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Placing the Pawns

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

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Guide to Burning Steppes quests:

Optional breadcrumbs:
Hero's Call: Burning Steppes or Mouton Flamestar

Do anytime before leaving to Chiselgrip:
Done Nothing Wrong

Keeshan is back with either:
Burning Vengeance if you did the Redridge chain or Burning Vengeance if you did not.

These three at once:
Stocking Up
A Future Project
Mud Hunter

Then:
The Sand, the Cider, and the Orb

These two at once: Warlocks Have the Neatest Stuff and Shadow Boxing

Then:
Return to Keeshan
Chiselgrip, the Heart of the Steppes

Enables these quests, which must be completed before General Thor'izog in the main chain:
Prove Yer Allegiance
Scrapped Golems (leads to Golem Training)

Main chain continues:
A Needle in a Hellhole
A Perfect Costume (4 versions) Read the quest carefully. What creature disguise do you need?
---> Orc (given to Humans and Dwarves): 2 Hides, 4 muds, 2 thread
---> Goblin (given to Gnomes): 1 hide, 3 mud, 4 thread
---> Troll (given to Night Elves): 3 Hides, 2 mud, 1 thread
---> Ogre (given to Draenei and Worgen): 4 Hide, 1 Mud, 3 thread

Then:
Into the Black Tooth Hovel
Grunt Work
Look in your quest log -- Strategic Cuts has silently appeared
The Kodocaller's Horn
Taking the Horn for Ourselves
Until Blizzard fixes it, when you turn in this quest, you will get a failed quest sound
with "You don't meet the requirements for that quest". Don't panic.

You must by this time have finished Stebben's quests, listed above.
General Thorg'izog
Trial by Magma
I Am the Law and I am the Lash [I think this completing this one is optional]
When you accept the above, look for Abuse of Power in your quest log

Then:
Enough Damage for One Day
Morgan's Vigil

Completing that quest allows for these four together:
SEVEN! YUP! [rewards Tiny Flamefly]
Blackened Ashes
A Heap of Delicious Worg
Latent Demons of the Land

Then these three together:
Blood Tour
Draconic Vanguard
A Deal with a Dragon

Given when third one above is completed: Placing the Pawns

Then these three:
A Delivery for Thorg'izog
A Delivery for Neeralak
A Delivery for Zi'lun

Auto-accepted when above three are done:
Locked and Loaded

And the epic conclusion:
Assault on Dreadmaul Rock
Glory Amidst Chaos
The Spoils of War

That is every comment on this page.

Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneBurning Steppes
Quest ID28326

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28326))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only
Requires all ofBlood Tour, Draconic Vanguard, A Deal With a Dragon

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

WhereBurning Steppes, around 73.6, 67.2
StorylineBurning Steppes, step 67 of 82
RewardsBreastplate of the Undercover Thorium Brother, Subversive Steps, Bracers of Vigil, 10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

{name}. It sounds like you and Keeshan have finished with your tasks. I've also finished mine. Return to Morgan's Vigil. I've prepared a few packages to deliver to the Big Three: Thorg'izog, Neeralak, and Xi'lun. You've already met General Thorg'izog. This will be your chance to meet the other two. That is, before we kill them.

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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.

Burning Steppes Quest turn-in 1 mapped point
Burning Steppes map showing where to go for Placing the PawnsTurn-in

In-game waypoint: /way #36 73.6 67.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBurning Steppes 73.6, 67.2/way #36 73.6 67.2

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 Burning Steppes map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Burning Steppes:

  • Morgan's Vigil, Burning SteppesAlliance · about 60 yards north-west
  • Chiselgrip, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards north-west
  • Camp Everstill, RedridgeAlliance · about 1,100 yards south

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:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypePlate Chest
Item level26
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor23
Stats+7 Strength or Intellect, +10 Stamina, +8 Parry
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for39 gold80 silver
TypeMail Feet
Item level26
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +7 Haste
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for29 gold68 silver
TypeLeather Wrist
Item level26
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor5
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for19 gold87 silver
TypeCloth Wrist
Item level26
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+4 Intellect, +6 Stamina, +6 Haste
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for19 gold79 silver

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

Burning Steppes

Part 67 of 82.

Previous: A Deal With a Dragon · Next: Placing the Pawns

  1. 62Blood Tour
  2. 63Draconic Vanguard
  3. 64Draconic Vanguard
  4. 65A Deal With a Dragon
  5. 66A Deal With a Dragon
  6. 67Placing the Pawns
  7. 68Placing the Pawns
  8. 69A Delivery for Thorg'izog
  9. 70A Delivery for Thorg'izog
  10. 71A Delivery for Neeralak
  11. 72A Delivery for Neeralak
  12. 73A Delivery for Xi'lun

Showing steps 62 to 73 of 82.

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 Deal With a DragonBurning Steppes · Level 15-30

    While we are circling around Dreadmaul Rock, there's one more stop that we need to make. You remember the hatchlings that you freed from the Whelping Downs? I've been watching over them, and now we're going to deliver them to someone who will take care of them better than we can.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Delivery for Thorg'izogBurning Steppes · Level 15-30

    General Thorg'izog is staying among the ogres in the Firegut Furnace, a cave on the western edge of Dreadmaul Rock. I'd like you to deliver this to him and the ogres.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Burning Steppes · Level 15-30.

Also counted by Burning Steppes Quests

Its criteria name 8 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Burning Steppes has 82 steps, from Done Nothing Wrong to The Spoils of War.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Burning Steppes (82).

Other storylines on the Burning Steppes 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

Burning Steppes QuestsComplete the Burning Steppes storylines listed below.10