What to do
Slay 20 Grimtotem tauren at Darkcloud Pinnacle.
Objective by objective
- Kill (any of) Grimtotem Geomancer NPC #45381 counts 3 different creatures
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
There is no alternative: if you intend to win a battle, you must spill the enemy's blood. In this case, unfortunately, a lot of it.
You know what we have to do.
Completion
While the Earth Mother does not condone such violence, we had no choice. The Grimtotem have ignored Her teachings for too long and are reaping what they have sown.
Category: Thousand Needles.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Blood Waders
item #63596 · Uncommon · item level 42 · sells for 81s 37c
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Bracers of Reluctant Violence
item #63597 · Uncommon · item level 42 · sells for 54s 87c
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Pauldrons of the Teachings
item #63598 · Uncommon · item level 42 · sells for 81s 99c
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Reaper's Amulet
item #63599 · Uncommon · item level 42 · sells for 46s 73c
- Money
- 55s
- and 28s 80c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 4,800
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at level 47 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 38–47 4,800 100% 48 3,850 80% 49 2,900 60% 50 1,950 40% 51 975 20% 52–89 480 10% 90 none 28s 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.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 4,800 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Thunder Bluff +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 42, requires level 38
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Together Again #27276 · any one of these
After this
Nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Freewind Brave npc · Thousand Needles at 0.422, 0.483
- Hand in to
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- Freewind Brave npc · Thousand Needles at 0.422, 0.483
- Freewind Brave npc · Thousand Needles at 0.390, 0.257
- 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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Thousand Needles
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Freewind Brave
Starts the quest · 42.2, 48.3
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Freewind Brave
Hand the quest in · 42.2, 48.3
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Freewind Brave
Hand the quest in · 39.0, 25.7
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Grimtotem Geomancer
Quest objective · 43.2, 43.4
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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 5 min 35 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
19 tracked kills, typically 5,280 XP, done around level 42.
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 (Thousand Needles), 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
- 0.420, 0.490 median of 1 recorded accept on Thousand Needles
- Turn in
- 0.430, 0.430 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Thousand Needles
- 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 20
Players finish it about 5 min 16 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.425, 0.447 weight 1.00, 39 points
20 recorded positions in Thousand Needles.
- 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
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
5 min 35 s | 0 | 42 | 55s |
Community notes
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