can find these 4 elementals at
/way 56.9, 10.23
/way 49.66, 11.28
/way 49.30, 8.61
/way 53.26, 15.86
Quest
Special Assignment: When the Deeps Stir
A World of Warcraft quest in The Ringing Deeps. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Don't be put off by the skull symbol on the mob. They are not world bosses and I easily solo'd as a 550 guardian druid.
This special assignment quest requires you to complete any 3 World Quests to unlock access to it.
- Awakened Sulfuric Devastator
- Awakened Flamecoil Serpent -- /way 49.66, 11.28
- Awakened Volcanic Fury -- /way 49.30, 8.61
- Awakened Colossus -- /way 53.26, 15.86
You can kill the same mob twice and it counts as killing 2 Awakened Elementals.
Quest facts
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(83229))
Requirements
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Awakened Elementals defeated x 4
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2214 53.0 9.3
Coordinates
- Awakened Elementals defeated (centre of the marked area)The Ringing Deeps 48.4, 12.7
/way #2214 48.4 12.7 - Objective areaThe Ringing Deeps 51.0, 12.6
/way #2214 51.0 12.6
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
- Rampage in the Refinery about 120 yards
- The Glittering Shard about 140 yards
- Spinning Spore Spines about 140 yards
- The Nibelgaz Refinery about 150 yards
- Muddled Mind in the Mine about 190 yards
- To the Source about 210 yards
- Raging Rifts about 210 yards
- Sympathetic Speakers about 340 yards
- Dark Iron from Above about 440 yards
- Absent Speaker about 550 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:
- Gundargaz, The Ringing Deeps
- Shadowvein Point, The Ringing Deeps
- Dunelle's Kindness, Hallowfall
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: When the Deeps Stir
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.