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Gidwin Goldbraids (Level 15-30)

Gidwin Goldbraids is a quest for level 15-30 in Eastern Plaguelands. It is step 1 of 46 in the Eastern Plaguelands storyline, the opening step. The quest's turn-in marker is in Eastern Plaguelands at 4.2, 36.0. It rewards 525 experience and money.

Description

I love my boys, don't get me wrong. But I TOLD them that I needed FIVE MINUTES to water and brush the horses, and what did they do? They made a stupid bet with each other and ran off! I should have known better... this always happens.

Gidwin's the short one. He headed north, along the river. If you're headed that direction, would you tell him to come back? We've got to get to Light's Hope Chapel, and I'm not against leaving without him.

Rewards

Money1 gold5 silver
Experience525 XP
Top Comments

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1
177789+22via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The entire questline:
Gidwin Goldbraids
Just Encased
Greasing the Wheel

Tarenar Sunstrike
What I Do Best
A Gift For Fiona
Onward, to Light's Hope Chapel

Mr. Grubbs can now drop if you get the lucky charm buff from the caravan.

Traveling Companions

Rough Roads

The Trek Continues
Boys Will Be Boys
A Boyhood Dream
Argent Call: The Trial of the Crypt
Argent Call: The Noxious Glade

Completing "The Trial of the Crypt" will put you at revered with the Argent Dawn
Can now complete the repeatable quests Annals of the Silver Hand and Aberrations of Bone for additional dawn rep.

Gathering Some Grub(s)
An Opportune Alliance
(the previous two quests are only required if you want the achievement)

Argent Call: Northdale
Ix'lar the Underlord

Impatience
Nobody to Blame but Myself
Beat it Out of Them
Blind Fury
Guardians of Stratholme

The Baroness' Missive
Gidwin's Fate Revealed
Journey's End

Keep in mind you only need to do the first half of the questline to get Argent Dawn rep and the pet. The rest is only for the achievement or to see the end of the story =)

*under construction* more achievement info coming soon.

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84555+13via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Best way to reach him is to swim up the Thondroril River or take the path that follows the river which starts near 13.8,60.9.

Alternatively, you can go through the Terrorweb Tunnel if you happen to be in the north-western part of EPL, but that will make you go through the spiders you'll have to kill a few minutes later for the first quest Gidwin gives you.

3
718691+10via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I love this quest chain so much that I've done it on every character of mine: thus far a blood elf, human, and a worgen - all males. As I began to go for number four, I noticed something interesting.

When I started the quest with my female worgen, when I found Gidwin he asked "Fiona, is that you?" instead of asking for Tarenar like with my other characters. Sounds like his question changes depending on what gender your character is.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP525
MoneyGold1g 5s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapEastern PlaguelandsTurn-in marker at 4.2, 36.0, 2 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.

Eastern Plaguelands Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Eastern Plaguelands map showing where to go for Gidwin GoldbraidsTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #23 4.2 36.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inEastern Plaguelands 4.2, 36.0/way #23 4.2 36.0
  • Objective areaEastern Plaguelands 9.0, 66.6/way #23 9.0 66.6

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 Eastern Plaguelands map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Eastern Plaguelands:

  • Plaguewood Tower, Eastern PlaguelandsAlliance and Horde · about 620 yards east
  • Thondroril River, Eastern PlaguelandsAlliance and Horde · about 840 yards south
  • Hearthglen, Western PlaguelandsAlliance and Horde · about 960 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 840 yards south

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

Eastern Plaguelands

Part 1 of 46.

Next: Just Encased

  1. 1Gidwin Goldbraids
  2. 2Just Encased
  3. 3Greasing the Wheel
  4. 4Tarenar Sunstrike
  5. 5What I Do Best
  6. 6A Gift For Fiona
  7. 7Onward, to Light's Hope Chapel
  8. 8Traveling Companions
  9. 9Rough Roads
  10. 10Little Pamela
  11. 11Pamela's Doll
  12. 12I'm Not Supposed to Tell You This

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 46.

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.

  • Just EncasedEastern Plaguelands · Level 15-30

    You should have seen me fight! I must have killed six of those beasts, when... Oh wait, you can count the bodies, can't you? OK, fine. I killed four of them, when the fifth one shot me with this web. To make things even worse... when he blasted me with web juice, my mouth was open!

Other quests with this name

This one: Eastern Plaguelands · Level 15-30.

The storyline at a glance

Eastern Plaguelands has 46 steps, from Gidwin Goldbraids to Journey's End.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Eastern Plaguelands (46).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Eastern Plaguelands 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Gidwin Goldbraids. They differ in the faction/level/zone shown here.

QuestFactionLevelZoneID
Gidwin Goldbraids (this page)SameLevel 15-30Eastern Plaguelands27367
Gidwin GoldbraidsAllianceLevel 10-40Shadowmoon Valley35618
Related
Ghostland Peppers
Ghosts in the Machine
Ghosts of the Ring
Ghoulish Effigy
Gidwin's Fate Revealed
Gifts of the Forest
Gildenite Grab
Gildenite Grab
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Quest Location and Connections

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