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The Baroness' Missive

The Baroness' Missive is a quest for level 15-30 in Eastern Plaguelands. It is step 44 of 46 in the Eastern Plaguelands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Eastern Plaguelands at 27.3, 21.3. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

The note is from Baroness Anastari, and it describes a ritual that is about to happen in the Plaguewood's central slaughterhouse - just south of where Tarenar is at. This could be where they're holding Gidwin!

Tarenar will want to know about this... and quickly, before it's too late!

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationArgent Crusade +250
Top Comments

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

1
Nifel+18via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Done most of the quests in here, got the drop and it says I don't meet the requirements. Bug? Any other suggestions?

EDIT: Found the problem. I started the EP quests from Light's Hope Chapel and worked my way towards Stratholme. Turns out you have to do the Caravan questline which starts at the border WP/EP until the part where you go look for Tarenar Sunstrike on the road close to Stratholme. There you get the quest Guardians of Stratholme which involves killing Omasum Blighthoof and Karthis Darkrune for the item which starts this quest. If you kill them prior to this it will be useless and just take up inventory space.

3
Shadow12000+4via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Just a note since none of the other comments mention it. Unlike other items that start quests, this wont start automatically upon looting it. This is because you need to have completed the quest to kill the death knights that actually drop the item first before being able to accept the quest. This also means that until you accept the quest, it'll have a marker on your world map that a quest is at one of the ziggurats, even if you have the item in your inventory. Overall, it was an odd choice to make this quest start from a drop, rather than just making the "kill the death knights" quest end with you turning in the missive as some objective of its own like "Learn Gidwin's Location".

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationArgent Crusade+250

Reward details

Reputation: Argent Crusade +250

Led by Tirion Fordring, the Argent Crusade combines the reformed Order of the Silver Hand with the Argent Dawn in one final push against the forces of the Lich King.

Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.

Other quests in Eastern Plaguelands that reward Argent Crusade reputation: Rough Roads (+350), Zaeldarr the Outcast (+250), Frederick's Fish Fancy (+250), To Kill With Purpose (+250), Dark Garb (+250), Catalysm (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapEastern PlaguelandsTurn-in marker at 27.3, 21.3, 2 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.

Eastern Plaguelands Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Eastern Plaguelands map showing where to go for The Baroness' MissiveTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #23 27.3 21.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inEastern Plaguelands 27.3, 21.3/way #23 27.3 21.3
  • Objective areaEastern Plaguelands 25.4, 19.8/way #23 25.4 19.8

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 Eastern Plaguelands map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Eastern Plaguelands:

  • Plaguewood Tower, Eastern PlaguelandsAlliance and Horde · about 390 yards south-west
  • Northpass Tower, Eastern PlaguelandsAlliance and Horde · about 960 yards east
  • Crown Guard Tower, Eastern PlaguelandsAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 90 yards north-west

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

Eastern Plaguelands

Part 44 of 46.

Previous: Blind Fury · Next: Gidwin's Fate Revealed

  1. 35Befouled No More
  2. 36Argent Upheaval
  3. 37Like Rats
  4. 38Argent Call: Northdale
  5. 39Ix'lar the Underlord
  6. 40Impatience
  7. 41Nobody to Blame but Myself
  8. 42Beat it Out of Them
  9. 43Blind Fury
  10. 44The Baroness' Missive
  11. 45Gidwin's Fate Revealed
  12. 46Journey's End

Showing steps 35 to 46 of 46.

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.

  • Blind FuryEastern Plaguelands · Level 15-30

    Tarenar wasn't joking when he said that he didn't care about judgment and caution. He nearly took off that high elf's head as he ran into the Plaguewood, looking for Gidwin. You should go after him. The Plaguewood is a big place, <name>. Good luck.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Gidwin's Fate RevealedEastern Plaguelands · Level 15-30

    Quickly - find an entrance to the slaughterhouse to our south. I will meet you on the inside. Be ready for a fight!

The storyline at a glance

Eastern Plaguelands has 46 steps, from Gidwin Goldbraids to Journey's End.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Eastern Plaguelands (46).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Eastern Plaguelands 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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