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Powering Down the Portal

Powering Down the Portal is a quest for level 45 in Suramar. It is step 11 of 14 in the An Elven Problem storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Suramar at 40.6, 64.5. It rewards 1 reward item, 1 reputation reward, 6,150 experience and money.

Description

Destroying the crystals will stop them temporarily, but it will be meaningless if we do not deal with the person controlling the portal itself.

I heard their overseer, Ingra, shouting orders for more power so that she could bring the stronger Legion lieutenants through the gate. We must stop her to truly seal the portal for good.

Rewards

You will receive:

Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP
ReputationThe Nightfallen +250
Top Comments

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1
Boxofbeer+8via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

You can find [npc=107217] at 41.0 66.6 point on the Grand Promenade. It's near the quest giver, so quick to do.
TomTom:
/way Suramar 41.0 66.6 Overseer Ingra

Powering Down the Portal, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1xTpmq7Qs

This quest is a part of An Elven Problem quest chain needed for Insurrection achievement. There are some bugged links, hope all of them will be fixed soon.
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An Elven Problem quest chain:
Eating Before the Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5s4n8KPbFs
Take Me To Your Leader
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIddwTbtmXE
A Better Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKoG9w3t4s
Taking a Promenade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owL2aEyoXdc
Down to Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHkHfHL_3ro&t=1s
Nullified
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMa9mAz2uBM
Crystal Clearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxKUY1CG2_Y
Powering Down the Portal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1xTpmq7Qs
Shield, Meet Spell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW0T_lyzEK0
Break An Arm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv2Fzb6I1bY
3
dEEPCAP+2via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The Quest giver can die in one hit during this. If she does/disappears, she respawns about 10 min later. You won't be able to progress in the rest of the story quests until you turn this in, so I suggest doing her 2 quests quickly.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,150
MoneyGold20g 22s
ReputationThe Nightfallen+250

Reward details

Items you receive

TypeConsumable
Item level1
BindingBinds when picked up
Sells to vendors for50 gold

“A powerful scepter brought with Ingra from another world.”

Reputation: The Nightfallen +250

These exiled Nightborne elves suffer withdrawals after being cut off from the Nightwell. They oppose their people's alliance with the Legion and fight for some kind of redemption.

Reputation group: Legion.

Other quests in Suramar that reward The Nightfallen reputation: Answering Aggression (+250), Regroup (+250), Crackdown (+250), No Reason to Stay (+250), Trail of Echoes (+250), The Only Way Out is Through (+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 mapSuramarTurn-in marker at 40.6, 64.5, 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.

Suramar Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Suramar map showing where to go for Powering Down the PortalTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #680 40.6 64.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSuramar 40.6, 64.5/way #680 40.6 64.5
  • Objective areaSuramar 41.0, 66.3/way #680 41.0 66.3

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 Suramar map

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

Getting there

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

  • Meredil, SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 660 yards north-west
  • Western SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 680 yards south
  • Felblaze Ingress, AzsunaAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 70 yards south

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

An Elven Problem

Part 11 of 14.

Previous: Crystal Clearing · Next: Nullified

  1. 1Stabilizing Suramar
  2. 2Eating Before the Meeting
  3. 3Take Me To Your Leader
  4. 4Take Me To Your Leader
  5. 5Down to Business
  6. 6Down to Business
  7. 7Taking a Promenade
  8. 8Taking a Promenade
  9. 9A Better Future
  10. 10Crystal Clearing
  11. 11Powering Down the Portal
  12. 12Nullified
  13. 13Shield, Meet Spell
  14. 14Break An Arm

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.

  • Crystal ClearingSuramar · Level 45

    This portal is a problem. With it they can summon countless reserves. The crystals nearby seem to be powering the gate. If we destroy those, we can set them back significantly.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • NullifiedSuramar · Level 45

    The magus in charge of the defenses here is powerful. Perhaps too strong, even for the both of us. Fortunately, the sin'dorei know a thing or two about magic. The mage's barrier is strong, but we are clever.

The storyline at a glance

An Elven Problem has 14 steps, from Stabilizing Suramar to Break An Arm.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Suramar (14).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • Insurrection Complete the Suramar Storylines listed below with a Timerunner.
  • Insurrection Complete the Suramar storylines listed below.

Other storylines on the Suramar 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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Powerful Spirits
Powering our Defenses
Powering the Defenses
Powering the Defenses
Powering the Portal
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