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An Undead's Best Friend

A World of Warcraft quest in Icecrown. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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56649+36via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Nobody mentioned this explicitly but you need to click the orb beside the quest giver in order to become the shade, in order to do the quests. Three quests as listed by above poster(s). If you use QH or Carbonite and think you can just fly there and THEN figure out what to do, you're gonna get lost like me.

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Helldemonik+24via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

the hounds are located all around the general area of 39,37. you just use the command " feed hungering plaguehound"

also, i dont know if any of you noticed but there is a typo in the quest info. look what it says..

Keritose Bloodblade at the Shadow Fault wants you to use the Eidolon Watcher to feed 18 Hungering Plaguehounds.

shadow FAULT.... its the shadow VAULT. haha! =)

enjoy!

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 25-30
ZoneIcecrown
Quest ID13169

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13169))

What to do

StorylineIcecrown, step 84 of 167
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

As is usual practice, the undead at the saronite quarry to the southwest starve plaguehounds to keep them extra aggressive. Use the shade to get up close and feed some of those hounds and I promise you they'll be content to leave you alone, if not side with the hand that fed them. Don't get too close to those things until you've fed them though. Their noses don't fall victim to your shade's elusiveness.

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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.

Icecrown Quest turn-in 12 mapped points
Icecrown map showing where to go for An Undead's Best FriendTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #118 44.1 24.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inIcecrown 44.1, 24.5/way #118 44.1 24.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Icecrown 39.0, 38.5/way #118 39.0 38.5

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 Icecrown map

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

Getting there

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

  • The Shadow Vault, IcecrownAlliance and Horde · about 20 yards west
  • Argent Tournament Grounds, IcecrownAlliance and Horde · about 1,800 yards east
  • Death's Rise, IcecrownAlliance and Horde · about 1,800 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 660 yards south-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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationKnights of the Ebon Blade +250

Reward details

Reputation: Knights of the Ebon Blade +250

Freed from the grasp of the Lich King, his former Death Knights have regrouped against him under the banner of Highlord Darion Mograine.

Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.

Other quests in Icecrown that reward Knights of the Ebon Blade reputation: To the Rise with all Due Haste! (+10), The Story Thus Far... (+10), Blood in the Water (+250), From Their Corpses, Rise! (+250), You'll Need a Gryphon (+250), No Fly Zone (+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.

Storyline

Icecrown

Part 84 of 167.

Previous: Parting Gifts · Next: Honor is for the Weak

  1. 79Opportunity
  2. 80Establishing Superiority
  3. 81Blow it Up!
  4. 82A Short Fuse
  5. 83Parting Gifts
  6. 84An Undead's Best Friend
  7. 85Honor is for the Weak
  8. 86From Whence They Came
  9. 87Seeds of Chaos
  10. 88Amidst the Confusion
  11. 89Vereth the Cunning
  12. 90New Recruit

Showing steps 79 to 90 of 167.

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.

  • Parting GiftsIcecrown · Level 25-30

    Look what we have here... eyes of dominion. The Cult normally goes to great lengths to keep these things safe, but I suppose their options for retreat are few when we're slaughtering them in their own home. The eyes allow a being of any relative power to control an undead minion's actions precisely.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Honor is for the WeakIcecrown · Level 25-30

    Ghouls are fragile things when it comes down to it, and the lookouts at the saronite quarry down the path to the southwest are no exception. Using one of the shades, I have no doubt that you can sneak up and put down their lookouts without making a sound.

Quests that require this one

The storyline at a glance

Icecrown has 167 steps, from Honor Above All Else to Light Within the Darkness.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Icecrown (162), Moonglade (2), Dragonblight (2), Shattrath City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Icecrown 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.