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  • Requires level: 53
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  • Start: Chromie
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Counting Out Time

Locate 5 Andorhal Watches, found in lockboxes amongst the rubble of the city. Return with them to Chromie in the Andorhal Inn, Western Plaguelands.
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Andorhal Watch (5)

Description

I need you to reach into the world beyond this room, <name>. Allow me to explain.

You see the difference in this room compared to the rest of Andorhal. My dragonflight works in many different ways and in many different timelines. To mend Andorhal's damage, I now act from a different timeline as not to overly contaminate it. To continue this though I need time trinkets, ones trapped from when the plague hit. Find them in lockboxes found in the ruined buildings that make up this once proud city.

Reward

You will receive:
Attuned Dampener

Progress

The time trinkets I seek are simple devices. They are watches mainly, and their hands are trapped forever when the plague first ravaged Andorhal.

Time is never ending, and the watches you bring to me will invariably find themselves counted out back to their homes... that is, so long as the disturbances continue here.

Completion

These are exactly what I need, <name>. Thank you.

Allow me to suitably reward you with this. You may not understand what you would need with such a device. You might not even know quite what it really is. Alas, I cannot tell you when you will find it most useful; just know that at some point in the future, you may find this item to have extreme utility and function when consumed. Whether or not you choose to hold on to it until then... this, my friend, is up to you.

Gains

Upon completion of quests, get:
  • 580 experience (34 80 at max. level)

Related

Rating: +46 [-] [+]
By dublin on 07/09/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
They are in little chests in the corner of the broken down houses all over the town.
Coords in picture are 38,68
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5218/countingouttimeqfm8.jpg http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5218/countingouttimeqfm8.jpg
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By Myrrin on 02/18/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
Found at:

38,68
38,69
40,67
40,66
40,68

These may be random spawns, so these coordinates may not do much good. For comparison, the quest-giver is at 39,66, so it's very easy to complete this quest without going too far from the giver.
Rating: +16 [-] [+]
By FISKERQ on 02/24/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
Found mine in 5 broken down houses just around the house you find Chromie in, i did most of them by looting through the wall so i didn't get any aggro.

And since it was that close i didn't even have to clear the house to get to chromie again.
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By cdry on 03/21/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
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By Fith on 04/22/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
Rating: +46 [-] [+]
By Kiwibird on 05/24/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)
(Patch 2.1) The quest is repeatable, but after the first time, you don't get anymore experience.
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By bluefeonix on 05/29/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)
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By Bartyx on 08/27/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
Rating: +4 [-] [+]
By Diomed on 11/09/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)
fairly easy if you can sneak.. alot of the time you can avoid agro so you dont have to fight
Rating: +6 [-] [+]
By Serashi on 11/23/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
8450 Exp as of 2.3
Rating: +2 [-] [+]
By Jarlsberg on 12/29/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
If you're a dwarf. Turn on Find Treasure. you'll see the boxes.
Rating: +2 [-] [+]
By Nordby on 04/30/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
Very easy quest tho , all boxes is at the same cords as the other comments..

I found it there tho : ]
Rating: +6 [-] [+]
By feck on 03/16/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
When I completed this quest, Chomie showed the yellow exclamation point, and the same quest again - however even though the boxes were in the same spaces, I received only the Dampener again. So it would appear that if you loose it for some reason, you can get another one easily before facing Araj.
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By Alessiaroga on 12/04/2008 (Patch 3.0.3)
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By Happyfriend on 12/05/2008 (Patch 3.0.3)
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By daceman on 01/13/2009 (Patch 3.0.3)
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By Ernst on 02/21/2009 (Patch 3.0.9)
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By devinf87 on 05/23/2009 (Patch 3.1.2)
The chests containing the watches are scattered in the buildings surrounding Chromie. You should be able to loot through the walls to avoid combat. This quest is pretty short and easy, and yields around 9K experience. There is also a repeatable version that yields about 500xp and another https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=12650 Attuned Dampener.

Side Note:

Under the progress description, I kept tripping up over this sentence:

""They are watches mainly, and their hands are trapped forever when the plague first ravaged Andorhal.""

After rereading it, it makes more sense. It's saying that the hands on the watch are stopped at the time of which the plague first ravaged Andorhal. My mind instantly thought there was a problem with tenses, but I simply misread it.
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By kintix on 07/24/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
Rating: +10 [-] [+]
By instinctive on 07/10/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
Quest title might be a reference to the Genesis song ""Counting Out Time,"" from their 1974 album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Must be some old progressive rock fans among the designers.

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