What to do
Hydronis wants you to mount him and defeat Priestess Valishj.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Valishj NPC #35898
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
I am Hydronis, a servant of Neptulon the Tidehunter, Lord over all waters.
Azshara and her sinister naga have arrayed themselves against my master, and seek a war with him. This is the first battle in what shall surely be a long struggle.
I have fought bitterly, <race>, and have grown weary.
It seems that my actions here have attracted the attention of their priestess.
Alone, I haven't the strength to overcome her. but perhaps together, we may prevail.
Completion
The priestess is no more...
Category: Desolace.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 20s 40c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 3,350
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at level 37 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 28–37 3,350 100% 38 2,700 80% 39 2,000 60% 40 1,350 40% 41 675 20% 42–89 340 10% 90 none 20s 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 3,350 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 32, requires level 28
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Enemy of Our Enemy #14292 · any one of these
After this
- Return and Report #14301
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Lord Hydronis npc · Desolace at 0.291, 0.081
- Hand in to
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- Lord Hydronis npc · Desolace at 0.291, 0.081
- 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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Lord Hydronis
Starts the quest · 29.1, 8.1
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Lord Hydronis
Hand the quest in · 29.1, 8.1
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Valishj
Quest objective · 28.2, 6.8
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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 2 min 26 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 3,685 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.
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.290, 0.080 median of 1 recorded accept on Desolace
- Turn in
- 0.290, 0.080 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
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
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
2 min 26 s | 0 | 33 | – |
Community notes
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