A Tentative Pact is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Grizzly Hills. It is step 3 of 115 in the Grizzly Hills storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Grizzly Hills at 31.8, 60.2. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 1,050 experience.
Very well, <name>. Your people kept their end of the bargain.
Tell Dumont that we'll honor the deal.
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This is part of a very long quest chain.
Part 1 (Into Grizzly Hills, making friends)
- [73] The Hills Have Us (Ride a gryphon from Dragonblight to Amberpine Lodge in Grizzly Hills)
- [74] Local Support (Collect Cedar Chest (in a house guarded by 3 hordes))
- [74] Close the Deal (Simply go to Ivan)
- [74] A Tentative Pact (Simply go back to Lieutenant Dumont)
- [74] An Exercise in Diplomacy (Yet another go-to quest. Go to Envoy Ducal)
- Total: 46700 xp, 575 Valiance Expedition rep
Part 2 (Helping the northern locals)
Finishing part 1 unlocks 2 independent quests
- [74] Wolfsbane Root (Collect 8 Wolfsbane Roots around 28.5, 38.5)
- [74] Northern Hospitality (Kill 8 Conquest Hold Marauders)
- Do these 2 quest together
- Total: 41500 xp, 0 rep
Part 3 (Is there something suspicious?)
Finishing part 2 unlocks this chain
- [74] Test of Mettle (Kill Sergeant Bonesnap and a guard next to him. Ignore the provided quest item)
- [74] Words of Warning (Go to Caged Prisoner)
- Total: 31100 xp, 250 Alliance Vanguard rep
Part 4 (Something's wrong)
- [74] Escape from Silverbrook (Escort quest on a specialized vehicle)
- [74] A Swift Response (Kill 7 Silverbrook Hunters and Vladek)
- Total: 41500 xp, 500 Valiance Expedition rep
Part 5 (Beginning of the World Tree chain)
Finishing part 4 unlocks 2 independent quests from and elf Hierophant Thayreen outside the house)
- [74] A Dark Influence (Use the provided item in 3 caved. Map here.)
- [74] The Failed World Tree (Kill Entropic Ooze to get 6 Slime Samples around the said caves)
- Do these 2 quest together
- Total: 41500 xp, 250 Valiance Expedition rep
Part 6 (Further investigation)
Finishing part 5 unlocks 2 independent quests
- [74] A Possible Link (Kill Frostpaw Furbolgs to get 8 Crazed Furbolg Blood)
- [75] Children of Ursoc (Listen to the stories of 2 bears in 2 caves at here)
- Do these 2 quest together
- Total: 41650 xp, 350 Valiance Expedition rep
Part 7 (Into the Tree)
Finishing part 6 unlocks 2 independent quests
- [75] Vordrassil's Sapling (Use the provided torch at the bottom of the center of the Tree. Being able to fly helps a lot.)
- [75] Vordrassil's Seeds (Collect 8 Vordrassil's Seeds)
- Do these 2 quest together
- Total: 41900 xp, 500 Valiance Expedition rep
Part 8 (Finale)
- [75G3] Ursoc, the Bear God (talk to Tur Ragepaw the druid to start the event. Kill Ursoc. Use the provided item on corpse. People have reported that this is soloable.)
- Rewards: (1) Choose 1 of 5 rare pants (2) A shield that vendors for 7.5563g (3) 17.7g (4) 31450 xp (5) ? rep
Grand total of quest rewards: 285,850 xp (18% or 3.6 bars at lvl 74, 17.8% or 3.56 bars at lvl 75), 1925 Valiance Expedition rep
I completed "Close the deal" but Ivan refuses to give me a follow-up quest. I'm going nuts, am I missing something?
Lieutenant Dumont can be found in Amberpine Lodge (31.9, 60.2).
| Type | Reward | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Experience | XP | 1,050 |
| Reputation | Valiance Expedition | +25 |
The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in Grizzly Hills that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: Descent into Darkness (+75), Report to Gryan Stoutmantle... Again (+25), Replenishing the Storehouse (+250), Them or Us! (+150), Take Their Rear! (+250), Eagle Eyes (+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.
| Turn-in map | Grizzly Hills | Turn-in marker at 31.8, 60.2, 2 mapped points |
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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 #116 31.8 60.2
TheWoWDB/way #116 31.8 60.2/way #116 34.8 55.6Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Grizzly Hills, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Grizzly Hills:
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
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.
Part 3 of 115.
Previous: Close the Deal · Next: An Exercise in Diplomacy
Showing steps 1 to 12 of 115.
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
We have what the trappers want. Now it's up to us to sign them up with our side. Take the chest to a trapper named Ivan at the Aspen Grove Post, just north of here. If all goes well, we'll have local woodsmen serving as scouts for the king's army in no time.
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
We'd been trying to negotiate with the trappers for weeks, but we'd gotten nowhere until you found that blasted chest of theirs. This should be good news to our envoy in Silverbrook. We sent Ducal there about a week ago and his last letter indicated he'd been making little progress.
Grizzly Hills has 115 steps, from Local Support to Loken's Orders.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Grizzly Hills (115).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
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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