Seeking Solvent

Objective: Retrieve a canister of Element 115 from the Venture Company ship in Venture Bay and return it before it destabilizes.

Quick Facts

• Location: Venture Company ship at [16.4, 80.3]
• Rewards: Venture Coin (4 for Alliance, 2 for Horde)
• Unlocks: Always Seeking Solvent (repeatable daily for 2 Venture Coins)
• PvP Warning: Accepting this quest flags you for PvP for as long as it remains in your quest log.

Walkthrough

Reaching the Element 115

• Head to the dock at Venture Bay. The Element 115 is on the middle ship (the one that looks like a standard Alliance vessel) at [16.4, 80.3].
• Enter the ship and take the first left. The canister is in the captain’s quarters at the back of the same level.
• The item does NOT sparkle like most interactable objects. Watch for your cursor to change when you mouse over it.

Carrying the Element 115

• Picking up the canister applies a debuff with three effects: your base movement speed cannot be increased, damage taken is increased by 35%, and stealth/invisibility effects are blocked.
• The item has a limited duration before it destabilizes into Depleted Element 115 and becomes useless. Reports range from 3 to 4 minutes, so treat it as a tight window either way.
• Flying mounts still work but move at a crawl. Ground mounts are similarly slow. Plan your route before grabbing the canister.
• Do NOT leave the Grizzly Hills zone boundary while carrying Element 115. The item may immediately disappear if you swim into the Frozen Sea or cross zone lines.

Returning the Canister

• Head straight back to your faction’s quest giver. Minimize combat on the way out since the +35% damage taken makes you significantly squishier.
• If you die while carrying the item, it drops on the ground at your death location. You can retrieve it and continue.

Efficiency Tips

• Clear the mobs in and around the captain’s quarters before looting the canister. Fighting while debuffed is risky and wastes your timer.
• This quest pairs with the other Venture Bay dailies. Knock them all out in one trip since you’re already PvP-flagged.
• Completing this quest unlocks the repeatable daily Always Seeking Solvent, which awards 2 Venture Coins per turn-in. Element 115 is also used for the daily Riding the Red Rocket, so you’ll be making this run regularly.

Class Tips

• Druids: Aquatic Form is the one known exception to the speed debuff. It still provides its swim speed bonus, and Glyph of Aquatic Form stacks on top. Avoid swimming out of bounds.
• Mages: Blink may still function as a short teleport. Invisibility will NOT work; the debuff prevents it.
• Hunters: Feign Death works to drop aggro if you pull too many mobs during your escape.
• Rogues: Vanish does NOT work. The debuff explicitly prevents stealth. Rely on Sprint before picking up the item, or use Evasion to survive the run back. (Note: Sprint likely won’t function while carrying the item since it increases movement speed.)
• Paladins: Divine Shield can make you immune to damage during the run, offsetting the +35% damage taken. Useful if mobs are unavoidable.
• Engineers: Nitro Boosts can be used for a burst of speed to reach the ship. You can use Nitro Boosts to jump from the Alliance ship’s banister onto the Venture Co. ship’s lower deck, then using a Parachute Cloak to land safely.

Lore & Secrets

Easter Egg: Element 115 and Real-World Conspiracy

• The name “Element 115” is a layered reference. In reality, element 115 (Ununpentium, now officially named Moscovium) is a super-heavy synthetic element first synthesized in 2003.
• The name gained pop culture traction through Bob Lazar, who claimed in 1989 that the U.S. government possessed element 115 from extraterrestrial sources and used it to power alien spacecraft. The in-game flavor text, “Becomes unstable upon exposure to the atmosphere,” mirrors Lazar’s claims about the element’s instability under Earth conditions.
• Element 115 is also a reference to Elerium-115 from the X-COM franchise, an alien power source found aboard crashed UFOs. X-COM’s Elerium was itself likely inspired by the Lazar claims.
• The Venture Company ship (a corporation known for reckless resource exploitation) fits the theme of a shady organization hoarding volatile alien-adjacent technology.