The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered
Quest #10523
Level 70
Shadowmoon Valley
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What to do
Take Grom'tor's Lockbox to Oronok Torn-heart at Oronok's Farm in Shadowmoon Valley.
The quest giver's words
<Grom'tor wraps the documents up and places them in a lockbox.>
Take this box to father. He awaits your return at the farm, northeast of here.
Tell him that I will be home soon. As soon as I am done having my fun...
Progress
You have succeeded?
Completion
When the Cipher of Damnation is reformed, we shall end this curse!
Category: Shadowmoon Valley.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Grom'tor's Lockbox
The reward
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Grom'tor's Bloodied Bandage
item #30923 · Uncommon · item level 114 · sells for 3g 33s 76c
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Grom'tor's Friend's Cousin's Tunic
item #30945 · Uncommon · item level 114 · sells for 6g 21s 46c
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Oronok's Old Bracers
item #30956 · Uncommon · item level 114 · sells for 3g 25s 43c
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Grom'tor's Pendant of Conquest
item #30981 · Uncommon · item level 114 · sells for 3g 6s 36c
- Money
- none
- and 19s 20c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 3,150
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at level 75 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 68–75 3,150 100% 76 2,500 80% 77 1,900 60% 78 1,250 40% 79 625 20% 80–89 320 10% 90 none 19s 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
-

- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 70, requires level 68
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge #10522 · any one of these
After this
- The Cipher of Damnation #10588
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Grom'tor, Son of Oronok npc · Shadowmoon Valley at 0.446, 0.237
- Hand in to
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- Oronok Torn-heart npc · Shadowmoon Valley at 0.539, 0.235
- 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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Shadowmoon Valley
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Grom'tor, Son of Oronok
Starts the quest · 44.6, 23.7
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Oronok Torn-heart
Hand the quest in · 53.9, 23.5
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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 (Shadowmoon Valley), 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.