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In Search of Bigger Game

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 20-30
ZoneSholazar Basin
Quest ID12595

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12595))

Requirements

Requires all ofRhino Mastery: The Kill, Dreadsaber Mastery: Ready to Pounce, Crocolisk Mastery: The Ambush

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineSholazar Basin, step 21 of 65
Rewards525 XP

Description

Well, {name}, you've certainly proven your mettle as a hunter of all kinds of game animals -- rhinos, cats, and crocolisks. For some members of the expedition, these creatures are sufficient to test their hunting skills, but others, like myself, crave larger challenges. Dorian Drakestalker went north, across Bittertide Lake and established a camp there. He's heard rumors of gigantic primordial drakes. Just imagine what a quarry they would be! Go check up on Dorian and see if he's had any luck.

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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 2 mapped points
Sholazar Basin map showing where to go for In Search of Bigger GameTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #119 42.3 28.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSholazar Basin 42.3, 28.7/way #119 42.3 28.7
  • Objective areaSholazar Basin 27.1, 58.7/way #119 27.1 58.7

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 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 1,000 yards south
  • Nesingwary Base Camp, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards south-west
  • Death's Rise, IcecrownAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,100 yards south-west

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
Experience525 XP

Storyline

Sholazar Basin

Part 21 of 65.

Previous: The Taste Test · Next: Sharpening Your Talons

  1. 16An Offering for Soo-rahm
  2. 17The Bones of Nozronn
  3. 18Crocolisk Mastery: The Ambush
  4. 19Rhino Mastery: The Kill
  5. 20The Taste Test
  6. 21In Search of Bigger Game
  7. 22Sharpening Your Talons
  8. 23Securing the Bait
  9. 24A Mammoth Undertaking
  10. 25Post-partum Aggression
  11. 26Playing Along
  12. 27The Ape Hunter's Slave

Showing steps 16 to 27 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 Taste TestSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    And now for the moment of truth! <Grimbooze chuckles.> I've always wanted to say that. Normally, I'd debut a new drink at a banquet, but we can't have one in the middle of the jungle. Instead, just take samples to a few trusted friends and return with their comments.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Sharpening Your TalonsSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    The primordial drakes occupy most of the area to the north and east, and I can feel the heat of their breath even at this distance. Before we can challenge the mightiest among the drakes, we must test our skills against the lesser creatures.

Also counted by Into the Basin

Its criteria name 7 quests; others include:

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:

  • 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

Into the BasinComplete the Sholazar Basin storylines listed below.10