TheWoWDBSTILL a bit buggy the better part of a decade later... While your spider doesn't need to get the killing blow, it does appear to have to attack the murloc. One of the spider's attacks looks like a shadowbolt-type thing, and sometimes I would kill the murlocs before it got a cast off if I wasn't careful. This could account for the kills it didn't eat before I started paying closer attention.
Just keep an eye on the spider and make sure it gets a couple of attacks in and you should be good to go.
Quest
Coastal Delicacies!
A World of Warcraft quest in Hillsbrad Foothills. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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I don't know about anyone else, but this quest was a bit buggy for me. My spider wouldn't eat certain murlocs, even if I stood right next to it. And yes, I killed them myself, your spider won't eat other peoples murlocs.
If any hunters are having issues with this quest like I did, dismiss your pet first. For some reason, the spider will only sometimes eat the corpses if your pet is out.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 7-30
Quest ID28146
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28146))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineHillsbrad Foothills, step 4 of 39
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
My spiders are hungry and agitated! They haven't eaten for days and are starting to sample our human captives. We can't have that. We need those humans for use in the Sludge Fields. I want you to take one of my hungry mine spiders out and feed it murlocs from the Western Strand, south of here. Whatever you kill, it'll eat! The more the better!
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #25 33.3 73.6
Coordinates
- Turn-inHillsbrad Foothills 33.3, 73.6
/way #25 33.3 73.6 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Hillsbrad Foothills 34.6, 80.1
/way #25 34.6 80.1
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 Hillsbrad Foothills map
- An Unexpected Message about 1,200 yards
- The Path of Atonement about 1,200 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,290 yards
- Clearing the Highlands about 1,820 yards
- Alina's Reward about 1,820 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Hillsbrad Foothills, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Hillsbrad Foothills:
- Southpoint Gate, Hillsbrad
- Ruins of Southshore, Hillsbrad
- 12.1 Ulatek - Faction Feature - Temple - Traversal - Flight Master - Eastern Entrance (HCR)
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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Other quests on the Hillsbrad Foothills map
Reward details
Reputation: Undercity +250
Led by Sylvanas Windrunner, the Forsaken have joined a tenuous alliance with the Horde and established this capital in the vast depths under the Ruins of Lordaeron.
Reputation group: Horde.
Other quests in Hillsbrad Foothills that reward Undercity reputation: Empire of Dirt (+250), Warchief's Command: Hillsbrad Foothills! (+250), Welcome to the Machine (+250), Trouble at Azurelode (+10), Glorious Harvest (+250), Past Their Prime (+350).
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
Hillsbrad Foothills
Part 4 of 39.
Previous: Thieving Little Monsters! · Next: Deep Mine Rescue
- 1Welcome to the Machine
- 2Human Infestation
- 3Thieving Little Monsters!
- 4Coastal Delicacies!
- 5Deep Mine Rescue
- 6No One Here Gets Out Alive
- 7Discretion is Key
- 8For Science!
- 9The Battle for Hillsbrad
- 10A Lost Lad
- 11Freedom for Lydon
- 12Protocol
Showing steps 1 to 12 of 39.
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.
- Thieving Little Monsters!
The long stretch of coastline directly south of our position that extends from west to east is known as the Western Strand.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Deep Mine Rescue
<You can hear Dumass speaking through the webbing.> HI! SPIDERS EVERYWHERE! THE CAPTAIN SENT ME TO SAVE THE WORLD AND CAPTURE HUMANS! WHAT IS THIS PLACE ANYWAY? IT'S SO HOT! I... <Dumass goes on and on about his situation.> Perhaps you should cut him free and get him back to safety.
Also counted by Hillsbrad Foothills Quests
Its criteria name 9 quests; others include:
- Human Infestation
- Thieving Little Monsters!
- Deep Mine Rescue
- A Blight Upon the Land
- Stormpike Apocalypse
- Extinction
- Silence of the Dwarves
- The Durnholde Challenge: D-1000
The storyline at a glance
Hillsbrad Foothills has 39 steps, from Welcome to the Machine to Extinction.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Hillsbrad Foothills (39).
Other storylines on the Hillsbrad Foothills map
- Arathi Highlands
- Felo'melorn
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.
- Hillsbrad Foothills Quests: its criteria name 9 quests, this one included.