage.

If you're still interested, you'll need to slay Ethereum here at the staging grounds and take their essences. Once you have an essence, drink it down. It will temporarily allow you to see an Ethereum relay, giving you enough time to destroy a relay and extract its information.

Rewards

Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThe Consortium +250
Top Comments

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dantae+156via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you're doing the Triangulation series of quests (I'm on Triangulation Point Two so it may not work for the others), you can use the Triangulation Device to give yourself a 1 minute buff that will allow you to see the Ethereum Relays.

It makes the quest much less of a pain because you don't have to bother with the intermediary killing of Ethereals for essence.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
ReputationThe Consortium+250

Reward details

Reputation: The Consortium +250

Led by Nexus-Prince Haramad, the Consortium is a loosely affiliated cartel of ethereal smugglers, traders and thieves that has come to Outland to benefit from its riches.

Reputation group: The Burning Crusade.

Other quests in Netherstorm that reward The Consortium reputation: Warp-Raider Nesaad (+250), A Heap of Ethereals (+250), Assisting the Consortium (+10), Consortium Crystal Collection (+250), Request for Assistance (+25), Rightful Repossession (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapNetherstormTurn-in marker at 56.8, 38.7, 20 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.

Netherstorm Quest turn-in 20 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #109 56.8 38.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inNetherstorm 56.8, 38.7/way #109 56.8 38.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Netherstorm 55.8, 40.9/way #109 55.8 40.9

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 Netherstorm map

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

Getting there

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

  • The Stormspire, NetherstormAlliance and Horde · about 660 yards west
  • Cosmowrench, NetherstormAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards south-east
  • Area 52, NetherstormAlliance and Horde · about 1,600 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 100 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 100 yards south-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

Netherstorm

Part 98 of 103.

Previous: Ethereum Data · Next: S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E

  1. 92Formal Introductions
  2. 93A Promising Start
  3. 94Troublesome Distractions
  4. 95Securing the Celestial Ridge
  5. 96The Ethereum
  6. 97Ethereum Data
  7. 98Potential for Brain Damage = High
  8. 99S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E
  9. 100Delivering the Message
  10. 101Recipe for Destruction
  11. 102On Nethery Wings
  12. 103Dimensius the All-Devouring

Showing steps 92 to 103 of 103.

Also part of: Lorewalking: Ethereals (part 4 of 26).

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.

  • Ethereum DataNetherstorm · Level 25-30

    Look around you, fleshling. Very close to this transponder should be an Ethereum data cell. Locate that data cell, open it, and retrieve the contents. Bring it back to this transponder at once!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • S-A-B-O-T-A-G-ENetherstorm · Level 25-30

    We must destroy the machinery that is making these nexus-stalker aberrations possible. To strike at their proto-accelerator would be futile as it is an ethereal creation. We must instead destroy the manaforge energy tube that they are using as a conduit.

The storyline at a glance

Netherstorm has 103 steps, from Distraction at Manaforge B'naar to Dimensius the All-Devouring.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Netherstorm (98), Shattrath City (4), Terokkar Forest (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Netherstorm 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.

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