TheWoWDByou must be to the wood platform and use [Gut Bomb] then will blow and you can loot the fish
Quest
Boom Bait
A World of Warcraft quest in The Jade Forest. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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This quest really should have been named Redneck Fishin'...
More specifically, the Hozu Wharf being the dock when you go down to the Murky bank. I just stood at the end of it and used the bait bomb.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-35
ZoneThe Jade Forest
Quest ID29939
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(29939))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineThe Jade Forest, Strange Bedfellows & Grookin Hill, step 17 of 24
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Description
There. I've plastered your bird guts over my explosives. I call 'em Gut Bombs, patent pending. Since you made friends with these fellas, how about you do the honors? Just light the fuse and throw 'em down by the shoreline!
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #371 27.3 50.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Jade Forest 27.3, 50.8
/way #371 27.3 50.8 - Objective areaThe Jade Forest 26.9, 55.1
/way #371 26.9 55.1 - Objective areaThe Jade Forest 27.4, 50.9
/way #371 27.4 50.9
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 The Jade Forest map
- A Drink with Kalecgos about 1,340 yards
- Warm Winds and Water about 1,380 yards
- Carp Care about 1,380 yards
- Local Deliveries about 1,380 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,400 yards
- The Splintered Path about 1,440 yards
- Unbound about 1,440 yards
- Maul Gormal about 1,440 yards
- Perfection about 1,450 yards
- Attention about 1,450 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Jade Forest, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Jade Forest:
- Grookin Hill, Jade Forest
- Tavern in the Mists, The Veiled Stair
- Pang's Stead, Valley of the Four Winds
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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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Reward details
Reputation: Forest Hozen +500
A spirited, violent, and short-lived race of monkey people
Reputation group: Mists of Pandaria.
Other quests in The Jade Forest that reward Forest Hozen reputation: Swallowed Whole (+200), Catch and Release! (+42,999), Kill Kher Shan (+300), The Bees' Knees (+500), Furious Fowl (+3,000), Friends and Foes (+75).
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
The Jade Forest, Strange Bedfellows & Grookin Hill
Part 17 of 24.
Previous: Silly Wikket, Slickies are for Hozen · Next: What's in a Name Name?
- 12Orders are Orders
- 13Instant Messaging
- 14Beyond the Horizon
- 15Furious Fowl
- 16Silly Wikket, Slickies are for Hozen
- 17Boom Bait
- 18What's in a Name Name?
- 19Scouting Report: Hostile Natives
- 20Scouting Report: On the Right Track
- 21Scouting Report: The Friend of My Enemy
- 22Scouting Report: Like Jinyu in a Barrel
- 23Green-ish Energy
Showing steps 12 to 23 of 24.
Also part of: The Jade Forest (part 36 of 83).
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.
- Silly Wikket, Slickies are for Hozen
You think hozen crazy, wikket? Wait til you see hozen with no slickies! Not enough slickies for hozen and wikkets. Snappers! Hozen hate them ookin' snappers. Wikkets can eat all the snappers! <Eekle Eekle points to the south.>
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- What's in a Name Name?
So, you wanna be a hozen. Huh, wikket? Hozen defend their lands from enemies, like jinyu. Kah Kah fought many jinyu fights, and won them all. Hozen only give name name to good grookers. Go grook jinyu and maybe they call you <name> <name>. Jinyu creepin' down by the river. Ook 'em in the dooker!
Quests that require this one
The storyline at a glance
The Jade Forest, Strange Bedfellows & Grookin Hill has 24 steps, from Nazgrim's Command to Boom Goes the Doonamite!.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Jade Forest (24).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on The Jade Forest map
- The Jade Forest, Dawn's Blossom & Tian Monastery & Nectarbreeze Village
- The Jade Forest, Greenstone Quarry & Terrace of Ten Thunders & The Jade Serpent
- The Jade Forest, The White Pawn & Pearlfin Village
- The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village
- Mists of Pandaria
- Order of the Cloud Serpent
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.