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Keeping the Dogs at Bay

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneSouthern Barrens
Quest ID24525

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(24525))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineSouthern Barrens, step 28 of 89
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

Not everyone who fled Taurajo was able to make it to Una'fe, {name}. Some died of wounds along the way. Others were jumped by opportunistic quilboar. I'll take care of the grim task of finding and gathering the bodies. But there is something you can do for me. Hecklefang scavengers prowl the lands south of here and are savaging the corpses, tearing at their bowels and dragging away the limbs of the dead. Please, thin their numbers so that I can perform the proper funerary rites.

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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.

Southern Barrens Quest turn-in 34 mapped points
Southern Barrens map showing where to go for Keeping the Dogs at BayTurn-inTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #199 44.2 33.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSouthern Barrens 44.2, 33.7/way #199 44.2 33.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 63.4, 41.4/way #199 63.4 41.4
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 57.8, 41.2/way #199 57.8 41.2
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 50.9, 47.1/way #199 50.9 47.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 54.8, 47.5/way #199 54.8 47.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 42.1, 31.3/way #199 42.1 31.3
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 43.6, 40.2/way #199 43.6 40.2

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 Southern Barrens map

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

Getting there

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

  • Vendetta Point, Southern BarrensHorde · about 720 yards south
  • Hunter's Hill, Southern BarrensHorde · about 740 yards north-west
  • The Crossroads, Northern BarrensHorde · about 1,200 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,500 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 1,100 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 830 yards south-east

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
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThunder Bluff +250

Reward details

Reputation: Thunder Bluff +250

Baine Bloodhoof leads his people, the proud Tauren, from this mighty Horde capital.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Thunder Bluff reputation: Clear the High Road (+250), Holdout at Hunter's Hill (+10), Raptor Scraps (+250), Signals in the Sky (+250), Bad to Worse (+250), Speaking Their Language (+250).

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

Southern Barrens

Part 28 of 89.

Previous: Stalling the Survey · Next: Bad to Worse

  1. 23Holdout at Hunter's Hill
  2. 24Raptor Scraps
  3. 25Put the Fear in Them
  4. 26The Low Road
  5. 27Stalling the Survey
  6. 28Keeping the Dogs at Bay
  7. 29Bad to Worse
  8. 30Speaking Their Language
  9. 31When Plants Attack
  10. 32A Curious Bloom
  11. 33Biological Intervention
  12. 34Adder Subtraction

Showing steps 23 to 34 of 89.

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.

  • Stalling the SurveySouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    These maps have all been drawn by the same steady hand. I've seen a human surveyor heading up and down the road between the hold and the jungle to the east. We can set their plans back by making an example out of this surveyor, <name>.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Bad to WorseSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    When the refugees fled north from Taurajo, some were separated as darkness closed in. Many were taken prisoner by the Bristleback quilboar who set up camp west and southwest of here. I am not certain what the quilboar hoped to get from us by capturing our refugees; all they have earned is my ire.

Also counted by Southern Barrens Quests

Its criteria name 25 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Southern Barrens has 89 steps, from Running the Gauntlet to Sabotage!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Southern Barrens (88), Northern Barrens (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Southern Barrens 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.

Southern Barrens QuestsComplete the Southern Barrens storylines listed below.10