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Quest 1 of 2 in the Granite Springs Chain
Alliance • Grizzly Hills • Level 73 • Granite Springs
Travel from Amberpine Lodge to Granite Springs [16, 48] and speak to Samir.
Breadcrumb quest, no combat. Head northwest from Amberpine Lodge. Samir is at the small troll-themed camp in western Grizzly Hills. Don't leave the zone: Old addons sometimes pointed to a different Samir at Zul'Aman. Pick up Filling the Cages from Samir immediately on arrival. This leads into the Drakuru deception storyline and Drak'Tharon Keep dungeon quests.
Vikstone's Classic Expedition
Dumont had conscripted what he called a gang of thugs to capture trolls alive for interrogation. The arrangement sounded less than official, and Vikstone's next stop was a man named Samir at Granite Springs.

“You, Night Elf! No sense standing around here when there’s work to be done! Drak’Tharon Keep is the most direct route to Zul’Drak. We MUST capture it to ensure safe passage for the Alliance. But until we get the numbers to make an assault, we’ll have to content ourselves in thinning out the ice trolls and collecting intel. To that end, we’ve conscripted a gang of thugs to capture and deliver live trolls for interrogation.

Travel northwest and speak with Samir at Granite Springs. He’ll direct you further.”

-Lieutenant Dumont

Objective

LEVEL

73

Requires level

73

END

Lieutenant Dumont at Amberpine Lodge wants you to speak to Samir at Granite Springs.

 

Find Samir:
Head to 16, 47 in Grizzly Hills to locate Samir at his camp.
Ignore misleading addon directions, such as those sending you to Zul’Aman in Ghostlands.
Complete Preceding Quests:
Ensure you’ve completed Replenishing the Storehouse or other prerequisite quests to unlock this one.
Find Samir: Head to 16, 47 in Grizzly Hills to locate Samir at his camp. Ignore misleading addon directions, such as those sending you to Zul’Aman in Ghostlands.
Complete Preceding Quests: Ensure you’ve completed Replenishing the Storehouse or other prerequisite quests to unlock this one.

 

Reward

You will receive:

4 Gold

10 Silver

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

15,400 experience
250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

Walkthrough

 

Quest Giver: Lieutenant Dumont — Amberpine Lodge, Grizzly Hills [31, 59]

Objective: Speak to Samir at Granite Springs [16, 48].

 

Walkthrough

  • This is an Alliance-only breadcrumb quest. From Amberpine Lodge, head northwest to Granite Springs at [16, 48]. Speak to Samir to complete the quest.
  • Addon bug warning (historical): QuestHelper notoriously sent players to a different NPC named Samir located at Zul’Aman in the Ghostlands. Do NOT leave Grizzly Hills. The correct Samir is at Granite Springs, the small troll-themed camp in the western part of the zone.

 

Efficiency Tips

 

Easter Egg

  • The quest name references the classic Looney Tunes “Duck Season! Wabbit Season!” argument between Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd, first appearing in the 1951 cartoon Rabbit Fire.

 

Explore Grizzly Hills’ hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Grizzly Hills Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
2,100 experience
250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

Warrior IconVikstone's War Journal

Lieutenant Dumont wasted no words.

Vikstone Portrait Act 2
Illustrated by Christian DiBari and Simon Gough.

“Drak’Tharon Keep is the most direct route to Zul’Drak. We MUST capture it to ensure safe passage for the Alliance.” He gestured north. “But until we get the numbers to make an assault, we’ll have to content ourselves thinning out the ice trolls and collecting intel.”

To that end, he’d conscripted what he called “a gang of thugs” to capture trolls alive for interrogation. The arrangement sounded less than official. My kind of operation.

My next stop was Granite Springs, to find a man named Samir.

 

Samir was waiting at Granite Springs with cages, a plan, and suggested the trolls weren’t going to enjoy what came next in Filling the Cages.

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