TheWoWDBThe three named implicated in this quest are :
- Oric the Baeful
- Ulf the Bloodleter
- Gunnar Thorvardsson
They randomly appears after killing Winterskorn defenders at the Forsaken blocake.
Leads to Baleheim Bodycount and Baleheim Must Burn!
Quest
A Lesson in Fear
A World of Warcraft quest in Howling Fjord. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Be prepared to hate this quest if you leave the quest-giver's area. If you wander off, you may kill dozens of the wrong kind of vrykul and yet never advance the quest.
Stay right in the immediate area where the archers fire off explosive arrows, and kill Winterskorn Defenders. When the quest mobs spawn, they yell to let you know they are there. You don't need to tap or personally kill the mobs, just like the one demon in IQD.
Gotta kill the mobs around for them to show up.
I sat around for hours upon hours waiting for them to show up, since they seemed to appear on their own.
I was wrong lol.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneHowling Fjord
Quest ID11282
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11282))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineHowling Fjord, step 50 of 162
RewardsGrounded Pants, 
Stoneground Cleaver, 
Hex-Linked Stronghelm, 10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Grounded Pants, Stoneground Cleaver, Hex-Linked Stronghelm, 10g 50s, 4,100 XPDescription
When you've been in lots of fight like Gorth, you learn that to beat enemy good you have to make them really scared to die! But these vrykuls not afraid. You kill one and another comes... screaming louder and with a bigger weapon than the one before. Only thing that makes vrykuls afraid is when we kill the biggest and baddest vrykul of all. Go fight the Winterskorn across the blockade until hero vrykuls show up! Then you kill them dead and put queen's flag on corpses. They must learn to fear!
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #117 71.1 39.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inHowling Fjord 71.1, 39.1
/way #117 71.1 39.1 - Objective areaHowling Fjord 69.1, 38.5
/way #117 69.1 38.5 - Objective areaHowling Fjord 69.4, 39.6
/way #117 69.4 39.6
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 Howling Fjord map
- Warchief's Command: Howling Fjord! about 610 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,240 yards
- To Northrend about 1,810 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Howling Fjord, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Howling Fjord:
- Vengeance Landing, Howling Fjord
- New Agamand, Howling Fjord
- Camp Winterhoof, Howling Fjord
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- 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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3D Model
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Reward details
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TypeLeather Legs
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +11 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for49 gold78 silver
TypeTwo-Handed Axe Two-Hand
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon13 - 27 damage, speed 3.6
Stats+12 Agility, +7 Stamina
Suited toAugmentation, Preservation, Devastation, Frost, Blood, Unholy, Holy, Retribution, Elemental, Fury, Arms, Restoration
Sells to vendors for81 gold
TypeMail Head
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor13
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +11 Stamina, +16 Haste
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for37 gold39 silver
TypeArmor Finger
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+4 Intellect, +6 Stamina, +9 Haste
Suited toDiscipline, Balance, Restoration, Arcane, Fire, Frost, Mistweaver, Holy, Devourer, Destruction, Demonology, Affliction, Elemental, Shadow, Augmentation, Preservation, Devastation
Sells to vendors for65 silver73 copper
Reputation: Horde Expedition +250
The combined forces of the Horde in Northrend, spearheaded by the Warsong Offensive.
Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.
Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward Horde Expedition reputation: The New Plague (+250), The Windrunner Fleet (+25), Ambushed! (+150), Trail of Fire (+350), Sniff Out the Enemy (+150), The Dragonskin Map (+75).
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
Howling Fjord
Part 50 of 162.
Previous: The Offensive Begins · Next: Baleheim Bodycount
- 45Report to Anselm
- 46Let Them Eat Crow
- 47Sniff Out the Enemy
- 48The Dragonskin Map
- 49The Offensive Begins
- 50A Lesson in Fear
- 51Baleheim Bodycount
- 52Baleheim Must Burn!
- 53The Ambush
- 54Adding Injury to Insult
- 55The New Plague
- 56Spiking the Mix
Showing steps 45 to 56 of 162.
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 Offensive Begins
No one seems to know very much about the vrykul. Our records show no signs of activity in their lands for centuries. Yet here they are, just as we move against Arthas. The map you retrieved makes it clear that we'll have to defeat them if our forces are to get any further into Northrend.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Baleheim Bodycount
Them vrykuls just keeps coming and coming out from town west of here. No end in sight! Gorth has an idea. You go INSIDE town and kill them Winterskorn there. THEN they stop coming here!
The storyline at a glance
Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Howling Fjord map
- Truthguard
- Wrath of the Lich King Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.