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Watching Our Back

Quest #25695 Level 56 Blasted Lands Horde only 1 run – thin

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What to do

Examine the Alliance Plans at the Dark Portal without getting caught.

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

< Warlord Dar'toon speaks in hushed tones.>

I have orders from... higher up... that you would be suitable for. I've seen the Alliance periodically referring to a stack of papers on that barrel over there. I'd like you to take a look at those papers and find out what it is that they're plotting. My duty and station prevent me from such a questionable task, but a newcomer like you might be able to slip in unnoticed...

Progress

Did you get a look at those plans, <name>?

Completion

You're certain nobody saw you? Good.

<Dar'toon listens to your recount of the information you saw.>

Hmph... fairly harmless stuff. Either the Alliance are foolish enough to NOT be planning something against us... or they're hiding their information better than I expected. Either way, well done, soldier.

Category: Blasted Lands.

What you need

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

The reward

Money
85s
and 51s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
Experience
8,450
at level 61 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
54–61 8,450 100%
62 6,750 80%
63 5,050 60%
64 3,400 40%
65 1,700 20%
66–89 850 10%
90 none 51s 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: 9,295 experience (median of 1 run), 85s (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 8,450 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 56, requires level 54
Profession
none
Repeats
once only

The chain

Before this

After this

Where it starts and ends

Starts at
Hand in to
Where Watching Our Back starts and ends in Blasted Lands
Where Watching Our Back starts and ends in Blasted Lands
  • 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 Blasted Lands
Relevant locations in Blasted Lands

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.
39 s median time (accept → turn in) from 1 run

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

39 s fastest recorded run slowest 39 s

Same 1 run; mean 39 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 9,295 XP, done around level 58.

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 (Blasted Lands), 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 Watching Our Back in Blasted Lands
Overview of Watching Our Back in Blasted Lands
  • hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
  • where players were
  • pick up
  • turn in
Pick up
0.540, 0.510 median of 1 recorded accept on Blasted Lands
Turn in
0.550, 0.510 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Blasted Lands
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 26 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet

Go to (published hotspots):

  1. 0.560, 0.500 weight 1.00, 1 point

1 recorded position in Blasted Lands.

Objective 1 of Watching Our Back in Blasted Lands
Objective 1 of Watching Our Back in Blasted Lands
  • 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 39 s 0 58 85s

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