How to Complete Balance of Power (Improving on History) in Shadowlands



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The infamous Balance of Power questline has been called many things, including “tedious”, “lengthy” and “annoying”. Especially since it’s not account-wide, but you need to get the achievement on every single character you wish to unlock the associated Legion artifact appearance for.
However, it really isn’t that difficult, if you’re a max-level character in Shadowlands with an ilvl above 150.
In this video, I present a simple 18-step guide to the questline, in the hopes that it’ll encourage and help you all to complete the achievement.
Please leave questions or comments below, if you’re in doubt about anything or have some good tips. Thank you and I hope you enjoy the video (:

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Sections
0:00 Intro and preparation
1:53 Azsuna: Step 1
2:26 Step 2
2:45 Step 3
3:54 Step 4
4:14 Step 5 + 6
5:11 Suramar: Step 7
5:39 Step 8
5:56 Step 9
6:49 Step 10
7:09 Step 11
7:16 Stormheim: Step 12
7:28 Step 13
8:00 Step 14
8:24 Step 15
9:11 Step 16
9:38 Suramar: Step 17
10:56 Step 18 Final – Improving on History

– List of wowhead links –

Balance of Power: https://www.wowhead.com/quest=43533/balance-of-power
The Mark: https://www.wowhead.com/quest=40608/the-mark#comments

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35 thoughts on “How to Complete Balance of Power (Improving on History) in Shadowlands”

  1. Great video.

    To anyone wanting to try this but isn't sure – just do every orange/legendary quest in your order hall. Chances are that eventually you will trigger the start of the chain.

    My Druid hasn't been touched for a long time, Legion barely played, but just quest through Azuna, check the Broken Shore area for new quests and try and do all the quests in the order hall. If Kalec isn't popping up for you, its probably because there is some random thing you need to do. (Such as Class Hall Campaign or recruiting a certain follower)

    It can be almost impossible to pin point what you are missing – so I found it easier to do just do everything that seemed important in my class order hall. Kalec just randomly popped for me then.

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  2. Ever since patch 9.2 dropped, Kalecgos doesn't spawn in your order hall for starter quest until:
    1. Class campaign is finished;
    2. All zones questlines are done (Suramar, not included);
    3. Forged for Battle achievement is gained.

    I Don't know if they changed the requirements for starter quest, since i was playing during Legion and have completed this questline on 5/12 classes during that time, But i can't get Kalec to spawn for questline otherwise.

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  3. I finished my hunter class campaign, also finished Senegos quest chain, queued arena, relogging bunch of times, and can’t get Kalec to spawn, . He’s busy chilling with Khadgar in the Violet Citadel. Any thoughts on what I’m doing wrong? (Do I need to have all Legion Campaign completed on this character?) I just want my fancy Pheonix’s Rebirth bow on my blood elf😭😭

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  4. At first, great videos and very helpful 🙂
    But archmage Khaleg don’t appears in my Druid class hall at all… I’ve finished the whole aszuna story line.. any tips?

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  5. In your order hall you can buy the blood of sargeras with order resources from the quatermaster. 5 bloods for 5k resources. Great video from start to finish. Amazing job

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  6. So close to being done just need the night shards! only got 6 so far did all normal and a couple mythic bosses before calling it a night (no heroic yet). Your guide helped a lot with knowing they can only drop from each boss once and its all luck base. Guess im just an unlucky person lol anyways thanks for the info a really appreciate it keep up the good work <3

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  7. My main problem with this is two things one not account wide bs nobody wants to have to do this garbage more than once and two it's not account wide and it's only for appearances thats it if you didn't do legion it feels like bs to stretch content again everything we do in this game should be shared with your entire account not just one toon.

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  8. I have a question! I have been doing the quest line for a while now, and I’m stuck at the quest « twisted power » I can’t find those legion portal fragment. Is there a certain way of finding those? A fast way? I’ve been searching on internet and can’t find a way of finding those. I’m so confused! Oh and I love your videos! You explain so well! Everything is so perfectly well explained and well presented! Love it! A lot of support from Switzerland!! 💕

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  9. FYI: This Questline is sooooo bad.. the last part of the quest "Into the Nighthold' is so RNG that it took 3 weeks to get 20 stupid nightshards. so anyone who tells you that you can get um in one run is selling something.

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  10. its still a pain in the ass at the time i whatched this its shadowlands now and im running 3 toons through this the biggest thing that slowed me down was the fact that blizzard wont shorten or take off the time locks like one thing sends you in raids or dungeons then you cant reset the lock so you have to wait another week im soloing all this so the locks matter and no video talks about it or how this is all for transmog and no breaching the tomb has nothing to do with improving on history at all they can either just unlock the transmog and sale it or take off the damn locks

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  11. For some reason my game is telling me I haven't completed Lost Knowledge, but I have done the Arcways quest and CoTS quest, but haven't done the Vault of the Wardens quest. Any ideas? Can't seem to make any progress.

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  12. Amazing guide again! Just 1 thing. Night Shards from Night Hold. Every boss drops 0-3.
    For me it was:
    0 shards = 1x
    1 shards = 7x
    2 shards = 0x
    3 shards = 2x
    13 total in 1 run. So, maybe I was just unlucky, but got the feeling it is 0, 1 or bundle which gives 3. 😮

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  13. I've just finished the story line of Azsuna 5/5 , but i cant find arch mage kalec anywhere at the Azure Repose to start the quest The Power Within, any idea what my problem is? plz reply

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  14. Did they nerf this questline at all? I was looking for a mog on my monk so I went to EN. I decided to grab the BOP quesline before I went in (pretty much had every class on the EN part of that quest before bfa launched).

    So I had the EN part of the quest, I did that last week, my mog didn't drop, did it again this week, my EN quest is done

    I figured I would stick out the rest

    Did the intermediate quests

    Got to nighthold, put it on mythic, 1 shot all the bosses. It gave me exactly as many marks that I needed to complete everything this week. It's kind of beautiful. There's also legion timewalking vendor in dalaran during timewalking you can buy the BoA rep tokens to send to alts for the rep requirements.

    I think if you could do the entire EN questline in one raid lockout, the whole quest is able to be soloed in 1 day as it is right now? That's what it seems like.

    I played a lot in legion, I have the legendary campaign feat of strength. I never did BoP questline literally until last weekend. I never did the EN part of the quest on any character because of how time consuming it was. I'm pretty ignorant about what it all takes but I think it felt pretty good to do here in Dragonflight.

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  15. That this isnt ACCOUNT wide still blows my mind. I get it if back in Legion it wasn't account wide , but now all we want is either complete our collection or have another cool transmog weapon…. Great guide :3

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  16. Since it will be account wide in the next patch, its better to wait until the patch is live to start the questline or just doing it now and complete it after the 10.0.7 is live ? Thanks

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