TheWoWDBThe Cipher of Damnation is an extremely long quest line in Shadowmoon Valley. It is a prerequisite for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.
"*" Indicates quests with rewards.Quest Line
1[A] - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10680 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
1[H] - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10681 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10458 - "Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth"
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Water"
4* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Air"
5 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10513 - "Oronok Torn-Heart"
6* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10514 - "I Was A Lot Of Things..." - Most annoying quest ever implemented in World of Warcraft.
7 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10515 - "A Lesson Learned"
8 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10519 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History"At this point, the quests diverge into three separate lines (which can be done in any order) for each of Oronok's three sons who will in turn help you obtain the three Fragments of Damnation.
Quest Line I - First Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10521 - "Grom'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10522 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge"
3* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10523 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered"Quest Line II - Second Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10527 "Ar'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10528 - "Demonic Crystal Prisons"
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10537 - "Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart"
4 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10540 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge"
5* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10541 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered"Quest Line III - Third Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10546 "Borak, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10547 - "Of Thistleheads and Eggs..."
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10550 - "The Bundle of Bloodthistle"
4 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10570 - "To Catch A Thistlehead"
5 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10576 - "The Shadowmoon Shuffle"
6 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10577 - "What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets..."
7 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10578 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge"
8* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10579 "The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered"After completing the quests for the three Fragments of Damnation, the lines converge and you need to kill one last boss.
Final* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10588 - "The Cipher of Damnation"Rewards:
Everyone gets http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31074 - Fire Resist Neck
Choose one of the following:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31036 - Caster Staff
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31038 - Healer Staff
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31062 - Paladin/Shaman 2H Axe
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31071 - Tanking 1H Axe
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31072 - Bow
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31073 - Melee DaggerAfter completing the quest, you will get a message in the mail from Khadgar. If you go to Shattrath, he will tell you to talk to A'Dal, who unlocks the the three Trials. These are prerequisites for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.
Quest
The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge
A World of Warcraft quest in Shadowmoon Valley. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Around 45,27
You need to kill the Nagas all around coilskar point, they will drop keys which open the coilskar chests laying about.
I got mine on my second chest.
It may be worth mentioning, after opening a few chests, I noticed one chest at 44.5, 29.5 that was sparkling. I opened it and it had the fragment. None of the other chests had the sparkle animation on them.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10522))
What to do
Description
This naga filth is the sixth one I've interrogated today. He's got the fancy armor so I figured he knew something. Those other ones were useless. <Grom'tor points to the corpses of the naga around him.> I only had to beat him once and he told me everything. The first part of the cipher is hidden in a naga chest at Coilskar Point or Coilskar Cistern, east of here. He says naga carry the keys. Kill 'em, take their keys and use them to open the Coilskar chests. Return to me when you find the cipher.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #104 44.5 23.7
Coordinates
- Turn-inShadowmoon Valley 44.5, 23.7
/way #104 44.5 23.7 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Shadowmoon Valley 51.1, 24.4
/way #104 51.1 24.4
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 Shadowmoon Valley map
- Desecrate this Fire! about 650 yards
- Honor the Flame about 660 yards
- Warchief's Command: Shadowmoon Valley! about 840 yards
- Grand Master Antari about 1,020 yards
- Hero's Call: Shadowmoon Valley! about 1,140 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Shadowmoon Valley, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shadowmoon Valley:
- Shadowmoon Village, Shadowmoon Valley
- Altar of Sha'tar, Shadowmoon Valley
- Wildhammer Stronghold, Shadowmoon Valley
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
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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Storyline
Shadowmoon Valley
Part 86 of 147.
Previous: Grom'tor, Son of Oronok · Next: The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered
- 81Oronok Torn-heart
- 82I Was A Lot Of Things...
- 83A Lesson Learned
- 84The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History
- 85Grom'tor, Son of Oronok
- 86The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge
- 87The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered
- 88Ar'tor, Son of Oronok
- 89Demonic Crystal Prisons
- 90Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart
- 91The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge
- 92The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered
Showing steps 81 to 92 of 147.
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.
- Grom'tor, Son of Oronok
My first born, Grom'tor, left to search Coilskar Point - directly southwest of here. He's the warrior in the family - ill-tempered and blood-thirsty... Traits he inherited from his mother. Search along the outskirts of Coilskar Point. If you see naga corpses, Grom'tor is sure to be close.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered
<Grom'tor wraps the documents up and places them in a lockbox.> Take this box to father. He awaits your return at the farm, northeast of here. Tell him that I will be home soon. As soon as I am done having my fun...
The storyline at a glance
Shadowmoon Valley has 147 steps, from Spleendid! to A Job Unfinished....
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shadowmoon Valley (129), Terokkar Forest (10), Nagrand (7), Shattrath City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Shadowmoon Valley map
- Battle Pet Tamers
- Burning Crusade Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.