For those who were asking how to do the quest itself:

Join a group for Sunken Temple.&nbsp It's an instance located in Swamp of Sorrows.&nbsp (Actually, gather up the 5 other quests for Sunken Temple before going, so you can do them all at once.)

Sunken Temple has all these annoying things that need to be activated in the right order, so you might want to have at least one person in your party that knows the place if you don't want to spend eternity there.

usually i never comment or n-e-thing here but in this case with this horroble place that i hate with passion, i finally found morphaz and im willin to share it wit u cuz i dont want u guys to suffer.&nbsp ~~ so wen u first go in the instnace, make a left to the room goin up in a spiral way. then hes dead ahead with another dragon. make sure ur group has, tank,priest,another mage or lock and a pally. good luck.

p.s i recomend the fire ruby :P weather ur frost,fire or arcane XD

The dagger is utterly useless, frost mage or not.

The pendant is too weak and will be upgraded very quickly.

Get the trinket, it's a great source of mana when needed. Not to mention the +fire spell damage (for spells such as fire blast)

So.. nasty necklaces, drinking problems and unloved mages aside.. where in the temple do I find this Morphaz?

The first line of the quest text says:
Retrieve the Arcane Shard from Morphaz and return to Archmage Xylem.
I'm not sure what part you're confused about.&nbsp I'm only a level 40 mage, but this seems fairly straight forward to me.

Step 1: Kill Morphaz, loot Arcane Shard
Step 2: Return to Archmage Xylem
Step 3: /dance

Fireblast?&nbsp Nah, ya slap that trinket on, hit your target with five Scorches (make them 100% vulnerable to your fires), throw up a mana shield, activate the trinket, hit your Combustion and crank out a level 8 Pyroblast!&nbsp sssssbOOM baby!&nbsp Anything left of your opponent would go right well sprinkled over your tasty Savory Deviate Delight and some Crystal Water. Mmmm, nummy.

on second mage up to 60, first time i took the trinket and i must say it's a nice trinket but later on to 60 u'll get so may trinkets that u can't even find the one u want to spam it...this time i'm gonna choose the neck as there are no neck items with +dam until end game instances and i got +28 mana/5 sec at lvl 51 ...so think well before u pass on a very nice neck.

Im looking at thot. Im looking at my map. I tried to go around mountains, up them find a secret path, follow the river in, everything. Of all the posts on here, not one has help in doing the quest or how to get to the stinking temple. Everyone is complaining about how much the stupid items suck. I think they all suck, but i want to finish the quest. i have better items than all of them. Its frusterating me that i cannot find entrance into the place to waste it. Im going in circles trying to get to that yellowed area thot says it is. Its very hard to navigate mountains if youre a gnome that cant see over bushes. lol please post a worthwhile comment on here about how and where quest is located. Not about how reward should be better.

i finished this quest got my fire ruby :) and added it to my i win macro now its at

/cast Arcane Power
/stopcasting
/use Fire Ruby
/cast Presence of Mind
/stopcasting
/cast Pyroblast(Rank 7)

this pyro blast is critting for 2500 and im only at lvl 55 with clear casting its a 45% chance to crit

This is what I'm using now, arguably better.

https://classicdb.ch/?item=22403

You lose some spell damage, but gain 10 stats and a hit rating.

The necklace is pretty sexy.&nbsp For mages, there have been a serious shortage of +damage necklaces, especially at the blue level.&nbsp While the trinket would probably be a better choice for fire mages (+damage trinkets are even harder to get ahold of than necklaces), frost and arcane mages might want to seriously consider grabbing the necklace.&nbsp Personally, I have the Orb of the Darkmoon so I'm going to grab the dagger, but for others its a great choice.&nbsp

The quest giver is up in the mountains...at the foot of the mountains is a guy(elf of some sort i think) that gives you a ride up to the top...follow the path up the mountain once blinked up there and there is a tower where the archmage is.&nbsp I had a quest to go talk to the guy at the bottom actually...may have been given to me by the chick in dustwallow marsh. Tabetha?&nbsp &nbsp So, yeah...thats how it starts.&nbsp Good luck, I haven't completed the quest yet, unfortunately...we lost our priest to the Disconnect Disease just as we killed Jamma'lan, so never got to the dragons and morphaz.&nbsp

This is actually something that i just figured out while doing this quest.&nbsp For quest specific items to drop you have to be on that quest.&nbsp So all the other millions of people out there killing the same mobs NOT on the quest are factored into the drop rate as well.&nbsp I think the drop rate is actually closer to about 33% from my experience doing the quest.&nbsp If nothing else i hope this stops everyone getting so pissed off at the retardedly low drop rates of quest specific items.

Can some1 now telll me how to finish this quest instead of talking about the rewards

Nice. There isn't ONE message about about how do kill the blo0dy dratgon?

especialy i'm interested if this trinket shares the cooldown with Talisman of Ephemeral Power https://classicdb.ch/item=39255. If it does then all the rewards are crappy...

Wich one of these i should take to a frost mage? Kinda hard decision :/ Somebody can help me with it?

does anyone know a necklace thats better then the arcane crystal

Take the trinket, by far.

Rank 10 Fireball at level 54 would essentially be a free cast and has a base damage of 475-609 and dots for 60 more damage. The full +100 damage should apply as its a 3.5 second cast, and as the trinket would nearly replenish all mana this spell uses this is essentially a free cast for about 725 damage. I'd take it even without any points in fire talents.

The trinket is good, except does the + to damage and mana always give you the maximum? from the way I read it it gives you +1 to +500 mana so on average +250 mana, same with damage.

Im a frostmage, and I got Zum Rah's Vexing Cane, should I take dagger, trinket or pendant? Btw, how do u make a macro like casting a frostbolt then casting another 1 without "Spell is not ready yet"?

Anything we have to do before ? He's giving me another quest but not the new one

None of those items are worth trying to put together a party and go into an instance. If I had a couple of quests there already I'd do this, but only for the experience. I'm at lv 50 (undead fire mage), and I've already got better gear than any of that crap. To me, the only one worth anything is the trinket.

But to be fair I'll break it down.

The dagger: I'm using the glowing brightwood staff with a +22 int chant, and I never use frostbolt. Besides that, a 6% chance to restore 50 mana? Are you kidding me? I have no spells that cost 50 mana...even if I was spec-ed for frost this would be useless.

The pendant: I got VERY lucky and found Horizon Choker for a decent price in the AH...+4 stam, +4 spirit, +14 int...yeah, sure, I'll trade that for +6 int and a VERY MINOR damage increase. Then I'll go out and smoke some crack. I will never understand why people get all hot and bothered by something like a +16 damage bonus...16 damage is a very minute fraction of how much damage I do with my spells. Even with my instant casts, which usually do slightly less damage, the 16 damage is a drop in the bucket.

The trinket: This is the only one that I would take, and it's still not that great because the benefits are random. I'd rather use it during PvE than my Insignia of the Horde, so it's not all bad, but that whole random thing is a big turn off.

So yeah. The only reason to do this quest is the experience (or boredom).

Too bad it's in ST, i hate that instance :(

lol I was drunk ignore it

Edited, Tue May 30 04:55:44 2006

You have to realize that the rewards are designed to get you to 60ish, of course they arent good for a 60...but they are great for a 50-56 or so...

ToEp and fire ruby are not on the same timer.

k thanks Ocultana

No offense but you guys arent' thinking straight. I'm a 60 mage and have not yet gotten the choker of enlightenment. The pendant is by far the best thing you can get pre-mc...for any 60 mage. I got the dagger, thinking the mana boost would be better, but it was quickly replaced. Now i wish sooo bad that i could go back and get the neck piece...don't think about it, just do it!

Edited, Fri Apr 7 13:03:10 2006

I'm level 60 and that neck rocks!

The cooldown on the trinket is 3 minutes and it's nice to have another mana restoration item to go along with potions and mana gems. The extra 100 damage to the next fire spell isn't bad either, definitely nice to Pyroblast or Flamestrike.

I'll complete this quest tonight (already killed Morphaz), and we'll see if there's a follow-up quest. These items are pretty weak - but I guess slightly incredible to a lvl57.....

le sigh...

Tho, imagine a ToEP with the Fire Ruby - I wonder if they're on the same timer?

Instacast, Arcane Power, ToEP, Fire Ruby, PYROBLAST! :-P

As soon as you start rolling out 1600 crits then the Tempest Talisman becomes the better choice, but it'll still outlast the others.

Only the pendant is worth taking no matter what spec you have.

I must say... the pendant looks great for me.. a lvl 50 frost mage... every piece of gear i have adds a bonus to damage. This necklace is not as good say... as my Triune Amulet for mana and mana regen but in addition to my frostweave gear it will help with killing mobs... especially with spells like blizzard. If you don't want the reward don't do the quest. :)

What a load of crap. Nothing here at all worth getting even for lvl57. :(

Dagger: Pointless. Upgraded soon and there are better daggers and of course staves out there anyway for about this level. Total stats: +4 INT (60 mana), 6% chance for frost spells to restore 50 mana.
Pendant: Better INT boost than the dagger, nice damage boost, although healing is sort of pointless for mages of course :). Total stats: +6 INT (90 mana), +16 damage to spells and effects
Trinket: No INT boost, but restores 1-500 mana with +1-100 fire damage on next fire spell. Good but totally unpredictable. Total stats: Usage=1-100 extra fire spell damage on next fire spell, 1-500 mana restored.
I would vote on the trinket if not for one thing: its unpredictability. On usage yes, the bonuses to mana and damage are nice, but that'll happen maybe 2% of the time. Most of the time it'll be a 200-300 mana restore with maybe 20-50 extra spell damage. Unless you're lucky.
I have to say, though, even with the damage and intellect the pendant doesn't look as nice as it could. There've got to be better ones at same or even lower levels.