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Strategic Cuts (Alliance)

Strategic Cuts is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Burning Steppes. It is step 39 of 82 in the Burning Steppes storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Burning Steppes at 46.3, 46.0. It rewards 5,150 experience.

Description

<Static> <name>... <name>, can you hear me? It's Troteman.

Listen, we've just received the final bit of intel for your next mission. There are three marks that we'd like you to take down. The first is Voodooist Timan, whom you'll find atop the Pillar of Ash. Worgmistress Othana is in the central worg pens. Finally, Gorlop is near the lava pools to the south.

You will find the scorpid barbs you harvested packed along with your belongings. Use the barbs on the marks when the time is right.

Rewards

Experience5,150 XP
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP5,150
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapBurning SteppesTurn-in marker at 46.3, 46.0, 4 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.

Burning Steppes Quest turn-in 4 mapped points
Burning Steppes map showing where to go for Strategic CutsTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #36 46.3 46.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBurning Steppes 46.3, 46.0/way #36 46.3 46.0
  • Objective areaBurning Steppes 39.9, 60.5/way #36 39.9 60.5
  • Objective areaBurning Steppes 39.2, 55.9/way #36 39.2 55.9
  • Objective areaBurning Steppes 45.0, 52.5/way #36 45.0 52.5

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 Burning Steppes map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Burning Steppes:

  • Chiselgrip, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 80 yards north
  • Flamestar Post, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 910 yards west
  • Morgan's Vigil, Burning SteppesAlliance · about 910 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 370 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 310 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 140 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

Burning Steppes

Part 39 of 82.

Previous: Grunt Work · Next: Strategic Cuts

  1. 34Golem Training
  2. 35Into the Black Tooth Hovel
  3. 36Into the Black Tooth Hovel
  4. 37Grunt Work
  5. 38Grunt Work
  6. 39Strategic Cuts
  7. 40Strategic Cuts
  8. 41The Kodocaller's Horn
  9. 42The Kodocaller's Horn
  10. 43Taking the Horn For Ourselves
  11. 44Taking the Horn For Ourselves
  12. 45General Thorg'izog

Showing steps 34 to 45 of 82.

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.

  • Grunt WorkBurning Steppes · Level 15-30

    Bah! You're lucky I'm short-handed today. Otherwise I'd make you my personal whipping boy for the week. The officers and high-ranking soldiers need their boots polished. They've left them out in front of their huts. I want to see my reflection in those boots, grunt! Get to work!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Kodocaller's HornBurning Steppes · Level 15-30

    Alright, I've got some actual, legitimate, important work for you. We've got to call the kodos in from the grazing lands to the south. General Thorg'izog says we'll be moving out into Redridge soon, and I won't be caught with my kodos down. Use this horn near a kodo.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Burning Steppes · Level 15-30.

The storyline at a glance

Burning Steppes has 82 steps, from Done Nothing Wrong to The Spoils of War.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Burning Steppes (82).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Burning Steppes 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 Strategic Cuts. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Strategic Cuts (this page)Alliance28246
Strategic CutsHorde28434
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Stranger on the Steps
Strangers in a Strange Land
Strategic Cuts
Strategic Deployment
Strategic Deployment
Strategic Edge
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