Suramar by Russell Brower. All roads lead to Suramar, an ancient elven metropolis at the heart of the Broken Isles. The corrupted Nightwell fuels the nightborne elves and provides them the.
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When you ding 110 and return to Dalaran, you will gain a quest automatically, called Khadgar´s Discovery (Speak to Khadgar in Dalaran). This quest is the starting quest to enter Suramar the proper way in order to “activate” the entire questline.
Your job now is to travel to Suramar by using a teleport straight to Suramar, and aid Thalyssra. After
finding Thalyssra and helping her into safety inside a cave (Shal´Aran), your job now is to… reclaim Suramar City.
Recruit Allies to help take back Suramar City
This task is all about questing in Suramar. It is divided in two parts: Main questline, and side quests.
The main questline is composed of 11 chapters. You can do the first 7 chapters before you need to unlock the 8th one. To unlock the 8th chapter, you need to hit honored reputation with Nightfallen. To unlock the rest of the chapters, you need to hit revered/exalted. Scroll down to check my guide covering this.
Build up a base to survive (Ancient Mana, Leylines and Teleports)
In Suramar, everything comes down to Ancient Mana which the Nightfallen people feeds on, otherwise they turn in to withered creatures. Since your allies are mostly outcasts, they don’t have so much of it. Ancient Mana is all over Suramar and you need to collect they because they are used in many things such as questing, bying, and most important a scenario to train withered, which rewards a lot of things you really need. You will also find teleports in and out from Shal´Aran that are very handy once activated.
Shal´Aran (the Cave) is composed of Leylines that enter it. These Leylines are sort of pipelines that comes from various destinations around Suramar. Your goal is to activate them so the ppl you recruit to Shal´Aran will be proper fed.
Scroll down to check my guide covering Ancient Mana, Leylines and Teleports.
Build up an army of withered
You will unlock a scenario which turns into a World Quest once completed. This scenario is all about training withered creatures for war. You enter a ruin with certain amount of withered and fight mobs, loot corpses, chests etc. The reward is really good which can be Artifact power, Nightfallen reputation, gear, toys, items used in the scenario to make it easier next time, and much more. Scroll down to check my guide covering “Building an Army”.
To be able to do World quests in Suramar, you must have accomplished the Achievement Nightfallen But not Forgotten. This achievement requires you to do the first quests in the Suramar questline in which you will recruit 6 special Nightfallen ppl.
You become Friendly with Nightfallen after completing the 3 first quests Thalyssra gives you after you discovered and taken over the cave Shal´Aran.
Gain Reputation with Nightfallen
One of your goals is to earn reputation with Nightfallen in order to obtain Class Order Hall tier gear, unlocking questlines and buy other cool items. Scroll down to see how to earn reputation with Nightfallen.
The arcway were built to tap into the magical leylines beneath Suramar. As they learned to subsist on the Nightwell, the old facilities such fell out of use.
In the Cave Shal´Aran (which is your stronghold in Suramar), there are leylines that leads to it. One of your missions is to find where these leylines come from and activate them, so the recruited ones can feed on it.
The first quest for starting the leylines adventure is called Tapping the Leylines. You get this quest after discovering Shal´Aran and done the quests called Oculeth´s Workshop that Thalyssra gives you.
Completing the first leyline quest will also recruit Arcanist Valtoris. This NPC is one of the Nightfallen that you feed with 50 Ancient Mana (daily) to receive 75 reputations and a good buff.
Each leyline requires a quest to be completed from the leyline “pillars” that you activate, together with some Ancient Mana.
After activating a Leyline head to Shal´Aran and you will see that Arcanist Valtoris has a quest for you. He will reward you with a buff called Ancient Mana Scavenging which grants a chance to loot additional Ancient Mana from creatures. This buff gets upgraded the more leylines are activated. When Valtoris is weak of hunger and you give him 50 Ancient Mana, you receive this buff which can be done daily.
Here are all the locations for all 8 Leylines which will also reward you the achievement Leyline Bing once completed. In order to see coords on you map, download the addon “MapCoords”.
Name | Coords |
Anora Hollow | Entrance: 41:39 (The first leyline quest takes you there) |
Falanaar North | Entrance: 22:42, leyline 66:52 |
Moonwhisper Gulch | Entrance: 36:24 |
Soul Vaults | Entrance: 29:85 |
Falanaar South | Entrance: 20:50 |
Moon Guard | Entrance: 24:19 |
Kel´balor | Entrance: 59:43 |
Elor´shan | Entrance: 66:42 |
The cave you are in is called Shal´Aran and is composed of teleports in and out to places around in Suramar. But they are inactive and your goal is to activate them.
After discovering Shal´Aran you get a quest called Oculeth´s Workshop. Completing it will recruit Chief Telemancer Oculeth which enables you to activate the first teleport that takes you just above Shal`Aran and also unlocks the capability to activate the other portals.
You activate a portal simply by offering 100 Ancient Mana. In this way, you infuse the Telemancy Beacon with Ancient Mana.
Activating all teleporters rewards you with the Achievement “Now you´re thinking with portals”
There are 9 teleporters and here are the locations of all 9 Telemancy Beacon teleporters:
Name | Coords |
Ruins of Elune´eth Teleporter | 36:47 (first Teleporter through questline) |
Lunastre Estate Teleporter | 44:79 |
Sanctum of Order Teleporter | Entrance: 46:65, Teleporter: 43:61 |
Falanaar Teleporter | 41:14 (Haven’t tried it without doing the questline) |
Felsoul Hold Teleporter | Entrance: 35:82 |
The Waning Crescent Teleporter | 48:82 (Haven’t tried it without doing the questline) |
Moon Guard Stronghold Teleporter | 31:11 |
Telánor Teleporter | 42:35 |
Twilight Vineyard Teleporter | This one can only be unlocked when completing the quest Vengance for Margaux. You obtain this quest when unlocking a new questline once hitting honored with Nightfallen. |
This is an item specifically in Suramar. It is what Nightfallen people feeds on in order for them to live and have energy. If they do not feed on Ancient Mana they transform to sort of beasts called withered.
There are loads of Ancient Mana nodes all over Suramar. You get different amount of Ancoent Mana depending on source.
Also, all mobs in Suramar have a chance to drop Ancient Mana nodes 1-2 per mob.
Mining ores also rewards Ancient Mana (around 6 per time).
Here is a list of sources that gives Ancient Mana. If you are grinding for Mana, I suggest that you do that in Suramar city because the amount from various sources are much greater (after you got the Mask so you don’t get attacked all the time).
Suramar | Amount of Ancient Mana |
Ancient Mana Shard | 10 |
Ancient Mana Shunk | 20 |
Ancient Mana Crystal | 50 |
Ancient Mana Gem | 100 |
Shimmering Ancient Mana Cluster | 150 |
Suramar City | |
Leypetal Blossom Flowers | 37-49 |
Arcwine in Suramar City | 10 |
Twice-Fortified Arcwine in Suramar City | 59-149 |
Leypetal Powder in Suramar City | 50-140 |
Glowing tome (floating book) | 58 |
Small chests are hidden all over Suramar city. Most of them are on top of the buildings. You can get up to a building with your harpoon that you get in Stormheim. Aim for the Grapple Points. Chests rewards Artifact power, Ancient mana and Order Resources.
Rare Mobs may also drop Ancient Mana Crystals which rewards 75 Ancient Mana.
You start with the capability to carry maximum 300 Ancient Mana. In order to carry more you have to finish certain questlines or find items in Suramar.
Once you hit honored with Nightfallen, buy the Treasure Map Suramar. Head to Suramar City and grind Ancient Mana, you will find much more than you thought you could.
Here is the Best place to farm Ancient Mana
There are 10 ways to increase your Ancient Mana capacity, 5 from the questline and 5 items around in Suramar. Obtaining all of them Rewards the Achievement: “Why can´t I Hold All this Mana?”
Increase Ancient Mana capacity from Questline
Increase Ancient Mana capacity from items
Some of the NPCs that you recruit can give you a buff. The thing is that they need to be fed from time to time (once per day) with 50 Ancient Mana in order to “function”. Giving them Ancient Mana will reward you 75 reputations with Nightfallen and a certain buff, depending on what NPC it is. The more Leylines you find the cheaper it will be to receive these buffs. I’ve listed them here:
The main questline has a small stop when you get the quest Seed of Hope. Before it was a straight forward, what to do questline. Now you have to reach honored reputation with Nightfallen in order to move on to the next big step in the questline. Another checkpoint is to hit revered in order to unlock more quests.
Some quests in Suramar are actually part of the main questline. When doing the side questlines, you get new ones from Thalyssra or end up completing the questlines at Thalyssra.
Completing the entire questline rewards the Achievement: Good Suramaritan.
Can´t find more quests in Suramar? I have listed where all the quests start for each chapter. Further down is also a list on where the side quests are located.
Story Progress 2/11 – Breaking the Lightbreaker
Quest starts at 31:59
NPC: Lyana Darksorrow
Another questline in this area starts in a cave 27:73
Story Progress 3/11 – Tidying Tel´anor
Quest starts at 46:41
NPC: Thaedris Feathersong
Story Progress 4/11 – Eminent Grow-main
Quest starts at 26:31
NPC: Mayruna Moonwing
After finishing this quest, I got a new one from Thalyssra
Story Progress 5/11 – The Waning Crescent
Quest starts at 37:47
NPC: First Arcanist Thalyssra
Story Progress 6/11 – Jandvik´s Jarl
Quest starts at 65:51
NPC: Toryl
Story Progress 7/11 – Moon Guard Stronghold
Quest starts at 28:21
NPC: Thalrenus Rivertree
To be able to do more in the main questline, you need more reputation with Nightfallen.
Honored reputation with Nightfallen unlocks:
Story Progress 8/11 – Blood and Wine
Quest starts at 37:47
NPC: Valewalker Farodin
Story Progress: 9/11 - Statecraft
8000/12000 reputation with Nightfallen unlocks this part in the questline.
Quest starts at 37:47
NPC: First Arcanist Thalyssra
Story Progress: 10/11 - A growing Crisis
7000/21000 reputation with Nightfallen unlocks this part in the questline.
Quest starts at 37:47
NPC: Valewalker Farondin
This chapter requires you to enter the Raid The Emerald Nightmare and kill the last boss Xavius. Most likely that you can complete this on LFR mode.
Story Progress: 11/11 - A Change of Seasons
To unlock this chapter you need to:
* Complete the other chapters above.
* Hit 20000/21000 reputation with Nightfallen.
Here are coord in which you will find more quests that can rewards Artifact Power, toys Nightfall reputation.
Doing these quests will unlock them (some of them) as world quests.
Quest giver NPC name | Coords |
Felsoul Hold | 27:73 |
Iadreth | 34:56 |
Lespin Silverleaf | 42:71 |
Morhun Rivertamer | 44:42 |
Lilryia Dawnwind | 62:49 |
Kalendros Irongrove | 20:22 |
Absolon | 30:48 |
Pearlhunter Phin | 16:55 |
Keelay Moongrow | 47:57 |
Nighteyes | 51:57 |
In Suramar city you are hostile. There is a quest however that you get early in the quest line (Chapter 1/11) which rewards you with a disguise. This lets you move around freely in Suramar city, well almoust. There are guards and demons that can see you if you stand to close to them for a certain time. If you don’t move away from them, your disguise is broken and you will be attacked, by a lot of mobs probably.
There are some tricks to survive (if not killing them):
One of the goals is to find a cure for the withered. So far they can be controlled, and therefore, Thalyssra wants to build an army of withered. One of your missions is to combat train them in the tunnels of Falanaar. This is a scenario (Collapse Scenario) in which you enter Falanaar with withered and kill mobs, loot them, loot chest etc. The reward for you is first all the loot, second you get a reward in the end which is based on how many points you get. You get points by slaying mobs and some mobs are easy to kill and others are elite.
When you have activated world quests, head back to Thalyssra in Shal´Aran Suramar. She has a starting quest called Building an Army. The first time you do this scenario it is for free and you get 8 withered. I´m not sure how often you can do this scenario but it feels that it pops up every day. Depending on how many withered you want to train, it costs certain amount of Ancient Mana:
The chests are not always on the same place, if you found one at first scenario it has probably moved when doing the scenario again.
Elite Mob: Leystalker Dro
This mob was found in a cacoon (webbed victim)
This mob was also found stealthed and attacked me, so beware!
He is very hard to kill and he attacks your withered (but not Withered Mana Ragers).
He drops a key called Dro´s Key. This key unlocks the door on the southern side of the Falanaar Tunnels central Chamber.
Rewards
It seems that there is a certain amount of chests that you can get during a week. But you will get a bg chest 100% when you are done with the scenario. When completing a scenario, you can be rewarded with
Artifact power
Nightfallen reputation (every 100 points gathered rewards 100 reputation and max rep you can get per scenario is 425 rep).
Ancient mana
Blood of Sargeras
Gear(I got a warforged Helm 835 ilvl) don´t know if it scales to your lvl or a fixed ilvl.
Lucky Doodad (Use: Equip a Champion with Lucky Doodad which grants: Increase success chance of missions by 10%).
Leyline Broodling- Pet Spider
Ancient Mana Basin - Toy (Legion icon burning on your forhead).
Traveler´s Banking Chest- Let you place a bank chest in Shal Áran so you have access to it.
Soothing Leystone Shard - Reduces the chance that your withered troops will run away when injured. This effect is permanent and will take effect the next time you enter the Collapse Scenario.
Pertified Silkweave- Increase the health of your withered troops. This effect is permanent and will take effect the next time you enter the Collapse Scenario.
Spellmask of Azsylla- One of the members of your withered army can wear the helm, causing it to become a powerful Withered Mana-Rager. This effect is permanent and will take effect the next time you enter the Collapse Scenario.
Spellmask of Alla´onus - One of the members of your withered army can wear the helm, causing it to become a powerful Withered Mana-Rager. This effect is permanent and will take effect the next time you enter the Collapse Scenario.
Lens of Qin´dera -Increase the damage of your withered troops by 25%. This effect is permanent and will take effect the next time you enter the Collapse Scenario.
Disc of the Starcaller - One of the members of your withered amy can wear the disc, granting its powerful magic. This effect is permanent and will take effect the next time you enter the Collapse Scenario. This disc makes one of your Withered to become a withered Starcaller.
Lenses of Spellseer Dellian - One of the members of your withered army can wear lenses, allowing it to see hidden treasure chests. This effect is permanent and will take effect the next time you enter the Collapse Scenario.
Berserking Helm of Ondryél - One of the members of your withered army can wear the helm, causing it to become a powerful Withered Berserker. This effect is permanent and will take effect the next time you enter the Collapse Scenario.
Berserking Helm of Taenna - One of the members of your withered army can wear the helm, causing it to become a powerful Withered Berserker. This effect is permanent and will take effect the next time you enter the Collapse Scenario.
Box of Calming Whispers - Encourages your whithered troops to more efficiently focus their attakcs on enemies. This effect is permanent and will take effect the next time you enter the Collapse Scenario.
But all depends on how many points you gather, how many chest you gather and what type of chests.
These 2 dungeons unlocks after you have completed the Chapter: Statecraft. In order to get the starting quest for this storyline you need to:
* Hit 8000/12000 reputation with Nightfallen.
I´m not sure if you have to complete all the other storylines before that, but i guess so. I have listed where and how you get the other quests that start the previous storylines further up in this guide.
Once completed the Statecraft storyline, head to Shal´Aran and talk to First Arcanist Thalyssra (36:47). She will offer you one quest regarding the Arcway and one quest regarding the Court of Stars.
Friendly
Nightfall Slippers
Cloth - Feet
800 ilvl
Irongrove Boots
Leather - Feet
800 ilvl
Footpads of the Nightrunners
Mail - Feet
800 ilvl
Scavenged Felsoul Sabatons
Plate - Feet
899 ilvl
Honored
Treasure Map - Suramar
Reveals treasures on the minimap of Suramar as long as the map is in the inventory.
Mobile Telemancy Beacon
Toy
Set up the beacon in the field to return to Shal´aran.
Boon of the Manaseeker
Permanently enchants shoulders with the Manaseeker enchantment, allowing the wearer to obtain ManaTinged Packs from corpses of their enemies.
Braided Manastring Cinch
Cloth - Waist
820 ilvl
Requires lvl 110
Revered
Class Hall tier - Hands
820 ilvl
Extinguished Eye
Pet
Home Made Party
Toy
Don a “Home-made” Nightborne party mask
Neck
840 ilvl
Stam, crit, mastery
Exalted
Class Hall tier - Shoulder
850 ilvl
Nightfallen Tabard
Pattern: Imbued Silkweave Bracers Rank 3
Pattern: Imbued Silkweave Pantaloons Rank 3
Pattern: Imbued Silkweave Slippers Rank 3
Design: Subtle Shadowruby Pendant Rank 4
Formula: Enchant Ring – Binding of Versatility Rank 3
Formula: Enchant Ring – Binding of Mastery Rank 3
Formula: Enchant Ring – Binding of Critical Strike Rank 3
Formula: Enchant Cloak – Binding of Intellect Rank 3
Each class has its own tier that can be bought (when unlocked) from the Class Hall Quartermaster.
Some of the armor require Nighfallen reputation in order to unlock them. These are:
Class Tier Hands – 810 ilvl
Unlocks after reaching Honored with Nightfallen
Shoulder – 850 ilvl
Unlocks after reaching exalted with Nightfallen
You can also upgrade all your Class Hall Amor up to 840 ilvl. The items to upgrade also needs to be unlocked:
Upgrade Armor Kit – 810 to 820 (costs 1000 Order Resources)
Unlocks after reaching Honored with Nightfallen
Upgrade Armor Kit – 820 to 830 (costs 2000 Order Resources)
Unlocks after defeating the final boss of every Legion Dungeon, on any difficulty.
Upgrade Armor Kit – 830 to 840 (costs 4000 Order Resources)
Unlocks after reaching Exalted with the Nightfallen
This information is collected during PTR and may have changes!
This questline is a continuation of the previous one (Good Suramaritan). In order to unlock this questline, you need to complete the 11/11 Chapters of the first questline in Suramar. See the Guide above of how to complete it.
The questline achievement is called “Insurrection”.
This questline is not like the previous one.
The quests do not have any requirements when you are actually eligible to start it.
You can do all the quests after each other and in the end you will have the achievement “Insurrection”.
The questline is pretty much straight forward.
During this questline you will get 2 side quests.
One is too complete 10 World quests in Suramar.
The other is to complete 5 missions (Order Hall).
You do not have to complete them in order to complete the 9/9 questline achievement.
1/9 Lockdown
Quest starts at:
NPC: Thalyssra in Shal´Aran
Extra Quest:
NPC: Thalyssra in Shal´Aran
She wants you to complete 10 World quests is Suramar
2/9 Missing Persons
Continuing the Cure
Thalyssra in Shal´Aran
3/9 Waxing Crescent
Thalyssra in Shal´Aran
4/9 An Elven Problem
Thalyssra in Shal´Aran
5/9 Crafting War
Thalyssra in Shal´Aran
(Go back to Thalyssra in Shal´Aran to get a follow up quest.)
6/9 March on Suramar
NPC: Thalyssra in Shal´Aran
Extra quest: (54:72)
NPC: Khadgar (you get this quest during the “March on Suramar” questline.
Compete 5 missions
Note: Khadgar wants you to complete 5 missions which is most likely from your Order Hall. However, it seems that there is a bug since I did more than 5 and nothing was recorded about it and couldn’t complete it.
7/9 Elisandre´s Retort
Thalyssra in Shal´Aran
8/9 As Strong As Our Will
Thalyssdra in Shal´Aran
9/9 Breaking the Nighthold
Thalyssra in Shal´Aran
Completing this questline will give you a quest to kill Guldan which rewards loads of Artifact power which seems to increase the more artifact research level you have.
After completing the Suramar questlines (Suramaritan and Insurrection) and doing some extra research, my conclusion is:
The only real information of how to get this mount is:
From https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20324478/patch-7-1-preview-new-adventures-in-the-broken-isles
“If you follow the quest line to completion, you’ll be much closer to obtaining the wondrous new Arcanist’s Manasaber mount.”
According to the Mount collection tab, you must complete the quest “Fate of the Nightborne”.
Also, on the description it says that you helped First Arcanist Thalyssra to liberate Suramar and therefore getting the mount as a reward.