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Purging the Defilers

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

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1
Aisenfaire+19via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Despite the quest saying "Purge the naga", you don't have to only kill naga. You can also click on highlighted gray statues of Azhara to progress the quest bar. The statues aren't huge, just about double the height of a void elf.

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nomsidious+6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

From what I have seen, it is a lot easier to go to 76.71 36.16 to complete this quest. The is where Lady Silazsi paths. There is naga on the outer rim and inner rim of the circle you can kill.

I would suggest watching her path and starting just behind her, moving counterclockwise and killing the naga as you trail her. By the time you get back to where you started, the naga will have respawned. This beats running all over and even looking for statues. I have found this a more efficient way to complete this quest. And you never have to deal with Lady Silazsi.

After turning this quest in, you will then get The Javelins of Azshara where you will have to go back and kill her and loot a javelin.

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Cantralian+3via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Location of the statues I found:


  • /way 75, 41 (downstairs inside the hallway with the columns)

  • /way 76, 41 (upstairs, at the end of the hallway with the columns)

  • /way 75, 37 (on the ground between the round platform, full of elite naga, and the outside ring of columns that hugs the back left of the platform)

  • /way 75, 33 (same place but on the right hand side of the platform)

  • /way 78, 42 (inside the doorway to the building next to the Horde FP)

  • /way 81, 39 (at the end of the upstairs hallway with the columns)

If you're Horde, there's also one tucked right in next to the FP, but I wouldn't try getting it as Alliance.

I'm sure there's more, but I stopped looking as I was finished with the quest.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 50
ZoneNazjatar
Quest ID55573

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(55573))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineTurning the Tide, step 8 of 13
Rewards23g 40s, 6,800 XP

Description

Azshara always did need everything to be about her. Everything had to have her name on it. Everything was for her glory. She forgot our people's connection to Elune. Or perhaps she believed it did not matter? Azshara and her minions have too long defiled this place with their heresy. Let us show them Elune's vengeance.

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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.

Nazjatar Quest turn-in 14 mapped points
Nazjatar map showing where to go for Purging the DefilersTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #1355 74.0 40.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inNazjatar 74.0, 40.5/way #1355 74.0 40.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Nazjatar 78.6, 38.0/way #1355 78.6 38.0
  • Objective areaNazjatar 74.1, 39.9/way #1355 74.1 39.9

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 Nazjatar map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Nazjatar:

  • Orise's Vigil, NazjatarAlliance · about 20 yards north
  • Kelya's Grave, NazjatarAlliance and Horde · about 440 yards north
  • Utama's Stand, NazjatarAlliance · about 540 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 210 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.

Related
Money23 gold40 silver
Experience6,800 XP
ReputationWaveblade Ankoan +75

Reward details

Reputation: Waveblade Ankoan +75

An ancient species of deep sea warriors, the Waveblade Ankoan traverse the deepest and most dangerous parts of the ocean.

Reputation group: Battle for Azeroth.

Other quests in Nazjatar that reward Waveblade Ankoan reputation: A Brief Respite (+500), Creature Study: Zanj'ir Naga (+150), The Laboratory of Mardivas (+500), Where the Road Leads (+150), The Lost Shaman (+25), Elemental Fury (+75).

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

Turning the Tide

Part 8 of 13.

Previous: Help Them See the Truth · Next: The Javelins of Azshara

  1. 1A Bolt Hole
  2. 2Utama's Vengeance
  3. 3What Remains of Zin-Azshari
  4. 4Shoring Up Mana Reserves
  5. 5Echoes of Pain
  6. 6Secrets in the Ruins
  7. 7Help Them See the Truth
  8. 8Purging the Defilers
  9. 9The Javelins of Azshara
  10. 10There's Something in the Water
  11. 11The Spear of Destiny
  12. 12Changing Tides
  13. 13The Eternal Palace: Queen's Gambit

Also part of: Welcome to Nazjatar (part 44 of 47).

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 Them See the TruthNazjatar · Level 50

    The information you have gleaned concerns me, <name>. These spirits cling to this place because they still, even now, believe in Azshara and her reign. She sold their lives to the void and they still believe in her. I know we have concerns that outweigh this, but I cannot leave them here like this.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Javelins of AzsharaNazjatar · Level 50

    These spirits keep speaking of the Javelins of Azshara. At first, I believed it to be referring to the handmaidens, who are currently holed up in Elun'alor. But -- now I think they are referring to the Javelins of Suramar. They were powerful weapons -- long thought lost.

The storyline at a glance

Turning the Tide has 13 steps, from A Bolt Hole to The Eternal Palace: Queen's Gambit.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Nazjatar (12), Zin-Azshari (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Nazjatar 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.