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Operation: Gryphon's Claw

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

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For the BFA War Campaign, there are 4 breadcrumb quests: Operation: Blood Arrow, Operation: Cutpurse, Operation: Gryphon's Claw & Operation: Heartstrike. They all act in the same way. Originally they would pop up during the campaign, telling you you needed to get more reputation with The 7th Legion before opening up next step. However, in 8.2.5, Blizzard removed the reputation requirements for the War Campaign quests. At first I thought that had effectively made these breadcrumbs unavailable, but they can be done, you just have to do things in a very specific manner.

For Operation: Blood Arrow:
1) Do all the intro quests from Halford, up to and including Blood on the Sand.
2) Do not accept next War Campaign quest from Halford yet.
3) If needed, grind 7th Legion reputation up to Friendly 4500/6000. Check https://www.wowhead.com/guide/the-7th-legion-reputation-guide-6196 for tips.
4) Triggering the actual quest can be done in two ways: Getting reputation with 7th Legion past the required rep (for example by doing a WQ on Zandalar) or by relogging in Stormwind.
5) Now you can turn in Operation: Blood Arrow and continue on with next step of the War Campaign.

For Operation: Cutpurse:
1) Continue on with War Campaign, up to and including Target: Blood Prince Dreven.
2) Do not accept next War Campaign quest from Halford yet.
3) If needed, grind 7th Legion reputation up to Honored 3000/12000.
4) Triggering the actual quest can be done in two ways: Getting reputation with 7th Legion past the required rep (for example by doing a WQ on Zandalar) or by relogging in Stormwind.
5) Now you can turn in Operation: Cutpurse and continue on with next step of the War Campaign.

For Operation: Gryphon's Claw:
1) Continue on with War Campaign, up to and including Gallywix Got Away.
2) Do not accept next War Campaign quest from Halford yet.
3) If needed, grind 7th Legion reputation up to Honored 7500/12000.
4) Triggering the actual quest can be done in two ways: Getting reputation with 7th Legion past the required rep (for example by doing a WQ on Zandalar) or by relogging in Stormwind.
5) Now you can turn in Operation: Gryphon's Claw and continue on with next step of the War Campaign.

For Operation: Heartstrike:
1) Continue on with War Campaign, up to and including A Clean Escape.
2) Do not accept next War Campaign quest from Halford yet.
3) If needed, grind 7th Legion reputation up to Revered.
4) Triggering the actual quest can be done in two ways: Getting reputation with 7th Legion past the required rep (for example by doing a WQ on Zandalar) or by relogging in Stormwind.
5) Now you can turn in Operation: Heartstrike and continue on with next step of the War Campaign.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 50
CategoryAlliance War Campaign
Quest ID53071

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(53071))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

Description

SI:7 has procured some interesting intel. I request your presence on the Wind's Redemption immediately to help decide our next course of action.

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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.

Tiragarde Sound Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Tiragarde Sound map showing where to go for Operation: Gryphon's ClawTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #895 74.1 26.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTiragarde Sound 74.1, 26.2/way #895 74.1 26.2
  • Objective areaTiragarde Sound 74.1, 26.3/way #895 74.1 26.3

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 Tiragarde Sound map

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

Getting there

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

  • Tradewinds Market, Tiragarde SoundAlliance · about 80 yards east
  • Hatherford, Tiragarde SoundAlliance · about 550 yards west

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
Money2 gold34 silver
Experience850 XP

Storyline

Blood in the Water

Part 11 of 11.

We've intercepted a Horde missive, and learned that Blood Lord Dreven is currently aboard a Horde ship on the Great Sea. We've lost too many good men to Dreven. It's time to make him pay.

Previous: A Clean Escape

  1. 1Intercepted Orders
  2. 2Hunting Blood Prince Dreven
  3. 3Behind Enemy Boats
  4. 4Broadside Bedlam
  5. 5The Wildhammer Specialty
  6. 6An Unnatural Crew
  7. 7Foul Crystals for Foul People
  8. 8Kings' Rest
  9. 9Ending the San'layn Threat
  10. 10A Clean Escape
  11. 11Operation: Gryphon's Claw

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.

  • A Clean EscapeLevel 50

    Our victory here will echo through the Horde like a warning shot. Grunts will whisper around the campfire that nowhere is safe from <name> and the Alliance. Soldiers will doubt, even for a moment, the strength of their commanders.

The storyline at a glance

Blood in the Water has 11 steps, from Intercepted Orders to Operation: Gryphon's Claw.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Great Sea (8), Tiragarde Sound (3).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • Ready for War Complete the war campaign in Kul Tiras and Zandalar.

Other storylines on the Tiragarde Sound 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.