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The Damaged Journal (Alliance)

The Damaged Journal is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Grizzly Hills. It is step 33 of 115 in the Grizzly Hills storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Grizzly Hills at 59.8, 27.4. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

This battered, mud-stained journal has seen better days. Leafing through the pages, you discover dozens of notes, diagrams, and maps.

The author's handwriting seems vaguely familiar, but you're unable to place it until you discover an entry signed with the name of Brann Bronzebeard.

The back half of the book, containing the most recent entries, has been torn away. Pages litter the battlefield, and it will be impossible to know what Brann discovered here until the book is whole again.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Top Comments

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

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voz808+12via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Dont forget, if your Quest Helper is saying you need to pick up a "Brann BronzeBeard's Jounral", just click on the journal in your bag which was provided for the quest, to combind the 8 pages + the journal to make the quest item.

I walked around looking for a journal and was about to start running into some caves for underground hiding spots for the journal.

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164286+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The following occurs after you give the journal to Torthen Deepdig.


  • Torthen Deepdig reads through the most recent entries in Brann's journal.

  • Torthen Deepdig says: Astounding! It says here that Brann discovered a mysterious runic plate deep in Thor Modan!

  • Torthen Deepdig says: Brann writes that he was working on a guide to these runic symbols when the giants and their allies attacked.

  • Torthen Deepdig says: He reports deciphering part of the writing on the runic plate, but it doesn't look like he recorded his translation.

  • Torthen Deepdig says: By Magni's beard, we've got to reconstruct the runic key he used to read the plate. We could be right on his heels!

Read all 11 on Wowhead ↗

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapGrizzly HillsTurn-in marker at 59.8, 27.4, 12 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 12 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #116 59.8 27.4

Coordinates

  • Turn-inGrizzly Hills 59.8, 27.4/way #116 59.8 27.4
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Grizzly Hills 64.4, 23.9/way #116 64.4 23.9
  • Objective areaGrizzly Hills 64.3, 19.8/way #116 64.3 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 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 30 yards north
  • Zim'Torga, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards north-west
  • The Argent Stand, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 1,800 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 270 yards north-east
  • Objective areaabout 360 yards north-east

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 33 of 115.

Previous: Hollowstone Mine · Next: The Runic Keystone

  1. 28Secrets of the Flamebinders
  2. 29Thinning the Ranks
  3. 30Descent into Darkness
  4. 31Report to Gryan Stoutmantle... Again
  5. 32Hollowstone Mine
  6. 33The Damaged Journal
  7. 34The Runic Keystone
  8. 35The Runic Prophecies
  9. 36Softening the Blow
  10. 37Brothers in Battle
  11. 38Uncovering the Tunnels
  12. 39The Fate of Orlond

Showing steps 28 to 39 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.

  • Hollowstone MineGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    I've been meaning to send some of our lads to check out Hollowstone Mine. Haven't had a chance to yet -- we've had our hands full between the Horde on the west and the iron dwarves to the east. If Dumont sent you, though, the least I can do is point you in the right direction.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Runic KeystoneGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    Brann's journal mentions that he used a runic keystone to illuminate the important runes on the plate he discovered. Without the keystone, the plate's contents would be little better than gibberish.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Grizzly Hills · Level 15-30.

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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name The Damaged Journal. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
The Damaged Journal (this page)Alliance11986
The Damaged JournalHorde12026
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