TheWoWDBIf you're wondering where the Broodmother is then you have to backtrack out of the main section and take a path downhill where all the insects are. The Broodmother spawns in one of the tunnels.
Quest
Bladefist Hold
A World of Warcraft quest in Spires of Arak. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Look in the holes in the ground for the broodmother.
For Tom tom users: /way Spires of Arak 30.0 31.6 Entrance to Brood Mother's Cave
Quest facts
Quest ID36792
The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(36792))
Objectives
- Defeat 40 targets in Spires of Arak
- Detonate Iron Grenades x 6
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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #542 30.0 30.1
Coordinates
- Objective areaSpires of Arak 30.0, 30.1
/way #542 30.0 30.1
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 Spires of Arak map
- Sol Sisters about 180 yards
- Shot-Caller about 340 yards
- Power Unearthed about 470 yards
- Legacy of the Apexis about 470 yards
- Hardly Working about 470 yards
- Hot Seat about 480 yards
- No Time to Waste about 810 yards
- I See Dead People about 880 yards
- Behind the Veil about 910 yards
- Blades in the Dark about 910 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Spires of Arak, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Spires of Arak:
- Apexis Excavation, Spires of Arak
- Axefall, Spires of Arak
- Veil Terokk, Spires of Arak
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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Other quests on the Spires of Arak map
Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Spires of Arak map
- Establishing Axefall
- Securing Southport
- Pinchwhistle Gearworks
- When the Raven Swallows the Day
- Secrets of the Talonpriests
- The Gods of Arak
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.
Achievements
Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.
- Arak Star: its criteria name 4 quests, this one included.