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Exploiting the Situation

Exploiting the Situation is a Horde-only quest for level 1-30 in Durotar. It is step 8 of 33 in the Durotar storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Durotar at 53.1, 43.1. It rewards 2 reputation rewards, 3,100 experience and money.

Description

Hey there, handsome! I've had my eye on those big, beefy biceps ever since you stepped into town.

Listen, I've got something for you to do. I hear Gar'Thok's got you headed over to Tiragarde. While you're there, think you could find some abandoned Kul Tiras knicknacks?

Thanks sweetie!

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience3,100 XP
ReputationOrgrimmar +250, Bilgewater Cartel +250
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

2
Borelia+24via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Oh sweet lord, no. No, this is not a "reference" to Jersey Shore.

Just...no.

Do you seriously think any quest with the word "Situation" has anything to do with that .... thing?

EDIT: Humanity is safe for now. The OP deleted his comment.

3
xepla+11via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Here's what she says if you're playing a female character:

Description
What're you looking at, ugly? I've seen you walking around Razor Hill, trying to steal MY men from me!

Listen, I've got something for you to do. I hear Gar'Thok's got you headed over to Tiragarde. While you're there, think you could find some abandoned Kul Tiras knicknacks?

Don't ask why, just get to it!

Progress
<Gail glares menacingly at you.>

Completion
About time you showed up. Don't even think about stealing that treasure... it's worthless here in Kalimdor, anyhow.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP3,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationOrgrimmar+250
ReputationBilgewater Cartel+250

Reward details

Reputation: Orgrimmar +250

Founded by Thrall, this Horde capital city is home to many of the proud orc clans of Durotar.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Durotar that reward Orgrimmar reputation: Winds in the Desert (+250), Securing the Lines (+250), Meats to Orgrimmar (+25), Ride to Orgrimmar (+75), Doras the Wind Rider Master (+25), Return to Razor Hill (+350).

Reputation: Bilgewater Cartel +250

Run by the ruthless Trade Prince Gallywix, the Bilgewater Cartel is the most powerful trading company on the Isle of Kezan. From their headquarters at Bilgewater Port, the cartel dominates trade all over the South Seas.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Durotar that reward Bilgewater Cartel reputation: Shipwreck Searching (+250), Thonk (+10), Warchief's Emissary (+25).

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 mapDurotarTurn-in marker at 53.1, 43.1, 10 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.

Durotar Quest turn-in 10 mapped points
Durotar map showing where to go for Exploiting the SituationTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #1 53.1 43.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDurotar 53.1, 43.1/way #1 53.1 43.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Durotar 58.7, 57.5/way #1 58.7 57.5

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 Durotar map

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

Getting there

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

  • Razor Hill, DurotarHorde · about 20 yards south
  • Sen'jin Village, DurotarHorde · about 1,100 yards south
  • Ratchet, Northern BarrensAlliance and Horde · about 1,500 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 590 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

Durotar

Part 8 of 33.

Previous: From Bad to Worse · Next: Storming the Beaches

  1. 3Breaking the Chain
  2. 4Purge the Valley
  3. 5The War of Northwatch Aggression
  4. 6Riding On
  5. 7From Bad to Worse
  6. 8Exploiting the Situation
  7. 9Storming the Beaches
  8. 10Shipwreck Searching
  9. 11Lost in the Floods
  10. 12Watershed Patrol
  11. 13Lost But Not Forgotten
  12. 14Unbidden Visitors

Showing steps 3 to 14 of 33.

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.

  • From Bad to WorseDurotar · Level 1-30

    Tiragarde Keep lies to the southeast of here, on Durotar's eastern shore. You probably passed it on your trip from Sen'jin Village. This castle has been a thorn in my side for too long. Humans from Kul Tiras lived in the castle for years, thwarting my every attempt to crush them.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Storming the BeachesDurotar · Level 1-30

    Now that those humans are out of our hair for a bit, we can move on to more pressing matters. The cataclysm utterly decimated Durotar's eastern coast. You saw the wreckage that it made of Tiragarde. The devastation was even worse on the coast to the east of here.

The storyline at a glance

Durotar has 33 steps, from Cleaning Up the Coastline to Loss Reduction.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Durotar (32), Orgrimmar (1).

Other storylines on the Durotar 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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