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Quest
Dreadpiston
A World of Warcraft quest in Talador. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The way to beat this guy is to just keep running behind him.
Clear the area around him so you don't aggro anything else, then just keep hitting him while you run through him so that you're behind him. Make sure you get out of the way of the piston attacks by doing that whenever he faces you and you'll be fine.
It's really important to clear the area before you attack. One on one I could have taken the bugger but I kept running into more aggro every time I jumped out of the way of his area attacks, and that wiped me out. Second time I came back and went all the way round, clearing out everyone within range first. The big guy ignores you while you do this. Then back in and I managed to take him down.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 20-40
ZoneTalador
Quest ID34950
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(34950))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineThe Battle for Shattrath, step 9 of 15
Rewards16g 98s, 5,450 XP
Description
Nearby, a group of Iron Horde took over a key strategic position with surprising alacrity. They used a machine they call Dreadpiston to terrible effect in the siege, and I believe we need to destroy that machine before moving against the Iron Horde in Tuurem.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #535 55.6 40.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inTalador 55.6, 40.9
/way #535 55.6 40.9 - Objective areaTalador 56.5, 27.3
/way #535 56.5 27.3 - Objective areaTalador 59.0, 20.1
/way #535 59.0 20.1
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 Talador map
- Garrison Campaign: The Fall of Shattrath about 450 yards
- Reclaiming the City about 450 yards
- Socrethar's Demise about 450 yards
- Shredder Manual about 730 yards
- Powering the Defenses about 990 yards
- Disrupting the Flow about 1,000 yards
- Unleashed Steel about 1,010 yards
- Due Cause to Celebrate about 1,030 yards
- Joining the Ranks about 1,030 yards
- The Only Way to Travel about 1,030 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Talador, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Talador:
- Durotan's Grasp, Talador
- Shattrath City, Talador
- Vol'jin's Pride, Talador
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
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.
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Reward details
Reputation: Frostwolf Orcs +250
The Frostwolf orcs of Frostfire Ridge are a tight-knit family of brutal warriors, well equipped to deal with the savage realities of Draenor.
Reputation group: Warlords of Draenor.
Other quests in Talador that reward Frostwolf Orcs reputation: Decommissioned Mission (+250), Gazlowe's Solution (+250), Too Many Irons in the Fire (+250), Vol. X Pages ? (+250), An Eye for a Spy (+250), Born to Shred (+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.
Storyline
The Battle for Shattrath
Part 9 of 15.
Previous: Vol. X Pages ? · Next: Iron Them Out
- 1Through the Looking Glass
- 2Too Many Irons in the Fire
- 3In Short Supply
- 4Gazlowe's Solution
- 5Old Friends, New Enemies
- 6Decommissioned Mission
- 7Shredder Manual
- 8Vol. X Pages ?
- 9Dreadpiston
- 10Iron Them Out
- 11An Eye for a Spy
- 12Born to Shred
- 13Engineering Her Demise
- 14Khadgar's Plan
- 15The Battle for Shattrath
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.
- Vol. X Pages ?
The manual for the shredder was wedged in there, but it's missing lots of pages. We need to find as many pages of that manual as possible and I might--MIGHT--be able to get this shredder operational. Based on the direction of the wind, I bet the pages flew toward Archenon Siegeyard.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Iron Them Out
The orcs themselves are not the only threat. We may have weakened them considerably, but they still have siege weapons of significant power. Sabotage siege weapons you find with the explosives you collected from the beach.
Quests that require this one
Other quests with this name
This one: Horde only · Talador · Level 20-40.
The storyline at a glance
The Battle for Shattrath has 15 steps, from Through the Looking Glass to The Battle for Shattrath.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Talador (15).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Talador map
- Establishing your Outpost
- In the Shadows of Auchindoun
- The Plight of the Arakkoa
- Garrison Campaign
- Gorefiend
- Against the Warsong
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.