The Dread Clutches

Reward details

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Getting there

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

• Klaxxi'vess, Dread WastesAlliance and Horde · about 50 yards south-east
• The Sunset Brewgarden, Dread WastesAlliance and Horde · about 820 yards north
• The Lion's Redoubt, Dread WastesAlliance · about 1,000 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

• Objective areaabout 660 yards south-west

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.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• The Klaxxi CouncilDread Wastes · Level 30-35

  I must report to the Klaxxi. They would not have woken me unless the situation were dire. You have not been entirely useless. For that, I will spare your life. The council may even find a use for you.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• Not Fit to SwarmDread Wastes · Level 30-35

  Newly hatched mantid have only two instincts: kill and feed. They turn on one another, devouring the weak and leaving the strongest to mature. Those hatched during a swarm - the swarmborn - are turned loose on our enemies instead. The swarmborn in the Clutches of Shek'zeer have been tainted.

Quests that require this one

• A Cry From Darkness
• Citizens of a New Empire

The storyline at a glance

Dread Wastes has 58 steps, from Falling Down to Mazu's Bounty.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dread Wastes (55), Vale of Eternal Blossoms (3).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

• Amber is the Color of My Energy Recover the following Klaxxi Paragons.
• Campaign: Dread Wastes Complete the Dread Wastes storylines listed below with a Timerunner.
• Dread Haste Makes Dread Waste Complete the Dread Wastes storylines listed below.

Other storylines on the Dread Wastes map

• The Mantid Threat9 steps, starts with Reflections in Amber
• Townlong Steppes53 steps, starts with A Foot in the Door

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.