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The Encroaching Wilderness

Quest #10486 Level 66 Blade's Edge Mountains Horde only 1 run – thin

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What to do

Slay 12 Bladewing Bloodletters.

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

The Thunderlord were once a proud orc clan before they were transformed into fel orcs through the blood of Mannoroth.

Recently we recovered this orc stronghold from the ogres that infest the ravine below. They had moved in when the Thunderlord clan abandoned it.

We will keep this place and I will have your help doing so.

In the Jagged Ridge to the south and the west, there are bloodletters that have become like a plague upon us. They eat and breed incessantly.

Kill them and then return to me.

Progress

Our survival here depends upon our ability to concentrate our efforts against those that truly matter, not the mere bladewing bloodletters.

You are here again, so this must mean that you have dealt with the matter at hand?

Completion

That didn't take as long as I thought it would. Are you sure that you dealt with as many as was necessary?

Very well, there's something else that I want you to help us with. Something far more important.

Category: Blade's Edge Mountains.

What you need

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

The reward

No item reward.

Money
3g 50s
and 69s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
Experience
11,300
at level 71 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
65–71 11,300 100%
72 9,050 80%
73 6,800 60%
74 4,500 40%
75 2,250 20%
76–89 1,150 10%
90 none 69s 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.

Observed, what players here were paid: 12,430 experience (median of 1 run), 3g 50s (median of 1 run).

The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.

  • Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 11,300 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.

Who it is for

Faction
Horde only
Race
any race
Class
any class
Level
quest level 66, requires level 65
Profession
none
Repeats
once only

The chain

Before this

Nothing – this is where the chain starts.

After this

Where it starts and ends

Starts at
  • Gor'drek npc · Blade's Edge Mountains at 0.524, 0.579
Hand in to
  • Gor'drek npc · Blade's Edge Mountains at 0.524, 0.579
Where The Encroaching Wilderness starts and ends in Blade's Edge Mountains
Where The Encroaching Wilderness starts and ends in Blade's Edge Mountains
  • 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 Blade's Edge Mountains
Relevant locations in Blade's Edge Mountains
  • Blade's Edge Mountains
    • Gor'drek Starts the quest · 52.4, 57.9
    • Gor'drek Hand the quest in · 52.4, 57.9
    • Bladewing Bloodletter Quest objective · 54.4, 70.6

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.

This guide rests on 1 completed run. That is enough to show where people went and not enough to trust the timings – treat them as one player's evening.

How precise this guide is

Early guide Built from 1 run by 1 player – 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 available
  • Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 1) not yet
  • Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 1) not yet
  • Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 1 from 1) not yet

Timings

Observed, not a fact about the game: 1 completed run behind the medians, 1 recorded attempt in total.
18 min 59 s median time (accept → turn in) from 1 run

Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.

18 min 59 s fastest recorded run slowest 18 min 59 s

Same 1 run; mean 18 min 59 s.

1 / 1 turned in / attempted nobody abandoned it

Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.

0.0 deaths per attempt 0 deaths in total

12 tracked kills, typically 12,430 XP, done around level 66.

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 (Blade's Edge Mountains), 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 The Encroaching Wilderness in Blade's Edge Mountains
Overview of The Encroaching Wilderness in Blade's Edge Mountains
  • hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
  • where players were
  • pick up
  • turn in
Pick up
0.520, 0.580 median of 1 recorded accept on Blade's Edge Mountains
Turn in
0.520, 0.580 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Blade's Edge Mountains
Deaths during this quest
None recorded – nobody died doing this.

Objectives, in the order players do them

Order published by the analyser from 1 run.

Objective 1 — needs 12

Players finish it about 6 min 38 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet

Go to (published hotspots):

  1. 0.503, 0.623 weight 0.50, 12 points

12 recorded positions in Blade's Edge Mountains.

Objective 1 of The Encroaching Wilderness in Blade's Edge Mountains
Objective 1 of The Encroaching Wilderness in Blade's Edge Mountains
  • hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
  • where players were
  • pick up
  • turn in

Tips

No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.

Recorded runs

The most recent 1 of 1 attempt; the median above is built from 1 completed run.
Character Time Deaths Level Reward
Bananaroot-HoptallusPandaQuest supporter 18 min 59 s 0 66 3g 50s

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