Quest Log

Taking Precautions (Horde)

Taking Precautions is a Horde-only quest for level 1-90. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 9,500 experience.

Description

So someone else hired you to retrieve this crate? I don't like the sound of that.

That crate's contents belong in the care of the Reliquary. The items it holds are very powerful and very dangerous.

We have to find the meeting that Dran set up between the thief and the collector, but first, we'll need to protect ourselves from the effects of handling that crate.

Acquire some strange dust, get vials from an alchemy merchant, and pick some blood nettle in the Valley of Wisdom.

Rewards

Experience9,500 XP

ReputationOrgrimmar +250

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Known issues

Top Comments

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IsiwienOct 17, 2011+44via Wowhead

You pick the Blood Nettle ([item=71035]) in the Valley of Wisdom. Lootable from the ground like any herb. White looking grass-alike flower with red edges on them.

QuickBASICOct 19, 2012+43via Wowhead

Strange Dust - sold by [npc=3346] (or any other enchanting vendor sells them in limited quantities), so don't get gouged on the AH.

Crystal Vial sold by [npc=3348] (or any alchemy or herbalism vendor).

[item=71035] is looted from reddish plants in the Valley of Wisdom (herbalists can track them, but anyone can loot them).

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Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

IsiwienOct 17, 2011+44via Wowhead

You pick the Blood Nettle ([item=71035]) in the Valley of Wisdom. Lootable from the ground like any herb. White looking grass-alike flower with red edges on them.

QuickBASICOct 19, 2012+43via Wowhead

Strange Dust - sold by [npc=3346] (or any other enchanting vendor sells them in limited quantities), so don't get gouged on the AH.

Crystal Vial sold by [npc=3348] (or any alchemy or herbalism vendor).

[item=71035] is looted from reddish plants in the Valley of Wisdom (herbalists can track them, but anyone can loot them).

239153Oct 17, 2011+26via Wowhead

Note that if you have the [item=44234] (or see someone else mounted on it), both the vials and the powder are available from the repair guy on your mount. Saves hunting around for the vendors in the city.

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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	9,500
Reputation	Orgrimmar	+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.

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.

Quest Line

Where this quest fits

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Level 1-90.

Taking PrecautionsAlliance only · Level 1-90

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 Taking Precautions. They differ in the faction shown here.

Quest	Faction	ID
Taking Precautions (this page)	Horde	29426
Taking Precautions	Alliance	29402

Community notes from Wowhead · 28 comments

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Taking the Blood Gate

Taking the Fall

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