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The Shimmering Crystal (Alliance)

The Shimmering Crystal is an Alliance-only quest for level 1-90 in Ashran. It rewards 9,500 experience and money.

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Description

Though the crystal appears familiar at first, upon contact with your finger it reveals itself as so much more. A grand, lost civilization appears in front of you. Fixtures of gold shimmer in every direction, bright feathers of purple occasionally falling from overhead. You hear the distant sounds of battle, culminating in a thunderous explosion that overwhelms all of your senses and turns your vision white.

When your vision returns, you feel something within you pulling you toward Ashran.

Rewards

Money28 gold9 silver
Experience9,500 XP
Top Comments

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1
Nightwatcha+14via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Updated macro for The War Within and beyond to check whether you’ve completed the weekly Timewalking quest, for both Horde and Alliance and for all different Timewalking campaigns. If all the text appears red, you haven't completed this week's quest yet.

Alliance:
/run a={{"Classic",43117},{"BC",0},{"WotLK",5},{"Cata",619},{"MoP",5395},{"WoD",15330},{"Legion",24542},{"BfA",49054}}for i=1,#a do n,o=a[1],a[2]print("\124cFF"..(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(40168+o)and"00FF00"or"c51a20")..n.."\124r")end
Horde:
/run a={{"Classic",43117},{"BC",0},{"WotLK",5},{"Cata",618},{"MoP",5395},{"WoD",15330},{"Legion",24542},{"BfA",49055}}for i=1,#a do n,o=a[1],a[2]print("\124cFF"..(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(40168+o)and"00FF00"or"c51a20")..n.."\124r")end

3
mymy379+8via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

You can check whether you completed this quest with:

# Alliance
/script print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(55498))
# Alliance with pretty coloured output
/run print(format("%s: %s","WoD",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(55498) and "\124cff00ff00Yes" or "\124cffff0000No"))

# Horde
/script print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(55499))
# Horde with pretty coloured output
/run print(format("%s: %s","WoD",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(55499) and "\124cff00ff00Yes" or "\124cffff0000No"))

You can combine the lines in a macro as you see fit.
(Lines starting with '#' are merely comments for convenience and can be safely skipped when copypasting to an in-game macro.)

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP9,500
MoneyGold28g 9s
Quest Line

Where this quest fits

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Ashran · Level 1-90.

Other weekly quests in Ashran

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 Shimmering Crystal. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
The Shimmering Crystal (this page)Alliance55498
The Shimmering CrystalHorde55499
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