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Sifting Through The Wreckage

Sifting Through The Wreckage is an Alliance-only quest for level 30-35 in Twilight Highlands. It is step 41 of 236 in the Twilight Highlands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Twilight Highlands at 46.1, 65.6. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,800 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

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.

Rewards

Money13

Experience4,800 XP

ReputationWildhammer Clan +250

Top Comments

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299678Sep 24, 2011+8via Wowhead

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).

744127Dec 24, 2010+6via Wowhead

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.

768352Jan 19, 2011+5via Wowhead

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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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	4,800
Money	Gold	13g 74s
Reputation	Wildhammer 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.

Where it comes from

Turn-in map	Twilight Highlands	Turn-in marker at 46.1, 65.6, 40 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.

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

Midnight Dress about 230 yards
Xal'atath's Proven Faithful about 370 yards
More Doom about 380 yards
Twilight's Dawn about 570 yards
The Twilight Highlands about 570 yards
Cult It Out about 570 yards
Disrupt the Call about 570 yards
Investigating the Highlands about 750 yards
Desecrate this Fire! about 780 yards
Honor the Flame about 1,290 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:

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Twilight Highlands

Part 41 of 236.

Previous: While Meeting The Family · Next: Donnelly Dunwald

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:

Fading into Twilight Complete the Twilight Highlands storylines listed below.
Round Three. Fight! Complete the Crucible of Carnage quests in Twilight Highlands up to and including The Twilight Terror!
The First Rule of Ring of Blood is You Don't Talk About Ring of Blood Complete the Ring of Blood, Amphitheater of Anguish and Crucible of Carnage.

Other storylines on the Twilight Highlands map

Allies of the Horde: Vulpera25 steps, starts with Guests at Grommash Hold
The Cult Within10 steps, starts with The Cult Within
In the Shadow of Crimson Wings2 steps, starts with Investigating the Highlands

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.

Fading into TwilightComplete the Twilight Highlands storylines listed below.10

Fading into Twilight: its criteria name 17 quests, this one included.

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