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Step One: The Priestess

Step One: The Priestess is a quest for level 15-30 in Swamp of Sorrows. It is step 23 of 36 in the Swamp of Sorrows storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Swamp of Sorrows at 69.5, 54.5. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

My brethren are being butchered here. It's as I thought.

I must ask your help further before I enter, <name>. In the passageway outside this room, the hallway proceeds left and right. To the right, it goes down to the Chamber of Blood. Here the Atal'ai perform their dark rituals.

They have expected and prepared for my kind for years, but not for you. Enter the Chamber of Blood and slay the Priestess Udum'bra. She is one of three foul presences here that must be vanquished before I may enter.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

2
RaQin+22via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Just in case anyone else was wondering why they couldn't find it according to any of the descriptions... it's because the Priestess Udum'ra is NOT inside the instance, and that the Hall of Masks is the room that is just outside the entrance to the instance.

Wowhead misleadingly shows a map of the instance...

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BossInvader+20via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The Wowhead map is in fact Misleading, it is not in the instance at all.

*Walk down into the temple, you will see 2 level 53 Corrupted Guardians and across from them is the entrance to Sunken Temple, which you don't go into.

*Go to the hall way to your right and go right again and follow it down some stairs.

*You will run into a few enemies level 52 to 53, all easy kills as is the Priestess her self which is in that same room.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapSwamp of SorrowsTurn-in marker at 69.5, 54.5, 2 mapped points
World Map

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.

Swamp of Sorrows Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Swamp of Sorrows map showing where to go for Step One: The PriestessTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #51 69.5 54.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSwamp of Sorrows 69.5, 54.5/way #51 69.5 54.5
  • Objective areaSwamp of Sorrows 74.8, 49.3/way #51 74.8 49.3

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 Swamp of Sorrows map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Swamp of Sorrows:

  • Marshtide Watch, Swamp of SorrowsAlliance · about 270 yards north
  • Stonard, Swamp of SorrowsHorde · about 540 yards west
  • Bogpaddle, Swamp of SorrowsAlliance and Horde · about 710 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 160 yards north-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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Swamp of Sorrows

Part 23 of 36.

Previous: Legends of the Sunken Temple · Next: Step Two: The Bloodletter

  1. 18Reinforcements Denied
  2. 19Marking the Fallen
  3. 20We're Under Attack!
  4. 21Pool of Tears
  5. 22Legends of the Sunken Temple
  6. 23Step One: The Priestess
  7. 24Step Two: The Bloodletter
  8. 25Step Three: Prophet
  9. 26Blessing of the Green Dragonflight
  10. 27Prayerblossom
  11. 28Secrets of the Mire
  12. 29The Purespring

Showing steps 18 to 29 of 36.

Also part of: Lorewalking: Loa (part 18 of 27).

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.

  • Legends of the Sunken TempleSwamp of Sorrows · Level 15-30

    I will need you to enter the temple first, <name>. I can join you once a path is secure, but I dare not enter blindly. Turned against my kind, I would be a vicious enemy. You can start by descending the stairs behind me. Then, swim through the flooded depths of the Broken Hall.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Step Two: The BloodletterSwamp of Sorrows · Level 15-30

    The trolls here perpetuate the fall of my brethren to the nightmare. They infect and corrupt green dragons with the blood of their foul god, and then harvest the evil that has grown within them. They are being farmed like livestock... This disgusting savagery cannot continue.

The storyline at a glance

Swamp of Sorrows has 36 steps, from Maliciously Delicious to With Dying Breath.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Swamp of Sorrows (35), Deadwind Pass (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Swamp of Sorrows 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.

Related
Step Into the Life
Step Into the Light
Step Into the Ring
Step of Faith
Step Three: Prophet
Step Two: The Bloodletter
Stepping into the Shadows
Stepping Up Surveillance

Guides and routes on this site that cover Swamp of Sorrows.

Database

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