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A Colossal Threat

A Colossal Threat is a quest for level 25-30 in The Storm Peaks. It is step 48 of 113 in The Storm Peaks storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in The Storm Peaks at 31.4, 38.1. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

You've done an excellent job of delaying the work on the iron colossus, but I fear we've only made the stormforged more determined to complete the weapon.

Even now, they're bringing in new laborers and the overseers push them to the limit. We may not be able to keep them from bringing the colossus online, after all. Return to Narvir's Cradle, to the south and find the documents detailing the colossus' offensive and defensive abilities. They should be near the tents and forges on the bottom level.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
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This is part of the Iron Colossus chain which begins and ends with Bouldercrag the Rockshaper.


  2. Rare Earth

  4. Relief for the Fallen
    Fighting Back

  6. Slaves of the Stormforged
    The Dark Ore

  8. The Gifts of Loken
    Facing the Storm

  10. While on Step 4, a Dark Armor Sample will drop off Stormforged War Golems which starts:

  12. The Armor of Darkness

  14. The Armor's Secrets

  16. Valduran the Stormborn

  18. Destroy the Forges!
    Hit Them Where it Hurts

  20. A Colossal Threat

  22. The Heart of the Storm

  24. The final part: The Iron Colossus

Read all 25 on Wowhead ↗

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapThe Storm PeaksTurn-in marker at 31.4, 38.1, 3 mapped points
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Where to go

Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.

The Storm Peaks Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
The Storm Peaks map showing where to go for A Colossal ThreatTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #120 31.4 38.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThe Storm Peaks 31.4, 38.1/way #120 31.4 38.1
  • Objective areaThe Storm Peaks 28.9, 44.1/way #120 28.9 44.1
  • Objective areaThe Storm Peaks 29.9, 45.8/way #120 29.9 45.8

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Nearby on the Storm Peaks map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Storm Peaks, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Storm Peaks:

  • Bouldercrag's Refuge, The Storm PeaksAlliance and Horde · about 100 yards north-west
  • Grom'arsh Crash-Site, The Storm PeaksHorde · about 640 yards south-east
  • Ulduar, The Storm PeaksAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 340 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 380 yards south

Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.

Quest Line

Storyline

The Storm Peaks

Part 48 of 113.

Previous: Hit Them Where it Hurts · Next: The Heart of the Storm

  1. 43Armor of Darkness
  2. 44The Armor's Secrets
  3. 45Valduran the Stormborn
  4. 46Destroy the Forges!
  5. 47Hit Them Where it Hurts
  6. 48A Colossal Threat
  7. 49The Heart of the Storm
  8. 50The Iron Colossus
  9. 51Aid from the Explorers' League
  10. 52The Frostborn King
  11. 53Fervor of the Frostborn
  12. 54An Experienced Guide

Showing steps 43 to 54 of 113.

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Hit Them Where it HurtsThe Storm Peaks · Level 25-30

    Bouldercrag's got a good plan to stymie the efforts of the iron dwarves at Narvir's Cradle, and I've got an idea of my own. Work on the iron colossus will come to a halt without any artisans. Narvir's Cradle is on the south side of the hill sheltering Bouldercrag's Refuge.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Heart of the StormThe Storm Peaks · Level 25-30

    According to the documents you captured at Narvir's Cradle, the iron colossus is complete except for one key component -- the Heart of the Storm. Without it, the iron colossus' weapons would be much weaker than the design predicts.

The storyline at a glance

The Storm Peaks has 113 steps, from Clean Up to The Reckoning.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Storm Peaks (110), Zul'Drak (2), Crystalsong Forest (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on The Storm Peaks map

Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.

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