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An Exercise in Diplomacy

An Exercise in Diplomacy is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Grizzly Hills. It is step 4 of 115 in the Grizzly Hills storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Grizzly Hills at 26.4, 35.7. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 2,050 experience.

Description

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.

Go to Silverbrook and aid him in his diplomatic efforts. Take the roads heading northwest of here and you should find it after crossing a couple of bridges.

Rewards

Experience2,050 XP
ReputationValiance Expedition +250
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This is part of a very long quest chain.
Part 1 (Into Grizzly Hills, making friends)

Part 2 (Helping the northern locals)
Finishing part 1 unlocks 2 independent quests

Part 3 (Is there something suspicious?)
Finishing part 2 unlocks this chain

Part 4 (Something's wrong)

Part 5 (Beginning of the World Tree chain)
Finishing part 4 unlocks 2 independent quests from and elf Hierophant Thayreen outside the house)

Part 6 (Further investigation)
Finishing part 5 unlocks 2 independent quests

Part 7 (Into the Tree)
Finishing part 6 unlocks 2 independent quests

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

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP2,050
ReputationValiance Expedition+250

Reward details

Reputation: Valiance Expedition +250

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapGrizzly HillsTurn-in marker at 26.4, 35.7, 2 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.

Grizzly Hills Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Grizzly Hills map showing where to go for An Exercise in DiplomacyTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #116 26.4 35.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inGrizzly Hills 26.4, 35.7/way #116 26.4 35.7
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 31.8, 60.2/way #116 31.8 60.2

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 Grizzly Hills map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Grizzly Hills:

  • Amberpine Lodge, Grizzly HillsAlliance · about 860 yards south
  • Light's Breach, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 970 yards north
  • The Argent Stand, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 900 yards south

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

Grizzly Hills

Part 4 of 115.

Previous: A Tentative Pact · Next: Northern Hospitality

  1. 1Local Support
  2. 2Close the Deal
  3. 3A Tentative Pact
  4. 4An Exercise in Diplomacy
  5. 5Northern Hospitality
  6. 6Wolfsbane Root
  7. 7The Conqueror's Task
  8. 8Gray Worg Hides
  9. 9The Flamebinders' Secrets
  10. 10A Show of Strength
  11. 11The Thane of Voldrune
  12. 12A Minor Substitution

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 115.

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.

  • A Tentative PactGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    Very well, <name>. Your people kept their end of the bargain. Tell Dumont that we'll honor the deal.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Northern HospitalityGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    It's good to meet you. Let us celebrate our pact by partaking in some good old fashioned Horde-killing. You'll find marauders from Conquest Hold just outside our town, west of here. Why don't you head out there and hunt them like the filthy animals they are?

The storyline at a glance

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:

Other storylines on the Grizzly Hills 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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