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The Dark Talons

The Dark Talons is a Horde-only quest for level 10-70 in Dragon Isles. It is step 4 of 28 in The Dragonscale Expedition storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Durotar at 55.8, 12.7. It rewards 9,500 experience and money.

Description

Naleidea is enthusiastic, but she's a historian, not a soldier. She knows nothing of the dangers we'll face in the Dragon Isles.

Not that anyone needs to worry. After all, the Dark Talons will be protecting the expedition.

I'm going to discuss mission logistics with Ebyssian and your Horde leaders.

My lieutenant, Kodethi, is exploring the city along with the other dracthyr. Be a good soldier and let him know we are going to rally at the zeppelin tower. He'll relay my orders to the others.

Rewards

Money28 gold9 silver
Experience9,500 XP
Top Comments

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

2
Aevyx+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Kodethi and the Dark Talons are no longer on the roof above the portal room, and are now outside of Skull Rock in Durotar. Funnily enough (and unsurprisingly), his quest text still says "I trust we are not disturbing anyone up here?"

3
Bursi+6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The Dragon Isles Await popped up on login after patch 10.0.2 was life.
This is the horde version of the Dragonflight's prepatch event.



  4. The Dragon Isles Await - travel to Orgrimmar

  6. Aspectral Invitation - talk to [npc=190239] (cinematic)

  8. Expeditionary Coordination - find the marked 3 NPCs
    The Dark Talons - talk to [npc=198442]
    - leave Orgrimmar and meet [npc=197279] outside

  10. Whispers on the Winds - talk to [npc=193450] (cinematic)

  12. Legacy of Tyr: Secrets of the Past - Uldaman dungeon quest. You can queue up for the quest by looking at specific dungeons
    Chasing Storms - talk to Storm Huntress Suhrakka next to you (vendor)
    A Primal Threat - quest to collect items at the prepatch events.
    You can find these events in Badlands, Northern Barrens, Tirisfal Glades and Un'goro Crater, marked on the world map

Questline took about 5 minutes (without dungeon).

Read all 8 on Wowhead ↗

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP9,500
MoneyGold28g 9s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapDurotarTurn-in marker at 55.8, 12.7, 2 mapped points
Objective areaOrgrimmar1 mapped point
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.

Durotar Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Durotar map showing where to go for The Dark TalonsTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #1 55.8 12.7

Orgrimmar Objective area 1 mapped point
Orgrimmar map showing where to go for The Dark TalonsObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #85 44.0 38.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDurotar 55.8, 12.7/way #1 55.8 12.7
  • Objective areaDurotar 54.1, 9.9/way #1 54.1 9.9
  • Objective areaOrgrimmar 44.0, 38.3/way #85 44.0 38.3

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 Durotar map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Durotar:

  • Orgrimmar, DurotarHorde · about 700 yards north-west
  • Razor Hill, DurotarHorde · about 1,100 yards south
  • Nozzlepot's Outpost, Northern BarrensHorde · about 1,500 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 130 yards north-west
  • Objective areaabout 940 yards north-west (on the Orgrimmar map)

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

The Dragonscale Expedition

Part 4 of 28.

Day 1 Dragon Isles Questline

Previous: Expeditionary Coordination · Next: Whispers on the Winds

  1. 1The Dragon Isles Await
  2. 2Aspectral Invitation
  3. 3Expeditionary Coordination
  4. 4The Dark Talons
  5. 5Whispers on the Winds
  6. 6Chasing Storms
  7. 7To the Dragon Isles!
  8. 8Explorers in Peril
  9. 9Primal Pests
  10. 10Practice Materials
  11. 11Where is Wrathion?
  12. 12The Dragon Isles Await

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 28.

Also part of: Dragon Isles City Intro Quests (part 10 of 13).

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.

  • Expeditionary CoordinationDragon Isles · Level 10-70

    Pleasure to meet you, I am Naleidea Rivergleam. The invitation to visit the Dragon Isles is quite an exciting prospect. Don't you agree? The Reliquary has combined forces with our expeditionary counterparts to help coordinate our efforts.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Whispers on the WindsDragon Isles · Level 10-70

    Hello, <name>. It's been a while, and I wish we had more time to catch up. But you see, I've just had a rather enlightening... no, make that foreboding... yes, a foreboding conversation with an old friend. Sometimes a revelation can be both, after all. I really must tell you of what I've learned.

The storyline at a glance

The Dragonscale Expedition has 28 steps, from The Dragon Isles Await to Adventuring in the Dragon Isles.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Waking Shores (14), Stormwind City (7), Durotar (5), Orgrimmar (2).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • Waking Hope Complete the following storylines in the Waking Shores.

Other storylines on the Durotar 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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