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Quest
The Cycle of Life
A World of Warcraft quest in Stormsong Valley. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Leave it to Blizzard to make a quest that's actually worse than the hated Beachhead.
The funniest thing about it is how much your crab gets fired on. I wish I could have fired that much in Beachhead!
Time to get revenge on the turtles who frustrated us at times lol. Can be tricky judging which turtle to go for due to your low point of view as the crab. Also watch double clicking your keybind before the crab moves or you'll find yourself getting hit due to moving two spaces (very touchy controls for me). Can get hit around 4 or 5 times before you die as crab.
Edit: Just found a way to make this quest even harder, by doing it on my Warlock alt (yes have been avoiding this quest lol). Now added to the fun I listed above is the addition of Wild Imps to block your view, and of course the random spawns of other demons. Would love it if the random one's frequency out and about was the same as in this quest though, having 3 out at once!
Quest facts
Quest ID55301
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(55301))
Requirements
Quest typeTortollan World Quest - 8.0
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Stop Juvenile Turtles From Reaching the Ocean x 20
- Speak to Scrollsage Nola
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #942 30.4 56.7
Coordinates
- Objective areaStormsong Valley 30.4, 56.7
/way #942 30.4 56.7
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 Stormsong Valley map
- A Bit of a Bind about 100 yards
- Freedom for the Sea about 100 yards
- Caught in the Net about 100 yards
- ...And Following Seas about 110 yards
- Sail With the Tide about 110 yards
- From the Depths about 220 yards
- A Snake with Three Heads about 220 yards
- Clearing the Delta about 220 yards
- Deadliest Cache: Reel Big Fish about 260 yards
- Deadliest Cache: Carpe Diem about 260 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Stormsong Valley, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Stormsong Valley:
- Millstone Hamlet, Stormsong Valley
- Fort Daelin, Stormsong Valley
- Stonetusk Watch, Stormsong Valley
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 Stormsong Valley map
Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Stormsong Valley map
- A House in Peril
- Secrets of Stormsong Valley
- Deadwash Line
- Defense of Fort Daelin
- Not the Bees!
- Milstone Hamlet
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.