Softening the Blow
A verified Blizzard quest record from Grizzly Hills. Use the archive brief, rewards, and linked research to finish it without losing your place.
Who gives Softening the Blow
1 recordThe NPC, object, or item that starts this quest, with the first known coordinate when available.
- Captain Gryan StoutmantleNPC #26212Grizzly Hills · 59.4, 26.0
Where to turn it in
1 recordThe NPC or object that accepts the completed quest. Phasing and alternate-faction versions can produce more than one endpoint.
- Brugar StoneshearNPC #26226Grizzly Hills · 59.8, 27.6
Identity and tooltip facts come from Blizzard. Relationship rows are refreshed from Wowhead's structured source tables and merged with anonymous in-game observations from WoW-God Sync. Inspect source
What To Do
Complete the quest objective shown in your tracker in Grizzly Hills, then return to the turn-in NPC.
Quest Text
Our best bet for moving our forces quickly to Icecrown Glacier lies with the network of tunnels beneath the ancient iron dwarf city of Thor Modan. Brugar Stoneshear and his Explorers' League boys aren't going to be happy, but orders are orders. The news might go over better if you brought him a cask of that moonshine sold by that trapper, Hugh Glass, down at Redwood Trading Post, southeast of here along the tree line. Man's not right in the head, but you won't find better moonshine out here.
Plan the run before you travel
Grizzly Hills belongs to the Wrath of the Lich King archive. Start with its campaign track if this record is unavailable or the next step is missing.
Check the exact quest giver and turn-in records above first. Use this page's community comments for phase changes, cave entrances, spawn timing, and corrections from the live game.
No group size is listed by Blizzard, so this is usually soloable unless the objective text says otherwise.
Pin the quest in-game, enable objective outlines, then use the exact-title references in the archive for NPC or object coordinates. Add a correction below if the live game differs from this record.
Objectives and map pin
Blizzard's public API publishes a quest's text and rewards but not its objectives, its own level, whether it can be shared, or any map coordinate. Nobody has synced quest 11998 yet, so there is nothing to show here rather than a guess. Running the WowGodSync addon while you play contributes those fields for everyone.
Check it in game
Quest completion is stored per character on Blizzard's side and is not in the public API, so paste this in your chat box and it prints true or false for “Softening the Blow” on the character you are logged into.
/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11998))/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompletedOnAccount(11998))A false also comes back for a quest id the client does not know, so it means “not recorded as complete” rather than proof the quest exists on your account.
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Rewards
- Experience
- 4,100
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