What to do
Speak with Lakota Windsong at Darkcloud Pinnacle in Thousand Needles.
The quest giver's words
Lakota Windsong! Why did I not think of this before?
Arnak kidnapped Lakota years ago and tried to force her to be his bride. With help, she was able to escape, but in the chaos of the recent attack on Freewind Post, he took her again.
She must be near. She has become quite the shaman in recent years. I am sure that she will understand the significance of the rattle, the writ, and the drums.
Completion
It is embarrassing to have been kidnapped by Arnak again. I heard the fighting outside. Did you kill him?
<The shaman looks sad for just a moment.>
I am happy to be free once more. Now, how can I help you, <class>?
Category: Thousand Needles.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 60s
- and 30s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 5,050
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at level 48 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 38–48 5,050 100% 49 4,050 80% 50 3,050 60% 51 2,000 40% 52 1,000 20% 53–89 500 10% 90 none 30s 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 65% more than the 5,050 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 43, requires level 38
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Writ of History #27321 · all of these
- The Drums of War #27326 · all of these
- Grimtotem Chiefs: The Chief of Chiefs #27328 · all of these
After this
- Invoking the Serpent #27330
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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- Lakota Windsong npc · Thousand Needles at 0.392, 0.258
- 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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Lakota Windsong
Hand the quest in · 39.1, 25.8
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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 1 min 15 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 8,332 XP, done around level 43.
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.
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.380, 0.270 median of 1 recorded accept on Thousand Needles
- Turn in
- 0.390, 0.260 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
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
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
1 min 15 s | 0 | 43 | 60s |
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.