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The Focus on the Beach (Alliance)

The Focus on the Beach is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Dragonblight. It is step 9 of 149 in the Dragonblight storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Dragonblight at 29.0, 55.5. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

The mage hunter forces are active on the Glittering Strand to the south of Moonrest Gardens. My guess is that you'll find a heavily guarded focus on the beach and a captain who is in charge of it.

No doubt the captain will have some sort of controlling device on their person. Get the controller and use it on the focus.

With any luck, we'll be able to get some more information about what they're really up to out there.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationKirin Tor +250
Top Comments

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It is a 100% drop rate, but however... There is a bug in this drop, when you loot her body it doesn't actually show you taking the ring, or taking it in your quest log. But it is there. The item is called the "Ley Line Focus Control Ring" It looks like a ring you can wear and use, it's BABY BLUE and WHITE with a BABY BLUE aura/light coming off of it. It is against a DARK BLUE background for the item picture.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationKirin Tor+250

Reward details

Reputation: Kirin Tor +250

The mages and archmages running the city of Dalaran. Faced with the rising threats of the Blue Dragonflight and the Scourge, they've transported their city to the heart of Northrend.

Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.

Other quests in Dragonblight that reward Kirin Tor reputation: Your Presence is Required at Stars' Rest (+10), Your Presence is Required at Agmar's Hammer (+10), Rifle the Bodies (+250), Prevent the Accord (+350), A Strange Device (+75), Projections and Plans (+250).

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 mapDragonblightTurn-in marker at 29.0, 55.5, 3 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.

Dragonblight Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Dragonblight map showing where to go for The Focus on the BeachTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #115 29.0 55.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDragonblight 29.0, 55.5/way #115 29.0 55.5
  • Objective areaDragonblight 26.4, 65.5/way #115 26.4 65.5

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 Dragonblight map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Dragonblight:

  • Stars' Rest, DragonblightAlliance · at the same spot
  • Fordragon Hold, DragonblightAlliance · about 1,300 yards north-east
  • Moa'ki, DragonblightAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 400 yards south
  • Objective areaabout 380 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Dragonblight

Part 9 of 149.

Previous: Projections and Plans · Next: Atop the Woodlands

  1. 4The High Cultist
  2. 5Rifle the Bodies
  3. 6Prevent the Accord
  4. 7A Strange Device
  5. 8Projections and Plans
  6. 9The Focus on the Beach
  7. 10Atop the Woodlands
  8. 11Search Indu'le Village
  9. 12Into the Fold
  10. 13Blood Oath of the Horde
  11. 14Agmar's Hammer
  12. 15Victory Nears...

Showing steps 4 to 15 of 149.

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.

  • Projections and PlansDragonblight · Level 15-30

    This is a teleportation device. If I had to guess, I'd say that it leads to the surge needle platform floating above the Moonrest Gardens to the west. I need you to use it to investigate what's up there. It appears that the device works both ways so you shouldn't have to jump off.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Atop the WoodlandsDragonblight · Level 15-30

    I'm convinced that there must be more of those foci, each of them in-turn redirecting the ley line energies. We still don't know precisely what they're doing with all of that power, though. My guess is that you'll find another one atop the Lothalor Woodlands to the southeast.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Dragonblight · Level 15-30.

The storyline at a glance

Dragonblight has 149 steps, from The Liquid Fire of Elune to Really Big Worm.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dragonblight (144), Crystalsong Forest (5).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Dragonblight 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name The Focus on the Beach. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
The Focus on the Beach (this page)Alliance12065
The Focus on the BeachHorde12066
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