TheWoWDBJust 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.
Quest
The Elder's Instruments
A World of Warcraft quest in The Jade Forest. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Npcs to kill are located at Moonwater Retreat.
This one's a little annoying, just keep killing [npc=55110] and eventually you'll get all four items.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-35
ZoneThe Jade Forest
Quest ID29887
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(29887))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineThe Jade Forest, The Waterspeaking Ceremony, step 11 of 13
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
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?
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 areaIn-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 The Jade Forest map
- Mists of Pandaria: Onward to Adventure in Pandaria about 910 yards
- Journey to the East about 1,090 yards
- Defiance about 1,100 yards
- Rally the Survivors about 1,100 yards
- Orchard-Supplied Hardware about 1,110 yards
- Spitfire about 1,110 yards
- The Monkey King's Challenge about 1,120 yards
- Unbound about 1,290 yards
- Maul Gormal about 1,290 yards
- The Splintered Path about 1,290 yards
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 Forest
- Paw'Don Village, Jade Forest
- Jade Temple Grounds, Jade Forest
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Other quests on the Jade Forest map
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.
Storyline
The Jade Forest, The Waterspeaking Ceremony
Part 11 of 13.
Previous: Road Rations · Next: Family Heirlooms
- 1The White Pawn
- 2Hozen Aren't Your Friends, Hozen Are Your Enemies
- 3The Missing Admiral
- 4The Path of War
- 5Freeing Our Brothers
- 6Ancient Power
- 7Kung Din
- 8Jailbreak
- 9The Pearlfin Situation
- 10Road Rations
- 11The Elder's Instruments
- 12Family Heirlooms
- 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 Rations
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 Heirlooms
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
- The Jade Forest, Dawn's Blossom & Tian Monastery & Nectarbreeze Village
- The Jade Forest, Greenstone Quarry & Terrace of Ten Thunders & The Jade Serpent
- The Jade Forest, Strange Bedfellows & Grookin Hill
- The Jade Forest, The White Pawn & Pearlfin Village
- The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village
- Mists of Pandaria
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.