TheWoWDBSimple steps to completing this quest:
- Go into the bug area at the bottom of the cliffs (occasionally you may need to venture towards the mouth of the gaping chasm).
- Look for a flat blue bug (Hazzali Swarmer).
- Use your [item=52031] near the bug - it will come at you.
- Do not mount - just walk it back to the quest giver.
- Hand in.
Quest
A Great Idea
A World of Warcraft quest in Tanaris. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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After you turn in this quest, Narain Soothfancy comes to the swarmer and touches it:
Narain Soothfancy says: It's afraid.
Narain Soothfancy yells: It's afraid!Great Starship Troopers reference.
Don`t mount to bring it back, it`ll despawn.
Quest facts
Quest ID24951
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(24951))
What to do
Description
Now that we've got a good pile of fresh chunks, we just tie it to this rope...and now you're ready to go catch me a silithid. What? Don't give me that look, it's perfectly safe. Well, mostly safe. Okay, you might die painfully. But it'll be easy! Just throw this meat out there, wait for a bug to pounce on it, and then drag 'em back here by the rope! Go after one of the swarmers. I haven't seen the other ones go for hyenas before, and you should find plenty of swarmers around the edge of the pit.
Where to go
Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.
Turn-inObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #71 55.6 60.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inTanaris 55.6, 60.9
/way #71 55.6 60.9 - Objective areaTanaris 55.6, 60.6
/way #71 55.6 60.6
Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Nearby on the Tanaris map
- Tearing at the Seams about 180 yards
- The Great Detective about 740 yards
- Warn the Detective about 740 yards
- Toy Trouble about 740 yards
- The Final Toy about 740 yards
- Secret in the Sands about 740 yards
- Festive Reflections about 740 yards
- Short Circuit about 1,070 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,490 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,500 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Tanaris, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Tanaris:
- Bootlegger Outpost, Tanaris
- Gunstan's Dig, Tanaris
- Gadgetzan, Tanaris
Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.
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Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Storyline
Tanaris
Part 23 of 48.
Previous: Chicken of the Desert · Next: Just Trying to Kill Some Bugs
- 18Filling Our Pockets
- 19Captain Dreadbeard
- 20Bootlegger Outpost
- 21Cutting Losses
- 22Chicken of the Desert
- 23A Great Idea
- 24Just Trying to Kill Some Bugs
- 25Define "Crazy"
- 26What We Came For
- 27Terrapination
- 28You Too, Brute?
- 29Un-Chartered
Showing steps 18 to 29 of 48.
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
Before this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Chicken of the Desert
I've got an idea, but we're going to need bait. The other day I saw a rabid blisterpaw hyena wander too close to the edge of the chasm, and one of the silithid comes diving out of nowhere. Nearly swallowed it whole! Horrible sight. So we're gonna need hyena meat, obviously.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Just Trying to Kill Some Bugs
Now it's time for my plan to go into full effect. We've got the captured bug strapped up with as many explosives as it can carry, and with Soothfancy's mostly amazing mental powers, we're gonna drive that sucker straight down into the center of the underground hive. And then...BOOM! No more bugs!
The storyline at a glance
Tanaris has 48 steps, from Seaside Salvage to The Grand Tablet.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Tanaris (48).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Tanaris map
- Suspicious Munitions
- Warbanding Together
- Bronze Reconciliation
- Cataclysm Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
- Legion Engineering
Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.