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A Deal With a Dragon

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

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wharris+14via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Guide to Burning Steppes quests:

Optional breadcrumbs:
Hero's Call: Burning Steppes or Mouton Flamestar

Do anytime before leaving to Chiselgrip:
Done Nothing Wrong

Keeshan is back with either:
Burning Vengeance if you did the Redridge chain or Burning Vengeance if you did not.

These three at once:
Stocking Up
A Future Project
Mud Hunter

Then:
The Sand, the Cider, and the Orb

These two at once: Warlocks Have the Neatest Stuff and Shadow Boxing

Then:
Return to Keeshan
Chiselgrip, the Heart of the Steppes

Enables these quests, which must be completed before General Thor'izog in the main chain:
Prove Yer Allegiance
Scrapped Golems (leads to Golem Training)

Main chain continues:
A Needle in a Hellhole
A Perfect Costume (4 versions) Read the quest carefully. What creature disguise do you need?
---> Orc (given to Humans and Dwarves): 2 Hides, 4 muds, 2 thread
---> Goblin (given to Gnomes): 1 hide, 3 mud, 4 thread
---> Troll (given to Night Elves): 3 Hides, 2 mud, 1 thread
---> Ogre (given to Draenei and Worgen): 4 Hide, 1 Mud, 3 thread

Then:
Into the Black Tooth Hovel
Grunt Work
Look in your quest log -- Strategic Cuts has silently appeared
The Kodocaller's Horn
Taking the Horn for Ourselves
Until Blizzard fixes it, when you turn in this quest, you will get a failed quest sound
with "You don't meet the requirements for that quest". Don't panic.

You must by this time have finished Stebben's quests, listed above.
General Thorg'izog
Trial by Magma
I Am the Law and I am the Lash [I think this completing this one is optional]
When you accept the above, look for Abuse of Power in your quest log

Then:
Enough Damage for One Day
Morgan's Vigil

Completing that quest allows for these four together:
SEVEN! YUP! [rewards Tiny Flamefly]
Blackened Ashes
A Heap of Delicious Worg
Latent Demons of the Land

Then these three together:
Blood Tour
Draconic Vanguard
A Deal with a Dragon

Given when third one above is completed: Placing the Pawns

Then these three:
A Delivery for Thorg'izog
A Delivery for Neeralak
A Delivery for Zi'lun

Auto-accepted when above three are done:
Locked and Loaded

And the epic conclusion:
Assault on Dreadmaul Rock
Glory Amidst Chaos
The Spoils of War

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909946+4via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

By far one of the best quests to come out of Cataclysm, theres no ogre body surfing a crystal spider but meh its up their.. Its kind of sad that a Expansion ment to bring players into brand new zones and up to level cap 85 will be remembered for the stuff they added to the original content, where as if i wasnt currently running Loremaster id have never seen these quests and forever callled this expansion Crapaclysm!

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tyharris01+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Do not turn in [url=[A Deal With a Dragon][A Deal With a Dragon] without John J. Keeshan present. If you do that you will not be able to turn in the other two quests until someone else comes along and has Keeshan following them around. I made the mistake of leaving the Burning Steppes, logging off for a while and then came back and completed this quest without help from the NPC. If you leave the zone abandon this quest and pick this up again before proceeding. This triggers Keeshan to follow you around, without him you are stuck.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
Quest ID28316

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28316))

Requirements

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineBurning Steppes, step 65 of 82
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

While we are circling around Dreadmaul Rock, there's one more stop that we need to make. You remember the hatchlings that you freed from the Whelping Downs? Troteman's been hanging onto them, and we're going to deliver them to someone who will take care of them better than we can. He's staying in Slither Rock, to the northeast of Dreadmaul Rock. His name is Acride, and he might be the key to victory in the upcoming battle.

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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.

Burning Steppes Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Burning Steppes map showing where to go for A Deal With a DragonTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #36 82.1 31.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBurning Steppes 82.1, 31.5/way #36 82.1 31.5
  • Objective areaBurning Steppes 73.6, 67.2/way #36 73.6 67.2

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 Burning Steppes map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Burning Steppes:

  • Dragon's Mouth, BadlandsAlliance · about 780 yards north-west
  • Morgan's Vigil, Burning SteppesAlliance · about 780 yards south-west
  • Dustwind Dig, BadlandsAlliance · about 1,100 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 800 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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP

Storyline

Burning Steppes

Part 65 of 82.

Previous: Draconic Vanguard · Next: A Deal With a Dragon

  1. 60A Heap of Delicious Worg
  2. 61Blood Tour
  3. 62Blood Tour
  4. 63Draconic Vanguard
  5. 64Draconic Vanguard
  6. 65A Deal With a Dragon
  7. 66A Deal With a Dragon
  8. 67Placing the Pawns
  9. 68Placing the Pawns
  10. 69A Delivery for Thorg'izog
  11. 70A Delivery for Thorg'izog
  12. 71A Delivery for Neeralak

Showing steps 60 to 71 of 82.

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.

  • Draconic VanguardBurning Steppes · Level 15-30

    The Blackrock orcs don't come alone. You've already seen that they've got the Firegut ogres and Smolderthorn trolls on their side. Unfortunately for us, they're also teamed up with the black dragonflight.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Placing the PawnsBurning Steppes · Level 15-30

    <name>. It sounds like you and Keeshan have finished with your tasks. I've also finished mine. Return to Morgan's Vigil. I've prepared a few packages to deliver to the Big Three: Thorg'izog, Neeralak, and Xi'lun. You've already met General Thorg'izog. This will be your chance to meet the other two.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Burning Steppes · Level 15-30.

The storyline at a glance

Burning Steppes has 82 steps, from Done Nothing Wrong to The Spoils of War.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Burning Steppes (82).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Burning Steppes 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.