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The Darkness Within

The Darkness Within is a Horde-only quest for level 10-35 in The Jade Forest. It is step 8 of 8 in The Jade Forest, First Contact storyline, the final step. The quest's turn-in marker is in The Jade Forest at 27.6, 24.3. It rewards 6,000 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 2 achievements.

Description

You didn't see Captain Doren while you were out there, did you?

That sniveling Alliance leader must be in hiding somewhere. If he wasn't in that airbase, he can't be far. Search the perimeter - try searching the cave southwest of the main airfield. I want the Alliance gone from here!

Rewards

Money27 gold48 silver
Experience6,000 XP
Top Comments

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

1
ParRathorne+84via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Just to be CLEAR, you get to this quest objective from within the camp (don't run down and around the side of the valley or jump off the edge as I did as there's no easy way back up from the water!) From within the camp, take the small bridge (27.5, 25.1) over the valley to where you'll find a cave and the mob to kill.

2
SpakyTwo+28via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

After running around for twenty minutes to a half an hour (after coming here) I decided to post about it.

The beginning to the bridge is at 27.4 25.1 it is inside the Alliance Camp pretty much across the camp from Corporal Jackson Silver who is in a shed like structure at 27.9 23.3.

Cross the bridge and the cave is obvious on the other side on the right hand side. There are two guards posted outside. You can pull them one at a time. Then go inside the cave and kill him. He has two phases and can be challenging at level 85. You may want to try to get to Halfhill and talk with Trader Jambeezi http://www.wowhead.com/npc=59583

He sells a complete set of 372 gear. I noticed someone in another comment said that that they were at ilvl 327.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,000
MoneyGold27g 48s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapThe Jade ForestTurn-in marker at 27.6, 24.3, 3 mapped points
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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.

The Jade Forest Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
The Jade Forest map showing where to go for The Darkness WithinTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #371 27.6 24.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThe Jade Forest 27.6, 24.3/way #371 27.6 24.3
  • Objective areaThe Jade Forest 25.7, 23.6/way #371 25.7 23.6
  • Objective areaThe Jade Forest 31.6, 21.9/way #371 31.6 21.9

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 Jade Forest map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Jade Forest:

  • Honeydew Village, Jade ForestHorde · about 410 yards north
  • Grookin Hill, Jade ForestHorde · about 1,100 yards south
  • Tian Monastery, Jade ForestAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 130 yards west
  • Objective areaabout 300 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

The Jade Forest, First Contact

Part 8 of 8.

Previous: Unreliable Allies

  1. 1Seeking Zin'jun
  2. 2Cryin' My Eyes Out
  3. 3Seein' Red
  4. 4Assault on the Airstrip
  5. 5Strongarm Tactics
  6. 6Choppertunity
  7. 7Unreliable Allies
  8. 8The Darkness Within

Also part of: The Jade Forest (part 17 of 83).

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.

  • Unreliable AlliesThe Jade Forest · Level 10-35

    We originally welcomed the Alliance as friends. Several of our villagers volunteered to help them build an airstrip. Only recently, however, did it become clear to us that they were building a war base, within shouting distance of our village.

Also counted by Campaign: The Jade Forest

Its criteria name 18 quests; others include:

Also counted by Upjade Complete

Its criteria name 18 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

The Jade Forest, First Contact has 8 steps, from Seeking Zin'jun to The Darkness Within.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Jade Forest (8).

Other storylines on The Jade Forest 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward these achievements.

Campaign: The Jade ForestComplete The Jade Forest storylines listed below with a Timerunner.Greater Bronze CacheUpjade CompleteComplete the Jade Forest storylines listed below.10
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The Darkmist Ruins
The Darkness
The Darkness Among Us
The Darkness Beneath
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The Daughter Who Lived
The Dawning Light
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