What to do
Use the Arcane Charge to retrieve 5 Animate Basalt from Balboa near the Ruins of Nordressa.
Objective by objective
- Collect Animate Basalt item #49036
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
We're going to need some more animate basalt. There's only one reliable source for that in the area, a mountain giant named Balboa. We can't be killing the mountain giant if we want to keep stocked in the stuff long term, so we've just been chipping off pieces at a time.
You'll be able to see his path northeast and east of here. Find him, place the charge ahead on the path, and then hide until it goes off. Once he's cleared the area, you should be able to retrieve the basalt and bring it back to me.
Progress
I heard a few explosions. I can hardly tell if one of them was yours or not... these goblins can be quite a nuisance.
Completion
Good work. This should keep us for another few hours before we have to go back for more.
He doesn't seem to be the brightest of giants. I expect we'll be able to keep doing this for a while before he catches on.
Category: Azshara.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Arcane Charge
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 10s
- and 8s 40c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,350
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at level 23 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 15–23 1,350 100% 24 1,100 80% 25 800 60% 26 550 40% 27 270 20% 28–89 140 10% 90 none 8s 40c 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.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 1,350 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 18, requires level 15
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Dressed to Impress #14340 · any one of these
After this
- Trouble Under Foot #14226
- Manual Labor #14230
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Tharkul Ironskull npc · Azshara at 0.473, 0.212
- Hand in to
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- Tharkul Ironskull npc · Azshara at 0.473, 0.212
- 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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Azshara
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Tharkul Ironskull
Starts the quest · 47.3, 21.2
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Tharkul Ironskull
Hand the quest in · 47.3, 21.2
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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 2 recorded attempts the hub has.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 2 runs by 1 player – 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 available
- 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 2) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 1 from 1) 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, typically 1,485 XP, done around level 21.
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 (Azshara), 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.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
- where players die – not published yet
Where they happened is shown once at least 5 characters from at least two different people have done this quest (now 1 from 1): unlike the route, a death spot is about the player, not the quest.
- Pick up
- 0.470, 0.210 median of 1 recorded accept on Azshara
- Turn in
- 0.470, 0.210 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Azshara
- Deaths during this quest
- 1 death, in 1 run Only deaths between accepting and finishing this quest count. Where they happened is not published yet – see the map above.
Objectives, in the order players do them
Order published by the analyser from 2 runs.
Objective 1 — needs 5
Players finish it about 4 min 6 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.470, 0.170 weight 1.00, 5 points
5 recorded positions in Azshara.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
- where players die – not published yet
Tips
The analyser has not published tips for this quest yet. These are read straight off the raw runs on this page, with the evidence spelled out.
- Expect to die here – bring food or a friend.Evidence: 1 deaths across 2 runs (0.5 per run)
Recorded runs
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
– | 0 | 21 | 10s |
| Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
– | 1 | 21 | – |
Community notes
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