What to do
Use the Rancher's Lariat to lasso and defeat a Great White Plainshawk.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Great White Plainshawk NPC #56171
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
<Master Shang speaks to his shepherd boy.>
Francis, you need to show bravery! You have everything it takes to make a great shepherd, except the courage to face your fears!
<He looks over to you.>
You, stranger. You helped the rest of my family. Francis is like a second son to me.
Show my apprentice what it means to lack fear. Use this rope to lasso and defeat one of the great white hawks above us.
<Shang points to the sky, looks at Francis, and leaves.>
Progress
You lack fear. I can sense it in your heart.
Completion
Francis has taken longer than I expected to become an effective shepherd. We all go through these phases... my son Liang was weak once, too. As was I.
But he will learn. It is the Thunderfoot way.
Category: Valley of the Four Winds.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Rancher's Lariat
The reward
Choose one of
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Hawk Feather Band
item #81824 · Uncommon · item level 399 · sells for 8g 64s 14c
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Lariat Loop
item #81825 · Uncommon · item level 399 · sells for 8g 64s 14c
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Shepherd's Loop
item #81826 · Uncommon · item level 399 · sells for 8g 64s 14c
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Band of Bravery
item #81827 · Uncommon · item level 399 · sells for 8g 64s 14c
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Ring of Courage
item #81828 · Uncommon · item level 399 · sells for 8g 64s 14c
- Money
- 20g 40s
- and 13g 54s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 161,000
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up to level 89; none at 90, the level cap
By character level
Level Experience Share 86–89 161,000 100% 90 none 13g 54s 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.
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 87, requires level 86
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Piercing Talons and Slavering Jaws #29916 · all of these
- Lupello #29917 · all of these
After this
- Great Minds Drink Alike #29919
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Shang Thunderfoot npc · Valley of the Four Winds at 0.782, 0.328
- Hand in to
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- Shang Thunderfoot npc · Valley of the Four Winds at 0.782, 0.328
- 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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Valley of the Four Winds
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Shang Thunderfoot
Starts the quest · 78.2, 32.8
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Shang Thunderfoot
Hand the quest in · 78.2, 32.8
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Great White Plainshawk
Quest objective · 79.8, 29.4
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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.
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
Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.
Same 0 runs.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
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 (Valley of the Four Winds), 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
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
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.