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The Defense of Grom'gol: Murloc Menace

A World of Warcraft quest in Northern Stranglethorn. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
Quest ID26280

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26280))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineNorthern Stranglethorn, step 10 of 60
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

The Murkgill murlocs have been pushed out of the ocean by the Saltscale murlocs, so they make their refuge in the Kal'ai ruins to our northeast. This was acceptable in the past, but no longer. Separated from the sea, the Murkgill have grown restless, and they send their foragers to attack my supply caravans. Send them a message: this behavior will NOT be tolerated by Hellscream's Horde.

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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.

Northern Stranglethorn Quest turn-in no plotted point

Nearby on the Northern Stranglethorn map

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

Getting there

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

  • Grom'gol, StranglethornHorde · about 30 yards south-east
  • Bambala, StranglethornHorde · about 1,000 yards east
  • Hardwrench Hideaway, StranglethornHorde · about 1,000 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 350 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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationOrgrimmar +250

Reward details

Reputation: Orgrimmar +250

Founded by Thrall, this Horde capital city is home to many of the proud orc clans of Durotar.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Northern Stranglethorn that reward Orgrimmar reputation: The Defense of Grom'gol: Raptor Risk (+250), The Defense of Grom'gol: Ogre Oppression (+250), Mosh'Ogg Handiwork (+150), Well, Come to the Jungle (+25), Northern Stranglethorn: The Fallen Empire (+10), Warchief's Command: Northern Stranglethorn! (+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

Northern Stranglethorn

Part 10 of 60.

Previous: The Defense of Grom'gol: Raptor Risk · Next: Hunt for Yenniku

  1. 5Water Elementals
  2. 6Sacred to the Bloodscalp
  3. 7You Can Take the Murloc Out of the Ocean...
  4. 8The Altar of Naias
  5. 9The Defense of Grom'gol: Raptor Risk
  6. 10The Defense of Grom'gol: Murloc Menace
  7. 11Hunt for Yenniku
  8. 12Headhunting
  9. 13Nezzliok Will Know
  10. 14Speaking with Nezzliok
  11. 15Chasing Yenniku's Fate
  12. 16The Mind's Eye

Showing steps 5 to 16 of 60.

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.

  • The Defense of Grom'gol: Raptor RiskNorthern Stranglethorn · Level 10-30

    Throm'ka, <class>! Your arrival at Grom'gol is timely, indeed. Our mission to provide a safe chain of supply to Stonard is being hampered by some of the local inhabitants. I am putting you in charge of eliminating the raptor population outside of Grom'gol, just to the north.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Hunt for YennikuNorthern Stranglethorn · Level 10-30

    A doom, there is. A doom on my chief's youngest son, Yenniku. As is a custom with our people, he was given to the Gurubashi Trolls of Zul'Gurub, but after my tribe, the Darkspear tribe, left with the orc Thrall, poor Yenniku was lost to us.

The storyline at a glance

Northern Stranglethorn has 60 steps, from The Fate of Kurzen to Big Game Hunter.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Northern Stranglethorn (60).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Northern Stranglethorn 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.