TheWoWDBWhen flying around the big hole in the ground, the NPC will tell you that you need to find a safe place to drop out. DO NOT USE THE EXIT VEHICLE button despite it telling you to need to find a safe place. It will eventually land in a safe area.
If you did, like me, mistakenly think you had to use use the exit button then you'll find yourself being attacked by trogg patrols that spawn every 4 seconds and you WILL NOT be able to complete this step. Even when you make it to the circle. You need to abandon quest and go back to the airfield.
Quest
A Signal in Storm Peaks
Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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If you abandon this quest and can't see the NPC to pick it up again, try checking your buffs bar for the buff "Fizzcrank Flight". If you have this buff, right click off of it and that will unphase you so you can properly see the NPCs again to pick up the quest.
No bugs. Just had to mention how I almost fell asleep with how unnecessarily long that plane ride was. It's not extremely egregious, but I have to say some of these heritage quests can be a bit dull. It's like they're trying to make them boring. Maybe they just aren't putting as much time into them anymore.
I guess it beats the allied race method of getting their heritage sets. "You hit level 50! Great! Come back and get some armor and then go away!"
But I suppose they get a lot of coverage in their recruitment quests, so it kind of makes sense they wouldn't invest too much in a closing questline. Something would be nice, though. Even just a few small lines of dialogue about the future of their people and how they feel in the Alliance/Horde.
Quest facts
Quest ID54639
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(54639))
Description
It looks like the signal is being transmitted from Storm Peaks. Time to put these flying machines to work! I'll keep tracking the signal en route in order to get a cleaner read.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #120 37.5 60.2
Objective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #114 55.2 18.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Storm Peaks 37.5, 60.2
/way #120 37.5 60.2 - Objective areaThe Storm Peaks 37.6, 60.2
/way #120 37.6 60.2 - Objective areaBorean Tundra 55.2, 18.8
/way #114 55.2 18.8
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 Storm Peaks map
- Fury of the Frostborn King about 90 yards
- Sniffing Out the Perpetrator about 190 yards
- The Master Explorer about 230 yards
- The Lonesome Watcher about 250 yards
- Fate of the Titans about 250 yards
- The Huntsman's Creed about 290 yards
- The Drakkensryd about 310 yards
- Mending Fences about 310 yards
- A Spark of Hope about 310 yards
- A New Beginning about 310 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Storm Peaks, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Storm Peaks:
- Grom'arsh Crash-Site, The Storm Peaks
- Frosthold, The Storm Peaks
- K3, The Storm Peaks
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- 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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Money14 gold4 silver
Experience4,750 XP
Storyline
Gnome Heritage Armor
Part 7 of 11.
Previous: Smarter Than Your Average Trogg · Next: Gnomercy!
- 1Shifting Gears
- 2Gnomeregan's Finest
- 3Shadowed Halls and Dusty Cogs
- 4A Tundra Conundrum
- 5Now With More Mechanical Fowl
- 6Smarter Than Your Average Trogg
- 7A Signal in Storm Peaks
- 8Gnomercy!
- 9Operation: Troggageddon
- 10For Gnomeregan!
- 11G.E.A.R. Up
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.
- Smarter Than Your Average Trogg
<Cog Captain Winklespring's voice springs to life over your personal communication system.> One of the recon pilots did a scouting run over the station. She reported that there seems to be a trogg on the top level that is larger and smarter than the others.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Gnomercy!
We need to give Tinkerbow some cover while she figures out our new trajectory. <The Cog Captain hands you a miniature spider tank.> It may not look like much, but this is a fully functional spider tank. You'll just need to de-shrinkify it.
The storyline at a glance
Gnome Heritage Armor has 11 steps, from Shifting Gears to G.E.A.R. Up.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): New Tinkertown (4), The Storm Peaks (4), Borean Tundra (3).
Other storylines on The Storm Peaks map
- The Storm Peaks
- Never Hunt Alone
- Titanstrike
- Hunt for the Harbinger
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.