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A Powerful Need To Eat

A Powerful Need To Eat is an Alliance-only quest for level 30-35 in Shimmering Expanse. It is step 72 of 149 in the Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse storyline. It rewards 1,200 experience and money.

Description

Poor things. They're starving.

We've many matters to attend to, not the least of them the naga, but first we need to get some food in these bellies. I'm not sure what the naga fed them up in that shell, if anything, but they're definitely worse for the wear.

Quite a few of the survivors have made their way into Glimmerdeep Gorge, to the northwest. Go join them and help out. With a bit of clam meat, we can get these survivors back on their feet.

Rewards

Money3 gold43 silver50 copper
Experience1,200 XP
Top Comments

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491283+14via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Reference to Serenity. At one point the crew is debating tossing the ship's cargo, and the captain replies "Tossed the...Zoe, I got bits falling off my ship, I got a crew ain't been paid and, oh yeah, a powerful need to eat sometime this month."

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Guide to Vashj'ir Shimmering Expanse Alliance quests:

The Vashj'ir quests start in Stormwind with Call of Duty.
The immediate pre-requisite for these quests is Across the great Divide which starts in Kelp'thar Forest .

Initial chain:
The Looming Threat
Backed Into a Corner
Rundown
Silver Tide Hollow

Several side quests are now enabled:
Slippery Threat, Don't be Shellfish, and A Distracting Scent
Also a side-chain:

The main chain continues at Toshe Chaosrender
Vortex (optional)
Vengeful Heart
Fathom-Lord Zin'jatar
A Pearl of Wisdom (optional;starts from Luminescent Pearl from the boss)
Nespirah
Making Contact
Slave Labor and Stick it To Them
Capture the Crab
Breaking Through
We Are Not Alone
Body Blows, Hopelessly Gearless, and Still Valuable
Overseer Idra'kess
Waking the Beast (also unlocks A Cold Welcome)
A Powerful Need to Eat
Clamming Up and Art of Attraction plus Odor Coater
Bellies Await
You can do all these simultaneously:


While killing naga, hope Ancient Elven Etching drops to start Piece of the Past
If you do these quests and haven't already continued on the main chain,
The Call of the Blade will set you back on track.

Main chain continues:
Upon the Scene of Battle [You can actually get this quest a bit earlier]
Visions of the Past: The Invasion of Vashj'ir
Turn to Naga and do:


Looking Forward
Clear Goals, Not Entirely Unprepared, and Properly Inspired
Swift Action
Fallen but Not Forgotten and Gauging Success
Visions of the Past: The Slaughter of Biel'aran Ridge
As a naga again, complete:


Losing Ground
Desperate Plan
Come Prepared, Unfurling Plan, and Hostile Waters
Honor and Privilege
Welcome News
Visions of the Past: Rise from the Deep
As a naga, work on


If you are missing any of the naga optional quests, you may now talk to Wavespeaker Valoren to get the Blade of the Naz'jar Battlemaiden which allows you to repeat any of the visions

This chain [for this zone] wraps up:
A Breath of Fresh Air (enables The War has Many Fronts link to Deepholm)
Full Circle

The Vashj'ir quests conclude in the Abyssal Depths

Read all 7 on Wowhead ↗

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP1,200
MoneyGold3g 43s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapShimmering Expanse
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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.

Shimmering Expanse Quest turn-in

Nearby on the Shimmering Expanse map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shimmering Expanse:

  • Silver Tide Hollow, Vashj'irAlliance and Horde · about 240 yards north
  • Tranquil Wash, Vashj'irAlliance · about 270 yards south
  • Voldrin's Hold, Vashj'irAlliance · about 940 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 280 yards south

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

Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse

Part 72 of 149.

Previous: Waking the Beast · Next: Art of Attraction

  1. 67Hopelessly Gearless
  2. 68Body Blows
  3. 69Still Valuable
  4. 70Overseer Idra'kess
  5. 71Waking the Beast
  6. 72A Powerful Need To Eat
  7. 73Art of Attraction
  8. 74Odor Coater
  9. 75Clamming Up
  10. 76Bellies Await
  11. 77Caught Off-Guard
  12. 78Swift Approach

Showing steps 67 to 78 of 149.

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.

  • Waking the BeastShimmering Expanse · Level 30-35

    Thanks to you and the Captain, Nespirah has full control of her body... but most of the naga don't know this yet. Once we make our escape, she will activate her biological defenses and destroy the naga from within. Make yourself ready... I will now tell Nespirah to begin the countdown.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Art of AttractionShimmering Expanse · Level 30-35

    I have an idea. A brilliant idea! Those clown-looking fish have developed a symbiotic defensive relationship with the anemones. Having dismissed anemone disguise plausibilities, I've uncovered the chemical attractor that lures the fish.

The storyline at a glance

Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse has 149 steps, from Call of Duty to Full Circle.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shimmering Expanse (98), Kelp'thar Forest (48), Abyssal Depths (2), Vashj'ir (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Shimmering Expanse 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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