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The Rock Flayer Matriarch

The Rock Flayer Matriarch is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Hellfire Peninsula. It is step 93 of 103 in the Hellfire Peninsula storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Hellfire Peninsula at 23.1, 40.2. It rewards 3 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 5,150 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

Rock flayers are mean, nasty, violent creatures. But the plain ones are like tame beasts when compared to their matriarch, Blacktalon the Savage.

My cousin got eaten by her and it wasn't pretty. I swore that one day Blacktalon would pay for that. You bring back proof of that monster's death and I will give you my life's savings. Deal?

You'll find her inside a cave in the Great Fissure. Good luck!

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money21 gold
Experience5,150 XP
ReputationExodar +350
Top Comments

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

2
missmagy+13via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

just went to do this Q for transmog gloves.
when i read the quest and saw the reward.. i honestly felt bad for this guy, and after loking over the comments i cant believe no one has mentioned this yet but...

"I swore that one day Blacktalon would pay for that. You bring back proof of that monster's death and I will give you my life's savings. Deal?"

the guy gives you like 6 gold.
nice life's savings.....

3
390750+11via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Inside the cave, at 34,64 there's a branch to the right which is easy to miss if you're playing with limited contrast. That's where the mobs are. If you go straight back without noticing that branch (as I did several times) the cave will appear empty. Also, while this is a group quest, it's pretty trivially soloable on a 60 feral druid. It just takes forever. Demoralizing Roar seemed to stop me from taking any damage at all.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP5,150
MoneyGold21g
ReputationExodar+350

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Waist
Item level30
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+5 Intellect, +8 Stamina, +5 Versatility
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for23 gold62 silver
TypeMail Feet
Item level30
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for35 gold4 silver
TypePlate Hands
Item level30
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor14
Stats+5 Strength or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +8 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for23 gold45 silver

Reputation: Exodar +350

The naaru vessel that brought the draenei to Azeroth. Though stranded in the Azuremyst Isles, it acts as a home city for this noble race.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Hellfire Peninsula that reward Exodar reputation: An Ambitious Plan (+250), In Search of Sedai (+25), Deadly Predators (+250), Cruel Taskmasters (+250), Return to Obadei (+25), The Pools of Aggonar (+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 mapHellfire PeninsulaTurn-in marker at 23.1, 40.2, 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.

Hellfire Peninsula Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Hellfire Peninsula map showing where to go for The Rock Flayer MatriarchTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #100 23.1 40.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHellfire Peninsula 23.1, 40.2/way #100 23.1 40.2
  • Objective areaHellfire Peninsula 33.4, 65.1/way #100 33.4 65.1

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 Hellfire Peninsula map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Hellfire Peninsula:

  • Temple of Telhamat, Hellfire PeninsulaAlliance · about 150 yards north-east
  • Telredor, ZangarmarshAlliance · about 1,700 yards west
  • Honor Hold, Hellfire PeninsulaAlliance · about 1,800 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,000 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

Hellfire Peninsula

Part 93 of 103.

Previous: Deadly Predators · Next: The Pools of Aggonar

  1. 88Sha'naar Relics
  2. 89Atonement
  3. 90The Seer's Relic
  4. 91Cruel Taskmasters
  5. 92Deadly Predators
  6. 93The Rock Flayer Matriarch
  7. 94The Pools of Aggonar
  8. 95Cleansing the Waters
  9. 96An Ambitious Plan
  10. 97Demonic Contamination
  11. 98Testing the Antidote
  12. 99Keep Thornfang Hill Clear!

Showing steps 88 to 99 of 103.

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.

  • Deadly PredatorsHellfire Peninsula · Level 10-30

    The Broken that live in Outland have endured endless violence. It is of little surprise that as soon as the Dark Portal opened they flocked to it in droves with hopes of escaping this land.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Pools of AggonarHellfire Peninsula · Level 10-30

    Much has changed since the days when we called this land Draenor. Parts of the land have been forever changed by the demons' taint. One such place is known as the Pools of Aggonar. It was once the location of our people's sacred springs.

Also counted by To Hellfire and Back

Its criteria name 15 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Hellfire Peninsula has 103 steps, from Eradicate the Burning Legion to Natural Remedies.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Hellfire Peninsula (103).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Hellfire Peninsula 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

To Hellfire and BackComplete the Hellfire Peninsula storylines listed below.10
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