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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 wesnt84

the book is after first boss before you enter big building, on the right side after small bridge. just kill the sentinel above stairs and go right side.

Comment by Unfknblvble

I dont think doing this on Mythic + counts. Well it didnt for me today. I didnt even get kill credit from the final boss for the quest.

Comment by bazzyl

Next quest in chain is Twisted Power

Comment by 1431813

I forgot to grab the quest item but I was able go back in and sneak around solo without aggroing anything to grab it.

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 Nari

Joined Mythic +3 for this first and after doing it and learned that this quest cannot be completed by doing key mythic, I joined keyless mythic and I was able to do quest.

Comment by Kilrathi3

So you finish the run but still have this to do and everyone bailed on you, Don't Phear!
at the last boss, you can get a blip back to the start from the stealthed guy.

You appear by a beacon and a guardian construct is in front of you.
IGNORE IT. You will be able to see it but not get there due to the water.. and developers border wall.
Turn around and go thru archway then turn left to bridge.
There are 2 monstahs to the left and 3 on bridge, cant bypass, even invisible pots fail.
(this is the only fight I had to get past after finishing the run)
Murder them if you can or if you can't and can self rez, run across and stay left, die, rez and go in 1st door there.
If you can't get past and cant rez, perhaps Speed is your answer, go old skewl 15 sec swiftness pot or other means then run as follows...

go upstairs, left of the bridge end
thru the doorway, to the right there is a merchant.. doesnt sell anything so go thru far archway.
"The Guilded Market" area notice appears
go downstairs
immediately outside are 3 arcane beacons, ignore them if you want, mobs all around.
take the immediate left to get the item!

Comment by Falicia

If you are saved to Court of Stars Mythic, and then pick up this quest it's possible to run it again and get credit for the quest!

Comment by kozio

The #$%^ing book is not there.... Why are you doing this to us Blizzard? What the hell am I doing wrong?

Comment by kozio

This quest is a !@#$ing JOKE

Comment by jane42

With a little careful pulling, I did this with just myself (arcane mage) and my prot paladin friend, at around 900 ilvl. We used a skaggyldrink (invis pot) through the first big open area and then fought around the edge of the second, avoiding the boss, until we got to the side staircase to the book (really just the mobs on the bridge and the two groups between there and the stairs).

(If you're a mage, spellsteal Fortification every chance you get, it will keep you healed up.)

You can do it!

Comment by Guldoran

It's very annoying how the quest dots show up on the map if you're not on mythic, which literally caused me a half hour of wasted time looking for something that doesn't even exist on heroic. It has to be done on mythic which I forgot after accepting the quest and doing it a couple days later. Honestly so many quests in Legion were poorly designed in my opinion. There shouldn't be quest indicators on the map if the quest requires mythic level. It really confused me. The quests in Legion were by far the most annoying, stressful and non fun parts of the expansion for me. I hope they are much better in BFA.

Comment by Amallah

If you're like me and didn't read the quest text, then left the dungeon after thinking you just needed to kill the last boss... Don't worry, you can go back and get the book. However, if you're even more like me and never lead groups, make sure you choose "Mythic" as the dungeon difficulty. I went in on heroic without thinking to check anything, and managed to kill a few trash packs to get to the item's spawn point, only to see it wasn't there. After a few minutes of running around thinking the spawn was triggered by something, I had a light bulb moment and realized I was on heroic. I left, came back in on Mythic, and thankfully all the trash from my Mythic clear was gone, so it was just a quick run to the item spawn point to grab it.

Comment by Noisia

If you're trying to solo this at 120, make sure to kill the 4 Felbound Enforcers that are around the area the boss is in. Each time you kill one, she'll have one of her guards go "check it out". You can then kill the guards one by one, and her health drops from 1.6M to around 275K.

Comment by xool1

Book is at 40,37.

Comment by wolframwow

The quests Court of Stars: Literary Perfection (this one) ,The Arcway: Rite of the Captain, Vault of the Wardens: Borrowing Without Asking are parallel (all 3 can be started simultaneously).

Comment by jedizombies

If you're like me and just now bothering to do Balance of Power in Season 1 of Dragonflight: this dungeon only syncs to max level if you put a keystone in.
You can still run through on "regular" (Legion) Mythic and one-shot everything.
Happy artifact appearance hunting! :)

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Court of Stars: Literary Perfection

Find Lothrius' first edition copy of "Wards, Sigils, and the Nightborne Way" in the Court of Stars on Mythic difficulty.

	Wards, Sigils, and the Nightborne Way (1)
	Defeat Advisor Melandrus (1)
	Suggested players: 5 (1)

Description

Out of all the books, why that one?! Oh, Mother Moon, I am but a trusting fool.

I apologize, you have no idea what I'm going on about.

I lent my first edition copy of "Wards, Sigils, and the Nightborne Way" to a dear friend - well, former friend, I should say - just before the betrayal.

As fate would have it, there is an incantation in that book that I will need for my part of the ritual.

Please retrieve it if you can, but be careful - it is quite valuable!

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/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(43524))

Guides

Court of Stars Dungeon Ability Guide Quick Guide to Legion's Attunements