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A Rough Start (Monk)

A Rough Start is a quest for level 1-10 in Echo Isles. It is step 27 of 57 in the Echo Isles storyline. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 2,150 experience and money.

Description

Lets put dose skills ta use. I'll start ya off easy, mon.

There be cats killing our boars. Dat food ain't for sharin'. Dose boars are gonna need ta be alive if ya be wanting food tonight.

Dey're all over the island. Bring me some cat pelts.

Rewards

Money20 silver
Experience2,150 XP
ReputationDarkspear Trolls +250

Stuck on this quest?

  • Go to Kalimdor 13.3, 14.4 /way #12 13.3 14.4

Known issues

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Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(31160))

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP2,150
MoneyGold20s
ReputationDarkspear Trolls+250

Reward details

Reputation: Darkspear Trolls +250

This tribe of exiled trolls has joined forces with Thrall and the Horde. They now call Durotar their home, which they share with their orc allies.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Echo Isles that reward Darkspear Trolls reputation: The Rise of the Darkspear (+75), A Troll's Truest Companion (+75), Saving the Young (+250), Mercy for the Lost (+250), Consort of the Sea Witch (+250), Young and Vicious (+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 mapEcho Isles
Objective areaKalimdor1 mapped point
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.

Echo Isles Quest turn-in
Kalimdor Objective area 1 mapped point
Kalimdor map showing where to go for A Rough StartObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #12 13.3 14.4

Coordinates

  • Objective areaKalimdor 13.3, 14.4/way #12 13.3 14.4

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 Echo Isles map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Echo Isles:

  • Sen'jin Village, DurotarHorde · about 680 yards north-west
  • Razor Hill, DurotarHorde · about 1,600 yards north-west
  • Ratchet, Northern BarrensAlliance and Horde · about 1,700 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 50 yards north-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

Echo Isles

Part 27 of 57.

Previous: A Rough Start · Next: Proving Pit

  1. 22A Rough Start
  2. 23A Rough Start
  3. 24A Rough Start
  4. 25A Rough Start
  5. 26A Rough Start
  6. 27A Rough Start
  7. 28Proving Pit
  8. 29Proving Pit
  9. 30Proving Pit
  10. 31Proving Pit
  11. 32Proving Pit
  12. 33Proving Pit

Showing steps 22 to 33 of 57.

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 Basics: Hitting ThingsEcho Isles · Level 1-10

    Alright, mon. We start with da basics. I need ta know dat you know how ta use dat weapon you're totin' around. Go thrash dose tiki targets. Take it slowly. Natural-like. I'll watch ya fighting form and we'll go from dere.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Proving PitEcho Isles · Level 1-10

    Ya done quite well for ya'self, <class>. I'm sure I could teach ya a trick or two here and dere, but I not be wastin' ya time on tiki targets no longer. l put one last trial before ya den, mon.

Other quests with this name

This one: Monk · Echo Isles · Level 1-10.

The storyline at a glance

Echo Isles has 57 steps, from The Rise of the Darkspear to Sen'jin Village.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Echo Isles (56), Durotar (1).

Other storylines on the Echo Isles 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

9 quests carry the name A Rough Start. They differ in the classes shown here.

QuestClassesID
A Rough Start (this page)Monk31160
A Rough StartWarrior24641
A Rough StartMage24753
A Rough StartShaman24761
A Rough StartDruid24767
A Rough StartRogue24773
A Rough StartHunter24779
A Rough StartPriest24785
A Rough StartWarlock26275
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