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The Prison Rooftop

The Prison Rooftop is a quest for level 1-20 in Gilneas City. It is step 25 of 100 in the Gilneas storyline. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 350 experience and money.

Description

I don't understand why the king wants to waste time saving his hide, but if you want to risk your life, then be my guest.

Crowley and his men are holed up upstairs, probably plotting against the king as we speak!

Rewards

Money53 silver50 copper
Experience350 XP
ReputationGilneas +10

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Entrance is at 57.8, 72.9 to get up to the roofs. You will fight about 3 worgen to get up there. Go across the bridge then make a right. You will find your quest giver. Once you accept the quest be prepared, you will face waves of worgen. They die easily enough but a few waves will hit you. Good Luck!

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Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

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360595+11via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Entrance is at 57.8, 72.9 to get up to the roofs. You will fight about 3 worgen to get up there. Go across the bridge then make a right. You will find your quest giver. Once you accept the quest be prepared, you will face waves of worgen. They die easily enough but a few waves will hit you. Good Luck!

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP350
MoneyGold53s 50c
ReputationGilneas+10

Reward details

Reputation: Gilneas +10

The people of Gilneas are a nation of survivors. Having walled themselves off from the rest of humanity, they must now face new threats from within.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Gilneas City that reward Gilneas reputation: Lockdown! (+250), Something's Amiss (+250), All Hell Breaks Loose (+350), Salvage the Supplies (+350), Evacuate the Merchant Square (+350), Royal Orders (+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 mapGilneas City
World Map

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.

Gilneas City Quest turn-in
Quest Line

Storyline

Gilneas

Part 25 of 100.

Previous: While You're At It · Next: By the Skin of His Teeth

  1. 20Safety in Numbers
  2. 21Safety in Numbers
  3. 22Safety in Numbers
  4. 23Old Divisions
  5. 24While You're At It
  6. 25The Prison Rooftop
  7. 26By the Skin of His Teeth
  8. 27Brothers In Arms
  9. 28The Rebel Lord's Arsenal
  10. 29From the Shadows
  11. 30Message to Greymane
  12. 31Save Krennan Aranas

Showing steps 20 to 31 of 100.

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.

  • While You're At ItGilneas City · Level 1-20

    Fine by me if King Greymane wants you to risk your life to rescue a known traitor. Do me a favor and do something useful while you're out there and kill these cursed fleabags.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • By the Skin of His TeethGilneas City · Level 1-20

    One of those mangy fleabags got Dempsey real good. We cannot move him until we stabilize his bleeding. Give us a hand holding back these mongrels. A couple of minutes is all we need, brother!

The storyline at a glance

Gilneas has 100 steps, from Lockdown! to Rut'theran Village.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Gilneas (89), Gilneas City (11).

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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Quest Location and Connections

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