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Quest
What Lies Within
A World of Warcraft quest in Tanaris. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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This may not effect that many people but: be warned if you do this quest as lvl 15-20 because even though you entered this place from tanaris lvl 15-30 zone, the boss from this quest will follow uldum's level range. aka its minimum lvl is 30 and not 15. since uldums level range is lvl 30-35. I personally was able to kill the mob as lvl 20 since it had fairly low damage output, but i have access to self heal with regrowth which helped me to survive as moonfires damage over time dealt damage, as i just spammed moonfire followed by starsurge, i spammed moonfire since he was ? lvl to me, which meant most of my attacks were going to miss. so be warned if you don't have access to self heal and dont see the level of the boss. edit: you will see that he will follow uldum's lvl range since if you open map at chest, you will see that it defaults to uldum and while you were running to chest, the game showed areas you were in following order: ruins of uldum to tanaris to finally Uldum (contested territory) final edit: if you can deal with mobs in uldum without self heals like mage, you can most likely deal with this quest boss without self heals. this comment was meant to be for like lvl 15-24 accounts that dont see this bosses level. alternatively you can just grab a friend to heal/help you during fight.
Despite being in Chromie Time, the big guy who spawns when you loot the chest comes in at lv30, no matter what level you are. Was wondering why I was getting slapped so hard to realize my lv20 was getting crushed by a lv30.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneTanaris
Quest ID25070
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25070))
What to do
StorylineTanaris, step 46 of 48
Rewards5,150 XP
Description
As you lay your hand upon the chest, a faint rumbling can be heard. The sound of grinding movement echoes behind you as the chest begins to shut itself. Something is approaching!
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-inObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #71 37.8 84.2
Coordinates
- Turn-inTanaris 37.8, 84.2
/way #71 37.8 84.2 - Objective areaTanaris 37.8, 83.0
/way #71 37.8 83.0 - Objective areaTanaris 37.8, 84.1
/way #71 37.8 84.1
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 Tanaris map
- Butterfly Effects about 40 yards
- The Fate We Make about 40 yards
- Not Today, Fate about 40 yards
- Violence Will Solve It about 50 yards
- Warchief's Command: Uldum! about 1,040 yards
- Hero's Call: Uldum! about 1,040 yards
- Tearing at the Seams about 1,880 yards
- Short Circuit about 2,410 yards
- The Great Detective about 2,440 yards
- Warn the Detective about 2,440 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Tanaris, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Tanaris:
- Gunstan's Dig, Tanaris
- Dawnrise Expedition, Tanaris
- Bootlegger Outpost, Tanaris
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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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Experience5,150 XP
Storyline
Tanaris
Part 46 of 48.
Previous: The Secrets of Uldum · Next: The Grand Tablet
- 37Ancient Obstacles
- 38Laying Claim
- 39Fragments of Language
- 40The Secrets of Uldum
- 41Thunderdrome: Grudge Match!
- 42Laying Claim
- 43Fragments of Language
- 44Ancient Obstacles
- 45The Secrets of Uldum
- 46What Lies Within
- 47The Grand Tablet
- 48The Grand Tablet
Showing steps 37 to 48 of 48.
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.
- The Secrets of Uldum
We are ready to enter the antechamber itself, <name>. This is a momentous occasion. From the writings you've brought us, I believe these ruins were in fact once the grand entrance to Uldum itself.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Grand Tablet
At the bottom of the chest, you find a large tablet. Made of a material resembling stone, but completely smooth and flawless, it is covered in strange writing. While some resembles the writing on the walls, other scripts appear completely different. Gunstan would probably like to see this.
The storyline at a glance
Tanaris has 48 steps, from Seaside Salvage to The Grand Tablet.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Tanaris (48).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Tanaris map
- Suspicious Munitions
- Warbanding Together
- Bronze Reconciliation
- Cataclysm Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
- Legion Engineering
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.