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Quest

Taking Back Taurajo

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

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You might have noticed while doing this quest, that there's still is a working tauren-themed mailbox in the middle of the destroyed Camp Taurajo. I bet the postman isn't too excited to deliver the mail now that the place is crawling with hostile Taurajo looters.

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810976+20via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

When I got to town, the looter in the middle called out "Have we cleaned out the inn yet? Burn the rest of it when you're done."

He never spoke again because I shoved a blade in his belly. The rest got the same.

Congratulations, Blizzard. This is the first quest I've ever done where I didn't stop when I hit the objective. Because my objective was "Every filthy looter in this town must die."

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneSouthern Barrens
Quest ID24572

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(24572))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineSouthern Barrens, step 55 of 89
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

Outstanding work at the gates, {name}! The main body of the Alliance force is in general retreat. But I'm not satisfied. They sacked Taurajo, which was little more than a hunters' camp. This 'Alliance' is unmasked at last for what it really is: A renegade band of butchers. Even now a group of humans linger behind to pick at the bones of smouldering Taurajo. <Bloodhilt hurls an axe into the dirt.> Make them suffer.

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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.

Southern Barrens Quest turn-in 11 mapped points
Southern Barrens map showing where to go for Taking Back TaurajoTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #199 41.4 46.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSouthern Barrens 41.4, 46.8/way #199 41.4 46.8
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 44.6, 51.6/way #199 44.6 51.6
  • Objective areaSouthern Barrens 41.5, 46.8/way #199 41.5 46.8

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 Southern Barrens map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Southern Barrens:

  • Vendetta Point, Southern BarrensHorde · about 40 yards south
  • Desolation Hold, Southern BarrensHorde · about 1,200 yards south
  • Hunter's Hill, Southern BarrensHorde · about 1,300 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 340 yards south-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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationOrgrimmar +250

Reward details

Reputation: Orgrimmar +250

Founded by Thrall, this Horde capital city is home to many of the proud orc clans of Durotar.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Orgrimmar reputation: Warriors' Redemption (+250), Eye for an Eye (+250), Put the Fear in Them (+250), The Low Road (+150), Stalling the Survey (+250), Meet the New Boss (+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

Southern Barrens

Part 55 of 89.

Previous: Siegebreaker · Next: Honoring the Dead

  1. 50Working the Bugs Out
  2. 51A Line in the Dirt
  3. 52Meet the New Boss
  4. 53Lion's Pride
  5. 54Siegebreaker
  6. 55Taking Back Taurajo
  7. 56Honoring the Dead
  8. 57Desolation Hold Inspection
  9. 58Changing of the Gar'dul
  10. 59Flightmare
  11. 60Silithissues
  12. 61Claim the Battle Scar

Showing steps 50 to 61 of 89.

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.

  • SiegebreakerSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    <name>, you've proven yourself on the Fields of Blood. But the Alliance still threatens our tauren friends. The siege machinery outside the gates of Mulgore is like a spear aimed at our heart. I want you to go to the gates, south of here, and remove those siege vehicles from play.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Honoring the DeadSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    With the immediate threat gone, can you help with some grim business? We tauren do not bury our dead, we prepare the body for its return to the elements and place it at our sacred grave sites.

The storyline at a glance

Southern Barrens has 89 steps, from Running the Gauntlet to Sabotage!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Southern Barrens (88), Northern Barrens (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Southern Barrens 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.