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Payback

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

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Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv61Lgoo75A

Accept the quest, Scheduled Pickup from [npc=75250] at coords 57.2, 77.0, in Light's Rest.

1. Scheduled Pickup - (Video) - Travel west to coords 55.0, 77.1, and then follow the paved path south to coords 52.3, 82.5.
• Travel down the stairs, and continue to follow the paved path southwest to 50.4, 87.5.
• Turn in this quest to [npc=77869] and accept Restalaan, Captain of the Guard.
• Accept Never Forget from [npc=78083].
• Accept Payback from [npc=78082].

Payback - Travel up the nearby stairs and defeat 12 Telmor invaders, while completing quests in this area.
• Pick up Invasion of the Soul Eaters from a note located at coords 49.3, 88.1.

Invasion of the Soul Eaters - Click the [item=108886] located at 49.2, 87.9.
• Click on 4 [object=227525] in Telmor to burn them.

Never Forget - Click on the [item=108896] located at coords 49.2, 87.9.
• Travel to a building and enter at 48.8, 90.5, and click on the [item=109622], located in the back of the room.
• Exit the building and travel to another building to enter at coords 47.9, 89.6 and click on [item=108897], located in the back of the room.
• Travel to 50, 87 to turn in the quests.

2. Restalaan, Captain of the Guard - (Video) - Travel back up the stairs to coords 48.4, 89.8.
• Turn right and continue up another set of stairs, and into a building located at coords 45.3, 90.4.
• Turn in the quest to Restalaan, at 44.9, 90.5, and accept The Final Piece.

3. The Final Piece - (Video) - Defeat [npc=77051] at coords 44.6, 90.8.
• Click on [item=109197] (crystal fragment at same location) to retrieve it.
• Turn in the quest to Restalaan, accepting Changing the Tide.

4. Changing the Tide - (Video) - Exit the building and travel northwest to coords 43.4, 76.0 and turn in the quest to [npc=77799], accepting Desperate Measures.

5. Desperate Measures - (Video) - Travel south to coords 42.4, 84.8 and defeat [npc=77349], and loot the [item=109162] from his corpse.
• Travel west to coords 39.4, 83.4 and defeat [npc=77350], and loot the [item=109163] from his corpse.
• Travel east to coords 41.1, 82.4 and click on [npc=77729] to perform the ritual.
• After the ritual is complete, travel northeast to coords 43.4, 76.0 and turn in the quest to [npc=77799].

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 20-40
ZoneTalador
Quest ID34234

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(34234))

What to do

StorylineIn the Shadows of Auchindoun, step 12 of 24
Rewards16g 98s, 5,450 XP

Description

We thought we were safe behind Leafshadow's cloaking veil. <Vindicator Kaluud wipes the blood from his face.> Someone told the Shadow Council's forces how to disable it. We were able to hold them off at first... Most of the town was slaughtered in the attack. Please, you must avenge our fallen. Rout these invaders out from Telmor forever!

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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.

Talador Quest turn-in 8 mapped points
Talador map showing where to go for PaybackTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #535 50.4 87.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTalador 50.4, 87.3/way #535 50.4 87.3
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Talador 47.6, 89.6/way #535 47.6 89.6
  • Objective areaTalador 50.6, 87.4/way #535 50.6 87.4

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 Talador map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Talador:

  • Retribution Point, TaladorAlliance and Horde · about 640 yards north-west
  • Apexis Excavation, Spires of ArakAlliance and Horde · about 690 yards south-east
  • Exarch's Refuge, TaladorAlliance · about 790 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 190 yards south-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
Money16 gold98 silver
Experience5,450 XP
ReputationCouncil of Exarchs +250

Reward details

Reputation: Council of Exarchs +250

Under the leadership of five powerful exarchs, the draenei of Draenor have prospered in a savage world.

Reputation group: Warlords of Draenor.

Other quests in Talador that reward Council of Exarchs reputation: Nightmare in the Tomb (+250), Pieces of Us (+250), Burning Sky (+250), Barum's Notes (+250), Disrupting the Flow (+250), The Heart of Auchindoun (+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

In the Shadows of Auchindoun

Part 12 of 24.

Previous: Scheduled Pickup · Next: Invasion of the Soul Eaters

  1. 7Light's Rest
  2. 8Vile Defilers
  3. 9Into the Hollow
  4. 10Antivenin
  5. 11Scheduled Pickup
  6. 12Payback
  7. 13Invasion of the Soul Eaters
  8. 14Never Forget
  9. 15Restalaan, Captain of the Guard
  10. 16The Final Piece
  11. 17Changing the Tide
  12. 18Desperate Measures

Showing steps 7 to 18 of 24.

Also part of: In the Shadows of Auchindoun (part 12 of 24).

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.

  • Scheduled PickupTalador · Level 20-40

    You've proven yourself more than capable in battle, <name>. As you know, there may be Shadow Council forces anywhere around Auchindoun, including near Telmor. Tuulani's powers as a soulpriest have not yet fully manifested; she isn't capable of protecting the shard alone.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Invasion of the Soul EatersTalador · Level 20-40

    <The note is scrawled hurriedly across the parchment.> Telmor is lost. The Shadow Council is dragging our fallen into piles and feeding the souls to their leader. There is blood on my hands... Please, if anyone reads this message, burn the bodies of our fallen so our enemy cannot use them.

The storyline at a glance

In the Shadows of Auchindoun has 24 steps, from Holding the Line to Together We Are Strong.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Talador (24).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Talador 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.