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Desperate Acts

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneWestern Plaguelands
Quest ID27054

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27054))

What to do

StorylineWestern Plaguelands, step 54 of 63
Rewards4,100 XP

Description

The Cult of the Damned maintains a small camp to the east, Malicia Outpost, which they use for field training outside of the Scholomance. We may have allowed them to proceed unchecked with this training for too long. If cultists are truly using this plague to inoculate the wildlife, then Malicia Outpost must be where the inoculation is occurring. Instructor Malicia runs the outpost. Find her, slay her, and find out who she's taking orders from.

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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.

Western Plaguelands Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Western Plaguelands map showing where to go for Desperate ActsTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #22 49.2 55.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inWestern Plaguelands 49.2, 55.1/way #22 49.2 55.1
  • Objective areaWestern Plaguelands 66.1, 48.0/way #22 66.1 48.0
  • Objective areaWestern Plaguelands 49.3, 54.9/way #22 49.3 54.9

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 Western Plaguelands map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Western Plaguelands:

  • The Menders' Stead, Western PlaguelandsAlliance and Horde · about 100 yards north-east
  • Andorhal, Western PlaguelandsHorde · about 300 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 760 yards 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.

Related
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationArgent Crusade +250

Reward details

Reputation: Argent Crusade +250

Led by Tirion Fordring, the Argent Crusade combines the reformed Order of the Silver Hand with the Argent Dawn in one final push against the forces of the Lich King.

Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.

Other quests in Western Plaguelands that reward Argent Crusade reputation: Northridge Lumber Mill (+10), The Long Trip Home (+25), A New Era for the Plaguelands (+250), Learning the Ropes (+250), This Means WAR (Wild Arachnid Roundup) (+250), An Audience with the Highlord (+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.

Storyline

Western Plaguelands

Part 54 of 63.

Previous: Return to the Stead · Next: Students of Krastinov

  1. 49This Means WAR (Wild Arachnid Roundup)
  2. 50An Audience with the Highlord
  3. 51A New Era for the Plaguelands
  4. 52Gahrron's Withering Cauldron
  5. 53Return to the Stead
  6. 54Desperate Acts
  7. 55Students of Krastinov
  8. 56Zen'Kiki, the Druid
  9. 57A Different Approach
  10. 58Zen'Kiki and the Cultists
  11. 59Taelan Fordring's Legacy
  12. 60Unusual Behavior... Even For Gnolls

Showing steps 49 to 60 of 63.

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.

  • Return to the SteadWestern Plaguelands · Level 15-30

    You carefully close the spigot in the control panel, watching the cauldron's putrid ichors drip into the empty bottle. With the poison in hand, it is time to return to Field Agent Kaartish at the Menders' Stead.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Students of KrastinovWestern Plaguelands · Level 15-30

    The Cult orders state that the plague from the cauldron at Gahrron's Withering is in fact being used for TWO purposes. The first is the practice of spreading disease through the animals of the plaguelands, which you already knew about.

The storyline at a glance

Western Plaguelands has 63 steps, from Scourge First... Horde Later to Turning Yourself In.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Western Plaguelands (63).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Western Plaguelands 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.