Target: Writhing Haunt
Quest #5233
Level 55
Tirisfal Glades
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What to do
Go to the Writhing Haunt in Western Plaguelands to locate and defeat the Cauldron Lord present there, and use its key to gain access to the cauldron. You must have the Empty Writhing Haunt Bottle with you to secure a sample of the poisons used inside the cauldron.
Objective by objective
- Collect Writhing Haunt Cauldron Key item #13197
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
Two cauldrons have been successfully opened; while you'll be able to access them indefinitely, we still want to open up the other two that remain. This will provide all of us with more options to introduce the counter agent!
This time, you'll be hitting the Writhing Haunt's cauldron. It is almost due east of Andorhal, relatively close to the ruined city walls; again, eliminate the cauldron lord present there for its key. Use this bottle to obtain the sample from the cauldron.
Good hunting, <name>!
Progress
An access panel to the cauldron remains securely fastened. In order to open it, you will need to find the key.
Completion
The cauldron lord's key unlocks the access panel to this cauldron and then disappears, much like the other keys have for the previous ones you've dealt of. A putrid smelling substance churns violently beneath the platform of the cauldron.
There is a small spigot that the bottle fits well enough under, allowing you to draw a sample for Shadow Priestess Vandis back at the Bulwark.
Category: Western Plaguelands.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Empty Writhing Haunt Bottle
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 49s 50c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 8,150
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at level 60 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 50–60 8,150 100% 61 6,550 80% 62 4,900 60% 63 3,250 40% 64 1,650 20% 65–89 825 10% 90 none 49s 50c 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.
Reputation
- Horde +250
- Argent Dawn +500
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Orc, Undead, Tauren, Troll, Blood Elf
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 55, requires level 50
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Return to the Bulwark #5232 · any one of these
After this
- Return to the Bulwark #5234
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Shadow Priestess Vandis npc · Tirisfal Glades at 0.830, 0.719
- Hand in to
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- Scourge Cauldron object · Western Plaguelands at 0.530, 0.656
- pick up
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
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Tirisfal Glades
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Shadow Priestess Vandis
Starts the quest · 83.0, 71.9
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Western Plaguelands
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Scourge Cauldron
Hand the quest in · 53.0, 65.6
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Cauldron Lord Razarch
Quest objective · 52.8, 66.0
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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
Timings
Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.
Same 0 runs.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
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 (Tirisfal Glades), 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.
- 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.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.