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Deception and Trickery

Deception and Trickery is a Horde-only quest for level 7-30 in Hillsbrad Foothills. It is step 29 of 39 in the Hillsbrad Foothills storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Hillsbrad Foothills at 44.3, 50.6. It rewards 6 reward items, 1 reputation reward and 5,150 experience.

Description

As long as I am by your side the enemy will think of you as one of their own. Your newfound humanity, however, will not allow you to be reckless. If you draw attention to yourself the dwarves will grow suspicious and likely attack!

With that said, I have a plan. Take this barrel of poisoned water and use it to sate the thirst of the tired Stormpike trainees. Once they drink from it they will become deathly ill, eventually succumbing to the poison.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Experience5,150 XP
ReputationUndercity +250
Top Comments

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wbalmung+11via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

While doing this quest, you're disguised as an SI:7 Operative. On the way to where you do the quest, you pass the Alliance entrance to AV. Talk to one of the vendors here to become hated with the Stormpike Guard and have it listed as Horde!

It does nothing, and you can't gain reputation with them as far as I can tell, but you'll have a neat faction on your rep window.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP5,150
ReputationUndercity+250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeMail Chest
Item level15
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor12
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for28 silver21 copper
TypeMail Wrist
Item level15
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+2 Agility or Intellect, +4 Stamina, +3 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for14 silver23 copper
TypeArmor Finger
Item level15
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+2 Strength, +4 Stamina, +3 Critical Strike
Suited toProtection, Fury, Arms, Retribution, Unholy, Frost, Blood
Sells to vendors for10 silver15 copper
TypeWand Ranged
Item level15
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon2 - 3 damage, speed 2.0
Stats+2 Intellect, +3 Stamina, +3 Versatility
Suited toFrost, Fire, Arcane, Destruction, Affliction, Discipline, Holy, Shadow, Demonology
Sells to vendors for50 silver48 copper
TypeLeather Chest
Item level15
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor8
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for27 silver72 copper
TypeLeather Wrist
Item level15
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+2 Agility or Intellect, +4 Stamina, +3 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for13 silver94 copper

Reputation: Undercity +250

Led by Sylvanas Windrunner, the Forsaken have joined a tenuous alliance with the Horde and established this capital in the vast depths under the Ruins of Lordaeron.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Hillsbrad Foothills that reward Undercity reputation: Empire of Dirt (+250), Warchief's Command: Hillsbrad Foothills! (+250), Welcome to the Machine (+250), Trouble at Azurelode (+10), Glorious Harvest (+250), Past Their Prime (+350).

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 mapHillsbrad FoothillsTurn-in marker at 44.3, 50.6, 11 mapped points
World Map

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.

Hillsbrad Foothills Quest turn-in 11 mapped points
Hillsbrad Foothills map showing where to go for Deception and TrickeryTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #25 44.3 50.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHillsbrad Foothills 44.3, 50.6/way #25 44.3 50.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Hillsbrad Foothills 44.1, 50.7/way #25 44.1 50.7
  • Objective areaHillsbrad Foothills 49.5, 44.7/way #25 49.5 44.7

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 Hillsbrad Foothills map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Hillsbrad Foothills:

  • 12.1 Ulatek - Faction Feature - Temple - Traversal - Flight Master - Eastern Entrance (HCR)Alliance and Horde · about 340 yards north-west
  • Amani FootholdAlliance and Horde · about 340 yards north-west
  • Eastern EntranceAlliance and Horde · about 340 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 320 yards north-east

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

Hillsbrad Foothills

Part 29 of 39.

Previous: Infiltration · Next: Domination

  1. 24March of the Stormpike
  2. 25Cry of the Banshee
  3. 26Breaking the Hand
  4. 27Decimation
  5. 28Infiltration
  6. 29Deception and Trickery
  7. 30Domination
  8. 31Stormpike Apocalypse
  9. 32The Durnholde Challenge: Zephyrus
  10. 33The Durnholde Challenge: Teracula
  11. 34The Durnholde Challenge: Bloodvenom
  12. 35The Durnholde Challenge: Infernus

Showing steps 24 to 35 of 39.

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.

  • InfiltrationHillsbrad Foothills · Level 7-30

    For your next mission I want you to travel west to the Headland and infiltrate the Stormpike training grounds. Though there are hundreds of Stormpike trainees there, one of my banshees will disguise you to look like one of the humans captured earlier, allowing you to walk freely among the enemy.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • DominationHillsbrad Foothills · Level 7-30

    <Melisara's thoughts intermingle with your thoughts.> The last task will be an assault against the siege technicians of Gavin's Naze, located west of the Headland. Venture to the final finger and lay waste to the dwarf and gnome engineers that build and fortify the Stormpike machines of war.

The storyline at a glance

Hillsbrad Foothills has 39 steps, from Welcome to the Machine to Extinction.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Hillsbrad Foothills (39).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Hillsbrad Foothills 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.

Related
Decayed Land
Deceit
Deceive thy Enemy
Deceivers In Our Midst
Decimation
Decipher the Cacophony
Decipher the Tome
Deciphering Demonology
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