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Finding the Lost Expedition

A World of Warcraft quest in Exile's Reach. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 1-5
ZoneExile's Reach
Quest ID54952

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(54952))

What to do

StorylineThe Missing Expedition, step 6 of 70
Rewards2s 85c, 370 XP

Description

Captain Garrick went ahead to find survivors. It looks like she lit a fire. Meet her up ahead to see what she found. I'll look further within the island for survivors... and the source of the magic that attacked us.

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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.

Exile's Reach Quest turn-in no plotted point

Nearby on the Exile's Reach map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Exile's Reach:

  • Alliance Outpost, Exile's Reach OutpostAlliance · about 500 yards north-west
  • Ogre Citadel, Exile's Reach IslandAlliance · about 1,700 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 220 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
Money2 silver85 copper
Experience370 XP

Storyline

The Missing Expedition

Part 6 of 70.

Previous: Emergency First Aid · Next: Cooking Meat

  1. 1Warming Up
  2. 2Stand Your Ground
  3. 3Brace for Impact
  4. 4Murloc Mania
  5. 5Emergency First Aid
  6. 6Finding the Lost Expedition
  7. 7Cooking Meat
  8. 8Enhanced Combat Tactics
  9. 9Enhanced Combat Tactics
  10. 10Northbound
  11. 11Taming the Wilds
  12. 12Down with the Quilboar

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 70.

Also part of: The Missing Expedition (part 6 of 14), The Missing Expedition (part 6 of 16).

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.

  • Emergency First AidExile's Reach · Level 1-5

    We have to patch everyone up before we can begin the search for the missing expedition. Take this first aid kit and tend to the wounded.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Cooking MeatExile's Reach · Level 1-5

    Alaria is nearly starved to death. We need to get her something to eat! Slay some of the nearby wildlife for their meat. Bring whatever you find here to cook. If we can help Alaria regain her strength, she might be able to tell us what happened to the others.

The storyline at a glance

The Missing Expedition has 70 steps, from Warming Up to Aiding the Dragon Isles.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Exile's Reach (49), Stormwind City (16), The Great Sea (3), The Waking Shores (2).

Other storylines on the Exile's Reach 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.