The Missing Diplomat
Quest #1243
Level 28
Stormwind City
no runs yet
Available in: TBC Anniversary details not known yet Classic Era details not known yet Forever details not known yet · compare
What to do
Give the Sealed Note to Watcher Backus in Duskwood.
The quest giver's words
Jorgen, you ol' sonuva.... So, that's how it's going to be, huh?
All right, I can deal with that. I hope he finds the Twisting Nether that much sooner!
Here's what's gonna happen, <name>. I'll start using my contacts here, but you're doing most of the footwork so I save some coin.
Head to Darkshire in Duskwood and find Watcher Backus --he usually patrols the north road right outside of town. Just tell him you're looking into any Defias activity for me and he'll help you out with any information he can.
Progress
Not too safe to be traveling about in the woods, <name>. Be careful, and if you see anything suspicious or dangerous, contact the Watchers immediately. Don't try and take anything on yourself. We're not responsible for anything terrible that might happen to you.
But we both know you're gonna ignore me and fight whatever comes out of the darkness anyway, don't we? Haha, yeah, you adventurer types... all the same.
Completion
Oh, Trias sent you, huh? That's a little different.
Feel free to fight whatever monstrosities come at you from the darkness. I'm sure you'll be able to handle it pretty easily if you're the type to be hanging around with the likes of him.
So, what does my friend need of me on such a gloomy day as this?
Category: Stormwind City.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Sealed Note to Watcher Backus
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 1s 50c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 230
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at level 33 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 28–33 230 100% 34 180 80% 35 140 60% 36 90 40% 37 45 20% 38–89 25 10% 90 none 1s 50c more money The game pays the full figure up to five levels above the quest, then 20 % less for each level more, down to a tenth, and none at the level cap. A bonus of your own (a guild perk, a holiday) comes on top.
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Draenei
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 28, requires level 28
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Missing Diplomat #1242 · any one of these
After this
- The Missing Diplomat #1244
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Elling Trias npc · Stormwind City at 0.599, 0.642
- Hand in to
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- Watcher Backus npc · Duskwood at 0.748, 0.442
- pick up
These two markers are the quest giver's and the hand-in's own positions – not where anybody was standing. The recorded positions are further down, under the community data.
Relevant locations
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Stormwind City
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Elling Trias
Starts the quest · 59.9, 64.2
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Duskwood
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Watcher Backus
Hand the quest in · 74.8, 44.2
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The pins are the game's own map markers; the coordinates are the game's 0–100, as
/way takes them.
What players recorded
Everything below this line is a different kind of knowledge from everything above it. Above: what the quest is, the same on every realm. Below: what actually happened when people played it, uploaded by them, with the number of runs printed against every figure. It is an observation, not a fact about the quest.
Nobody has completed this quest with telemetry on yet, so there is no timing. Everything below is drawn straight from the 0 recorded attempts the hub has.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 0 runs by 0 players – low confidence. Every upload of this quest sharpens it: the hotspots tighten, the order and the timings settle, and the parts below unlock as the sample grows.
- Where to go – pick-up, objectives and hand-in needs one recorded run not yet
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 0) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 0) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 0 from 0) not yet
Timings
Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.
Same 0 runs.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills.
The route
An early route: drawn from the first runs and sharper with every upload. Pick-up, hand-in and the objective hotspots are where the quest is, so they are shown from the first run.
Map coordinates are the addon's own 0–1 zone coordinates (Stormwind City), origin top-left, x to the right and y downward. Drag the zone map to pan, ctrl/⌘ + scroll or the buttons to zoom; the grid lines are tenths of the zone.
- Pick up
- Not recorded yet.
- Turn in
- Not recorded yet.
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
No objective progress has been uploaded for this quest yet. Once somebody plays it with the addon on, the objectives and their hotspots appear here automatically.
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.