What to do
Priestess Valishj wants you to find the Ancient Engravings of Neptulon.
Objective by objective
- Collect Ancient Engravings of Neptulon item #49104
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
Queen Azshara seeks entrance into the plane of water, for what I do not know.
She believes that the ancients held the keys to finding its location.
I have personally been charged with scouring the ruins in this region, and none shall rest until we discover the secrets we seek!
Submerged just to the north are a concentration of ruins. Use this staff to search through the rubble.
Return to me only when you have located that which we seek!
Progress
Could it be....?
Completion
Yes! You've found it!
Neptulon's engravings... there can be no mistake!
Category: Desolace.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Slitherblade Staff
- You must be carrying
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 30s
- and 16s 20c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 2,700
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at level 37 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 28–37 2,700 100% 38 2,150 80% 39 1,650 60% 40 1,100 40% 41 550 20% 42–89 270 10% 90 none 16s 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.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 2,700 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Cenarion Circle +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 32, requires level 28
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- Monthly
The chain
Before this
- Wetter Than Wet #14264 · any one of these
After this
- Mystery Solved #14282
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Valishj npc · Desolace at 0.309, 0.309
- Hand in to
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- Cenarion Researcher Korrah npc · Desolace at 0.388, 0.270
- 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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Desolace
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Valishj
Starts the daily quest · 30.9, 30.9
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Cenarion Researcher Korrah
Hand the repeatable quest in · 38.8, 27.0
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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.
This guide rests on 1 completed run. That is enough to show where people went and not enough to trust the timings – treat them as one player's evening.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 1 run 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 1) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 1) 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 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 1 run; mean 13 min 50 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 2,970 XP, done around level 33.
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 (Desolace), 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
- Pick up
- 0.310, 0.310 median of 1 recorded accept on Desolace
- Turn in
- 0.370, 0.110 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Desolace
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
Order published by the analyser from 1 run.
Objective 1 — needs 1
Players finish it about 13 min 47 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.370, 0.110 weight 1.00, 1 point
1 recorded position in Desolace.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
13 min 50 s | 0 | 33 | 30s |
Community notes
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