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A Great Idea

A Great Idea is a quest for level 15-30 in Tanaris. It is step 23 of 48 in the Tanaris storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Tanaris at 55.6, 60.9. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

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.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Top Comments

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sandyra+229via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Simple steps to completing this quest:


  2. Go into the bug area at the bottom of the cliffs (occasionally you may need to venture towards the mouth of the gaping chasm).

  4. Look for a flat blue bug (Hazzali Swarmer).

  6. Use your [item=52031] near the bug - it will come at you.

  8. Do not mount - just walk it back to the quest giver.

  10. Hand in.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapTanarisTurn-in marker at 55.6, 60.9, 2 mapped points
Objective areaCaverns of Time
World Map

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.

Tanaris Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Tanaris map showing where to go for A Great IdeaTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #71 55.6 60.9

Caverns of Time Objective area

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

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, TanarisAlliance and Horde · about 20 yards north-east
  • Gunstan's Dig, TanarisAlliance · about 1,400 yards south-west
  • Gadgetzan, TanarisAlliance · about 1,500 yards north

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Tanaris

Part 23 of 48.

Previous: Chicken of the Desert · Next: Just Trying to Kill Some Bugs

  1. 18Filling Our Pockets
  2. 19Captain Dreadbeard
  3. 20Bootlegger Outpost
  4. 21Cutting Losses
  5. 22Chicken of the Desert
  6. 23A Great Idea
  7. 24Just Trying to Kill Some Bugs
  8. 25Define "Crazy"
  9. 26What We Came For
  10. 27Terrapination
  11. 28You Too, Brute?
  12. 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 DesertTanaris · Level 15-30

    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 BugsTanaris · Level 15-30

    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

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.

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