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Quest
Treatment for the Troops
A World of Warcraft quest in Townlong Steppes. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The herbs don't appear on your minimap, even if you're a herbalist.
As an herbalist, I found them just find with 'Find Herbs'.
Quest facts
Quest ID30891
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(30891))
What to do
Description
A new face! Pleasure to meet you. I'm Septi. I keep the Shado-Pan fighting. The mantid have poison that chews through the skin and infects the blood. It makes for a slow, excruciating death when not treated. I need pollen from the violet citron flowers. The nearest place to find them is around Dampsoil Burrow just north of the battlefront. If you happen to go in that direction, could you bring some back for me?
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #388 75.9 83.1
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #422 63.9 1.2
Coordinates
- Turn-inTownlong Steppes 75.9, 83.1
/way #388 75.9 83.1 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Townlong Steppes 78.2, 78.3
/way #388 78.2 78.3 - Objective areaDread Wastes 63.9, 1.2
/way #422 63.9 1.2
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 Townlong Steppes map
- Honor the Flame about 1,060 yards
- Thunder Calls about 1,490 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Townlong Steppes, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Townlong Steppes:
- Gao-Ran Battlefront, Townlong Steppes
- Serpent's Spine, Kun-Lai Summit
- Shado-Pan Fallback, Kun-Lai Summit
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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.
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Other quests on the Townlong Steppes map
Reward details
Reputation: Shado-Pan +75
The shadowy protectors of Pandaria's temples, the Shado-Pan are wrought with mystery.
Reputation group: Mists of Pandaria.
Other quests in Townlong Steppes that reward Shado-Pan reputation: My Husband... (+25), First Assault (+100), Running Rampant (+75), Perfect Pitch (+75), Seeing Red (+100), Pitching In (+75).
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
Townlong Steppes
Part 32 of 60.
Previous: Returning from the Pass · Next: Back on Their Feet
- 27Behind the Battlefront
- 28Unwelcome Intruders
- 29Breach in the Defenses
- 30The Restless Watch
- 31Returning from the Pass
- 32Treatment for the Troops
- 33Back on Their Feet
- 34The Endless Swarm
- 35Rummaging Through the Remains
- 36Improvised Ammunition
- 37Cutting the Swarm
- 38Terror of the Dread Wastes
Showing steps 27 to 38 of 60.
Also part of: Townlong Steppes (part 19 of 53).
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.
- Returning from the Pass
I still have some cleanup to do here in the pass - there are some mantid still making it through. You're a valuable person to have at hand though, and I know Taran wouldn't appreciate me keeping you longer for such basic work. Taran should still be in the main camp with Gao-Ran. Report back in.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Back on Their Feet
<name>, I could use your help. With their long shifts, our warriors down at the southern front of the battlefront are fighting to the point of exhaustion, and many of them have been exposed to the mantid poison. We need more people to tend to the wounded.
The storyline at a glance
Townlong Steppes has 60 steps, from A Foot in the Door to The Terrible Truth.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Townlong Steppes (55), Vale of Eternal Blossoms (4), Dread Wastes (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Townlong Steppes map
- Sunreaver Onslaught
- Kirin Tor Offensive
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.