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Breaking Out is Hard to Do

Quest #26587 Level 17 Redridge Mountains Alliance only no runs yet

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What to do

Retrieve Messner's Cage Key.

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 key to this cage is stored in a pouch over at the worg den, just north of our location. The problem is that the pouch is resting safely atop a tree stump amidst a sea of bloodthirsty man-killing worgs.

You've got one shot to get that key without waking up any of those sleeping worgs. Head to the worg den and find a way into the center. Tread carefully and watch out for the Blackrock worg captain. Get the key and return to me.

If you got a pet, I'd recommend telling it to stay back!

Progress

Did you get the cage key?

Completion

IT'S PAYBACK TIME!

Category: Redridge Mountains.

What you need

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

The reward

No item reward.

Money
none
Experience
1,250
at level 22 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
15–22 1,250 100%
23 1,000 80%
24 750 60%
25 500 40%
26 250 20%
27–89 130 10%
90 none level cap

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
Alliance only
Race
any race
Class
any class
Level
quest level 17, requires level 15
Profession
none
Repeats
once only

The chain

Before this

After this

Where it starts and ends

Starts at
  • Messner npc · Redridge Mountains at 0.475, 0.419
Hand in to
  • Messner npc · Redridge Mountains at 0.475, 0.419
Where Breaking Out is Hard to Do starts and ends in Redridge Mountains
Where Breaking Out is Hard to Do starts and ends in Redridge 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 Redridge Mountains
Relevant locations in Redridge Mountains
  • Redridge Mountains
    • Messner Starts the quest · 47.5, 41.9
    • Messner Hand the quest in · 47.5, 41.9

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 (Redridge 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 Breaking Out is Hard to Do in Redridge Mountains
Overview of Breaking Out is Hard to Do in Redridge Mountains
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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