Mobs that drop the essences can be found at 36, 30.
Quest
Salvaging the Past
A World of Warcraft quest in Ghostlands. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Confirmed you can get the items from BOTH Mana Shifters and Arcane Devourer.
This quest, as well as a few others, open up only after you attain a friendly reputation with Tranquillien.
Other quests requiring Friendly rep with Tranquillien:
Help Ranger Valanna! - Ranger Lethvalin
Investigate An'daroth - Dame Auriferous
Trouble at the Underlight Mines - Deathstalker Maltendis
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(9150))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
Can you believe it? We have an actual functioning arcane sanctum up and running southeast of here: the Sanctum of the Sun. All manner of important magisters have come to take part in running it. Of course they've all forgotten about the Sanctum of the Moon. Not much remains of it and its energies have given rise to bizarre creatures. I'm not one to let good resources go to waste, however. Go to the Sanctum of the Moon and see if you can recover the crystallized essences from the creatures there.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #95 46.0 31.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inGhostlands 46.0, 31.9
/way #95 46.0 31.9 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Ghostlands 33.1, 33.2
/way #95 33.1 33.2
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 Ghostlands map
- Walk Among Ghosts same spot
- Lament of the Highborne same spot
- The Day Hope Died same spot
- Tranquillien Besieged about 80 yards
- Death to the Scourge about 80 yards
- A Knight's Weapon about 80 yards
- Return to the Ghostlands about 80 yards
- Magus Installation about 90 yards
- Honor the Flame about 130 yards
- Powering our Defenses about 690 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Ghostlands, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Ghostlands:
- Tranquillien, Ghostlands
- Fairbreeze Village, Eversong Woods
- Zul'Aman, Ghostlands
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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.
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Reward details
Reputation: Tranquillien +1,000
Once a high elf town, Tranquillien became abandoned after the Scourge invaded Quel'Thalas. It has now been reclaimed by the Forsaken and the blood elves who seek to rid the Ghostlands of the Scourge.
Reputation group: The Burning Crusade.
Other quests in Ghostlands that reward Tranquillien reputation: Suncrown Village (+1,000), Goldenmist Village (+1,000), Windrunner Village (+3,000), The Fallen Courier (+1,000), Delivery to Tranquillien (+250), The Plagued Coast (+1,000).
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
Ghostlands
Part 22 of 41.
Previous: Tomber's Supplies · Next: The Plagued Coast
- 17Bring Me Kel'gash's Head!
- 18WANTED: Knucklerot and Luzran
- 19Culinary Crunch
- 20Trouble at the Underlight Mines
- 21Tomber's Supplies
- 22Salvaging the Past
- 23The Plagued Coast
- 24Down the Dead Scar
- 25Rotting Hearts
- 26Spinal Dust
- 27Investigate An'daroth
- 28Into Occupied Territory
Showing steps 17 to 28 of 41.
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.
- Tomber's Supplies
How am I supposed to supply the war effort when I cannot even safely get my supplies here? I was promised an escort that never came. And then, I had to leave one of my carts behind to the west when I was attacked by a band of ghouls! Want to help out, and get me open for business in the process?
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Plagued Coast
To find a cure for the plague we need to understand how it affects different creatures, from the most complex life forms to the lowliest subspecies. I've come here to study the murlocs since, like us, they've retained free will in undeath. What makes these lowly mongrels so special?
Also counted by Ghostlands Quests
Its criteria name 21 quests; others include:
- The Plagued Coast
- Tomber's Supplies
- WANTED: Knucklerot and Luzran
- Captives at Deatholme
- The Traitor's Destruction
- Deactivate An'owyn
- Dar'Khan's Lieutenants
- Culinary Crunch
The storyline at a glance
Ghostlands has 41 steps, from The Forsaken to The Traitor's Destruction.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Ghostlands (41).
Other storylines on the Ghostlands map
- Knights of Blood
- Lorewalking: Elves
- Blood Elf Heritage Armor
- Allies of the Alliance: Void Elf
- Eversong Woods
- Breaking the Cycle
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.
- Ghostlands Quests: its criteria name 21 quests, this one included.