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Speaking Their Language

Speaking Their Language is a Horde-only quest for level 10-30 in Southern Barrens. It is step 30 of 89 in the Southern Barrens storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Southern Barrens at 44.2, 33.7. It rewards 4 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 5,150 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

The quilboar are attacking because they perceive weakness. Strength is the only language they understand. So we will show them strength.

<Makaba withdraws a large horn from his satchel.>

This is admittedly crude work but it'll do. Bristleback leaders use horns like these to challenge one another for dominance.

<name>, I want you to challenge the Bristleback champion, Sabersnout, to single combat. Defeat him in front of his followers. Blow the horn at the Bristleback challenge ring due south of here.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience5,150 XP
ReputationThunder Bluff +250
Top Comments

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

1
526007+8via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

After bringing him down to a certain percentage of health, he will become immune and then say:
"you, <snort> you are strong <Gurgle>. But...
Strong enough for THE BOURPOCALYPSE?"
He will then summon 10 or more boars that you must kill before he becomes kill-able.
Being as it is Blizzard and how they have a unnatural love for puns and references, it could be a reference to the final level of the popular Iphone store shooting game, BATTLE BEARS: Zombies!. As the Final level is called zompocalypse, where you must face wave after wave of undead zombies.

2
NozE8+3via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

For some reason I was unable to select a quest reward to complete the quest. I tried restarting my client and disabling all my addons to no avail. After some digging I found you could force the quest completion with a small script:

/script CompleteQuest()
/script GetQuestReward(3)

I pasted that into a macro and it selected reward three which was the ring.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP5,150
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationThunder Bluff+250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Back
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+3 Strength, +5 Stamina
Suited toProtection, Fury, Arms, Retribution, Unholy, Frost, Blood
Sells to vendors for83 silver48 copper
TypeLeather Feet
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for88 silver50 copper
TypeArmor Finger
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+3 Agility, +5 Stamina
Suited toVengeance, Enhancement, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Windwalker, Feral, Guardian, Havoc, Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival, Brewmaster
Sells to vendors for16 silver24 copper
TypeMail Feet
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for87 silver85 copper

Reputation: Thunder Bluff +250

Baine Bloodhoof leads his people, the proud Tauren, from this mighty Horde capital.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Thunder Bluff reputation: Clear the High Road (+250), Holdout at Hunter's Hill (+10), Raptor Scraps (+250), Signals in the Sky (+250), Keeping the Dogs at Bay (+250), Bad to Worse (+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 mapSouthern BarrensTurn-in marker at 44.2, 33.7, 3 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.

Southern Barrens Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Southern Barrens map showing where to go for Speaking Their LanguageTurn-inTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #199 44.2 33.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSouthern Barrens 44.2, 33.7/way #199 44.2 33.7
  • Objective areaSouthern Barrens 42.9, 41.3/way #199 42.9 41.3

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 Southern Barrens map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Southern Barrens:

  • Vendetta Point, Southern BarrensHorde · about 720 yards south
  • Hunter's Hill, Southern BarrensHorde · about 740 yards north-west
  • The Crossroads, Northern BarrensHorde · about 1,200 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 390 yards south

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

Southern Barrens

Part 30 of 89.

Previous: Bad to Worse · Next: When Plants Attack

  1. 25Put the Fear in Them
  2. 26The Low Road
  3. 27Stalling the Survey
  4. 28Keeping the Dogs at Bay
  5. 29Bad to Worse
  6. 30Speaking Their Language
  7. 31When Plants Attack
  8. 32A Curious Bloom
  9. 33Biological Intervention
  10. 34Adder Subtraction
  11. 35Lashvine Seeds
  12. 36Sowing a Solution

Showing steps 25 to 36 of 89.

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.

  • Bad to WorseSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    When the refugees fled north from Taurajo, some were separated as darkness closed in. Many were taken prisoner by the Bristleback quilboar who set up camp west and southwest of here. I am not certain what the quilboar hoped to get from us by capturing our refugees; all they have earned is my ire.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • When Plants AttackSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    This camp was built at the edge of this jungle, and already it is overwhelmed by plant growth. Something unnatural is happening here! Earlier I made the mistake of sending some of the healthier refugees out to gather nuts and berries.

Also counted by Southern Barrens Quests

Its criteria name 25 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Southern Barrens has 89 steps, from Running the Gauntlet to Sabotage!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Southern Barrens (88), Northern Barrens (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Southern Barrens 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.

Southern Barrens QuestsComplete the Southern Barrens storylines listed below.10
Related
Speak with your Ambassador
Speaker for the Dead
Speaker of the Horde
Speaking of Bones
Speaking to the Dead
Speaking to the Speakers
Speaking with Nezzliok
Speaking with the Dead
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