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The Captive Prospectors

The Captive Prospectors is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Grizzly Hills. It is step 48 of 115 in the Grizzly Hills storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Grizzly Hills at 77.0, 48.4. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

Raegar sent a team of prospectors into Dun Argol to search for artifacts and information about the history of the settlement. Raegar's team never expected Dun Argol to be this heavily populated.

They're being held captive while the iron dwarves prepare for war. We haven't the men to charge in after them, and Raegar's too busy fantasizing about defeating the irons to be of much help.

It falls to you, <name>. Any of the irons or their servants could be carrying the keys to the cages holding our men.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapGrizzly HillsTurn-in marker at 77.0, 48.4, 15 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.

Grizzly Hills Quest turn-in 15 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #116 77.0 48.4

Coordinates

  • Turn-inGrizzly Hills 77.0, 48.4/way #116 77.0 48.4
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 76.5, 55.4/way #116 76.5 55.4
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 76.4, 58.6/way #116 76.4 58.6
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 76.0, 61.1/way #116 76.0 61.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Grizzly Hills 75.4, 55.9/way #116 75.4 55.9
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 77.1, 48.5/way #116 77.1 48.5

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:

  • Westfall Brigade, Grizzly HillsAlliance · about 1,200 yards north-west
  • Fort Wildervar, Howling FjordAlliance · about 1,400 yards south
  • Amberpine Lodge, Grizzly HillsAlliance · about 2,400 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 250 yards south
  • Objective areaabout 360 yards south
  • Objective areaabout 440 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

Grizzly Hills

Part 48 of 115.

Previous: Blackout · Next: Looking the Part

  1. 43Why Fabricate When You Can Appropriate?
  2. 44We Have the Power
  3. 45... Or Maybe We Don't
  4. 46The Iron Thane and His Anvil
  5. 47Blackout
  6. 48The Captive Prospectors
  7. 49Looking the Part
  8. 50Cultivating an Image
  9. 51Put on Your Best Face for Loken
  10. 52Souls at Unrest
  11. 53A Name from the Past
  12. 54Ruuna the Blind

Showing steps 43 to 54 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.

  • BlackoutGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    The large hall at the top of Dun Argol houses the power source for the entire area. If you can destroy the power core, it will cripple Dun Argol for some time. No power means no golems, no sentries, and no more lightning armaments.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Looking the PartGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    If, as Prospector Varana said, only certain irons are permitted to communicate with this Loken, it'll probably be the overseers who have the privilege. We have to get you in there to see what all this is about, but it won't be easy. The first step will be to get a proper uniform for you.

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
The Captain's Logs
The Captive Bride
The Captive Bride
The Captive Engineer
The Captive Spymaster
The Captured Scout
The Card Shark
The Caretaker of Brunwin's Terrace
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