Skip to content
Advertisement
Quest Log

Pruning the Garden

Pruning the Garden is a quest for level 45. It is step 2 of 11 in the Saga of the Shadowblade III storyline. It rewards 12,300 experience and money.

Description

In a very real sense, the Uncrowned are gardeners. We snip and trim here and there. One clipping of a single branch may seem nonsensical until you step back and look at the garden as a whole.

On the greater theater of the Broken Isles, we must act decisively. The forces that arrayed against Azeroth are moving quickly. We need to prune some very ugly flowers to make our garden beautiful again, wouldn't you agree, <name>?

Rewards

Money80 gold88 silver
Experience12,300 XP

Stuck on this quest?

Known issues

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1 more comment below ↓

Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(43470))

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

Read all 11 on Wowhead ↗

Advertisement
Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP12,300
MoneyGold80g 88s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapDalaran
World Map

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.

Dalaran Quest turn-in

Nearby on the Dalaran map

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

Getting there

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

  • DalaranAlliance and Horde · about 270 yards east
  • Western SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards north
  • Deliverance Point, Broken ShoreAlliance and Horde · about 1,500 yards south-east

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Saga of the Shadowblade III

Part 2 of 11.

Previous: Where In the World is Mathias? · Next: The World is Not Enough

  1. 1Where In the World is Mathias?
  2. 2Pruning the Garden
  3. 3The World is Not Enough
  4. 4A Burning Distraction
  5. 5The Captive Spymaster
  6. 6Picking a Fight
  7. 7A Simple Plan
  8. 8Under Cover of Darkness
  9. 9The Imposter
  10. 10Champion: Taoshi
  11. 11Champion: Master Mathias Shaw

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.

  • Where In the World is Mathias?Level 45

    Master Mathias Shaw is the leader of the Alliance intelligence organization known as SI:7. And apparently, he is now a dreadlord. Or rather, a very clever dreadlord has taken his place while he is being held captive somewhere.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The World is Not EnoughLevel 45

    Now that we have pruned the garden, it is time to dig up the rotting tree stump in the middle. Put another way, we need to make sure to keep the forces of chaos from overwhelming the Broken Isles. Certainly others are helping in this endeavor.

The storyline at a glance

Saga of the Shadowblade III has 11 steps, from Where In the World is Mathias? to Champion: Master Mathias Shaw.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dalaran (8), Suramar (2), Stormwind City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Dalaran 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.

Related
Proving Pit
Proving Pit
Prowler Problems
Prune the Podlings
Pry It From Their Cold, Feral Claws
Prying Eyes
Psycho Mantid
Pterrortorial Dispute
Database
Downloads

Background