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Unlocking the Compendium

Unlocking the Compendium is a quest for level 25-30 in Netherstorm. It is step 78 of 103 in the Netherstorm storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Netherstorm at 56.6, 79.0. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

While I'm glad to have most of Krasus's Compendium back, it's useless without the heliotrope oculus. You see, Krasus was well aware of the sheer power of the spells recorded in the book and took steps to safeguard them from prying eyes.

Only a knowledgeable mage can use the oculus to unlock the compendium's secrets.

During Kael'thas's attack, one of his lieutenants, Spellreaver Marathelle, looted it and took it to Sunfury Hold northeast of the tower. No doubt she thought it a pretty little bauble.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapNetherstormTurn-in marker at 56.6, 79.0, 2 mapped points
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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.

Netherstorm Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Netherstorm map showing where to go for Unlocking the CompendiumTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #109 56.6 79.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inNetherstorm 56.6, 79.0/way #109 56.6 79.0
  • Objective areaNetherstorm 31.3, 66.2/way #109 31.3 66.2

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 Netherstorm map

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

Getting there

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

  • Cosmowrench, NetherstormAlliance and Horde · about 660 yards north-east
  • Area 52, NetherstormAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards north-west
  • The Stormspire, NetherstormAlliance and Horde · about 1,800 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,500 yards 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

Netherstorm

Part 78 of 103.

Previous: Torching Sunfury Hold · Next: Summoner Kanthin's Prize

  1. 73The Unending Invasion
  2. 74Potential Energy Source
  3. 75Building a Perimeter
  4. 76Krasus's Compendium
  5. 77Torching Sunfury Hold
  6. 78Unlocking the Compendium
  7. 79Summoner Kanthin's Prize
  8. 80Ar'kelos the Guardian
  9. 81Finding the Keymaster
  10. 82Capturing the Keystone
  11. 83Run a Diagnostic!
  12. 84Deal With the Saboteurs

Showing steps 73 to 84 of 103.

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.

  • Torching Sunfury HoldNetherstorm · Level 25-30

    Ridding Sunfury Hold of its garrison is not sufficient to keep the blood elves from reoccupying it. Kael'thas's followers are zealous and tenacious. Leaving them anything to use at Sunfury is effectively an invitation to return. No, it must all be destroyed.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Summoner Kanthin's PrizeNetherstorm · Level 25-30

    The next thing we must do is reclaim my familiar, Glacius, from the blood elf summoner who holds it captive. Summoner Kanthin was one of the most senior magisters in the force Kael'thas sent to decimate Kirin'Var. It's only natural that he would claim my familiar as a kind of trophy.

The storyline at a glance

Netherstorm has 103 steps, from Distraction at Manaforge B'naar to Dimensius the All-Devouring.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Netherstorm (98), Shattrath City (4), Terokkar Forest (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Netherstorm 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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Database

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