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A Dark Influence

A World of Warcraft quest in Grizzly Hills. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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The three places you need to go are marked with a cave entrance on the zone map, and are just north of Amberpine Lodge. The heart is the east-most cave, the limb is the middle cave, and the tears is the west most cave. Grizzlemaw (the huge broken tree in the middle of the zone with all the Furblogs) is not where you need to be.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
Quest ID12220

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12220))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineGrizzly Hills, step 57 of 115
Rewards4,100 XP

Description

When the tree Vordrassil fell, its hollow remains grew roots deep into the ground. I want you to go north of here to the three locations where the trunk shattered and go as far beneath the ground as you can. You'll find them west of Grizzlemaw. Use this orb once you get there to get an imprint of the energy surrounding the area. If we're to heal the land, we must first find out what caused Vordrassil to fail as a world tree all those years ago.

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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.

Grizzly Hills Quest turn-in 4 mapped points
Grizzly Hills map showing where to go for A Dark InfluenceTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #116 31.2 59.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inGrizzly Hills 31.2, 59.5/way #116 31.2 59.5
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 41.0, 54.6/way #116 41.0 54.6
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 32.4, 45.8/way #116 32.4 45.8
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 30.5, 44.1/way #116 30.5 44.1

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 Grizzly Hills map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Grizzly Hills:

  • Amberpine Lodge, Grizzly HillsAlliance · at the same spot
  • Light's Breach, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 1,800 yards north
  • Westfall Brigade, Grizzly HillsAlliance · about 1,900 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 540 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 480 yards north
  • Objective areaabout 540 yards north

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.

Related
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationWarsong Offensive +250

Reward details

Reputation: Warsong Offensive +250

Garrosh Hellscream commands the Horde's main expeditionary forces as they make their way into Northrend to face Arthas and the armies of the Scourge.

Reputation group: Horde Expedition.

Other quests in Grizzly Hills that reward Warsong Offensive reputation: Pounding the Iron (+250), Vordrassil's Fall (+250), The Darkness Beneath (+250), A Possible Link (+350), The Bear God's Offspring (+150), Ursoc, the Bear God (+500).

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Storyline

Grizzly Hills

Part 57 of 115.

Previous: The Thane of Voldrune · Next: A Possible Link

  1. 52Souls at Unrest
  2. 53A Name from the Past
  3. 54Ruuna the Blind
  4. 55The Failed World Tree
  5. 56The Thane of Voldrune
  6. 57A Dark Influence
  7. 58A Possible Link
  8. 59Children of Ursoc
  9. 60Vordrassil's Sapling
  10. 61Vordrassil's Seeds
  11. 62Ursoc, the Bear God
  12. 63Attack on Silverbrook

Showing steps 52 to 63 of 115.

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.

  • The Thane of VoldruneGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    Now that you've captured the flame-imbued talismans and weakened Voldrune's defenses, we can strike at its leader, Thane Torvald Eriksson. The thane's favorite mount is an unruly proto-drake he calls Flamebringer.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Possible LinkGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    The furbolgs that live east of here are more aggressive and bestial than the ones we're used to. Our forces have squared off with them more than once, and the survivors always speak of a dark, slimy substance dripping from their corpses.

The storyline at a glance

Grizzly Hills has 115 steps, from Local Support to Loken's Orders.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Grizzly Hills (115).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Grizzly Hills 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.