Return with the Bad News

Reward details

Pick one of these

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 Borean Tundra:

• Taunka'le Village, Borean TundraHorde · about 40 yards south-east
• Unu'pe, Borean TundraAlliance and Horde · about 570 yards south
• Warsong Camp, WintergraspHorde · about 1,600 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

• Objective areaabout 530 yards north (on the Wintergrasp map)

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.

• The Doctor and the Lich-LordBorean Tundra · Level 10-30

  There are two... that must... be killed. The doctor and... the lich-lord... are above. Find them... destroy them... before.... ...it is too... late....

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• What Are They Up To?Borean Tundra · Level 10-30

  The gnomes have run into some trouble in the pools to the west. It serves them right as they have been fouling up the land with their so-called inventions. I want you to go out to their pumping station and observe what has befallen them. Return to me after.

Also counted by Nothing Boring About Borean

Its criteria name 23 quests; others include:

• Them!
• Succulent Orca Stew
• Surrender... Not!
• Keymaster Urmgrgl
• Escape from the Winterfin Caverns
• The Emissary
• Return My Remains
• The Plains of Nasam

The storyline at a glance

Borean Tundra has 182 steps, from Enlistment Day to Across Transborea.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Borean Tundra (178), Sholazar Basin (2), Wintergrasp (1), Dragonblight (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

• Nothing Boring About Borean Complete the Borean Tundra storylines listed below.
• D.E.H.T.A's Little P.I.T.A. Uphold D.E.H.T.A's beliefs by completing all of the quests up to and including the Assassination of Harold Lane.
• Mrglgrgl of Grglmrgl Complete the storylines involving King Mrgl-Mrgl in Borean Tundra, Highmountain, and Zul'Aman.

Other storylines on the Borean Tundra map

• Winterfin Retreat13 steps, starts with King Mrgl-Mrgl
• Light's Wrath8 steps, starts with The Light's Wrath
• Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna7 steps, starts with Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
• Gnome Heritage Armor11 steps, starts with Shifting Gears
• The Veiled Ossuary20 steps, starts with Keeper of the Ossuary
• The Blue Dragons63 steps, starts with Keeper of the Ossuary

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.