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Level: 43
Requires level: 38
Type: Group
Side: Horde
Start: Fel'zerul
End: Fel'zerul
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Series

1.	Pool of Tears
2.	The Atal'ai Exile
3.	Return to Fel'Zerul
4.	The Temple of Atal'Hakkar

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Pool of Tears

Fel'zerul in Stonard wants you to gather 10 Atal'ai Artifacts.

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10	Atal'ai Artifact (10)

Description

The Warchief sent us to investigate strange happenings at The Temple of Atal'Hakkar.

The Atal'ai trolls are a tribe of dark casters, known for practicing forbidden magic. You can imagine how astonished we were when we arrived here to discover the temple had been sunk.

The green dragons now guard the site, claiming to be protectors of Azeroth.

We need to discover what happened. Explore around the Pool of Tears and gather Atal'ai artifacts. From those I can begin to piece together this puzzle.

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Reward

You will also receive: 1 20

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

4450 experience ( 26 70 at max. level)
150 Reputation with Orgrimmar

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Rating: +38 [-] [+]

By peeweesweden on 02/15/2007 (Patch 2.0.7)

The name "Pool of Tears" probably refers to the pool of tears from players as they scratch their eyes out from pure frustration over this quest. Don't let the screenshots fool you, the artifacts are small and harder to find than a clean spot on a troll.

Rating: +25 [-] [+]

By Bowjin on 03/06/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

There are quite a few of these artifacts around the shoreline and on the water shelf before it drops into the deepest part of the lake.

The artifacts are small and can be either bowls or something resembling a pyramid.

Rating: +21 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/18/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

I found mine at the following locations:

74,47
71,59
66.59
65,55
65,51
67.45

Rating: +12 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/01/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

First look around the entire pool by all the eygiptian looking walls and stones. Then look around the top ring of the pool thats close to the surface then look at the bottom of the pool. If you dont have all 10 rinse and repeat. I got all mine in 15 mins.

Rating: +10 [-] [+]

By tachys on 12/11/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

The artifacts are scattered under the water surrounding Sunken Temple (70, 53). Very easy but slightly time consuming.

Rating: +7 [-] [+]

By krisdl on 05/03/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

I followed the advice above I swept the shore and got 2, I swam round the shelf before it got deep and got 4 more, then I swam around and dived as I saw them, I don't know what everyone is talking about I thought they were quite easy to spot and had no issues, 15 minutes tops, easy xp.

Rating: +7 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/18/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

Don't bother going underwater at all, look around the shallows and its a lot quicker. Got all mine in a couple of sweeps.

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By bootsanator on 05/18/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

Hydrocane FTW
https://classicdb.ch/?item=9452

You can easily get the hydrocane by doing speed runs of Viscous Fallout, the first boss of Gnomer. Killed him once, i won roll on Acidic Walkers, second time i won roll on Hydrocane, and that's about all he's got for a priest (although if you're going to be there long enough, might as well run through thermaplugg anyway b/c he also has good drops.)

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By truhorde on 11/23/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)

remember that these items sparkle so that should help to see them

Rating: +5 [-] [+]

By ll4m4 on 03/17/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

Most of the artifacts are around the water, and are small bowls and pyramids of skulls, see my screenshot if you want to know what I mean.

Most can be found at the shallow parts of the water, I found majority of mine around the shallow areas, around 67,63 etc.

Stick with it and watch out for somnos, 62 elite dragon immune to fear, takes 5 to kill. Part of Ony quest chain =(

EDIT: Get a lock for unlimited breathing buff (10 mins). It will help a BUNCH.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/01/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

there is really nothing to this quest but time. jump in the water around the temple and scan the bottom the artifacs stand out pretty well but it is time comsuming

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/01/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

This one is great for druids. I just went Aquatic Form and scurried the sand for the artifacts, simply ignoring the fish that sometimes attack (I was level 42 and took very little damage from them).

The artifacts can be really small and one was even half inside one of the broken walls, so it's best to use first person view and just swim as close to the bottom of the water as you can.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By wronkan on 07/02/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

You can't pick up the same artifact twice. At least i couldn't.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By ChildinTime on 10/17/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)

I found 7/10 of mine under the water just on the top shelf, one on the lake floor just at the base of the shelf, two just on the shore(both of those two being very close to one of the broken down marbleish(?) structures), all 10 found just circling the entire shelf 1.5 times with hydrocane(have used this constantly since i got it in gnomer). atleast half of them were found underneath trees.
also a very good tip imo is when circling the shelf and looking (their hard to see, not for their size but the color and the murky water, they tend to blend in), "spam" your cursor along the waters horizon toward the shore and watch for your cursor to change or the tool tip to come up in the bottom right hand corner.. worked wonders for me =]

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/01/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

Followed the locations above and finished the quest in 10 minutes.&nbsp Easiest gold ever made. - Thanks

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/01/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

If you die nearby, remeber to take a look in the pool. Since the colors are black/white, its very easy to spot the artifacts (and evrything else), because they are black. Just swim around in the water and mark the pos.

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/01/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

easy.. just fish to kill ^^)

There are atal artifact's around the temple in the water and ont he land!

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 08/25/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)

This quest is bad for your eyes!&nbsp :P

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Shari on 01/09/2007 (Patch 2.0.1)

These also look like bowls.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)

Got ganked once (heh) by Alliance coming out of the temple, but got 4450xp, 150 rep with Org, and 1g20s, at lvl 46.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)

this is probably the "most bang for your buck" quest, if there ever was one. did it with a 42 druid took me 5 min, never got attacked once. easiest 1.2g i ever made.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/01/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

this was the least annoying of all the annoying quests.&nbsp i swam around the pool and got them all, didnt take too long.&nbsp everything looks like dirt down there though so its easy to miss stuff. i ran my mouse pointer over stuff till i got a gear that wasnt a mossy lockbox

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 03/24/2005 (Patch 1.3.2)

There is the Fish type mob that is aggro at the bottom of that lake I believe.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Zorchen on 05/30/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)

yup very easy.. just swim around and collect. and very good for me as a rouge i increased my lockpick from 214 to 226 and got the artifacts in like 10-15 min tops

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Tchaikovzki on 06/03/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)

Took me about 10 minutes, I got all of mine just on the shore on the little islands and some in the shallow water. Just swim around the lake and keep your eyes open, dragging your mouse over the terrain helps to spot them too.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By czeano on 07/09/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)

If you're having difficulty locating quest items because you can't see "loot sparkles" very well, turn up "Spell Detail" in your Video settings in the Options menu.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/01/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

bring an elixir of water breathing and do this quest at 8 AM when no one else is on. :)

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 11/06/2005 (Patch 1.8.2)

This was really easy for my Lock i just threw on some water breathing and stayed on the bottom the whole time.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 06/13/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)

As was said earlier, this quest is a real cakewalk for druids.&nbsp I put off doing this quest for a couple-three levels because I was intimidated by the "Elite" flag on it... finally I picked it up because it was on the way to a couple of other quests ("Threat from the Sea", "Fresh Meat") and it's turned out to be about the easiest quest ever, outside the starting areas.

If you're going as a druid, take aquatic form and swim around the bottom of the pool.&nbsp On rare occasions a fish may aggro you, but they're easy to take on and you should never pull more than one at a time (you'd almost have to try to get multiple fish on you).&nbsp Swim in circles around the temple until you get all ten.

Oh, and the pool is the big area in the middle of the map that takes up almost the entire center of it. -)

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 06/13/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)

Very easy quest. Did this as a 47 'Lock.

Just swimmed around the building under water. The fish are only lvl 39 - easy to kill.

Cords: The Building is 69,54. Swim around it.&nbsp :)

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 07/20/2006 (Patch 1.11.2)

Yeah... not hard

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By Anonymous on 10/01/2006 (Patch 1.12.1)

When you got tired of swimming, just walk around the shore of the "island" around the temple and look on the ground. I found 3 this way, then dive in again to find more under water. Really easy with seal form. :>)
If you get attacked by the fishies under water, just go on the ledge of the temple, they can't follow you there!&nbsp Wait until leaving combat and start looking again. I kill a couple of fishes, no drop at all, so it was not worth killing for me.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/13/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

Whatever people say above, this is taking forever.&nbsp I've scoured every inch of the pool, and found only 4 so far.&nbsp When they respawn, I can't take the ones I've already collected.&nbsp 15 minutes in and not even half done.

EDIT - apparently the respawns WILL let you take them, but only if you wait a few minutes.&nbsp You can see them, but not take them, until maybe 5 minutes pass, then you can take them.&nbsp Stupid.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/13/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

If your not a shaman or a warlock your probly gona get pretty mad at this quest.....try to find someone to buff you takes way less tiem

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By Anonymous on 02/24/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)

ok, the quest really is pretty easy, you head to the pool (its big, you can't miss it) and theres two layers, the bottom layer (sea bed), and the top layer... the top layer is just under the water --- you can barely swim under it... ive heard that there's some artifacts ON the land, but i didnt find any, nor did i really look. Once you loot the items, you can loot them again, after like 5 min or so. i found ONE that was invisible, lol i had to track it down, but find a couple, go kill some of those dragon-lizard idiots for the heck of it, then like 7 min. later, go back and re-loot ur stuff... there it is, pretty easy... one free gold coming right up...

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By Anonymous on 04/01/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

74,61

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By Anonymous on 02/01/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)

Don't let the 43 elite mobs walking around the lake scare you. This quest was easy. All you need to do is sneak past the elite mobs and jump into the lake. From there it is just a matter of swimming around the bottom to pick up pots. There are no mobs in the lake to worry about.

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By Anonymous on 03/21/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

If you just swim around in the shallow parts of the lake near the shore... you can pick up ten easy without fear of drowning, and totally avoid any mobs.

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By Anonymous on 12/19/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

this quest is ... see the topic...

pay attention to the ? elite dragonkin wandering around the lake...

why a pain... because the artifacts sometimes dissapear into the ground... they are almost impossible to find!

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/29/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

Like the others you pick up at the same time, this is easy, quick(ish) and very worth it.

The items are very hard to spot, but they are quite abundant, the only gotcha is your breath, but the lake isnt deep enough for it to be a problem.

Blacksmiths...the boxes wont budge with Golden keys, i assume they need truesilver or greater.

Word of advice, pick up everything then find the watcher, he wants wood from the shore that is near this quest, you can do a big circle of the zone and get everything done with no backtracking.

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