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The Elder's Instruments

The Elder's Instruments is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-35 in The Jade Forest. It is step 11 of 13 in The Jade Forest, The Waterspeaking Ceremony storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in The Jade Forest at 58.8, 81.1. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,800 experience and money.

Description

Oh dear, oh dear... The Elder mustn't find out!

I must have left the Elder's ceremonial instruments behind during the escape.

But... Moonwater Retreat is crawling with hozen by now!

What sort of Pearlkeeper am I, to have lost them so carelessly?

<The old jinyu buries his face into his hands.>

Stranger, could you find it in your heart to help me?

Rewards

Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
ReputationPearlfin Jinyu +2,500
Top Comments

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Boonie01+27via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Just did this on my 3rd toon (the first 2 taking in excess of 500 kills between them to complete the quest) and noticed the mobs have a cast called Loot Toss. I was intrigued and starting interrupting it and found the mobs dropped the quest items first go, only had to kill 5 or 6 of them.

Need some people to confirm but this may take the pain out of this particular quest.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,800
MoneyGold13g 74s
ReputationPearlfin Jinyu+2,500

Reward details

Reputation: Pearlfin Jinyu +2,500

A reserved, methodical race of fish people.

Reputation group: Mists of Pandaria.

Other quests in The Jade Forest that reward Pearlfin Jinyu reputation: The Path of War (+2,000), Freeing Our Brothers (+2,000), Ancient Power (+2,000), Jailbreak (+1,000), Kung Din (+4,000), Family Heirlooms (+2,500).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapThe Jade ForestTurn-in marker at 58.8, 81.1, 13 mapped points
World Map

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 13 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #371 58.8 81.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThe Jade Forest 58.8, 81.1/way #371 58.8 81.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Jade Forest 65.2, 86.9/way #371 65.2 86.9
  • Objective areaThe Jade Forest 58.8, 81.3/way #371 58.8 81.3

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

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

  • Pearlfin Village, Jade ForestAlliance · about 90 yards south-west
  • Paw'Don Village, Jade ForestAlliance · about 910 yards west
  • Jade Temple Grounds, Jade ForestAlliance and Horde · about 940 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 520 yards south-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, The Waterspeaking Ceremony

Part 11 of 13.

Previous: Road Rations · Next: Family Heirlooms

  1. 1The White Pawn
  2. 2Hozen Aren't Your Friends, Hozen Are Your Enemies
  3. 3The Missing Admiral
  4. 4The Path of War
  5. 5Freeing Our Brothers
  6. 6Ancient Power
  7. 7Kung Din
  8. 8Jailbreak
  9. 9The Pearlfin Situation
  10. 10Road Rations
  11. 11The Elder's Instruments
  12. 12Family Heirlooms
  13. 13Spirits of the Water

Also part of: The Jade Forest (part 28 of 88).

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.

  • Road RationsThe Jade Forest · Level 10-35

    We do not have time to wait around for the Admiral to recover. Sully and I are planning to search for Anduin to the north, but we'll need supplies for our journey. The lake here is teeming with wildlife, which we have received permission to hunt.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Family HeirloomsThe Jade Forest · Level 10-35

    We recently lost a fierce battle against the hozen at Moonwater Retreat. We evacuated as many of our people as we could, but still, there were many we could not save. We have no tokens of our lost over which to send our prayers.

The storyline at a glance

The Jade Forest, The Waterspeaking Ceremony has 13 steps, from The White Pawn to Spirits of the Water.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Jade Forest (13).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

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.

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