The Crystals

Quest #11025 Level 70 Blade's Edge Mountains no runs yet

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What to do

Chu'a'lor has tasked you with gathering 5 Apexis Shards. Bring them to him at Ogri'la atop the Blade's Edge Mountains.

Objective by objective

Collect Apexis Shard item #32569

The quest's own structured objectives. How many of each you need is set by the game when you accept it, so it is not stored here – the sentence above is the quest's own wording.

The quest giver's words

When prepared correctly, the crystals of the mountains exhibit strange powers, such as the clarity of mind that we have found here in Ogri'la.

All of the creatures atop the mountains covet the crystal shards and use them to further their own goals. An economy has even sprung up around them.

To assist us, you must first learn about the Apexis shards. Bring me some. In addition to the creatures here having them, they can sometimes be found where the flayers dig at the larger crystals.

Progress

As you come to understand the shards and crystals, you will be better able to assist us in protecting ourselves and our ogre brethren below.

The shards themselves get their name from an ancient and now-extinct arakkoan civilization, which used to live atop the mountains here.

Do you have the shards with you?

Completion

< Chu'a'lor 's left head begins to speak.>

These will do fine.

Remember, <name>, the value of the shard is not in what it can purchase for you. It is not even in what it can potentially do for you when properly forged, though there is some debate over that.

The true value is in the journey to attain the shard.

Category: Blade's Edge Mountains.

What you need

Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.

The reward

No item reward.

Money: 4g 40s; and 7g 59s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
Experience: 12,650; at level 75 or lower; less above

By character level

Level Experience Share

70–75 12,650 100%

76 10,100 80%

77 7,600 60%

78 5,050 40%

79 2,550 20%

80–89 1,250 10%

90 none 7g 59s more money

The game pays the full figure up to five levels above the quest, then 20 % less for each level more, down to a tenth, and none at the level cap. A bonus of your own (a guild perk, a holiday) comes on top.

Level	Experience	Share
70–75	12,650	100%
76	10,100	80%
77	7,600	60%
78	5,050	40%
79	2,550	20%
80–89	1,250	10%
90	none	7g 59s more money

Reputation

Ogri'la +250

Who it is for

Faction
Race: any race
Class: any class
Level: quest level 70, requires level 70
Profession: none
Repeats: once only

The chain

Before this

Ogre Heaven #11009 · any one of these

After this

Banish the Demons #11026
Our Boy Wants To Be A Skyguard Ranger #11030
An Apexis Relic #11058

Where it starts and ends

Starts at

Chu'a'lor npc · Blade's Edge Mountains at 0.288, 0.574

Hand in to

Chu'a'lor npc · Blade's Edge Mountains at 0.288, 0.574

Where The Crystals starts and ends in Blade's Edge Mountains

pick up
turn in

These two markers are the quest giver's and the hand-in's own positions – not where anybody was standing. The recorded positions are further down, under the community data.

Relevant locations

Relevant locations in Blade's Edge Mountains

Blade's Edge Mountains
- Chu'a'lor Starts the quest · 28.8, 57.4
- Chu'a'lor Hand the quest in · 28.8, 57.4
- Hemathion Quest objective · 29.4, 63.6
- Abyssal Flamebringer Quest objective · 28.8, 86.0
- Wrath Hound Quest objective · 33.0, 40.2
- Apexis Flayer Quest objective · 31.4, 53.0
- Shard-Hide Boar Quest objective · 73.2, 10.6
- Aether Ray Quest objective · 31.8, 55.4
- Wrath Speaker Quest objective · 33.4, 44.0
- Fear Fiend Quest objective · 30.6, 85.4
- Bash'ir Raider Quest objective · 50.0, 18.2
- Bash'ir Spell-Thief Quest objective · 50.4, 18.0
- Bash'ir Arcanist Quest objective · 51.2, 11.8
- Unbound Ethereal Quest objective · 54.4, 17.8
- Wrath Corruptor Quest objective · 37.0, 39.6
- Furnace Guard Quest objective · 32.2, 40.8
- Vile Fire-Soul Quest objective · 26.8, 75.8
- Mo'arg Extractor Quest objective · 35.6, 39.2
- Rivendark Quest objective · 27.0, 64.8
- Bash'ir Surveyor Quest objective · 58.4, 10.2
- Mana-debt Slave Quest objective · 54.4, 10.8
- Crystalfused Miner Quest objective · 36.0, 39.8
- Furywing Quest objective · 66.8, 14.4
- Insidion Quest objective · 62.8, 7.2
- Obsidia Quest objective · 34.2, 54.8
- Simon Unit Quest objective · 29.0, 47.0
- Phase Wyrm Quest objective · 51.4, 20.0
- Apexis Shard Formation Quest objective · 31.1, 58.1

The pins are the game's own map markers; the coordinates are the game's 0–100, as /way takes them.

What players recorded

Everything below this line is a different kind of knowledge from everything above it. Above: what the quest is, the same on every realm. Below: what actually happened when people played it, uploaded by them, with the number of runs printed against every figure. It is an observation, not a fact about the quest.

Nobody has completed this quest with telemetry on yet, so there is no timing. Everything below is drawn straight from the 0 recorded attempts the hub has.

How precise this guide is

Early guide Built from 0 runs by 0 players – low confidence. Every upload of this quest sharpens it: the hotspots tighten, the order and the timings settle, and the parts below unlock as the sample grows.

Where to go – pick-up, objectives and hand-in needs one recorded run not yet
Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 0) not yet
Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 0) not yet
Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 0 from 0) not yet

Observed, not a fact about the game: 0 completed runs behind the medians, 0 recorded attempts in total.

– median time (accept → turn in) from 0 runs

Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.

– fastest recorded run

Same 0 runs.

0 / 0 turned in / attempted nobody abandoned it

Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.

0.0 deaths per attempt 0 deaths in total

0 tracked kills.

The route

An early route: drawn from the first runs and sharper with every upload. Pick-up, hand-in and the objective hotspots are where the quest is, so they are shown from the first run.

Map coordinates are the addon's own 0–1 zone coordinates (Blade's Edge Mountains), origin top-left, x to the right and y downward. Drag the zone map to pan, ctrl/⌘ + scroll or the buttons to zoom; the grid lines are tenths of the zone.

Overview of The Crystals in Blade's Edge Mountains

Pick up: Not recorded yet.
Turn in: Not recorded yet.
Deaths during this quest: None recorded – nobody died doing this.

Objectives, in the order players do them

No objective progress has been uploaded for this quest yet. Once somebody plays it with the addon on, the objectives and their hotspots appear here automatically.

Tips

No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.

Recorded runs

No runs recorded yet.

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