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Extinction

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

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Aramaru+25via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

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.

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

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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Quest facts

LevelLevel 7-30
ZoneHillsbrad Foothills
Quest ID28634

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28634))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineHillsbrad Foothills, step 39 of 39
Rewards21g, 4,100 XP

Description

Owlbeasts... Soulless, feathered monstrosities sent from the darkest depths of the Twisting Nether to prey upon the weak. <Nils points to the woods surrounding Eastpoint Tower.> 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!

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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.

Hillsbrad Foothills Quest turn-in 16 mapped points
Hillsbrad Foothills map showing where to go for ExtinctionTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #25 60.1 63.7

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

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.

Related
Money21 gold
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 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.

Storyline

Hillsbrad Foothills

Part 39 of 39.

Previous: Silence of the Dwarves

  1. 28Infiltration
  2. 29Deception and Trickery
  3. 30Domination
  4. 31Stormpike Apocalypse
  5. 32The Durnholde Challenge: Zephyrus
  6. 33The Durnholde Challenge: Teracula
  7. 34The Durnholde Challenge: Bloodvenom
  8. 35The Durnholde Challenge: Infernus
  9. 36The Durnholde Challenge: D-1000
  10. 37A Haunting in Hillsbrad
  11. 38Silence of the Dwarves
  12. 39Extinction

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

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