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Archival Protection Read Between the Lines Repeat After Me Kill Them, Of Course Slaylines Secrets Among the Shelves Archival Protection Trust Fall A Complete Set

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Comment by uhbeta

There are two power crystals to the east and southeast of the quest givers. You must move the beams to power the obelisks.

Comment by staron

Power Crystal East is at 46, 30
You need to click it until the beam hits the crystal at 45, 29.6
Then click that crystal until the beam hits the obelisk at 43.4, 26.8
Then click and activate the obelisk

Power Crystal West is at 42.2, 31.1
Click it until the beam hits the crystal at 43.2, 30.8
Then click that crystal until the beam points NE towards the broken crystal at 44.2, 29.2
That cannot be clicked on but it already points towards the crystal at 43.1, 28.5
Click that crystal until the beam hits the obelisk at 42.7, 27.2
Then click and activate the obelisk

Comment by Aerynsun8449

Not that this is difficult, quite easy as a matter of fact. But looking at the way the anima lines fly all over the place, someone was on serious drugs when they thought that up.

Comment by nytetears

The big thing with this is to remember you won't always be hitting a crystal. you have to bounce the beam off items on the ground too. that is what threw me off

Comment by MrTruthSayer

One of the beams from the crystals are "invisible"

After you click on it to redirect, look around a bit (near the crystals closest to the pillars at the sepulcher) and see if it is active / if you can change it's direction

The one that was messed up for me was the southern crystal (the one directly connected to the power source)

Comment by Bohrizan

Do this quest with an Inky Black Potion potion active.

Trust me.

Comment by Naareuh

For those who can't get west power crystal to work out :

Click on the power crystal to redirect the beam to the first crystal located at 43.2 / 30.8.

Click on that crystal until it *seems* to send the beam back to the power crystal you activated at the beginning (actually that beam is bugged and invisible : mouse over the last crystal and you will notice it now can be activated).

Then click on the last crystal to activate the obelisk :-)

Comment by AlloyMetal45

To add to this, the crystal at 44.87 / 29.56 will initially point its beam to nothing. Click it again to point it due north then follow it. You will find it bounces around the corner to the other crystal at 43.59 / 28.33. You will be all set to activate the east obelisk now.

Comment by Doloria

The Archival Protection storyline is a breath of fresh air in Maldraxxus.
In the first 4 quests, adventurers lay the groundwork to enter the Sepulcher of Knowledge. This is a repository of books on military strategy. The last 4 quests are fun and a throwback to Legion quests in the Nar'thalas Academy in Azsuna. Once inside, chase the books. Ta'eran is your quest giver.

4.	Slaylines	The quest name is a reference to the leyline quests in Aszuna. But this isn't Power Grid which involved the complicated routing of high and low power ley lines around corners. Start by clicking on the ornate power crystals: East Power Crystal and West Power Crystal. Then activate the regular green crystals. The East and West Power Crystal will activate 2 of these. The idea is to direct 2 power lines back to the 2 power obelisks. If power isn’t running where you want it to go, click on the East and West power crystals to redirect current. Repeat clicking may change the direction of the current. See if clicking on regular green crystals improves the directional flow. This is just trial and error.
5.	Secrets Among the Shelves	Collect multiple editions of 8 books. There are books on 3 levels. You can start on the second level. There are minor hazards on the stairs, balls and laser beams. They do little damage and are easy to avoid. Beware The Archivist on the top floor. It's protected by 2 flying book mobs Tome of War. Don't fight the Tomes, click on any books, and go downstairs. You won't get credit for killing The Archivist until you collect all books and Ta'eran gives you the quest Archival Protection.
6.	Archival Protection	Kill The Archivist. You'll also need to kill the adds, the 2 Tome of War. Sometimes there are other players in the tower that can help.
7.	Trust Fall	Just jump. Auto slow-fall will be cast on you.
8.	A Complete Set	More books required. But The Archivist is gone.

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Archival Protection Storyline
Quest	Comments
1.	Read Between the Lines	Listen to quest giver Ta'eran.
2.	Repeat After Me	Honor physical rune stones. Do an emote in chat (like /kneel) suggested by the message on each stone. This invokes a hostile shade. There is a stone for each of the Maldraxxus Houses. Stone locations are shown on the mini-map as white circles. The order does NOT matter, despite quest instructions.
3.	Kill Them, Of Course	Slay 8 Enraged Gluttons. Most Enraged Gluttons have low health. Wait for those to spawn and check the mini map for the borders of the quest area.
4.	Slaylines	The quest name is a reference to the leyline quests in Aszuna. But this isn't Power Grid which involved the complicated routing of high and low power ley lines around corners. Start by clicking on the ornate power crystals: East Power Crystal and West Power Crystal. Then activate the regular green crystals. The East and West Power Crystal will activate 2 of these. The idea is to direct 2 power lines back to the 2 power obelisks. If power isn’t running where you want it to go, click on the East and West power crystals to redirect current. Repeat clicking may change the direction of the current. See if clicking on regular green crystals improves the directional flow. This is just trial and error.
5.	Secrets Among the Shelves	Collect multiple editions of 8 books. There are books on 3 levels. You can start on the second level. There are minor hazards on the stairs, balls and laser beams. They do little damage and are easy to avoid. Beware The Archivist on the top floor. It's protected by 2 flying book mobs Tome of War. Don't fight the Tomes, click on any books, and go downstairs. You won't get credit for killing The Archivist until you collect all books and Ta'eran gives you the quest Archival Protection.
6.	Archival Protection	Kill The Archivist. You'll also need to kill the adds, the 2 Tome of War. Sometimes there are other players in the tower that can help.
7.	Trust Fall	Just jump. Auto slow-fall will be cast on you.
8.	A Complete Set	More books required. But The Archivist is gone.

Comment by Mypciscraze

Hi all

I present Archival Protection Storyline part of Sojourner of Maldraxxus in Maldraxxus.

As well when you finish quest 4 you can enter "Library" on last floor you can find The Necronom-i-nom this is part of Treasures of Maldraxxus.

See Video Full Quest chain if need it - https://youtu.be/bIGzRWvFdEY
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Quest Name:	Start and description
1 Read Between the Lines	Story line start from Ta'eran 40 33 in Maldraxxus. Follow Ta'eran to the Sepulcher of Knowledge and hear his proposal.
2 Repeat After Me	"Read the rune stones of the five houses, then honor them by performing the correct /emote at each stone. After honor them will come mobs to kill as well use to correct Stone/emote: - Echo of the Magus inside cave 41 28 /kneel - Echo of the Chemist 40 31 /bleed - Echo of the Hero in cave 43 34 /salute - Echo of the Crafter 47 35 /flex - Echo of the Spy in cave 45 28 /sneak
3 Kill Them, Of Course	Kill 8 Enraged Glutton.
4 Slaylines	First go activate 2 Power Crystal one on 45 29 and 42 31 ( make sure that energy line is going to obelisk if not move Activated Necrocrystal ) When energy will get to Obelisk acivate them both ).
5 Secrets Among the Shelves	"You need to collect 15 books: Books by floor: - Ground floor - 5 books - 1st Corridor - 2 books - 1st floor - 6 Books - 2nd Corridor - 1 book - 2nd floor - 5 books You finish quest befor 3rd floor just wait for NPC."
6 Archival Protection	Slay The Archivist He is on last 3rd floor
7 Trust Fall	Jump off the balcony on the 3rd floor That will teleport You to other room. Then Pick Up Volume of Victory: Vol 1.
8 A Complete Set	Firs find 5 Volume of Victory then 72 books ( just pick them all like clean room from books xD. That finish story line :D

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Thank You i Hope that Help You

Comment by alpanhell

There's something just plain buggy about this quest. I've done it several times on several toons and sometimes it's just straight forward and sometimes it just doesn't work, and you just have to keep trying things (just click on stuff) until it does work.

Comment by drpimento

and when you click on one and it says complete, it probably isn't. It's complete that you clicked on it and turned it on, but you probably have to keep clicking on it until it's in the right spot.

Comment by DoktorJ

Not sure why/how, but this seems to be bugged for my partner and I. We have the lines going to the two obelisks, and they have the hand icon. When we click to Activate though, the action bar progresses and then... nothing. The green lines are going to both obelisks, but neither will activate. Not sure what's up :(

Comment by NikNovi

Easy. Same game as already in Badlands (Warden's Game) and a lot of such games in Suramar.

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Slaylines

Connect the anima flow to the Unlocking Obelisks.

	Starting Point 1 (1)
	Secondary Point 1 (2)
	Tertiary Point 1 (1)
	Starting Point 2 (2)
	Secondary Point 2 (1)
	Tertiary Point 02 (1)
	Power Crystal east located (1)
	Power Crystal west located (1)

Description

Gaining entrance to the Sepulcher is no easy feat, <name>! Not only were guardians put in place, but an elaborate magical lock was created to seal the door. To open the way, the two obelisks which control the lock must be fed anima. Fortunately, there are some empowered crystals in the area we can use for this purpose. Locate the focus crystals and redirect their anima flow into the obelisks. Then the secrets of the Sepulcher will soon be ours!

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

135 reputation with The Undying Army

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(58620))