Be Prepared is a quest for level 30-35 in Uldum. It is step 53 of 101 in the Uldum storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Uldum at 64.5, 28.0. It rewards 3 reward items, 4,800 experience and money.
Description
Every adventurer worth their salt knows never to step foot in a cave, dungeon, crypt or tomb without an ample supply of rope... right?
You can never have too much of this stuff!
You resolve to scrounging every scrap of it you can find from the skeletons here.
When you hand them back to Harrison, who gives you no further clue as to what to do next, you will be forgiven for getting confused. There's a corpse to the... south-east corner? of the room that will start Schnottz Scout.
Don't be a dummy and fly around for 30 minutes, like I did, looking for skeletons. Walk on the ground on your mount, and look for skeletons that are lying dead in the corner. The skeletons you need to kill will only spawn if you are near them.
On a side note, why doesn't Jones have rope? Why do you need to go get it?
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.
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.
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Uldum, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Uldum:
Ramkahen, UldumAlliance and Horde · about 560 yards south-west
Dawnrise Expedition, TanarisHorde · about 960 yards east
Gunstan's Dig, TanarisAlliance · about 1,400 yards east
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
Objective areaabout 90 yards south
Objective areaabout 240 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.
What a find! And somehow it's all remained untouched by plunderers... Listen, <name>. I need to document this site before we disturb anything. While I do, why don't you have a look around - you know, explore a bit. You've earned it. Keep your eyes open for anything unusual. Oh! And please...
This unfortunate explorer has clearly suffered a bit of bad luck in the recent past. Prudence dictates that you perform the unenviable task of searching the corpse for clues that might shed light on your surroundings...
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 Be Prepared. They differ in the rewards shown here.
Quest
Rewards
ID
Be Prepared (this page)
4,800 XP, Femurbreak Stompers, Helm of Broken Bones, Rope-Grip Gloves
TheWoWDB
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