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To Win a War, You Gotta Become War

A World of Warcraft quest in Redridge Mountains. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 7-30
Quest ID26651

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26651))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineRedridge Mountains, step 24 of 31
Rewards5,150 XP

Description

<The Bravo Company radio beeps.> Do you understand yet, {name}? Do you now see what we gotta do to win a war against these monsters? YOU GOTTA BECOME WAR! NO MERCY! With the P.O.W.s freed you're clear to plant the seaforium. Carefully make your way into each of the structures out there and plant a charge. Plant a seaforium charge at the Blackrock munitions hut and the Blackrock tower. Once you're done meet up with me and the rest of Bravo Company at Shalewind Canyon, east of Render's Valley.

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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.

Redridge Mountains Quest turn-in 4 mapped points
Redridge Mountains map showing where to go for To Win a War, You Gotta Become WarTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #49 78.0 63.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inRedridge Mountains 78.0, 63.8/way #49 78.0 63.8
  • Objective areaRedridge Mountains 63.8, 70.5/way #49 63.8 70.5
  • Objective areaRedridge Mountains 66.4, 71.5/way #49 66.4 71.5
  • Objective areaRedridge Mountains 52.5, 55.4/way #49 52.5 55.4

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 Redridge Mountains map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Redridge Mountains:

  • Shalewind Canyon, RedridgeAlliance · about 30 yards south
  • Bogpaddle, Swamp of SorrowsAlliance and Horde · about 430 yards east
  • Camp Everstill, RedridgeAlliance · about 670 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 380 yards west
  • Objective areaabout 330 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 670 yards west

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.

Related
Experience5,150 XP
ReputationStormwind +250

Reward details

Reputation: Stormwind +250

One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Redridge Mountains that reward Stormwind reputation: Hero's Call: Redridge Mountains! (+250), Still Assessing the Threat (+350), WANTED: Redridge Gnolls (+250), Parker's Report (+75), Franks and Beans (+250), Nida's Necklace (+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.

Storyline

Redridge Mountains

Part 24 of 31.

Previous: Prisoners of War · Next: Detonation

  1. 19Bravo Company Field Kit: Chloroform
  2. 20Hunting the Hunters
  3. 21Point of Contact: Brubaker
  4. 22Unspeakable Atrocities
  5. 23Prisoners of War
  6. 24To Win a War, You Gotta Become War
  7. 25Detonation
  8. 26The Dark Tower
  9. 27The Grand Magus Doane
  10. 28AHHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!!!
  11. 29Showdown at Stonewatch
  12. 30Darkblaze, Brood of the Worldbreaker

Showing steps 19 to 30 of 31.

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.

  • Prisoners of WarRedridge Mountains · Level 7-30

    The Bravo Company field kit is ready, <name>. I'm gonna equip you with it and you're gonna enter Render's Valley, southeast of here, and free our P.O.W.s. I'm sending Jorgensen with you to watch your back.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • DetonationRedridge Mountains · Level 7-30

    Those explosives you planted were high yield, <name>. When I push this button on the Bravo Company field kit, that whole valley is gonna be consumed by a massive fireball of death. You know, I think you should do the honors. You did all the hard work, after all. Ready?

The storyline at a glance

Redridge Mountains has 31 steps, from We Must Prepare! to Triumphant Return.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Redridge Mountains (31).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Redridge Mountains 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.