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Beating Them Back!

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 1-10
Quest ID28763

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28763))

Requirements

ClassPriest
RacesHuman and Kul Tiran

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

Description

So you're the new recruit from Stormwind, eh? I'm Marshal McBride, commander of this garrison. Glad to have you on board... <McBride looks through some papers.> {name}. It is {name}, right? You've arrived just in time. The Blackrock orcs have managed to sneak into Northshire through a break in the mountain. My soldiers are doing the best that they can to push them back, but I fear they will be overwhelmed soon. Head northwest into the forest and kill the attacking Blackrock worgs! Help my soldiers!

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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.

Northshire Quest turn-in no plotted point

Nearby on the Northshire map

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

Getting there

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

  • Goldshire, ElwynnAlliance · about 570 yards south-west
  • Stormwind, ElwynnAlliance · about 630 yards west
  • Flamestar Post, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 50 yards 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

Choose one of these rewards:

Money20 silver
Experience2,850 XP
ReputationStormwind +250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeMail Waist
Item level1
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Suited toAugmentation, Preservation, Marksmanship, Survival, Elemental, Enhancement, Beast Mastery, Devastation, Restoration
Sells to vendors for4 copper
TypeLeather Waist
Item level1
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor2
Suited toBalance, Feral, Guardian, Restoration, Assassination, Outlaw, Subtlety, Brewmaster, Windwalker, Mistweaver, Havoc, Vengeance
Sells to vendors for3 copper
TypePlate Hands
Item level1
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Suited toProtection, Fury, Arms, Retribution, Holy, Unholy, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for3 copper
TypeCloth Waist
Item level1
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor1
Suited toArcane, Fire, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Shadow, Affliction, Demonology, Destruction
Sells to vendors for3 copper

Reputation: Stormwind +250

One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Northshire that reward Stormwind reputation: Report to Goldshire (+75), Blackrock Invasion (+250), Ending the Invasion! (+350), Extinguishing Hope (+250), Beating Them Back! (+250), Lions for Lambs (+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

Northshire

Part 6 of 49.

Previous: Beating Them Back! · Next: Beating Them Back!

  1. 1Beating Them Back!
  2. 2Beating Them Back!
  3. 3Beating Them Back!
  4. 4Beating Them Back!
  5. 5Beating Them Back!
  6. 6Beating Them Back!
  7. 7Beating Them Back!
  8. 8Beating Them Back!
  9. 9Beating Them Back!
  10. 10Lions for Lambs
  11. 11Lions for Lambs
  12. 12Lions for Lambs

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 49.

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Lions for LambsNorthshire · Level 1-10

    The invading orcs aren't fools. They are sizing us up, making sure that when they attack it will be to their advantage. In the forest, to the northwest, are Blackrock spies. They peer at us through spyglasses, watching our every move - waiting. I want you take the fight to them!

Other quests with this name

This one: Priest · Human, Kul Tiran · Northshire · Level 1-10.

The storyline at a glance

Northshire has 49 steps, from Beating Them Back! to Report to Goldshire.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Northshire (48), Elwynn Forest (1).

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.