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Bombs Away: Windshear Mine!

Bombs Away: Windshear Mine! is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Stonetalon Mountains. It is step 9 of 48 in the Stonetalon Mountains, Alliance storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Stonetalon Mountains at 72.5, 61.5. It rewards 2 reputation rewards and 525 experience.

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.

Rewards

Experience525 XP

ReputationDarnassus +10, Gnomeregan +10

Top Comments

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708409Nov 25, 2010+7via Wowhead

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

Techhead7890Dec 24, 2013+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.

WhiterockDec 5, 2010+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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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	525
Reputation	Darnassus	+10
Reputation	Gnomeregan	+10

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.

Where it comes from

Turn-in map	Stonetalon Mountains	Turn-in marker at 72.5, 61.5, 1 mapped point
Objective area	Ashenvale	1 mapped point

World Map

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.

Quest Line

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

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

Don't Look Them in the EyesStonetalon Mountains · Level 10-30
Keep your head down, <name>. No need to draw unwanted attention. Looks like the orcs are piling that balloon up with some type of ore from the mine. Get in there and take the ore from the orcs. Bring me back whatever you manage to grab and I'll ship it off to the professor for examination.

The storyline at a glance

Stonetalon Mountains, Alliance has 48 steps, from They Took Our Gnomes to Dances with Grimtotem.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Stonetalon Mountains (43), Ashenvale (5).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Stonetalon Mountains Quests Complete the Stonetalon Mountains storylines listed below.

Other storylines on the Stonetalon Mountains map

Stonetalon Mountains, Horde32 steps, starts with We're Here to Do One Thing, Maybe Two...
Desolace63 steps, starts with Rerouted!
Tauren Heritage8 steps, starts with When Spirits Whisper
Battle Pet Tamers18 steps, starts with Zunta, The Pet Tamer

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.

Community notes from Wowhead · 10 comments

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Bolstering Bastion

Bolstering Your Arsenal

Bomb Beats Rock

Bombs Away: Mirkfallon Post!

Bombs, Away

Bonds Forged Through Battle

Bonds of Thunder

Bone Needle

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