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Identifying the Brood

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

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DaemoniKira+3via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)
Why the puzzled stare, {player}? Expecting me to speak like an uncouth ruffian merely because I am an ogre?


Why yes indeed, sir, I was. My regretful apologies for assuming your lack of eloquence simply due to your visage. Please, do continue.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneDustwallow Marsh
Quest ID27414

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27414))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineDustwallow Marsh, step 70 of 83
RewardsBrooding Collar, Whelp Slaying Axe, Searing Dagger, 6,200 XP

Description

Whilst that craven fool, Mok'Morokk, wallows in power and Tharg wrestles the demons of sorrow and vengeance and vies for leadership of the clan, I seem to be the only one concerned with identifying the source of aggression on our old home. Why the puzzled stare, {name}? Expecting me to speak like an uncouth ruffian merely because I am an ogre? Now back to business, bring to me the hearts and tongues from the whelps and hatchlings. I shall trace the root of this evil...

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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.

Dustwallow Marsh Quest turn-in 12 mapped points
Dustwallow Marsh map showing where to go for Identifying the BroodTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #70 37.2 33.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDustwallow Marsh 37.2, 33.1/way #70 37.2 33.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Dustwallow Marsh 46.7, 73.7/way #70 46.7 73.7

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 Dustwallow Marsh map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Dustwallow Marsh:

  • Brackenwall Village, Dustwallow MarshHorde · about 90 yards north-west
  • Desolation Hold, Southern BarrensHorde · about 1,200 yards west
  • Mudsprocket, Dustwallow MarshAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,500 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.

Related

Choose one of these rewards:

Experience6,200 XP

3D Model

First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeMail Head
Item level22
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor11
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +10 Stamina
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for4 gold75 silver
TypeTwo-Handed Axe Two-Hand
Item level22
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon11 - 23 damage, speed 3.6
Stats+8 Strength, +12 Critical Strike
Suited toFury, Arms, Retribution, Unholy, Frost, Blood
Sells to vendors for10 gold54 silver
TypeDagger One-Hand
Item level22
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon5 - 8 damage, speed 1.8
Stats+4 Stamina, +3 Agility, +4 Critical Strike
Suited toSurvival, Subtlety, Assassination
Sells to vendors for8 gold40 silver
TypeLeather Head
Item level22
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor7
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +10 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for4 gold78 silver

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

Dustwallow Marsh

Part 70 of 83.

Previous: More than Coincidence · Next: Army of the Black Dragon

  1. 65Questioning Reethe
  2. 66The Black Shield
  3. 67Return to Krog
  4. 68The Grimtotem Plot
  5. 69More than Coincidence
  6. 70Identifying the Brood
  7. 71Army of the Black Dragon
  8. 72Seek Out Tabetha
  9. 73Raze Direhorn Post!
  10. 74The Brood of Onyxia
  11. 75The Brood of Onyxia
  12. 76Justice Dispensed

Showing steps 65 to 76 of 83.

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.

  • More than CoincidenceDustwallow Marsh · Level 15-30

    We've gleaned as much as we can from the ruins of the inn. I'm concerned about where the investigation will lead us from here, but we must know the truth. Between the hoofprints and the shield with Mosarn's mark, I'm led to believe that the Grimtotems may have been involved.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Army of the Black DragonDustwallow Marsh · Level 15-30

    Mok'Morokk was made Overlord by Rexxar. He care more for power than he care for ogres. Black dragons kill many ogre. Kill Tharg's wife. Mok'Morokk tell us to run. Make us come here. Ogre should fight. Ogres not good at running. Mok'Morokk care only about Mok'Morokk. Me call Stonemaul Ruins home.

The storyline at a glance

Dustwallow Marsh has 83 steps, from Traitors Among Us to Challenge to the Black Flight.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dustwallow Marsh (81), Stormwind City (1), Thunder Bluff (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Dustwallow Marsh 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.

Guides and routes on this site that cover Dustwallow Marsh.