Quick Facts

Series

1.	Pop Quiz: Advanced Rune Drawing
2.	The Headmistress' Keys
3.	The Tidestone: Shattered

Storyline
In Pursuit of the Tidestone Into the Fray Into the Fray Demon Souls Reignite the Wards The Scythe of Souls From Within From Within From Within Fel Machinations Saving Stellagosa Dark Revelations Journey to the Repose The Death of the Eldest Agapanthus Their Dying Breaths Those Who Remember They Came From the Sea Prince Farondis Our Very Bones Trailing the Tidestone Nar'thalas Still Suffers The Walk of Shame Into the Academy Dressing With Class Hit the Books The Haunted Halls Wanding 101 Study Hall: Combat Research Pop Quiz: Advanced Rune Drawing The Headmistress' Keys The Tidestone: Shattered Save Yourself The Head of the Snake Eye of Azshara: Wrath of Azshara Eye of Azshara: The Tidestone of Golganneth

Screenshots

Videos

Comments

Comment by Zaynah

When you accept the quest, a pattern will appear on the floor. It is the pattern of the first rune you need to trace.

When you run over the pattern, it will fill in with a visual effect wherever you touch it. The effect corresponds to whatever the rune is, i.e. arcane, fire or frost.

The idea is to run over the entire pattern, so all the lines are filled in with the spell effect. When the pattern is filled in correctly, it will disappear with a flash and it will be replaced by the next rune that needs to be traced. When you have traced the final rune, the quest will complete.

When the pattern seems all filled-in but you do not get credit for it, it is likely that there is a small spot not filled in somewhere that is difficult too see. In this case you may have to trace the pattern again. It can help slowing down to walking pace, instead of running, when tracing the pattern.

Edit: Just did this quest again in patch 8.3 and it looks like it has been heavily nerfed, i.e. the pattern is marked as complete before you have filled it in in its entirety, making the quest much easier.

Comment by Auryan

In Beta, my graphics are set to "6" and I could not see a damn thing on the ground for this quest. I turned all my graphics but shadows up to ultra and THEN I could faintly see the rune outline on the ground. You might want to do the tracing at walking speed as run speed seems to leave gaps in the trace.

Comment by yoco68

I couldn't see anything to draw at first. It appears you must have "Projected Textures" enabled to see the targets

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJU1sHyZIQ&feature=share

Comment by jjanchan

Some advice when completing this quest - you want to toggle on walk (rather than run) so that you can slowly walk over the runes. If you run too fast, you miss spots, and it can be pretty finicky as the quest credit requires that you cover EVERY little spot on the runes.

I toggled on walk and slowly completed each rune one by one, and had much less hassle with this.

The default key for toggle run/walk is Num Lock /. You change this key by going to Game Menu --> Key Bindings --> Movement Keys and changing the key for "Toggle Run/Walk"

Comment by Jessimica

I vote this the most frustrating quest of Legion - apparently Guardian Druids are not gifted artists.

Comment by Dayta

Quest Video ( YouTube Link )
Showing the Quest beeing done from start to end
English - LEGION 4049 Pop Quiz Advanced Rune Drawing
German - LEGION 4049 Stegreifaufgabe Fortgeschrittenes Runenzeichnen

Complete Legion Quest List Here

Comment by tykneetym

As a tauren I was having issues tracing the fire fune. I used the toy "Podling Camouflage" to make my character model smaller and it seemed to do the trick.

Also walking as others have suggested.

Comment by Illiphar

Was having serious problems on the fire rune. Best thing to do is abandon it if you can't seem to fill it in and do the quest only using walk. Turn your graphics on the highest as well.

Comment by Lielandri

The final rune that you have to draw might be a reference to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. It is frost and it is vaguely reminiscent of the olympic symbol - the five rings.

Nidriel mentions that "everybody always forgets the fifth circle" which I assume is a reference to the minor malfunction during the opening ceremony when one of the rings (the fifth circle) failed to open.

Comment by Kriipsu

there are train tracks on the ground. put character on walk and choo-choo on train tracks

Comment by hobbesmarcus

Ladies and gentlemen, I do believe we've found the most irritating quest of this expansion.

Comment by Backlashe

I have found that the BEST way to do this is to not run but toggle on "walk" and just walk the circle. Had no issues after doing this.

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUz_zeiAk7U&feature=youtu.be

Comment by roeevv

toggle walk - and finish fast.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Pop Quiz: Advanced Rune Drawing >> https://youtu.be/htTBxmMC5ts

Series

Pop Quiz: Advanced Rune Drawing |
The Headmistress' Keys | https://youtu.be/bw78tO9VSig
The Tidestone: Shattered | https://youtu.be/BjGzUTcE8RE

Comment by TegoZanduba

Who else is dreading when they decide to use this mechanic for a raid boss? "We have the tech now... might as well use it" I can hear someone saying in the encounter design team.

Comment by MilesDavis

I am wondering can you get back into that room after leaving and how exactly can you? I left the area before completing the quests. So now I can see the exclamation mark on my big map but there is nothing at the location.

Comment by Sansasyon

Really? People are stuck in this quest. You'll always be an undergraduate.

Comment by killaDZA

I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I ran around all of the circles. You can run around the circles in any way you want, you can go back and hit a spot again if you miss it.... no need to walk. its very forgiving. did the whole quest in about 15 secs..

Comment by allOf

Pop Quiz: Advanced Rune Drawing https://youtu.be/WgWuHnW9AMI

Comment by alpanhell

I've done this quest on 4 different toons and never had any problems until the 4th time. Looking at the comments here I never had to put my toon on "walk" or been really meticulous when running over the runes. I know I've missed spots yet still got credit.

On my 4th toon I couldn't get past the fire rune even though it looked really complete. So I abandoned the quest and redid it with no problems.

I suspect the problem is that when you are doing a circle (all of the runes are made of multiple circles) be sure you finish one circle before moving on to the next one. You can tell when you finish a circle because it will flare for a second and I believe make a noise. Once you've finished that circle, move on to the next one, etc. Then you should have no issues.

Comment by bonecoll

Pop Quiz: Advanced Rune Drawing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBSQkTeH4yo

Comment by lankesterstormra

Two things that had my head twisted around today, finally figured it out.

#1, since I'd left the quest chain leading up to this days ago, I'd forgotten that the path to the questgiver starts underneath the temple up on the small hill, and nowhere near the quest marker in the middle of the water on the map.

#2, this is part of the quest chain that leads to getting the Azsuna Matata achievement, and it does not require a dungeon run. You kill the named bosses outside the instance.

Comment by eric0707

Pop Quiz: Advanced Rune Drawing - Quest -››› https://youtu.be/ch9jQWP5CzE

Comment by Junal09

No one has mentioned this tip yet. When tracing runes as you follow "train tracks" around rune circles, if you complete the rune circle ( even the fire rune) the twin tracks will disappear for that circle and only train left are ones you still need to complete,:)

Comment by radioactivegirl

The quest is INSIDE Narthalas Academy. Take the left door/stairs down to get to Instructor Nidriel and the quest.

Comment by vickyd

There's really no need to look at a youtube video....

Just toggle your 'run', and 'walk' on the tracks. You'll be done in a matter of seconds :)

Comment by mrmatthewdee

This quest seems to be a reference to the 1st 2 harry potter games in which you had to trace a symbol in order to learn a spell.

https://youtu.be/lusfiBrSQxs?t=38s

Comment by Pryxangel

As a hunter this quest was much easier to complete when I had Thas'dorah, Legacy of the Windrunners in my bag instead of equipped. It´s much harder to write runes with Windrunning.

Comment by Boxofbeer

You have to draw three runes to do this quest:

Arcane rune — it's three mid sized rings chained with each other.
Fire rune — four different sized rings placed inside the biggest one.
Frost rune — five small rings chained with each other.

If you have any problems with a quest, switch off always running option. Seems this quest is a reference to Harry Potter videogame, there you have to draw figures with mouse to learn spell, but i'm not sure. Here's a moment I'm talking about — https://youtu.be/DY6yVnyquxg?t=517.

Pop Quiz: Advanced Rune Drawing — https://youtu.be/htTBxmMC5ts

This quest is a part of Azsuna versus Azshara quest chain needed for Azsuna Matata achievement. Full list is under the spoiler

Azsuna versus Azshara quest chain:
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Those Who Remember	https://youtu.be/7FxO5r2-ln8
They Came From the Sea	https://youtu.be/bhh_1c39oxc
Prince Farondis	https://youtu.be/vJ5MdhlO92U
Trailing the Tidestone	https://youtu.be/x_uO9T3bsEk
Nar'thalas Still Suffers	https://youtu.be/boSqJUlmWCU
The Walk of Shame	https://youtu.be/n-qLZUIC99o
Into the Academy	https://youtu.be/Nd2TWXvdXgM
Dressing With Class	https://youtu.be/wwuKTQAG158
Hit the Books	https://youtu.be/x_sGWIMHC8Y
The Haunted Halls	https://youtu.be/GjX7ZBwFIws
Wanding 101	https://youtu.be/NAQ5i81AXRU
Study Hall: Combat Research	https://youtu.be/qXe7rCZ-nLk
Pop Quiz: Advanced Rune Drawing	https://youtu.be/htTBxmMC5ts
The Headmistress' Keys	https://youtu.be/bw78tO9VSig
The Tidestone: Shattered	https://youtu.be/BjGzUTcE8RE
Save Yourself	https://youtu.be/g_TBjVw-Uus
The Head of the Snake	https://youtu.be/_Js0V9RyNTQ

Comment by schtinky

The large strides of my worgen weren't causing enough of the runes to activate, so I used Manastorm's Duplicator to turn into Millhouse Manastorm. Smaller strides, more steps, easier completion.

Comment by xRodge

The second stage of this mission really sucks if you're colour blind :(

Comment by Nimhloth

It would appear that as of the most recent update this quest is a lot less finicky. I just did it on an alt and it completed a lot easier that it has in the past. It seemed that only about 75-80% of each rune design really needed to be completed. A few of the rings lit up as complete before I had even finished the part I was walking.

Comment by Beace

Sometimes when leveling alts, the fire rune gives me huge problems. Everything looks to be covered, but it just refuses to complete. Abandoning quest and trying again usually solves it.

I suspect it might be related to fast running speed (DH) and maybe large characters (lots of people report problems doing it as a tauren).

Comment by xxPistolxx

Just tried to do this quest on my alt and it refuses to complete the fire rune. I abandoned quest and everything. Not sure what's going on, but hopefully it gets fixed soon.

Good luck!

EDIT: I got it to work....I just had to walk slower. -_-

Comment by GeodesicDragon

When it comes to doing this quest, the Pandaren have the right idea:

"Slow down."

Comment by Soliptic

Just run over the circles on the floor in the center of the room.

No need to walk, if you miss a spot just run over that spot until it's complete.

I absolutely loved this quest .... so much more unique than "kill 15 of these mobs".

I wish they did more stuff like this.

Comment by Raydawn

This quest become stuck/bugged for me, and no matter what I did, I couldn't get past the fire rune. Try logging off and logging back in. And don't talk to the NPC; I'm not sure if that's actually an issue, but it is something different I did after re-logging and I got it on the first try.

Comment by schintus

Pro tip for color blind people (I'm red/green), turn on the color blind mode that fits you best in the Inferface -> Accessibility menu.

Comment by Monomatapa

Couldn't even get the first set of runes to work.
The smoke you get when you walk over the rune disappeared about one second after, so I was unable to fill the circles.

Comment by GilblinStalker

You can run as usually while doing arcane and frost rune.
HOWEVER i can confirm that in the fire rune, you have to WALK the whole scenario. Can confirm that it worked for me atleast.
Good luck!

Comment by Cavebear86

The programmers that designed and executed this quest should all have been fired four years ago with great haste, but better late than never This quest caused me to rage quit WoW yesterday. First of all, if I wanted to play at wizard school, I’d be playing Harry Potter, but I don’t, I’m playing freaking WoW. This whole quest series was obnoxious but I shouldn’t have to somehow know that “walk” is even an option without looking it up and I still couldn’t get the fire rune to draw. This after I was already beyond frustrated from fighting drawings in a book.This quest is worse than that dungeon (I forget which) that has you flying dragons around without really explaining how to even summon the dragon until you beg your group mates to explain wtf you’re meant to be doing and how.

Comment by Sonikgav

I just can't get past this.

The rings (first ones) flicker every second or so, which to me makes me think they are resetting as the smoke trail i leave also only lasts a second.

Im kinda fed up with this because it means i can't continue the quest line for the Achievement so i can get the mount/item that i'm after.

Comment by setari

Quest is uncompletable in 9.0.1. The "smoke" that's supposed to be there to fill in the pattern disappears so you can't complete it.

Comment by Poehring

As of 11/14/2020 I can't get the runes to light up at all. No matter where I step on them, even when walking. I have abandoned several times, disabled all add-ons and tried many times. Still nothing. As far as I know this quest is required for the Pillars of Creation questline. I submitted a ticket but I'm wondering if anyone is still having issues with this. I have searched online and read many posts and nothing relating to the particular issue I'm having. Any advice would be appreciated.

Comment by ghostesez

Has anyone figured out how to get past the bug? The smoke disappears way too fast for me to complete it. I’ve submitted a bug report, hopefully Blizz will fix this soon

Comment by levicopter

Just completed it 18/11/2020 altho i had to walk carefully as i felt like it didnt register me properly while running

Comment by senseiii

Bro i was so lost omg... after u talked to the instructor, different formations with small lines will appear on the ground. simply walk on them like on a drug test

Comment by psychomiko

As of 9.1, this quest seems to still be bugged where the Fire rune won't finish.
Walking on the fire rune instead of running solves the issue.
You start walking by pressing the " / " button on your keyboard.

Comment by Harwod

Until Blizz hotfix that, the quest works only in party sync with low level character.

Comment by Fatfury77

anyone having problem with this quest after patch 10.0? For me nothing is happening when running over the circles

Comment by Harwod

Tested it today and apparently RP walk (/) really works. I've finally done the quest!

Comment by eridal

I think something changed very recently about this quest. It seems impossible to complete.

Context:
I'm trying to complete the quest on an Orc Warrior of mine, at level 70. The first rune no longer even starts drawing. There is the expected audio effect at every step, but the visual effect appears and doesn't linger. I've ran around a couple of times and none of the circles is marked as drawn. I tried abandoning the quest and picking it up again, reloading, restarting the game, and anything else I could think of. No visible effect. I completed this quest last week on a Draenei Paladin. I'm not sure what changed since then.

Comment by Haxedus

For some reason shaman's ghost wolf form bugged the fire rune to the point I had to abandon the quest and do it again.

Comment by Aleinus

Thanks all who left the advices here! I also had a problem with the fire rune and solved it by changing two options:
1) Switch to the walking mode (Num Pad /)
2) Improve the visibility of fire path: Options > Accessibility > Colorblind Mode > Enable UI, Colorblind Filter: Protanopia

After completion, restore these settings back to normal.

Links

Pop Quiz: Advanced Rune Drawing

Trace an arcane rune, a fire rune, and a frost rune.

	Arcane Rune drawn (1)
	Fire Rune drawn (1)
	Frost Rune drawn (1)

Description

Still aching to get into the headmistress' study, eh? I suppose I can let you in... as long as you prove that you've been studying.

Proper rune formation is essential when it comes to spellcasting. If you can draw a rune, you can cast a spell.

I will provide outlines for you. You can simply use your feet to trace the runes.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

150 reputation with Court of Farondis

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(37729))

Guides

Azsuna Overview and Leveling Path Court of Farondis Reputation Guide