The Bad News is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Southern Barrens. It is step 83 of 89 in the Southern Barrens storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Southern Barrens at 43.5, 78.3. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 2,050 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.
<You gently close Marley's eyes.>
<Someone is going to have to tell General Twinbraid that the Horde has killed his only son.>
<That someone is you.>
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This is the Horde version of this quest, where you bring back a bullet from Marley's gun (which slowly and painfully killed Gann Stonespire) to Gann's father in Dustwallow Marsh.
Pretty sad quests, on both sides...
Just to clearify,
<That someone is you.>
The Bad News http://youtu.be/JN_du-Pp1rk
| Type | Reward | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Experience | XP | 2,050 |
| Money | Gold | 5g 25s |
| Reputation | Ironforge | +75 |
This Alliance capital is the pride of the Dun Morogh dwarves. Home to King Magni.
Reputation group: Alliance.
Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Ironforge reputation: Report to Twinbraid (+75), No Bull (+250), Digsite Status (+75), Hands Off Me Dig! (+250), Feegly the Exiled (+250), Marley's Final Flight (+10).
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.
| Turn-in map | Southern Barrens | Turn-in marker at 43.5, 78.3, 2 mapped points |
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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.
Turn-inObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #199 43.5 78.3
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/way #199 43.5 78.3/way #199 49.2 86.5Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Southern Barrens, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Southern Barrens:
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
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.
Part 83 of 89.
Previous: Twinbraid Needs to Know · Next: Kill 'em All!
Showing steps 78 to 89 of 89.
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
<General Twinbraid will want to know the details of this cowardly attack. You gather up the evidence.>
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
I want to see some dead goblins, <name>! Just west of here you'll find a whole warren of those little insects burrowing into the mountain. Let's see to it that they're digging their grave. Destroy them. Lay waste to their whole grubby operation.
Its criteria name 22 quests; others include:
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:
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.
Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.
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