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The Wailing Dead
The Wailing Dead is a quest for level 45, added in Legion. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.
Quest Objectives
- Spirits slain x 15
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This world quest takes place within the central area of the Broken Shore known as the Soul Ruin. The spirits required for this quest include [npc=118657]s and [npc=118660]s. These enemies are faction-tagged.
Lemme tell you, as an affliction warlock with the Deadwind Harvester, it really doesn't feel like I'm the right one for the job at all... might actually be making things worse. I don't think Velen read my résumé...
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| Objective area | Broken Shore | 1 mapped point |
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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 #646 50.7 42.0
Coordinates
- Objective areaBroken Shore 50.7, 42.0
/way #646 50.7 42.0
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 Broken Shore map
- A Walk to Remember about 180 yards
- The Minions of Hel'nurath about 240 yards
- Ready to Strike about 270 yards
- Unnatural Consequences about 290 yards
- Salvation about 290 yards
- The Firelord's Offense about 310 yards
- Alchemist Korlya about 320 yards
- Storming the Legion about 320 yards
- Barrel Toss about 320 yards
- Fel Ingredients about 320 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Broken Shore, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Broken Shore:
- Vengeance Point, Broken Shore
- Deliverance Point, Broken Shore
- Aalgen Point, Broken Shore
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.
First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight patch 12.0.7, the oldest build in our datamine).
Where this quest fits
The client’s own unlock condition for this quest: Requires further advancement in the Legionfall Campaign on Broken Shore.
Other storylines on the Broken Shore map
- Legionfall Campaign
- Chronicles of Skyhold IV
- Excavations
- Watchers in the Wild IV
- Saga of the Shadowblade IV
- The Elemental Lords IV
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.
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