TheWoWDBWhen you get near Skorn, follow the road from the west and use the insignia to summon the questgiver on the road outside the village (as soon as it tells you you are in Skorn). Accept all of his quests at once. The best way to tackle this is to work around the outside rather than bulling through the village.
Give priority to the Towers of Certain Doom quest - using the Sergeant's Flare to call down the attack on the towers. The reason for this is the casters on the towers WILL nuke you down fast unless you get rid of them. Once the casters are gone, the ground mobs are easier to tackle.
It's worth noting that you can use the Sergeant's Flare multiple times on the same tower, so if the casters respawn you can get rid of them again.
Continue to work around the edges, burning the longhouses and barracks as you go. Don't forget to chop the corpses up as well.
Quest
Operation: Skornful Wrath
A World of Warcraft quest in Howling Fjord. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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I used the insignia at loc. 44,29. Talk to the sergeant that appears to finish the quest. He then gives you 3 more quests.
Leads to
- Towers of Certain Doom
- Burn Skorn, Burn!
- Gruesome, But Necessary
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11248))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
{name}, I must now ask you to undertake an operation so hazardous, so deadly, that only you can see it through. The vrykul fortress, Skorn, sits on our eastern border. My scouts inform me that those 'giants' are poised to strike us, and with my forces scattered all over the fjord, I don't have the men to take the place by force. Instead, you're going to use your cunning. I've sent a sergeant ahead with the details. Show this command insignia at Skorn and he'll reveal himself and follow your orders.
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 #117 45.1 31.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inHowling Fjord 45.1, 31.9
/way #117 45.1 31.9 - Objective areaHowling Fjord 28.9, 44.2
/way #117 28.9 44.2
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 Howling Fjord map
- Honor the Flame about 1,000 yards
- Hero's Call: Howling Fjord! about 1,570 yards
- To Northrend about 2,010 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Howling Fjord, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Howling Fjord:
- Westguard Keep, Howling Fjord
- Fort Wildervar, Howling Fjord
- Valgarde Port, Howling Fjord
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.
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Reward details
Reputation: Valiance Expedition +10
The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: Break the Blockade (+250), Scare the Guano Out of Them! (+250), Shoveltusk Soup Again? (+250), The Clutches of Evil (+250), Mage-Lieutenant Malister (+10), Two Wrongs... (+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
Howling Fjord
Part 93 of 162.
Previous: Mission: Plague This! · Next: Gruesome, But Necessary
- 88Mission: Package Retrieval
- 89Mission: Forsaken Intel
- 90Absholutely... Thish Will Work!
- 91You Tell Him ...Hic!
- 92Mission: Plague This!
- 93Operation: Skornful Wrath
- 94Gruesome, But Necessary
- 95Burn Skorn, Burn!
- 96Towers of Certain Doom
- 97All Hail the Conqueror of Skorn!
- 98Dealing With Gjalerbron
- 99Of Keys and Cages
Showing steps 88 to 99 of 162.
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.
- Mission: Plague This!
The Royal Apothecary Society thinks they're going to perfect a new plague to melt us down where we stand?! Not on my watch! Get out to the courtyard and speak with Greer Orehammer. He's got a gryphon and some bombs ready for you. I want you to bomb the plague tanks at New Agamand to smithereens!
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Gruesome, But Necessary
We've had reports that these vrykul can rise from the dead; not unlike the Scourge, but a different kind of undeath. Let's not take any chances. Here, take my machete. As we move through this place, you'll need to carve up the remains of the vrykul that we take down.
The storyline at a glance
Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Howling Fjord map
- Truthguard
- Wrath of the Lich King Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.