What to do
Slay 8 Anguished or Suffering Highborne.
Objective by objective
- Kill (any of) Suffering Highborne NPC #7523 counts 3 different creatures
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
Ten thousand years ago...
The Highborne lived here in prosperity. We considered ourselves above the common ranks of the other night elves. With our every need met by magic and wealth, we led lives of indulgence and amusement. And greed...
The spirits you see here are overwhelmed with remorse and regret. Their anguish chains them here. If you wish to learn more of Kel'theril and Zin'malor, free them from their agony.
Progress
Death is not always a relief.
Completion
The Crystal of Zin-Malor was stolen from a far-off temple without remorse. Its ability to control the arcane was too tempting, and when it was toyed with, its shattering cursed us all. Kel'theril suffered until the Sundering destroyed it for good.
The curse of Zin-Malor binds all who seek its power here. I was the first to fall to its temptation. Thousands of years later, our long lost descendants would be next...
Category: Winterspring.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Dagger of Suffering
item #67160 · Uncommon · item level 51 · sells for 3g 19s 49c
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Amulet of the Kaldorei Spirit
item #67177 · Uncommon · item level 51 · sells for 90s 85c
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Zin-Malor Ring
item #67194 · Uncommon · item level 51 · sells for 90s 85c
- Money
- 75s
- and 52s 50c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 8,800
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at level 56 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 49–56 8,800 100% 57 7,050 80% 58 5,300 60% 59 3,500 40% 60 1,750 20% 61–89 875 10% 90 none 52s 50c 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 8,800 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 51, requires level 49
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Ruins of Kel'Theril #28479 · any one of these
After this
- Descendants of the Highborne #28534
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Kaldorei Spirit npc · Winterspring at 0.507, 0.549
- Hand in to
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- Kaldorei Spirit npc · Winterspring at 0.507, 0.549
- 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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Winterspring
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Kaldorei Spirit
Starts the quest · 50.7, 54.9
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Kaldorei Spirit
Hand the quest in · 50.7, 54.9
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Suffering Highborne
Quest objective · 52.4, 41.6
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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.
11 tracked kills, typically 9,680 XP, done around level 53.
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 (Winterspring), 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
- 0.510, 0.550 median of 1 recorded accept on Winterspring
- Turn in
- 0.510, 0.550 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Winterspring
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
Order published by the analyser from 2 runs.
Objective 1 — needs 8
Players finish it about 8 min 40 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.524, 0.526 weight 1.00, 16 points
8 recorded positions in Winterspring.
- 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 |
– | 0 | 53 | 75s |
| Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
– | 0 | 53 | – |
Community notes
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