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Quest

Take Out the Head

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-80
ZoneZaralek Cavern
Quest ID72911

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(72911))

What to do

StorylineThe Ancient Bargain, step 5 of 16
Rewards56g 18s, 11,900 XP

Description

While you and Ebyssian were away, I had an epiphany. That corrupted caldera is at the center of the Zaqali elder's slumbering prison and their war camps. Whatever is located within is the key to what the Primalists are planning. It is lightly guarded as well. Only a Primalist and a Zaqali priest. If we take them out, we can discover what I believe will be the truth behind all of this.

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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.

Zaralek Cavern Quest turn-in 5 mapped points
Zaralek Cavern map showing where to go for Take Out the HeadTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #2133 38.2 48.4

Coordinates

  • Turn-inZaralek Cavern 38.2, 48.4/way #2133 38.2 48.4
  • Objective areaZaralek Cavern 31.1, 45.7/way #2133 31.1 45.7
  • Objective areaZaralek Cavern 30.7, 44.2/way #2133 30.7 44.2
  • Objective areaZaralek Cavern 30.3, 40.9/way #2133 30.3 40.9

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 Zaralek Cavern map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Zaralek Cavern:

  • Dragonscale Camp, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 960 yards south
  • Loamm, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards east
  • Obsidian Rest, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 530 yards west
  • Objective areaabout 540 yards west
  • Objective areaabout 580 yards 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.

Related
Money56 gold18 silver
Experience11,900 XP
ReputationValdrakken Accord +130

Reward details

Reputation: Valdrakken Accord +130

Centered in their most ancient city, the Valdrakken Accord is the unified might of all dragonkind, seeking to protect not only their island home but all of Azeroth.

Reputation group: Dragonflight.

Other quests in Zaralek Cavern that reward Valdrakken Accord reputation: Secrets From Our Father (+60), Sight Beyond Sight (+130), Legends of the Zaqali (+130), Know Thy Enemy (+130), Battlefield Triage (+130), Rushing Quality (+130).

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

The Ancient Bargain

Part 5 of 16.

Previous: Know Thy Enemy · Next: Consequences

  1. 1Where There's Smoke, There's Fire
  2. 2Sight Beyond Sight
  3. 3Legends of the Zaqali
  4. 4Know Thy Enemy
  5. 5Take Out the Head
  6. 6Consequences
  7. 7Battlefield Triage
  8. 8Rushing Quality
  9. 9Alliance of Convenience
  10. 10Shut Them Down
  11. 11A Scale for a Scale
  12. 12From Hell's Heart

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 16.

Also part of: Zaralek Cavern (part 30 of 72).

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.

  • Know Thy EnemyZaralek Cavern · Level 10-80

    That djaradin called her people the "Zaqali"--but my troops did not report any information regarding a second active djaradin tribe in the Dragon Isles. I detest an unknown in war. We will need to learn what we can about them--and quickly--in order to assess their strengths and weaknesses.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • ConsequencesZaralek Cavern · Level 10-80

    Shadowflame... Did Iridikron know this was here? Did he corrupt his brother? Or has Fyrakk fallen to the temptation? Only ignorance or arrogance tempts fools to seek it out, believing they can master dark forces that not even Neltharion could.

The storyline at a glance

The Ancient Bargain has 16 steps, from Where There's Smoke, There's Fire to In the Wake of the Ashes.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Zaralek Cavern (15), Valdrakken (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Zaralek Cavern 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.