Preserving Knowledge
Quest #540
Level 38
Hillsbrad Foothills
no runs yet
Available in: TBC Anniversary details not known yet Classic Era details not known yet Forever details not known yet · compare
What to do
Bring 5 Recovered Tomes and the Worn Leather Book containing The Arm of Gri'lek to Loremaster Dibbs in Southshore.
Objective by objective
- Collect Recovered Tome item #3658
- Collect Worn Leather Book item #3659
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
Those beastly ogres now reside within Alterac's ruins, and I shudder to think what they're doing with the precious books still there. You must recover what you can!
Enter the Ruins of Alterac and search for tomes looted by the ogres. Get whatever you can find and bring them to me, but also seek out one book in particular: The Arm of Gri'lek. It contains ancient troll lore that I must learn, and the Ruins of Alterac was the last known location of an intact copy of this book.
Progress
I wish I could search the ruins too, but I fear these bones wouldn't hold me during my climb up the mountains. However, how does your hunt for knowledge progress, <name>?
Completion
Oh, you got them! Splendid! I must begin studying the Arm of Gri'lek immediately!
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 29s 40c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 4,900
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at level 43 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 20–43 4,900 100% 44 3,900 80% 45 2,950 60% 46 1,950 40% 47 975 20% 48–89 490 10% 90 none 29s 40c 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
- Stormwind +350
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Draenei
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 38, requires level 20
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Southshore #538 · any one of these
After this
- Return to Milton #542
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Loremaster Dibbs npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.506, 0.571
- Hand in to
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- Loremaster Dibbs npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.506, 0.571
- 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
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Hillsbrad Foothills
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Loremaster Dibbs
Starts the quest · 50.6, 57.1
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Loremaster Dibbs
Hand the quest in · 50.6, 57.1
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Alterac Mountains
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Muckrake
Quest objective · 38.8, 47.2
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Weathered Bookcase
Quest objective · 38.5, 46.4
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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 (Hillsbrad Foothills), 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.