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Rotten Old Memories

Rotten Old Memories is a quest for level 50-90. It is step 5 of 17 in the Human Heritage Armor storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Burning Steppes at 72.8, 64.6. It rewards 9,500 experience and money.

Description

Whatever is going on, I don't like it. Last thing we need is this dragon lady's power corrupting everyone again.

Whoever did this must have known much about Onyxia. Shaw mentioned this... Reginald Windsor. He was the only one to suspect Lady Prestor. Well, maybe his friends in the Burning Steppes have more of his information.

She must have had allies. Anything that points us to people close to her would help.

Check it out, will you?

Rewards

Money28 gold9 silver
Experience9,500 XP

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Bursi+35via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This is the questline for the [race=1] Heritage armor.
For this questline you must have a human at level 50+ who is exalted with Stormwind.
The first quest popped up after login (but just in the quest tracker, no quest window) and wants us to meet [npc=198884] in Stormwind. If you didn't get the quest, try to find it at the Stormwind Embassy in the northwest.


  2. An Urgent Matter - meet [npc=198884] behind the castle in Stormwind

  4. An Unlikely Informant - meet him again in the basement of the inn in Goldshire, Elwynn Forest

  6. A Window to the Past - talk to him (cinematic)

  8. Rotten Old Memories - travel to Morgan's Vigil in the Burning Steppes and talk to [npc=9563]. Find 4 pieces of journals at /way 62.26 63.95 Cave entrance

  10. Looking for Something Specific - return to Goldshire

  12. The New Clessington Estate - travel to the west of Duskwood /way 10.03 55.43 entrance, upstairs and talk to [npc=199536]. Leave the building and talk to her

  14. Misdeeds in Moonbrook - travel to Westfall

  16. A Hungry Heritage - enter /way 42.52 71.58 and go to the marked area. Open your big map to make it easier
    Supply Only the Finest Goons- kill 16 enemies

  18. Betrayal of the Brotherhood - escape from the underground (north). Use extra button [spell=397607] to make it faster

  20. To Northshire - travel to Northshire (in the north of Goldshire)

  22. Knock It Off! - kill and loot the 4 marked enemies
    What's Their Problem? - kill enemies to fill the bar

  24. The Clessington Will - enter the Abbey and click the barrier. Click extra button Will to Survive, kill the enemies and defeat [npc=199006]

  26. Will to Survive - pick up [item=204214] and give it to Master Mathias Shaw. Click extra button Will to Survive. Kill [npc=199008]

  28. Go with Honor, Friend - return to Stormwind at the main entrance. Talk to [npc=198884] and go to [npc=65153]. Click extra button [spell=398747] while standing in the light
    - turn in, get your [spell=399752] and the title [title=760]

Questline took about 25 minutes with level 61, incl. cinematics and flights.

Lionguard red [outfit=460885]
Lionguard golden [outfit=460884]
Lionguard blue [outfit=460883]

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Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

2
Bursi+35via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This is the questline for the [race=1] Heritage armor.
For this questline you must have a human at level 50+ who is exalted with Stormwind.
The first quest popped up after login (but just in the quest tracker, no quest window) and wants us to meet [npc=198884] in Stormwind. If you didn't get the quest, try to find it at the Stormwind Embassy in the northwest.


  2. An Urgent Matter - meet [npc=198884] behind the castle in Stormwind

  4. An Unlikely Informant - meet him again in the basement of the inn in Goldshire, Elwynn Forest

  6. A Window to the Past - talk to him (cinematic)

  8. Rotten Old Memories - travel to Morgan's Vigil in the Burning Steppes and talk to [npc=9563]. Find 4 pieces of journals at /way 62.26 63.95 Cave entrance

  10. Looking for Something Specific - return to Goldshire

  12. The New Clessington Estate - travel to the west of Duskwood /way 10.03 55.43 entrance, upstairs and talk to [npc=199536]. Leave the building and talk to her

  14. Misdeeds in Moonbrook - travel to Westfall

  16. A Hungry Heritage - enter /way 42.52 71.58 and go to the marked area. Open your big map to make it easier
    Supply Only the Finest Goons- kill 16 enemies

  18. Betrayal of the Brotherhood - escape from the underground (north). Use extra button [spell=397607] to make it faster

  20. To Northshire - travel to Northshire (in the north of Goldshire)

  22. Knock It Off! - kill and loot the 4 marked enemies
    What's Their Problem? - kill enemies to fill the bar

  24. The Clessington Will - enter the Abbey and click the barrier. Click extra button Will to Survive, kill the enemies and defeat [npc=199006]

  26. Will to Survive - pick up [item=204214] and give it to Master Mathias Shaw. Click extra button Will to Survive. Kill [npc=199008]

  28. Go with Honor, Friend - return to Stormwind at the main entrance. Talk to [npc=198884] and go to [npc=65153]. Click extra button [spell=398747] while standing in the light
    - turn in, get your [spell=399752] and the title [title=760]

Questline took about 25 minutes with level 61, incl. cinematics and flights.

Lionguard red [outfit=460885]
Lionguard golden [outfit=460884]
Lionguard blue [outfit=460883]

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP9,500
MoneyGold28g 9s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapBurning SteppesTurn-in marker at 72.8, 64.6, 6 mapped points
Objective areaElwynn Forest1 mapped point
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.

Burning Steppes Quest turn-in 6 mapped points
Burning Steppes map showing where to go for Rotten Old MemoriesTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #36 72.8 64.6

Elwynn Forest Objective area 1 mapped point
Elwynn Forest map showing where to go for Rotten Old MemoriesObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #37 44.1 66.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBurning Steppes 72.8, 64.6/way #36 72.8 64.6
  • Objective areaBurning Steppes 72.9, 64.8/way #36 72.9 64.8
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Burning Steppes 61.1, 66.3/way #36 61.1 66.3
  • Objective areaElwynn Forest 44.1, 66.1/way #37 44.1 66.1

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 Burning Steppes map

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

Getting there

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

  • Morgan's Vigil, Burning SteppesAlliance · about 30 yards south-west
  • Chiselgrip, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 970 yards north-west
  • Flame Crest, Burning SteppesHorde · about 1,000 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 370 yards west
  • Objective areaabout 3,000 yards west (on the Elwynn Forest map)

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

Human Heritage Armor

Part 5 of 17.

Previous: A Window to the Past · Next: Looking for Something Specific

  1. 2An Urgent Matter
  2. 3An Unlikely Informant
  3. 4A Window to the Past
  4. 5Rotten Old Memories
  5. 6Looking for Something Specific
  6. 7The New Clessington Estate
  7. 8Misdeeds in Moonbrook
  8. 9A Hungry Heritage
  9. 10Supply Only the Finest Goons
  10. 11Betrayal of the Brotherhood
  11. 12To Northshire

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 17.

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.

  • A Window to the PastLevel 50-90

    In this, I trust Vanessa's word. I do not believe she knows what the Drakefire Amulet is. Some of the story about Onyxia was made public, but not all. Perhaps even you do not know. I will explain everything, for both of you.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Looking for Something SpecificLevel 50-90

    <Ragged John blinks blearily up at you.> So ye took down that ol' worg, didye? Well aren't ye the biggest strongest human I seen since ol' Windsor. <Ragged John sighs.> ...Well? What're ye still doing here? Go take what ye found to whoever sent ye here in the first place!

Other storylines on the Burning Steppes 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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