What to do
Complete the Trial of Shadow by luring 20 Weeping Souls into the shadow runes without getting touched.
The quest giver's words
Let us not be confined by the bounds of the mage repertoire of magic. I, for one, choose not to be classist. Necromancy can just be so much fun!
Touch the Shadow Crystal to open a portal to my Trial of Shadow. Once there, move to the Altar when you are ready to begin.
Weeping Souls shall begin to pursue you... your goal is simply to drag them into the traps. And be sure not to let them touch you.
Progress
You're not very good at this. You're supposed to complete the trial BEFORE you come talk to me again. Make sense?
Completion
I like the way you move, apprentice.
Don't you worry about where I got all the souls from. They were obtained in a perfectly humane manner, I assure you.
Category: Azshara.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
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.
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
- Watch Your Step #14296 · any one of these
After this
- Xylem's Asylum #14299
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Image of Archmage Xylem npc · Azshara at 0.559, 0.122
- Hand in to
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- Image of Archmage Xylem npc · Azshara at 0.557, 0.148
- Image of Archmage Xylem npc · Azshara at 0.311, 0.268
- Image of Archmage Xylem npc · Azshara at 0.559, 0.122
- 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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Image of Archmage Xylem
Starts the quest · 56.0, 12.2
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Image of Archmage Xylem
Hand the quest in · 55.7, 14.8
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Image of Archmage Xylem
Hand the quest in · 31.1, 26.8
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Image of Archmage Xylem
Hand the quest in · 56.0, 12.2
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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 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 (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.
- 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.