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The Northern Flank

The Northern Flank is a Horde-only quest for level 30-35 in Twilight Highlands. It is step 92 of 236 in the Twilight Highlands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Twilight Highlands at 70.2, 43.2. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 2,400 experience and money.

Description

I have ordered a defensive perimeter set up on our northern coast, at the Slithering Cove. Our scouts reported that the naga were trying to make landfall there.

Gralok is in charge of the operation - report to him and secure that beach!

Rewards

Money6 gold87 silver
Experience2,400 XP
ReputationDragonmaw Clan +75
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP2,400
MoneyGold6g 87s
ReputationDragonmaw Clan+75

Reward details

Reputation: Dragonmaw Clan +75

This wayward orc clan was once empowered by Deathwing himself to enslave red dragons, including Alexstrasza. Currently less numerous and powerful, the Dragonmaw make their home in the Twilight Highlands.

Reputation group: Cataclysm.

Other quests in Twilight Highlands that reward Dragonmaw Clan reputation: You Say You Want a Revolution (+250), Insurrection (+500), Death to Mor'ghor (+1,750), Ogres & Ettins (+250), Move the Mountain (+250), Signal the Attack (+250).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapTwilight HighlandsTurn-in marker at 70.2, 43.2, 2 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.

Twilight Highlands Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Twilight Highlands map showing where to go for The Northern FlankTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #241 70.2 43.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTwilight Highlands 70.2, 43.2/way #241 70.2 43.2
  • Objective areaTwilight Highlands 75.3, 54.9/way #241 75.3 54.9

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 Twilight Highlands map

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

Getting there

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

  • Dragonmaw Port, Twilight HighlandsHorde · about 390 yards south-east
  • Bloodgulch, Twilight HighlandsHorde · about 850 yards west
  • The Krazzworks, Twilight HighlandsHorde · about 940 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 490 yards south-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

Twilight Highlands

Part 92 of 236.

Previous: Krazz Works! · Next: Blood in the Surf

  1. 87Off The Wall
  2. 88Parting Packages
  3. 89Of Utmost Importance
  4. 90Highbank, Crybank
  5. 91Krazz Works!
  6. 92The Northern Flank
  7. 93Blood in the Surf
  8. 94Shells on the Sea Shore
  9. 95Blast Him!
  10. 96Narkrall, the Drake-Tamer
  11. 97Crushing the Wildhammer
  12. 98Total War

Showing steps 87 to 98 of 236.

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.

  • Krazz Works!Twilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    That's it. We're all wrapped up. Let's ship out. Newt's got some gyrocopters tethered at the top of the tower. Go meet up with her for a quick trip back to Krazzworks. We'll mop up here.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Blood in the SurfTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    These naga scum think to move upriver to reinforce the Bastion of Twilight. We will RIP off their fish heads and PULL OUT their SPINES. <Gralok drives his broadsword into the dirt.> Destroy the Blackscale!

The storyline at a glance

Twilight Highlands has 236 steps, from Twilight Shores to Skullcrusher the Mountain.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Twilight Highlands (222), Azshara (9), Orgrimmar (4), Stormwind City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Twilight Highlands 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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The Nightmare Lord
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The Node Knows
The Nokhud Threat
The Northern Pylon
The Nose Knows
The Not-Scientific Method
The Notebook
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