What to do
Kill the Black Guard Swordsmith.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Black Guard Swordsmith NPC #11121
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.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 2g 93s
- Experience
- 5,100
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at level 55 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 46–55 5,100 100% 56 4,100 80% 57 3,050 60% 58 2,050 40% 59 1,000 20% 60–89 500 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.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 12% less than the 5,100 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
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 50, requires level 46
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
This quest stands alone: nothing leads to it and nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Master Craftsman Wilhelm npc · Stratholme - The Gauntlet at 0.686, 0.731
- Hand in to
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- Master Craftsman Wilhelm npc · Stratholme - The Gauntlet at 0.686, 0.731
- 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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Stratholme - The Gauntlet
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Master Craftsman Wilhelm
Starts the quest · 68.7, 73.1
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Master Craftsman Wilhelm
Hand the quest in · 68.7, 73.1
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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 18 min 18 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
1 tracked kill, typically 4,510 XP, done around level 56.
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 (Stratholme - The Gauntlet), 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.
- 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
Order published by the analyser from 1 run.
Objective 1 — needs 1
Players finish it about 3 min 47 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
No coordinates recorded for this objective yet.
0 recorded positions in Stratholme - The Gauntlet.
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
18 min 18 s | 0 | 56 | 2g 93s |
Community notes
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