TheWoWDBThis is part of a questline, which is great for tanks gearing up for heroic because one of the final rewards is [item=63745]. It's a longish questline, but well worth doing as this is a really good trinket. It took me about 2 hours to get to the quest that gives this item, I've kept a log of the quests and I hope this post is useful to people considering taking this on. Chains that are marked in Wowhead are grouped together, non-obvious jumps are on the next paragraph.
This post should help people who either found this page and don't know how to get this quest, or who are trying to decide whether to do this questline to get the trinket all us new tanks seem to be after.The Maw of Madness
Torn Ground
Pushing Back
The Maw of Iso'rath
Devoured
The Worldbreaker
The Terrors of Iso'rath
NightmareWarm Welcome
Even Dragons Bleed
Draconic Mending
In Defense of the RedoubtThe following 3 are not chained, but all need to be done to get to the next set of quests
Encroaching Twilight
Far from the Nest
Breach in the DefensesEasy Pickings
Precious Goods
If The Key Fits
Pressing ForwardEnter the Dragon Queen This is a great cutscene, worth doing the questline even if you aren't after the trinket.
Battle of Life and Death Another great cutscene at the end
And the Sky Streaked RedBlackout
A Fitting End
Shining Through the Dark
Following the Young Home
Last of Her KindVictors' Point
Ogres & Ettins
Call in the Artillery
SI:7 Drop
Move the Mountain
Signal the Attack
Four Heads are Better than None which finally rewards the [item=63745]
Quest
Mathias' Command
A World of Warcraft quest in Twilight Highlands. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Along with Breach in the Defenses and Encroaching Twilight Also, this quests leads to Easy Pickings (Horde Version) and Precious Goods (Horde Version)
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28101))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
Recent events make it even more apparent that holing up here and making sporadic attacks on Grim Batol isn't enough to keep our kind safe, much less retake Grim Batol. We need to be more aggressive, we need to strike into their heart. I've agreed to send dragons to the aid of your commanders. They were already hatching a plan to strike at Grim Batol, so you should focus your attention there first. You should be able to find Mathias Shaw in Dragonmaw Pass, in the canyon below us to the south.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #241 26.0 38.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inTwilight Highlands 26.0, 38.8
/way #241 26.0 38.8 - Objective areaTwilight Highlands 29.3, 26.0
/way #241 29.3 26.0
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 Twilight Highlands map
- Investigating the Highlands about 660 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,170 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,460 yards
- Midnight Dress about 1,590 yards
- Xal'atath's Proven Faithful about 1,780 yards
- More Doom about 1,780 yards
- Twilight's Dawn about 1,940 yards
- The Twilight Highlands about 1,940 yards
- Cult It Out about 1,940 yards
- Disrupt the Call about 1,940 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Twilight Highlands, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Twilight Highlands:
- Vermillion Redoubt, Twilight Highlands
- Greenwarden's Grove, Wetlands
- Victor's Point, Twilight Highlands
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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.
Community notes from Wowhead · 3 comments
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u need to complete the quest:
Other quests on the Twilight Highlands map
Reward details
Reputation: Stormwind +75
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 Twilight Highlands that reward Stormwind reputation: Salvage Operation (+250), Naga Reinforcements (+250), Siren's Song (+250), Our Boys on the Shore (+75), Scouting the Shore (+75), Landgrab (+350).
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
Twilight Highlands
Part 162 of 236.
Previous: Breach in the Defenses · Next: Patchwork Command
- 157Life from Death
- 158In Defense of the Redoubt
- 159Encroaching Twilight
- 160Far from the Nest
- 161Breach in the Defenses
- 162Mathias' Command
- 163Patchwork Command
- 164Easy Pickings
- 165Easy Pickings
- 166Precious Goods
- 167Precious Goods
- 168The Gates of Grim Batol
Showing steps 157 to 168 of 236.
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.
- Breach in the Defenses
Every inch of air and every hill surrounding the redoubt is constantly under the watchful eye of Lira's drakes. They must have found a way into the shrine from beneath. Take this Flashgrowth mote.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Patchwork Command
Recent events make it even more apparent that holing up here and making sporadic attacks isn't enough to keep our kind safe, much less retake Grim Batol. We need to be more aggressive, we need to strike into their heart. I've agreed to send dragons to the aid of your commanders.
The storyline at a glance
Twilight Highlands has 236 steps, from Twilight Shores to Skullcrusher the Mountain.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Twilight Highlands (222), Azshara (9), Orgrimmar (4), Stormwind City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Twilight Highlands map
- Allies of the Horde: Vulpera
- The Cult Within
- In the Shadow of Crimson Wings
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.