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A Failure to Communicate

A Failure to Communicate is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Southern Barrens. It is step 16 of 89 in the Southern Barrens storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Southern Barrens at 56.1, 42.7. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

I told him he was a fool, but Ambassador Gaines insisted he could negotiate an alliance with the quilboar against the Horde. Even if he succeeded, I for one wouldn't want to fight with those ... pig-men at my side.

Well, Gaines hasn't returned, and General Hawthorne will hold me accountable if I lose one of our best negotiators to these squealing savages.

Locate the Ambassador in this steaming mess of a jungle and rescue him if he's still alive.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationStormwind +250
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationStormwind+250

Reward details

Reputation: Stormwind +250

One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Stormwind reputation: Running the Gauntlet (+250), Breaking the Siege (+250), Report to Aubrey (+75), Repel Boarders! (+250), The Guns of Northwatch (+75), Run Out the Guns (+250).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapSouthern BarrensTurn-in marker at 56.1, 42.7, 2 mapped points
World Map

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.

Southern Barrens Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Southern Barrens map showing where to go for A Failure to CommunicateTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #199 56.1 42.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSouthern Barrens 56.1, 42.7/way #199 56.1 42.7
  • Objective areaSouthern Barrens 53.1, 46.7/way #199 53.1 46.7

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 Southern Barrens map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Southern Barrens:

  • Northwatch Hold, Southern BarrensAlliance · about 790 yards east
  • Fort Triumph, Southern BarrensAlliance · about 1,300 yards south-west
  • Ratchet, Northern BarrensAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 300 yards south-west

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

Southern Barrens

Part 16 of 89.

Previous: Make 'em Squeal · Next: You Flicked a Fine Vine to Leaf Me

  1. 11Silencing Rageroar
  2. 12Teegan's People
  3. 13Scavenged
  4. 14Filthy Animals
  5. 15Make 'em Squeal
  6. 16A Failure to Communicate
  7. 17You Flicked a Fine Vine to Leaf Me
  8. 18Trouble From the Ground Up
  9. 19Clear the High Road
  10. 20Feeding the Fear
  11. 21Warriors' Redemption
  12. 22Eye for an Eye

Showing steps 11 to 22 of 89.

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.

  • Make 'em SquealSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    One of the native species in Kalimdor is the 'quilboar.' Prickly little buggers. Reason enough to hate this continent. The raids started shortly after we established our forward camps. Worse, those spiny fiends seem to thrive in this thorny hell of a jungle.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • You Flicked a Fine Vine to Leaf MeSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    According to Gaines, "Three-Tooth" is what the quilboar call their matriarch. She's been twisting the thorns of this crazy jungle to her own ends, and it was her orders that Gaines be "torn apart and fed to the overgrowth." Nice lady. Let's give her a taste of her own.

The storyline at a glance

Southern Barrens has 89 steps, from Running the Gauntlet to Sabotage!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Southern Barrens (88), Northern Barrens (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Southern Barrens 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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