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The Grimoire of the First Necrolyte

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charliedurbin+451via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Just wanted to put in an updated post for any late blooming warlocks with names and locations.
I spent quite a while digging through comments on here to compile the list of potential skull droppers.

Just to reiterate what others have pointed out:
1.) You do not need to be in affliction spec to get the quest starting item or to get skulls
2.) You cannot get the skull item if you are in a raid group, only 5 man or solo.
3.) Just because a name is on this list, the skull isn't a 100% drop (as far as i know). Some report getting a skull from certain mobs and while others did not.
4.) I am posting this in such a way that you can copy/paste into a macro for TomTom. If you used Macro Toolkit addon and extend the macro character limit then it should all fit in two macros (divide it out however you want, i've sorted my macros by zone)... otherwise you will need about 4 individual regular macros.

/way Stormheim 66 50 Fjorlag
/way Stormheim 73.7 39.3 Portal to Helheim
/way Helheim 68.2 19.3 Captain Dargun
/way Stormheim 51.3 25.2 Path down to Aegir Wavecrusher
/way Stormheim 83 9 Rulf Bonesnapper
/way Stormheim 62 73 Lagertha
/way Stormheim 77 9 Runeseer Sigvid
/way Stormheim 57.7, 17.3 Soulbinder Halldora
/way Azsuna 40 44 Mortiferous
/way Azsuna 43.4, 89.5 Lysanis Shadesoul
/way Azsuna 58.2, 21.2 Valakar the Thirsty
/way Azsuna 44.6 86.6 Sea King Tidross
/way Azsuna 58.4, 77.2 Chief Treasurer Jabrill
/way Azsuna 40.4, 77.0 Jade Darkhaven
/way Azsuna 66 40 Fjordun
/way Highmountain:Broken Isles 52 58 Ormagrogg
/way Highmountain:Broken Isles 43.4 75.4 Durguth
/way Highmountain:Broken Isles 57.4, 48.4 Defilia
/way Highmountain:Broken Isles 33.8, 21.3 Olokk the Shipbreaker
/way Highmountain:Broken Isles 48.2, 68.3 Oubdob da Smasher
/way Suramar 21.3, 43.4 Falanaar Tunnels
/way Suramar 29.0, 84.3 Sorallus
/way Suramar 49 79 Magistrix Vilessa
/way Suramar 23.0, 59,0 Outrider Trio
/way Suramar 57 67 Auditor Esiel
/way Suramar 81 62 Az'jatar
/way Val'sharah 46 84 Kathaw
/way Val'sharah 43 75 Malisandra
/way Val'sharah 62 43 Ealdis
/way Val'sharah 69 57 Rabxach
/way Val'sharah 52 40 Shalas'aman
/way Valsharah 23.90, 68.22 Witchdoctor entrance!
/way Val'sharah 59.7, 50.3 Aodh Witherpetal

I'm not taking credit for this information, just providing a compiled list since the original poster is not updating their post any longer, that I can tell.
Putridtwo - Garona
Edit: Please add a comment with any that I overlooked and i'll keep this list under close watch and update.

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gilike05+196via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Here's a list with all the World Quest you can get a [item=140762] from.

Important: you won't get [item=140762] if you are in a raid group.

To avoid these situations, if you leave the raid group before the kill, you will get one, otherwise just kill these mobs in party or solo.

For those who use TomTom here are the coordinates:

/way Stormheim 66 50 Fjorlag
/way Stormheim 73.7 39.3 Portal to Helheim
/way Helheim 68.2 19.3 Captain Dargun
/way Stormheim 83 9 Rulf Bonesnapper
/way Stormheim 62 73 Lagertha
/way Stormheim 77 9 Runeseer Sigvid
/way Azsuna 40 44 Mortiferous
/way Highmountain 52 58 Ormagrogg
/way Highmountain 43.4 75.4 Durguth
/way Suramar 49 79 Magistrix Vilessa
/way Suramar 57 67 Auditor Esiel
/way Suramar 81 62 Az'jatar
/way Val'sharah 46 84 Kathaw
/way Val'sharah 43 75 Malisandra
/way Val'sharah 62 43 Ealdis
/way Val'sharah 69 57 Rabxach
/way Val'sharah 52 40 Shalas'aman

You have to create 3 macro for these, because of the character limits.
If you want to create 1 single macro for waypoints, use Macro Toolkit addon. You can extend the character limit to 1024 there.

I will update this list if any new source(s) discovered.

After you got 13 skull, you have to turn in your quest in Deadwind Pass. Shortly after you did that [npc=112862] will spawn there. You have to kill her and loot your [item=139575] which will auto-complete the The Rite of the Executioner.

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65635+169via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

As I am doing this quest on two concurrent warlocks (horde and alliance), I thought it useful to compile all the different lists here into a single one, with personal confirmations. And from those confirmations, keep in mind:


  2. The skull is a 100% guaranteed drop from these mobs if they are an active world quest. On the same hand, if you killed a mob that gave you a skull before, and the world quest for it pops up again, killing it again will wield you another skull.

  4. The skull might not drop if you kill any of these mobs without them being an active world quest (I can confirm that, from the ones I killed on this condition, the skull didn't drop, but we have also people saying that the skull did drop for them, so my conclusion is that the skull drop is only 100% guaranteed when the mob is on an active world quest). On the same topic, killing the mob again after completing the world quest will not give you another skull.

  6. The skull will only drop if you are solo or in a 5-man group, at most. It will most definitely not drop for you if you are on a raid group, even if the world quest is active.

  8. So far, I have not gotten any skull drops from the Argus rares, either on their world quests or not, so I'm assuming they only drop off Broken Isles rares.

My conclusion is, don't bother looking for the mobs if they're not an active world quest. It will take you a few days at least, a couple weeks at worst, checking world quests every 8h or so, but it should save you the frustration of hunting down every mob in this list, every day, and not getting a skull every kill.

TL;DR: Only go for the mobs that are an active world quest for you.

The mobs that can give you a skull:

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 45
CategoryArtifact
Quest ID44083

The client quest POI data records no map location for this quest, so no map is shown.

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44083))

Requirements

ClassWarlock

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Description

This ancient tome appears to be the spellbook of Sataiel, the first necrolyte. Within its pages of curses and cantrips, you discover instructions for a ritual that Sataiel was concocting to empower Ulthalesh, the Deadwind Harvester. She calls this ritual, "The Rite of the Executioner." The site was chosen and prepared, but Sataiel met her unfortunate end before she could proceed. Perhaps you can pick up where she left off? First, you'll need some skulls.

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