Quest Log

Ready the Ground Troops

Ready the Ground Troops is a Horde-only quest for level 30-35 in Azshara. It is step 58 of 236 in the Twilight Highlands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Azshara at 60.2, 50.4. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,800 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

It was a bad idea to muster the troops in this festering goblin metropolis. Every vice that coin can buy is within arm's reach. Our mighty veterans are running rampant, blowing years of Northrend back-pay in a city-wide debacle.

Can you make a sweep through the city and gather up any stragglers that have gone AWOL?

My axebite warriors are unmatched on the battlefield, but I won't have them disgrace their uniforms while on shore leave.

Rewards

Money13

Experience4,800 XP

ReputationOrgrimmar +250

Top Comments

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725084Dec 9, 2010+38via Wowhead

Reference to Chess musical - One night in Bankok by Murray Head:
One night in Bilgewater makes a hard orc humble.
VS
On night in Bankok makes a hard man humble

43569Dec 11, 2010+37via Wowhead

Here's a hint to finding them without straining your eyes too much.
/target AWOL
/script SetRaidTarget("target",8)
Use that macro (spam), then look for the skull as you fly around the city.

362283Dec 17, 2010+20via Wowhead

If you're lucky, then your orc's a "she."

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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	4,800
Money	Gold	13g 74s
Reputation	Orgrimmar	+250

Reward details

Reputation: Orgrimmar +250

Founded by Thrall, this Horde capital city is home to many of the proud orc clans of Durotar.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Azshara that reward Orgrimmar reputation: The Eyes of Ashenvale (+250), Venison for the Troops (+250), Return of the Highborne? (+150), To Gut a Fish (+250), Report to Twocrush (+150), Sisters of the Sea (+350).

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 map	Azshara	Turn-in marker at 60.2, 50.4, 8 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.

Coordinates

Turn-inAzshara 60.2, 50.4/way #76 60.2 50.4
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Azshara 56.1, 50.6/way #76 56.1 50.6

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 Azshara map

Shore Leave about 20 yards
Operation Fishgut about 30 yards
Rapid Deployment about 130 yards
Azshara Blues about 270 yards
Weigh Anchor about 290 yards
Farewell, Minnow about 380 yards
Friends Come In All Colors about 760 yards
A Little Pick-me-up about 760 yards
That's Just Rude! about 760 yards
Absorbent about 760 yards

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

Getting there

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

Bilgewater Harbor, AzsharaHorde · about 400 yards west
Southern Rocketway, AzsharaHorde · about 1,000 yards south-west
Northern Rocketway, AzsharaHorde · about 1,100 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 230 yards 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 58 of 236.

Previous: Pre-Flight Checklist · Next: Ready the Navy

Showing steps 53 to 64 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.

Pre-Flight ChecklistAzshara · Level 30-35
This new engine is extremely fast. And dangerous. I'd use the word "volatile." That's the way the Captain likes it. Run back up the hill and let him know that I'll install this bad boy right now and that he should meet me at the construction site.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

Ready the NavyAzshara · Level 30-35
Hellscream expects an armada of ships for his invasion, but the docks here are weeks behind schedule. Costs are rampant and quality is poor. Corruption is the problem, <name>! And I need you to root it out. The Foebreaker, a warship berthed at the northwest pier, should have been outfitted days ago.

Quests that require this one

Twilight Skies

Also counted by Fading into Twilight

Its criteria name 13 quests; others include:

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:

Fading into Twilight Complete the Twilight Highlands storylines listed below.
Round Three. Fight! Complete the Crucible of Carnage quests in Twilight Highlands up to and including The Twilight Terror!
The First Rule of Ring of Blood is You Don't Talk About Ring of Blood Complete the Ring of Blood, Amphitheater of Anguish and Crucible of Carnage.

Other storylines on the Azshara map

Azshara88 steps, starts with Runaway Shredder!
Xylem Challenge10 steps, starts with Subtlety: The Thieving Apprentice
A Golden Opportunity11 steps, starts with Our Next Target
The Jade Forest, The Remains of Hellscream's Fist13 steps, starts with The Art of War
Mists of Pandaria19 steps, starts with The King's Command
Legion Blacksmithing1 steps, starts with Weigh Anchor

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.

Fading into TwilightComplete the Twilight Highlands storylines listed below.10

Fading into Twilight: its criteria name 13 quests, this one included.

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Ready the Ground Troops

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