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A Little Payback (Horde)

A Little Payback is a Horde-only quest for level 15-30 in Thousand Needles. It is step 22 of 107 in the Thousand Needles storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Thousand Needles at 78.2, 73.7. 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
ReputationBilgewater Cartel +250
Top Comments

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1
Niamh+4via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

An overview of all the quests needed to get to the blue rewards and all other gear you can earn on your way there:
(This is mostly Horde version of the quests, but Alliance version is pretty similar.)

0. Warchief's Command: Thousand Needles!
1. To the Summit
2. The Grimtotem are Coming
3. Two If By Boat: [item=63562] [item=63563] [item=63564] [item=63565]
4. Do Me a Favor?
5. Down in the Deeps: [item=63546] [item=63547] [item=63548] [item=63549]
... gives [spell=75627]
6. ... Bar Fight!
7. ... In the Outhouse
8. Pirate Accuracy Increasing
9. Circle the Wagons... er, Boats: [item=63554] [item=63555] [item=63556] [item=63557]
... gives [item=55121]
10. Quiet the Cannons
(side quest: A Little Payback: [item=63578] [item=63579] [item=63580] [item=63581])

11. Where's Synge? (pick it up to do together with Quiet the Cannons)
12. Sunken Treasure
13. Two-Tusk Takedown: [item=63628] [item=63629] [item=63630] [item=63631]

14. Haunted
15. With a Little Help...: [item=63617] [item=63618] [item=63619] [item=63620]
16. Carcass Collection
17. The Mad Magus: [item=63587] [item=63588] [item=63589] [item=63590] [item=63591]

18. Negotiations
19. Get Koalbeard!
20. Fool's Gold
(side quest: The Ancient Brazier: [item=63608] [item=63609] [item=63610])
21. Fake Gold for Black Gold
22. Back to Riznek: [item=63570] [item=63571] [item=63572] [item=63573]

23a. Eminent Domain
23b. Defend the Drill
24. Go Blow that Horn
25. Deliver the Goods: [item=63614] [item=63615] [item=63616]
26. Free Freewind Post
27. Grimtotem in the Post
(side quest: Horn of the Traitor: [item=63633])

28. The Brave and the Bold
29. Together Again

30. Grimtotem Chiefs: Isha Gloomaxe
31. Grimtotem Chiefs: Elder Stormhoof: [item=63604] [item=63605] [item=63606] [item=63607]
32. Grimtotem Chiefs: Grundig Darkcloud
33a. The Writ of History
33b. The Drums of War
33c. Grimtotem Chiefs: The Chief of Chiefs: [item=63637] [item=63638] [item=63639]
34. The Captive Bride
35. Invoking the Serpent: [item=63644] [item=63645] [item=63646] [item=63647]
36. Trouble at Highperch
(No Weapons For You!, What's that Rattle?, The Rattle of Bones & Darkcloud Grimtotem: [item=63596] [item=63597] [item=63598] [item=63599] are side quests during this chain)

37a. Free the Pridelings
37b. Death to all Trappers!: [item=63648] [item=63649] [item=63650] [item=63651]
38. Release Heartrazor
39. The Twilight Skymaster: [item=63652] [item=63653] [item=63654] [item=63655]
40. On to the Bulwark

41a. Something to Wear: [item=63656] [item=63657] [item=63658]
41b. Break Them Out
42a. Behind You!: [item=63659] [item=63660] [item=63661] [item=63662]
42b. Codemaster's Code
43. The Elder Crone
44. To the Withering

45a. Four Twilight Elements
45b. Unbound
46. The Doomstone: [item=63663] [item=63664] [item=63665] [item=63666]

47. Spread the Word: [item=63673] [item=63674] [item=63675] [item=63676] [item=63677] [item=63678]

(If I missed something, let me know)

(on a side note: I got Thousand Needles Quests while just going for the end quest by doing all it's pre-requisit quests and some side quests that were in the same area. (Also did a chain started with Special Delivery for Brivelthwerp but afaik this is not needed.))

Note: 07/11/2011, changed the 1st sentence, it was originally "An overview of all the quests needed to get there:" to avoid some confusion as to what this post is all about.

2
702724+3via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

You can group this quest with "Quiet the cannons" and "Where's Synge?". As with those quests, you get the boat by clicking on the River Boat item in your inventory (looks like a pirate hat) that you got from the last boat quest. This puts you in a summoned boat when you are next to or in the water surface. It disappears when you hit anything.

For this quest you can kill the pirates on the boats or up on the cliffs. They throw bottles at you which gets you drunk! :)

Read all 7 on Wowhead ↗

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationBilgewater Cartel+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 gold92 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 gold36 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 gold39 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 for21 silver12 copper

Reputation: Bilgewater Cartel +250

Run by the ruthless Trade Prince Gallywix, the Bilgewater Cartel is the most powerful trading company on the Isle of Kezan. From their headquarters at Bilgewater Port, the cartel dominates trade all over the South Seas.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Thousand Needles that reward Bilgewater Cartel 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 78.2, 73.7, 13 mapped points
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.

Thousand Needles Quest turn-in 13 mapped points
Thousand Needles map showing where to go for A Little PaybackTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #64 78.2 73.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThousand Needles 78.2, 73.7/way #64 78.2 73.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Thousand Needles 91.3, 79.5/way #64 91.3 79.5
  • Objective areaThousand Needles 78.2, 73.6/way #64 78.2 73.6

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 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

Horde 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, TanarisHorde · about 970 yards south
  • Mudsprocket, Dustwallow MarshAlliance and Horde · about 1,700 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 600 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 22 of 107.

Previous: A Little Payback · Next: Where's Wizzle?

  1. 17Circle the Wagons... er, Boats
  2. 18Circle the Wagons... er, Boats
  3. 19Quiet the Cannons
  4. 20Quiet the Cannons
  5. 21A Little Payback
  6. 22A Little Payback
  7. 23Where's Wizzle?
  8. 24Where's Synge?
  9. 25Sunken Treasure
  10. 26Sunken Treasure
  11. 27Two-Tusk Takedown
  12. 28Two-Tusk Takedown

Showing steps 17 to 28 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: Horde 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)Horde4,100 XP, Paper Roll Bracers, Rugfizzle's Boots, Outhouse Boots, Payback Band25589
A Little PaybackAlliance4,100 XP, Paper Roll Bracers, Drag Master's Boots, Outhouse Boots, Payback Band25588
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