TheWoWDBThis quest chain is the one which opens the portal to and from Stormwind, which makes it a must complete for everyone levelling here.
And you may as well do landgrab at the same time, as they're both in the same place (not sure if they are both needed to progress or not, I did both anyway).
Quest
Scouting the Shore
A World of Warcraft quest in Twilight Highlands. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Please note that in order for Lieutenant Emry to give you the starting quest chain of "Scouting the Shore", you MUST have previously done the quest chain that starts with "Hero's Call: Twilight Highlands" which you pick up at the Hero Board in Stormwind. The first quest the Hero Board takes you to is in SW called "My Son, the Prince".
For the Hero Board, there are about a dozen more quests you do in the chain until you finally get the quest that "ports (flies)" you to Twilight Highlands.
THEN, once you have been ported to Twilight Highlands (Highbank area) you have to do the starting quests in this area too until you finally are sent to Emry which opens up "Scouting the Shore".
Simple quest, from where you meet Lieutenant Emry you head along the beach until you see some wooden pikes in the ground and a giant stormwind banner. That's the point, just get next to it and that part is done. The Banner is at 77.5 65.2
Quest facts
LevelLevel 30-35
Quest ID27341
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27341))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineTwilight Highlands, step 12 of 236
Rewards6g 87s, 2,400 XP
Description
It's them or us, {class}. Only one of us can command this beach. North of here you'll see a small hill with a commanding view of the shoreline. Whoever controls that hill will have the upper hand up and down the shore! I need to know what the current situation is. Scout the beach head control point, marked by that enormous flag, and return to me. You don't have to try to capture it, unless you're spoiling for a fight...
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.
Turn-inObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #241 76.8 69.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inTwilight Highlands 76.8, 69.8
/way #241 76.8 69.8 - Objective areaTwilight Highlands 77.5, 64.6
/way #241 77.5 64.6
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 Twilight Highlands map
- More Doom about 1,280 yards
- Xal'atath's Proven Faithful about 1,300 yards
- Twilight's Dawn about 1,470 yards
- The Twilight Highlands about 1,470 yards
- Cult It Out about 1,470 yards
- Disrupt the Call about 1,470 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,490 yards
- Midnight Dress about 1,600 yards
- Honor the Flame about 2,120 yards
- Investigating the Highlands about 2,260 yards
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
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Twilight Highlands:
- Highbank, Twilight Highlands
- Firebeard's Patrol, Twilight Highlands
- Victor's Point, Twilight Highlands
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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.
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Other quests on the Twilight Highlands map
Reward details
Reputation: Stormwind +75
One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.
Reputation group: Alliance.
Other quests in Twilight Highlands that reward Stormwind reputation: Salvage Operation (+250), Naga Reinforcements (+250), Siren's Song (+250), Our Boys on the Shore (+75), Landgrab (+350), Shredderectomy (+250).
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.
Storyline
Twilight Highlands
Part 12 of 236.
Previous: Siege Tank Rescue · Next: Landgrab
- 7Salvage Operation
- 8Naga Reinforcements
- 9Our Boys on the Shore
- 10Shredderectomy
- 11Siege Tank Rescue
- 12Scouting the Shore
- 13Landgrab
- 14Bird Down! Bird Down!
- 15Roots'll Do 'Er
- 16Wings Over Highbank
- 17The Perfect Poultice
- 18Any Portal in a Storm
Showing steps 7 to 18 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.
- Siege Tank Rescue
One by one, we're gonna have to pull our siege tanks outta the muck. Take these 'ere spare parts you've collected and give 'em to a siege tank commander who's perched on one o'those banged-up machines. Then defend the tank while engineers repair the blasted thing. Go an' make me proud, <class>!
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Landgrab
The Horde's Axebite Marines are all up in my precious, precious beach. <The Lieutenant points north, along the shore.> Kill them.
Other quests with this name
This one: Alliance only · Twilight Highlands · Level 30-35.
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
- Allies of the Horde: Vulpera
- The Cult Within
- In the Shadow of Crimson Wings
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.