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Softening the Blow

Softening the Blow is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Grizzly Hills. It is step 36 of 115 in the Grizzly Hills storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Grizzly Hills at 59.8, 27.6. It rewards 4,100 experience.

Description

Our best bet for moving our forces quickly to Icecrown Glacier lies with the network of tunnels beneath the ancient iron dwarf city of Thor Modan.

Brugar Stoneshear and his Explorers' League boys aren't going to be happy, but orders are orders.

The news might go over better if you brought him a cask of that moonshine sold by that trapper, Hugh Glass, down at Redwood Trading Post, southeast of here along the tree line.

Man's not right in the head, but you won't find better moonshine out here.

Rewards

Experience4,100 XP
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapGrizzly HillsTurn-in marker at 59.8, 27.6, 3 mapped points
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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.

Grizzly Hills Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Grizzly Hills map showing where to go for Softening the BlowTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #116 59.8 27.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inGrizzly Hills 59.8, 27.6/way #116 59.8 27.6
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 69.1, 40.1/way #116 69.1 40.1
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 59.4, 26.0/way #116 59.4 26.0

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 Grizzly Hills map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Grizzly Hills:

  • Westfall Brigade, Grizzly HillsAlliance · about 30 yards north
  • Zim'Torga, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards north-west
  • The Argent Stand, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 1,900 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 660 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 60 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

Grizzly Hills

Part 36 of 115.

Previous: The Runic Prophecies · Next: Brothers in Battle

  1. 31Report to Gryan Stoutmantle... Again
  2. 32Hollowstone Mine
  3. 33The Damaged Journal
  4. 34The Runic Keystone
  5. 35The Runic Prophecies
  6. 36Softening the Blow
  7. 37Brothers in Battle
  8. 38Uncovering the Tunnels
  9. 39The Fate of Orlond
  10. 40Steady as a Rock?
  11. 41Check Up on Raegar
  12. 42The Perfect Plan

Showing steps 31 to 42 of 115.

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.

  • The Runic PropheciesGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    We've no time to lose! Now that we've reassembled the runic keystone -- well, most of it -- we can decipher the contents of those very same runic plates Brann was working on before he fled.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Brothers in BattleGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    I hope Gryan knows I withdrew my men from Thor Modan when the battle began. There's no way we can excavate anything until that place settles down. You seem like a brave sort, though, and you have Stoutmantle's trust.

The storyline at a glance

Grizzly Hills has 115 steps, from Local Support to Loken's Orders.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Grizzly Hills (115).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Grizzly Hills 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.

Related
Socrethar's Fury
Socrethar's Shadow
Soft Landing
Soft Packaging
Softening the Target
Soggoth and Kronn
Soil-Based Alternatives
Sol Sisters
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