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Legion Archaeology Unspeakable Power Narrowing Down Uncovering the Orb of Sciallax

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Comment by Gogeta1990

I hoped that these relics would either:

a) become part of the heirloom tab so you could use them on multiple characters after only completing the quest once.
or
b) be usable at level 101.

As it stands, an item level 805 relic only usable at 110 is pretty lackluster and will be immediately replaced.
I'm pretty sure WoD archaeology weapons/jewelry was usable at level 91, so why aren't these working for 101?

All in all, the archaeology rewards in Legion are pretty lackluster. Expected much more from the way they revamped how rare solves work.

Comment by Bromacusi

NOTE: These relics scale in ilvl up to 840.

Comment by realillusion

I was given a choice of one ilvl 840 relic. Since the data-mined versions are 805s and since they are Bind on Account, I had expected this to be scaling/leveling gear and mailed it to a level 102 alt. Item level stayed 840, required level remained 110.

I assume like other relics these are single-use only, so if you do use it you won't get to mail it to another alt when you grow out of it like previous archeology gear. With how easily relics are acquired from world quests, don't expect this to last long even on a newly leveled character. This may set a new record for bad archeology rewards; at least the toys and pets don't get deleted after you use them for a day.

Really the only upside seems to be that you can complete the quest on (level 110) alts to earn multiple relics if you have masochistic tendencies. With 16 weeks (!) between this archeology quest being offered, maybe they could have made the relic reusable or at least unlock a vendor (currency: crated legion archeology solves?) to let us buy a few of them. As is, the barriers are very high to getting one of these and their usage is very low.

Comment by cadfile

The location of the orb is the same place where the Kel'balor Leyline is activated. If you haven't done Leyline Feed: Kel'balor you can pick it up further into the tunnels.

Location of the entrance:

/way 59.3, 42.8 Kel'balor

Comment by koochulu

It's a real shame that the choice is limited to just six of the varieties of relics.

Comment by tooltip

I made this as a reference for myself. Hope others may find it useful.
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Glinting Shard of Sciallax	Glowing Shard of Sciallax	Ardent Shard of Sciallax
Demon Hunter: Vengeance — Infernal Force	Death Knight Unholy — Deadly Durability	Druid Balance — Touch of the Moon Feral — Attuned to Nature Guardian — Vicious Bites Restoration — Grovewalker
Druid: Balance — Scythe of the Stars	Druid Guardian — Wildflesh	Hunter Marksmanship — Survival of the Fittest
Hunter Beast Mastery — Focus of the Titans	Mage Fire — Cauterizing Blink	Monk Brewmaster — Face Palm Mistweaver — Spirit Tether
Mage Arcane — Aegwynn's Imperative Fire — Blue Flame Special Frost — Orbital Strike	Paladin Retribution — Embrace the Light	Paladin Holy — Knight of the Silver Hand
Paladin Protection — Righteous Crusader	Shaman Enhancement — Spiritual Healing	Priest Holy — Trust in the Light
Warlock Demonology — Open Link Destruction — Devourer of Life	Shaman Restoration — Caress of the Tidemother
Warrior Fury — Battle Scars Protection — Toughness

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Crystallized Shard of Sciallax

Dark Shard of Sciallax	Adamant Shard of Sciallax
Death Knight Frost — Nothing but the Boots	Death Knight Blood — Grim Perseverance Frost — Blast Radius Unholy — Plaguebearer	Death Knight Blood — All-Consuming Rot
Druid Feral — Tear the Flesh Restoration — Armor of the Ancients	Demon Hunter Havoc — Chaos Vision	Demon Hunter Vengeance — Will of the Illidari
Mage Arcane — Arcane Purification Frost — Frozen Veins	Priest Discipline — The Edge of Dark and Light Shadow — To the Pain	Hunter Beast Mastery — Unleash the Beast Survival — Hellcarver
Monk Mistweaver — Soothing Remedies	Rogue Assassination — Master Alchemist Subtlety — Gutripper	Monk Brewmaster — Gifted Student Windwalker — Strength of Xuen
Shaman Elemental — Molten Blast Restoration — Empowered Droplets	Warlock Affliction — Drained to a Husk Demonology — The Doom of Azeroth	Paladin Protection — Bastion of Truth
Warrior Arms — Crushing Blows	Rogue Outlaw — Fortune's Boon Assassination — Poison Knives
	Shaman Enhancement — Spirit of the Maelstrom
	Warrior Arms — Exploit the Weakness Fury — Raging Berserker Protection — Shatter the Bones

Comment by seglaren

This item has the potential to raise your artifact weapon 40 item levels, do the quest as early as possible for each alt, when you unlock the third relic slot for the weapon. Bam, nice upgrade I think.

Comment by BeerWolf

Realised these were BoA AFTER picking one my class uses to DE... d'oh!

Comment by Rhaegaron

Is this one of the 2 week Archaeology quests? It's Jan 1st 2017. Did I miss it?

Comment by hjp426

So even though they're BoA, you can't send them around and use them over and over? :/

Comment by Tatumsan

Shame there is no Fel one, I was farming this quest to get their gear levelled up a bit for when they hit 110.

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Uncovering the Orb of Sciallax

Meet Tae'thelan Bloodwatcher at the entrance to the chamber where the Orb of Sciallax is held. Once inside, set the charges on the casing and recover the artifact.

	Meet with Tae'thelan (1)
	Plant the explosives (1)

Description

We'll need to hurry before the nightborne realize what we're after.

I'm bringing the goblins along in case we run into any obstacles along the way.

I've marked the location of the entrance to the chamber the Orb resides in on your map.

Meet me there as soon as you're ready and we'll claim this artifact for our own.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Glinting Shard of Sciallax			Crystallized Shard of Sciallax
	Glowing Shard of Sciallax			Dark Shard of Sciallax
	Ardent Shard of Sciallax			Adamant Shard of Sciallax

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(41182))