Translating the Journal
Quest #2338
Level 42
Badlands
no runs yet
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What to do
Let Jarkal borrow the necklace. In exchange, he will translate the journal for you.
The quest giver's words
Droffers and Son Salvage aren't smart enough to restore the magic in the necklace, but I am. All I want to do is study the necklace so I can learn to make them myself. To do that, I will need your necklace. Let me borrow it, and in exchange for the time I get to study it I will translate the journal for you. While you are searching for the gems, I should have enough time to learn what I need to.
It's a simple deal, and no one else will be the wiser. Whatcha wanna do?
Progress
You've thought about it, yes? You're a smart <class> if you take this deal - you and I will get what we both want, and Droffers and Son Salvage will think they're getting what they want.
Completion
You know a good deal when you see one - I knew I could count on you.
It will be just a moment while I cast a spell to quickly translate the human tongue into a form you will understand. I am a troll of my word; ask anyone in the Horde about Jarkal Mossmeld. Now, let's get this started...
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Untranslated Journal
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 2s 10c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 350
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at level 47 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 37–47 350 100% 48 280 80% 49 210 60% 50 140 40% 51 70 20% 52–89 35 10% 90 none 2s 10c 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
- Darkspear Trolls +1,400
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Orc, Undead, Tauren, Troll
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 42, requires level 37
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Translating the Journal #2318 · any one of these
After this
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Jarkal Mossmeld npc · Badlands at 0.024, 0.461
- Hand in to
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- Jarkal Mossmeld npc · Badlands at 0.024, 0.461
- 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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Badlands
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Jarkal Mossmeld
Starts the quest · 2.4, 46.1
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Jarkal Mossmeld
Hand the quest in · 2.4, 46.1
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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 (Badlands), 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.