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Test of Mettle

Test of Mettle is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Grizzly Hills. It is step 24 of 115 in the Grizzly Hills storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Grizzly Hills at 21.9, 29.9. It rewards 3,100 experience.

Description

Alright, friend. You've done us a favor or two, but that's not the true test of a person's courage.

Around these parts, you're not a real hunter unless you wear your prey's skin.

<Sergei unsheathes his skinning knife and hands it to you.>

The leader of those motherless orcs attacking our town is called Bonesnap; you'll find him at a camp further northwest.

That's right. You're going to skin the monster.

Rewards

Experience3,100 XP
Top Comments

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

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Traynwreck+24via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)
Stop! Put that knife away. You don't have to do... whatever they sent you to do. You're not like them yet!

Umm actually ... I'm a Worgen Death Knight, so yeah, I kinda AM like them....

From a lore perspective this whole quest chain was kinda odd/funny running it on a Worgen.

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267801+22via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This is part of a very long quest chain.
Part 1 (Into Grizzly Hills, making friends)

Part 2 (Helping the northern locals)
Finishing part 1 unlocks 2 independent quests

Part 3 (Is there something suspicious?)
Finishing part 2 unlocks this chain

Part 4 (Something's wrong)

Part 5 (Beginning of the World Tree chain)
Finishing part 4 unlocks 2 independent quests from and elf Hierophant Thayreen outside the house)

Part 6 (Further investigation)
Finishing part 5 unlocks 2 independent quests

Part 7 (Into the Tree)
Finishing part 6 unlocks 2 independent quests

Part 8 (Finale)


  • [75G3] Ursoc, the Bear God (talk to Tur Ragepaw the druid to start the event. Kill Ursoc. Use the provided item on corpse. People have reported that this is soloable.)

  • Rewards: (1) Choose 1 of 5 rare pants (2) A shield that vendors for 7.5563g (3) 17.7g (4) 31450 xp (5) ? rep


Grand total of quest rewards: 285,850 xp (18% or 3.6 bars at lvl 74, 17.8% or 3.56 bars at lvl 75), 1925 Valiance Expedition rep

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP3,100
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapGrizzly HillsTurn-in marker at 21.9, 29.9, 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.

Grizzly Hills Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Grizzly Hills map showing where to go for Test of MettleTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #116 21.9 29.9

Coordinates

  • Turn-inGrizzly Hills 21.9, 29.9/way #116 21.9 29.9
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 21.9, 29.8/way #116 21.9 29.8
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 26.5, 35.8/way #116 26.5 35.8

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 Grizzly Hills map

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

Getting there

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

  • Light's Breach, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 720 yards north
  • The Argent Stand, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards north
  • Amberpine Lodge, Grizzly HillsAlliance · about 1,100 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 310 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Grizzly Hills

Part 24 of 115.

Previous: Voices From the Dust · Next: Words of Warning

  1. 19Subject to Interpretation
  2. 20Sacrifices Must be Made
  3. 21Heart of the Ancients
  4. 22My Heart is in Your Hands
  5. 23Voices From the Dust
  6. 24Test of Mettle
  7. 25Words of Warning
  8. 26Escape from Silverbrook
  9. 27A Swift Response
  10. 28Secrets of the Flamebinders
  11. 29Thinning the Ranks
  12. 30Descent into Darkness

Showing steps 19 to 30 of 115.

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.

  • Voices From the DustGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    <Drakuru places the Eye of the Prophets on his brow and the Heart of the Ancients on his chest.> We be close, mon, very close! The Drakkari Tablets be all dat remain ta be found. Nobody be knowin' how old dey be or what dey be sayin', but with the eye and the heart Drakuru can be readin' dem.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Words of WarningGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    Thanks for helping me, <name>. My name's Sasha. Listen, I have to get the hell out of here. The people that sent you here... my people... they've changed. They're not good people anymore... and they want to turn you into one of... one of them. This... 'test' they sent you on is just the beginning.

The storyline at a glance

Grizzly Hills has 115 steps, from Local Support to Loken's Orders.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Grizzly Hills (115).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Grizzly Hills 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.

Related
Test Flight: Ruuan Weald
Test Flight: The Singing Ridge
Test Flight: The Zephyrium Capacitorium
Test of Conviction
Test Run
Test Subject
Test Your Mettle
Testing a Theory
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Quest Location and Connections

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