Quest Log

The Hidden Hand

The Hidden Hand is a quest for level 70. It is step 3 of 3 in the Technoscrying: Dragonskull Island storyline, the final step. The quest's turn-in marker is in The Forbidden Reach at 77.1, 38.4. It rewards 11,900 experience and money.

Description

Catching him at the very moment he's alone? They must've been watching somewhere nearby but just out of sight. Can you check that cave across the water?

Those hornswogs are known hoarders. If those drakonid left something behind, it may still be there.

Rewards

You will receive:

Spell: Azerothian Archives: Dragonskull Island, Forbidden Reach SiteUnlock the Azerothian Archives' World Quests on Dragonskull Island of the Forbidden Reach.

Money56

Experience11,900 XP

Stuck on this quest?

Turn in at The Forbidden Reach 77.1, 38.4 /way #2151 77.1 38.4

Known issues

Top Comments

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notacyborgJan 16, 2024+154via Wowhead

Quest seems a bit buggy. I looted every single pile I could find (7), but did not get the quest item. Ended up having to drop the quest and pick it back up again. First pile I looted gave me the quest item after doing this.

rodalphoJan 16, 2024+20via Wowhead

Two of the hornswog treasure piles are OUTSIDE the cave. It took me an embarrassingly long time to find that.

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Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(77415))

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

notacyborgJan 16, 2024+154via Wowhead

Quest seems a bit buggy. I looted every single pile I could find (7), but did not get the quest item. Ended up having to drop the quest and pick it back up again. First pile I looted gave me the quest item after doing this.

rodalphoJan 16, 2024+20via Wowhead

Two of the hornswog treasure piles are OUTSIDE the cave. It took me an embarrassingly long time to find that.

NataleneJan 16, 2024+14via Wowhead

This worked for me as well. Got mine from 2nd pile after dropping quest and repicking it back up. NPC: Zenata /way 77.15, 38.39

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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	11,900
Money	Gold	56g 18s

Where it comes from

Turn-in map	The Forbidden Reach	Turn-in marker at 77.1, 38.4, 7 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.

Coordinates

Turn-inThe Forbidden Reach 77.1, 38.4/way #2151 77.1 38.4
Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Forbidden Reach 69.8, 46.1/way #2151 69.8 46.1

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 Forbidden Reach map

A Creche Divided about 20 yards
Chasing the Flame about 130 yards
Aiding the Expedition about 1,000 yards
The Best We Have about 1,000 yards
Inheritance about 1,000 yards
Creche Fallen about 1,000 yards
Our Destiny about 1,250 yards
Keeping the Flame at Bay about 1,280 yards
An Interdisciplinary Approach about 1,280 yards
The High Creche about 1,290 yards

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Forbidden Reach:

Morqut Village, The Forbidden ReachAlliance and Horde · about 2,000 yards west
Morqut Islet, Forbidden ReachAlliance and Horde · about 2,300 yards west
Veiled Ossuary, ThaldraszusAlliance and Horde · about 4,300 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 410 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

Technoscrying: Dragonskull Island

Part 3 of 3.

This encapsulates the one-off quests for Technoscrying at Dragonskull Island

Previous: Without Honor

Also part of: Azerothian Archives (part 36 of 44).

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.

Without HonorLevel 70
Ok, the goggles should be calibrated. Looks like the confluence point is right here on the ledge. I wonder what happened to him?

The storyline at a glance

Technoscrying: Dragonskull Island has 3 steps, from The Fate of Scalecommander Abereth to The Hidden Hand.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Forbidden Reach (3).

Other storylines on The Forbidden Reach map

Evoker Tablets16 steps, starts with Sending Stone: Protest
A Creche Divided10 steps, starts with Hidden Legacies
Adamanthia3 steps, starts with Our Destiny
The 5th Essence3 steps, starts with Our Destiny

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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