Several quests in the Suramar storyline reward you with mana-giving items, like Excavated Highborne Artifact or Small Jar of Arcwine. You can find them in the storyline sections..
Gathering professions provide some drops of mana as well, at a low chance while you're in Suramar.
In serious desperation consider buying Ancient Mana Crystals and Ancient Mana Gems from Auction House.

Ancient Mana / Arcwine containers








Ancient Mana Chunk20 mana


Ancient Mana CrystalAncient Mana Crystal orAncient Mana Gem


Shimmering Ancient Mana ClusterShimmering Ancient Mana Cluster

Suramar
Ancient Mana Shard10 mana

Suramar City





Leypetal Powderavg. 70 mana


Glowing Tomeavg. 70 mana


Mana-Infused Gemavg. 70 mana


Twice-Fortified Arcwineavg. 110 mana

Leypetal Blossomavg. 40 mana

Since Ancient Mana is well densely presented in the city, it is advised to farm there rather than outside in the open fields.
In addition to the containers listed above, every single type of treasure chest in Suramar can also drop Ancient Mana, including Small Treasure Chests, Treasure Chests, Glimmering Treasure Chests, Nightborne Treasure Chests, Dusty Coffers, and Warp Caches.

Raising Mana Cap

The maximum amount of Ancient Mana that a fresh character can carry is 300. Players can increase it up to a total of 2000 by consuming special items and completing particular quests within Suramar. It is important to reach the max pool as soon as you can in order, for example, to speed up the progression of Withered Army Training, which can boost your reputation with The Nightfallen greatly. There are also some quests in the storyline where you have to bribe NPCs for a huge amount of mana. In the lists below, you can find the available increases:


















Infinite Stone



Enchanted Burial Urn



Kyrtos's Research Notes

Lootable Items (+500)
*To see these containers you need to complete the Nightfall part of the main storyline.
Kel'danath's Manaflask	+100	Kel'danath's ManaflaskOn a bench, directly south of the huge rare-elite ettin named Elfbane. Volatile Leyline CrystalThis pin shows the entrance; the crystal is underground at the bottom of the Shattered Locus area. Infinite StoneOn the topmost floor of Moon Guard Stronghold.It's faster to glide from Obsidian Overlook (FP in Highmountain) than fight through the elves. Enchanted Burial UrnIn northern Tel'anor. Kyrtos's Research NotesIn a cave named Den of the Demented, it can be reached from both Felsoul Hold and Azsuna.
Volatile Leyline Crystal	+100
+100
+100
+100

As you play through Suramar's story lines, there are some quest that rewards permanent spells cast on you. These also increase your Ancient Mana pool. You may check the questline sections of this guide to get a clue where these quests exactly are within the storylines.



Quest Reward Spells (+1200)




Feeding Shal'Aran

+200	Available right after unlocking Anora Hollow, the first Leyline feed.The end quest of Feeding Shal'Aran chapter (main storyline).
The Valewalker's Burden	+300	Last step of The Light Below chapter (main storyline).This is the quest where you have a giant seed above your head.
Thalyssra's Abode	+200	Last step of The Waning Crescent chapter (side quest lines).Available right after you unlock the portal there.
How It's Made: Arcwine	+200	An early quest in the Blood and Wine chapter (side quest lines).Requires 0 / 12,000 (Honored) reputation to start the chapter.
Make Your Mark	+300	A late quests in the Blood and Wine chapter (side quest lines).Requires 0 / 12,000 (Honored) reputation to start the chapter.

Leyline Feeds

Ley lines are ancient channels of magical power that course beneath the very earth. It exists all over Azeroth, and all lines lead to a specific location under Karazhan. Ley lines are recognized by every culture, and the races of Azeroth often harness them for various magical purposes, such as the creation of moonwells or the portal spells of mages. Dalaran was also built on a massive ley line at the shore of Lordamere Lake.



In Legion, First Arcanist Thalyssra, the leader of the Nightfallen has found a way recently to reactivate the abandoned arcane coils in the ancient tunnel system. With your help, she would be able to redirect the flowing magic to power their base of operation, Shal'Aran. To unlock Leyline feed quests you need to complete Feeding Shal'Aran, a part of the main storyline. After that, the quests for Leyline feeds will become available — and visible by exclamation marks on your minimap, even from the surface. You need to find the entrance around the quest markers and enter the underground tunnel to power the actual Leyline feed. The cost is 200 to 250 Ancient Mana per pylon. Some feeds require you to do additional tasks, like killing certain creatures or collecting special ingredients.








Name

Leyline Feeds of Suramar
Location	Entrance	Quest
Anora Hollow	Ley Station Anora		Power GridIntroductory quest — See the chain here.
Moonwhisper Gulch	Ley Station Moonfall		Leyline Feed: Ley Station Moonfall
Moon Guard	Ley Station Aethenar		Leyline Feed: Ley Station Aethenar
Falanaar North	Falanaar TunnelsUnderground map		Leyline Feed: Falanaar Arcway
Falanaar South	Falanaar TunnelsUnderground map		Leyline Feed: Falanaar Depths
Soul Vaults	Halls of the Eclipse		Leyline Feed: Halls of the Eclipse
Kel'balor	Kel'balor		Leyline Feed: Kel'balor
Elor'shan	Elor'shan		Leyline Feed: Elor'shan

Leyline Feed Rewards

• A permanent buff to loot more Ancient Mana from mobs. Details
  
  
  As you're activating more and more pylons Arcanist Valtrois in Shal'Aran offers some permanent buff from time to time. These spell ranks will increase your chance to loot additional mana, dropping directly from mobs. This is the primary reward for your hard work on the leyline feeds.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Leyline Apprentice	Ancient Mana Scavenging
  Leyline Proficiency	Ancient Mana Scavenging
  Leyline Master	Ancient Mana Scavenging

• A sum of 750 net reputation with The Nightfallen (75 per quest: 7 unlocking + 3 bonus buff quest)
• Leyline Bling achievement

How to Spend Ancient Mana

The main purpose of Ancient Mana is to help Thalyssra and the outcast Nightfallen to retake Suramar City. Players can do this through a series of methods, but there are three recurring primary ways to spend Ancient Mana:

• Feed story NPCs to keep them sane.
• Offer mana to gain beneficial buffs.
• Train a powerful withered army.

Feed story NPCs

There are several key figures in Shal'Aran—the Nightfallen command post—who must survive. You can cease their withering by feeding them Ancient Mana from time to time. Keeping sane, these story NPCs are vital as you can't contact them while they're about to lose their mind. In exchange for the mana, they reward you with some useful, continent-wide buffs, which you can reapply whenever you want as long as they're sane, for a small amount of mana. Every time you feed them, you also gain a small chunk of Nightfallen reputation, once in every 24 hours, until you finish A Change of Seasons, when they stop withering.

Gain powerful buffs

Most quest areas in the zone offer optional buffs to ease your life while in Suramar. Sometimes they come as clickable objects, sometimes certain NPCs offer them in exchange for Ancient Mana. Some of them are pretty minor, some are more powerful. In the list below, I'll try to cover all the buffs you can use to advance your progression in Suramar.

Repeatable Buffs for Ancient Mana
Buff name	Cost	Provider	Location	Notes
Ward of the First Arcanist	50 mana	First Arcanist Thalyssra	In Shal'Aran.	Required chapter: NightfallContinent-wide buff.
Leyline Mastery	10 mana	Arcanist Valtrois	In Shal'Aran.	Required chapter: Feeding Shal'AranContinent-wide buff.
Warpwalking	10 mana	Chief Telemancer Oculeth	In Shal'Aran.	Required chapter: Chief Telemancer OculethContinent-wide buff.
Leywoven Bulwark	25 mana	Leyweaver Ke'lorin	Along the main roads in the western part of the zone.	Absorbs 300,000 damage.
Ride Manasaber	25 mana	Curious Manasaber	Around the western part of the zone.	Mana kitten taxi. Very fast.
Empathy	5 mana	Nightborne Wretch	In the Waning Crescent district of Suramar City.	Stacks up to +50% HP.
Flameweaver's Fury	25 mana	Flameweaver Ovin	Various spawn points in Waning Crescent.	Chance for extra Fire damage for 15 min.
Spiritual Infusion	20 mana	Spirit Font	In Tel'anor.	Haste & movement speed buff for 2 min.
Powered Security Module	25 mana	Deactivated Security Module	In Suramar City.	Summons a turret at the player's location.
Ley Infusion	25 mana	Ley Ward	In the Leyline feed tunnels except Falanaar.	Powerful damage buff.
Loyal Manasaber	50 mana	Felbound Manasaber	In Felsoul Hold.	Manasaber companion for 10 min.
Spellshard	20 mana	Arcward	In the Falanaar Tunnels.	Arcane turret. Activate to attack nearby enemies.

The Nightborne also sell several useful and fun items in Suramar City. You can contact the vendors right after you unlock and use the Masquerade spell, which is a quest reward not far into the main storyline.
























The "Devilsaur" Lunchbox

Item	Cost	Vendor
Shimmerfield Crystal		Jacin
Illusion Bomb		Jacin
Enchanted Firecrackers		Jacin
	Dolse Shimmersong
Souvenir Elekk		Dolse Shimmersong
Souvenir Raptor		Dolse Shimmersong
Souvenir Murloc		Dolse Shimmersong

Withered Army Training

TheWithered Army Training is a special World Quest. It leads you to a solo scenario that takes place in the collapsing Falanaar Tunnels in Suramar. The event is available once every 3 days, and is one of the best ways to increase your reputation for your character. Think of it as a recurring exchange of your Ancient Mana for reputation tokens to The Nightfallen.

How to start?

First things first, to unlock Legion World Quests, your character must completeUniting the Isles by earning Friendly reputation with the 5 major Legion factions (account wide). You also need to complete the main storyline of Suramar: Nightfallen but not Forgotten.

After you accomplish these steps First Arcanist Thalyssra, Shal'Aran offersBuilding an Army. This is your first Withered Army Training scenario, free of charge. By completing this introductory event, you'll unlock theWithered Army Training World Quest, which will then be offered once every 3 days.

Whenever the quest is available on your world map, you may head to Thalyssra and pick the phrase on her dialog panel: "I've come to help the withered with their combat training."

Thalyssra then offers you withered test subjects for a certain amount of mana. As you pick an offer, you receive Access to the Ruins of Falanaar which instantly starts the scenario. Please note, the scenario is significantly easier if you bring more withered, so it's more than advised to buy all 20 withered (for 2000 mana) as soon as possible. To do this, you need to raise your Ancient Mana cap from the base 300 to 2000, which is described in the Raising Mana Cap section of this guide. How to Collect Ancient Mana will also help to save you time on mana farming.

How does it work?
In a nutshell, you bring the withered into the tunnels and collect as many treasure chests as you can without running out of your army. There's no timer for this event, so you don't have to hurry. Once you run out of test subjects or if you're about to die, the scenario will end, and you will be ported back to Thalyssra. Here you can loot the chests you've collected in the actual run and leave the instance.

In detail, this scenario is a bit of a strategy game as well. You can't collect all the chests in one attempt because it consumes withered, and you may run out of your army eventually. Especially at the early attempts when your army is rather weak, you may consider carefully where you spend your withered. Because of this, the scenario is more of a linearly progressing recurring event, and it will take a couple of runs to collect all the goodies. As you're upgrading your army, you can sort more and more withered to kill the opponents and unlock new areas instead of lifting treasures. Once you reach the end of the tunnels, you meet Chief Telemancer Oculeth there, who can end the event, teleport you back to Thalyssra, where you can loot the goodies from the collected chests.

It is important to point out that once you leave the scenario, you cannot go back until the world quest is offered once again. Your character leaves the scenario automatically when you disconnect from the game or if the server goes down.

To make a good run, it is generally better to leave the chests alone first and just collect withered. Advance as far as you can, but always consider if you can kill the boss in front of you without serious loss. Stop advancing if you feel the situation is too risky for your withered pool. That's the time when you may turn back and start collecting chests from the areas you cleared before. You can find more useful tips at the end of this section.

You may balance your spending between:

• Porting out Glimmering Treasure Chests, which cost 10 Withered and add special units to your army.
• Porting out Treasure Chests, which cost 5 Withered and add a special buff to your army.
• Clearing difficult areas and killing bosses to reach new areas and treasure chests.

Rewards

The scenario has different types of rewards. Every time you finish the event, a Glimmering Treasure Chest is rewarded. This chest usually contains a mix of Arcane Tablet of Falanaar, Arcane Remnant of Falanaar, Blood of Sargeras, an ilvl 810+ gear piece, Ancient Mana, Order Resources, and one of the following: Falanaar Crescent, Falanaar Scepter, or Falanaar Orb. The amount of rewards depends on the Score you achieved in the run. The maximum amount you can receive from this chest is:

• 425 net reputation with The Nightfallen
• 4x Blood of Sargeras
• 100x Ancient Mana
• 300 Artifact Power – multiplied by your Artifact Knowledge
• ~750x Order Resources

Additional rewards from this chest (low drop chance):

• Torn Invitation - the quest starter item for Reins of the Llothien Prowler
• Random gear piece (can be Titanforged)
• Champion equipments (can be Legendary)
• Artifact appearances for several class specs.
• Arcano-Shower
• Displacer Meditation Stone
• Kaldorei Light Globe
• Magi Focusing Crystal
• Unstable Powder Box
• Wisp in a Bottle
• Ley Spider Eggs

Treasure Chests
You can find 3 types of treasure chests in the tunnels: Glimmering, Small, and normal Treasure Chests.
The Glimmering Treasure Chests provide new units to your withered army, while normal Treasure Chests usually contain upgrade items that you can use to buff your army. These chests can be looted once by a character, then they disappear permanently. Glimmering Treasure Chests have fixed positions and loot, while the normal Treasure Chests seem to have random drops, within their pre-defined loot list:

Glimmering Treasure Chests
Item	New Unit
Berserking Helm of Ondry'el	Withered Berserker
Berserking Helm of Taenna	Withered Berserker
Spellmask of Azsylla	Withered Mana-Rager
Spellmask of Alla'onus	Withered Mana-Rager
Lenses of Spellseer Dellian	Withered Spellseer
Disc of the Starcaller	Withered Starcaller

Treasure Chests

Item	Buff / Effect
Petrified Silkweave	25% more health
Lens of Qin'dera	25% more damage
Box of Calming Whispers	More focus on attacks
Soothing Leystone Shard	Lowers the chance to flee
Traveler's Banking Chest	Bank in Shal'Aran
Leyline Broodling	Battle pet
Ancient Mana Basin	Toy
Manafused Fal'dorei Egg Sac	Artifact Power
Treemender's Beacon	Artifact Power

Small Treasure Chests have no Withered cost. They're free to open and usually contain gold, Blood of Sargeras, and Ancient Mana. They can also drop consumable Teleportation scrolls, which teleport the player to various locations around the Broken Isles.

Scroll of Town Portal: Shala'nir	Teleport to Shala'nir in Val'sharah
Scroll of Town Portal: Sashj'tar	Teleport to Azuregale Bay in Suramar
Scroll of Town Portal: Kal'delar	Teleport to Kal'delar in Val'sharah
Scroll of Town Portal: Faronaar	Teleport to Vanquish Point in Azsuna
Scroll of Town Portal: Lian'tril	Teleport to Rockaway Shallows in Highmountain

Make sure you don't use the portal scrolls while you're doing the scenario, as it will port you out of the instance, and you cannot return.
Bosses
There are 6+1 encounters in the scenario; some of them are easy to defeat, some are harder. Bosses usually guard treasure chests and summonable Withered Exiles. You're able to skip most of them, and this comes in handy when you no longer need anything past them. None of them earns a score anyway. The bosses are all vulnerable to stuns!

Leystalker Dro is a special and somewhat challenging boss. He drops Dro's Key, which is required to enter the second part of the Falanaar Tunnels. He's lurking around the whole central area and First Arcanist Thalyssra warns you: "Look out!" whenever Dro is near.

Withered Scenario Encounters
Name	Note
Lapillia	Move away from your withered when Crystalline Shrapnel dissipates from you.
Leystalker Dro	Stun his charge spree or he'll destroy your army quite fast.
Brood Guardian Phyx	Nothing dangerous.
Volatile Wraithlord	Stay away from your withered all the time. Stun the final boom cast.
Furog the Elfbreaker	Pull back to the tunnel, try to stun every Stomps.
Spiderling Gauntlet	Reach Psillych's room as soon as you can to make the spiders stop spawning.
Psillych	Nothing dangerous.

Gating System
There's a gating mechanism that ensures the scenario must be accessible only gradually; Most doors in the tunnels are all locked, and you have to fulfill various criteria to open them through multiple runs.

• The door to the right from the first intersection requires you to have 2 Withered Berserkers to open.
• The door locking Lapillia and Berserking Helm of Ondry'el requires you to have 10 living Withered to open.
• The door locking Brood Guardian Phyx requires you to have 10 living Withered to open.
• The door locking Volatile Wraithlord and Spellmask of Alla'onus requires you to have 10 living Withered to open.
• The door locking Disc of the Starcaller requires you to have 10 living Withered to open.
• The door that unlocks the second part of the tunnels requires you to have Dro's Key.
• The door that blocks the way to Furog the Elfbreaker will open after you kill the Fal'dorei Silkwitch in the egg room.
• Several chests are hidden, and you need to have Lenses of Spellseer Dellian unlocked to see them. This may still be bugged, allowing you to see them without unlocking the Spellseer on the actual character.

Score
The amount of rewards in the final Glimmering Chest depends on the score you achieved in the actual run. Score is earned by mob kills:

10 points	Fal'dorei Elite mobs
3 points	Common mobs
1 point	Lesser creatures
0 points	Critters and bosses

There's a limit to the rewards (see in the Rewards section above) and you can reach it by earning around 400 points in the scenario. Several mobs at the end of the tunnels respawn infinitely, so you can raise your score as high as you want, but it's understandably useless because of the reward's max limit.

Useful Tips

• Especially for fresh characters, while your army is still weak, it's way better to switch to Tank spec (if you have one). Leystalker Dro is a maniac and could easily turn into the worst nightmare for both you and your army.
• Note, your withered automatically go and attack the mob that you are currently trying to attack, even if the target is out of your range. So be careful with your /startattack macros.
• You can't heal the withered. Any heal you made on them will slowly tick down
• Turn on Friendly name plates (default: <Shift> + V) to spot every Withered Exile around you.
• Free all Webbed Victims as they're often webbed Withered Exiles that you can summon to your army.
• Your Withered Berserkers often die first as they're taunting everything mindlessly. This fact reduces their value if you play in a tank spec. Taunt the mobs off them whenever you can.
• Sometimes, especially when you're short on time, it's better to skip certain areas. The spider web paths in the central aula are quite useful for a bypass.
• Make sure you don't start the scenario when the server is about to go down, or feels unstable. You'll end up in the nearby graveyard, and it's impossible to return until the scenario is offered again.

What's Next?
People usually master this scenario in a few to several weeks. So what's the point of doing this event over and over for characters who already
– received all the available withered upgrades from the chests
– reached Exalted with the Nightfallen

The answer lies within the guaranteed final chest. Reaching it's full size (around 400 points) this chest has a low chance to drop rare goodies, such as gear, toys, champion equipment, artifact appearances and the quest starter item for the fox mount. You can find the detailed list in the Rewards section above.

Also, while you're down there, don't forget to loot the Small Treasure Chests that spawn infinitely throughout the scenario. These small chests can contain up to a few hundred gold, several Blood of Sargeras, some Ancient Mana, and profession recipes rarely.

The Elusive Fox Mount

Reins of the Llothien Prowler, Suramar's amazing fox mount can be obtained by doing a pair of short quests and long missions. To find the Torn Invitation, the quest starter item may take a lot of time as it's a very rare drop. It can also be found in:

• The Emissary quest reward box: Nightfallen Hoard
• The guaranteed final Glimmering Treasure Chest offered at the end of Withered Training Army scenario.

As soon as you intercept the quest starting letter, it turns out that the Nightborne nobles are planning to hold an exclusive hunt after the rare fox, Volpin. The quest handler Tylos Darksight thinks you can take advantage of this event, so he sends you to save the fox. The first quest requires you to complete 4 missions in your Class Hall, then the second quest rewards you with the mount itself. The missions take 12 hours each (without any time-reducing buff) and only one is available at a time, so you need to do them in sequence.

After you're done with the quest,Volpin the Elusive is offered. In this sequel, you need to confront Herald Gevedaun, then find Volpin before the hunters find him. The fox cannot be targeted until the event starts, so the target macro doesn't work. He's by a big tree north of Ambervale. (Coords: 30.0 35.6) Once you're getting close enough, the fox emotes: This signals that the event has started. Some normal mobs appear, ring the fox, claiming their prey, and send you to hell. As you kill the huntsmen, the fox does a little dance and rewards you with the mount. Here's the quest chain:

1. A "Noble" EventOn the Hunt
2. Securing an Invitation
3. All Dressed Up
4. Just in Time

Volpin the Elusive