What to do
Gather 8 Corrupt Brain Stems.
Objective by objective
- Collect Corrupted Brain Stem item #5952
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
Foolish blood elves toil with demonic magic. Have they not witnessed what happened with the naga and with the satyrs of Kalimdor?
I fear that the blood elves will meet a similar deformation. Azeroth cannot afford to give birth to another vile race of monsters.
I wish to study the brain stems of the satyr and naga so that I might deduce what fate the sin'dorei are headed toward. Try to avoid harming the stems while you kill them, I won't take anything but perfect specimens.
Progress
Once I have enough samples to study, my true work can begin. With the corrupted brain stems of both the satyr and naga of Blackfathom Deeps I can try to draw a correlation between the mutations.
Perhaps with that gained knowledge we can prevent the blood elves from delving deeper into deformity and evil.
Completion
You have undoubtedly faced great peril to obtain these.
Your actions have been selfless. It is for the good of all Azeroth that you help me with my research. I thank you, <name>, for all that you have done.
Now if you'll excuse me I have much work to do.
Category: Blackfathom Deeps (Dungeon).
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Dissector
item #56679
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Shadestar Mace
item #56680 · Rare · item level 24 · sells for 45s 15c
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Searching Wand
item #56681 · Rare · item level 24 · sells for 45s 32c
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Band of the Skull Crusher
item #56682 · Rare · item level 24 · sells for 10s 48c
- Money
- 80s
- and 9s 60c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,600
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at level 31 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 20–31 1,600 100% 32 1,300 80% 33 950 60% 34 650 40% 35 320 20% 36–89 160 10% 90 none 9s 60c 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
- Darnassus +500
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 26, requires level 20
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
This quest stands alone: nothing leads to it and nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Relwyn Shadestar npc · Blackfathom Deeps at 0.479, 0.131
- Hand in to
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- Relwyn Shadestar npc · Blackfathom Deeps at 0.479, 0.131
- 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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Blackfathom Deeps
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Relwyn Shadestar
Starts the quest · 47.9, 13.1
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Relwyn Shadestar
Hand the quest in · 47.9, 13.1
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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 (Blackfathom Deeps), 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.