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By Hook Or By Crook

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

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Nulgar+92via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Talking to the [npc=34523] gives 5 options:

  • Who sent you!

  • <Punch him in the mouth.>

  • <Kick him in his big fat face.>

  • <Offer food.>

  • <Tickle Time!>

Obviously, the first option gives you only a <Snort> or "I say nothing"
The second and third options, being brutal, at first only meet resistance as well, but after a time or a certain combination of beatings and kicks (or just random, couldn't figure that out yet) will get the quilboar to say

You waste your strength! Tortusk train us warriors never to talk.
Oh - I've said too much!

which completes the objective.
However, you can also choose the fourth and fifth option, which will get the quilboar to blab immediately:

Mnn, <snort> why you cook this meat? Tortusk tells us meat taste best when stolen and raw.
Haha - <snort> ha - heee! <snort> Haha no stop haha <SNORT> <wheeze> Hee hee! Battlemaster Tortusk never prepared us for this!

each followed by "Oh - I've said too much!" of course.

The brutal options will buff you with [spell=65629], increasing your attack power and magical damage done by 8 for 20 minutes. Using one of the brutal options hide the nice options, but you can click off the Nasty buff to see those again.
Being nice buffs you with [spell=65628], increasing your health regeneration by 3% for 20 minutes - which, at this level, is rather uninteresting, since you still have a huge HP regen out of combat anyway, compared to your HP.
If you don't manage to beat it out of the quilbar to complete the objective and receive the Nasty buff, simply be nice to him once to complete the quest, click off the Saintly buff, then kick him again.

Speaking of clicking off, having the Saintly buff prevents you from seeing any option whatsoever. If you happen to choose tickling first, thinking it to be some random funny meaningless thing, but want to check out the other options as well, don't try and abort the quest, this will get you nowhere :P Just click off the buff. Took me a while to figure this out, so I better share this with you, to save you the humiliation.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 5-30
ZoneNorthern Barrens
Quest ID13963

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13963))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineNorthern Barrens, step 6 of 62
Rewards7g 87s 50c, 3,100 XP

Description

I suppose he'll come around with some cold water to the face. What do you think he'll tell us? I'll secure him inside our livestock pen behind me here. I don't think he'll stay conscious long. Find out what you can about why the quilboar are attacking our farms! I'll leave the interrogation methods up to your better judgment.

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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.

Northern Barrens Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Northern Barrens map showing where to go for By Hook Or By CrookTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #10 56.6 40.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inNorthern Barrens 56.6, 40.3/way #10 56.6 40.3
  • Objective areaNorthern Barrens 56.6, 39.9/way #10 56.6 39.9

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 Northern Barrens map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Northern Barrens:

  • The Crossroads, Northern BarrensHorde · about 840 yards south-west
  • Nozzlepot's Outpost, Northern BarrensHorde · about 950 yards north
  • The Mor'Shan Ramparts, AshenvaleHorde · about 1,300 yards north-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
Money7 gold87 silver
Experience3,100 XP

Storyline

Northern Barrens

Part 6 of 62.

Previous: Drag it Out of Them · Next: The Tortusk Takedown

  1. 1In Defense of Far Watch
  2. 2The Far Watch Offensive
  3. 3Supplies for the Crossroads
  4. 4Crossroads Caravan Pickup
  5. 5Drag it Out of Them
  6. 6By Hook Or By Crook
  7. 7The Tortusk Takedown
  8. 8Grol'dom's Missing Kodo
  9. 9Animal Services
  10. 10The Kodo's Return
  11. 11Crossroads Caravan Delivery
  12. 12The Forgotten Pools

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 62.

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.

  • Drag it Out of ThemNorthern Barrens · Level 5-30

    It is our instinct to simply lash out at our attackers, but wisdom dictates another path. We should interrogate one of these quilboar invaders and learn all we can. Take this net, <name>, and ensnare a quilboar pillager attacking our farm just west of here.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Tortusk TakedownNorthern Barrens · Level 5-30

    In the wake of the chaos down south, this "Tortusk" brute seems to have rallied all of the Razormane refugees to his banner. Under his leadership, he's turned them into little more than brigands. There's no negotiating with his type; Tortusk must be destroyed.

The storyline at a glance

Northern Barrens has 62 steps, from In Defense of Far Watch to Mor'shan Caravan Delivery.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Northern Barrens (61), Southern Barrens (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Northern Barrens 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.

Guides and routes on this site that cover Northern Barrens.