TheWoWDBYou can kill any combination of Scourge in the Temple City of En'kilah to get credit for the quest.
However it would help to know that the En'kilah Abominations in the Temple City have a hook style move that they can pull you in with, so any ranged types should be ready for it.
Quest
Buying Some Time
A World of Warcraft quest in Borean Tundra. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Unfortunately, brittle skeletons do not count.
Entrance to the city is just next to the pond from the previous quest.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneBorean Tundra
Quest ID11938
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11938))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineBorean Tundra, step 150 of 182
RewardsDusk Watcher's Belt, 
Shadewrap Gloves, 
Tundrastrider Boots, 4,100 XP
Dusk Watcher's Belt, Shadewrap Gloves, Tundrastrider Boots, 4,100 XPDescription
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.
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 areaIn-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
- Now With More Mechanical Fowl about 1,440 yards
- Hero's Call: Borean Tundra! about 1,840 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,900 yards
- Smarter Than Your Average Trogg about 1,910 yards
- A Tundra Conundrum about 1,940 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 2,260 yards
- King Mrgl-Mrgl about 2,610 yards
- Adopt a Tadpole about 2,610 yards
- Unleashing Judgment about 3,050 yards
- Arcane Unleashed about 3,050 yards
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 Tundra
- Stars' Rest, Dragonblight
- Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Choose one of these rewards:
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationValiance Expedition +250
Other quests on the Borean Tundra map
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.
Storyline
Borean Tundra
Part 150 of 182.
Previous: Finding the Phylactery · Next: Words of Power
- 145Keymaster Urmgrgl
- 146Escape from the Winterfin Caverns
- 147Surrounded!
- 148Thassarian, the Death Knight
- 149Finding the Phylactery
- 150Buying Some Time
- 151Words of Power
- 152Last Rites
- 153The Invasion of Gammoth
- 154Gammothra the Tormentor
- 155Trophies of Gammoth
- 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 Phylactery
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 Power
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
- Winterfin Retreat
- Light's Wrath
- Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
- Gnome Heritage Armor
- The Veiled Ossuary
- The Blue Dragons
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.