What Came First, the Drake or the Egg?
A verified Blizzard quest record from Blade's Edge Mountains. Use the archive brief, rewards, and linked research to finish it without losing your place.
What To Do
Complete the quest objective shown in your tracker in Blade's Edge Mountains, then return to the turn-in NPC.
Quest Text
I'm researching the applications of drake essences to my work as a physician. I think they could be a panacea for a host of maladies! I need someone to go south to the Singing Ridge and get me some. Willing to take my temporal phase modulator and use it on the nether whelps that hatch from the nether drake eggs? Retrieve the essences from whatever they turn into. Which, I might add, I'm not certain of what that will be as we're using some pretty dicey, time and space modifying tech here.
Plan the run before you travel
Blade's Edge Mountains belongs to the The Burning Crusade archive. Start with its campaign track if this record is unavailable or the next step is missing.
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No group size is listed by Blizzard, so this is usually soloable unless the objective text says otherwise.
Pin the quest in-game, enable objective outlines, then use the exact-title references in the archive for NPC or object coordinates. Add a correction below if the live game differs from this record.
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Rewards
- Experience
- 4,100
- Money
- 10g 50s
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