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Quest
The Dark Talons
A World of Warcraft quest in Dragon Isles. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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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?"
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.
- The Dragon Isles Await - travel to Orgrimmar
- Aspectral Invitation - talk to [npc=190239] (cinematic)
- Expeditionary Coordination - find the marked 3 NPCs
The Dark Talons - talk to [npc=198442]
- leave Orgrimmar and meet [npc=197279] outside- Whispers on the Winds - talk to [npc=193450] (cinematic)
- 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 mapQuestline took about 5 minutes (without dungeon).
Quest facts
Quest ID72256
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(72256))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
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.
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.
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
- Calming the Storms same spot
- Legacy of Tyr: Secrets of the Past same spot
- A Primal Threat same spot
- Warchief's Command: Vashj'ir! about 10 yards
- Sigil of Storms about 10 yards
- To Be Prepared about 60 yards
- The Battle for Broken Shore about 100 yards
- The Hand of Fate about 120 yards
- Skull Rock about 260 yards
- Margoz about 260 yards
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, Durotar
- Razor Hill, Durotar
- Nozzlepot's Outpost, Northern Barrens
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Money28 gold9 silver
Experience9,500 XP
Storyline
The Dragonscale Expedition
Part 4 of 28.
Day 1 Dragon Isles Questline
Previous: Expeditionary Coordination · Next: Whispers on the Winds
- 1The Dragon Isles Await
- 2Aspectral Invitation
- 3Expeditionary Coordination
- 4The Dark Talons
- 5Whispers on the Winds
- 6Chasing Storms
- 7To the Dragon Isles!
- 8Explorers in Peril
- 9Primal Pests
- 10Practice Materials
- 11Where is Wrathion?
- 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 Coordination
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 Winds
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:
Other storylines on the Durotar map
- Durotar
- Orc Heritage Armor
- Breaking the Cycle
- Greymane's Gambit
- To Argus!
- The Shadow Hunter
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.