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Storyline
Balance of Power The Power Within The Power Within The Power Within The Power Within Eye of Azshara: The Heart of Zin-Azshari A Vainglorious Past Darkheart Thicket: Fallen Power Tempering Darkness Lucid Strength The Wisdom of Patience The Emerald Nightmare: In Nightmares The Emerald Nightmare: Essence of Power Essential Consumption Focusing Our Efforts Saving the Guard Seeking Refuge Repaid Debt Lost Knowledge Court of Stars: Literary Perfection The Arcway: Rite of the Captain Vault of the Wardens: Borrowing Without Asking Twisted Power A True Test Seeking the Valkyra The Mark Maw of Souls: Retrieving the Svalnguard A Feast Fit for Odyn Neltharion's Lair: Presentation is Key Halls of Valor: Odyn's Blessing Preparing to Move Planning the Assault The Nighthold: Delusions of Grandeur The Nighthold: Into the Nighthold The Nighthold: Darkness Calls Balance of Power

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Comment by Hekler

this quest followed "The Mark"

Shield is in the room with the grimwalker before the second boss.

after that just defeat Helya

Comment by Taoma

Preceding quest - The Mark
Succeeding quests - A Feast Fit for Odyn and Neltharion's Lair: Presentation is Key
The quest item The Svalnguard is looted from the ground after the first boss.

Comment by SweetJohnnyCage

If you are able to get into a group that has all bosses but Helya killed, you can still get the quest item. Just walk back into the ship and you'll find the shield on the ground. Kill Helya and go on to the next quest.

Comment by Savaena

This quest can only be completed on normal Mythic. You will not get credit if you try to complete this quest on Mythic+ Maw of Souls.

This was confirmed by Game Master Rachiomyst on 12/10/2016:

Some quests actually can only be completed in the Mythic version of the dungeon and not the Mythic+ versions. Unfortunately this is one of those quests so the only option is doing it in the normal mythic difficulty.

Hope that helps anyone who may try to do this on Mythic+ like I did and save you some time and frustration.

Comment by Pinga

You can complete this even if already locked on the dungeon for the week, since the drop doesn't come from any bosses.

Comment by Foxies

Introduction
This quest is part of a comment-size guide for "Balance of Power." questline. Quests are pretty much self-explanatory and all it takes is some time and good will to complete them. Completing this questline rewards Artifact Appearance (Appearance 3, Tint 1).

Part 1
Image of Kalec appears in your Order Hall and gives you the following quest:
The Power Within (Meet Archmage Kalec at Azurewing Repose in Azsuna.)
Reasons behind appearance of Archmage Kalec in your Class Order Hall are not yet completely understood but most people noticed him few days after they completed their Class Campaign.

Part 2
From there you take a next quest from Senegos:
The Heart of Zin-Azshari (Retrieve the Heart of Zin-Azshari and defeat the Wrath of Azshara in the Eye of Azshara on Mythic difficulty.)

Part 3
After completing the previous quests you receive a few new quests (exactly 3: two from Senegos and one from Archmage Kalec).
Senegos:
A Vainglorious Past (Obtain a Vainglorious Draught from Veridis Fallon.)
- You can purchase Vainglorious Draught from Veridis Fallon in Crumbled Palace in Azsuna for 150g (Requirement: Court of Farondis - Honored).

Fallen Power (Recover a Corrupted Essence from Oakheart and defeat the Shade of Xavius in Darkheart Thicket on Mythic difficulty.)

Archmage Kalec:
Tempering Darkness (Obtain 30 Blood of Sargeras.)
Should not be a problem since by the time you get that quest and if you did not spend any Blood of Sargeras you should have some stacked up simply by completing Dungeons and World Quests.

Part 4
Archmage Kalec:
Lucid Strength (Absorb the power from the Corrupted Essence using the Heart of Zin-Azshari.)
Right next to you.

Part 5
Senegos:
The Wisdom of Patience (Await the opening of The Emerald Nightmare, then report back to Senegos in Azsuna.)

Part 6
Archmage Kalec:
In Nightmares (Obtain a Deathglare Iris and the Horn of the Nightmare Lord from The Emerald Nightmare.) NOTE: NOT doable with LFR. It has to be Normal difficulty or higher. In order to complete this quest you need to kill 2 bosses: Il'gynoth and Xavius and loot mentioned quest items.

Senegos:
Essence of Power (Collect 30 Corrupted Essence from The Emerald Nightmare.) This quest gave me a weird WoD and Khadgar flashback. NOT doable with LFR. Only Normal or higher difficulty. Essences ~~do not~~ have a 100% drop rate and bosses can drop 1-2 3 Corrupted Essences at the time.

Part 7
Senegos:
Essential Consumption (Absorb the combined power of the Corrupted Essences using the Heart of Zin-Azshari.)
Right next to you.

Part 8
Archmage Kalec:
Repaid Debt (Meet Archmage Kalec in the Shal'Aran in Suramar.)

Part 9
Thalrenus Rivertree:
Lost Knowledge (Obtain the Scroll of Elun'dris from First Arcanist Thalyssra.)
- Costs 120g. Requirement: The Nightfallen - Revered).

Part 10
Thalrenus Rivertree:
Borrowing Without Asking (Recover a Containment Crystal from the Vault of the Wardens on Mythic difficulty.)

Syrana Starweaver:
Rite of the Captain (Take Advisor Vandros' Eon Winder from The Arcway on Mythic difficulty.)

Lothrius Mooncaller:
Literary Perfection (Find Lothrius' first edition copy of "Wards, Sigils, and the Nightborne Way" in the Court of Stars on Mythic difficulty.)

Part 11
Syrana Starweaver:
Twisted Power (Use a Greater Portal Stone to summon Vizuul the Twisted at the Altar of End Times in Faronaar and collect his runebindings.)

Part 12
Syrana Starweaver:
A True Test (Absorb the power from the Twisted Runebindings using the Heart of Zin-Azshari.)
Right next to you.

Part 13
Archmage Kalec:
Seeking the Valkyra (Seek out Ashildir at the Vault of Eyir in Stormheim.)

Part 14
Ashildir:
The Mark (Prove your worth to the Valarjar, then receive the Mark of the Valkyra from Eyir.)

Part 15
Ashildir:
Retrieving the Svalnguard (Retrieve the Svalnguard and defeat Helya in the Maw of Souls on Mythic difficulty.)

Part 16
Ashildir:
A Feast Fit for Odyn (Acquire flank meat from Thunderhoof in Stormheim, Spinesever's spine in Highmountain, and a steak from Leytusk in Azsuna.)

Presentation is Key (Retrieve 4 Adamantium Casing Scraps and defeat Dargrul the Underking in Neltharion's Lair on Mythic difficulty.)

Part 17
Ashildir:
Odyn's Blessing (Obtain Odyn's blessing in the Halls of Valor on ~~Heroic or~~ Mythic difficulty.)
- Use Grand Feast of Valhallas when you enter the dungeon - at the start. You can enter the dungeon alone, put the feast down, get out and then get a group to defeat Odyn and get his blessing. After you defeat him wait for him to finish his speech (RP) and then you can collect his blessing on the loot chest.

Part 18
Archmage Kalec:
Planning the Assault (Await the opening of the Nighthold, then meet Archmage Kalec in Shal'Aran.)

Part 19
Archmage Kalec:
Into the Nighthold (Collect 20 Nightshards from the Nighthold on Normal difficulty or higher.)
- Try and complete this quest without killing Gul'dan because if you kill him before acquiring The Nighthold: Darkness Calls quest in Part 20 he won't drop quest item for you this week and you'll need to wait for a next reset to complete The Nighthold: Darkness Calls quest in Part 20.

Thalrenus Rivertree:
The Nighthold: Delusions of Grandeur (Collect the core of Trilliax and Grand Magistrix Elisande's Millennia Tome in the Nighthold on Normal difficulty or higher.)

Part 20
Archmage Kalec:
The Nighthold: Darkness Calls (Bring one Gul'dan's eyes to Archmage Kalec on Normal difficulty or higher.)

Part 21
Archmage Kalec:
Balance of Power (Absorb the combined power of the Nightshards and the Eye of Gul'dan using the Heart of Zin-Azshari at the Lunar Crucible.)

Congratulations on completing this questline and acquiring new Artifact Appearance. Enjoy!
Foxies, out.

Comment by Wytmagic

This can be completed even if you have already done your Mythic for the week! You do not get boss drops, but you can pick up the shield and get credit for killing Helya.

Comment by Turowai

If, like me, you were daft and forgot to pick up the item along the way (thinking that it was a drop off of helya), don't despair! You CAN get back on board.

Take the portal next to you (after killing helya) that takes you to the entrance of the instance, run out (through the portal), and then back in. You'll be ported to the 2nd boss's platform, and can then just run back from there down the stairs to pick up your shield. :)

Also note, you can grab loot off of the first boss too if your group was really fast with that horn >.<

Comment by TomazCardoso

Got a good tip for people that got distracted, like me, for looting the item after killed Helya.

Step 1- Be distracted and kill Helya before loot the item;
Step 2-Click the pool to get to entrance, just before 1st boss;
Step 3-If any type of trash is alive ( even the undead birds flying around), just die to them, and you will spawn on the 2nd boss
Step 4-Go back and loot item

Cheers!

Comment by xLunacyx

Upon defeating Helya, taking the teleport, and leave Maw of Souls, I was for some reason placed in Thundertotem, of all places.

Comment by sarahlogic

The dungeon is located in Stormheim at /way 52.44, 45.30

Comment by Furism

This quest doesn't seem to work as of 11.0? I go into the dungeon with difficulty set to Mythic, I'm teleported to the ship's hold, I loot the Svalguard, but the doors to the upper deck are locked. I solo'd this earlier today so maybe M0 lock is preventing me from completing the quest?

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Maw of Souls: Retrieving the Svalnguard

Retrieve the Svalnguard and defeat Helya in the Maw of Souls on Mythic difficulty.

	The Svalnguard (1)
	Defeat Helya (1)
	Suggested players: 5 (1)

Description

The Svalnguard was once Odyn's shield; it is said that it hid the Halls of Valor from the endless darkness below his realm.

Helya, who was cast from the shining halls long ago, stole The Svalnguard and keeps it on her accursed ship, the Naglfar.

You must board the Naglfar, defeat Helya, and retrieve The Svalnguard - it will make a worthy tribute for Odyn.

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(40613))

Guides

Maw of Souls Dungeon Ability Guide Quick Guide to Legion's Attunements