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Quest
Stop the Plague
A World of Warcraft quest in Borean Tundra. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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To get to this quest, you need to complete Sage Highmesa's quest, A Proper Death. To start her quest chain in the first place, you need to do the quest Ride to Taunka'le Village from Warsong Hold, and then Sage Highmesa is Missing from Taunka'le Village.
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Completing opens up the follow up quests Find Bristlehorn and Fallen Necropolis.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11677))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
I'm convinced that the plague is being caused by something in the caves up there. {class}, I want you to take these seeds. I normally use them as a ward against the Scourge, though perhaps they can be used to disrupt whatever foulness is happening in the dens. Find the source of the plague and throw them into it.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #114 74.7 23.7
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #123 2.1 87.2
Coordinates
- Turn-inBorean Tundra 74.7, 23.7
/way #114 74.7 23.7 - Objective areaBorean Tundra 78.3, 18.0
/way #114 78.3 18.0 - Objective areaBorean Tundra 74.8, 14.1
/way #114 74.8 14.1 - Objective areaWintergrasp 2.1, 87.2
/way #123 2.1 87.2
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 Borean Tundra map
- Now With More Mechanical Fowl about 650 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,130 yards
- Smarter Than Your Average Trogg about 1,130 yards
- A Tundra Conundrum about 1,150 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,440 yards
- King Mrgl-Mrgl about 1,830 yards
- Adopt a Tadpole about 1,830 yards
- Warchief's Command: Borean Tundra! about 2,230 yards
- Unleashing Judgment about 2,420 yards
- Arcane Unleashed about 2,420 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Borean Tundra, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Borean Tundra:
- Taunka'le Village, Borean Tundra
- Unu'pe, Borean Tundra
- Warsong Camp, Wintergrasp
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
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 Borean Tundra map
Reward details
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Reputation: The Taunka +250
These hardy people are cousins of the Tauren and have become valuable scouts for the armies of the Horde as they march northward.
Reputation group: Horde Expedition.
Other quests in Borean Tundra that reward The Taunka reputation: Report to Steeljaw's Caravan (+10), We Strike! (+350), Shrouds of the Scourge (+250), The Bad Earth (+250), Blending In (+250), Words of Power (+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.
Storyline
Borean Tundra
Part 166 of 182.
Previous: A Proper Death · Next: Find Bristlehorn
- 161The Heart of the Elements
- 162The Horn of Elemental Fury
- 163The Collapse
- 164Sage Highmesa is Missing
- 165A Proper Death
- 166Stop the Plague
- 167Find Bristlehorn
- 168Fallen Necropolis
- 169The Doctor and the Lich-Lord
- 170Return with the Bad News
- 171What Are They Up To?
- 172Master the Storm
Showing steps 161 to 172 of 182.
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.
- A Proper Death
The magnataur at the Dens of Dying have contracted a plague. We must find the cause, but first we must put them out of their misery. <race>, you must go north onto the slopes in front of us and destroy as many of the poor creatures as you can.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Find Bristlehorn
Bristlehorn should have returned by now. The other reason why we came up here was to investigate that Scourge structure to the west, which fell from the sky. He's impetuous and has likely gotten himself into trouble. <name>, go to that place and find him, please.
The storyline at a glance
Borean Tundra has 182 steps, from Enlistment Day to Across Transborea.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Borean Tundra (178), Sholazar Basin (2), Wintergrasp (1), Dragonblight (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Borean Tundra map
- Winterfin Retreat
- Light's Wrath
- Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
- Gnome Heritage Armor
- The Veiled Ossuary
- The Blue Dragons
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.