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Forced Hand

Forced Hand is a quest for level 20-30 in Sholazar Basin. It is step 47 of 65 in the Sholazar Basin storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Sholazar Basin at 42.2, 38.7. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

We try to be nice to puppy-men ever since they came, but they nothing but mean.

We okay with them being dumb - they not do much harm. Now they mess with sacred shrines though. Sacred shrines not for messing with. The Great Stones are here from all the way back when the Great Ones made us.

We wouldn't know what to do if the Great Mist Stone were hurt. Go to their camp to north... make puppy-men stop and not come back!

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThe Oracles +350
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationThe Oracles+350

Reward details

Reputation: The Oracles +350

The gorlocs of Sholazar Basin are a race of reptilian creatures who see themselves as guardians of the titan technology that remains in the zone (though they understand little of it). They find themselves in an escalating territorial war with the wolvar.

Reputation group: Sholazar Basin.

Other quests in Sholazar Basin that reward The Oracles reputation: Fortunate Misunderstandings (+350), Make the Bad Snake Go Away (+350), Gods like Shiny Things (+350), Making Peace (+350), Back So Soon? (+250), The Lost Mistwhisper Treasure (+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 mapSholazar BasinTurn-in marker at 42.2, 38.7, 14 mapped points
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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.

Sholazar Basin Quest turn-in 14 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #119 42.2 38.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSholazar Basin 42.2, 38.7/way #119 42.2 38.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Sholazar Basin 40.9, 23.8/way #119 40.9 23.8

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 Sholazar Basin map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Sholazar Basin:

  • River's Heart, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 740 yards south-east
  • Nesingwary Base Camp, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 930 yards south-west
  • Death's Rise, IcecrownAlliance and Horde · about 1,500 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 430 yards north
  • Objective areaabout 450 yards north

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

Sholazar Basin

Part 47 of 65.

Previous: The Lost Mistwhisper Treasure · Next: Home Time!

  1. 42Making Peace
  2. 43An Issue of Trust
  3. 44Back So Soon?
  4. 45Returned Sevenfold
  5. 46The Lost Mistwhisper Treasure
  6. 47Forced Hand
  7. 48Home Time!
  8. 49The Angry Gorloc
  9. 50Lifeblood of the Mosswalker Shrine
  10. 51The Mosswalker Savior
  11. 52A Hero's Burden
  12. 53The Fallen Pillar

Showing steps 42 to 53 of 65.

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 Lost Mistwhisper TreasureSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    So some puppy-men come and smash blue crystals at Great Mist Stone! Lots of rain and lightning and badness... blue is wrong crystal for Great Mist Stone! Dumb puppy-men. After lightning, puppy-men stole big treasure we found in the sea-lake. We need treasure back to give to Great Mist Stone!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Home Time!Sholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    You're a good dryskin. Mistwhisper safe, treasure safe, and puppy-men sure to leave us alone now. You go back to Rainspeaker Canopy and tell Soo-say you done good.

The storyline at a glance

Sholazar Basin has 65 steps, from Need an Engine, Take an Engine to Reclamation.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Sholazar Basin (63), Un'Goro Crater (2).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • Into the Basin Complete the Sholazar Basin storylines listed below.
  • The Snows of Northrend Complete all of Hemet Nesingwary quests in Northrend up to and including Post-partum Aggression.

Other storylines on the Sholazar Basin 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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Force Your Way
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Forced Labor
Forced to Watch from Afar
Forces of Jaedenar
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