kill vrykulls in or aound 63, 40
Quest
Baleheim Bodycount
A World of Warcraft quest in Howling Fjord. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Upon completing this quest and Baleheim Must Burn!, Sergeant Gorth gives the quest The Ambush.
Killing Winterskorn Spearman, Winterskorn Bonegrinders and Winterskorn Defenders in and around Baleheim (just west of quest giver) will complete this quest. Should be done along with Baleheim Must Burn! Upon completion of both quests Sergeant Gorth will give you the quest The Ambush.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11283))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
Them vrykuls just keeps coming and coming out from town west of here. No end in sight! Gorth has an idea. You go INSIDE town and kill them Winterskorn there. THEN they stop coming here!
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #117 71.1 39.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inHowling Fjord 71.1, 39.1
/way #117 71.1 39.1 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Howling Fjord 20.4, 6.9
/way #117 20.4 6.9 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Howling Fjord 64.9, 40.1
/way #117 64.9 40.1
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 Howling Fjord map
- Warchief's Command: Howling Fjord! about 610 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,240 yards
- To Northrend about 1,810 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Howling Fjord, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Howling Fjord:
- Vengeance Landing, Howling Fjord
- New Agamand, Howling Fjord
- Camp Winterhoof, Howling Fjord
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
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.
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3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Reward details
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Reputation: The Hand of Vengeance +250
The Forsaken tasked by Sylvanas Windrunner with enacting Undercity's vengeance against Arthas by delivering the latest strain of their deadly Plague.
Reputation group: Horde Expedition.
Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward The Hand of Vengeance reputation: Test at Sea (+250), Reports from the Field (+150), Let Them Eat Crow (+250), Guide Our Sights (+250), Landing the Killing Blow (+350), Report to Anselm (+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.
Storyline
Howling Fjord
Part 51 of 162.
Previous: A Lesson in Fear · Next: Baleheim Must Burn!
- 46Let Them Eat Crow
- 47Sniff Out the Enemy
- 48The Dragonskin Map
- 49The Offensive Begins
- 50A Lesson in Fear
- 51Baleheim Bodycount
- 52Baleheim Must Burn!
- 53The Ambush
- 54Adding Injury to Insult
- 55The New Plague
- 56Spiking the Mix
- 57Test at Sea
Showing steps 46 to 57 of 162.
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 Lesson in Fear
When you've been in lots of fight like Gorth, you learn that to beat enemy good you have to make them really scared to die! But these vrykuls not afraid. You kill one and another comes... screaming louder and with a bigger weapon than the one before.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Baleheim Must Burn!
Killing the Winterskorns maybe not enough. Maybe we burn their houses too! Uh... and their bridges. We should burn whole town to be safe! You take this torch. Go to Baleheim, to the west, and burn EVERYTHING! That teach them good.
The storyline at a glance
Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Howling Fjord map
- Truthguard
- Wrath of the Lich King Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.