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It's Not About History, It's About Power

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

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cynisca+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The Alliance version is All's Fair in Love, War, and Archaeology.

I think what I like best about these two quests, in addition to the minor flavour-changing comments that Durdin and Bloodwatcher make ("stubby-fingered hands" is such a male blood elf insult), is the fact that in both cases the story lines up, namely that the Reliquary is off stealing loot and robbing graves and generally causing trouble. We know so little about this organisation, but I think it's pretty clear that the phrase "ethical investigative methods" has a substantially different meaning for them. As in, a nonexistent meaning.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneBadlands
Quest ID27882

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27882))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineBadlands, step 31 of 53
RewardsUpstart's Breastplate, Counterfeit Chainmail, Hooligan's Pantaloons, 10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

The Explorers' League may have a yeoman's knowledge of the actual act of digging. What they lack, however, is the good sense to USE the artifacts that they dig up. They stow their treasures in stagnant museums instead of using these items of power for their true purpose. The dwarves are fools. Fortunately, they die easily. You'll find them digging into canyon walls north of here. Take whatever you can out of their stubby-fingered hands, then return it to me.

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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.

Badlands Quest turn-in 11 mapped points
Badlands map showing where to go for It's Not About History, It's About PowerTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #15 52.1 51.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBadlands 52.1, 51.2/way #15 52.1 51.2
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Badlands 53.2, 43.2/way #15 53.2 43.2

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 Badlands map

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

Getting there

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

  • Bloodwatcher Point, BadlandsHorde · at the same spot
  • Fuselight, BadlandsAlliance and Horde · about 500 yards north-east
  • New Kargath, BadlandsHorde · about 1,100 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 170 yards north

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:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationSilvermoon City +250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypePlate Chest
Item level24
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor23
Stats+7 Strength or Intellect, +10 Stamina, +6 Dodge
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for27 gold21 silver
TypeMail Chest
Item level24
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor15
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +10 Stamina
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for27 gold11 silver
TypeCloth Legs
Item level24
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor5
Stats+7 Intellect, +10 Stamina, +8 Critical Strike
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for26 gold92 silver
TypeLeather Wrist
Item level24
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor5
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +5 Haste
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for13 gold58 silver

Reputation: Silvermoon City +250

The capital of Quel'Thalas, home of the blood elves. Though nearly destroyed by Arthas' attack on the Sunwell, Silvermoon is once again a thriving city.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Badlands that reward Silvermoon City reputation: The Morons' League (+250), Forcible Acquisition (+250), Bloodwatcher Point (+10).

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

Badlands

Part 31 of 53.

Previous: Bloodwatcher Point · Next: The Warden's Pawn

  1. 26Their Hunt Continues
  2. 27The Sorrow and the Fury
  3. 28The Hidden Clutch
  4. 29Rheastrasza's Gift
  5. 30Bloodwatcher Point
  6. 31It's Not About History, It's About Power
  7. 32The Warden's Pawn
  8. 33The Sentinel's Pawn
  9. 34The Warden's Game
  10. 35The Sentinel's Game
  11. 36Ancient Protectors
  12. 37The Titans' Trove

Showing steps 26 to 37 of 53.

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.

  • Bloodwatcher PointBadlands · Level 15-30

    I've got an idea, but it's a bit of a long shot. Thankfully, long shots happen to be a specialty of mine. North of here, the Reliquary has uncovered a new set of titan ruins beneath the sands. If there's anything older and wiser than dragons, it's titans.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Warden's PawnBadlands · Level 15-30

    One of the few items of worth that we managed to loot from these ruins is this small jade statue. We believe it to be a key of some sort, but we're unable to determine what it opens. As such, it is useless to me. Perhaps you'll have some better luck with it.

The storyline at a glance

Badlands has 53 steps, from To Fuselight Proper to The Day that Deathwing Came: What Really Happened.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Badlands (53).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

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 Badlands.