If this WQ bugs for you, due to the Blighted Horrors not becoming attackable, there is a trick that seems to prevent this from happening every time. Simply put, don't aggro and AOE all the [npc=134310] at once. Having them all near-simultaneously break their channel seems to be what bugs the horror from attacking. If you, instead, separate even one, and then follow with the rest, the spell should break properly, releasing the Horror and making it attackable. After several bugged mobs, using this method saw the channel stop properly every time for me.
Quest
Witches by the Dozen
A World of Warcraft quest in Drustvar. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Must complete the Break on Through quest chain which is part of Drust Do It. before you can do this one. You won't be able to enter the area until you have completed Break On Through which will then open up more quests for that area. You pick up quest Barrier Buster from [npc=132193] at the Corlain FP area which is the prelude to the Break On Through. These two are the ones required to open the gates to this area where the WQ is located. There are more quests in that Break on Through chain. Please see others comments under the achievement.
Once you have completed Break On Through more quests will become available. You can do all the new quests while the WQ is up; they're in that area. The quests are also part of Storming the Manor part of this achievement. The final quest of this chain will give you Waycrest Manor: The Fallen Mother a dungeon quest.
[npc=131638] will have To the Other Side
[npc=131638] will have A Traitor's Death, Hexecutioner, Ruinous Rituals.
There are a couple of side quests near that area and one inside the area on your left once you enter the gate you just opened. I couldn't remember enough of their details. Some you get from an NPC by a rock near the Waycrest Manor/North Corlain area.
Still bugged, to the point now the witches don't even channel. The only horror actually working is the one at the main gate.
Quest facts
The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(51682))
Requirements
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Witches slain x 12
- Defeat 4 targets in Drustvar
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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #896 32.2 18.4
Coordinates
- Objective areaDrustvar 32.2, 18.4
/way #896 32.2 18.4
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 Drustvar map
- Break On Through about 100 yards
- Ruinous Rituals about 100 yards
- Hexecutioner about 100 yards
- To the Other Side about 100 yards
- Storming the Manor about 100 yards
- One Last Request about 120 yards
- Barrier Buster about 150 yards
- Leaving the Nest about 170 yards
- Hexed Hatchlings about 170 yards
- Reeking Refuge about 390 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Drustvar, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Drustvar:
- Krazzlefrazz Outpost, Drustvar
- Whitegrove Chapel, Drustvar
- Watchman's Rise, Drustvar
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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Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Drustvar map
- Darkness of Drustvar
- Falconhurst
- Fletcher's Hollow
- Caring about Corlain
- Crimson Forest
- Corlain
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.
Achievements
Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.
- Wide World of Quests: its criteria name 849 quests, this one included.