TheWoWDBFastest way to do this is to stock up on the 3 cheapest awakened elements available (for me it was frost, fire and earth), get around 100-200 of each, any extras at the end can just be resold on the AH so no real problem. Then go to your WOD garrison via the garrison hearthstone, and talk to the person behind the mission table to enter the Proving Grounds, once in the proving grounds whenever you start a round at the panderan guy the item with a 5 minute cooldown will have it's CD reset, allowing you to rapid fire each usage and complete the quest in ~10 minutes rather than 100 minutes. If you get have to use an awakened element that you didn't stock up on (like perhaps air) then just right click off the 5 minute buff that corresponds to that element and redo the item, if you don't click it off then it won't let you get a different one until the first buff is gone.
Quest
To The Test: Concentrated Sophic Vellum
A World of Warcraft quest in Ohn'ahran Plains. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Honestly this entire questline has been trash but this is BY FAR the worst step of them all..
Whoever designed this, should you ever read this, please go work in another profession. Thanks!
Data compilation to bypass the five minutes cooldown of Shalasar's Sophic Vellum
Requirements:
Have the Warlords of Draenor citadel unlocked. If not go to the dark portal area in Blasted Lands and talk to Khadgar, take his quest, leave it and cross the portal. You will appear in front of Prophet Velen. Do a couple quests to get the citadel and that's it. If you are horde the process is similar after crossing the portal, but in another area and with other heroes.
Having 200 Awakened Fire in your bags, it's the cheapest. If you want to speed it up buy: 100 Awakened Fire, 100 Awakened Air, 100 Awakened Earth, and 100 Awakened Frost and use second macro instead. Once you finish, sell the excess back at the auction.
If you bought 200 Awakened Fire, create this macro and assign it to a button on your bars:
/cancelaura Unstable Air
/cancelaura Unstable Earth
/cancelaura Unstable Frost
/click StaticPopup1Button1
/run SelectGossipOption(1)
/use Shalasar's Sophic Vellum
/click ExtraActionButton1If you chose to buy 100 of each element, create this macro instead and assign it to a button on your bars:
/click StaticPopup1Button1
/run SelectGossipOption(1)
/use Shalasar's Sophic Vellum
/click ExtraActionButton1What to do?:
Go to your citadel and talk to the NPC in charge of the follower table. Tell them you want to go to the proving grounds. Once there, do the following:
- Right-click Trial Master Rotun and press macro. Event will begin.
- Press macro. You will use Shalasar's Sophic Vellum.
- Does the extra action button ask for an Awakened element that you have in your bags? Press the macro twice; if not, proceed to next step.
- Right-click Trial Master Rotun and press macro to finish event. You will be incapacitated for a few seconds, and the cooldown of Shalasar's Sophic Vellum will be reset.
- Repeat the process from the first step until completing the mission.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(78002))
Description
The Order and shadowflame magics are competing with each other. The enchantment will never be able to funnel Fyr'alath's power if we can't channel the excess Order magic being forced away from it. If you can channel the enchantment, your allies can catch any excess Order magic.
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.
Turn-inIn-game waypoint: /way #2023 62.4 18.7
Coordinates
- Turn-inOhn'ahran Plains 62.4, 18.7
/way #2023 62.4 18.7
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 Ohn'ahran Plains map
- Omens and Incense about 760 yards
- Clan Ohn'ir about 790 yards
- Honor the Flame about 830 yards
- A Storm of Ill Tidings about 960 yards
- The Nokhud Threat about 970 yards
- Orientation: Maruukai about 970 yards
- Observing the Wind about 970 yards
- A Useful Curiosity about 970 yards
- Whistling Rocks about 970 yards
- Befriending Wings and Wind about 970 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Ohn'ahran Plains, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Ohn'ahran Plains:
- Emberwatch, Ohn'ahran Plains
- Apex Observatory, The Waking Shores
- Uktulut Outpost, The Waking Shores
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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Reward details
Items you receive
“This vellum details incantations that can guide shadowflame away from the wielder. Crafted in tandem with Master Enchantress Shalasar.”
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.
Storyline
Concentrated Sophic Vellum
Part 4 of 4.
Previous: Handling It: Radiant Vellum
- 1Handling It: Concentrated Sophic Vellum
- 2Handling It: Radiant Fleck of Ash
- 3Handling It: Radiant Vellum
- 4To The Test: Concentrated Sophic Vellum
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.
- Handling It: Radiant Vellum
We can refine my creation by embedding the enchantment with Order magic. Here are my notes on Concentrated Sophic Vellum. Sharing this with another friendly enchanter should give them enough info to complete a Crafting Order for you.
The storyline at a glance
Concentrated Sophic Vellum has 4 steps, from Handling It: Concentrated Sophic Vellum to To The Test: Concentrated Sophic Vellum.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Ohn'ahran Plains (4).
Other storylines on the Ohn'ahran Plains map
- The Ohn'ahran Plains
- The Green Dragons
- Old Hatreds
- Into the Plains
- Maruukai
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.