What to do
Board the Hot Air Balloon and Speak to Shen-zin Su.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Shang Xi's Hot Air Balloon NPC #55918
- Kill or interact with Speak with Shen-zin Su Credit NPC #55939
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
Now is not the time to grieve. The balloon is ready, and Shen-zin Su awaits.
We shall be the first pandaren to speak to Shen-zin Su in hundreds of years. It is a great honor.
Completion
You have undergone a great honor, <class>. Have you come back wiser for it?
Category: The Wandering Isle.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 2s 25c
- Experience
- 700
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at level 13 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 5–13 700 100% 14 550 80% 15 420 60% 16 280 40% 17 140 20% 18–89 70 10% 90 none level cap 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 65% more than the 700 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Shang Xi's Academy +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Pandaren
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 8, requires level 5
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Passing Wisdom #29790 · any one of these
After this
- Bidden to Greatness #29792
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Aysa Cloudsinger npc · The Wandering Isle at 0.158, 0.491
- Hand in to
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- Elder Shaopai npc · The Wandering Isle at 0.513, 0.483
- 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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The Wandering Isle
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Aysa Cloudsinger
Starts the quest · 15.8, 49.1
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Elder Shaopai
Hand the quest in · 51.3, 48.3
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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 4 min 23 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 1,155 XP, done around level 10.
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 (The Wandering Isle), 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
- 0.160, 0.490 median of 1 recorded accept on The Wandering Isle
- Turn in
- 0.510, 0.480 median of 1 recorded turn-in on The Wandering Isle
- 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 5 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.160, 0.490 weight 1.00, 1 point
1 recorded position in The Wandering Isle.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
Objective 2 — needs 1
Players finish it about 3 min 14 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.310, 0.930 weight 1.00, 1 point
1 recorded position in The Wandering Isle.
- 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
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.