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Comment by gtadem

This is just a breadcrumb quest available at Allerian Stronghold to get you to go into Mana Tombs.

Comment by 406368

There is a pre-quest leading players to Artificer Morphalius, the Alliance version is Eckert the Mad and obtained from Eckert talking about "treasure and ancient knowledge" in the Alliance's Allerian Stronghold. The Horde version is Grek's Crazy Night and can be acquired from Grek (he is busy trying to get someone to read him the Wanted Poster board near the mailbox) in the Horde's Stonebreaker Hold. The mission is to speak to the "shiny mummy" in Mana-Tombs.

Safety is Job One and Undercutting the Competition are two new quests added in patch 4.3 to the Terokkar Forest area, and can be acquired from and returned to Artificer Morphalius inside of the Mana-Tombs dungeon instance, which is a representative for The Consortium. He is located in the northern-most instance portal, inside of the Mana-Tombs itself. It is highly suggested to pick up Intriguing Specimens from Mamdy the "Ologist" right next to Artificer Morphalius before clearing this dungeon.

In Safety is Job One, players must happily kill 10 Ethereal Crypt Raiders, 5 Ethereal Sorcerers, 5 Nexus Stalkers, and 5 Ethereal Spellbinders (links to each inside of the quest link) in Mana-Tombs. All of these are mobs that are usually packed in mixed groups of 2-5 together, so if players are near the level for this zone, they should be careful of mixing pulls from other close groups as they may end up pulling 10-15 mobs in a single room at once. Some of the mobs are only located in the room just before Nexus-Prince Shaffar.

For Undercutting the Competition players must acquire Shaffar's Wrappings by killing anti-Consortium leader Nexus-Prince Shaffar in Mana-Tombs.

Players DO NOT need to be in Heroic mode in order to complete this quest.

(At level 85 with both guild perks, I received zero (0) guild rep, which may be a bug in the quest or new NPC coding. With both guild perks Mr. Popularity, players will receive 275 reputation with The Consortium, and 1 guild rep or 2 with Renowned Guild Tabard) for each of the next two quests.)

When Eckert the Mad is turned in players will see:

"That meathead send you instead?"

<Artificer Morphalius looks you over.>

"I suppose you'll have to do."

(NOTE: Cookie! Notice the grammatical error and the extra '.' inside of <>'s above as of this patch?)

NPC chat text between Artificer Morphalius and Mamdy the "Ologist":

Artificer Morphalius says: "Look at me! You said I would be fine! Do I look fine?"

Mamdy the "Ologist" says: "I can only show you the door, Morphalius. You're the one that has to walk through it.

*Special note for patch 4.3 is that most Auchindoun/Ring of Observance quest NPCs have been moved from the four instance lobbies to actually inside of their respective instances.

ADDENDUM: As of this time few of the tooltips, quests, or Quick Facts have been updated linking items/NPCs/quests together. These are single quests and as yet do not have any associated chains or quests thereafter. Will continue to scan for changes and update as needed.

Comment by shipwreck

This quest does NOT count towards Terror of Terokkar.

Comment by 944648

Quest description reminds me a video of Paul McCartney telling a version of old joke.
"Why he’s not called fencemaker": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjM5qsVryw

Comment by NavyWife2013

Luckily another player close to me was looking for it too, and while we were chatting, some ogre walked by on the road with the question mark over his head. You get some 11,000 xp for it, but all you do is wait on that road until he appears. Then he gives you a quest to continue it elsewhere.

Comment by 1440987

Eckert the Mad http://youtu.be/gaoi41fNG-k

Comment by Boxofbeer

Eckert the Mad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVyV00EIN28

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Eckert the Mad

Speak with Artificer Morphalius in the Mana Tombs in Auchindoun.

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I'm a skilled engineer, a brilliant inventor, the heart of any party, and the best dancer Azeroth has ever seen.

Do they call me those things? No.

But you have one run-in with an ethereal and all of the sudden everyone and their mother calls you "the mad".

I saw one right here just yesterday, I swear it! He said if I followed him to the Mana Tombs in Auchindoun there would be vast treasure and ancient knowledge awaiting me!

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Eckert the Mad

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