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Storyline
Origins Nobundo's Last Stand A Falling Star A Falling Star Felspawns of Lothros The Red Axe Hunter of Night Awakenings An Unclear Path Ravencrest's Legacy In My Father's House Destiny Unfulfilled Destiny Unfulfilled Destiny Unfulfilled

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Comment by Stealthfire13

There seem to be three versions of this quest: this one for demon hunters, this one for players who have killed Illidan in the Black Temple, and this one for players who haven't killed him. It's pretty cool that they acknowledge all three possibilities.

Comment by Abohassan

If you are using dbm, turn it off or you will face a difficult time to complete this quest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GNgbrihjk

Comment by ChaosJackal

As someone who really likes Illidan's character and who was waiting to play as a demon hunter again since the days of WC3... I'm not very fond of this questline's undertone.

Don't get me wrong, it's a really great questline. It shows Illidan in what is, for me, the proper way. A rather machiavellian character, selfish but also, in his own way, noble. He is perhaps the most dangerous foe the Legion ever encountered, but he is also a power hungry sorcerer whose hands and soul are far from clean. His "betrayal" of the night elves might have been misunderstood, however he is definitely guilty of other crimes. That's what I always liked about Illidan (well, and the artwork); he isn't evil incarnate like the Lich King, Deathwing or the demons of the Burning Legion, but neither is he a force for good alone. He fights the Legion at every turn, and may care for Azeroth and its inhabitants (especially Tyrande; you'd think he would move on in ten thousand years) in his own way, but by no means is he innocent of atrocities himself, and neither are his demon hunters.

While that is shown quite well (how Illidan sacrificed the night elf mages, for example, shows both sides of his character remarkably well and gives someone who hasn't read the novels insight on how he thinks), Xe'ra's ultimate conclusion and accusation towards non-demon hunters as well as her near-reverence of the Illidari are disturbing. Yes, Illidan might not be an evil monster as portrayed, but neither is he without many, glaring flaws, and same thing goes for his followers. They have sacrificed of themselves, but they have also sacrificed others. In the same manner, while the rest of the adventurers might have been guilty of vilifying and taking down Illidan (even before the rest of his backstory was revealed it was known that Illidan was at war with the Legion and I personally always found how we ended up taking him on as the ultimate villain a bit unsatisfying) but there is no denying that they have saved the world many times from a lot of threats. The Illidari fought at the frontier, their focus the Legion, attempting to take the fight to the demons. Quite an admirable goal indeed, but that doesn't mean the residents of Azeroth waited there drinking, only taking a break to kill Illidan before returning to their partying. The Legion might be one of the greatest threats, but in the meantime someone has to deal with necrolords, forces of ancient buried evil, mad dragons and crazy warlords.

Ultimately, in the context of the game, what the quests' conclusion should have aimed at is acceptance of the past and understanding for the future, not elevating the Illidari to perfection while pointing fingers at everyone else. The idea is to redeem Illidan and his followers in the eyes of the world, but not to vilify the world in turn. It's a bad end in what for me was otherwise a good questline and I feel it devalues the fantasy behind the character I play. I didn't sign up to play the misunderstood saint, I signed up to play the "beat the Legion at any cost" bastard. Again, I'm not gonna say the questline sucks, rather the opposite, but I think the ending could have been handled a bit differently.

Comment by Artora

The follow-up for this quest is The Hunt for Illidan Stormrage.

Comment by dasbaum

There are three versions of this quest: Destiny Unfulfilled (QuestID 44481) if you already killed Illidan, Destiny Unfulfilled (QuestID 44496) if you haven't and QID Destiny Unfulfilled (QuestID 44497) for Demon Hunters and Hunters. There are a few things that can break the scenario. If you have trouble completing it check for this:

- The addon Deadly Boss mods will skip cut scenes and throw you out of the scenario prematurely, the end video sequence where Illidan says "Tyrande" is triggering the quest as complete (disable addons or disable skip cutscenes in /dbm options)
- Pet Classes won't get credit if you attempt it while the pet is summoned. This mechanic / bug / limitation has been around since classic, basically your pet will get the credit if it gets the last hit (Simply despawn pet before entering scenario
- If you did Black Temple for the first time that week, shortly after accepting quest 44496 this may cause a bug where you complete the scenario (after your status with Illidan changed) but are not awarded completion credit at the end because you had the wrong quest for your progress with Illidan active, abandon and restart the quest will fix it, the NPC will then give you the updated quest ID
- And obviously, can't complete it while in raid, don't try to complete this while you wait for your Argus raid to fill up ^^

Comment by syth

Do you actually need to participate in the fight at all?

Comment by SuperSnivy

Xe'ra: "You allowed Illidan to be defeated in the Black Temple!"
Player: "But I never set foot in Outland!"
Xe'ra: "Still responsible."

How cute. How very cute. There's whitewashing and then there's this.

(Extra points for Xe'ra potentially doing this to even Lightforged Draenei characters. The kind of character that has spent nearly their entire lives fighting the Legion and wouldn't bother meeting, let alone defeating, Illidan, and Xe'ra knows that)

Comment by CromulentOne

In 2020, make sure you are going to the correct Shadowmoon Valley, NOT the one near Ashran / Stormshield.
The original one near Shattrath City. Portal in the Mage Tower to Shattrath.

Going through the Dark Portal will take you to the wrong spot.

Comment by wowilovehead

This thing is buggy as hell. If you aren't getting credit immediately towards "survive the assault", filling up the bar, exit and come back.

Comment by HOLMatDK

Dont ever press a buttom during the cinematic, or you will start over

Comment by ArnoNymous

1. Deactivate all addons (ESC->Addons)
2. Start the Scenario
3. Finish the Scenario
4. Quest completed
5. Activate all your addons again
6. ?
7. Profit

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Destiny Unfulfilled

Witness True Betrayal in Shadowmoon Valley on the fringes of Outland.

	Experience True Betrayal (1)

Description

Hardly recognizable from the golden eyed child of prophecy, and living as an outcast on the fringes of a shattered world, his motivation remained unchanged. His assaults on the Legion and his attempts to end their march were his only focus.

Yet, in a strange twist of fate, it was not the Burning Legion who came for him in the end.

We must travel to Outland to experience Illidan's last memory.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Helm of the Betrayed			Illidari High Lord's Cowl
	Purified Vision of Sargeras			Impenetrable Faceplate

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(44496))