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Sampling the Source

Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Boxofbeer+25via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Use levitate (or fly mount if can) to reach the quest area. [item=143654]s look like fel blobs, can be found on fel ground.
Also, if you have to fight caster mobs, slay them asap, their adds may kill you, but despawn if summoners die.

Sampling the Source - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8_JpPUgw3Y

This is a part of [class=5] quest chain for new class hall champion - [champion=1002]
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[champion=1002] quest chain.
1
Highmountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5-pGK9uybs
2
Highmountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8_JpPUgw3Y
3
Highmountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95IMrZXOg1c
4
Highmountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP4GTTxP08k
5
Highmountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W6B94_6DwI
6
[quest=45348]
Netherlight Temple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbmGHaFDDsI
7
Broken Shore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfUS1RmY1L8
8
Broken Shore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVUOJA7oCsE
9
Broken Shore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcBWUI7yTw0
10
Netherlight Temple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19vlp_A1ltE
11
Netherlight Temple
[champion=1002]
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tarc+12via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Tilt your view so you're looking level with the ground, rather than the straight down or over-the-shoulder most play with. Then the contaminated specimens are easier to see, as a thin green smoky thing.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 45
LocationTrueshot Lodge, Highmountain
CategoryPriest Campaign
Quest ID45344

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(45344))

Requirements

ClassPriest

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

Description

My companion has fallen terribly ill, as you can see. He must have caught whatever these taurens had. Their entire camp has been wiped out! It appears to be fel in origin, and impervious to all known treatments. I've been working tirelessly to find a cure, but I don't think Roland here has much time left. I could use an extra hand. Some samples from the source should speed things up. Just be sure to avoid direct contact with the contagion. Levitate should be helpful.

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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.

Trueshot Lodge Quest turn-in no plotted point
Highmountain Objective area 12 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #650 26.7 38.2

Coordinates

  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Highmountain 26.6, 33.7/way #650 26.6 33.7

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 Trueshot Lodge map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Trueshot Lodge:

  • Trueshot Lodge, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 380 yards north-east
  • Trueshot LodgeAlliance and Horde · about 390 yards north-east
  • Sylvan Falls, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 640 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,100 yards north (on the Highmountain 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.

Related
Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP

Storyline

Fulfilling the Prophecy IV

Part 2 of 11.

Previous: A Curious Contagion · Next: Mischievous Sprites

  1. 1A Curious Contagion
  2. 2Sampling the Source
  3. 3Mischievous Sprites
  4. 4Shambling Specimens
  5. 5Crafting a Cure
  6. 6Safekeeping
  7. 7To the Broken Shore
  8. 8Countering the Contagion
  9. 9Administering Aid
  10. 10Sterile Surroundings
  11. 11Champion: Aelthalyste

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 Curious ContagionLevel 45

    It has been brought to my attention that a rather curious contagion is spreading through a small coastal region within Highmountain. The local tribes have abandoned the area for fear of catching this ailment that currently has no known cure.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Mischievous SpritesLevel 45

    It's a little-known secret that the dust sprites use for their various tricks has restorative properties. Some within the alchemy community balk at this claim, but they only refute it because they've never been able to get their hands on the rare ingredient.

Quests that require this one

The storyline at a glance

Fulfilling the Prophecy IV has 11 steps, from A Curious Contagion to Champion: Aelthalyste.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Trueshot Lodge (6), Broken Shore (3), Netherlight Temple (2).

Other storylines on the Trueshot Lodge 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.