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The Ambush

The Ambush is a Horde-only quest for level 10-30 in Howling Fjord. It is step 53 of 162 in the Howling Fjord storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Howling Fjord at 65.9, 36.8. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 5,150 experience and money.

Description

The vrykuls in Baleheim is completely defeated, no doubt about it. But still their leader stays in town and won't give up.

Gorth sends Lydell and his assassins to make good ambush to the northwest. You talk to Lydell and figure out how to get Vrykul chieftain to come out. Then you kill him. You kill him real good.

Rewards

Money21 gold
Experience5,150 XP
ReputationThe Hand of Vengeance +350
Top Comments

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Soloed this no problem at level 68 Destro Lock
He is a Elite as of 3.1
he is located at 64-39
My strategy was to Insult him and then run back to where u picked up the quests as the quests suggests the NPCs there will help fight him and do a great job of holding agro atleast they did for me

p.s. hope this helps

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP5,150
MoneyGold21g
ReputationThe Hand of Vengeance+350

Reward details

Reputation: The Hand of Vengeance +350

The Forsaken tasked by Sylvanas Windrunner with enacting Undercity's vengeance against Arthas by delivering the latest strain of their deadly Plague.

Reputation group: Horde Expedition.

Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward The Hand of Vengeance reputation: Test at Sea (+250), Reports from the Field (+150), Let Them Eat Crow (+250), Guide Our Sights (+250), Landing the Killing Blow (+350), Report to Anselm (+75).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapHowling FjordTurn-in marker at 65.9, 36.8, 2 mapped points
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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.

Howling Fjord Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Howling Fjord map showing where to go for The AmbushTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #117 65.9 36.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHowling Fjord 65.9, 36.8/way #117 65.9 36.8
  • Objective areaHowling Fjord 71.1, 39.1/way #117 71.1 39.1

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 Howling Fjord map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Howling Fjord:

  • Vengeance Landing, Howling FjordHorde · about 840 yards east
  • Camp Winterhoof, Howling FjordHorde · about 1,400 yards north-west
  • New Agamand, Howling FjordHorde · about 1,500 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 330 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

Howling Fjord

Part 53 of 162.

Previous: Baleheim Must Burn! · Next: Adding Injury to Insult

  1. 48The Dragonskin Map
  2. 49The Offensive Begins
  3. 50A Lesson in Fear
  4. 51Baleheim Bodycount
  5. 52Baleheim Must Burn!
  6. 53The Ambush
  7. 54Adding Injury to Insult
  8. 55The New Plague
  9. 56Spiking the Mix
  10. 57Test at Sea
  11. 58New Agamand
  12. 59The Dead Rise!

Showing steps 48 to 59 of 162.

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.

  • Baleheim Must Burn!Howling Fjord · Level 10-30

    Killing the Winterskorns maybe not enough. Maybe we burn their houses too! Uh... and their bridges. We should burn whole town to be safe! You take this torch. Go to Baleheim, to the west, and burn EVERYTHING! That teach them good.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Adding Injury to InsultHowling Fjord · Level 10-30

    The vrykul are being clever about this. Fortunately I've a trick up my sleeve. This leader of theirs, Bjorn, is a real hothead. We've pieced together enough of their language to fashion what we think is a good insult. Something involving his mother and large barnyard animals... we're not quite sure.

The storyline at a glance

Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Howling Fjord 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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