TheWoWDBThe NPC (Shai Cliffwatcher) and the Rappeling Rope you need to use to get to the cave are at (51, 77). The cave is 100 yards east of where you drop (53, 76). Once you loot the barley a Cave Horror spawns with roughly 180k hp. You can climb back up from the same location you dropped down (the "rope up" is on a small table near the ground).
Quest
The Quest for Better Barley
A World of Warcraft quest in Valley of the Four Winds. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Note that you acually have to use the "Rappelling Rope" to fulfill the "Use the Cliff Harness" objective, meaning you can't just jump, fly, slowfall, etc.
Hopefully this will help someone. When you're looking to "climb" back up, don't look up for a rope hanging down. I didn't realize that there's a table on the ground with rope that needs to be clicked to get back up.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-35
Quest ID30032
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(30032))
Requirements
Requires all ofTaste Test, Out of Sprite, Wee Little Shenanigans
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineValley of the Four Winds, Chen's Masterpiece, step 14 of 16
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Description
Looking for sweet grain? My father once mentioned a malted cave barley that sounds about right. If you are willing to brave the peril, there is an ancient cave at the base of the Winds' Edge south of here. There is even an old lift my father made when he would travel into the jungle. In the cave is a bush as old as my family. From that bush you can pluck a grain so sweet it will humble your senses. Just watch out for its guardians.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #376 52.7 62.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inValley of the Four Winds 52.7, 62.8
/way #376 52.7 62.8 - Objective areaValley of the Four Winds 51.3, 77.5
/way #376 51.3 77.5 - Objective areaValley of the Four Winds 53.2, 77.6
/way #376 53.2 77.6 - Objective areaValley of the Four Winds 52.7, 63.0
/way #376 52.7 63.0
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 Valley of the Four Winds map
- Honor the Flame about 300 yards
- The Gratitude of Stoneplow about 1,300 yards
- Warn Stoneplow about 1,310 yards
- Hope Springs Eternal about 1,310 yards
- Tortoise Mastery about 1,330 yards
- Retreat! about 1,370 yards
- The Savior of Stoneplow about 1,380 yards
- It Does You No Good In The Keg about 1,420 yards
- The Mantidote about 1,460 yards
- Stalker Mastery about 1,530 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Valley of the Four Winds, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Valley of the Four Winds:
- Halfhill, Valley of the Four Winds
- Thunder Cleft, Krasarang Wilds
- The Incursion, Krasarang Wilds
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- 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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Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
Other quests on the Valley of the Four Winds map
Storyline
Valley of the Four Winds, Chen's Masterpiece
Part 14 of 16.
Previous: Taste Test · Next: The Chen Taste Test
- 5Enough is Ookin' Enough
- 6Stormstout's Hops
- 7Doesn't Hold Water
- 8The Great Water Hunt
- 9Barreling Along
- 10Li Li and the Grain
- 11Wee Little Shenanigans
- 12Out of Sprite
- 13Taste Test
- 14The Quest for Better Barley
- 15The Chen Taste Test
- 16The Emperor
Showing steps 5 to 16 of 16.
Also part of: Valley of the Four Winds (part 40 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.
- Taste Test
As long as you're here, you might as well help me out. I'm feeling pretty darn unqualified for the task, seeing as I've never drank a drop of beer in my life. You should try a little sample of each of their grains. Let's see if any of this stuff is sweet enough for Uncle Chen.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Chen Taste Test
Uncle Chen is going to love this. Or... he might tell us to find something sweeter. He's kind of dumb like that. Let's get this grain back to him at Halfhill.
The storyline at a glance
Valley of the Four Winds, Chen's Masterpiece has 16 steps, from Chen's Resolution to The Emperor.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Valley of the Four Winds (16).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Valley of the Four Winds map
- Valley of the Four Winds, Stormstout Brewery & The Hidden Master & Nesingwary's Safari
- Valley of the Four Winds, Thunderfoot Fields
- Valley of the Four Winds, Mudmug's Place
- Krasarang Wilds
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.