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The Burning Birds

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

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

Across the quest area you can find showfeather's corpes laying in green fel clouds. There are [item=143778] placed onto some corpses.
You have to pick up five of them. After you picked a totem, you'll be debuffed with fel cloud that deals huge damage, so run away from a corpse.

The Burning Birds - www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMbBKyP1I7E

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 45
LocationHighmountain
CategoryArtifact
Quest ID45564

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(45564))

Requirements

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

Description

The Feltotem are experimenting on these falcosaurs! They didn't get the results that they wanted and have carelessly left their experiments lying around to further poison the animals. We should collect their leftover totems to prevent further corruption and to find out what they were doing.

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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.

Highmountain Quest turn-in 14 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #650 31.3 25.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHighmountain 31.3, 25.1/way #650 31.3 25.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Highmountain 33.4, 24.1/way #650 33.4 24.1
  • Objective areaHighmountain 35.7, 24.0/way #650 35.7 24.0

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 Highmountain map

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

Getting there

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

  • Felbane Camp, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 680 yards south
  • The Witchwood, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 830 yards south-east
  • Shipwreck Cove, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 150 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 320 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
Money2 gold2 silver
Experience775 XP

Storyline

The Fel Worm Menace

Part 5 of 11.

Previous: Beast Mastery: Rumblings Near Feltotem · Next: The Tainted Marsh

  1. 1Destruction: Rumblings Near Feltotem
  2. 2Discipline: Rumblings Near Feltotem
  3. 3Windwalker: Rumblings Near Feltotem
  4. 4Beast Mastery: Rumblings Near Feltotem
  5. 5The Burning Birds
  6. 6The Tainted Marsh
  7. 7Village of the Corruptors
  8. 8The Feltotem Menace
  9. 9Destroying the Nest
  10. 10A Triumphant Report
  11. 11A Gift From the Six

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.

  • Beast Mastery: Rumblings Near FeltotemLevel 45

    The Highmountain have passed along a dire warning from their drogbar allies. The Feltotem are spreading their demonic corruption into the wildlife around them, infecting the land itself. We believe this is something that should be looked into sooner rather than later.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Tainted MarshLevel 45

    I wasn't able to scout inside the village yet, however, there are more dangerous experiments going on to the south. They were befouling the unquiet spirits in the marshlands with more fel magic! I will rework this fel totem to draw out the fel energies they infused in those spirits.

The storyline at a glance

The Fel Worm Menace has 11 steps, from Destruction: Rumblings Near Feltotem to A Gift From the Six.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Highmountain (9), Dalaran (2).

Other storylines on the Highmountain 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.