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Any Old Excuse

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 80
ZoneThe Oasis
LocationThe Azure Span
Quest ID86358

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(86358))

What to do

StorylineNesingwary Necessities, step 8 of 9
Rewards15g 49s, 5,900 XP

Description

This'll be the hardest task for ye yet. The ottuk pups have to get acclimatized to touch. I... I need ye to go pet them. Hard work, but it has to be done.

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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.

The Azure Span Quest turn-in 6 mapped points
The Azure Span map showing where to go for Any Old ExcuseTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #2024 13.6 49.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThe Azure Span 13.6, 49.1/way #2024 13.6 49.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Azure Span 15.0, 48.6/way #2024 15.0 48.6

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 The Azure Span map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Azure Span:

  • Iskaara, Azure SpanAlliance and Horde · about 50 yards north-west
  • Three-Falls Lookout, Azure SpanAlliance and Horde · about 1,900 yards north
  • Ohn'iri Springs, Ohn'ahran PlainsAlliance and Horde · about 2,500 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 150 yards 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.

Related
Money15 gold49 silver
Experience5,900 XP

Storyline

Nesingwary Necessities

Part 8 of 9.

Previous: Time for Noms · Next: Return to K'aresh

  1. 1Hunting for a Good Author
  2. 2To Iskaara
  3. 3A Percussive Antidote
  4. 4Protecting the Young
  5. 5Using the Whole Animal
  6. 6Sustainable Harvesting
  7. 7Time for Noms
  8. 8Any Old Excuse
  9. 9Return to K'aresh

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.

  • Time for NomsThe Oasis · Level 80

    The local ottuks have a symbiotic relationship with the tuskarr, and it's feeding time. Can ye put out some of the meat ye gathered for them?

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Return to K'areshThe Oasis · Level 80

    Right then. I'm ready to go. How do we get there?

The storyline at a glance

Nesingwary Necessities has 9 steps, from Hunting for a Good Author to Return to K'aresh.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Azure Span (8), K'aresh (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on The Azure Span 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.