What to do
Talk to Slinky Sharpshiv to ascend the tower and assassinate Captain Grunwald. Collect Captain Grunwald's head.
Objective by objective
- Collect Grunwald's Head item #49540
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 base of the tower is patrolled by the Captain's elite guards. So here's what we're going to do: we're going to grapple straight up to the top, slice-and-dice the VIPs, and bail out using my portable low-altitude parachute. I'll rig the tower to explode behind us. You be sure to grab Captain Grunwald's head for Chawg. Got it?
Do NOT accept this mission unless you are prepared for UNMITIGATED BADASSERY. Is that clear?
Progress
I trust you've got good news, <name>?
Completion
I'm impressed by the cleverness of our new goblin allies, but I'm even more impressed by you, <name>. Look at the gaze of terror frozen onto the Captain's face! He never saw your attack coming. Imagine the fear this will cause in Northwatch when they see what happened to one of their precious officers in night elf lands.
Well done, <class>. Our assault proceeds...
Category: Azshara.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Gloves of Unmitigated Badassery
item #53412 · Uncommon · item level 20 · sells for 6s 48c
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Low-Altitude Parachute
item #53425 · Uncommon · item level 20 · sells for 9s 16c
- Money
- 12s
- and 9s 60c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,550
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at level 25 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 18–25 1,550 100% 26 1,250 80% 27 925 60% 28 625 40% 29 310 20% 30–89 160 10% 90 none 9s 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.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 1,550 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Orgrimmar +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 20, requires level 18
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Where's My Head? #14462 · any one of these
After this
Nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Slinky Sharpshiv npc · Azshara at 0.125, 0.674
- Hand in to
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- Chawg npc · Azshara at 0.140, 0.648
- 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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Azshara
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Slinky Sharpshiv
Starts the quest · 12.5, 67.5
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Chawg
Hand the quest in · 14.0, 64.8
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Captain Grunwald
Quest objective · 11.8, 68.2
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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.
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
Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 1 run; mean 3 min 42 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
1 tracked kill, typically 1,705 XP, done around level 22.
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 (Azshara), 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.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.130, 0.670 median of 1 recorded accept on Azshara
- Turn in
- 0.140, 0.650 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Azshara
- 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 1
Players finish it about 42 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.120, 0.680 weight 1.00, 2 points
1 recorded position in Azshara.
- 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
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.