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Down to Business (Alliance)

Down to Business is an Alliance-only quest for level 45 in Suramar. It is step 5 of 14 in the An Elven Problem storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Suramar at 41.6, 51.5. It rewards 1 reward item, 1 reputation reward, 6,150 experience and money.

Description

First things first, <name>: we must set up our camp.

We do not have the time or resources for a prolonged siege. It is not like we can starve them out. No, we must be swift and sure as an arrow, piercing their heart in one strike.

They are drawing up their battle lines within the city, but could attack us while we are setting up our defenses.

Venture forth and show them what the kaldorei have learned from thousands of years of war. Discover their weaknesses so that we may exploit them.

Rewards

You will receive:

Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP
ReputationThe Nightfallen +250
Top Comments

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Boxofbeer+3via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Best way to do the quest - just pass through the central gates of Suramar city and slay guards at the central alley. There are many mobs and quest may be dont less than in a minute.

Down to Business, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHkHfHL_3ro

This quest is a part of An Elven Problem quest chain needed for Insurrection achievement. There are some bugged links, hope all of them will be fixed soon.
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An Elven Problem quest chain:
Eating Before the Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5s4n8KPbFs
Take Me To Your Leader
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIddwTbtmXE
A Better Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKoG9w3t4s
Taking a Promenade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owL2aEyoXdc
Down to Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHkHfHL_3ro&t=1s
Nullified
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMa9mAz2uBM
Crystal Clearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxKUY1CG2_Y
Powering Down the Portal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1xTpmq7Qs
Shield, Meet Spell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW0T_lyzEK0
Break An Arm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv2Fzb6I1bY

Read all 4 on Wowhead ↗

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,150
MoneyGold20g 22s
ReputationThe Nightfallen+250

Reward details

Items you receive

TypeConsumable
Item level1
BindingBinds when picked up
Sells to vendors for50 gold

“Blessed by Elune, these banners are placed around forward night elf camps to grant protection and aid.”

Reputation: The Nightfallen +250

These exiled Nightborne elves suffer withdrawals after being cut off from the Nightwell. They oppose their people's alliance with the Legion and fight for some kind of redemption.

Reputation group: Legion.

Other quests in Suramar that reward The Nightfallen reputation: Answering Aggression (+250), Regroup (+250), Crackdown (+250), No Reason to Stay (+250), Trail of Echoes (+250), The Only Way Out is Through (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapSuramarTurn-in marker at 41.6, 51.5, 13 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.

Suramar Quest turn-in 13 mapped points
Suramar map showing where to go for Down to BusinessTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #680 41.6 51.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSuramar 41.6, 51.5/way #680 41.6 51.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Suramar 43.8, 57.6/way #680 43.8 57.6

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 Suramar map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Suramar:

  • Meredil, SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 420 yards west
  • Irongrove Retreat, SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards north-west
  • Western SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 260 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

An Elven Problem

Part 5 of 14.

Previous: Take Me To Your Leader · Next: Down to Business

  1. 1Stabilizing Suramar
  2. 2Eating Before the Meeting
  3. 3Take Me To Your Leader
  4. 4Take Me To Your Leader
  5. 5Down to Business
  6. 6Down to Business
  7. 7Taking a Promenade
  8. 8Taking a Promenade
  9. 9A Better Future
  10. 10Crystal Clearing
  11. 11Powering Down the Portal
  12. 12Nullified
  13. 13Shield, Meet Spell
  14. 14Break An Arm

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.

  • Take Me To Your LeaderSuramar · Level 45

    I am glad you are here, <name>. This... Khadgar, the archmage who found my message, has called a meeting. He wishes to meet us by the entrance to the city as soon as possible. Will you accompany me? I have the strangest feeling that he will not be alone.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Taking a PromenadeSuramar · Level 45

    These people are foreign to us, despite our common heritage. They have changed much in the years they have been cloistered away. We need to learn more about them, what they are capable of. We dispatched one of our scouts to infiltrate the Promenade and assess the defenses.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Suramar · Level 45.

The storyline at a glance

An Elven Problem has 14 steps, from Stabilizing Suramar to Break An Arm.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Suramar (14).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • Insurrection Complete the Suramar Storylines listed below with a Timerunner.
  • Insurrection Complete the Suramar storylines listed below.

Other storylines on the Suramar 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 Down to Business. They differ in the faction/rewards shown here.

QuestFactionRewardsID
Down to Business (this page)Alliance6,150 XP, Blessed Kaldorei Banner43810
Down to BusinessHorde4,600 XP, Enchanted Sin'dorei Banner43812
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