Skip to content
Advertisement
Quest Log

Scouting the Shore (Alliance)

Scouting the Shore is an Alliance-only quest for level 30-35 in Twilight Highlands. It is step 12 of 236 in the Twilight Highlands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Twilight Highlands at 76.8, 69.8. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 2,400 experience and money.

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...

Rewards

Money6 gold87 silver
Experience2,400 XP
ReputationStormwind +75
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
672281+24via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This 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).

2
counthere+18via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

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".

3
mfox91+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

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

Read all 15 on Wowhead ↗

Advertisement
Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP2,400
MoneyGold6g 87s
ReputationStormwind+75

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapTwilight HighlandsTurn-in marker at 76.8, 69.8, 2 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 2 mapped points
Twilight Highlands map showing where to go for Scouting the ShoreTurn-inObjective area

In-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

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 HighlandsAlliance · about 360 yards south-east
  • Firebeard's Patrol, Twilight HighlandsAlliance · about 960 yards north-west
  • Victor's Point, Twilight HighlandsAlliance · about 1,800 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 190 yards north

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 12 of 236.

Previous: Siege Tank Rescue · Next: Landgrab

  1. 7Salvage Operation
  2. 8Naga Reinforcements
  3. 9Our Boys on the Shore
  4. 10Shredderectomy
  5. 11Siege Tank Rescue
  6. 12Scouting the Shore
  7. 13Landgrab
  8. 14Bird Down! Bird Down!
  9. 15Roots'll Do 'Er
  10. 16Wings Over Highbank
  11. 17The Perfect Poultice
  12. 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 RescueTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    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.

  • LandgrabTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    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

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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Scouting the Shore. They differ in the faction/rewards shown here.

QuestFactionRewardsID
Scouting the Shore (this page)Alliance2,400 XP27341
Scouting the ShoreHorde4,800 XP27610
Related
Scouting the Crimson Thicket
Scouting the Palace
Scouting the Palace
Scouting the Pens
Scouting the Shore
Scouting the Sinkholes
Scouting the Sinkholes
Scouting Undercover
Database

Quest Location and Connections

More Quests in Twilight Highlands

See all 266 quests in Twilight Highlands
Downloads

Background