Waking the Beast

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shimmering Expanse:

• Tranquil Wash, Vashj'irAlliance · about 60 yards south
• Silver Tide Hollow, Vashj'irAlliance and Horde · about 460 yards north
• Voldrin's Hold, Vashj'irAlliance · about 760 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

• Objective areaabout 180 yards north-east (on the Kelp'thar Forest map)
• Objective areaabout 80 yards east (on the Kelp'thar Forest map)

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.

Reward details

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 this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• Overseer Idra'kessShimmering Expanse · Level 30-35

  My men are flagging, <name>. We won't last much longer against these naga, I'm afraid. With the Idra'kess' weapons, and Nespirah's pearls, we should be ready to bust out of here. Follow the wall to the southeast, and look for a ramp to the upper chamber.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• A Powerful Need To EatShimmering Expanse · Level 30-35

  Poor things. They're starving. We've many matters to attend to, not the least of them the naga, but first we need to get some food in these bellies. I'm not sure what the naga fed them up in that shell, if anything, but they're definitely worse for the wear.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Shimmering Expanse · Level 30-35.

• Waking the BeastHorde only · Shimmering Expanse · Level 30-35

Also counted by Sinking into Vashj'ir

Its criteria name 14 quests; others include:

• Back in One Piece
• All or Nothing
• Visions of the Past: Rise from the Deep
• A Desperate Plea
• Decisions, Decisions
• Visions of the Past: The Slaughter of Biel'aran Ridge
• Visions of the Past: The Invasion of Vashj'ir
• What? What? In My Gut...?

The storyline at a glance

Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse has 149 steps, from Call of Duty to Full Circle.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shimmering Expanse (98), Kelp'thar Forest (48), Abyssal Depths (2), Vashj'ir (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

• Sinking into Vashj'ir Complete the Vashj'ir storylines listed below.
• Visions of Vashj'ir Past Witness the 3 visions of the Naz'jar Battlemaiden in Vashj'ir.

Other storylines on the Shimmering Expanse map

• Azshara's Power3 steps, starts with To the Deeps

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.