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A Little Payback (Alliance)

A Little Payback is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Thousand Needles. It is step 21 of 107 in the Thousand Needles storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Thousand Needles at 78.1, 73.1. It rewards 4 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

It's time for a little payback, I think. Can you blame me? After they locked me down in that outhouse and left me to drown?!

I'll make it worth your while if you head up to the Southsea Holdfast on the eastern bluffs and exact my revenge.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationGnomeregan +250
Top Comments

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212703+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The hut south of where Wizzle Brassbolts is held has two Southsea Pirates in it. The one in the far corner is dancing away and only stops to drink from a bottle, (and as a pirate it has to be rum,) or to perform a "technicolour yawn". Yes, he falls to his knees and proceeds to projectile vommit...brilliant, my respects to the Blizzard programmer who got this into the game.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationGnomeregan+250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Wrist
Item level22
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+4 Intellect, +5 Stamina, +4 Versatility
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for4 gold85 silver
TypeLeather Feet
Item level22
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina, +7 Haste
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for7 gold25 silver
TypeMail Feet
Item level22
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for7 gold28 silver
TypeArmor Finger
Item level22
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+4 Strength, +5 Stamina
Suited toProtection, Fury, Arms, Retribution, Unholy, Frost, Blood
Sells to vendors for20 silver80 copper

Reputation: Gnomeregan +250

The former denizens of Gnomeregan, now living in New Tinkertown and in league with the Alliance.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Thousand Needles that reward Gnomeregan reputation: Two If By Boat (+25), Do Me a Favor? (+25), Down in the Deeps (+250), Bar Fight! (+250), In the Outhouse (+250), Pirate Accuracy Increasing (+250).

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapThousand NeedlesTurn-in marker at 78.1, 73.1, 12 mapped points
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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.

Thousand Needles Quest turn-in 12 mapped points
Thousand Needles map showing where to go for A Little PaybackTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #64 78.1 73.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThousand Needles 78.1, 73.1/way #64 78.1 73.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Thousand Needles 91.3, 79.5/way #64 91.3 79.5

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 Thousand Needles map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Thousand Needles, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Thousand Needles:

  • Fizzle & Pozzik's Speedbarge, Thousand NeedlesAlliance and Horde · about 60 yards north-east
  • Gadgetzan, TanarisAlliance · about 1,100 yards south
  • Mudsprocket, Dustwallow MarshAlliance and Horde · about 1,700 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 610 yards east

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

Thousand Needles

Part 21 of 107.

Previous: Quiet the Cannons · Next: A Little Payback

  1. 16Circle the Wagons... er, Boats
  2. 17Circle the Wagons... er, Boats
  3. 18Circle the Wagons... er, Boats
  4. 19Quiet the Cannons
  5. 20Quiet the Cannons
  6. 21A Little Payback
  7. 22A Little Payback
  8. 23Where's Wizzle?
  9. 24Where's Synge?
  10. 25Sunken Treasure
  11. 26Sunken Treasure
  12. 27Two-Tusk Takedown

Showing steps 16 to 27 of 107.

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.

  • Quiet the CannonsThousand Needles · Level 15-30

    Now it's time to do something about those darn cannons up on the bluffs to the east! If you'd be so kind, hop into your boat and cruise on over to the Southsea Holdfast. Up top you'll see a bunch of cannons firing down on us. Those pirates don't know squat about engineering.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Where's Wizzle?Thousand Needles · Level 15-30

    Hey, <name>, you haven't seen my other brother, Wizzle, have you? I just know that the pirates captured him! He said that he was going to try to sell them some engineering stuff, or something. Would you please look for him up at the Southsea Holdfast to the east?

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Thousand Needles · Level 15-30.

The storyline at a glance

Thousand Needles has 107 steps, from The Grimtotem are Coming to Spread the Word.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Thousand Needles (106), Feralas (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Thousand Needles 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name A Little Payback. They differ in the faction/rewards shown here.

QuestFactionRewardsID
A Little Payback (this page)Alliance4,100 XP, Paper Roll Bracers, Drag Master's Boots, Outhouse Boots, Payback Band25588
A Little PaybackHorde4,100 XP, Paper Roll Bracers, Rugfizzle's Boots, Outhouse Boots, Payback Band25589
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