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Quest
A Failure to Communicate
A World of Warcraft quest in Southern Barrens. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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He calls out for help if you are nearby:
Ambassador Gaines says: <name> - help! The ropes... please...even if you are horde (who can't see him since he is in a different phase).
Now what we have here, is a failure to communicate.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneSouthern Barrens
Quest ID25022
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25022))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineSouthern Barrens, step 16 of 89
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
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.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaIn-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
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,210 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,570 yards
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 Barrens
- Fort Triumph, Southern Barrens
- Ratchet, Northern Barrens
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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.
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Other quests on the Southern Barrens map
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.
Storyline
Southern Barrens
Part 16 of 89.
Previous: Make 'em Squeal · Next: You Flicked a Fine Vine to Leaf Me
- 11Silencing Rageroar
- 12Teegan's People
- 13Scavenged
- 14Filthy Animals
- 15Make 'em Squeal
- 16A Failure to Communicate
- 17You Flicked a Fine Vine to Leaf Me
- 18Trouble From the Ground Up
- 19Clear the High Road
- 20Feeding the Fear
- 21Warriors' Redemption
- 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 Squeal
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 Me
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
- Northern Barrens
- Battle Pet Tamers
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.