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Thinning the Ranks (Grizzly Hills)

Thinning the Ranks is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Grizzly Hills. It is step 29 of 115 in the Grizzly Hills storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Grizzly Hills at 32.4, 59.9. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

There's a flurry of activity down in Voldrune village to the south. Thane Torvald Eriksson and his huscarls are preparing for war. With most of our men in the field dealing with the Horde's treachery, Amberpine will be vulnerable.

Travel to Voldrune, which is near the southern coast, and show those Dragonflayers we're no soft target.

Slay as many of the huscarls as you can find. Make them think twice about taking advantage of our conflict with the Horde.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationValiance Expedition +250
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationValiance Expedition+250

Reward details

Reputation: Valiance Expedition +250

The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.

Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.

Other quests in Grizzly Hills that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: Descent into Darkness (+75), Report to Gryan Stoutmantle... Again (+25), Replenishing the Storehouse (+250), Them or Us! (+150), Take Their Rear! (+250), Eagle Eyes (+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 mapGrizzly HillsTurn-in marker at 32.4, 59.9, 16 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.

Grizzly Hills Quest turn-in 16 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #116 32.4 59.9

Coordinates

  • Turn-inGrizzly Hills 32.4, 59.9/way #116 32.4 59.9
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Grizzly Hills 25.6, 78.5/way #116 25.6 78.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Grizzly Hills 30.0, 75.5/way #116 30.0 75.5

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 Grizzly Hills map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Grizzly Hills:

  • Amberpine Lodge, Grizzly HillsAlliance · about 60 yards north-west
  • Westfall Brigade, Grizzly HillsAlliance · about 1,900 yards north-east
  • Light's Breach, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 1,900 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 740 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 560 yards south

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

Grizzly Hills

Part 29 of 115.

Previous: Secrets of the Flamebinders · Next: Descent into Darkness

  1. 24Test of Mettle
  2. 25Words of Warning
  3. 26Escape from Silverbrook
  4. 27A Swift Response
  5. 28Secrets of the Flamebinders
  6. 29Thinning the Ranks
  7. 30Descent into Darkness
  8. 31Report to Gryan Stoutmantle... Again
  9. 32Hollowstone Mine
  10. 33The Damaged Journal
  11. 34The Runic Keystone
  12. 35The Runic Prophecies

Showing steps 24 to 35 of 115.

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.

  • Secrets of the FlamebindersGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    Even as we attempt to fight off the Horde, the Dragonflayer tribe musters in their village of Voldrune, near the coast to the south. The most powerful warriors in the village are granted flame-imbued talismans that give them the ability to control powerful, savage proto-drakes.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Descent into DarknessGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    The journal was written by a denizen of Silverbrook named Mikhail. It details the arrival of a shadow-worshipping group called the "wolfcult." The villagers were reluctant to embrace the cult at first, but sympathizers sprung up gradually among town residents.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Grizzly Hills · Level 15-30.

The storyline at a glance

Grizzly Hills has 115 steps, from Local Support to Loken's Orders.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Grizzly Hills (115).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Grizzly Hills 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Thinning the Ranks. They differ in the zone/rewards shown here.

QuestZoneRewardsID
Thinning the Ranks (this page)Grizzly Hills4,100 XP12223
Thinning the RanksTerokkar Forest4,100 XP, Deadeye's Piece, Stout Oak Longbow, Dark Augur's Wand10007
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