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Laying Claim (Alliance)

Laying Claim is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Tanaris. It is step 38 of 48 in the Tanaris storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Tanaris at 40.1, 77.0. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

We're not the only ones interested in these ruins, it seem. Of all things, we've got blood elves after our dig sites.

I'd expect them to wilt in the heat without all their fancy fountains and cushy pillows, but they're surprisingly scrappy, and they're trying to drive us out of the Southmoon Ruins by force.

It's time to crack a few heads. Head over there and teach those elves not to mess with us!

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationIronforge +250
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationIronforge+250

Reward details

Reputation: Ironforge +250

This Alliance capital is the pride of the Dun Morogh dwarves. Home to King Magni.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Tanaris that reward Ironforge reputation: Ancient Obstacles (+250), The Grand Tablet (+350), Fragments of 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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapTanarisTurn-in marker at 40.1, 77.0, 8 mapped points
World Map

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.

Tanaris Quest turn-in 8 mapped points
Tanaris map showing where to go for Laying ClaimTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #71 40.1 77.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTanaris 40.1, 77.0/way #71 40.1 77.0
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Tanaris 40.9, 71.5/way #71 40.9 71.5

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 Tanaris map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Tanaris:

  • Gunstan's Dig, TanarisAlliance · about 20 yards south
  • Bootlegger Outpost, TanarisAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards north-east
  • Ramkahen, UldumAlliance and Horde · about 1,900 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 270 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Tanaris

Part 38 of 48.

Previous: Ancient Obstacles · Next: Fragments of Language

  1. 33Thunderdrome: The Ginormus!
  2. 34Thunderdrome: Zumonga!
  3. 35Thunderdrome: Sarinexx!
  4. 36Thunderdrome: Grudge Match!
  5. 37Ancient Obstacles
  6. 38Laying Claim
  7. 39Fragments of Language
  8. 40The Secrets of Uldum
  9. 41Thunderdrome: Grudge Match!
  10. 42Laying Claim
  11. 43Fragments of Language
  12. 44Ancient Obstacles

Showing steps 33 to 44 of 48.

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.

  • Ancient ObstaclesTanaris · Level 15-30

    I've studied the gate here for years, trying to find a way of entry that wouldn't disturb any of the ancient architecture just behind it. It figures a few overgrown earthquakes decided to muck the whole thing up! But what's done is done, and the entrance to Uldum is revealed.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Fragments of LanguageTanaris · Level 15-30

    We've had our first big find in years here at the Southmoon ruins. My lads have dug up stone tablets, engraved with ancient writings. The glyphs on the tablets are like nothing we've ever seen, but I have a hunch we can connect them with titanic scripts found at other digsites.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Tanaris · Level 15-30.

The storyline at a glance

Tanaris has 48 steps, from Seaside Salvage to The Grand Tablet.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Tanaris (48).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Tanaris 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Laying Claim. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Laying Claim (this page)Alliance25559
Laying ClaimHorde25019
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