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Turn the Scale (Alliance)

Turn the Scale is an Alliance-only quest for level 50 in Nazjatar, added in Battle for Azeroth. It rewards money.

Description

I am in need of your help, <class>. I have been hunting the nearby hydras for their scales, but my weapon was broken in the melee.

The scales of the hydra make durable and resilient armor for our warriors. Our clan requires the scales to craft and repair our armor.

If we do not resupply soon, we will be ill-equipped in our fight against the naga.

Rewards

You will receive:

Money23 gold40 silver
Top Comments

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

1
royalecheese+3via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The spawn rate was horrible for me, but I was one of the only people doing the quest. The quest in and of itself is simple: Kill the hydras and collect their scales. Scales drop 2 at a time, but I did have three drop from one of the elite hydras.

2
Kewlzilbot+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Drop seems pretty consistent at ~3 scales per hydra, whether elite or not. So, time wise, killing the non-elite ones seems to make more sense.

The spawn rate is low, even with several people in the area, but, I've found a good spot where about 5 hydra rotate and spawn. By camping out at /way 29.8, 41.5 (sort of near the base of the small waterfall) I've been able to finish the quest fairly quickly without running/flying around back/forth. You only need about 7 hydra to finish the quest, so this spot has worked well for me.

2 spawn across from the camping spot (near /way 30.1, 39.7), and 2-3 spawn downriver (near /way 31, 42.5).

/way 29.8, 41.5 Camp Spot
/way 30.1, 39.7 Hydra Group 1
/way 31, 42.5 Hydra Group 2

That is every comment on this page.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
CurrencyPrismatic Manapearl3
CurrencyNazjatar Ally - Hunter Akana10,000
MoneyGold23g 40s

Reward details

Currency: Prismatic Manapearl x 3

A glistening sphere of arcane energy found around Nazjatar. These can be traded for rare and powerful items, or used to empower Benthic armor.

Currency: Nazjatar Ally - Hunter Akana x 10,000

Grants combat experience for Hunter Akana.

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.

Where it comes from
Objective areaNazjatar1 mapped point
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.

Nazjatar Objective area 1 mapped point
Nazjatar map showing where to go for Turn the ScaleObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #1355 31.3 37.5

Coordinates

  • Objective areaNazjatar 31.3, 37.5/way #1355 31.3 37.5

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 Nazjatar map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Nazjatar:

  • Ashen Strand, NazjatarAlliance · about 30 yards south-east
  • Mezzamere, NazjatarAlliance · about 600 yards south-east
  • The Tidal Conflux, NazjatarAlliance · about 880 yards north-east

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.

Build history

First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight patch 12.0.7, the oldest build in our datamine).

Quest Line

Where this quest fits

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Nazjatar · Level 50.

Other daily quests in Nazjatar

Other storylines on the Nazjatar 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Turn the Scale. They differ in the faction/rewards shown here.

QuestFactionRewardsID
Turn the Scale (this page)Alliance3 Prismatic Manapearl, 10,000 Nazjatar Ally - Hunter Akana56152
Turn the ScaleHorde3 Prismatic Manapearl, 10,000 Nazjatar Ally - Vim Brineheart55980
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Quest Location and Connections

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