Quest Log

Extinction

Extinction is a Horde-only quest for level 7-30 in Hillsbrad Foothills. It is step 39 of 39 in the Hillsbrad Foothills storyline, the final step. The quest's turn-in marker is in Hillsbrad Foothills at 60.1, 63.7. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

Owlbeasts... Soulless, feathered monstrosities sent from the darkest depths of the Twisting Nether to prey upon the weak.

They surround us on all sides and they are planning an attack - I can sense it. You must stop them before they can organize.

I want you to head into the forest and kill every owlbeast that you see. NONE SHOULD SURVIVE!

Rewards

Money21

Experience4,100 XP

ReputationUndercity +250

Top Comments

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AramaruFeb 1, 2011+25via Wowhead

I think this quest is supposed to illustrate the.. instability of the guy giving you the task, since the local owlbeasts aren't organized or more predatory then any other beast. They don't appear to be guarding anything or have a reason to be here either, so.. you're basically killing them for existing.
As for completing this quest, I suggest looking around Durnholde Keep's northern and eastern walls. South of Eastpoint Tower, although marked as an area where they spawn, mostly has bears and wild horses instead.

sonofabear85Jul 6, 2018+9via Wowhead

It's not mentioned here but you will not complete the Eastpoint TowerHillsbrad Foothills Quests without the following quests completed:
The Durnholde Challenge: Zephyrus
The Durnholde Challenge: Teracula
The Durnholde Challenge: Bloodvenom
The Durnholde Challenge: Infernus
The Durnholde Challenge: D-1000

YofiMay 30, 2012+7via Wowhead

Since the questgiver is apparently some sort of psychologist, it may not just be a coincidence that "extinction" is also a psychological term, meaning when a stimulus no longer triggers a learned response. This term is used in the treatment of anxiety disorders, which this paranoid questgiver might suffer from…

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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	4,100
Money	Gold	21g
Reputation	Undercity	+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 Hillsbrad Foothills that reward Undercity reputation: Empire of Dirt (+250), Warchief's Command: Hillsbrad Foothills! (+250), Welcome to the Machine (+250), Trouble at Azurelode (+10), Glorious Harvest (+250), Past Their Prime (+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.

Where it comes from

Turn-in map	Hillsbrad Foothills	Turn-in marker at 60.1, 63.7, 16 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.

Coordinates

Turn-inHillsbrad Foothills 60.1, 63.7/way #25 60.1 63.7
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Hillsbrad Foothills 68.4, 57.9/way #25 68.4 57.9
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Hillsbrad Foothills 65.9, 69.2/way #25 65.9 69.2

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 Hillsbrad Foothills map

Honor the Flame about 510 yards
Clearing the Highlands about 620 yards
Alina's Reward about 650 yards
The Path of Atonement about 1,750 yards
An Unexpected Message about 1,750 yards

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

Getting there

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

Eastpoint Tower, HillsbradHorde · about 30 yards north-west
Ruins of Southshore, HillsbradHorde · about 540 yards west
Tarren Mill, HillsbradHorde · about 600 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 450 yards north-east
Objective areaabout 330 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

Hillsbrad Foothills

Part 39 of 39.

Previous: Silence of the Dwarves

Showing steps 28 to 39 of 39.

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.

Silence of the DwarvesHillsbrad Foothills · Level 7-30
The spirits of my soldiers haunt this fort now, lad. Their souls are now bound to this place. Even in death they continue to fight for it. 'Tis sad. Put 'em out o' their misery and perhaps ye shall have the spoils of yer people's victory.

Also counted by Hillsbrad Foothills Quests

Its criteria name 9 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Hillsbrad Foothills has 39 steps, from Welcome to the Machine to Extinction.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Hillsbrad Foothills (39).

Other storylines on the Hillsbrad Foothills map

Arathi Highlands29 steps, starts with First Blood
Felo'melorn3 steps, starts with An Unexpected Message

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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

Hillsbrad Foothills QuestsComplete the Hillsbrad Foothills storylines listed below.10

Hillsbrad Foothills Quests: its criteria name 9 quests, this one included.

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