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Preparing the Salve

Quest #9345 Level 61 Hellfire Peninsula Horde only no runs yet

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What to do

Gather 12 Hellfire Spineleaf plants for a salve and return to Grelag at Spinebreaker Post.

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

Just as Zeth'Gor came into view, a Legion patrol caught sight of me. I ran, hoping to duck into one of the towers in the distance, but one of their felhounds caught up with me and nearly hamstrung me!

I managed to escape, but my leg is in terrible shape. Stone Guard Ambelan found me and brought me here. Now, I have to find a way to tend to my leg. Spineleaf grows in and around the Valley of Bones to the north. A salve made from it will dull the pain enough for me to travel.

Progress

Have you brought the plants?

Completion

These should do the job. I'm going to prepare the salve and finish my splint before making my way back to Thrallmar. Why do I have the feeling that I know what Far Seer Regulkut will say when she sees me?

< Grelag sighs half-heartedly.>

Thank you for your help, <name>. I have some of the spineleaf left over. You're welcome to take it with you. Who can tell when it will prove useful?

Category: Hellfire Peninsula.

What you need

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

The reward

Money
none
and 58s 50c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
Experience
9,800
at level 66 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
58–66 9,800 100%
67 7,850 80%
68 5,900 60%
69 3,900 40%
70 1,950 20%
71–89 975 10%
90 none 58s 50c 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.

Observed, what players here were paid: 10,780 experience (median of 1 run), no money (median of 1 run).

The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.

  • Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 9,800 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.

Reputation

Who it is for

Faction
Horde only
Race
any race
Class
any class
Level
quest level 61, requires level 58
Profession
none
Repeats
once only

The chain

Before this

Nothing – this is where the chain starts.

After this

Where it starts and ends

Starts at
  • Grelag npc · Hellfire Peninsula at 0.609, 0.817
Hand in to
  • Grelag npc · Hellfire Peninsula at 0.609, 0.817
Where Preparing the Salve starts and ends in Hellfire Peninsula
Where Preparing the Salve starts and ends in Hellfire Peninsula
  • 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

Relevant locations in Hellfire Peninsula
Relevant locations in Hellfire Peninsula
  • Hellfire Peninsula
    • Grelag Starts the quest · 60.9, 81.7
    • Grelag Hand the quest in · 60.9, 81.7

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 2 recorded attempts the hub has.

How precise this guide is

Early guide Built from 2 runs 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 0) not yet
  • Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 2) 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

Observed, not a fact about the game: 0 completed runs behind the medians, 2 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.

1 / 2 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, typically 10,780 XP, done around level 62.

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 (Hellfire Peninsula), 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 Preparing the Salve in Hellfire Peninsula
Overview of Preparing the Salve in Hellfire Peninsula
  • hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
  • where players were
  • pick up
  • turn in
Pick up
0.610, 0.820 median of 1 recorded accept on Hellfire Peninsula
Turn in
0.610, 0.810 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Hellfire Peninsula
Deaths during this quest
None recorded – nobody died doing this.

Objectives, in the order players do them

Order published by the analyser from 2 runs.

Objective 1 — needs 12

Players finish it about 30 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet

Go to (published hotspots):

  1. 0.580, 0.705 weight 0.33, 4 points

12 recorded positions in Hellfire Peninsula.

Objective 1 of Preparing the Salve in Hellfire Peninsula
Objective 1 of Preparing the Salve in Hellfire Peninsula
  • 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

The most recent 2 of 2 attempts; the median above is built from 0 completed runs.
Character Time Deaths Level Reward
Bananaroot-HoptallusPandaQuest supporter – 0 62 –
Bananaroot-HoptallusPandaQuest supporter – 0 62 –

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