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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 skisbit

Kill and loot bosses Il'gynoth, Heart of Corruption and Xavius to get the items required for this quest.

Comment by Bareno

Anyone know if we can get these items if we're already saved to the boss? Just got this quest and i'm already saved to all normal bosses.

Comment by Cinnestra

Deathglare Iris is currently NOT dropping from Il'gynoth for some players. I opened a ticket with Blizz, and the response was "It's a known issue, try again next week".

Comment by Rominiust

The Deathglare Iris does not drop from Il'gynoth on LFR difficulty. Looks like it can only be done on Normal and above.

Comment by BlizzardCS

Hello all,

We just wanted to clarify that this quest cannot be completed in LFR; it can only be completed on normal or higher difficulties, and this is working as intended.

Additional commentary was recently offered here:

It is intentional that the quests “In Nightmares” and “Essence of Power” cannot be completed on Raid Finder difficulty. That quest chain is intended to provide a cosmetic reward for participating in organized, non-matchmade content. As such, we wanted to keep this step in line with the previous steps in the chain, which require completing Mythic Dungeons.

This restriction is specific to this quest chain, which has a cosmetic-only reward. Other quest chains, such as “The Stuff of Dreams” from the Suramar campaign, will be completable through Raid Finder. We’ll be making some additional changes in Patch 7.1 to more clearly communicate when and where these restrictions apply.

Comment by yzq85

This quest is part of the chain which unlocks a skin for your artifact. As such, there is really little lore behind the chain, and the chain is a time dump for people with the means to do so.

Comment by Bittie

What are the pre-req quests you need to do to obtain this one? Some of my friends and fellow guild mates are unfortunately unable to pick up this quest, but they can pick up the quest from Senegos.

Comment by woofpuppy

What are the cosmetic items you get?

Comment by celphtitle

So, it tells me I am excluded for this quest.. why is that?

Comment by ozielan

You need to fly to Azurewing Repose to turn this in. It's not in the Emerald Dream.

Comment by sharpnova

Is there any reason, other than elitism, that the wing of Emerald Nightmare required for this quest isn't mentioned anywhere in comments or on the information section of this page?

Comment by tboctavan2

As I said before, it's transmog. That's it. It provides no competitive edge. No reason for it to be gated when legendaries in WoD and MoP were not.

Comment by Valree

I am extremely disappointed to learn this quest chain is only for a weapon transmog. The quest text has been talking about getting some special power for my artifact. I could not care less what it looks like, and if I had known what this chain was really about I never would have started it.

Comment by Eillesthis

Previous: Lucid Strength

Parallel: The Emerald Nightmare: Essence of Power

Comment by WARS39

I'm just wondering if you people (Blizzard) Are going to take anything else from us? Dal has no Auction House now, (Excluding Engineers). No flying in the new Xpac, Ground mounts have been Nerfed. Pathfinder my ass.. I really miss the first that developed this game.. Seems to me the developers are buying time because peeps were burning through content to fast. Basically they have handed the game over to them that can play 24/7.. I stopped playing for this very reason and just started again.. There was an instance I ran with some blokes +2 Keystone I needed for a quest, I had to wait to run it again.. If you get a quest that reads "Mythic" it means just that.. Ya' can't use a Keystone. Needs to be a regular...

Seems the dev team has gone the way of the ELITIST JERKS. LFR and the RNG actually screw us casual players..

And you wonder why you do not have 10 million subscribers anymore..

Do not bother replying I will not be back to check this...

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 jaxxus27

My Guild over the years has become quite elitist. and I have got a lot older (read slower). To this end I am no longer included in Raids, but I still want to pay and have worked hard getting up to a very high iLevel, ( I know that doesn't mean I am just persistent)., and that is the point I am trying to make. LFR is the only way that some of us can complete quest chains etc , but by making achievements attainable only through elite raid is totally unfair.

Is it not about time that Blizzard looked at making certain Raids within the LFR scalable, then if you work hard you you can still obtain the highest prizes but without being a part of the Elite Raiding teams.

Blizzard always seems to be able to find ways to do things after the event, could they not make this happen now , sooner than later?

Comment by 421296

the fact we cant do it in LFR its just ^&*!ING STUPID! I can't raid with my guild yet and LFR is the ONLY way I am going to get in one.. BLIZARD... FIX YOUR !@#$!

Comment by jnorbut

As an added bonus, after you kill the last boss...there's an area where you can pet battle against dream whelplings
for seemingly as long as you want....with no "bad guys" anywhere in sight.

I just spent about 20 min. after the raid and picked up a rare of each variety

Have an Anubish Idol as pet #1....a level pet who is tough against dragonkin, and a molten corgi (to help prevent deaths of the rares with his bark)
and you have a pet battlers dream.

Comment by Freeozy

Very fantastic super uber cool transmog to show your friends, you are not only a LFR but a normal raider. ROFL

Comment by LauraJayne

So, another quest i cant complete cuz i dont do normal raids, and only LFR. This is so unfair, they're forcing us to do somethin we dont want to, to continue with our artifact, complete bullsh*t

Comment by Sambucca

As you guys work closely with Blizz, would it be possible to ask Blizz to maybe change color of raid circle or include in Quest it cannot be done in LFR to save us the time of running on LFR just to then come look here to read the bad news from you guys. Its kinda crummy is all... :(

Comment by ashlaryna

Tried again in LFR and still can't complete this - Feb 2017

Comment by coolderka

If you kill Xavius and don't loot him for Horn of the Nightmare Lord (like me) before beeing teleported to The Emerald Dream (the place you catch pets and butterflies and everything is green and bright) - DON'T PANIC.
Use te portal to exit raid and... reenter.
You'll find yourself in the Moonglade-place (just like after the fight with Cenarius). Talk to Malfurion Stormrage and let him teleport you to Rift of Aln. He will instead teleport you to The Emerald Dream again BUT there will be Xavius' body with your loot.

Comment by Phasha

I tried to solo the The Emerald Nightmare as frost DK at level 120 for this quest. I could not kill Mythic Nythendra fast enough before the debuff kills me.

However, the Heroic difficulty of this raid is easy enough. I was able to take down all bosses without dying. There are no tricky mechanisms (other than Il'gynoth, which was a 7-minute fight). So rejoice, and have fun soloing.

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The Emerald Nightmare: In Nightmares

Obtain a Deathglare Iris and the Horn of the Nightmare Lord from the Emerald Nightmare on Normal difficulty or higher.

	Deathglare Iris (1)
	Horn of the Nightmare Lord (1)

Description

We must do what we can to ensure that the Nightmare never again festers within the Emerald Dream.

The aberration known as Il'gynoth lies at the heart of the corruption - a living, writhing manifestation of the horrors you will encounter at every turn of your journey.

I ask that you ensure its destruction, along with the Nightmare Lord himself... Xavius.

Once the deeds have been done, bring a small piece of each to me. We can study them to figure out just how the Nightmare grew so quickly.

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(43520))

Guides

Emerald Nightmare Raid Guides and Rewards Il'gynoth Raid Boss Strategy Guide Quick Guide to Legion's Attunements Xavius Raid Boss Strategy Guide