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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 707910

Out of sheer luck I got all 20 souls for the previous quest, and killed Gul'dan on normal difficulty, and you can't loot the eye on normal in the same week on the second kill.

Most likely I'll be able to get it from Gul'dan on heroic this ID, otherwise I'd have to wait until the next one.

Comment by Penelope8

This quest is currently bugged and you can't loot the eye from the Gul'dan chest even if it's your first kill.

Comment by minkage

I just killed Guldan and finished the quest. I was given a follow up quest Balance of Power which rewarded me with a new artifact base appearance and 1 million AP

Comment by demonatrixz

If you use master loot make sure to let any members on the quest open the chest before you hand out gear otherwise the chest will despawn and prevent them from completeing the quest

Comment by kenatazzz

so whats the next Q after doing this any rewards ?
you you all screwd this week after normal to complete :}

Comment by Thready

The next quest in the series is: Balance of Power.

Comment by Aytirios

"Greetings,

We’ve been keeping an “eye” out for issues just like yours with looting the Eye of Gul’dan for the quest The Nighthold: Darkness Calls. “Eye”deally you would have been able to loot it from Gul’dan but this wasn’t always the case when it should have been! We understand you’ve been “eye”ffected by this issue so we’re happy to assist! (“Eye” am not sorry for these puns.)

You should now find the Eye of Gul’dan you need to complete this quest in your mailbox! (We sent a few bronze dragonflight to go back and retrieve it for you.) We hope this helps you on your quest and that you’re enjoying Legion! =D

Your ticket was identified to be about the issue addressed above. If this is not the case, please respond so a Game Master can manually review it.

We have canceled any additional tickets submitted by this account regarding this request." - GM Response to not looting it off of Gul'dan when I should have. It was actually in the mail, and I was able to go complete the quest!

Comment by Keju

As of 2017-01-25, the quest seems to still be bugged (in the US, at least). Last night, nobody in my raid was able to loot the eye from the chest at the end of the raid. Today, a GM mailed all of us the eyes and we were able to complete the quest.

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 Dialout

Was unable to loot this after killing Gul'Dan and, like others, submitted a ticket and had the eye mailed to me.

GM verified that it has been happening most commonly with raids set to Master Looter and the RL passing out loot before people on the quest get their item, resulting in the chest despawning.

Also verified that there indeed seems to be a bug for those who were not using ML but could still not loot it and "they are pushing a hotfix today." So hopefully it gets sorted out for those who have had trouble but I would recommend sending a ticket in if you were unable to loot it last week, might save you some time.

Comment by Azarenka

Cant receive the quest item after done Guldan already this week, did him on Normal twice but still cannot receive the item. Maybe a different difficulty would work?

Comment by skyline33

"Okay champion now we need an Eye fo Gul'dan!"
"okay, I mean I've already killed him so ill just go back and get his eye, right?"
"Nope, you've already killed him. Wait a week."
"But his eyes are surely still there....."

Comment by bookworm13

Hero: Wait Illidan wait! I need one of his eyes first!
Illidan: ... For what?
Hero: For, um, this long quest chain...
Illidan: *shrugs*, Wing Blast Fatality*
Hero: Nooooo!
Hero: *reads quest text more carefully*
Hero: Oh! A conjured eye! Carry on then.

Comment by Tekeve

Just completed on the 8th of March (AUTZ) in LFR. This quest item currently drops in LFR, probably bugged. Attaching screenshot proof.

Comment by 1724721

Today (3/7) is the first day Gul Dan is available on raid finder. I can confirm that the eye DID drop for me on raid finder difficulty, even though quest says normal and above.

I'd expect a hotfix, but in case anyone is wondering....

Comment by Faradize

this quest can be completed on LFR, just received the eye from lfr Guldan!

Comment by Deathlord

2017-03-14 I killed Gul'dan on LFR and got the Eye after I have already killed him on normal this week to get the earlier quest.

So it is possible to get the Eye from him even though you killed him on normal this week, and through LFR.

Comment by Watchfall

I was doing Nighthold on raidfinder last night, alt tabbed to check a message and got killed by an attack because I got targeted in that second or so while I was out of focus. Got kicked from the group (Totally fair) and logged off to go do something else. But then when I logged back in the next day, I had mail from the postmaster. The eye of gul'dan (and an essence of aman'thul) got delivered to me.

I haven't even STARTED the balance of power quest on this alt yet, let alone gotten far enough to be earning the eye, and I was doing it on raid finder as well. Very curious bug, but I can't say I'm complaining for when I get around to doing the quest.

Comment by N0c0mpl3x

Just finished this quest, did it via LFR (didin't know it worked). (i automatically recieved quest item, didn't need to loot or search for it)
Rewards:
- Apperance for your Artifact Weapon

- Heart of Zin-Azshari ( 4 million AP with the new 100.000% AK from 7.2)

Comment by Iateyobabiez

Can confirm4/2/2017 @ 10:17pm est. Killed Gul'dan on Normal 10/10, obtained quest in Meredil, then went to LFR and auto looted the Eye.

Comment by cstahlhut

Can confirm still lootable in LFR after completing Normal etc. - Patch 7.2.5 - 14/6/17

Comment by ingefaer

Just looted this from LFR, with 3/10 cleared in Normal NH. Doesn't require a normal gul'dan kill to get this from LFR.

Comment by Cimegs5088

Cleared nighthold normal before i got this quest. Did LFR and got the eye.

Comment by ehnaton

As of 7.3 has to be done on normal+ as intended. No longer works in LFR.

Comment by 1694664

So after completing NH normal today for Nightshards, I have to wait until next reset (wednesday?) to get his eye? :( so much waiting

Comment by Verdemeer

Killed Gul'dan on lfr difficulty and Eye of Gul'dan did not drop. Ticket to GM confirms this now has to be completed on normal difficulty or higher.

Comment by Aphelyite

Gul'Dan did NOT drop the eye for me on LFR after I finished the shards.
Though I was able to run part of heroic, do normal to finish my shards entirely, then finished heroic and he dropped it there.

Comment by DraethDarkstar

There are several tertiary requirements that you'll need to meet to be able to progress along the Balance of Power quest chain at various points. You can and should work towards completing these as soon as possible if you want to complete the quest chain quickly. If you wait to pursue these objectives until you're forced to by a quest, you'll increase your total time required to complete this chain significantly, as, especially in the case of Reputations, progression is time gated.
In the order they become relevant, they are:

Complete your Order Hall Campaign through A Glorious Campaign, Forged for Battle, and Roster of Champions. This is required for Kalec to appear in your Order Hall and offer The Power Within. It usually takes him 1-3 days after you've done this to appear.
Complete the "Behind Legion Lines" quest objective of Azsuna Matata, beginning with Into the Fray and ending with Dark Revelations to unlock and then complete the "Defending Azurewing Repose" quest objective of Azsuna Matata, beginning with Journey to the Repose and ending with Hunger's End in Azsuna. This is required before you can turn in The Power Within to begin the Balance of Power chain in earnest.
Earn Honored Reputation with the Court of Farondis. This is required to purchase the Vainglorious Draught from Veridis Fallon for A Vainglorious Past. This is the last tertiary objective you'll need to have done before you can begin Emerald Nightmare for your 30 Corrupted Essence for The Emerald Nightmare: Essence of Power. which will take you at least two raids to do unless you are extremely lucky.
Complete the "Nightfall" quest objective of Nightfallen But Not Forgotten, beginning with Khadgar's Discovery and ending with Arcane Thirst, then complete Shal'Aran to unlock and then complete the "Moon Guard Stronghold" quest objective of Good Suramaritan, beginning with Not Their Last Stand and Fate of the Guard, and ending with Last Stand of the Moon Guard in Suramar. This is required before you can complete Repaid Debt and progress the Suramar portion of the quest chain.
Earn Revered Reputation with The Nightfallen. This is required to purchase the Scroll of Elun'dris from First Arcanist Thalyssra for Lost Knowledge which you'll need to do as soon as you begin the Suramar portion of the quest chain.
Earn Revered Reputation with the Valarjar to prove your worth to Eyir and receive the Mark of the Valkyra for The Mark in Stormheim. This is the last tertiary objective you'll need to complete, and is required before you can progress the Stormheim portion of the quest chain.

Lastly, while not a requirement, it is recommended that if you manage to collect all of the Nightshard for The Nighthold: Into the Nighthold before you kill Gul'dan, that you return to Shal'Aran as soon as you have them and The Nighthold: Delusions of Grandeur completed, because you will not be able to loot the Eye of Gul'dan during the same week for the next and final quest, The Nighthold: Darkness Calls, if you have already killed him.

Edit: As of Patch 8.0.1, The Nighthold: Darkness Calls appears to be available alongside The Nighthold: Into the Nighthold and The Nighthold: Delusions of Grandeur instead of being made available after them.

Comment by evilnano

As of 8.0.1, it is now possible to pick up this quest BEFORE you have completed The Nighthold: Into the Nighthold.

That means it is no longer necessary to hearth out mid-raid to turn in your nightshards to pick up the quest for the Eye.

Comment by DraethDarkstar

As of Patch 8.0.1, The Nighthold: Darkness Calls appears to be available alongside The Nighthold: Into the Nighthold and The Nighthold: Delusions of Grandeur instead of being made available after them.

Comment by ninelore

As of 8.2.5, you can now accept this Quest with The Nighthold: Into the Nighthold together. This makes hearthing out after reaching 20 Nightshards obsolete, which make things ALOT easier

Comment by Edellis

To all my BFA expansion and beyond players, when finishing up this quest be aware that you need your artifact weapon for the final quest Balance of Power!

Comment by Nyloaf

Ran the entire thing on mythic difficulty and only managed to get 4 shards. Blizzard really does seem to love making you replay repetitive content, even in past expansions.

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The Nighthold: Darkness Calls

Bring one of Gul'dan's eyes to Archmage Kalec on Normal difficulty or higher.

	Eye of Gul'dan (1)

Description

Before we perform the ritual there is one last thing I must ask of you, <name>.

You must finally bring Gul'dan to justice.

No more of his lies, his deceits, or his trickery. None of it can save him now.

Take one of his conjured eyes when you're done. Using his power for good will be a fitting end.

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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(43532))

Guides

Gul'dan Nighthold Raid Strategy Guide Quick Guide to Legion's Attunements