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Bad News Bear-er

Quest #13848 Level 22 Ashenvale Horde only 1 run – thin

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What to do

Kadrak wants you to speak to Commander Grimfang in Zoram Strand.

The quest giver's words

No reports have made it out of here since the beginning of the siege on Splintertree. By now, Commander Grimfang must be getting anxious.

I am sending you to Zoram Strand to deliver our report. It's not pretty, but at least he'll have the facts.

Speak to Vhulgra when you're ready to make the trip.

Completion

< Commander Grimfang 's brow wrinkles as he reads the report.>

This is grim news, indeed.

May the spirits preserve them until we can fight our way to Splintertree....

Category: Ashenvale.

What you need

Handed to you when you accept it
Splintertree Post Report

The reward

No item reward.

Money
11s
and 7s 80c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
Experience
1,300
at level 27 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
19–27 1,300 100%
28 1,050 80%
29 775 60%
30 525 40%
31 260 20%
32–89 130 10%
90 none 7s 80c 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: 1,430 experience (median of 1 run), 11s (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 1,300 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.

Reputation

Who it is for

Faction
Horde only
Race
any race
Class
any class
Level
quest level 22, requires level 19
Profession
none
Repeats
once only

The chain

Before this

After this

Nothing follows it.

Where it starts and ends

Starts at
  • Kadrak npc · Ashenvale at 0.736, 0.621
Hand in to
Where Bad News Bear-er starts and ends in Ashenvale
Where Bad News Bear-er starts and ends in Ashenvale
  • 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 Ashenvale
Relevant locations in Ashenvale

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.
5 min 24 s median time (accept → turn in) from 1 run

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

5 min 24 s fastest recorded run slowest 5 min 24 s

Same 1 run; mean 5 min 24 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

0 tracked kills, typically 1,430 XP, done around level 24.

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 (Ashenvale), 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 Bad News Bear-er in Ashenvale
Overview of Bad News Bear-er in Ashenvale
  • pick up
  • turn in
Pick up
0.740, 0.620 median of 1 recorded accept on Ashenvale
Turn in
0.120, 0.340 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Ashenvale
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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