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Bait and Switch

Quest #11951 Level 71 Borean Tundra AllianceHorde no runs yet

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What to do

Keristrasza has asked you to collect 10 Crystalized Mana Shards from around Coldarra.

If you lose your Augmented Arcane Prison, speak to Raelorasz at the Transitus Shield.

Objective by objective

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

During my captivity I was able to learn much about Malygos. Fate now allows us to use this knowledge against him.

There is a great blue dragon, Saragosa, who circles high above the Nexus. She serves both as the aspect's guardian and as his consort. If any serious threats arise, she alerts her master of the danger.

I suffered greatly at the hand of Saragosa during my captivity, and now her time to die has come. First, however, we must fashion the perfect bait....

Progress

Have you gathered the mana shards I require?

Completion

Thank you, <name>.

I am drained from the effects of my confinement and my strength is returning ever so slowly.

I shall use the power from these crystals wisely. They are a byproduct of Malygos' malevolent schemes. With luck, they will play a part in his undoing.

Category: Borean Tundra.

What you need

You must be carrying

The reward

No item reward.

Money
4g 70s
and 1g 20s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
Experience
20,100
at level 76 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
69–76 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

Who it is for

Faction
AllianceHorde
Race
any race
Class
any class
Level
quest level 71, requires level 69
Profession
none
Repeats
once only

The chain

Before this

After this

Where it starts and ends

Starts at
Hand in to
Where Bait and Switch starts and ends in Borean Tundra
Where Bait and Switch starts and ends in Borean Tundra
  • 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

Relevant locations in Borean Tundra
Relevant locations in Borean Tundra

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

Observed, not a fact about the game: 0 completed runs behind the medians, 0 recorded attempts in total.
– median time (accept → turn in) from 0 runs

Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.

– fastest recorded run

Same 0 runs.

0 / 0 turned in / attempted nobody abandoned it

Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.

0.0 deaths per attempt 0 deaths in total

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 (Borean Tundra), 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.

Overview of Bait and Switch in Borean Tundra
Overview of Bait and Switch in Borean Tundra
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

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