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The Tainted Marsh

The Tainted Marsh is a quest for level 45. It is step 6 of 11 in The Fel Worm Menace storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Highmountain at 31.3, 25.1. It rewards 775 experience and money.

Description

I wasn't able to scout inside the village yet, however, there are more dangerous experiments going on to the south. They were befouling the unquiet spirits in the marshlands with more fel magic!

I will rework this fel totem to draw out the fel energies they infused in those spirits.

Please, cure what spirits you can, perhaps it will even give them some peace.

If you want, I can even send you there!

Rewards

Money2 gold2 silver20 copper
Experience775 XP

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Known issues

Top Comments

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Zazkia+34via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you use the item on the corpse of a dead ghost and while channeling select a live one, you kill the live one and cleanse it soul. Then you can cleanse the dead one you were initially targeting and get two cleanses for one kill!
Probably a bug.

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Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(45726))

Top Comments

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

2
Zazkia+34via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you use the item on the corpse of a dead ghost and while channeling select a live one, you kill the live one and cleanse it soul. Then you can cleanse the dead one you were initially targeting and get two cleanses for one kill!
Probably a bug.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP775
MoneyGold2g 2s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapHighmountainTurn-in marker at 31.3, 25.1, 14 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.

Highmountain Quest turn-in 14 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #650 31.3 25.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHighmountain 31.3, 25.1/way #650 31.3 25.1
  • Objective areaHighmountain 31.3, 25.0/way #650 31.3 25.0
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Highmountain 27.5, 34.3/way #650 27.5 34.3

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 Highmountain map

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

Getting there

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

  • Felbane Camp, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 680 yards south
  • The Witchwood, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 830 yards south-east
  • Shipwreck Cove, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 510 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

The Fel Worm Menace

Part 6 of 11.

Previous: The Burning Birds · Next: Village of the Corruptors

  1. 1Destruction: Rumblings Near Feltotem
  2. 2Discipline: Rumblings Near Feltotem
  3. 3Windwalker: Rumblings Near Feltotem
  4. 4Beast Mastery: Rumblings Near Feltotem
  5. 5The Burning Birds
  6. 6The Tainted Marsh
  7. 7Village of the Corruptors
  8. 8The Feltotem Menace
  9. 9Destroying the Nest
  10. 10A Triumphant Report
  11. 11A Gift From the Six

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.

  • The Burning BirdsLevel 45

    The Feltotem are experimenting on these falcosaurs! They didn't get the results that they wanted and have carelessly left their experiments lying around to further poison the animals. We should collect their leftover totems to prevent further corruption and to find out what they were doing.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Village of the CorruptorsLevel 45

    The Feltotem continue to create these totems for further "experiments". Let us deal with these infusers in the traditional manner. Their deaths will right a great wrong and provide clues as to their ultimate goal.

The storyline at a glance

The Fel Worm Menace has 11 steps, from Destruction: Rumblings Near Feltotem to A Gift From the Six.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Highmountain (9), Dalaran (2).

Other storylines on the Highmountain 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.

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The Tainted Ooze
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