Quick Facts

Series

1.	Caught in the Act
2.	Improvised Implements
3.	A Helpful Hand

Storyline
The House of Rituals House of Rituals The Wayward Baron Playing Favorites Pilfered Power Burying Suspicion A Fitting Guise The Pupil Returns The Baron's Plan Mistress of Tomes Cantrip Collections Errant Enchantments The Hall of Tomes Necessary Ingredients Heart of the Forest Cage Free Spores The Final Reagent Explosive Schemes No Crate Unturned Blinding the Brokers Designed to Fail Caught in the Act Improvised Implements A Helpful Hand The Traitor Unmasked The Better Part of Valor

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Comments

Comment by GreatAndPowerful

If Balmedar does not spawn for you to hand in the quest, relogging seems to resolve the issue.

Comment by Slushy22

Once you grab the hand this is a jumping puzzle to get to the lever. You have to start on the small blocks, jump from web to web, then take the chains around so you are high enough to touch the lever.

Comment by Dergald

Blizzard: This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to ragequit your game. I hate this kind of quest stuff. tedious merde.

Comment by CycloneDuke

I really enjoyed this quest from an immersion standpoint!
At first I was sad that as a rogue, I couldn't just pick the lock.. but of course perhaps they took my picks.

I had a laugh at the possible items to click in the cell, the idea that a torch holding a secret switch would for ANY reason be inside a prison cell lol!

The controlling of the hand is intentionally awkward. You can't strafe! You're just a hand walking on fingers and it's your character's first time being a necromancer after all! The trick is - you need to remember that you turn slowly, and you need to face the right way before walking forwards - especially when making a jump.

When you get up the first web on the lantern - you have to jump across to the second web. Don't bother trying to land on the ceiling-bone-claw thing. You can jump up onto the chain then safely from on top of the box with no risk to fall down. Line up carefully, but it's pretty forgiving on the chain just remember to "aim" with your mouse ideally, instead of WASD etc.

Try right-clicking the spiders! Kapow!

Comment by MelwensLady

when you managed to reach to the chains, do not jump, just walk, it took some time for me to notice that . . .

Comment by Technologyguru

On this quest when you get to the chains DO NOT JUMP. Just keep walking and you will go right to the chains. You will thank me. :)

Comment by Jadira

***picture Galaxy Quest scene***
Who ever wrote this episode should DIE!

Comment by Phakalyalle

EDIT: well apparently they "fixed" this method to no longer work, but didn't fix how broken the quest was in the first place. I'm unable to test new methods, or to see if this still works. Sorry guys.

Original text: I managed to cheese this one by just running over to the lever, jumping and clicking it when I was at the apex of the jump. It opened the cell door. Thank goodness, because I have a finicky space bar and would have had the worst time getting this done (or not done at all) if I had to do the jump and maneuver thing.

Comment by Elitesparkle

You can complete this Quest without jumping! Instead of following the obvious route on the right side when watching the lever, go in the middle of the room and walk on the shelf on the left side. The skeleton hand will start climbing it and you'll reach the lever in a few seconds.

Comment by Areilca

When you are the hand. Go near lever and there is that box front of it where you should try to go way intended but its &*!@. Just jump in the corner of that box and right side of the wall (between those two is the sweet spot). You should be stuck in between that box and wall ( mid air ) thus reaching the lever to click.

Ps. It seems fun quest until you try to do it the legit way :)

Comment by padmajar

This is Blizzard trolling us. Just jump near the lever and you should be able to open it. Don't bother trying to climb over.

Comment by Dopaemin

I wanna kindly thank you ALL OF YOU that pointed that just jumping closer to the lever is enough to pull it.
I was really close to just let the whole campaign and leave this dumb questline...

Comment by viva

Any SWTOR players will get serious datacron jumping game flashbacks doing this, only to come here and read that you can cheese it.

Comment by adamfazai

another terrible quest from Blizzard "talents".
when they run out of ideas they design bad quest, bad stroy and everything

Comment by Bursi

Questline took about 42 minutes.

Comment by Wyo1

that quest is brilliant , loved it..Nice Jumping Puzzle and escape....

Comment by BOBJohnson

Sadly the /snap command does not do a special animation with the skeleton hand in this quest. Submitted a bug report.

Comment by Volkatsia

This quest is literally awful. If the folks at Blizz wanna make a platformer; 1). learn to make proper controls & 2). make a platformer instead of putting it in a campaign quest for a covenant. Annoying.

Comment by Malvenue

^&*! this &*!@ing bull!@#$ jumping quest.

Comment by mRshykid

I genuinely love this quest <3

Comment by matrixenforcer

This is a very annoying quest. I couldn't get the jump on the box trick to work. A guard kept coming out and throwing me back in my cell. I also tried to cheese it by hearthing out of the dungeon and coming back to the cell to reach the lever in my normal form. That didn't work either. After at least 20 tries, I finally got it. The hardest part is that jump from spiderweb to spiderweb. I toggled walk/run to balance on the shelves and chain, but you have to be running to hit that second spider web. As soon as I got on the second one it was back to walking, but the next shelf I had to toggle back run to make the jump. After that I toggled walk again and just walked the rest of the way without jumping from the chain to the lever.

Comment by grlygeek

There hasn't been a quest that has made me want to rage quit in a fecking long time!

Comment by Ehayen

Bliz has "fixed" all the work-arounds for this quest.

This quest almost made me cancel my subscription.

I had the web page open and was about to remove my payment information when I got distracted by a phone call and after the call I decided to try it one more time.

Comment by maricam58

April 2022: Running and jumping at the lever did not work at all. So, I decided to grit my teeth and do the jumping, jumping which I normally hate a lot. But I was able to do it without much grief.

Starting on the right across from the lever, three small jumps on boxes to get to the top of a box and onto a web. At the top of the web you are blocked by an object. Back up slightly, and jump to the other web coming off the object. Carefully walk down this web to the top of the bookcase. Jump on the book, walk across the second bookcase and hop up on the chain. Carefully walk down the chain to a third bookcase (this one is on the left, the same wall as the lever). One more web and you're at the lever.

Give it a try!

Comment by couchpotato2013

What a trash quest. I got bored this weekend and was doing all the other covenants on my main (vs the 3 others I had done on characters mostly before/early 9.1.5). I had done this quest 3 times prior just by jumping up and grabbing the level now I had to actually jump around. Reminded me of all the annoying mushrooms on the "bone" arches in korthia as a non-venthyr/non-DH.

Hope blizz fixes this back to what it was and never do it again. Worse platforming than when I played tomb raider on the ps1 like 15 years ago.

Comment by Blightman

Well this is not a fun quest.

A tip: jumping backwards is easier than jumping fowards

Comment by Sorennnn

Blizzard actually did a refreshing quest and you guys can't handle it lol, I oneshoted it and i'm bad at the game.

But I guess that you would have prefered a 0/15 skeleton guard quest lol

Comment by DaemoniKira

A Helpful Hand:

It takes but a simple act of necromancy to animate a hand. Unfortunately, since you will be in closest proximity, you must be the one to command it.

Well, then...
Good thing I'm a Death Knight --
Necromancy's in my blood! :D

Wait, I don't think DKs/Undead have blood... I mean, they can be drained and that's why they look so pale, but maybe they weren't drained first?
Idk... Whatever.
"Necromancy's a part of me."
That's better.

Comment by Zaloriah

I ABSOLUTELY HATED THIS QUEST! I'm blind in one eye and all the jumping made me sick to my stomach and I wanted to throw up! I finally managed to cross the webbing after I angled my camera straight ahead and not looking downward, now I'll go throw up.

Comment by irdamajere

I levelled my demon hunter through the storyline in Shadowlands. Took me months to get through the Maldraxxus part because I was waiting for them to fix the bug that made the DH class ability not work at all. Never happened, I never got to try it out. Sent in numerous bug reports but it didn't help.

The Tormentors of Torghast event that was added to the game in 9.1 is still bugged. People still pull mobs when they can't see the bar and it makes what should be a quick and dirty event take longer than it has to. Several bug reports, nothing changed.

But this. THIS "bug" they fixed in a jiffy, because heaven forbid people try to make their lives a tiny bit easier doing an incredibly tedious quest. Yes, you people with the need to add in some weird /flex because you 'one shotted it', it's doable. Doesn't mean it isn't bloody annoying.

Comment by Gongarock

Try walking. It helped me and btw I hate jumping quests.

Comment by Mcitra

I guess all those hours playing KZ maps in 1.6 payed off

Just jump on the right side box and follow the path jumping around the room til you reach the end :)

Comment by Panjja

What a @^#%@^%#@ing $%^& quest! Controls suck big time, the jumping thing dont work anymore, had to log off before I threw my mouse through my monitor...

Comment by eKatherine

I was ready to give up on the campaign completely, couldn't jump across those gaps and land anywhere but the floor. Then I went behind that little pedestal in front of the switch, jumped partway up and stayed there, then jumped the rest of the way to the top.

They must really hate their customers to make mandatory quests that people without perfect vision and hand to eye coordination aren't able to do.

Comment by adarynlirise

This quest is beyond awful. I did do it, making sure my hand was facing the right way before jumping helped a lot. It's still a terrible quest though!

Comment by lorileon

This quest is not fun, it is very frustrating. The hand is very difficult to steer and control. I don't have an issue with the story line but make it do-able PLEASE. I have what is considered decent equipment and the stupid hand falls off surfaces at the slightest. I repeat - THIS IS NOT FUN. NOT ENTERTAINING. Have not yet pre purchased expansion. Why do I want to pay to be frustrated? I DON'T.

Comment by SpareSimian

I was reminded of my days watching Lara Croft's tush as I jumped through Tomb Raider 2 to solve its puzzles.

Comment by Wolfy4477

You don't have to touch the lever to pull it. Do the climbing: 1) Three quick shelves. 2) Walk the web to just before the chandelier. 3) Jump to the shelves. 4) Stand on the book; jump to the chain. 5) Walk across the room on the chain to the larger shelf. 5) On to the web; walk as far as you can. 5) Don't jump to the lever. Your cursor is activated at that point. 6) Click the lever.

Comment by xLunacyx

Fun and interesting little quest to escape your jail cell. Only takes like 20 seconds to go along the obvious path.

Links

A Helpful Hand

Navigate the Reanimated Hand to the end of the hall and activate the Corroded Lever.

	Help Balmedar animate the hand (1)
	Open the cells (1)

Description

It takes but a simple act of necromancy to animate a hand. Unfortunately, since you will be in closest proximity, you must be the one to command it. When you are ready, I will reanimate the hand. Once you have control, use it to pull the lever at the end of the hall. Couldn't be simpler, right?

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(61759))

Guides

The Story of the Necrolords Covenant Campaign