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Shut Them Down

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

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Joresh+13via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The way the quest is supposed to work is you're supposed to get a buff/aura called "Protection of the Ebon Flight" (it has a red bat wing icon), but that buff is seemingly randomly applied and taken away from you with no consistency. The uptime on the buff for these quests should be 100%, but it will fall of at times and is incredibly difficult to get re-applied. I have tried a number of methods to get it to re-apply with no success; including changing zones, joining/leaving groups, flying out of the zone entirely. The only one that seems to have success is dying and then rezzing, which makes the quest chain take much longer and gives you a hefty repair bill. It's clearly bugged and incredibly frustrating

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-80
ZoneZaralek Cavern
Quest ID72916

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(72916))

What to do

StorylineThe Ancient Bargain, step 10 of 16
Rewards28g 9s, 9,500 XP

Description

Up ahead, the Primalists are working to awaken the Zaqali's final elder. When we used the farsight totem earlier, I observed that they were draining something from the elder. Now I realize it is likely an attempt to dispel the magic keeping the elder in stasis. They are using elemental cores to contain the magic in the same way we did to cleanse Sabellian. Fyrakk absorbing shadowflame is disastrous. We cannot add an elder awakening to that threat. We must halt their efforts.

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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.

Zaralek Cavern Quest turn-in 12 mapped points
Zaralek Cavern map showing where to go for Shut Them DownTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #2133 29.6 49.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inZaralek Cavern 29.6, 49.6/way #2133 29.6 49.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Zaralek Cavern 29.4, 54.6/way #2133 29.4 54.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Zaralek Cavern 29.1, 51.7/way #2133 29.1 51.7
  • Objective areaZaralek Cavern 33.1, 50.9/way #2133 33.1 50.9

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 Zaralek Cavern map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Zaralek Cavern:

  • Dragonscale Camp, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards south-east
  • Loamm, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 1,900 yards east
  • Obsidian Rest, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 1,900 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 240 yards south
  • Objective areaabout 110 yards south
  • Objective areaabout 260 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
Money28 gold9 silver
Experience9,500 XP
ReputationValdrakken Accord +130

Reward details

Reputation: Valdrakken Accord +130

Centered in their most ancient city, the Valdrakken Accord is the unified might of all dragonkind, seeking to protect not only their island home but all of Azeroth.

Reputation group: Dragonflight.

Other quests in Zaralek Cavern that reward Valdrakken Accord reputation: Secrets From Our Father (+60), Sight Beyond Sight (+130), Legends of the Zaqali (+130), Know Thy Enemy (+130), Take Out the Head (+130), Battlefield Triage (+130).

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

The Ancient Bargain

Part 10 of 16.

Previous: Alliance of Convenience · Next: A Scale for a Scale

  1. 5Take Out the Head
  2. 6Consequences
  3. 7Battlefield Triage
  4. 8Rushing Quality
  5. 9Alliance of Convenience
  6. 10Shut Them Down
  7. 11A Scale for a Scale
  8. 12From Hell's Heart
  9. 13No Dragon Left Behind
  10. 14Raked Over the Coals
  11. 15The Endless Burning Sky
  12. 16In the Wake of the Ashes

Showing steps 5 to 16 of 16.

Also part of: Zaralek Cavern (part 35 of 72).

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.

  • Alliance of ConvenienceZaralek Cavern · Level 10-80

    The Primalists have a sizeable force of djaradin guarding them while they complete their work. Even in small numbers, djaradin prove to be formidable opponents when allowed to engage in battle on their own terms.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Scale for a ScaleZaralek Cavern · Level 10-80

    The elder waking was a threat, certainly. But there is one more mission I must complete before we depart, lest we lose our only chance to complete it at all. However different the Zaqali tribe may be from the Qalashi, they are still dragonslayers.

The storyline at a glance

The Ancient Bargain has 16 steps, from Where There's Smoke, There's Fire to In the Wake of the Ashes.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Zaralek Cavern (15), Valdrakken (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Zaralek Cavern 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.