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Losing Your Tail

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 1-20
Quest ID24616

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(24616))

Requirements

RaceWorgen

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineGilneas, step 76 of 100

Description

You must have many questions, {name}. And they will be answered in time. I know why you're here and what you're looking for. I can't lead you there with the enemy tracking you. One of Sylvanas's scouts has been following your tracks. You can't lead the Forsaken to the place you seek. Take this talisman and walk along the road just north of here. Let the ranger lure you to her trap and use the power of the talisman to break free and counterattack.

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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.

Gilneas Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Gilneas map showing where to go for Losing Your TailTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #179 63.3 82.9

Coordinates

  • Turn-inGilneas 63.3, 82.9/way #179 63.3 82.9
  • Objective areaGilneas 63.9, 81.3/way #179 63.9 81.3

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Getting there

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 40 yards north-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

Choose one of these rewards:

Money5 gold35 silver
Experience2,750 XP
ReputationGilneas +250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeLeather Legs
Item level5
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+1 Agility or Intellect, +2 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for2 silver10 copper
TypePlate Feet
Item level5
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor7
Stats+1 Strength or Intellect, +1 Stamina
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for1 silver62 copper
TypeMail Legs
Item level5
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+1 Agility or Intellect, +2 Stamina
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for2 silver16 copper
TypeCloth Chest
Item level5
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+1 Intellect, +2 Stamina
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for2 silver9 copper

Reputation: Gilneas +250

The people of Gilneas are a nation of survivors. Having walled themselves off from the rest of humanity, they must now face new threats from within.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Gilneas that reward Gilneas reputation: Among Humans Again (+25), Further Treatment (+25), In Need of Ingredients (+250), Invasion (+250), Kill or Be Killed (+75), Hold the Line (+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

Gilneas

Part 76 of 100.

Previous: The Blackwald · Next: Tal'doren, the Wild Home

  1. 71Stormglen
  2. 72Pest Control
  3. 73Queen-Sized Troubles
  4. 74Pieces of the Past
  5. 75The Blackwald
  6. 76Losing Your Tail
  7. 77Tal'doren, the Wild Home
  8. 78At Our Doorstep
  9. 79Preparations
  10. 80Take Back What's Ours
  11. 81Neither Human Nor Beast
  12. 82Return to Stormglen

Showing steps 71 to 82 of 100.

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.

  • The BlackwaldGilneas · Level 1-20

    It took a while, but I think I've put together what happened here. At least partially. There were survivors of the Curse in this town. They joined others in the mountains, in Tempest's Reach. Everyone left, except the man who kept the journal, old man Bradshaw.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Tal'doren, the Wild HomeGilneas · Level 1-20

    There are others like you, <name>. And they too, were lost and confused. There is a place where you belong. Tal'doren, the wild home, was once home to an order of druids who took the shape of wolves. It is there that you will find the answers you seek.

The storyline at a glance

Gilneas has 100 steps, from Lockdown! to Rut'theran Village.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Gilneas (89), Gilneas City (11).

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.