Placing the Pawns (Horde)

Reward details

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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.

Getting there

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

• Flame Crest, Burning SteppesHorde · at the same spot
• Chiselgrip, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 450 yards south-west
• New Kargath, BadlandsHorde · about 860 yards north

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.

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: Horde only · Burning Steppes · Level 15-30.

• Placing the PawnsAlliance only · Burning Steppes · Level 15-30

Also counted by Burning Steppes Quests

Its criteria name 8 quests; others include:

• Return to Keeshan
• Enough Damage For One Day
• The Spoils of War
• Placing the Pawns
• Return to Ariok

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

• Regrets of the Past17 steps, starts with One Final Relic
• On the Trail of the Black Prince8 steps, starts with Whispers of N'Zoth
• Some Wicked Things13 steps, starts with Beginning Impositions

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.