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A Line in the Dirt (Horde)

A Line in the Dirt is a Horde-only quest for level 10-30 in Southern Barrens. It is step 51 of 89 in the Southern Barrens storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Southern Barrens at 42.1, 47.5. It rewards 4 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

The Alliance scorches a trail of murder across the Barrens. We must stop them here or there is nothing left for us.

Across the Fields of Blood there are a number of strategic hills, marked by wooden towers and neutral gray banners. We must take and hold these hills if we hope to slow the Alliance advance!

Look for the towers to the north, east, and south of what's left of Taurajo. Claim a neutral flag and defend the hill against counterattack!

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThunder Bluff +250
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
Dureal+56via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I had the same problem. There was no flag next to the point but as you probably noticed other faction has the same quest so you can go across the road and voila! They have exactly the same tower with the flag we need :) You can capture it and finish the quest.

3
Trecman+33via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you can't find the flag at the location where it is marked go south on the main road and you will see another tower just south of the Ruins Of Taurajo, on the right hand side.

TomTom Coords are: /way 46.26 56.74 - South Tower Flag

There are four waves of fighters. Focus on the ones trying to cap the flag. The defenders will take care of the rest. Stay next to flag till quest is completed. - and have fun dammit! :)

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationThunder Bluff+250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeShield Shield
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor60
Stats+3 Strength, +5 Stamina, +10 Intellect
Suited toRestoration, Elemental, Holy, Protection
Sells to vendors for1 gold2 silver
TypeLeather Legs
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor8
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for1 gold13 silver
TypeCloth Chest
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor5
Stats+6 Intellect, +9 Stamina
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for1 gold11 silver
TypeMail Legs
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor12
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for1 gold17 silver

Reputation: Thunder Bluff +250

Baine Bloodhoof leads his people, the proud Tauren, from this mighty Horde capital.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Thunder Bluff reputation: Clear the High Road (+250), Holdout at Hunter's Hill (+10), Raptor Scraps (+250), Signals in the Sky (+250), Keeping the Dogs at Bay (+250), Bad to Worse (+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 42.1, 47.5, 8 mapped points
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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.

Southern Barrens Quest turn-in 8 mapped points
Southern Barrens map showing where to go for A Line in the DirtTurn-inTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #199 42.1 47.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSouthern Barrens 42.1, 47.5/way #199 42.1 47.5
  • Objective areaSouthern Barrens 46.5, 56.9/way #199 46.5 56.9
  • Objective areaSouthern Barrens 46.9, 46.5/way #199 46.9 46.5
  • Objective areaSouthern Barrens 49.0, 53.2/way #199 49.0 53.2

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 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

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

  • Vendetta Point, Southern BarrensHorde · about 40 yards west
  • Desolation Hold, Southern BarrensHorde · about 1,200 yards south
  • Hunter's Hill, Southern BarrensHorde · about 1,400 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 570 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 360 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 590 yards south-east

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 51 of 89.

Previous: Working the Bugs Out · Next: Meet the New Boss

  1. 46Pick-a-Part
  2. 47Powder Play
  3. 48Batteries Not Yet Included
  4. 49Claim the Battlescar
  5. 50Working the Bugs Out
  6. 51A Line in the Dirt
  7. 52Meet the New Boss
  8. 53Lion's Pride
  9. 54Siegebreaker
  10. 55Taking Back Taurajo
  11. 56Honoring the Dead
  12. 57Desolation Hold Inspection

Showing steps 46 to 57 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.

  • Working the Bugs OutSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    Why high command decided that a silithid mound was the ideal place to build a fortress, I'll never know. Them lil' buggers are tunneling under our fortifications and setting back our timetables. We need to scorch 'em out!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Meet the New BossSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    Our defense of the Barrens hasn't gone well under Gar'dul's command, <name>. Garrosh has sent Warlord Bloodhilt here to take control of the situation. He's here in camp, and if you want to make a good impression, you'll demonstrate some initiative.

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Southern Barrens · Level 10-30.

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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name A Line in the Dirt. They differ in the faction/rewards shown here.

QuestFactionRewardsID
A Line in the Dirt (this page)Horde4,100 XP, Sternhorn's Shield, Taurajo Leggings, Robes of the Bloody Field, Taurajo Greaves24546
A Line in the DirtAlliance4,100 XP, Hawthorne's Shield, Robes of the Bloody Field, Taurajo Leggings, Taurajo Greaves25045
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A Light in the Darkness
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A Light of the Dark
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A Line in the Dirt
A Line in the Sand
A Line Unbroken
A Lingering Suspicion
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