Investigate the Alchemist Shop
Quest #1960
Level 16
Undercity
Mage
no runs yet
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What to do
Obtain a Cantation of Manifestation and a Chest of Containment Coffers from behind Anastasia Hartwell. Bring 3 Filled Containment Coffers, the Chest of Containment Coffers and the Cantation of Manifestation to Anastasia in the Undercity.
Objective by objective
- Collect Filled Containment Coffer item #7292
- Collect Chest of Containment Coffers item #7247
- Collect Cantation of Manifestation item #7308
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
Algernon's alchemist shop in the Apothecarium is the locus of a strange disturbance. Invisible creatures, made solely of magic, wander the shop--there must be a reason, and we must find it!
Investigate the disturbance and capture those creatures. Take a chest of coffers and a scroll from behind me. Use the scroll at the shop to make the creatures visible, subdue them with your spells, then throw down a coffer to capture them. Return with the filled coffers, the empty coffers and the cantation.
Progress
Have you investigated the disturbance, <name>? Have you captured the creatures?
Completion
Very good, <name>. The creatures within these containment coffers will be studied by our finest minds, and the reason behind their presence in the Undercity will be determined.
If their appearance is caused by a rift in the natural flow of magic, then we must determine if the rift was random. If it was not random, but instead an attack by some magical force, then we must prepare for future, more serious disturbances.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 7s 20c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,150
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at level 21 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 15–21 1,150 100% 22 925 80% 23 700 60% 24 460 40% 25 230 20% 26–89 120 10% 90 none 7s 20c 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.
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Undead, Troll
- Class
- Mage
- Level
- quest level 16, requires level 15
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
Filed under Mage rather than under a zone.
The chain
Before this
Nothing – this is where the chain starts.
After this
- Gathering Materials #1961
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Anastasia Hartwell npc · Undercity at 0.851, 0.100
- Hand in to
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- Anastasia Hartwell npc · Undercity at 0.851, 0.100
- 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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Undercity
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Anastasia Hartwell
Starts the quest · 85.1, 10.0
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Anastasia Hartwell
Hand the quest in · 85.1, 10.0
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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 (Undercity), 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.