WoW Forever Mage Wand Quest: Journey to the Marsh, Tabetha and the 3 Level 40 Wands

The mage wand quest is a class chain for mages of both factions. Journey to the Marsh is a level 38 quest you can take from level 30. It sends you from a mage trainer to Tabetha, a hermit whose shack stands deep in Dustwallow Marsh, west of Theramore. Jennea Cannon is 1 of the trainers who hand it out.

Tabetha then sets 2 tasks that you can do in either order. The 1st is a parcel of rare items for her. The 2nd is a book that sends you to Magus Tirth in the Shimmering Flats and on to the Scarlet Monastery. With both done, her ritual turns out 3 wands, and you keep 1.

Step	Quest	What you do
1	Journey to the Marsh	Speak with Tabetha in Dustwallow Marsh.
2	Items of Power	Bring her 1 Jade and the Bolt Charged Bramble, made from 10 Witherbark Totem Sticks.
3	Hidden Secrets	Speak with Magus Tirth in the Shimmering Flats.
4	Get the Scoop	Find the phrase to Tirth's strongbox, then return to him.
5	Rituals of Power	Bring the book Rituals of Power from the Scarlet Monastery to Tabetha.
6	Mage's Wand	Speak with Tabetha after her ritual and pick your wand.

Items of Power

Tabetha hands you a parchment that lists what she needs and how to get it, and she asks you to follow it to the letter. The bramble comes from the 10 totem sticks: her directions end with lightning striking the sticks, and that charge makes the bramble.

Tirth and the chicken

Magus Tirth keeps the book in a magically locked strongbox and has forgotten the phrase that opens it. His apprentice Johnson knows it, and Tirth tells you to ask around the race track. Johnson sits there under Tirth's curse, in the shape of a chicken: target the chicken, type /beckon, then speak with him to learn the phrase.

The last 2 quests

Once the box is open, the book is missing. A member of the Scarlet Brotherhood took it to their library in the Scarlet Monastery in Tirisfal Glades. Rituals of Power is a level 40 quest that ends with the book in Tabetha's hands. Mage's Wand, also level 40, is the reward step: Tabetha holds her ritual and lays out the 3 wands.

All 3 are blue wands of item level 40 that bind when picked up and only a mage can use. Each adds 3 Intellect and up to 9 damage to the spells of its own school.

Wand	Damage	Speed	Damage per second	Spell bonus
Ragefire Wand	36 to 68 Fire	1.40	37.14	Fire spells, up to 9
Icefury Wand	41 to 78 Frost	1.60	37.19	Frost spells, up to 9
Nether Force Wand	39 to 73 Arcane	1.50	37.33	Arcane spells, up to 9

The wands deal almost the same damage per second, 37.14 to 37.33, so the spell bonus decides. Take the wand of the school you cast most: Icefury for Frost spells, Ragefire for Fire and Nether Force for Arcane. A mage who changes school later keeps the wand's hits and loses only the 9 points of spell damage.

Rituals of Power is the only step inside a dungeon. The book waits in the library of the Scarlet Monastery in Tirisfal Glades, the Library wing of the monastery, so plan a group for it. Our WoW Forever Scarlet Monastery guide covers the wings, their bosses and the other class quests inside.

The other 5 steps are talks and errands across Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. Dustwallow Marsh and the Shimmering Flats sit on Kalimdor, and the monastery stands in Tirisfal Glades. For the rest of the class, our WoW Forever mage guide covers talents and leveling. Warlocks have a class quest of their own at level 25, The Orb of Soran'ruk, and shamans and rogues have theirs in our shaman weapon quest and rogue weapon quest guides.