TheWoWDBthis quest is a reference to the movie Princess Mononoke, a Studio Ghibli film in which the antagonist cut off the head of the spirit of the forest that looks like a strange deer, the spirit then turns into a spirit goo creature and goes wild until the protagonists return his head. which is exactly what you do in this quest chain.
moreover the entire movie is a commentary on industry destroying nature which is a running theme for the goblins
Quest
A Little Off the Top
A World of Warcraft quest in The Ringing Deeps. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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After you remove Alhainr's skull for A Little Off the Top, you'll see a ghostly image of Alhainr back at Opportunity Point. See video uploaded.
If you don't see Alhainr, just wait in the upper area, it must have been killed.
Don't do like me and fly all around up and down into the abbyss looking for it.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 73-75
Quest ID83159
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(83159))
What to do
StorylineAbysmal Extraction, step 2 of 3
Rewards57g 86s, 12,400 XP
Description
Ever seen a deepstrider before? This one sure ain't happy to see us. Made quick work of the shredders that made it past the moles. Real shame, those pilots are gonna have to work overtime to pay off the damages. Now if someone were to take care of it and bring back something as proof, well, I'm sure there'd be a nice payday.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2214 59.6 79.2
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Ringing Deeps 59.6, 79.2
/way #2214 59.6 79.2 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Ringing Deeps 59.0, 92.4
/way #2214 59.0 92.4 - Objective areaThe Ringing Deeps 59.6, 79.3
/way #2214 59.6 79.3
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 The Ringing Deeps map
- Bat Versus World about 60 yards
- Good Help These Days about 60 yards
- Built to Blast about 70 yards
- When Opportunity Explodes about 250 yards
- Haywired and Hostile about 450 yards
- Hey, What's Going On? about 450 yards
- Mixed Messages about 490 yards
- Lady of the Lake about 510 yards
- The Verdigrease Knight about 520 yards
- Squire's Spurs about 520 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Ringing Deeps, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Ringing Deeps:
- Opportunity Point, The Ringing Deeps
- Camp Murroch, The Ringing Deeps
- Gutterville, The Ringing Deeps
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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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Money57 gold86 silver
Experience12,400 XP
Other quests on the Ringing Deeps map
Storyline
Abysmal Extraction
Part 2 of 3.
Previous: Tired of Tripping · Next: Put it Back, Put it Back!
- 1Tired of Tripping
- 2A Little Off the Top
- 3Put it Back, Put it Back!
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.
- Tired of Tripping
All that's between us and the juiciest excavation site I've ever seen is a couple of moles and a leggy deer. Sorry, getting ahead of myself. See these shredders? State of the art in the field of maiming and killing. And they keep getting stuck in holes!
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Put it Back, Put it Back!
It's going to ruin everything! Who wants to visit a resort with a thirty-foot tall ghost-deer? Ok, no need to panic. It's probably just a little miffed you took its skull. First, you gotta get rid of some of these slimes. Then, get that skull out of here. The farther the better.
The storyline at a glance
Abysmal Extraction has 3 steps, from Tired of Tripping to Put it Back, Put it Back!.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Ringing Deeps (3).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on The Ringing Deeps map
- By Candlelight
- Trust Issues
- Kobold Culture and Integration
- The Machines March to War
- Fearbreaker
- Dark Revelations
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.