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Under Cover of Darkness

Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 45
LocationStormwind City, Dalaran
CategoryRogue Campaign
Quest ID37494

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(37494))

Requirements

ClassRogue

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

Description

We are off to Stormwind. Tethys will sneak us by water beneath the old barracks under cover of darkness tonight. The rest will be up to you, Mathias, and myself. We will have to stealth through Stormwind and confront Detheroc at SI:7. Are you ready to do this, {name}?

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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.

Stormwind City Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Stormwind City map showing where to go for Under Cover of DarknessTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #84 35.9 59.9

Dalaran Objective area no plotted point

Coordinates

  • Turn-inStormwind City 35.9, 59.9/way #84 35.9 59.9
  • Objective areaStormwind City 35.6, 60.4/way #84 35.6 60.4

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 Stormwind City map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Stormwind City:

  • Stormwind, ElwynnAlliance · about 630 yards east
  • Furlbrow's Pumpkin Farm, WestfallAlliance · about 1,200 yards south
  • Goldshire, ElwynnAlliance · about 1,300 yards south-east
  • Flamestar Post, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 2,200 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.

Related
Money10 gold11 silver
Experience3,050 XP

Storyline

Saga of the Shadowblade III

Part 8 of 11.

Previous: A Simple Plan · Next: The Imposter

  1. 1Where In the World is Mathias?
  2. 2Pruning the Garden
  3. 3The World is Not Enough
  4. 4A Burning Distraction
  5. 5The Captive Spymaster
  6. 6Picking a Fight
  7. 7A Simple Plan
  8. 8Under Cover of Darkness
  9. 9The Imposter
  10. 10Champion: Taoshi
  11. 11Champion: Master Mathias Shaw

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.

  • A Simple PlanLevel 45

    Like many dreadlords, Detheroc cannot help but gloat. He was careless and I overheard many of his plans while I was held captive. With your leave, I would like to underscore the gravity of the situation in Stormwind. The fate of Azeroth hangs in the balance.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The ImposterLevel 45

    Detheroc has SI:7's finest snipers on all of the rooftops. We can't mount up and we can't fly. There are grapple points above so that we can move up the cliff. We've also setup hay bales to hide in along the likely routes to SI:7. We just need to stealth in and kill Detheroc.

The storyline at a glance

Saga of the Shadowblade III has 11 steps, from Where In the World is Mathias? to Champion: Master Mathias Shaw.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dalaran (8), Suramar (2), Stormwind City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Stormwind City 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.