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The Looming Threat

The Looming Threat is a quest for level 30-35 in Shimmering Expanse. It is step 50 of 149 in the Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse storyline. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 3,600 experience and money.

Description

Can ya feel how angry the elements be? They be wantin' to attack us and consume us even as we just arrive. We need ta calm dem, but that kinda wisdom only comes from knowin' what's riling them up in da first place.

Come sit with me by da fire. Let yaself get lost in da flames... let ya spirit peer into the true threat.

Rewards

Money10 gold30 silver50 copper
Experience3,600 XP
ReputationThe Earthen Ring +150
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP3,600
MoneyGold10g 30s
ReputationThe Earthen Ring+150

Reward details

Reputation: The Earthen Ring +150

This gathering of the most powerful shaman of Azeroth seeks to maintain the balance between the world's elemental forces. Their main focus during the cataclysm has been to repair and stabilize the damage caused by Deathwing's arrival.

Reputation group: Cataclysm.

Other quests in Shimmering Expanse that reward The Earthen Ring reputation: Backed Into a Corner (+350), A Distracting Scent (+250), Totem Modification (+250), Undersea Inflation (+250), Don't be Shellfish (+250), Slippery Threat (+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 mapShimmering Expanse
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.

Shimmering Expanse Quest turn-in

Nearby on the Shimmering Expanse map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shimmering Expanse:

  • Sandy Beach, Vashj'irAlliance · about 100 yards south-east

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

Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse

Part 50 of 149.

Previous: Across the Great Divide · Next: Backed Into a Corner

  1. 45What? What? In My Gut...?
  2. 46Decompression
  3. 47Decompression
  4. 48The Warden's Time
  5. 49Across the Great Divide
  6. 50The Looming Threat
  7. 51Backed Into a Corner
  8. 52Rundown
  9. 53Silver Tide Hollow
  10. 54The Great Sambino
  11. 55Undersea Inflation
  12. 56Totem Modification

Showing steps 45 to 56 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.

  • Across the Great DivideShimmering Expanse · Level 30-35

    We will need to press deeper into Vashj'ir if we want to uncover what the naga are doing here. Go to the Lightless Reaches, the giant chasm bordering the Kelp'thar Forest to the west. If you look across it, you should see a cluster of plant-life surrounding the entrance to Damplight Chamber.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Backed Into a CornerShimmering Expanse · Level 30-35

    The naga are upon us, <class>. Aid us in fightin' dem off!

The storyline at a glance

Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse has 149 steps, from Call of Duty to Full Circle.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shimmering Expanse (98), Kelp'thar Forest (48), Abyssal Depths (2), Vashj'ir (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Shimmering Expanse 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.

Related
The Long Way Around
The Longest Vigil
The Looming Cinder
The Looming Dark
The Lord of the Gordunni
The Lord of the Gordunni
The Lord Reclaimer
The Lord's Behest
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