TheWoWDBThis quest has become infuriatingly annoying to finish as of 7.3.5. The orcs will spot you from a long distance, the distraction usually can't pull them far away enough to properly sneak past them, and when you get pulled into combat you can't get rid of the kit to even try and fight your way out. Expect to die a lot of times. In fact it might just be easiest to bring a level 60+ to just kill everything instead. I suspect these problems arise due to scaling.
Quest
Prisoners of War
A World of Warcraft quest in Redridge Mountains. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Entrance to the cave is 68,74.
It seems as of 5.0.4, using Distraction near the cave at the south end of the zone results in a No Path Available error. Good luck getting into the cave -- those orcs ain't gonna move, nor will cholorforming them work, as their backs are against the cave mouth's wall. And that Drake Rider is affected as well.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 7-30
Quest ID26646
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26646))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineRedridge Mountains, step 23 of 31
Rewards5,150 XP
Description
The Bravo Company field kit is ready, {name}. I'm gonna equip you with it and you're gonna enter Render's Valley, southeast of here, and free our P.O.W.s. I'm sending Jorgensen with you to watch your back. Now the prisoners are being held on the northeast side of the valley in a large cage, but the key to the cage is in a cave on the south side of the valley. You'll have to steal the key, create a distraction, and free the citizens. Good luck, {name}! I'll be in touch through the field kit.
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 areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #49 52.5 55.4
Coordinates
- Turn-inRedridge Mountains 52.5, 55.4
/way #49 52.5 55.4 - Objective areaRedridge Mountains 69.8, 59.2
/way #49 69.8 59.2 - Objective areaRedridge Mountains 69.5, 76.3
/way #49 69.5 76.3
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 Redridge Mountains map
- Lindsay about 500 yards
- Lakeshire's Last Stand about 580 yards
- Lumber for Lakeshire about 650 yards
- Honor the Flame about 710 yards
- A Day in the Life about 830 yards
- Food on the Table about 830 yards
- Millie's Garden about 850 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Redridge Mountains, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Redridge Mountains:
- Camp Everstill, Redridge
- Lakeshire, Redridge
- The Harborage, Swamp of Sorrows
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- 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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Experience5,150 XP
ReputationStormwind +350
Reward details
Reputation: Stormwind +350
One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.
Reputation group: Alliance.
Other quests in Redridge Mountains that reward Stormwind reputation: Hero's Call: Redridge Mountains! (+250), Still Assessing the Threat (+350), WANTED: Redridge Gnolls (+250), Parker's Report (+75), Franks and Beans (+250), Nida's Necklace (+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
Redridge Mountains
Part 23 of 31.
Previous: Unspeakable Atrocities · Next: To Win a War, You Gotta Become War
- 18Bravo Company Field Kit: Camouflage
- 19Bravo Company Field Kit: Chloroform
- 20Hunting the Hunters
- 21Point of Contact: Brubaker
- 22Unspeakable Atrocities
- 23Prisoners of War
- 24To Win a War, You Gotta Become War
- 25Detonation
- 26The Dark Tower
- 27The Grand Magus Doane
- 28AHHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!!!
- 29Showdown at Stonewatch
Showing steps 18 to 29 of 31.
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.
- Unspeakable Atrocities
<You unfold the note and begin reading.> Keeshan, if you're reading this note, I'm dead. Likely that my position was compromised. Orcs are committing unspeakable atrocities against their prisoners. Yes, prisoners, Keeshan. They've got cages full of P.O.W's.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- To Win a War, You Gotta Become War
<The Bravo Company radio beeps.> Do you understand yet, <name>? Do you now see what we gotta do to win a war against these monsters? YOU GOTTA BECOME WAR! NO MERCY! With the P.O.W.s freed you're clear to plant the seaforium.
The storyline at a glance
Redridge Mountains has 31 steps, from We Must Prepare! to Triumphant Return.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Redridge Mountains (31).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Redridge Mountains map
- Lost Honor
- Trial of Ascension
- Battle Pet Tamers
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.