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Quest
In the Shadow of Giants
A World of Warcraft quest in Frostfire Ridge. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Quest starts with Thrall in your Garrison as one of the quests part of The Garrison Campaign
You get one a week, this is one of them.
Interesting lore note: when you complete this Draka mentions that Goren are horrible things created "to eat the world".
Quest facts
Quest ID32983
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(32983))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
The goren and the magnaron are ravaging the element spirits and smelting their essence as one would smelt steel. Commander, take my totem, travel east to Magnarok. Please, find them, and free them. Draka and I will make our way to the Ascent of Frostfire. Meet us there if you are successful.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #525 73.9 29.6
Coordinates
- Turn-inFrostfire Ridge 73.9, 29.6
/way #525 73.9 29.6 - Objective areaFrostfire Ridge 70.9, 23.6
/way #525 70.9 23.6 - Objective areaFrostfire Ridge 70.1, 27.5
/way #525 70.1 27.5 - Objective areaFrostfire Ridge 57.3, 41.7
/way #525 57.3 41.7
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 Frostfire Ridge map
- The Battle of Thunder Pass about 1,060 yards
- Garrison Campaign: Grinding Gears about 1,070 yards
- WANTED: Overlord Blackhammer about 1,130 yards
- I Know The Drill! about 1,150 yards
- To Thunder Pass about 1,190 yards
- A Fellow Gearhead about 1,190 yards
- Four Finger Discount about 1,210 yards
- Maker's Mark about 1,240 yards
- Where's My Wolf?! about 1,400 yards
- The Strength of Our Bonds about 1,400 yards
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 Ridge
- Skysea Ridge, Gorgrond
- Thunder Pass, Frostfire Ridge
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- Objective area
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.
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Reward details
Reputation: Frostwolf Orcs +250
The Frostwolf orcs of Frostfire Ridge are a tight-knit family of brutal warriors, well equipped to deal with the savage realities of Draenor.
Reputation group: Warlords of Draenor.
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
Garrison Campaign
Part 3 of 7.
Previous: Eaters of the Elements · Next: The Ascent
- 1Garrison Campaign: Farseer's Rock
- 2Eaters of the Elements
- 3In the Shadow of Giants
- 4The Ascent
- 5Fury of Frostfire
- 6Ours is the Fury
- 7Eatercology
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.
- Eaters of the Elements
Drek'Thar has already begun his ritual, and it is powerful enough to draw the attention of the local goren. Those beasts are drawn to elemental magic like flies to a corpse. I will have my hands full soon enough. Help us if you like but Drek'Thar must be allowed to finish his ritual.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Ascent
I can feel the voice of the Fury at the top of the ascent. Come, let us climb these stairs together. Be on your guard. The goren of this area are likely to be drawn by the smell of a shaman. If we get separated, fall back to the base of the stairs and regroup.
The storyline at a glance
Garrison Campaign has 7 steps, from Garrison Campaign: Farseer's Rock to Eatercology.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Frostfire Ridge (6), Frostwall (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Frostfire Ridge map
- Thunder's Fall
- Foothold in a Savage Land
- On the Shadow's Trail
- Ga'nar's Vengeance
- Defense of Wor'gol
- The Battle of Thunder Pass
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.