Phase 2 Dailies: Intercepting the Mana Cells
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Mar 27th 2008 at 7:30AM
This Daily is located back in Shattrath, and given by a Draenei called Exarch Nasuun. He will be located in A'dal's chambers, in the northwestern Alcove where G'eras, the Badge of Justice vendor, used to be (G'eras himself is now on the walkway above the Alcove). He'll send you to the Bash'ir Landing, on the northern plateau of Blade's Edge Mountains. This means that this daily will require you to have a flying mount. Once you receive the the quest, you can fly to Evergrove in Ruann Weald via flightmaster, then fly northwest from there on your mount to reach Bash'ir landing.
Once you're there, you'll want to kill any of the Ethereals until you receive the Bash'ir Phasing Device. The device is a very common drop, so you shouldn't have to kill more than one or two ethereals until you get one. This Device will put you, your pets, and your group members into a state not unlike the Mage spell Invisibility. You will not be able to see any non-phased players or mobs, nor will they be able to see you. This device, however, only works with Bash'ir landing, and any pets or groups members must stay within 100 yards of the person who used the device to get the benefit. As long as you stay within Bash'ir landing, the effect is permanent, although you can right-click it off.
Once you're phased, you will need to start looking for your quest objective, the Smuggled Mana Cells, which will appear on the ground as translucent hot pink boxes. The boxes will appear mostly near the machinery and other stacked boxes around the camp. They will be guarded by Phase Wyrms, which should be relatively easy for a level 70 take out, and drop Motes of Mana for a nice little bonus.
Once you have your 10 cells, you can drop the phased buff (Be careful for any ethereal aggro when you do. You can't see them while phased, but they'll be there when you come out of phased mode), mount up, and head back to Shattrath. Upon turning this quest in to Nasuun, you'll get 10 gold, 10 silver, a cache of Shattered Sun Supplies, and some credit toward the opening of a portal to Quel'danas on your server. All in all a very worthwhile quest, especially if your cache has a Badge of Justice.
Once the portal is opened, this quest will be renamed "Maintaining the Sunwell Portal," but the objectives and rewards will remain the same. For more information, you can also read the pages for this quest on Wowwiki and Wowhead.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Vestras Mar 27th 2008 8:05AM
LIES! The Drop rate for the Phasing device are horriffic for a lot of players. Soloing, It took almost 20 kills until it droped.
Thankfully once phased, the containers respawn rapidly, but as usual there will bea lot of competition.
This along with the Bombing quest will consume a lot of your time while running dailies, so keep that in mind while you are planning what to hit.
On a side note, love the tron reference on this item hehe
Daniel Whitcomb Mar 27th 2008 8:07AM
I'm sorry to hear you had trouble with the Device, Vestras!
I actually tried to get the device a few times just to test the drop rate, and I got it on my first try on the first or second ethereal killed 3 times in a row. Maybe I was just lucky?
Green Armadillo Mar 27th 2008 11:59AM
I did this on both of my 70's this morning. One got the device in a single kill, the other took 15ish. (Naturally, it was the mage - who can kill 15 mobs in a reasonable amount of time - who got the 1 and the pally - who takes 45 seconds per mob, who needed 15.)
This quest may become seriously unpleasant once everyone is doing it. This was at 8 AM on the morning the quest opened up, and even then half the ethereals in the place were dead. Then you phase and there's barely enough cells to go around for 4-5 people. Once this area becomes more crowded, you're going to have serious problems with people running past you while you fight the wrym sitting on top of the fuel cell to ninja it. If I start skipping one of the Supply box dailies, it will probably be this one.
Jenesis Apr 5th 2008 1:09PM
An excellent point. On most servers this quest becomes a nightmare in the evenings, and of course people who have bubbles and speed boosts always get to the cell that you've fought your way towards before you do.
Huey2k2 Mar 29th 2008 3:57AM
I would like to point out that the phase worms you have to kill drop motes of mana like they're candy, I might just start farming them for the motes alone.