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Quest
The Offensive Begins
A World of Warcraft quest in Howling Fjord. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Go up the elevator thats southwest of Vengeance landing.
Once you're at the top, go straight and you will hit a little camp where he is standing.
Vengeance Lift can be found at 73, 35 - Southwest of Vengeance Landing.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneHowling Fjord
Quest ID11295
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11295))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineHowling Fjord, step 49 of 162
Rewards525 XP
Description
No one seems to know very much about the vrykul. Our records show no signs of activity in their lands for centuries. Yet here they are, just as we move against Arthas. The map you retrieved makes it clear that we'll have to defeat them if our forces are to get any further into Northrend. One of my best sergeants, an abomination known as Gorth, oversees the blockade beyond the lift. Assist him in launching a pre-emptive strike on Baleheim. If a vrykul attack occurs, it will be launched from there.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #117 71.1 39.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inHowling Fjord 71.1, 39.1
/way #117 71.1 39.1 - Objective areaHowling Fjord 78.7, 31.2
/way #117 78.7 31.2
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 Howling Fjord map
- Warchief's Command: Howling Fjord! about 610 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,240 yards
- To Northrend about 1,810 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Howling Fjord, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Howling Fjord:
- Vengeance Landing, Howling Fjord
- New Agamand, Howling Fjord
- Camp Winterhoof, Howling Fjord
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Experience525 XP
ReputationHorde Expedition +10
Reward details
Reputation: Horde Expedition +10
The combined forces of the Horde in Northrend, spearheaded by the Warsong Offensive.
Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.
Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward Horde Expedition reputation: The New Plague (+250), The Windrunner Fleet (+25), Ambushed! (+150), Trail of Fire (+350), Sniff Out the Enemy (+150), The Dragonskin Map (+75).
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
Howling Fjord
Part 49 of 162.
Previous: The Dragonskin Map · Next: A Lesson in Fear
- 44Landing the Killing Blow
- 45Report to Anselm
- 46Let Them Eat Crow
- 47Sniff Out the Enemy
- 48The Dragonskin Map
- 49The Offensive Begins
- 50A Lesson in Fear
- 51Baleheim Bodycount
- 52Baleheim Must Burn!
- 53The Ambush
- 54Adding Injury to Insult
- 55The New Plague
Showing steps 44 to 55 of 162.
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 Dragonskin Map
Upon closer inspection, the scroll appears to be a heavily-illustrated map of the fjord. The location of various villages are depicted in what seem to be tribal symbols. The location of Vengeance Landing is marked with a disproportionately large skull.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- A Lesson in Fear
When you've been in lots of fight like Gorth, you learn that to beat enemy good you have to make them really scared to die! But these vrykuls not afraid. You kill one and another comes... screaming louder and with a bigger weapon than the one before.
The storyline at a glance
Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Howling Fjord map
- Truthguard
- Wrath of the Lich King Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.