Quest

Stalking the Crags

A World of Warcraft quest in K'aresh. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

Top Comments

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Whats1More2025-08-06T18:12:00-05:00+10via Wowhead

I could not see the mobs while phased.

MartinGS2025-10-05T23:35:56-05:00+7via Wowhead

Another sh*tty quest with mobs not respawning. Why Blizzard, why?

Elitecookie2025-08-07T16:13:40-05:00+1via Wowhead

A huge total of EIGHT gold. Blizzard is just too generous. They dont even need to have tokens when this exists /s

That is every comment on this page.

Quest facts

LevelLevel 80

LocationK'aresh

SideBoth

SharableNo

Added inThe War Within

Quest ID86409

The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(86409))

Requirements

Quest typeWorld Quest

Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.

Objectives

Gritshells Torched x 5
Stalkers slain x 10

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

Stalkers slain (centre of the marked area)K'aresh 76.2, 57.3/way #2371 76.2 57.3
Gritshells Torched (centre of the marked area)K'aresh 75.2, 58.3/way #2371 75.2 58.3
Objective areaK'aresh 76.3, 57.4/way #2371 76.3 57.4

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 K'aresh map

A Friendly Warning about 110 yards
Ill-met in Starlight about 110 yards
Toil and Trespass about 110 yards
We Are Our Words about 120 yards
By Oath and Blood about 300 yards
Wasted Lands about 310 yards
A Piece of Something Greater about 310 yards
The Rhovan Infestation about 430 yards
Eco-Dome: Rhovan about 440 yards
The Shattered Dome about 440 yards

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on K'aresh:

North SufaadAlliance and Horde · about 460 yards north
Eco-Dome: Rhovan, K'areshAlliance and Horde · about 530 yards west
Lunnall RiverAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards north-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.

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Other quests on the K'aresh map

Where this quest fits

Other storylines on the K'aresh map

Void Alliance17 steps, starts with What Is Left of Home
Desert Power15 steps, starts with Eco-Dome: Rhovan
The Bees Knees20 steps, starts with To Stormsong
A Shadowy Invitation13 steps, starts with A Shadowy Invitation
Rays of Sunshine18 steps, starts with Atrium Hospital
Sneks for K'aresh17 steps, starts with Outbound for Outland

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.