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Thistleshrub Valley

Quest #3362 Level 50 Tanaris AllianceHorde no runs yet

Available in: TBC Anniversary details not known yet Classic Era details not known yet Forever details not known yet · compare

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What to do

Tran'rek in Gadgetzan wants you to kill 8 Gnarled Thistleshrubs and 8 Thistleshrub Rootshapers.

Objective by objective

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

Have you ever seen Thistleshrub Valley? It's a mighty dangerous place, <name>.

Those strange beasts there, I don't trust them for a minute! Gnarled thistleshrubs and thistleshrub rootshapers, that's what I think they were called...

Anyhow, I want to get into the valley, but with so many of those thistleshrubs around, there's no way I'm going back there. But here's where you come in -- if you clear some of them out, I just might think about going back. What do you think, <name>? Help me out?

Completion

They're that big? I might have to rethink my plan...

But you did hold up your end of the bargain, so here's what I promised.

Category: Tanaris.

What you need

Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.

The reward

No item reward.

Money
75s
and 28s 20c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
Experience
4,700
at level 55 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
45–55 4,700 100%
56 3,750 80%
57 2,800 60%
58 1,900 40%
59 950 20%
60–89 470 10%
90 none 28s 20c 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

Who it is for

Faction
AllianceHorde
Race
any race
Class
any class
Level
quest level 50, requires level 45
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
  • Tran'rek npc · Tanaris at 0.516, 0.268
Hand in to
  • Tran'rek npc · Tanaris at 0.516, 0.268
Where Thistleshrub Valley starts and ends in Tanaris
Where Thistleshrub Valley starts and ends in Tanaris
  • 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

Relevant locations in Tanaris
Relevant locations in Tanaris
  • Tanaris
    • Tran'rek Starts the quest · 51.6, 26.8
    • Tran'rek Hand the quest in · 51.6, 26.8
    • Thistleshrub Rootshaper Quest objective · 27.4, 65.6
    • Gnarled Thistleshrub Quest objective · 28.0, 65.4

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

Observed, not a fact about the game: 0 completed runs behind the medians, 0 recorded attempts in total.
– median time (accept → turn in) from 0 runs

Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.

– fastest recorded run

Same 0 runs.

0 / 0 turned in / attempted nobody abandoned it

Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.

0.0 deaths per attempt 0 deaths in total

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 (Tanaris), 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.

Overview of Thistleshrub Valley in Tanaris
Overview of Thistleshrub Valley in Tanaris
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

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