Shut Them Down
A verified Blizzard quest record from Zaralek Cavern. Use the archive brief, rewards, and linked research to finish it without losing your place.
Who gives Shut Them Down
1 recordThe NPC, object, or item that starts this quest, with the first known coordinate when available.
- EbyssianNPC #201581Zaralek Cavern · 33.0, 50.8
Where to turn it in
1 recordThe NPC or object that accepts the completed quest. Phasing and alternate-faction versions can produce more than one endpoint.
- Highmountain SeerNPC #201646Zaralek Cavern · 28.4, 51.3
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What To Do
Complete the quest objective shown in your tracker in Zaralek Cavern, then return to the turn-in NPC.
Quest Text
Up ahead, the Primalists are working to awaken the Zaqali's final elder. When we used the farsight totem earlier, I observed that they were draining something from the elder. Now I realize it is likely an attempt to dispel the magic keeping the elder in stasis. They are using elemental cores to contain the magic in the same way we did to cleanse Sabellian. Fyrakk absorbing shadowflame is disastrous. We cannot add an elder awakening to that threat. We must halt their efforts.
Plan the run before you travel
Zaralek Cavern belongs to the The War Within archive. Start with its campaign track if this record is unavailable or the next step is missing.
Check the exact quest giver and turn-in records above first. Use this page's community comments for phase changes, cave entrances, spawn timing, and corrections from the live game.
No group size is listed by Blizzard, so this is usually soloable unless the objective text says otherwise.
Pin the quest in-game, enable objective outlines, then use the exact-title references in the archive for NPC or object coordinates. Add a correction below if the live game differs from this record.
Objectives and map pin
Blizzard's public API publishes a quest's text and rewards but not its objectives, its own level, whether it can be shared, or any map coordinate. Nobody has synced quest 72916 yet, so there is nothing to show here rather than a guess. Running the WowGodSync addon while you play contributes those fields for everyone.
Check it in game
Quest completion is stored per character on Blizzard's side and is not in the public API, so paste this in your chat box and it prints true or false for “Shut Them Down” on the character you are logged into.
/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(72916))/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompletedOnAccount(72916))A false also comes back for a quest id the client does not know, so it means “not recorded as complete” rather than proof the quest exists on your account.
Build Shut Them Down together
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Rewards
- Experience
- 9,500
- Money
- 28g 9s
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