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Watching Our Back (Horde)

Watching Our Back is a Horde-only quest for level 15-30 in Blasted Lands. It rewards 3 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

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Description

<Warlord Dar'toon speaks in hushed tones.>

I have orders from... higher up... that you would be suitable for. I've seen the Alliance periodically referring to a stack of papers on that barrel over there. I'd like you to take a look at those papers and find out what it is that they're plotting. My duty and station prevent me from such a questionable task, but a newcomer like you might be able to slip in unnoticed...

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationOrgrimmar +250
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
111039+672via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Edit: What finally...FINALLY worked for me was standing between the quartermaster and the cart. That way the guard on the outside of the camp can't see you. As for the guard on the inside (and thus where you are), you have to be very careful to start reading the very microsecond he passes by you going towards the Dark Portal, otherwise he will see you and send you back.

3
Ladria+95via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I only read the first comment, so I tried that for about 7-8 times. Getting pissed off at the teleport all the time, I found out I should try something new.

So I stood inside the cart next to the papers, and started reading it the second the guard turned to go the opposite direction (towards the portal). Got it first try, without any hassle! :)

Easy XP and a quest reward :)

It also leads up to The Sunveil Excursion

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationOrgrimmar+250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeMail Hands
Item level28
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +7 Versatility
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for21 gold42 silver
TypeCloth Back
Item level28
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+4 Strength, +6 Stamina, +4 Haste
Suited toProtection, Fury, Arms, Retribution, Unholy, Frost, Blood
Sells to vendors for32 gold1 silver
TypeLeather Wrist
Item level28
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor5
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +6 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for21 gold34 silver

Reputation: Orgrimmar +250

Founded by Thrall, this Horde capital city is home to many of the proud orc clans of Durotar.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Blasted Lands that reward Orgrimmar reputation: Futile Pride (+250), Ogre Combat (+250), Heartstrike (+75), It's All Mine (+250), Pick Your Fate (+250), Into the Mountain (+25).

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.

Quest Line

Where this quest fits

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Blasted Lands · Level 15-30.

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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Watching Our Back. They differ in the faction/rewards shown here.

QuestFactionRewardsID
Watching Our Back (this page)Horde4,100 XP, Gloves of Foolish Innocence, Dar'toon's Cloak, Harmless Bracers25695
Watching Our BackAlliance4,100 XP, Netherwane Cloak, Gloves of Foolish Innocence, Harmless Bracers26174
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