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Preemptive Strike

Quest #28356 Level 22 Hillsbrad Foothills Horde only no runs yet

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What to do

Kill any 15 Naga at the Eastern Strand.

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

These plans document what appears to be an imminent attack on Southshore. The naga of the Eastern Strand are planning to take over the town now that the Alliance has been pushed out.

Not if you can help it!

Kill all of the naga on the Eastern Strand and report to Helcular at the Ruins of Southshore with the Daggerspine attack plan.

Completion

HAH! Those naga have some balls on them! To think that they could take Southshore from us in our own territory! Such a preposterous notion.

< Helcular laughs.>

You have done well to thwart their attack - though I do wonder if they could have survived for even a minute in the blight.

Category: Hillsbrad Foothills.

What you need

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

The reward

Money
none
and 13s 20c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
Experience
2,200
at level 27 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
20–27 2,200 100%
28 1,750 80%
29 1,300 60%
30 875 40%
31 440 20%
32–89 220 10%
90 none 13s 20c 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.

Reputation

Who it is for

Faction
Horde only
Race
any race
Class
any class
Level
quest level 22, requires level 20
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
Hand in to
  • Helcular npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.491, 0.663
Where Preemptive Strike starts and ends in Hillsbrad Foothills
Where Preemptive Strike starts and ends in Hillsbrad Foothills
  • 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 Hillsbrad Foothills
Relevant locations in Hillsbrad Foothills
  • Hillsbrad Foothills
    • Helcular Hand the quest in · 49.1, 66.3
    • Daggerspine Siren Quest objective · 54.2, 62.4

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 (Hillsbrad Foothills), 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 Preemptive Strike in Hillsbrad Foothills
Overview of Preemptive Strike in Hillsbrad Foothills
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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