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Touching Ground (Alliance)

Touching Ground is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-35 in The Jade Forest. It is step 4 of 19 in The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in The Jade Forest at 43.6, 90.7. It rewards 4,800 experience and money.

Description

Their town is burning and their men are scattered and broken. I need every available man on the ground NOW to finish them off.

Grab one of the parachutes on the edge of the ship and get down there!

Rewards

Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
Top Comments

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1
216674+24via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

IF you somehow managed to miss the parachutes and plummeted to your death (thus killing not only yourself but the ability to complete this quest for the moment) - don't fret/freak.

Return to SW and take the panda-portal to Paw'Don, once in that town an NPC should tell you to take the other portal (practically in front of you) back to the skyship. (Thanks to Clarke from Arygos for pointing this out.)

2
dosiana+11via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

As of patch 5.1, the parachutes no longer spawn in as they should at the edges of the ship. Currently waiting on a ticket response to finish the quest on my monk alt.

EDIT: on 11/28, they restarted my server in the afternoon and I managed to get on right after it came up, and guess what, there were a couple parachutes on the side of the airship! Might have been a hotfix, or might have been the restart, who knows.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,800
MoneyGold13g 74s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapThe Jade ForestTurn-in marker at 43.6, 90.7, 3 mapped points
World Map

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.

The Jade Forest Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
The Jade Forest map showing where to go for Touching GroundTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #371 43.6 90.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThe Jade Forest 43.6, 90.7/way #371 43.6 90.7
  • Objective areaThe Jade Forest 42.3, 92.8/way #371 42.3 92.8

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 Jade Forest map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Jade Forest:

  • Paw'Don Village, Jade ForestAlliance · about 310 yards north-east
  • Lion's Landing, Krasarang WildsAlliance · about 740 yards south-west
  • Zhu's Watch, Krasarang WildsAlliance and Horde · about 960 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 130 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 150 yards south-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.

Quest Line

Storyline

The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village

Part 4 of 19.

Previous: Unleash Hell · Next: No Plan Survives Contact with the Enemy

  1. 1The King's Command
  2. 2The Mission
  3. 3Unleash Hell
  4. 4Touching Ground
  5. 5No Plan Survives Contact with the Enemy
  6. 6Welcome Wagons
  7. 7The Right Tool For The Job
  8. 8Envoy of the Alliance
  9. 9The Cost of War
  10. 10Pillaging Peons
  11. 11Critical Condition
  12. 12Priorities!

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 19.

Also part of: The Jade Forest (part 2 of 88), Mists of Pandaria (part 4 of 19).

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.

  • Unleash HellThe Jade Forest · Level 10-35

    I will NOT let the Horde gain a foothold on these shores before we do! If you're looking to jump into the fray, I've got a spare gyrocopter for you at the end of the runway. An attack run is already programmed in, all you have to do is concentrate on shooting. Unleash hell upon these orcs!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • No Plan Survives Contact with the EnemyThe Jade Forest · Level 10-35

    Quickly and quietly; that's how SI:7 prefers to operate. That was the plan, at least. Rell Nightwind is already inside Garrosh'ar Point looking for signs of Anduin and Taylor, but it's getting hot in there and he needs support. Fight yer way through these dogs and find Rell!

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · The Jade Forest · Level 10-35.

The storyline at a glance

The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village has 19 steps, from The King's Command to Onward and Inward.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Jade Forest (18), Stormwind City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on The Jade Forest map

  • The Jade Forest, Dawn's Blossom & Tian Monastery & Nectarbreeze Village39 steps, starts with In Search of Wisdom
  • The Jade Forest, Greenstone Quarry & Terrace of Ten Thunders & The Jade Serpent35 steps, starts with All We Can Spare
  • The Jade Forest, Strange Bedfellows & Grookin Hill24 steps, starts with Nazgrim's Command
  • The Jade Forest, The White Pawn & Pearlfin Village19 steps, starts with SI:7 Report: Lost in the Woods
  • Order of the Cloud Serpent17 steps, starts with Wild Things
  • The Jade Forest, The Waterspeaking Ceremony13 steps, starts with The White Pawn

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 Touching Ground. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Touching Ground (this page)Alliance31733
Touching GroundHorde31766
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