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Quest
The Cost of War
A World of Warcraft quest in The Jade Forest. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The Sha Tendrils caused by the rifts will target you if you are stealthed, and they break stealth though they do no damage by themselves. So be careful and quick making your opening move if you're a stealther and you fight near one of these.
This quest has been nerfed. A lot less to kill now. In MoP you needed 10 of the big guys, and 15 (or 18) of the smaller ones... Memory isn't right :P
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-35
ZoneThe Jade Forest
Quest ID31737
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(31737))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineThe Jade Forest, Paw'don Village, step 9 of 19
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Description
This whole place is going up in flames and the Skyfire is reporting that more of those... shadows are crawling up out of the ground. We need to get our people out of here. Clear a path through the base on your way north and head for the town. I will rendezvous with you there.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #371 46.3 84.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Jade Forest 46.3, 84.8
/way #371 46.3 84.8 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Jade Forest 44.4, 93.5
/way #371 44.4 93.5 - Objective areaThe Jade Forest 46.5, 96.4
/way #371 46.5 96.4
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 The Jade Forest map
- Mists of Pandaria: Onward to Adventure in Pandaria about 20 yards
- Defiance about 460 yards
- Rally the Survivors about 460 yards
- Orchard-Supplied Hardware about 460 yards
- Spitfire about 460 yards
- Unbound about 620 yards
- Maul Gormal about 620 yards
- The Splintered Path about 630 yards
- Journey to the East about 1,400 yards
- The Monkey King's Challenge about 1,400 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Jade Forest, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Jade Forest:
- Paw'Don Village, Jade Forest
- Serpent's Overlook, Jade Forest
- Pearlfin Village, Jade Forest
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- Objective area
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.
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Other quests on the Jade Forest map
Reward details
Reputation: Shado-Pan -10
The shadowy protectors of Pandaria's temples, the Shado-Pan are wrought with mystery.
Reputation group: Mists of Pandaria.
Other quests in The Jade Forest that reward Shado-Pan reputation: Face to Face With Consequence (+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.
Storyline
The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village
Part 9 of 19.
Previous: Envoy of the Alliance · Next: Pillaging Peons
- 4Touching Ground
- 5No Plan Survives Contact with the Enemy
- 6Welcome Wagons
- 7The Right Tool For The Job
- 8Envoy of the Alliance
- 9The Cost of War
- 10Pillaging Peons
- 11Critical Condition
- 12Priorities!
- 13Koukou's Rampage
- 14Twinspire Keep
- 15Fractured Forces
Showing steps 4 to 15 of 19.
Also part of: The Jade Forest (part 7 of 88), Mists of Pandaria (part 9 of 19).
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.
- Envoy of the Alliance
North of this base is a cherry blossom orchard and a village tucked away behind it. We will need to quarter there and tend to our wounded while we plan our next move. Head to that village and make contact with the native leader. Agent Mishka and I will rendezvous with you there.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Pillaging Peons
How did my village become a battlefield? To the west, your Horde enemies cut down our precious orchard. Without our apple trees, we will have no harvest, no food, and no livelihood. If you are truly different than this Horde, show us! Help us protect our grove by killing those who defile the land.
Other quests with this name
This one: Alliance only · The Jade Forest · Level 10-35.
The storyline at a glance
The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village has 19 steps, from The King's Command to Onward and Inward.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Jade Forest (18), Stormwind City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on The Jade Forest map
- The Jade Forest, Dawn's Blossom & Tian Monastery & Nectarbreeze Village
- The Jade Forest, Greenstone Quarry & Terrace of Ten Thunders & The Jade Serpent
- The Jade Forest, Strange Bedfellows & Grookin Hill
- The Jade Forest, The White Pawn & Pearlfin Village
- Order of the Cloud Serpent
- The Jade Forest, The Waterspeaking Ceremony
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.