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Quest
Breaking the Phalanx: Threadblades
A World of Warcraft quest in City of Threads. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Make a macro that is /Tar Loyalist it is the easiest way to find them.
They are stealthed, look like armored gnolls, and are usually with a group of neutral NPCs (orange name tags).
Quest facts
LevelLevel 80
LocationCity of Threads
SideBoth
SharableYes
Added inThe War Within
Quest ID81487
The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(81487))
Objectives
- Defeat 4 targets in City of Threads
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.
Nearby on the City of Threads map
- Absent Errand about 50 yards
- A Shot at the Top about 400 yards
- To Kill a Queen about 400 yards
- Our Chance to Strike about 400 yards
- The Beginning of the End about 400 yards
- Rewriting the Rewritten about 440 yards
- Like a Spider on the Wall about 450 yards
- Don't Cry for Me, Azj-Kahet about 630 yards
- Social Clues about 640 yards
- Klaskin's Great Escape about 650 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on City of Threads, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on City of Threads:
- Wildcamp Ul'ar, Azj-Kahet
- The Burrows, Azj-Kahet
- Weaver's Lair, Azj-Kahet
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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Storyline
The Severed Threads
Part 43 of 50.
Previous: Relics of War: The Ruptured Lake · Next: Breaking the Phalanx: Schismatic Sages
- 38Sabotage: Venomancers
- 39Breaking the Phalanx: Royal Appointees
- 40Bounty: Chitinous Goliath
- 41Armaments: Weaponry
- 42Relics of War: The Ruptured Lake
- 43Breaking the Phalanx: Threadblades
- 44Breaking the Phalanx: Schismatic Sages
- 45Bounty: Zorikal the Patron
- 46Bounty: Balaxir the Bully
- 47Armaments: Arbalests
- 48Armaments: Smithing Tools
- 49Relics of War: The Salien Gutter Conflict
Showing steps 38 to 49 of 50.
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.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Breaking the Phalanx: Schismatic Sages
Objectives: Schismatic Sages slain
Other storylines on the City of Threads map
- News from Below
- Pawns and Puppetry
- To Kill a Queen
- Plans within Plans
- Grieve & Weave
- Pillar-nest of Horrors
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.