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Sniffing Out the Perpetrator (Alliance)

Sniffing Out the Perpetrator is an Alliance-only quest for level 25-30 in The Storm Peaks. It is step 21 of 113 in The Storm Peaks storyline. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

The tone of Brann's note suggests he meant to bury something with the note, maybe a pack of some kind. You're sure this was all you found?

Okay, I'm going to have you take one of these frosthounds with you. The frostborn use them for tracking. Bring it to the destroyed camp and let it get Brann's scent.

It should at least lead you to the location of those missing possessions, and if we're lucky, Brann himself.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationExplorers' League +250
Top Comments

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First off, go to (36 , 64) and use your [Frosthound's Collar], then protect yourself and your wolf from the followers.

Secondly, when you're outside the cavern (48 , 61). Go in and slay "Tracker Thulin", loot [Brann's Communicator] from him, and use it to summon "Brann Bronzebeard".

Done

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationExplorers' League+250

Reward details

Reputation: Explorers' League +250

This organization seeks to find the origin of the dwarven race by collecting Titan artifacts. Their most recent research has led them to various archeological sites in Northrend.

Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.

Other quests in The Storm Peaks that reward Explorers' League reputation: Pieces to the Puzzle (+250), Data Mining (+250), Ancient Relics (+250), Norgannon's Shell (+250), The Master Explorer (+10), The Brothers Bronzebeard (+500).

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
Objective areaThe Storm Peaks14 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.

The Storm Peaks Objective area 14 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #120 36.6 63.7

Coordinates

  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Storm Peaks 36.0, 64.0/way #120 36.0 64.0
  • Objective areaThe Storm Peaks 48.6, 60.8/way #120 48.6 60.8
  • Objective areaThe Storm Peaks 29.6, 74.1/way #120 29.6 74.1

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 Storm Peaks map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on The Storm Peaks:

  • Frosthold, The Storm PeaksAlliance · about 680 yards south-west
  • K3, The Storm PeaksAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards south
  • The Argent Vanguard, IcecrownAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards south-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.

Quest Line

Storyline

The Storm Peaks

Part 21 of 113.

Previous: On Brann's Trail · Next: Pieces to the Puzzle

  1. 16Loyal Companions
  2. 17Stemming the Aggressors
  3. 18Baby Stealers
  4. 19Sirana Iceshriek
  5. 20On Brann's Trail
  6. 21Sniffing Out the Perpetrator
  7. 22Pieces to the Puzzle
  8. 23Data Mining
  9. 24The Library Console
  10. 25Norgannon's Shell
  11. 26The Missing Bronzebeard
  12. 27The Nose Knows

Showing steps 16 to 27 of 113.

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.

  • On Brann's TrailThe Storm Peaks · Level 25-30

    After the discovery of Brann's journal in Grizzly Hills, we've only had one other communication from Brann. A mysterious note found its way to Explorers' League headquarters in Ironforge, with no indication of where it came from.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Pieces to the PuzzleThe Storm Peaks · Level 25-30

    Thank the Light that someone got my message. Now that I'm safe from the iron dwarves, I need to ask your help with something. I've got a lead on Norgannon's keystone, which guards access to Ulduar's archives, but the Titans divided it into two pieces and secreted them away.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · The Storm Peaks · Level 25-30.

The storyline at a glance

The Storm Peaks has 113 steps, from Clean Up to The Reckoning.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Storm Peaks (110), Zul'Drak (2), Crystalsong Forest (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on The Storm Peaks 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 Sniffing Out the Perpetrator. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Sniffing Out the Perpetrator (this page)Alliance12855
Sniffing Out the PerpetratorHorde12910
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