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Excising the Taint

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

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This is the first, and possibly only, quest I've ever seen where the mobs have a red exclamation mark over their heads. When you kill one, you are offered a quest to kill 9 more of them. It was sureal to see it, and a google search shows that noone is talking about it. I think it's quite a cool feature and hope to see more of it in the future.

Also, the quest "Honor the Dead" is listed as a prerequisite. It may be the case that you need to have accepted "Honor the Dead", but I can confirm that you need not complete it before accepting "Excising the Taint".

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 5-30
ZoneSilverpine Forest
Quest ID27181

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27181))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineSilverpine Forest, step 24 of 57
Rewards4,100 XP

Description

It looks like a group of the ambushers stayed behind. Make them pay for their insolence! Kill all of the Bloodfang stalkers at Olsen's Farthing. For Sylvanas! For the Horde!

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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.

Silverpine Forest Quest turn-in 10 mapped points
Silverpine Forest map showing where to go for Excising the TaintTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #21 44.9 41.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSilverpine Forest 44.9, 41.7/way #21 44.9 41.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Silverpine Forest 46.9, 51.8/way #21 46.9 51.8
  • Objective areaSilverpine Forest 47.2, 51.6/way #21 47.2 51.6

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 Silverpine Forest map

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

Getting there

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

  • The Sepulcher, Silverpine ForestHorde · about 40 yards south-east
  • Forsaken Rear Guard, Silverpine ForestHorde · about 560 yards north
  • The Forsaken Front, Silverpine ForestHorde · about 660 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 300 yards south
  • Objective areaabout 290 yards south

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
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationUndercity +250

Reward details

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 Silverpine Forest that reward Undercity reputation: Warchief's Command: Silverpine Forest! (+250), The Warchief Cometh (+150), The Gilneas Liberation Front (+250), Agony Abounds (+250), Guts and Gore (+250), Iterating Upon Success (+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

Silverpine Forest

Part 24 of 57.

Previous: The Waters Run Red... · Next: Seek and Destroy

  1. 19Lordaeron
  2. 20Honor the Dead
  3. 21Hair of the Dog
  4. 22Reinforcements from Fenris
  5. 23The Waters Run Red...
  6. 24Excising the Taint
  7. 25Seek and Destroy
  8. 26Cornered and Crushed!
  9. 27Nowhere to Run
  10. 28To Forsaken Forward Command
  11. 29Losing Ground
  12. 30In Time, All Will Be Revealed

Showing steps 19 to 30 of 57.

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.

  • The Waters Run Red...Silverpine Forest · Level 5-30

    <The communication console hums.> Those worgen you killed were the scouting party. There are hundreds more incoming! Looks like Crowley and Bloodfang made the blood offering to every human in Lordaeron. Get in one of those Horde cannons and send them all back to their makers.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Seek and DestroySilverpine Forest · Level 5-30

    <The Banshee Queen's voice invades your thoughts once more.> Search the nearby farmhouses for Alliance stragglers. Keep an eye out for any information that could lead us to Crowley and Bloodfang. Seek and destroy all that would stand in your way, <name>!

The storyline at a glance

Silverpine Forest has 57 steps, from The Warchief Cometh to Cities in Dust.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Silverpine Forest (46), Ruins of Gilneas (11).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Silverpine Forest 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.