Costly Menace
Quest #564
Level 34
Hillsbrad Foothills
no runs yet
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What to do
Darren Malvew of Southshore wants you to kill 8 Mountain Lions and 10 Hulking Mountain Lions.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Mountain Lion NPC #2406
- Kill or interact with Hulking Mountain Lion NPC #2407
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
Ain't nothin' that irks me more than losin' these here beautiful horses. And believe me, we've lost quite a few between them pesky undead creeps, the dang Syndicate gang and all the other good-for-nothin' scoundrels pokin' about these parts.
But I swear on my ol' grand-daddy's grave there ain't no bigger menace to our horses here than them Mountain Lions up in Alterac. Always comin' down from the hills and makin' my life difficult!
You fancy yourself a hero? Go and do somethin' about it then!
Completion
Ain't that great news! Should-a gone and found me a regular ol' war hero from day one to take care of them beasts. You'd-a made your pappy proud, <name>.
Category: Hillsbrad Foothills.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Tasty Lion Steak
item #3728
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Recipe: Tasty Lion Steak
item #3736 · Common · item level 30 · sells for 5s
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Shepherd's Girdle
item #3753
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Shepherd's Gloves
item #3754 · Uncommon · item level 33 · sells for 14s 92c
- Money
- none
- and 18s 60c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 3,100
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at level 39 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 30–39 3,100 100% 40 2,500 80% 41 1,850 60% 42 1,250 40% 43 625 20% 44–89 310 10% 90 none 18s 60c 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
- Stormwind +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Draenei
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 34, requires level 30
- 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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- Darren Malvew npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.524, 0.560
- Hand in to
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- Darren Malvew npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.524, 0.560
- 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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Hillsbrad Foothills
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Darren Malvew
Starts the quest · 52.4, 56.0
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Darren Malvew
Hand the quest in · 52.4, 56.0
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Mountain Lion
Quest objective · 38.6, 23.4
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Hulking Mountain Lion
Quest objective · 38.8, 23.6
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Alterac Mountains
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Mountain Lion
Quest objective · 46.0, 76.2
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Hulking Mountain Lion
Quest objective · 81.8, 47.4
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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 (Hillsbrad Foothills), 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.