The water that needs cleansing are barrels in and around Bradensbrook. When you click on them, you fire off felfire.
Quest
The Taste of Corruption
A World of Warcraft quest in Val'sharah. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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If you're on the healer Artifact Challenge questline that starts with Aid on the Front Lines, then this world quest (and presumably any others in the area) will not show up until you've completed the chain with some version of A Gift From the Six.
Corrupted Waters Cleansed: click on the little buckets on the ground in the corn field area
Villagers Released: attack the hostile humanoids in the area
Fel Corruptors Destroyed: click on the floating fel spreaders in the area
Quest facts
The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(46261))
Requirements
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Villagers released x 10
- Fel Corruptors destroyed x 4
- Corrupted Waters cleansed x 8
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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #641 40.6 60.3
Coordinates
- Objective areaVal'sharah 40.6, 60.3
/way #641 40.6 60.3
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 Val'sharah map
- Lending a Hand about 60 yards
- Rising Troubles about 60 yards
- Assassin Entrapment about 60 yards
- Holy: The Bradensbrook Investigation about 100 yards
- Aid on the Front Lines about 100 yards
- Restoration: The Bradensbrook Investigation about 100 yards
- Mistweaver: The Bradensbrook Investigation about 100 yards
- A Sight For Sore Eyes about 100 yards
- For the Corn! about 100 yards
- A Village in Peril about 110 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Val'sharah, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Val'sharah:
- Bradensbrook, Val'sharah
- Gloaming Reef, Val'sharah
- Garden of the Moon, Val'sharah
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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Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Val'sharah map
- Into the Nightmare
- All Nightmare Long
- The Black Rook Threat
- Archdruid of the Claw
- Bradensbrook
- Black Rook Hold
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.
Achievements
Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.
- Variety is the Spice of Life: its criteria name 967 quests, this one included.