TheWoWDBMassive time sink if just in normal gear. Avoid it like the plague. Mobs have 8million health and you need to kill tons of them. I blew all my cds to get one at 558 item level and i got 1/5 for one cannon when three cannone are needed to be fixed So blow all CD's and do that 15 times in addition to wating for your CD to reset. This will take 45 min or more since you have to wait on CD's. Massive time sink for a solo player and not worth the time.
Quest
Special Assignment: Shadows Below
A World of Warcraft quest in The Ringing Deeps. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The reason it says gathering the fuel is optional, if you're grouped, your party can also refuel the drills! I recommend using the group finder in the area, it cuts this quest time in half or more!
To complete this quest:
- Kill mobs in the area and rescue [npc=223842]
- Loot [item=224292] (15 minute timer, use 3 to convert to Crystal) and [item=219522]
- You need a total of 15 Crystals between your group
- Bring them to /way The Ringing Deeps 68.10 52.06 Drills & Portal
- Click on all 3 drills x 5 each to refuel
- Click on portal in the same location
- Kill [npc=221316] in the cave
I hope this helps! There are many rares that spawn in this area, another great reason to group!
You don't need to fight any mobs. It is quicker to help the little wounded or stuck Earthen guys dotted around the area, e.g. by pulling them out of the ground. When you have helped them they place a Radiant Fuel Crystal down on the ground in front of you which you can click to 'loot'. Much quicker than killing mobs, who sometimes only drop fragments and as you say, take ages.
Quest facts
Quest ID81691
The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(81691))
Requirements
Quest typeCapstone World Quest
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Defeat 112 targets in The Ringing Deeps
- Drills refueled x 3
- Ward 02
- Ward 03
- Warding Shadelings slain
- Ward 01
- Drill 01 Fueled x 5
- Drill 02 Fueled x 5
- Drill 03 Fueled x 5
Radiant Fuel Crystal x 99
Radiant Fuel Cache- Radiant Fuel Cache
- Gather fuel
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.
Objective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2214 64.1 52.1
Coordinates
- Drills refueledThe Ringing Deeps 64.1, 52.1
/way #2214 64.1 52.1 - Objective areaThe Ringing Deeps 63.2, 48.2
/way #2214 63.2 48.2 - Objective areaThe Ringing Deeps 64.0, 52.1
/way #2214 64.0 52.1 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Ringing Deeps 63.2, 50.4
/way #2214 63.2 50.4 - Objective areaThe Ringing Deeps 63.4, 50.3
/way #2214 63.4 50.3
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 The Ringing Deeps map
- Archivist Silsigra about 80 yards
- Ghost of a Company Town about 340 yards
- A Nebb in Need about 480 yards
- A Royal Cure about 480 yards
- Protecting the Harvest about 480 yards
- Tending to the Terrified about 480 yards
- Hair of the Spider about 480 yards
- A Poultice for Poison about 480 yards
- A Clutch of Hope about 480 yards
- Buried in Stone about 500 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Ringing Deeps, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on The Ringing Deeps:
- Shadowvein Point, The Ringing Deeps
- Camp Murroch, The Ringing Deeps
- Opportunity Point, The Ringing Deeps
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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Other quests on the Ringing Deeps map
Quest chain
- 1Unnamed step
- 2Special Assignment: Shadows Below
Step 2 of 2. Chain order is read from the prerequisite data in the current retail client build, so it reflects what the game requires, not a curated storyline. A step the build does not name is kept in place, unnamed, so the sequence stays complete.
Where this quest fits
Other storylines on The Ringing Deeps map
- By Candlelight
- Trust Issues
- Kobold Culture and Integration
- The Machines March to War
- Fearbreaker
- Dark Revelations
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.