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Tormenting the Softknuckles

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 20-30
ZoneSholazar Basin
Quest ID12530

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12530))

What to do

StorylineSholazar Basin, step 28 of 65
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

Slave thing! Rakjak want me to babysit you while I kill hardknuckles. I feeling generous today, so I let you kill some too, but don't get in Goregek's way! Rakjak not know yet, but Goregek has eye on big bad hardknuckle mama. We go to Hardknuckle Clearing to east and poke softknuckles with poker and she sure to come yelling! <Goregek rubs his hands together gleefully.>

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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.

Sholazar Basin Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Sholazar Basin map showing where to go for Tormenting the SoftknucklesTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #119 55.0 69.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSholazar Basin 55.0, 69.1/way #119 55.0 69.1
  • Objective areaSholazar Basin 68.0, 74.8/way #119 68.0 74.8
  • Objective areaSholazar Basin 55.5, 69.7/way #119 55.5 69.7

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 Sholazar Basin map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Sholazar Basin:

  • River's Heart, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 310 yards north-west
  • Warsong Camp, WintergraspHorde · about 890 yards east
  • Nesingwary Base Camp, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 590 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 30 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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationFrenzyheart Tribe +500

Reward details

Reputation: Frenzyheart Tribe +500

Driven from their lands by the Scourge, this fierce tribe of wolvar stumbled upon Sholazar Basin, where they intend to make their new home. Their aggressive nature has put them at odds with the various gorloc tribes known collectively as the Oracles.

Reputation group: Sholazar Basin.

Other quests in Sholazar Basin that reward Frenzyheart Tribe reputation: Playing Along (+350), The Ape Hunter's Slave (+350), The Underground Menace (+500), Flown the Coop! (+350), The Wasp Hunter's Apprentice (+350), The Sapphire Queen (+500).

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

Sholazar Basin

Part 28 of 65.

Previous: The Ape Hunter's Slave · Next: The Wasp Hunter's Apprentice

  1. 23Securing the Bait
  2. 24A Mammoth Undertaking
  3. 25Post-partum Aggression
  4. 26Playing Along
  5. 27The Ape Hunter's Slave
  6. 28Tormenting the Softknuckles
  7. 29The Wasp Hunter's Apprentice
  8. 30The Sapphire Queen
  9. 31Flown the Coop!
  10. 32The Underground Menace
  11. 33Mischief in the Making
  12. 34A Rough Ride

Showing steps 23 to 34 of 65.

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.

  • The Ape Hunter's SlaveSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    You think you so great hunter, eh? You no Frenzyheart, you not know of hunt. Goregek is great ape hunter. He slay so many ape you can't count on claws. You go with Goregek and hunt hardknuckles to east. You the slave, <race>. You do what Goregek tell you.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Wasp Hunter's ApprenticeSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    Rakjak not dumb. Maybe you good at killing things. Maybe Frenzyheart can make you into real hunter. Dajik hunts giant wasp things better than all wolvar. Go with Dajik to Sapphire Hive to southeast or to river in south and learn the hunt.

The storyline at a glance

Sholazar Basin has 65 steps, from Need an Engine, Take an Engine to Reclamation.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Sholazar Basin (63), Un'Goro Crater (2).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • Into the Basin Complete the Sholazar Basin storylines listed below.
  • The Snows of Northrend Complete all of Hemet Nesingwary quests in Northrend up to and including Post-partum Aggression.

Other storylines on the Sholazar Basin 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.