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Understanding the Scourge War Machine

Understanding the Scourge War Machine is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Dragonblight. It is step 68 of 149 in the Dragonblight storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Dragonblight at 78.6, 48.1. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 525 experience.

Description

We must take solace in the fact that Slinkin's death, while tragic, was for the greater good. His discovery coupled with your heroics in the mine and the samples you returned brings us one step closer to understanding the Scourge war machine.

Take this package to High Commander Halford Wyrmbane. It holds a sample of the strange ore and my analysis.

Rewards

Experience525 XP
ReputationValiance Expedition +10
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP525
ReputationValiance Expedition+10

Reward details

Reputation: Valiance Expedition +10

The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.

Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.

Other quests in Dragonblight that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: A Letter for Home (+250), Strengthen the Ancients (+250), Pest Control (+250), Canyon Chase (+250), The Lost Courier (+25), The Liquid Fire of Elune (+250).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapDragonblightTurn-in marker at 78.6, 48.1, 2 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.

Dragonblight Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Dragonblight map showing where to go for Understanding the Scourge War MachineTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #115 78.6 48.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDragonblight 78.6, 48.1/way #115 78.6 48.1
  • Objective areaDragonblight 77.8, 50.3/way #115 77.8 50.3

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 Dragonblight map

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

Getting there

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

  • Wintergarde Keep, DragonblightAlliance · about 110 yards south-west
  • Wyrmrest Temple, DragonblightAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards west
  • Windrunner's Overlook, Crystalsong ForestAlliance · about 1,300 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 90 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

Dragonblight

Part 68 of 149.

Previous: Leave Nothing to Chance · Next: Rescue from Town Square

  1. 63Return to the High Commander
  2. 64The Demo-gnome
  3. 65The Search for Slinkin
  4. 66The Bleeding Ore
  5. 67Leave Nothing to Chance
  6. 68Understanding the Scourge War Machine
  7. 69Rescue from Town Square
  8. 70Find Durkon!
  9. 71Secrets of the Scourge
  10. 72Mystery of the Tome
  11. 73Understanding the Language of Death
  12. 74A Righteous Sermon

Showing steps 63 to 74 of 149.

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.

  • Leave Nothing to ChanceDragonblight · Level 15-30

    If there is good in your heart and your conscience is clear, read on. In this mine, near the foreman's scaffold, rests a hefty cargo of dynamite. Go there and pick up several bundles of the explosive and make your way towards the entrance of the mine.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Rescue from Town SquareDragonblight · Level 15-30

    Just down this path here is Wintergarde's town square. Once a hive of activity for the citizens of Wintergarde, now a warzone, filled with murderous geists hell-bent on vengeance towards the living. In the buildings surrounding the town square are trapped villagers that must be rescued!

The storyline at a glance

Dragonblight has 149 steps, from The Liquid Fire of Elune to Really Big Worm.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dragonblight (144), Crystalsong Forest (5).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Dragonblight 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.

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