Finding the Keymaster
Quest #10256
Level 69
Netherstorm
no runs yet
Available in: MoP Classic details not known yet TBC Anniversary details not known yet · compare
What to do
Locate Apex and obtain Apex's Crystal Focus from him. Return to the Violet Tower and use Apex's Crystal Focus near Archmage Vargoth's Orb to discover who holds the key to breaking the tower's curse.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Image of Commander Sarannis NPC #19938
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
In retrospect, I suppose I should've expected Kael'thas's magic to be this robust. He's always been a talented mage, but I've never seen anything like the power he wielded during the attack on the tower.
The ward keeps me from being able to scry out the force holding it in place, but it doesn't preclude you from scrying.
You'll require a focus, though. A crystal-bearing giant named Apex roams the plains to the west of Manaforge Duro. One of its crystals would make an excellent scrying focus.
Progress
What did your scrying reveal?
Completion
<You describe the results of your scrying.>
Commander Sarannis, you say? Hmm...
She's one of Kael'thas's advisors, but certainly not a mage. I remember her from the attack on Kirin'Var Village. I think your impressions are correct, <name>. She's not maintaining the curse personally, but she holds the key to it.
Category: Netherstorm (Group).
What you need
- You must be carrying
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 4g 10s
- and 75s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 12,300
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at level 74 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 67–74 12,300 100% 75 9,850 80% 76 7,400 60% 77 4,900 40% 78 2,450 20% 79–89 1,250 10% 90 none 75s 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 69, requires level 67
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Ar'kelos the Guardian #10176 · any one of these
After this
- Capturing the Keystone #10257
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Archmage Vargoth npc · Netherstorm at 0.583, 0.864
- Hand in to
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- Archmage Vargoth npc · Netherstorm at 0.583, 0.864
- 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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Netherstorm
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Archmage Vargoth
Starts the quest · 58.3, 86.4
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Archmage Vargoth
Hand the quest in · 58.3, 86.4
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Image of Commander Sarannis
Quest objective · 58.4, 86.4
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Apex
Quest objective · 53.6, 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 (Netherstorm), 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.