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Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Overlook

Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Overlook is a quest for level 20-30 in Sholazar Basin. It is step 61 of 65 in the Sholazar Basin storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Sholazar Basin at 64.6, 48.6. It rewards 4,100 experience.

Description

We cannot stop now, <race>. You've triggered the first switch, but one remains.

The titans constructed a second vantage point where they oversaw their creations. You'll find it to the east, high in the mountains.

Pull the activation switch theta inside the overlook and the waygate will open.

Rewards

Experience4,100 XP
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Force of Nature Quest Tree From Whiterock

      S)Force of Nature
      j)An Issue of Trust
      j)Returned Sevenfold──>k)Salvaging Life's Strength
      k)The Fallen Pillar
      l)Cultist Incursion
      /                  \
m)Weapons of Destruction m)Exterminate the Intruders
      \                  /
      n)The Lifewarden's Wrath
      o)Freya's Pact
      p)Powering the Waygate - The Maker's Perch
      q)Powering the Waygate - The Maker's Overlook  q)A Timeworn Coffer
      #)The Etymidian
      #)The Activation Rune
      r)Back Through the Waygate
      s)Reclamation

Legend:
S menas Skippable
# means Other Zones
* means another Quest Tree.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapSholazar BasinTurn-in marker at 64.6, 48.6, 2 mapped points
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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.

Sholazar Basin Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Sholazar Basin map showing where to go for Powering the Waygate - The Makers' OverlookTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #119 64.6 48.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSholazar Basin 64.6, 48.6/way #119 64.6 48.6
  • Objective areaSholazar Basin 89.1, 52.9/way #119 89.1 52.9

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 Sholazar Basin map

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

Getting there

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

  • River's Heart, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 730 yards south-west
  • Warsong Camp, WintergraspHorde · about 950 yards south-east
  • Death's Rise, IcecrownAlliance and Horde · about 1,600 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,100 yards east

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

Sholazar Basin

Part 61 of 65.

Previous: Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Perch · Next: The Etymidian

  1. 54Salvaging Life's Strength
  2. 55Cultist Incursion
  3. 56Exterminate the Intruders
  4. 57Weapons of Destruction
  5. 58The Lifewarden's Wrath
  6. 59Freya's Pact
  7. 60Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Perch
  8. 61Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Overlook
  9. 62The Etymidian
  10. 63The Activation Rune
  11. 64Back Through the Waygate
  12. 65Reclamation

Showing steps 54 to 65 of 65.

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.

  • Powering the Waygate - The Makers' PerchSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    It is time then. Let us activate the waygate. You will find the first switch inside the Makers' Perch in the western edge of the basin. Beware, <name>. The titans used the perch to watch over their creations. Many of their stone servants still guard the place.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The EtymidianSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    It is time, <name>. The Waygate has been activated for the first time in seven centuries. Use it to travel to where our final hope lies. Let us put an end to those who would seek to bring the taint of undeath to this pristine land. Let us unleash the Etymidian.

The storyline at a glance

Sholazar Basin has 65 steps, from Need an Engine, Take an Engine to Reclamation.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Sholazar Basin (63), Un'Goro Crater (2).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • Into the Basin Complete the Sholazar Basin storylines listed below.
  • The Snows of Northrend Complete all of Hemet Nesingwary quests in Northrend up to and including Post-partum Aggression.

Other storylines on the Sholazar Basin 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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