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A Short Fuse (Alliance)

A Short Fuse is an Alliance-only quest for level 25-30 in Icecrown. It is step 78 of 167 in the Icecrown storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Icecrown at 54.0, 87.3. It rewards 525 experience and money.

Description

As you light the fuse, you notice that it is consumed by fire far quicker than you would expect.

The bombs are about to go off and your best chance at surviving is to lean towards the pit and hope the fall doesn't kill you.

Rewards

Money1 gold5 silver
Experience525 XP
Top Comments

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hmmmmm, setting off bombs, falling down a wicked looking pit, with bright colors and crazy monsters at the bottom, finding a little spirit boy, killing those same monsters for their blood, bathing in it, and then your back to business, killing ghouls.
HOWEVER
then you see little spirit boy again, and go out-of-body and fight demons

quest line, or acid trip? ill leave that up to you

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP525
MoneyGold1g 5s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapIcecrownTurn-in marker at 54.0, 87.3, 2 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.

Icecrown Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Icecrown map showing where to go for A Short FuseTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #118 54.0 87.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inIcecrown 54.0, 87.3/way #118 54.0 87.3
  • Objective areaIcecrown 54.4, 86.3/way #118 54.4 86.3

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 Icecrown map

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

Getting there

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

  • Valiance Landing Camp, WintergraspAlliance · about 690 yards south
  • Fordragon Hold, DragonblightAlliance · about 1,300 yards south-east
  • DalaranAlliance and Horde · about 1,600 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 50 yards north-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

Icecrown

Part 78 of 167.

Previous: Set it Off! · Next: Opportunity

  1. 73The Shadow Vault
  2. 74The Duke
  3. 75Exploiting an Opening
  4. 76Securing the Perimeter
  5. 77Set it Off!
  6. 78A Short Fuse
  7. 79Opportunity
  8. 80Establishing Superiority
  9. 81Blow it Up!
  10. 82A Short Fuse
  11. 83Parting Gifts
  12. 84An Undead's Best Friend

Showing steps 73 to 84 of 167.

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.

  • Set it Off!Icecrown · Level 25-30

    Things are looking good. Let's do this. The stack of bombs is right near the pit. I'll start to evacuate the men.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • OpportunityIcecrown · Level 25-30

    We recently came upon schematics that indicate a weakness in Icecrown Citadel. An opening in its defenses, both figuratively and literally. The captured diagrams show an orifice leading several hundred feet into the ground.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Icecrown · Level 25-30.

The storyline at a glance

Icecrown has 167 steps, from Honor Above All Else to Light Within the Darkness.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Icecrown (162), Moonglade (2), Dragonblight (2), Shattrath City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Icecrown 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 Short Fuse. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
A Short Fuse (this page)Alliance13389
A Short FuseHorde13263
Related
A Shambling Threat
A Shameful Waste
A Shattered Past
A Short Fuse
A Short-Lived Peace
A Shot at the Dark
A Shot at the Top
A Show of Faith
Database

Quest Location and Connections

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