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Comment by 4274

Took me forever to find the Blood Elves, having never been to Azshara before. I didn't check the exact Coordinates, but the blood elves are northeast of the tower, past the Timbermaw camps. Careful running through here if you aren't neutral with the Timbermaw.

Also, theres a quest you can get from a goblin on a hill that will have you killing elves in their camp. You look around for boxes...I had a group of 4 and about the time my last dust dropped I got the last chest drop for the goblin's quest.

Comment by amputec

Drops off of Blood Elf Reclaimers and Blood Elf Surveyors in Northern Azshara.

Comment by 11267

The elves are at Thalassian camp, which is up on a hill. 55,26 puts you at the base of the hill near the very first mobs.

I killed 32 elves to get my 10 dust.

Comment by 26161

Be careful pulling here, because the Blood Elves aggro at a VERY long distance. Use Fire Ward and depending on your spec your Ice Barrier to absorb the brutal caster damage. Also have Counterspell ready to ward off their attempts to heal themselves.

Comment by 30936

As a level 50 Frost Mage, I didn't see any problems with this quest. They don't aggro from a really big distance (not as worst as some other monsters), they're easy to kill.

The hardest part was obviously when I tried to get there the first time :p

Comment by flinkder

The drop rate sux but they drop nice things..:)

Comment by Spazum888

killed 17, got my 10 dusts on my 51 fire mage. pertty easy quest, took less then 10 mins.
55,26 are the cords

Comment by 51439

here is the map lnk
http://www.wowhead.com/?maps=16:550260

Comment by 85798

The Blood Elves can be found in north-eastern Azshara, in the area called Thallassian Base Camp. There are two types:

Blood Elf Surveyors - http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=6198

and

Blood Elf Reclaimers - http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=6199

The surveyors are melee fighters, but can cast fire nova. The reclaimers are ranged casters, with fireball, renew and heal spells available to them. In their camp you can find the crates needed for another quest; Kim'jael Indeed! - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=3601 . The elves never drop more than one unit of glittering dust each, and the droprate is definately lower than 50 percent (this may of course wary).

Comment by 44517

If you are at best unfriendly with the Timbermaw they will not attack you and you will have safe runs through them for both series of quests. To achieve unfriendly you only have to complete.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=8460
and possibly the follow up quest.

Comment by 33411

Pair up with Kim'jael Indeed! & Betrayed. Kim'jael Indeed! is picked up at 53.4,21.8 in Azshara & Betrayed is picked up at 75,33

The Glittering Dust can be looted from Blood Elf Reclaimers and Blood Elf Surveyors around 55,29. Drop rate is close to 50%.

Comment by 83915

Something that bothers me is when people make general statements like "the drop rate is 50%". Very often this is not the case.

I killed 47 mobs for the 10 drops, roughly 21%. Be prepared to clear the mountain (path starts at 55,27) and the camp on the north side (58,28) almost twice to get your 10. I had one rare and two uncommon items drop in the time, so it was a good 15 minutes spent. Good luck!

Comment by 101017

i did this at 50 as frost spec and they drop like flies, especially the casters
however, keep ice barrier up at all times because the casters hit particuarly hard
the droprate wasn't too bad, took me a bit more than 30 mins to finish

Comment by 124851

i'm not sure about any of you but when I stayed on the lower part of the camp and didn't go up the hill every time i killed a blood elf i got the dust. Not sure if i was lucky or what.

Comment by 179591

u guys only write half of the cords. like 55.0 its 55.0 29.0.

very easy q. lvl 52 fire spec 3 attacks. 158 spell dmg i got 2 epics at that lvl but it will still be a easy q. around 20 kills and i got 10 glittering dust. some cast and some mobs run up at u and melee attack u those mobs that cast fire balls just use fire ward and u'll be ok. they hurt around 250 dmg those that hit around 50-70. and if u kill them fast they wont heal themself.

Comment by 190292

hade like 60% dropp. Found them around 55.27

Comment by Kobzol

almost 100% drop. killed 12 get all 10

Comment by 153616

this somehow did not count for the loremaster of kalimdor for me. anyone has any ideas?

Comment by omglaserzpewpew

Something odd I noticed after completing this quest it that the quest tracker (the one implemented be Blizzard) says "Return to Archmage Xylem at Darkwhisper Gorge in Winterspring." Granted, Darkwhisper Gorge is just on the other side of the mountains, but still, one would expect the dev team to know the difference between Azshara and Winterspring.

Comment by 650682

Completely forgot where to find Archmage Xylem, and it's hell on wheels trying to figure it out. The BE guys were pretty easy to find and the drop rate wasn't too bad.

Finding Archmage Xylem: Run all the way towards where the Blizz quest helper shows you, somewhere near Valormok you'll find the apprentice, talk to him, and bam, you're back on the path to Bear's Head. Go up to the tower and followed the stairs up to him. Easy as pie.

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This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Bring 10 Glittering Dust to Archmage Xylem.

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The blood elves in Azshara have developed a method for pulverizing the magical items they acquire. This glittering dust they produce differs from the components normally acquired by a disenchantment spell.

When I sent my apprentice to trade for the dust, he was killed without hesitation. For that, they must pay.

The time for talk is over, <name>. Find the blood elves along the cliffs of Azshara and use more "persuasive" methods to acquire their glittering dust.

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