TheWoWDBSlinkin, no! Your death really was in vain!
Quest
Understanding the Scourge War Machine
A World of Warcraft quest in Dragonblight. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Thank you for this info, in the Veteran of the Wrathgate page these quests were listed as optional so i was confused until i saw this post.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneDragonblight
Quest ID12281
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12281))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineDragonblight, step 68 of 149
Rewards525 XP
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.
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 areaIn-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
- Honor the Flame about 250 yards
- Saving Nine about 500 yards
- Killing Time about 500 yards
- Cut from the Same Cloth about 500 yards
- Onslaught Envoy about 980 yards
- Apostate Liberation about 1,000 yards
- Draconic Secrets about 1,060 yards
- Scarlet Redemption about 1,070 yards
- The Day That Chromie Dies about 1,070 yards
- Rewind about 1,070 yards
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, Dragonblight
- Wyrmrest Temple, Dragonblight
- Windrunner's Overlook, Crystalsong Forest
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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Experience525 XP
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.
Storyline
Dragonblight
Part 68 of 149.
Previous: Leave Nothing to Chance · Next: Rescue from Town Square
- 63Return to the High Commander
- 64The Demo-gnome
- 65The Search for Slinkin
- 66The Bleeding Ore
- 67Leave Nothing to Chance
- 68Understanding the Scourge War Machine
- 69Rescue from Town Square
- 70Find Durkon!
- 71Secrets of the Scourge
- 72Mystery of the Tome
- 73Understanding the Language of Death
- 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 Chance
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 Square
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
- Lorewalking: Arthas
- The Deaths of Chromie
- Fulfilling the Prophecy II
- Icecrown
- Light's Wrath
- Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
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.