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Garrison Campaign: Grinding Gears

Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Garrison weekly quest line (1 out of 12 possible)

At the end, you're rewarded with [object=234425] right outside the main entrance to your Garrison. On use, it sends you to your Gorgrond outpost.

It awards completion criteria "Iron Siegeworks" for The Garrison Campaign.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 40
LocationFrostfire Ridge, Frostwall
CategoryGarrison Campaign
Quest ID34034

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(34034))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

Description

Commanda! Da Frostwolf orcs at Thunder Pass have reported a horrible grinding noise boomin' tru da canyon. We suspect it's some kind of Iron Horde war machine. Gazlowe has agreed ta investigate, but he be wantin' a cash bonus. Goblins! Meet wit him at Thunder Pass and deliver dis payment.

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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.

Frostfire Ridge Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Frostfire Ridge map showing where to go for Garrison Campaign: Grinding GearsTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #525 78.2 55.1

Frostwall Objective area no plotted point

Coordinates

  • Turn-inFrostfire Ridge 78.2, 55.1/way #525 78.2 55.1
  • Objective areaFrostfire Ridge 49.0, 65.2/way #525 49.0 65.2

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 Frostfire Ridge map

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

Getting there

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

  • Wolf's Stand, Frostfire RidgeHorde · about 340 yards south-west
  • Thunder Pass, Frostfire RidgeHorde · about 410 yards south-east
  • Beastwatch, GorgrondHorde · about 1,400 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,900 yards west (on the Frostwall map)
  • Objective areaabout 2,000 yards west (on the Frostwall map)
  • Objective areaabout 2,000 yards west (on the Frostwall map)

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
Money1 gold69 silver
Experience675 XP

Storyline

Garrison Campaign

Part 1 of 7.

Next: I Know The Drill!

  1. 1Garrison Campaign: Grinding Gears
  2. 2I Know The Drill!
  3. 3WANTED: Overlord Blackhammer
  4. 4Maker's Mark
  5. 5Four Finger Discount
  6. 6A Fellow Gearhead
  7. 7Payment Due for Services Rendered

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • I Know The Drill!Level 40

    It's a machine alright. A drill - a BIG one! Fortunately, we don't have to take apart the whole thing. They're relying on forced induction, using twin superchargers to pipe extra boost into the engine. Without that boost, the drill is useless.

The storyline at a glance

Garrison Campaign has 7 steps, from Garrison Campaign: Grinding Gears to Payment Due for Services Rendered.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Frostfire Ridge (7).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Frostfire Ridge 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.