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Returning the Favor

A World of Warcraft quest in Nagrand. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Just kill the ogres at Laughing Skull Ruins, click the banner and you will pierce the body with it. Be sure not to stand in the body though, because you might pierce yourself to, I got stuck like 5 times. ;)

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
Quest ID9931

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(9931))

What to do

StorylineNagrand, step 40 of 94
Rewards21g, 4,100 XP

Description

Now you must plant the seed of war in the fat, useless heads of the Warmaul. To the northwest, near the mountains, you will find the Laughing Skull Ruins. <Lantresor points into the crate of armaments you brought him.> Do you recognize those banners? They are Kil'sorrow banners. I want you to take a stack of Kil'sorrow banners and plant them on the corpses of Warmaul ogres. Remember, northwest is where you will find the ogres.

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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.

Nagrand Quest turn-in 13 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #107 73.8 62.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inNagrand 73.8, 62.6/way #107 73.8 62.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Nagrand 47.3, 20.7/way #107 47.3 20.7

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 Nagrand map

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

Getting there

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

  • Shattrath, Terokkar ForestAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards north-east
  • Telaar, NagrandAlliance · about 1,200 yards south-west
  • Garadar, NagrandHorde · about 1,400 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 2,100 yards north-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.

Related
Money21 gold
Experience4,100 XP

Storyline

Nagrand

Part 40 of 94.

Previous: Body of Evidence · Next: Survey the Land

  1. 35He Will Walk The Earth...
  2. 36The Totem of Kar'dash
  3. 37Armaments for Deception
  4. 38Ruthless Cunning
  5. 39Body of Evidence
  6. 40Returning the Favor
  7. 41Survey the Land
  8. 42Buying Time
  9. 43The Master Planner
  10. 44Patience and Understanding
  11. 45Crackin' Some Skulls
  12. 46It's Just That Easy?

Showing steps 35 to 46 of 94.

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.

  • Body of EvidenceNagrand · Level 15-30

    Your rampage through Kil'sorrow Fortress has provided us with a special opportunity. We have enough bodies to make it appear as if a great battle has taken place. Travel to the Laughing Skull Ruins and find the Laughing Skull Courtyard. There should be a blazing pyre in the courtyard.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Survey the LandNagrand · Level 15-30

    To be my eyes will require some diligence on your part. Nethrandamus will take you through the Legion camps, but you must catalog everything that you see. Even the smallest detail that you may think to be inconsequential could be useful for our purposes.

The storyline at a glance

Nagrand has 94 steps, from Do My Eyes Deceive Me to There Is No Hope.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Nagrand (87), Terokkar Forest (4), Shattrath City (2), Auchenai Crypts (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Nagrand 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.