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Lifting the Siege

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

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You MUST go outside the gates to the north. There'll be some grunts there, and once you get through them there's a few islands to the north-west. On these islands are the catapults.

It's a good idea to pair this quest with Silencing Rageroar, Silencing Rageroar, since the lieutenants are in the same place as the weapons that you have to burn, and the 'boss' isn't too far away. Up near the 'boss' there's a large machine which is the knife thrower

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneSouthern Barrens
Quest ID24948

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(24948))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineSouthern Barrens, step 10 of 89
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

We'll never be able to re-secure the fortress walls so long as Rageroar and his goons have access to artillery. I need you to fight your way across that chasm and take out his big guns. Orcs season their heavy machinery with coal tar, which makes them flammable. Take my torch and burn any catapults you see north of Northwatch. Then, torch those big blade-throwers in Rageroar's base camp! Those things have killed enough of our men.

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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 6 mapped points
Southern Barrens map showing where to go for Lifting the SiegeTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #199 67.0 46.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSouthern Barrens 67.0, 46.5/way #199 67.0 46.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 68.1, 40.8/way #199 68.1 40.8
  • Objective areaSouthern Barrens 67.3, 37.7/way #199 67.3 37.7
  • Objective areaSouthern Barrens 68.2, 36.5/way #199 68.2 36.5

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 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

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

  • Northwatch Hold, Southern BarrensAlliance · about 60 yards south-west
  • Ratchet, Northern BarrensAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards north
  • Fort Triumph, Southern BarrensAlliance · about 1,700 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 290 yards north
  • Objective areaabout 440 yards north
  • Objective areaabout 500 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
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationStormwind +250

Reward details

Reputation: Stormwind +250

One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Stormwind reputation: Running the Gauntlet (+250), Breaking the Siege (+250), Report to Aubrey (+75), Repel Boarders! (+250), The Guns of Northwatch (+75), Run Out the Guns (+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 10 of 89.

Previous: Back in the Fight · Next: Silencing Rageroar

  1. 5The Guns of Northwatch
  2. 6Run Out the Guns
  3. 7Langridge Shot
  4. 8Re-Take the Courtyard
  5. 9Back in the Fight
  6. 10Lifting the Siege
  7. 11Silencing Rageroar
  8. 12Teegan's People
  9. 13Scavenged
  10. 14Filthy Animals
  11. 15Make 'em Squeal
  12. 16A Failure to Communicate

Showing steps 5 to 16 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.

  • Back in the FightSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    This fight isn't over, <class>. Not by a long shot. Some of the soldiers in the courtyard still have breath in their lungs. We can save them! I've soaked these rags in an herbal remedy we used to rely on back in Gilneas. The smell is awful but this poultice can practically raise the dead.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Silencing RageroarSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    I have encountered the Rageroar clan before, <name>. They are led not by an orc, but by a monster - a war-gorged fiend without a shred of decency or compassion. He and his lieutenants must be killed, not just to save Northwatch, but for the good of all of Azeroth. Karga Rageroar wears a helm.

Also counted by Southern Barrens Quests

Its criteria name 22 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