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Salvaging Life's Strength

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

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Also if it's not working for you, I had to click the corpse first, and then the gem. It did not work for me if i clicked the gem first and then the body. The gem would cast and channel, but no credit was given.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 20-30
ZoneSholazar Basin
Quest ID12805

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12805))

What to do

StorylineSholazar Basin, step 54 of 65
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

The Lifeblood Pillar was toppled over with great force, sending the very earth into an upheaval. The elementals that wander the sundered shard carry with them the very life essence that gave the pillar its strength. I cannot allow this energy to be wasted, for only four pillars remain. Head to the sundered shard, to the southeast, and seek the lifeblood elementals. Use this gem on their remains to recover their rampant energy. We'll need the energy to heal the land when all this is over.

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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 10 mapped points
Sholazar Basin map showing where to go for Salvaging Life's StrengthTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective 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 area (centre of the marked area)Sholazar Basin 70.5, 58.1/way #119 70.5 58.1

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 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 380 yards south-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
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP

Storyline

Sholazar Basin

Part 54 of 65.

Previous: The Fallen Pillar · Next: Cultist Incursion

  1. 49The Angry Gorloc
  2. 50Lifeblood of the Mosswalker Shrine
  3. 51The Mosswalker Savior
  4. 52A Hero's Burden
  5. 53The Fallen Pillar
  6. 54Salvaging Life's Strength
  7. 55Cultist Incursion
  8. 56Exterminate the Intruders
  9. 57Weapons of Destruction
  10. 58The Lifewarden's Wrath
  11. 59Freya's Pact
  12. 60Powering the Waygate - The Makers' Perch

Showing steps 49 to 60 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.

  • The Fallen PillarSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    The titans shaped entire life forms here, fostering their unfettered growth. The five crystal pillars that surround the basin emanate pure lifeforce. The Scourge should've never been able to penetrate the basin, but one of the pillars was destroyed.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Cultist IncursionSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    <It appears the Avatar of Freya was right. The undead were not able to enter Sholazar Basin before the Lifeblood Pillar was brought down -- they used their living agents from the Cult of the Damned instead.> <You'd best warn her about the Lich King's living agents within Sholazar Basin.>

Also counted by Into the Basin

Its criteria name 7 quests; others include:

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:

  • 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

Into the BasinComplete the Sholazar Basin storylines listed below.10