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Easy Pickings

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

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factura+14via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This is part of a questline, which is great for tanks gearing up for heroic because one of the final rewards is [item=63745]. It's a longish questline, but well worth doing as this is a really good trinket. It took me about 2 hours to get to the quest that gives this item, I've kept a log of the quests and I hope this post is useful to people considering taking this on. Chains that are marked in Wowhead are grouped together, non-obvious jumps are on the next paragraph.
This post should help people who either found this page and don't know how to get this quest, or who are trying to decide whether to do this questline to get the trinket all us new tanks seem to be after.

The Maw of Madness
Torn Ground
Pushing Back
The Maw of Iso'rath
Devoured
The Worldbreaker
The Terrors of Iso'rath
Nightmare

Warm Welcome
Even Dragons Bleed
Draconic Mending
In Defense of the Redoubt

The following 3 are not chained, but all need to be done to get to the next set of quests
Encroaching Twilight
Far from the Nest
Breach in the Defenses

Mathias' Command

Easy Pickings
Precious Goods
If The Key Fits
Pressing Forward

Enter the Dragon Queen This is a great cutscene, worth doing the questline even if you aren't after the trinket.

Battle of Life and Death Another great cutscene at the end
And the Sky Streaked Red

Blackout
A Fitting End
Shining Through the Dark
Following the Young Home
Last of Her Kind

Victors' Point
Ogres & Ettins
Call in the Artillery
SI:7 Drop
Move the Mountain
Signal the Attack
Four Heads are Better than None which finally rewards the [item=63745]

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160558+5via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Pretty good little spot to halt quest progression to farm Embersilk. If you have strong AoE you can gather up 8 at a time. I was getting 5-8 cloth per group.

*EDIT* Forgot, I'm farming with my tailor! Of course I'm getting tons of silk! That said, I have gotten up to 20 tiny treasure boxes and 6 greens here. It's tougher to kill stuff than the trogg area, but that makes it more fun.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 30-35
Quest ID28103

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28103))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineTwilight Highlands, step 164 of 236
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP

Description

The ambush launched smoothly. Most of the guards are dead, but a few are still pinned down with the wagons. Get in there and clear them out so we can push forward into the canyons.

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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.

Twilight Highlands Quest turn-in 10 mapped points
Twilight Highlands map showing where to go for Easy PickingsTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #241 26.0 38.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTwilight Highlands 26.0, 38.8/way #241 26.0 38.8
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Twilight Highlands 25.4, 38.0/way #241 25.4 38.0

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 Twilight Highlands map

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

Getting there

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

  • Vermillion Redoubt, Twilight HighlandsAlliance and Horde · about 500 yards north
  • Greenwarden's Grove, WetlandsAlliance · about 1,100 yards west
  • Victor's Point, Twilight HighlandsAlliance · about 1,100 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 40 yards north-west

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
Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
ReputationStormwind +250

Reward details

Reputation: Stormwind +250

One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Twilight Highlands that reward Stormwind reputation: Salvage Operation (+250), Naga Reinforcements (+250), Siren's Song (+250), Our Boys on the Shore (+75), Scouting the Shore (+75), Landgrab (+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

Twilight Highlands

Part 164 of 236.

Previous: Patchwork Command · Next: Easy Pickings

  1. 159Encroaching Twilight
  2. 160Far from the Nest
  3. 161Breach in the Defenses
  4. 162Mathias' Command
  5. 163Patchwork Command
  6. 164Easy Pickings
  7. 165Easy Pickings
  8. 166Precious Goods
  9. 167Precious Goods
  10. 168The Gates of Grim Batol
  11. 169Paving the Way
  12. 170Paving the Way

Showing steps 159 to 170 of 236.

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.

  • Patchwork CommandTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    Recent events make it even more apparent that holing up here and making sporadic attacks isn't enough to keep our kind safe, much less retake Grim Batol. We need to be more aggressive, we need to strike into their heart. I've agreed to send dragons to the aid of your commanders.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Precious GoodsTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    The gates further down the canyon are shut. Our scouting revealed a stone that they carried in chests in their caravans that they used to open the gates. Get down there and look for a chest key on the bodies of the guards.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Twilight Highlands · Level 30-35.

The storyline at a glance

Twilight Highlands has 236 steps, from Twilight Shores to Skullcrusher the Mountain.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Twilight Highlands (222), Azshara (9), Orgrimmar (4), Stormwind City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Twilight Highlands 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.