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Sifting Through The Wreckage

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

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299678+8via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

There are phasing issues with Flynn. When you finish this quest you'll have a ? showing his location down in the basement in Dunwald Holdout next to Keely. If he's not there, you can turn this in down the road a ways where he is standing, waiting to give you a different quest.

You DO NOT have to be on the quest for him to be phased out. I didn't have that quest at all yet, and still got a big ? down in the basement but he wasn't there. Just go down the road and you'll find him (and he will have a turn-in ? over him as well).

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744127+6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Just stay on your flying mount, or flight form, for this one.

You don't get the little wheel you have to click, it's just a dialogue box, which means you can do it while mounted. Just zoom out and run/fly around and click on em, made this painless.

Note: Just don't get too high and aggro the dragons. It's a tightrope.

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768352+5via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

You will find a lot of the dead dwarfs along the way when you do the escort quest. Most of them are not in the town itself, just a couple in houses, but along the path outside of town and hidden in bushes. They are hard to spot.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 30-35
Quest ID27642

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27642))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineTwilight Highlands, step 41 of 236
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP

Description

The Twilight's Hammer were damn thorough when they sacked our town. Me and me brothers may well be the only ones that held'm back. I gotta be sure though. As you're siftin' through the ruins, keep an eye out for the bodies of me kinsmen. I wanna know if dere were any survivors... or if it seems like some might have gotten away.

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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.

Twilight Highlands Quest turn-in 40 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #241 46.1 65.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTwilight Highlands 46.1, 65.6/way #241 46.1 65.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Twilight Highlands 46.7, 72.5/way #241 46.7 72.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Twilight Highlands 52.7, 73.6/way #241 52.7 73.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Twilight Highlands 50.6, 71.7/way #241 50.6 71.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Twilight Highlands 47.9, 66.1/way #241 47.9 66.1

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:

  • Victor's Point, Twilight HighlandsAlliance · about 310 yards north
  • Firebeard's Patrol, Twilight HighlandsAlliance · about 800 yards east
  • Thundermar, Twilight HighlandsAlliance · about 1,300 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 240 yards south
  • Objective areaabout 450 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 320 yards south-east

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
Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
ReputationWildhammer Clan +250

Reward details

Reputation: Wildhammer Clan +250

The Wildhammer dwarves are known for their near-reckless courage as well as their unsurpassed gryphon-riding skills. After losing their home of Grim Batol to a Dark Iron Curse, they've spread their dwellings around the Twilight Highlands.

Reputation group: Cataclysm.

Other quests in Twilight Highlands that reward Wildhammer Clan reputation: Bird Down! Bird Down! (+25), Roots'll Do 'Er (+250), Wings Over Highbank (+25), Firebeard's Patrol (+25), Dunwalds Don't Die (+25), While Meeting The Family (+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 41 of 236.

Previous: While Meeting The Family · Next: Donnelly Dunwald

  1. 36Dropping the Hammer
  2. 37The Lost Brother
  3. 38They Took Me Pants!
  4. 39Dunwalds Don't Die
  5. 40While Meeting The Family
  6. 41Sifting Through The Wreckage
  7. 42Donnelly Dunwald
  8. 43Eoin Dunwald
  9. 44Cayden Dunwald
  10. 45Finding Beak
  11. 46Anything But Water
  12. 47Once More Into The Fire

Showing steps 36 to 47 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.

  • While Meeting The FamilyTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    Hey there, lad. I'm sure Keely's got you worrying about our brothers, but they can take care of themselves. They'll find their way back here one way or another. Maybe you can do me a favor while you're out meeting the family...

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Donnelly DunwaldTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    So you be lookin' to find us, and I be lookin' to find me brothers. It sounds to me like we got some common ground in there abouts. Donnelly's our eldest, and while his size shows it, his wits might not. He's usually up in the northern ruins - in the hovel.

Also counted by Fading into Twilight

Its criteria name 17 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:

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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.