Trouble From the Ground Up

Reward details

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.

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Southern Barrens:

• Northwatch Hold, Southern BarrensAlliance · about 1,200 yards east
• Fort Triumph, Southern BarrensAlliance · about 1,300 yards south
• Ratchet, Northern BarrensAlliance and Horde · about 1,700 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

• Objective areaabout 60 yards north-west
• Objective areaabout 440 yards 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.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• You Flicked a Fine Vine to Leaf MeSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

  According to Gaines, "Three-Tooth" is what the quilboar call their matriarch. She's been twisting the thorns of this crazy jungle to her own ends, and it was her orders that Gaines be "torn apart and fed to the overgrowth." Nice lady. Let's give her a taste of her own.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• Clear the High RoadSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

  This way, <class>! I see you've discovered the high road. The Alliance hopes to sever our ties with Stonetalon, but they forget that we tauren have hunted across these lands for generations. We know every hillside switchback and game trail from here to Thousand Needles.

The storyline at a glance

Southern Barrens has 89 steps, from Running the Gauntlet to Sabotage!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Southern Barrens (88), Northern Barrens (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

• Southern Barrens Quests Complete the Southern Barrens storylines listed below.
• Southern Barrens Quests Complete the Southern Barrens storylines listed below.

Other storylines on the Southern Barrens map

• Northern Barrens62 steps, starts with In Defense of Far Watch
• Battle Pet Tamers18 steps, starts with Zunta, The Pet Tamer

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.