Quest

Bombs Away: Windshear Mine!

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

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7084092010-11-25T09:10:34-06:00+7via Wowhead

Completing this will also unlock Windshear Mine Cleanup if you have done
Hellscream's Legacy.

Techhead78902013-12-24T22:18:27-06:00+5via Wowhead

In my experience this quest is bugged to not autoaccept, and I had to pick this up manually from Prof Xakxak after finishing Burn Baby Burn. And *then* I had to head back down to Windshear a second time for that quest. Caused me a great deal of annoyance, but YMMV.

Whiterock2010-12-05T15:22:16-06:00+3via Wowhead

CHASING THE BOMB Quest Tree From Whiterock

1)They Took Our Gnomes*
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 | 1)Ze Gnomecorder* 1)The Goblin Braintrust*
 |__|_________________|
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2)Do Yourself a Favor
2)The Only Way Down is in a Body Bag
1)Return to Stardust-->2)Hellscream's Legacy
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2)Field Test: Gnomecorder
2)Burn, Baby, Burn!
2)Bombs Away: Windshear Mine!
 |                     |->2)Don't Look Them in the Eyes
2)Illegible Orc Letter |->2)Windshear Mine Cleanup
2)Minx'll Fix It
2)Orders from High Command
2)Commandeer That Balloon!-->2)Just Ask Alice
 |->1)Gerenzo the Traitor    2)Mr. P's Wild Ride
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2)Free Our Sisters              1)BEWARE OF CRAGJAW!
2)Rumble in the Lumber... Mill
 |  |               |->3)Preparations for the Future
 |  |               |
 | 3)Arcane Legacy 3)Capturing Memories
 |  |              /
 | 2)Fallowmere Beckons
 | 4)Bombs Away: Mirkfallon Post!
 |  |                    |->4)Schemin' That Sabotage
 | 4)Gnome on the Inside |->4)The Lumbering Oaf Problem
 | 4)It's Up There!
 | 4)No Time for Goodbyes!
 | 1)Warn Master Thal'darah
 | 6)Save the Children!
 | 6)Last Ditch Effort
 |  |->5)Back to the Depths!
 |  |->5)Putting Them to Rest
 |  |->5)Seen Better Days        Help for Desolace*
 |  |
 | 1)Thal'darah's Vengeance
 |  |                   |->7)Hungry Pups
 | 7)Ascending the Vale |->7)World First: Gnomegen
 | 7)Brood of Seldarria
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3)If the Horde Don't Get You...
1)Tell 'Em Koko Sent You
8)The Deep Reaches
 |_________________________________________
 |                 |                      |
8)Shuttin Her Down |        8)Leave No Man Behind!
 |                /                       |
 | 8)They Put the Assass in... Never Mind |
 | 8)Is This Thing On?                    |
 |___|____________________________________|
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1)A Special Kind of Job
1)Death by Proxy
1)A Proper Peace Offerin'
9)Sating the Savage Beast
1)Terms of Service-->8)The Unrelenting Horde
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8)Armaments for War
9)Grundig Darkcloud, Chieftain of the Grimtotem
9)Grimtotem Supremacy
9)Downfall
1)Dances with Grimtotem
1)All's Clear

D)Thinning the Horde(Not aviable?)
Hero's Call: Stonetalon Mountains!(WTB info)
They Set Them Up The Bomb!(Ashenvale quest)
Quest zones:
1)Unique zones_____2)Windshear Crag+Windshear Mine_____3)Ruins of Eldre'thar+Webwinder Hollow_____4)The Sludgewerks_____5)Stonetalon Peak_____6)Thal'darah Grove_____7)The Charred Vale_____8)The Deep Reaches+Unearthed Grounds_____9)Camp Aparaje+Grimtotem Post
D)Daily_____G)Gluing Separate Questlines
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
Stonetalon Mountains(Alliance) is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Stonetalon Mountains zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking. Special thanks to Ravenhurst.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30

ZoneStonetalon Mountains

LocationStonetalon Mountains, Ashenvale

Quest ID25640

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25640))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

WhereStonetalon Mountains, Ashenvale

StorylineStonetalon Mountains, Alliance, step 9 of 48

Rewards525 XP

Description

Ve have discovered ze vhereabouts of ze gigantic goblin bomb zat you discovered at Silvervind Refuge. You remember Boog? Ze gnome you rescued from ze orcish vagon of agony? Vell, he and Minx have tracked ze bomb down to Windshear Mine. Go zhere immediately, {name}! Zey'll be expecting you.

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.

Ashenvale map showing where to go for Bombs Away: Windshear Mine! — **Ashenvale** Objective area 1 mapped point

Coordinates

Turn-inStonetalon Mountains 72.5, 61.5/way #65 72.5 61.5
Objective areaAshenvale 35.4, 71.1/way #63 35.4 71.1

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 Stonetalon Mountains map

Desecrate this Fire! about 1,150 yards
A Small Retreat about 1,380 yards
Crossing Over about 1,380 yards
Honor the Flame about 1,430 yards
The Karnitol Shipwreck about 1,830 yards

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

Getting there

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

Northwatch Expedition Base Camp, Stonetalon MountainsAlliance · about 750 yards south
Windshear Hold, Stonetalon MountainsAlliance · about 860 yards west
Stardust Spire, AshenvaleAlliance · about 920 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 960 yards north (on the Ashenvale map)

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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Experience525 XP

ReputationDarnassus +10, Gnomeregan +10

Other quests on the Stonetalon Mountains map

Reward details

Reputation: Darnassus +10

This Alliance capital is populated by Night Elves and is located in the Island of Teldrassil. Ruled by the Priestess of the Moon, Tyrande Whisperwind.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Stonetalon Mountains that reward Darnassus reputation: Do Yourself a Favor (+10), The Only Way Down is in a Body Bag (+250), Return to Stardust (+10), Hellscream's Legacy (+250), Field Test: Gnomecorder (+25), Burn, Baby, Burn! (+250).

Reputation: Gnomeregan +10

The former denizens of Gnomeregan, now living in New Tinkertown and in league with the Alliance.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Stonetalon Mountains that reward Gnomeregan reputation: Do Yourself a Favor (+10), The Only Way Down is in a Body Bag (+250), Return to Stardust (+10), Hellscream's Legacy (+250), Field Test: Gnomecorder (+25), Burn, Baby, Burn! (+250).

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

Stonetalon Mountains, Alliance

Part 9 of 48.

Previous: Burn, Baby, Burn! · Next: Don't Look Them in the Eyes

Showing steps 4 to 15 of 48.

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.

Burn, Baby, Burn!Stonetalon Mountains · Level 10-30
Deze orc incinerators zat burn ze forest carry viz zem powerful veaponry! You must kill zem and take zhere flame thrower. Vonce you have ze flame thrower, search ze forest for varsong stockpilez and use ze flame thrower to burn zem down! Burn zem all and I vill reward you!

After this quest