What to do
Tirion Fordring, at the Crusader's Pinnacle, wants you to obtain and wear a Cultist Acolyte's Hood and meet him at the entrance of the Cathedral of Darkness, northwest of Icecrown Citadel.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Tirion's Gambit Event Credit NPC #32648
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
Just this morning, my scouts informed me of a Cult of the Damned procession leaving from Icecrown Citadel to the Cathedral of Darkness, bearing an artifact.
And now I learn that it might be Arthas's own heart... a thing containing the last bit of his remaining humanity.
This is a sign of the Light. As long as such an artifact exists, there is a chance that Arthas Menethil can become a man again!
Meet me at the cathedral's entrance. Be sure to bring a cultist's hood -- we're going incognito.
Progress
Light be with you, <name>.
Completion
I do not view what we just went through as a failure, <name>... quite the opposite.
By allowing me to peer into his heart, you allowed me to confirm what I needed to know. There is no Arthas Menethil anymore -- there is only the Lich King.
Category: Icecrown.
What you need
- You must be carrying
The reward
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Blade of the Empty Void
item #44745 · Rare · item level 174 · sells for 16g 66s 72c
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Knife of the Tarnished Soul
item #44746 · Rare · item level 174 · sells for 16g 72s 69c
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Hammer of Wrenching Change
item #44747 · Rare · item level 174 · sells for 15g 59s 82c
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Stave of Youthful Sorrow
item #44748 · Rare · item level 174 · sells for 19g 57s 23c
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Emblem of Heroism ×1
currency
- Money
- 22g 20s
- and 1g 98s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 33,100
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at level 85 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 77–85 33,100 100% 86 26,500 80% 87 19,850 60% 88 13,250 40% 89 6,600 20% 90 none 1g 98s 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 +500
- Warsong Offensive +500
- Knights of the Ebon Blade +500
- Argent Crusade +500
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 80, requires level 77
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Tirion's Help #13402 · any one of these
After this
- Parting Gifts #13168
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Highlord Tirion Fordring npc · Icecrown at 0.798, 0.718
- Hand in to
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- Highlord Tirion Fordring npc · Icecrown at 0.798, 0.718
- 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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Icecrown
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Highlord Tirion Fordring
Starts the quest · 79.8, 71.8
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Highlord Tirion Fordring
Hand the quest in · 79.8, 71.8
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Cultist Acolyte
Quest objective · 45.2, 78.4
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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 (Icecrown), 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.