Hunting for Ectoplasm
Quest #8924
Level 60
Tanaris
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What to do
Use the Ectoplasmic Distiller near incorporeal undead to collect 12 Scorched Ectoplasms in Silithus, 12 Frozen Ectoplasms in Winterspring and 12 Stable Ectoplasms in the Eastern Plaguelands. Bring them along with the Ectoplasmic Distiller back to Mux Manascrambler in Gadgetzan.
Objective by objective
- Collect Scorched Ectoplasm item #21937
- Collect Frozen Ectoplasm item #21936
- Collect Stable Ectoplasm item #21935
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
A fine piece of engineering, if I do say so myself! You will need to travel a bit, I'm afraid, in order to find the incorporeal undead we require.
You see, different climates lend different consistencies to the spectral fabric of the dead. The tortured night elves of Silithus, the spirits of the highborne from Winterspring and the ghosts and banshees of the Eastern Plaguelands should give us the different types of ectoplasm we need. Be sure to place the distiller nearby before you harvest them!
Progress
Have you gathered the ectoplasm yet, <race>?
Completion
Yes, these will do great!
By tapping into the otherworldly energies contained within these substances we'll be able to reach out to those whose souls haven't quite left this world yet!
Category: Tanaris.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Ectoplasmic Distiller
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 90s
- and 3g 96s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 6,600
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at level 65 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 58–65 6,600 100% 66 5,300 80% 67 3,950 60% 68 2,650 40% 69 1,300 20% 70–89 650 10% 90 none 3g 96s 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
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 60, requires level 58
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Ectoplasmic Distiller #8921 · any one of these
After this
- A Portable Power Source #8925
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Mux Manascrambler npc · Tanaris at 0.525, 0.272
- Hand in to
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- Mux Manascrambler npc · Tanaris at 0.525, 0.272
- 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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Tanaris
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Mux Manascrambler
Starts the quest · 52.5, 27.2
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Mux Manascrambler
Hand the quest in · 52.5, 27.2
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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 (Tanaris), 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.