A Grim Task
Quest #304
Level 31
Wetlands
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
Kill Balgaras the Foul and bring his ear to Longbraid the Grim outside of Dun Modr.
Objective by objective
- Collect Ear of Balgaras item #3639
The quest's own structured objectives. How many of each you need is set by the game when you accept it, so it is not stored here – the sentence above is the quest's own wording.
The quest giver's words
Many of my soldiers died in the battle of Dun Modr. My own brother perished when the West Bridge over the Thandol Span was destroyed. Aye, the Dark Iron dwarves are a devilish breed. From what Roggo was able to gather, the leader of the thugs in the Wetlands is a warlock named Balgaras the Foul. He is quite a coward, sending his soldiers to do his bidding but hides in his camp on Direforge Hill, to the southeast.
If you can find the spineless scum, slay him and bring me his ear. I will reward you, <class>.
Progress
Were you able to locate Balgaras the Foul yet, <class>? He has been evading us for quite some time.
Completion
Balgaras the Foul is finally dead. While his death will not bring back the many innocent dwarves who died needlessly by his hand, it will help to restore peace of mind to those who survived. With Balgaras dead, the remaining Dark Iron scum should be easy enough to manage. Now, we must wipe them out before a new leader is sent to these parts.
You have done well, <class>.
Category: Wetlands.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Gold Lion Shield
item #2916 · Uncommon · item level 34 · sells for 44s 5c
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Tranquil Ring
item #2917 · Uncommon · item level 33 · sells for 6s 65c
- Money
- none
- and 15s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 2,550
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at level 36 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 26–36 2,550 100% 37 2,050 80% 38 1,500 60% 39 1,000 40% 40 500 20% 41–89 250 10% 90 none 15s 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.
Reputation
- Ironforge +350
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Draenei
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 31, requires level 26
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
This quest stands alone: nothing leads to it and nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Longbraid the Grim npc · Wetlands at 0.498, 0.183
- Hand in to
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- Longbraid the Grim npc · Wetlands at 0.498, 0.183
- pick up
- turn in
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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Wetlands
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Longbraid the Grim
Starts the quest · 49.8, 18.3
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Longbraid the Grim
Hand the quest in · 49.8, 18.3
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Balgaras the Foul
Quest objective · 61.6, 30.0
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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 (Wetlands), 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.