Quest

Bolas Bastion

A World of Warcraft quest in Highmountain. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Alpheratz2016-09-07T00:28:59-05:00+23via Wowhead

If your health drops to 0 while inside the vehicle, you will die. Be careful

medahre2016-07-15T15:56:57-05:00+19via Wowhead

This quest may also bug out in the way that when started, you'll see an army flying against you but the bolas hardly do any damage. I this happen, try to leave and re-enter the vehicle(for me it solved itself by me dying).
Normally the harpies comes on pairs first and then more and more, and the bolas one-shot them.

Leviatharan2016-06-18T21:12:33-05:00+11via Wowhead

Two things:

The blue rocs sometimes require two shots to kill; you may end up shooting one only to see it shrug it off, or get very close and then descend on the town out of view.

There appears to be a maximum distance at which you actually get credit for kills with the launcher; half the times your kills don't actually count, partly because the targets may have been simultaneously killed by the NPC.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-45

ZoneHighmountain

LocationHighmountain, Thunder Totem

Quest ID42630

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(42630))

What to do

WhereHighmountain, Thunder Totem

StorylineThunder Totem Troubles, step 1 of 3

Rewards20g 22s, 6,150 XP

Description

I received word that a coven of harpies and their rocs plan to attack in force. They'll be coming from the mountains to the north. Use one of the bolas launchers and I'll man the other. Quick!

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.

Thunder Totem Objective area no plotted point

Coordinates

Turn-inHighmountain 46.5, 59.5/way #650 46.5 59.5
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Highmountain 47.7, 59.7/way #650 47.7 59.7
Objective areaHighmountain 46.6, 59.4/way #650 46.6 59.4

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 Highmountain map

Strong Like the Earth about 50 yards
Waste Not about 50 yards
Thunder Struck about 50 yards
History of Highmountain about 50 yards
A New Lead about 50 yards
The Right Path about 50 yards
Surveying Student about 50 yards
Neltharion's Lair: Misdirected about 50 yards
Crystal Eyes about 50 yards
Drogbar Deception about 50 yards

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Highmountain:

Thunder Totem, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 20 yards east
Nesingwary's Retreat, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 550 yards north-west
Skyhorn, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 800 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 80 yards 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.

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Money20 gold22 silver

Experience6,150 XP

ReputationHighmountain Tribe +250

Other quests on the Highmountain map

Reward details

Reputation: Highmountain Tribe +250

The Highmountain Tribe has dwindled in numbers over the years, and with the drogbar threat looming, seek new allies to save their homeland.

Reputation group: Legion.

Other quests in Highmountain that reward Highmountain Tribe reputation: Get to High Ground (+250), Rocs vs Eagles (+150), The Skyhorn Tribe (+10), Battle of Snowblind Mesa (+150), Secrets of Highmountain (+150), Grasp of the Underking (+150).

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.

Storyline

Thunder Totem Troubles

Part 1 of 3.

Next: Ceremonial Drums

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

Ceremonial DrumsHighmountain · Level 10-45
Those foolish calves! They've made off with our ceremonial drums again, treating them as toys... as... common drums! Can you help me find them? They must be scattered to all corners of Thunder Totem by now, discarded as soon as the fun dries up.

The storyline at a glance

Thunder Totem Troubles has 3 steps, from Bolas Bastion to Mountainstrider Round-Up.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Highmountain (3).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Sojourner of Highmountain Complete the Highmountain local storylines listed below with a Timerunner.

Other storylines on the Highmountain map

Legion Blacksmithing42 steps, starts with Strange New Ores
The Bloodtotem Tribe14 steps, starts with The Bloodtotem Tribe
Rivermane Tribe13 steps, starts with Keepers of the Hammer
Allies of the Horde: Highmountain18 steps, starts with Walking in Their Footsteps
Legion Leatherworking45 steps, starts with Skin Deep
Snowblind Mesa10 steps, starts with Battle of Snowblind Mesa

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.