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Discretion is Key (Horde)

Discretion is Key is a Horde-only quest for level 7-30 in Hillsbrad Foothills. It is step 7 of 39 in the Hillsbrad Foothills storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Hillsbrad Foothills at 36.2, 61.1. It rewards 3 reward items, 1 reputation reward and 4,100 experience.

Description

We must destroy all of the evidence, <name>! Did I say evidence? I meant crazed undead! Anyway, discretion is key. We must not let the rampaging undead make it out of the Sludge Fields and no one outside of this institution must know about what happened here!

Directly southeast of here in what used to be the old mushroom farm you'll find a reanimated fiend known as Citizen Wilkes and his cohort, Clerk Horrace Whitesteed. They have been causing huge problems for my guards. Find them and kill them!

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Experience4,100 XP
ReputationUndercity +250
Top Comments

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347628+26via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If anyone else is as dense as me and didn't find him despite the descriptions above, he's in the field with the screaming humans on top of the minihut most further away from the house.

I guess he's supposed to jump down and attack you or something, but since you won't aggro him at lvl 80 it's very to spot his crouching figure on the top of the hut.

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zaxxo1+19via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you still have trouble finding citizen wilkes, then just go into the same field you found clerk horrace whitesteed in and type /target citizen wilkes into chat. Then turn the target option on for the minimap, and walk to the spot shown on your minimap. Then, look up :D It took me ages as a rogue because i didn't unstealth, and so didn't aggro him when i walked close :)

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
ReputationUndercity+250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCrossbow Ranged
Item level13
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon6 - 9 damage, speed 3.0
Stats+3 Agility, +4 Stamina, +4 Critical Strike
Suited toBeast Mastery, Marksmanship
Sells to vendors for26 silver56 copper
TypeCloth Back
Item level13
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor2
Stats+2 Intellect, +3 Stamina
Suited toDiscipline, Balance, Restoration, Arcane, Fire, Frost, Mistweaver, Holy, Devourer, Destruction, Demonology, Affliction, Elemental, Shadow, Augmentation, Preservation, Devastation
Sells to vendors for11 silver51 copper
TypeArmor Finger
Item level13
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+2 Agility, +3 Stamina
Suited toVengeance, Enhancement, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Windwalker, Feral, Guardian, Havoc, Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival, Brewmaster
Sells to vendors for8 silver25 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 36.2, 61.1, 3 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.

Hillsbrad Foothills Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Hillsbrad Foothills map showing where to go for Discretion is KeyTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #25 36.2 61.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHillsbrad Foothills 36.2, 61.1/way #25 36.2 61.1
  • Objective areaHillsbrad Foothills 39.0, 64.8/way #25 39.0 64.8
  • Objective areaHillsbrad Foothills 37.0, 63.3/way #25 37.0 63.3

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:

  • Southpoint Gate, HillsbradHorde · about 360 yards west
  • 12.1 Ulatek - Faction Feature - Temple - Traversal - Flight Master - Eastern Entrance (HCR)Alliance and Horde · about 510 yards north
  • Amani FootholdAlliance and Horde · about 510 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 180 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 80 yards south-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 7 of 39.

Previous: No One Here Gets Out Alive · Next: For Science!

  1. 2Human Infestation
  2. 3Thieving Little Monsters!
  3. 4Coastal Delicacies!
  4. 5Deep Mine Rescue
  5. 6No One Here Gets Out Alive
  6. 7Discretion is Key
  7. 8For Science!
  8. 9The Battle for Hillsbrad
  9. 10A Lost Lad
  10. 11Freedom for Lydon
  11. 12Protocol
  12. 13Do it for Twinkles

Showing steps 2 to 13 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.

  • No One Here Gets Out AliveHillsbrad Foothills · Level 7-30

    This farm is under lockdown! Nothing gets in and nothing gets out! We're still assessing the situation to try and figure out exactly what happened, but my theory is that the laborers ate the mushrooms and somehow mutated into hideous undead monsters. I mean, how else could this have happened?

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • For Science!Hillsbrad Foothills · Level 7-30

    Samples... yes... must have samples! These, ah, experiments... I mean, these unfortunate laborers must be studied. Travel southeast to the first farm and kill the risen ghouls. From their decrepit corpses you must recover flesh samples. Bring them to me!

Quests that require this one

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Hillsbrad Foothills · Level 7-30.

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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Discretion is Key. They differ in the faction/level/type shown here.

QuestFactionLevelTypeID
Discretion is Key (this page)HordeLevel 7-30Same28197
Discretion is KeySameLevel 15-30Dungeon29829
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