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1.	Alliance Relations
2.	The Burning of Spirits

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Comment by Silverado

You want to go to Thunder Axe Fortress (55,28).

Target:
- All the humanoids there

Conclusion:
- Right before the target is dead, right click on your "Burning Gem" to capture a "Infused Burning Gem".
- Do this 15 times, and go turn in the quest.

Comment by 23118

You might want to do https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=5381 as well if you're farming round the fortress for gems.

Comment by 11563

How do you get this quest? Neither NPC for Alliance Relations or this one seems to offer it (they aren't clickable). I'm level 39 Horde.

Comment by 23231

Found on the net:
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Go see Craven Drok in Orgimmar (Cleft of Shadow). He'll give a quest (the first "Alliance Relations") to go see someone else in Ogrimmar, who is in the Valley of Spirts on the road near the west gate. He'll give you another quest to go to Ghost Walker Post in Desolace to start 2 quests.
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Hope this helps :)

Comment by pufekshun

If you are doing this as a shadow priest, you will love this quest.
All you need to do is chuck a vamp embrace and maybe a dot on them, then just spam the drain on them, free mind flay and uninterpretable. And the best thing. It procs vamp embrace since it is shadow damage.
So you have no down time since you use little to no mana. And you just need to top yourself off every now and then.

This is probably a bug though.

Comment by 83684

Finish of the Humanoids at Thunder Axe fortress with

As a rouge. Either garrote, deadly poison and rapture (with 3 or 4 combos) or Cheapshot, deadly poison and rapture on 5 combos. then press the crystal at 15-20%. That way u dont loose so much hp when draining.

Comment by 82300

The gem wont work if youre shape-shifted as a druid. Super easy at 36 though. Pounce, rake, rip, shift, gem, collect your shard and move on. Any other class with some dots, dont over do your dmg, just throw the dots on and hit the gem when they get low. As stated above can be done while on https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=5381 as well as https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=5741

Comment by 33946

Now gives 2900xp as of patch 2.3

Comment by 120062

as a paladin things can seem impossible at first, but you can do it alone, wait until they have under 20% life left and then cast consecration and have retribution aura activated and use the gem.
its tricky but you will get the hang of it

Comment by Fallom

Somehow everyone seems to have missed the fact that the gem does 100 damage and you don't need to use a single DoT.

Comment by azinja

Kind of a hassle as feral druid kitty. No real problem, just a bit annoying to go out of cat/bear form every single kill.

Comment by 144415

This quest is a *$%^&** to do if you're level 80. Even unarmed with all your gear off and naked, 1 hit usually kills. So you gotta use the 100 damage every 3 seconds item several times just to kill them. Takes forever.

Comment by Windriver

This quest counts for Loremaster of Kalimdor.

Comment by JohnsonQPew

Shamans, I highly recommend that you take windfury off of your weapon before doing this quest. The instagib potential of a big windfury proc is far too unpredictable to reliably know when to start channeling the gem. Flametongue or Rockbiter will still hit them hard but smooth out the damage.

Comment by Allakhazam

the place this quest is are at the Thunderaxe Fortress....

Comment by Allakhazam

Painful to do this quest as a feral druid, because it constantly requires you to shift in and out and thus waste a ton of mana. Gem should be made to be usable in feral form. Otherwise, an easy quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

TAF entrance is near 58, 30

Comment by Allakhazam

Any suggestions on where to find this quest?

Comment by Allakhazam

Who does it tell you to go & speak to for more quests on the page whre you click 'complete quest'?

I missed it as I double clicked by mistake & completed it without reading.

Comment by Allakhazam

U Get the by using the on the Burning Blades at the Thunder Axe Fortres in Desolace (54,29)

Comment by Allakhazam

To complete this quest you not only have to finish the "Burning of the Spirits", you then have to go back to "Takata Steelblade" and get "Befouled by Satyr"and finish it. Once you have turned it back into Takata he will then send you back to Orgrimmar. In fact the above text actually comes from Takata Steelblade instead of Maurin Bonesplitter as referenced.

Hopefully someone at Allakhazam sees this and makes the changes!

Suphering

Comment by Allakhazam

Tip: Drag a shortcut to the Burning Gem to an empty slot on one of your toolbars for easy access.

Just fight any of the Burning Blades around the fortress and surrounding area. When they reach low health clich the Burning Gem. U get the least amount of damage if u wait until they reach very low health (below 10%). The channeling process doesnt have to complete for u to receive the quest items.

Repeat 15 times

Comment by Allakhazam

You can grind the Burning Crusade members at Thunder Axe Fortress for this quest. Thunder Axe Fortress is in northern Desolace (54,28). View the map here.

Using the Burning Gem makes your player cast a channelled spell on the enemy. You must be within 30 yds of the enemy to use the Burning Gem on them. It lasts for 9 seconds, causing 100 damage every 3 seconds. The spell is NOT interrupted or disrupted at all if you take damage.
While you're chanelling the spell, your target's debuffed with Capture Spirit (description on the tooltip is "Spirit capture."). If the target dies while debuffed with Capture Spirit, you gain an Infused Burning Gem.

Burning Crusade members don't run away when on low health, which makes this quest much easier. Wait until they're on about 10% health then cast this on them.

You cannot use the Burning Gem on non-Burning Crusade targets. If you try, it will say "Invalid target."

You can gain more than 15 Infused Burning Gems, and they stack in lots of 20. But there's not much point in getting more than the 15 you need. You cannot trade quest items to anybody, even others who are doing the quest.

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Other Horde quests at Thunder Axe Fortress:
Hand of Iruxos (From Shadowprey Village; involves fighting a level ~37 mob)
Sceptre of Light (From a man below the Ethel Rethor tower; involves fighting a level Burning Blade Seer and a Burning Blade Augur beside him)

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I solo'd this as a lvl33 Tauren Shaman.
If you're playing as a shaman, when you're vsing an Augur, don't forget to save your Earth Shock for when they're casting Shadow Bolt. You can use Earth Shock to interrupt their casting and put that spell out of commission for a few seconds.

Edited, Aug 16th 2006 at 6:49pm EDT by Axidos

Comment by Allakhazam

I know of two spots in Desolace where you can get Burning Blade mobs. Is this only for the low level ones at Thunderaxe Fortress, or am I able to kill the ones at Shadowbreak Ravine?

Comment by Allakhazam

I got the quest from the guy in Desolace but no burning gem in my inventory! Is this some glitch?

Comment by Allakhazam

Special attacks seem to negate the burning gem effect. So just use normal melee near death.

Comment by Reaul

As said previously, complete this quest on burning blade mobs at the Thunder Axe Fortress - activating the item starts channelling the gem - use when they are at low health to capture the spirit.

Horde players might want to pick up these quests too :

Sceptre of Light - Near an elven tower the coast near the tower west of Thunder Axe.

Hand of Iruxos - from Shadowprey Village.

Comment by MrPink12

yeah, fellow feral druids, this quest is a bit painful for us (cannot use burning gem in feral form and shapeshifting eats a lot of mana) :)

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The Burning of Spirits

Return the Burning Gem and 15 Infused Burning Gems to Maurin Bonesplitter in Desolace.

	Burning Gem (Provided) (1)
	Infused Burning Gem (15)

Description

Death is most desirable for those despicable creatures that turn their back on their liege for such selfish reasons. But death is not enough when dealing with those that have given themselves over to the darkness.

Take this gem. When one of the Burning Blade's near death, activate its magic. The spell shall pull the corrupted spirit out of its victim, leaving an infused gem behind.

Bring me these infused gems so I may dispose of them properly.

Go now, and may you elude death.

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Undercity

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(1435))

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