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Strategic Cuts

A World of Warcraft quest in Burning Steppes. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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This quest is hilarious. You cause Voodooist Timan to fall off the tower to his death, Worg Mistress Othana gets eaten alive by worgs, once again by you, and Gorlop "falls" into a lava pit and is burned alive, also by you. I just wish Blizzard made the "fall into lava" animation better because all it really looks like is him standing on the lava pit and he falls over dead after that. I stepped on that same lava spot and it never deals damage to you. Other than that, epic and hilarious quest!

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
Quest ID28434

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28434))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineBurning Steppes, step 40 of 82
Rewards5,150 XP

Description

<You hear a buzzing in your ear.> {name}? It's Eitrigg. We've just received the final bit of information 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.

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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 44.6 44.4

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBurning Steppes 44.6, 44.4/way #36 44.6 44.4
  • 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

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

  • Chiselgrip, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 70 yards north-east
  • Flame Crest, Burning SteppesHorde · about 520 yards north-east
  • Flamestar Post, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 860 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 370 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 290 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 170 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.

Related
Experience5,150 XP

Storyline

Burning Steppes

Part 40 of 82.

Previous: Strategic Cuts · Next: The Kodocaller's Horn

  1. 35Into the Black Tooth Hovel
  2. 36Into the Black Tooth Hovel
  3. 37Grunt Work
  4. 38Grunt Work
  5. 39Strategic Cuts
  6. 40Strategic Cuts
  7. 41The Kodocaller's Horn
  8. 42The Kodocaller's Horn
  9. 43Taking the Horn For Ourselves
  10. 44Taking the Horn For Ourselves
  11. 45General Thorg'izog
  12. 46General Thorg'izog

Showing steps 35 to 46 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: Horde 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.