TheWoWDBDoes not require any other people at all. Walk up to broken tablet, use Rune Sample, watch event then walk away.
Quest
The Lodestone
A World of Warcraft quest in Howling Fjord. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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For those without Co-ords, Go straight east along the top of the lake, then follow the edge of the snow. When you get a dwarf camp on your right stop, the tablet is in a clump of rocks just to the west of the dwarf camp.
Location of the broken tablet: http://www.wowhead.com/?maps=495:716178
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneHowling Fjord
Quest ID11358
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11358))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineHowling Fjord, step 148 of 162
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
If we can locate what's luring the giants northwest, we might be able to stop them before they reach their destination. Although I was able to decipher many of the runes on the samples you brought me, the ones I don't know concern me the most. When I visited Giants' Run, I noticed a large broken tablet jutting from the ground where the northeastern part of the area met the snow at the foot of Frostblade Peak. Take this sample, compare the runes with the tablet, and see what you can learn.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #117 62.6 16.5
Coordinates
- Turn-inHowling Fjord 62.6, 16.5
/way #117 62.6 16.5 - Objective areaHowling Fjord 71.8, 17.6
/way #117 71.8 17.6
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 Howling Fjord map
- Honor the Flame about 290 yards
- Hero's Call: Howling Fjord! about 1,860 yards
- To Northrend about 2,530 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Howling Fjord, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Howling Fjord:
- Fort Wildervar, Howling Fjord
- Valgarde Port, Howling Fjord
- Westguard Keep, Howling Fjord
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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Reward details
Reputation: Valiance Expedition +250
The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: Break the Blockade (+250), Scare the Guano Out of Them! (+250), Shoveltusk Soup Again? (+250), The Clutches of Evil (+250), Mage-Lieutenant Malister (+10), Two Wrongs... (+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.
Storyline
Howling Fjord
Part 148 of 162.
Previous: March of the Giants · Next: Demolishing Megalith
- 143Keeper Witherleaf
- 144The Book of Runes
- 145Mastering the Runes
- 146The Rune of Command
- 147March of the Giants
- 148The Lodestone
- 149Demolishing Megalith
- 150See to the Operations
- 151I've Got a Flying Machine!
- 152Gjalerbron Attack Plans
- 153The Frost Wyrm and its Master
- 154The Cleansing
Showing steps 143 to 154 of 162.
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.
- March of the Giants
To the east, at Giants' Run, rune-inscribed stone giants have started to migrate north toward Frostblade Peak. What their ultimate destination is, I do not know. The glowing runes inscribed in the stone flesh of the giants guide them on their journey.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Demolishing Megalith
Binder Murdis created Megalith to be the most powerful of the runed giants and to lead them in their mission. Defeating Megalith will leave them lost and without direction.
Other quests with this name
This one: Alliance only · Howling Fjord · Level 10-30.
The storyline at a glance
Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Howling Fjord map
- Truthguard
- Wrath of the Lich King Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.