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The Encroaching Wilderness (Horde)

The Encroaching Wilderness is a Horde-only quest for level 20-30 in Blade's Edge Mountains. It is step 13 of 95 in the Blade's Edge Mountains storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Blade's Edge Mountains at 52.4, 57.9. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

The Thunderlord were once a proud orc clan before they were transformed into fel orcs through the blood of Mannoroth.

Recently we recovered this orc stronghold from the ogres that infest the ravine below. They had moved in when the Thunderlord clan abandoned it.

We will keep this place and I will have your help doing so.

In the Jagged Ridge to the south and the west, there are bloodletters that have become like a plague upon us. They eat and breed incessantly.

Kill them and then return to me.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapBlade's Edge MountainsTurn-in marker at 52.4, 57.9, 8 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.

Blade's Edge Mountains Quest turn-in 8 mapped points
Blade's Edge Mountains map showing where to go for The Encroaching WildernessTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #105 52.4 57.9

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBlade's Edge Mountains 52.4, 57.9/way #105 52.4 57.9
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Blade's Edge Mountains 51.3, 68.1/way #105 51.3 68.1

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 Blade's Edge Mountains map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Blade's Edge Mountains, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Blade's Edge Mountains:

  • Thunderlord Stronghold, Blade's Edge MountainsHorde · about 130 yards north
  • Evergrove, Blade's Edge MountainsAlliance and Horde · about 830 yards north-east
  • Mok'Nathal Village, Blade's Edge MountainsHorde · about 1,300 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 370 yards south

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

Blade's Edge Mountains

Part 13 of 95.

Previous: Planting the Banner · Next: Dust from the Drakes

  1. 8The Bladespire Ogres
  2. 9Getting the Bladespire Tanked
  3. 10The Trappings of a Vindicator
  4. 11Gorr'Dim, Your Time Has Come...
  5. 12Planting the Banner
  6. 13The Encroaching Wilderness
  7. 14Dust from the Drakes
  8. 15Protecting Our Own
  9. 16The Bladespire Threat
  10. 17Thunderlord Clan Artifacts
  11. 18Vision Guide
  12. 19The Bloodmaul Ogres

Showing steps 8 to 19 of 95.

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.

  • Planting the BannerBlade's Edge Mountains · Level 20-30

    I want you to steal the Bladespire banner from one of their champions and take it south to Bloodmaul Outpost. Plant it atop their Northmaul Tower. This will infuriate the Bloodmaul and they will attack you relentlessly.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Dust from the DrakesBlade's Edge Mountains · Level 20-30

    The Alliance has recently moved in to the west, using their elven magics to grow a town and grove in a short matter of time. We must keep their defenses weak so that they do not also grow a spine. I have a plan that will do that and more.

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Blade's Edge Mountains · Level 20-30.

The storyline at a glance

Blade's Edge Mountains has 95 steps, from The Encroaching Wilderness to Maxnar Must Die!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Blade's Edge Mountains (95).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Blade's Edge Mountains 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 Encroaching Wilderness. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
The Encroaching Wilderness (this page)Horde10486
The Encroaching WildernessAlliance10455
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