What to do
Ares the Oathbound in the Utgarde Catacombs wants you to recover the Sacred Artifact.
This is a timed quest.
Objective by objective
- Collect Sacred Artifact item #33485
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
<Ares gasps for air as he tries to speak.>
I am an envoy of the Argent Crusade, charged with a sacred duty.
Our forces were decimated in the Plaguelands. By the light of dawn, the artifact was cleansed and made pure once more. So many perished in the wake of its redemption.
There is still a chance... still time.
The artifact was hurled into the den of the fallen, far below us. Guarded by the unmerciful dead.
<Ares' body glows with blinding light.>
Light. Will. Protect. You.
Progress
<Ares is unconscious.>
Completion
You feel compelled to place the sacred blade next to the body of Ares.
Upon doing this you are once again blinded by light.
Category: Howling Fjord.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Stoneblade Slicer
item #35824 · Uncommon · item level 138 · sells for 10g 86s
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Whelpling-Skull Zapper
item #35826 · Uncommon · item level 138 · sells for 13g 67s 38c
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Regal Sceptre
item #35827 · Uncommon · item level 138 · sells for 14g 8s 26c
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Coldspike Longbow
item #35829 · Uncommon · item level 138 · sells for 14g 18s 28c
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Worn Vrykul Smasher
item #35830 · Uncommon · item level 138 · sells for 10g 30s 11c
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Ice-Rimed Dagger
item #35823 · Uncommon · item level 138 · sells for 10g 81s 99c
- Money
- none
- and 1g 20s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 20,100
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at level 76 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 68–76 20,100 100% 77 16,100 80% 78 12,050 60% 79 8,050 40% 80 4,000 20% 81–89 2,000 10% 90 none 1g 20s 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
- Valiance Expedition +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 71, requires level 68
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Rescuing the Rescuers #11244 · any one of these
After this
- Guided by Honor #11289
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Ares the Oathbound npc · Howling Fjord at 0.593, 0.554
- Hand in to
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- Ares the Oathbound npc · Howling Fjord at 0.593, 0.554
- 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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Howling Fjord
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Ares the Oathbound
Starts the quest · 59.3, 55.4
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Ares the Oathbound
Hand the quest in · 59.3, 55.4
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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 (Howling Fjord), 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.