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Dreadwake's Dilemma

Dreadwake's Dilemma is a Horde-only quest for level 10-45 in Stormheim. It is step 1 of 7 in The Secret of the Shieldmaidens storyline, the opening step. The quest's turn-in marker is in Stormheim at 55.1, 72.5. It rewards 6,150 experience and money.

Description

The situation has taken a dire turn, <name>. We were unprepared for Greymane's sudden assault, with only a token force left behind at Dreadwake's Landing, and we are paying the toll.

The beach is now swarming with worgen infiltrators, and if the cannons breach our defenses, they will likely swarm in on us. We're spread too thin here to take the fight to them, but you could change that.

Wipe them out.

Rewards

Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP
Top Comments

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Nastine+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you are like me wondering how to start this quest line to obtain Dark ship's Lantern for housing (as a reward for the last quest). You need to do your order class campaign (starting from NPC following you in Dalaran) until you unblock the scouting map where you can start Stormheim campaign. After finishing "From Helheim and back" part of this campaign you will see this quest (horde only). You can't start Stormheim campaign if you have already started another zone and haven't finish it yet.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,150
MoneyGold20g 22s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapStormheimTurn-in marker at 55.1, 72.5, 9 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.

Stormheim Quest turn-in 9 mapped points
Stormheim map showing where to go for Dreadwake's DilemmaTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #634 55.1 72.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inStormheim 55.1, 72.5/way #634 55.1 72.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Stormheim 57.4, 74.0/way #634 57.4 74.0

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 Stormheim map

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

Getting there

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

  • Dreadwake's Landing, StormheimHorde · about 40 yards south-west
  • Hafr Fjall, StormheimAlliance and Horde · about 570 yards south
  • Cullen's Post, StormheimHorde · about 780 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 150 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

The Secret of the Shieldmaidens

Part 1 of 7.

Next: Clear the Deck!

  1. 1Dreadwake's Dilemma
  2. 2Clear the Deck!
  3. 3A Gift for Greymane
  4. 4Becoming the Ascendant
  5. 5To Skold-Ashil
  6. 6Shielded Secrets
  7. 7A New Life for Undeath

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Clear the Deck!Stormheim · Level 10-45

    Our mission in Skold-Ashil will have to wait, <class> - for now, we have more pressing matters to attend to. I had just recently arrived with reinforcements for our assault when Greymane's ship sailed in and began barraging our walls.

Quests that require this one

The storyline at a glance

The Secret of the Shieldmaidens has 7 steps, from Dreadwake's Dilemma to A New Life for Undeath.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Stormheim (7).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Stormheim 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.

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