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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 Aerynsun8449

Pretty kewl, kind of a twist on the Nar'thalas academy. You need to avoid the books shooting out from the center, they don't hurt, but they knock you back. Kill the flying books, as you did in Nar'thalas academy, and pick up the highlighted books. Some of the highlighted books don't progress the quest. I think they're just there as fillers or something.

As you go up the steps, some unseen force periodically knocks you back, interrupting casting. I don't believe it caused any damage, just annoying. And once I reached the first landing, that stopped. At the first landing are two more flying books to kill. There is a book shelf on the first landing, but for me at least, there wasn't a book to collect. Next landing has one flying book and off to your right will be one of the books you need to collect.

After that you get to the second floor which is arraigned just like the first, center spinning book shelf that shoots books out that knock you back. For me, there was 5 more books to collect on this floor only two of which was in the quest.

The next set of stairs has balls rolling down, much like the stairs in Black Rook Hold. Being very familiar with that dungeon, I tried to avoid them, but one hit me. And just like that dungeon, it knocks you back. These go on for three flights, at the third floor is a caldron that is spitting out those balls, two flying books, three book shelves and three highlighted books, two of which went to the quest. One of the flying books was stuck in the floor and not targetable, I'm sure by launch it will be fixed.

The flight of stairs going up has something flowing down like a stream of anama or water or something. They're not hard to avoid, I wanted to see what they'd do, so I walked into one, it went around me at first, but on the second pass hit me for a small amount of damage. It did not knock me back. At the first landing up from here, was a highlighted book with three of those beams going back and forth. Not hard to avoid them, picked up the book that finished the quest for me. On the next landing was Ta'eran to turn the quest in.

Comment by Deathforsale

This quest was bugged for me. The cursor would turn into a gold gear when hovering over the door, but clicking did nothing. Tried re-logging, reloading, abandoning quest, etc. Nothing worked. Had to wait for another player to open the door to get in.

Comment by Nithu

This quest really threw me at first because I collected all the books, ran to the top of the tower, defeated The Archivist and there was no NPC to turn anything in to. I killed The Archivist several times to no avail. It turned out that as there was another player slightly ahead of me on the stairs, they handed in their quest, and the NPC went off with them. Going back down the stairs a little way, the NPC appeared and I was able to hand in, then get the quest to kill The Archivist.

Comment by Judiciouis

I got all the books on this quest except for the 2nd book of beginners guide to polearms. Anyone got anything that could help me?

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.

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	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 Wyo1

pretty nice quest, its fun. War Tomes hit like a truck though

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 BrowonGorefiend

Starting a list of books and their locations:

1st (Spinning Bookcase 1)

A guide to Marching

2nd (Spinning Bookcase 2)

3rd (Purple Cauldron)

Beginners Guide to Polearms

Comment by thlayliroo

For anyone having trouble slipping through the waves of spinning tower defense books, I found that the gaps are easier to get through if you also move at an outward angle with the books at the same time.

Comment by ohatcheejack

The mob books hit really hard & seem to have a large aggro range. Pretty challenging if you're a squishy mage, be warned.

Comment by Tripax

I especially enjoyed the part at the end where the books evaded, healed to full and killed me before I could finish the quest mob

Comment by Forioss

Note that not all books are on the main floors. I found one half way up the stairs on a bookcase.

Comment by chasemay

This quest is bugged for me. Ta'eran never shows up on the stairs. I have gotten all the books and the quest is ready for turnin, but no Ta'eran to be found. I've gone up and down the stairs several times, disabled all addons, logged out and back in several times, and abandoned and redone the quest twice now. Same results. I finished the other campaign quest that was offered alongside this one successfully (the one not started by/associated w/ Ta'eran).

Comment by benjaminiver

This should win some sort of award for most poorly designed quest in Shadowlands

Comment by Arethusia

Bugged/broken. NPC did not appear for turn-in. Definitely got all the books. Tried everything I could think of, everything shown on this page, stuck with a completed quest I can't turn in, and a gold ? with nothing there. Poor.

Comment by SpareSimian

If you have flying, you might find it easier to start at the top of the tower and work down. You do need to kill the archivist, but the traps on the stairs are easier going down than up. Once you have all the books, fly back up and through the window over the archivist to turn it in and get the follow-up quest, then spin and kill the archivist to complete that quest.

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Secrets Among the Shelves

Recover volumes of the tomes kept within the Sepulcher.

	Guide To Marching (1)
	Krexus's Guide To War (1)
	World of Crafting War (2)
	War, Is It Art? (2)
	Beginner's Guide to Polearms (2)
	Pretend To Win (3)
	How Not To Lose (3)
	Alver's Annals of Strategy (5)
	[DNT] Kill Credit - Ta'Eran slain (1)

Description

Now that the door to the Sepulcher is unlocked, we can venture inside. And by "we", I mean "you". Until it's safe, at least. The volumes within contain the collected wisdom of the greatest military minds of Maldraxxus. For the good of the Necrolords, do whatever is needed to gather these precious volumes. It is safe to assume that the books will be protected by traps. The Primus wouldn't want just anyone laying their hands on this knowledge. Once you clear a path, I'll join you.

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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(58622))