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Strategic Strikes

Strategic Strikes is an Alliance-only quest for level 5-30 in Darkshore. It is step 18 of 55 in the Darkshore storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Darkshore at 58.9, 19.4. It rewards 1 reward item, 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

Striking at the head of the beast doesn't work if there's another head to replace it. Before we can kill their leader, we need to kill the subleaders that may try to step up. Right now, they are not as well defended, and you should be able to best them without much support.

Take this dryad spear and hunt them down. The poison on its tip should slow their incantations. My scouts reported one inside the water chamber in the ruins to the east and the other past the remains of the tower to the southwest.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationDarnassus +250
Top Comments

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165655+8via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Tego is right, if you shoot them with the spear eventually they jump down. If you have a ranged character, however, that isn't necessary; I had a mage take out both of them and he just shot them each once with the spear just in case, then nuked.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationDarnassus+250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeWand Ranged
Item level7
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon1 - 1 damage, speed 2.0
Stats+1 Intellect, +1 Stamina
Suited toFrost, Fire, Arcane, Destruction, Affliction, Discipline, Holy, Shadow, Demonology
Sells to vendors for7 silver13 copper

Reputation: Darnassus +250

This Alliance capital is populated by Night Elves and is located in the Island of Teldrassil. Ruled by the Priestess of the Moon, Tyrande Whisperwind.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Darkshore that reward Darnassus reputation: One Shot. One Kill. (+250), Shatterspear Laborers (+250), Remnants of the Highborne (+250), Reason to Worry (+250), Denying Manpower (+250), Swift Response (+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.

3D Model

First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapDarkshoreTurn-in marker at 58.9, 19.4, 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.

Darkshore Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Darkshore map showing where to go for Strategic StrikesTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #62 58.9 19.4

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDarkshore 58.9, 19.4/way #62 58.9 19.4
  • Objective areaDarkshore 56.7, 26.0/way #62 56.7 26.0
  • Objective areaDarkshore 61.2, 20.3/way #62 61.2 20.3

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 Darkshore map

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

Getting there

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

  • Lor'danel, DarkshoreAlliance · about 470 yards west
  • Whisperwind Grove, FelwoodAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards south
  • Talonbranch Glade, FelwoodAlliance · about 1,600 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 320 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 160 yards east

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

Darkshore

Part 18 of 55.

Previous: War Supplies · Next: On the Brink

  1. 13The Shatterspear Invaders
  2. 14Shatterspear Laborers
  3. 15Remnants of the Highborne
  4. 16Denying Manpower
  5. 17War Supplies
  6. 18Strategic Strikes
  7. 19On the Brink
  8. 20The Front Line
  9. 21Ending the Threat
  10. 22Disturbing Connections
  11. 23The Land Is in Their Blood
  12. 24The Last Wildkin

Showing steps 13 to 24 of 55.

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.

  • War SuppliesDarkshore · Level 5-30

    The trolls are building their forces and supplies at the war camp to the north. When they feel they are ready, they will almost certainly launch their attack on Lor'danel from that location. It shouldn't take us long to rout this rabble, but I'm not one for taking unnecessary risks.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • On the BrinkDarkshore · Level 5-30

    I've already been working on something for breaking down their protective wards. With a focus based in their power and a bit of druidic magic, we should be able to breach their shields. Find their shaman to the east and southeast and recover several of their amulets.

The storyline at a glance

Darkshore has 55 steps, from The Last Wave of Survivors to The Battle for Darkshore.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Darkshore (55).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Darkshore 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.

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