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slightly better if you happen to have a main hand weapon with at least nine spell damage.
Level 52 Quest
At level 52 you will get another class
specific quest. Head to northwestern Azshara to Archmage Xylem for the first step of the quest. To get to the archmage you need to teleport to his tower with the help of his assistant Sanath lim-yo. You can find him directly north of the first fork in the road. Xylem’s first task is to gather some samples of glittering dust. The dust is being held by a group of blood elf surveyors to the west along the sea side cliffs. Kill as many as it takes and try to keep flame ward up since they use mostly fire attacks. After you have enough head back to Xylem for the next step.
Your next step is to gather a power
source for your orb. This can be found inside the Uldaman instance from the Obsidian sentinel. He is rather deep inside by the back door and will often use Reflect, making your magic somewhat useless. You’ll need to definitely get some help with this part, but you can easily do it during a regular Uldaman run. Once you have the power source return to Tabitha for the final step.
In order to charge your orb you need to
gather mana from several mana rift beasts. Tabitha will summon them outside in her garden and you will have a set time limit of ten minuets to kill enough. While she begins the summoning ritual stand on the dock and buff yourself with dampen magic. Pull each mana surge one at a time and always keep yourself high with health and mana. Once you have killed twelve
Now Xylem wants you to bring some
pieces of enchanted coral. This is held by the spitelash naga around the ruined temples. Hunt down the sirens specifically until you have six pieces before returning to Xylem. Most of the naga in this area specialize in frost attacks so try to keep frost ward up when you can. And if you
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have a hard time finding some be sure to check inside the temples for more.
The final step is to retrieve an arcane
shard that Xylem lost long ago. Unfortunately it is in the stomach of a dragon. Gather a full group of level fifty and up players and head to the sunken temple in the swamp of sorrows. The dragon Morphaz is in the lowest part of the temple, but before you reach him you must fight through a host of trolls and kill six channelers that have locked off the lowest level. Inside the lowest level and off in one of the side rooms Morphaz and his friend Hazza will be flapping around. The fight is pretty simple and once you have defeated him return with the shard to get your reward.
There is one final quest for you to