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A Terrible Sacrifice

A Terrible Sacrifice is a quest for level 20-35 in Kun-Lai Summit. It is step 83 of 88 in the Kun-Lai Summit storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Kun-Lai Summit at 29.3, 62.3. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,800 experience and money.

Description

I have an idea, and... am prepared to make a terrible sacrifice.

As much as I know that we need my stout brew, to fortify our defenders for the long-term security of the Ox Gate...

It is too painful to discuss details now, but please - while you are up here defending the wall, gather the barrels of oil they are using to light their arrows. We will need them.

Rewards

Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
ReputationShado-Pan +75
Top Comments

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

1
Raevenne+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

One of the funniest things I've ever seen in this game:

I was doing this quest on my death knight, and there was a mage there as well. She was so worried that I'd get to the barrels before she did, and she kept dashing in and stealing them while I was fighting the mobs to get to the barrels. Finally at one point, she used her Blink ability to get to one before I could get it, and she Blinked herself directly through one of the low parts of the crenelations and right off the wall, falling to her death! I laughed until I nearly cried, and chalked another one up for Karma.

Now every time I do this quest, I chuckle all over again about that selfish mage.

Edit: constellations != crenelations.../sigh

2
751881+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

It's all very good with a questline, but you already have that above the guiding screenshots. My problem here, was to get back on the wall, to finish the quest. And I found out that I had to seek to the camp up higher, with snow on the ground. When you follow the trail up, you go to the right in stead of the camp to the left.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,800
MoneyGold13g 74s
ReputationShado-Pan+75

Reward details

Reputation: Shado-Pan +75

The shadowy protectors of Pandaria's temples, the Shado-Pan are wrought with mystery.

Reputation group: Mists of Pandaria.

Other quests in Kun-Lai Summit that reward Shado-Pan reputation: The Defense of Shado-Pan Fallback (+75), Turnabout (+75), Unmasking the Yaungol (+100), To Winter's Blossom (+25), A Line Unbroken (+75), Honor, Even in Death (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapKun-Lai SummitTurn-in marker at 29.3, 62.3, 7 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.

Kun-Lai Summit Quest turn-in 7 mapped points
Kun-Lai Summit map showing where to go for A Terrible SacrificeTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #379 29.3 62.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inKun-Lai Summit 29.3, 62.3/way #379 29.3 62.3
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Kun-Lai Summit 27.7, 60.7/way #379 27.7 60.7

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 Kun-Lai Summit map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Kun-Lai Summit, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Kun-Lai Summit:

  • Winter's Blossom, Kun-Lai SummitAlliance and Horde · about 360 yards east
  • Longying Outpost, Townlong SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 660 yards south
  • Kota Basecamp, Kun-Lai SummitAlliance and Horde · about 900 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 120 yards north-west

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

Kun-Lai Summit

Part 83 of 88.

Previous: Off the Wall! · Next: Lao-Chin's Gambit

  1. 77Unmasking the Yaungol
  2. 78To Winter's Blossom
  3. 79A Line Unbroken
  4. 80Honor, Even in Death
  5. 81To the Wall!
  6. 82Off the Wall!
  7. 83A Terrible Sacrifice
  8. 84Lao-Chin's Gambit
  9. 85Do a Barrel Roll!
  10. 86Finish This!
  11. 87Where are My Reinforcements?
  12. 88Unbelievable!

Showing steps 77 to 88 of 88.

Also part of: Kun-Lai Summit (part 32 of 37), Kun-Lai Summit (part 32 of 37).

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.

  • Off the Wall!Kun-Lai Summit · Level 20-35

    The yaungol on the wall here are providing covering fire for the ones below. I don't know what Lao-chen is thinking, but I want you to deal with these archers. The good news is, up here we've got the spirit of the Ox helping us.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Lao-Chin's GambitKun-Lai Summit · Level 20-35

    Alright. Thanks to you, we have the wall under control. Good job. I'll stay up here for a little while and make sure no more yaungol get up onto the wall. You, though, should go back down and see what Lao-Chin has cooked up. I hate to say it, but maybe he had a good idea after all...

The storyline at a glance

Kun-Lai Summit has 88 steps, from Call Out Their Leader to Unbelievable!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Kun-Lai Summit (87), Vale of Eternal Blossoms (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Kun-Lai Summit 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.

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