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Buying Some Time

Buying Some Time is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Borean Tundra. It is step 150 of 182 in the Borean Tundra storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Borean Tundra at 84.8, 41.7. It rewards 4 reward items, 1 reputation reward and 4,100 experience.

Description

Now that we have this phylactery, I shouldn't have any problems getting the information I need. It won't take long for the Scourge in the Temple City to notice something's up, however.

I won't be able to fend off a full scale attack here. Or maybe I would... but I'd rather not find out.

I want you to head down there and inflict some casualties. Hopefully they'll be distracted long enough for these two to spill their guts... figuratively, of course. Take Lurid with you, he might be of aid.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Experience4,100 XP
ReputationValiance Expedition +250
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
ReputationValiance Expedition+250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Waist
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+6 Intellect, +8 Stamina, +10 Versatility
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for23 gold88 silver
TypeLeather Hands
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for22 gold90 silver
TypeMail Feet
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +5 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for36 gold61 silver
TypeArmor Trinket
Item level32
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+9 Critical Strike
EquipItem - Death Knight's Anguish Base
Sells to vendors for87 silver11 copper

Reputation: Valiance Expedition +250

The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.

Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.

Other quests in Borean Tundra that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: The Late William Allerton (+150), Lost and Found (+75), In Wine, Truth (+150), A Deserter (+25), Dirty, Stinkin' Snobolds! (+250), Just a Few More Things... (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapBorean TundraTurn-in marker at 84.8, 41.7, 8 mapped points
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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.

Borean Tundra Quest turn-in 8 mapped points
Borean Tundra map showing where to go for Buying Some TimeTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #114 84.8 41.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBorean Tundra 84.8, 41.7/way #114 84.8 41.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Borean Tundra 86.0, 25.7/way #114 86.0 25.7

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 Borean Tundra map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Borean Tundra:

  • Unu'pe, Borean TundraAlliance and Horde · about 520 yards south-west
  • Stars' Rest, DragonblightAlliance · about 1,700 yards east
  • Valiance Keep, Borean TundraAlliance · about 1,800 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 620 yards north

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Borean Tundra

Part 150 of 182.

Previous: Finding the Phylactery · Next: Words of Power

  1. 145Keymaster Urmgrgl
  2. 146Escape from the Winterfin Caverns
  3. 147Surrounded!
  4. 148Thassarian, the Death Knight
  5. 149Finding the Phylactery
  6. 150Buying Some Time
  7. 151Words of Power
  8. 152Last Rites
  9. 153The Invasion of Gammoth
  10. 154Gammothra the Tormentor
  11. 155Trophies of Gammoth
  12. 156Hellscream's Champion

Showing steps 145 to 156 of 182.

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.

  • Finding the PhylacteryBorean Tundra · Level 10-30

    No time for small talk, <name>. I was sent on what was to be a suicide mission to take this ziggurat. I've accomplished my duty as a soldier, now is the time to get some answers. This lich has knowledge I seek, yet I cannot inflict pain to his physical body to obtain that knowledge.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Words of PowerBorean Tundra · Level 10-30

    The lich has spoken, <name>. The high priests of En'kilah hold the secret to entering Naxxanar. Go to the Spire of Blood, the Spire of Pain and the Spire of Decay and slay each of the priests. Return once you've obtained the three scrolls.

The storyline at a glance

Borean Tundra has 182 steps, from Enlistment Day to Across Transborea.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Borean Tundra (178), Sholazar Basin (2), Wintergrasp (1), Dragonblight (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Borean Tundra 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.

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