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The Broken Front (Alliance)

The Broken Front is an Alliance-only quest for level 25-30 in Icecrown. It is step 22 of 167 in the Icecrown storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Icecrown at 63.1, 44.1. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

What?! Noooo!

We went to such great pains to keep this attack secret. How could the Horde have known? The resources... the men... all lost? Inconceivable!

Our plans here in Icecrown hinged upon our taking that gate before the Horde could. We must recover quickly and prepare to mount another offensive.

Visit the battlefield and search for any survivors. See if there's anything to be learned from this tragedy.

And prepare yourself, <name>, for a war - on two fronts...

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Top Comments

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If anything, this quest illustrates the difference between the Alliance and the Horde. Here's what the Alliance sees when they talk to the dying soldier:

We attacked under cover of a blizzard....
The Scourge were caught off guard... our victory was certain....
Then... from behind us... the Horde came from nowhere.
They cost us... everything....

Here's what the Horde see when they talk to their dying berserkers:

Gathering... information.... on the Scourge.
Alliance forces appeared...
We took cover - waited until they attacked the gate,
then, we hit them from the rear.
Pinched between us... and the Scourge... it was too much for them...

Both quests have you kill the dying Alliance.

Now let's look at the turn-in dialogue. Alliance:

So... It was a rout - a total loss. This shall not be forgotten.
Mark my words, <class>. The Horde shall pay for this... there will be no mercy!

Horde:

They saw the Alliance assaulting the gate and they attacked them from behind...
<After a brief pause, Korm bursts into laughter.>
THAT is what it means to be HORDE!
Were it not for them, the Alliance maggots would likely be holding that gate!
Their boldness has bought us precious time.

Frigging gankers.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapIcecrownTurn-in marker at 63.1, 44.1, 10 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.

Icecrown Quest turn-in 10 mapped points
Icecrown map showing where to go for The Broken FrontTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #118 63.1 44.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inIcecrown 63.1, 44.1/way #118 63.1 44.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Icecrown 68.7, 65.4/way #118 68.7 65.4
  • Objective areaIcecrown 63.1, 44.0/way #118 63.1 44.0

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 Icecrown map

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

Getting there

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

  • Argent Tournament Grounds, IcecrownAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards north-east
  • The Shadow Vault, IcecrownAlliance and Horde · about 1,500 yards north-west
  • Crusaders' Pinnacle, IcecrownAlliance and Horde · about 1,600 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 960 yards south

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

Icecrown

Part 22 of 167.

Previous: Orgrim's Hammer · Next: Your Attention, Please

  1. 17Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend
  2. 18The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle
  3. 19The Crusaders' Pinnacle
  4. 20The Skybreaker
  5. 21Orgrim's Hammer
  6. 22The Broken Front
  7. 23Your Attention, Please
  8. 24Borrowed Technology
  9. 25...All the Help We Can Get.
  10. 26Poke and Prod
  11. 27That's Abominable!
  12. 28Against the Giants

Showing steps 17 to 28 of 167.

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.

  • Orgrim's HammerIcecrown · Level 25-30

    The Argent Crusade pulled my ravaged body from the Broken Front. What a glorious battle, <race>. My axe sang as it cut down Alliance filth and Scourge alike. My time is over. It will be a good death. Carry a message for me, soldier.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Your Attention, PleaseIcecrown · Level 25-30

    Chief Engineer Boltwrench has proven invaluable in his service aboard the Stormbreaker. Were it not for his ingenuity, we'd be sprinkled across half of the glacier several times over by now.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Icecrown · Level 25-30.

The storyline at a glance

Icecrown has 167 steps, from Honor Above All Else to Light Within the Darkness.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Icecrown (162), Moonglade (2), Dragonblight (2), Shattrath City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Icecrown 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name The Broken Front. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
The Broken Front (this page)Alliance13231
The Broken FrontHorde13228
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The Broken Sky
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