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Pushing Back

Pushing Back is a quest for level 30-35 in Twilight Highlands. It is step 144 of 236 in the Twilight Highlands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Twilight Highlands at 44.0, 10.5. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,800 experience and money.

Description

Da Twilight's Hammer have destroyed a Dragonmaw town to the south and are performin' dey're summonin' rituals from there. Offer dem no respite to continue wit dey're incantations. Bring tha battle to dem!

Rewards

Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
ReputationThe Earthen Ring +250
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Only the Twilight Bonecrusher's count towards the count for this quest. I just killed everything I saw and realize that it didn't help after the third senseless murder. So I ended up wasting mana, health, and my time for no reason...stupidity at it's finest : /

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,800
MoneyGold13g 74s
ReputationThe Earthen Ring+250

Reward details

Reputation: The Earthen Ring +250

This gathering of the most powerful shaman of Azeroth seeks to maintain the balance between the world's elemental forces. Their main focus during the cataclysm has been to repair and stabilize the damage caused by Deathwing's arrival.

Reputation group: Cataclysm.

Other quests in Twilight Highlands that reward The Earthen Ring reputation: Torn Ground (+250), Unbroken (+250), Simple Solutions (+250), Mercy for the Bound (+250), The Maw of Madness (+25), The Weeping Wound (+25).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapTwilight HighlandsTurn-in marker at 44.0, 10.5, 10 mapped points
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.

Twilight Highlands Quest turn-in 10 mapped points
Twilight Highlands map showing where to go for Pushing BackTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #241 44.0 10.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTwilight Highlands 44.0, 10.5/way #241 44.0 10.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Twilight Highlands 41.5, 17.1/way #241 41.5 17.1

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 Twilight Highlands map

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

Getting there

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

  • Thundermar, Twilight HighlandsAlliance · about 660 yards south
  • Kirthaven, Twilight HighlandsAlliance · about 690 yards east
  • Vermillion Redoubt, Twilight HighlandsAlliance and Horde · about 960 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 270 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Twilight Highlands

Part 144 of 236.

Previous: Torn Ground · Next: Unbroken

  1. 139Something Stolen
  2. 140Something Stewed
  3. 141Words and Music By...
  4. 142Wild, Wild, Wildhammer Wedding
  5. 143Torn Ground
  6. 144Pushing Back
  7. 145Unbroken
  8. 146Simple Solutions
  9. 147Mercy for the Bound
  10. 148The Maw of Iso'rath
  11. 149Devoured
  12. 150The Worldbreaker

Showing steps 139 to 150 of 236.

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.

  • Torn GroundTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    It won't be takin' much convincin' to turn us against da Twilight - dat's already our goal. We've already come to battle here though, so we may be needin' ya help before we can turn towards dere fortress. Da Twilight have already brought Iso'rath up from da ground to the south, I'm sure ya noticed.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • UnbrokenTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    We are preparing a ritual that may be of use in destroying Iso'rath, the old god bred abomination that the Twilight's Hammer have brought up from the depths. We are delayed though, for one of our strongest was captured during an assault on their encampment.

Quests that require this one

The storyline at a glance

Twilight Highlands has 236 steps, from Twilight Shores to Skullcrusher the Mountain.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Twilight Highlands (222), Azshara (9), Orgrimmar (4), Stormwind City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Twilight Highlands 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.

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Quest Location and Connections

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