Patch 8.2 PTR - Magni Essence Quest Chain

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Magni Essence Quest Chain
Th PTR currently lets you start an epic quest chain to unlock your first essence and upgrade it all the way to max rank!

• An Earthen Guardian in your capitol city gives you the quest "Essential Empowerment" to meet Magni in The Chamber of Heart.
• There, Magni tells you MOTHER has finished her calculations. Upon talking to her, there is a placeholder cutscene and she tells you to seek out essences to power up the Heart of Azeroth, the first being a dragon essence in Neltharion's Lair in Highmountain.
• You meet with Spiritwalker Ebonhorn outside, who says that the essence must be an echo of the power of the dragonflights, and has Navarogg tunnel you inside.
• There we must quell the elements by sealing 4 ruptures. Ebonhorn then sense that the essence is being held by a rock elemental giant. We confront him for the essence, but he wants us to prove ourselves in combat first.
• He relinquishes the essence when defeated, and Ebonhorn requests to accompany you to the Chamber of Heart to offer his expertise.
• Magni is introduced to the Tauren before telling you to meet him at Nordrassil in Hyjal. This grants you the rank 1 essence.
• At this point Kalecgos is also inside the Chamber of Heart and says the Emerald Dream is being invaded by the void. He tells you to meet Merithra the green dragon at the Temple of Elune in Val'sharah.
• Heading to Hyjal first, the area under Nordrassil has become overrun with Azerite elementals. Once you cleanse the area of the creatures, a giant Azerite Leviathan shows up in the lake that needs to be defeated. Magni remarks that the Heart of Azeroth is meant to heal, not hurt and then tells you to return to the Heart Chamber.
• Magni then says another problem has occurred at the Maelstrom and has MOTHER teleport you there.
• The Maelstrom has been overrun much like Nordrassil. You have to cleanse this area as well and then defeat an Azerite giant that the shamans have been trying to quell.
• Kalecgos's quest has you head to Val'sharah. When you meet up with Merithra, she takes you into the Emerald Dream where you must collect emerald essences, destroy void creatures, and try to wake green dragons succumbing to the void. It seems like the void creatures are sucking the life from the dragons, and some cannot wake up at all. You eventually go deeper into the Emerald Dream.
• Here, you must destroy 3 giant void tentacles to bring out a void terror. After killing it, you begin the ritual to cleanse the dragon essence from Neltharion's Lair and receive rank 2 of the essence. You are then tasked to bring it back to the Chamber of Heart, where Merithra will be waiting.
  
  • Note: There is a chest on the map inside a cave here that has void tendrils. Upon clicking the, you receive an item called "Remnant of the Void. The tooltip says "Drops of Void linger on the petals." It is unknown what this is used for as of now.
• At the Heart Chamber, Kalecgos says he hasn't heard from Alexstraza in the Twilight Highlands after reaching out to the other Dragonflights, so he has you meet him there to investigate.
• Kalecgos was unable to make it fully to the Vermilion Redoubt as something is keeping them out of the sky. You then enter a scenario where you have to fend off void-twisted drakes to reach Alexstraza while Kalecgos flies above, freezing enemies periodically so they take additional damage.
• When you reach Alexstraza, her and Kalecgos fight off the lead twilight drake, Vexiona, as she taunts them to submit. On the ground, you rescue 5 red dragons. Vexiona wants to unite all dragonflights as twilight drakes, but obviously that doesn't go over well. Alexstraza chases her and you meet up with Kalacgos and fly with him to confront the twilight drake.
• The two aspects are subdued by corruptors that you have to kill in order for them and have Kalecgos freeze Vaxiona. Alexstraza says that the aspects will defend Azeroth to their dying breath, and Vexiona flees before we can kill her, saying that she will find others who will join her cause.
• You take the Lost Scale of the Scarlet Broodmother and meet Alexstraza back the Chamber of Heart. This gives you rank 3 of the essence.
• Kalecgos then tells you that he found a remnant of his flight's power, and it can be used by Magni to give you the rank 4 legendary version of the essence that you have been upgrading, which gives you a cosmetic animation for the ability. As of now there is an "awesome in-game cutscene that is missing."
• The Essence is The Crucible of Flame, which has a major ability that does damage or healing when used, doubling with each cast until it is used 3x, in which it resets. It has two chargers and each cast also increases your critical strike for 5 seconds, which is similar to the minor passive that gives your abilities the chance to increase your critical strike. The animation hurls a ball of Azerite at the target.

[MrExcelion]

Nice to get the dragons back in the picture since Dragon Isles is a likely option for next xpac

[kamuimac]

nice to know that visual effect wont be limited solely to hardcore content but there will be ones aviable to normal people

[Myzou]

Oh yay, a long ass quest chain I'll have the pleasure of doing on 19 different toons just to keep them viable.

[Dundebuns]

I expect this chain will be time gated at various points

[Anastacy]

Oh yay, a long ass quest chain I'll have the pleasure of doing on 19 different toons just to keep them viable.

If you can keep 19 toons "viable" (I'm assuming for Pug raiding, at bare minimum, because...lolWQs), you're already spending a lot of time on them. What's some more?

[Th3Scourge]

Oh yay, a long ass quest chain I'll have the pleasure of doing on 19 different toons just to keep them viable.

Players: "these story quest chains are too short!"
Also players: "these story quest chains are too long for my 800 alts"

No pleasing you people. You honestly think the 10 ilvl 5 min quest chain in Nazmir was a "long ass quest chain?"?

[Yunaqt]

Oh yay, a long ass quest chain I'll have the pleasure of doing on 19 different toons just to keep them viable.

If you will have 19 alts at lvl50 neck then this quest will be an absolute joke by comparison.

[Malum]

Oh yay, a long ass quest chain I'll have the pleasure of doing on 19 different toons just to keep them viable.

Why is that a problem? Maintaining 19 toons means you barely have a life, so it really doesn't matter.

[Triggered Fridgekin]

So if the Twilight Dragonflight is still around is there any indication of whether or not Sinestra/Sintharia is still alive or are they more or less leaderless now especially after we killed Zeryxia? We never actually killed Sin in the Bastion of Twilight but Zeryxia said she followed instructions from "beyond the grave" or something to that effect but maybe it was from another source given their affiliation to the Void...

[GreenJesus]

Oh yay, a long ass quest chain I'll have the pleasure of doing on 19 different toons just to keep them viable.

Keeping 19 toons "viable"?? Jesus christ... I hate the game just playing 1.

[KainneAbsolute]

and...no Nozdormu....hmmmmmmmmmm

[Malrune]

Alex still wearing a bikini... I thought Blizz fixed this male gaze crap?

[sirethas]

and...no Nozdormu....hmmmmmmmmmm

He's probably lost in time again, somewhere...sometime...you know how these dragons can be x)

[Donald Hellscream]

I expect this chain will be time gated at various points

Why would it be timegated? Its the introduction to the new azerite system, in what world does it make sense to timegate it?

[Corruptus]

Why would it be timegated? Its the introduction to the new azerite system, in what world does it make sense to timegate it?

it doesn't and that's exactly why I do too expect it to be

[Zka]

Several of the war campaign questlines are timegated by follower missions or other bullshit for no apparent reason.

And yeah, these questchains are too long even for the FIRST time. I've completely stopped doing the war campaign questlines on all my alts after unlocking the WQs, that's how bad they are.
If I'll have to catch up on all the warcampaign bullshit to access the new features I'll cry.

[Temis]

You left out that this quest chain is almost entirely instanced, completely a solo player experience, and seems corridor shoot like where players are funneled down a path and your character might as well be on rails.

[justandulas]

Lost my at Thrall's return. Hate that character, and prefer a chaotic evil horde under sylvanas. Looks like i have no reason to resub for 8.2 with this "Story".

Afraid to kill Baine? Have the alliance lose?

I swear the story is written by and for 12 year olds.

[Darknessvamp]

The quest is definitely gated but it's behind Azerite Levels rather than time according to the Essences Sources List on Wowhead.