How to complete the A Nose for News quest in Lost Ark

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Mathias of Stern’s Hoyte News initially tips Lost Ark players off to the frigid and isolated Glacier Isle, where they discover a polluted landscape buried in Toxic waste. Rumored to have floated north from Arthetine, this waste is traced back to the Origin of Stern, where Mathias offers to cooperate in breaking a story on the corruption occurring within Arthetine’s technology branch.

The leads within Arthetine initially draw the player toward the oasis of Nebelhorn, whose adjoining lab is responsible for all of the water flowing into and out of Stern. The director of this lab, Yulia, reports that the oasis had recently been giving off unusually high temperature readings, and tasks the player with scanning the area around the oasis with a Magick Flow Detector to find anything out of the ordinary.

The sequence of events that follows can be unusually difficult for most players to operate. While the tracts of land surrounding the oasis — and by extension, the area of the map indicated by the quest as searchable — can be rather broad, the range of the Magick Flow Detector only encompasses a comparably small circle around where it was deployed. Coupled with how the detector can only be used once per every five seconds, and that hostile enemies prowl the quest area in search of fights to pick, the time spent trying to find the “correct” position to deploy the detector can quickly add up.

As a general rule of thumb, all of the correct positions to plant the detector are under some rather ominously protruding creature bones scattered nearby the oasis. The first position is no exception to this rule, lying near a comparably smaller pile of bones.

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