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Cutting Losses

Cutting Losses is a quest for level 15-30 in Tanaris. It is step 21 of 48 in the Tanaris storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Tanaris at 55.6, 60.9. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

I've spent the last week starin' at this ugly pit trying to think of how to exploit a bunch of dangerous, violent arthropods for profit. Now I'm out of ideas, and starving.

These things are a wash, and I say it's time to start clearing them out. Head down into that pit and start killin' bugs.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Top Comments

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1046761+2via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

It was a little more complicated for me than just starting at the Dead Man's Chest Quest.
I did this quest on a Draenei neutral with the questgiver and I had to start all the way
back at:

Seaside Salvage and Puddle Stomping
I had to do both of these quests to proceed on to
Rocket Rescue and the subsequent Momentum
which opened up the quest line beginning with
Dead Man's Chest which eventually opened up this quest line.

PHEW!
And I did it all for ( Don't you judge me!) ... [item=56852] :)

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapTanarisTurn-in marker at 55.6, 60.9, 13 mapped points
Objective areaCaverns of Time
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.

Tanaris Quest turn-in 13 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #71 55.6 60.9

Caverns of Time Objective area

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTanaris 55.6, 60.9/way #71 55.6 60.9
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Tanaris 54.1, 69.3/way #71 54.1 69.3

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 Tanaris map

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

Getting there

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

  • Bootlegger Outpost, TanarisAlliance and Horde · about 20 yards north-east
  • Gunstan's Dig, TanarisAlliance · about 1,400 yards south-west
  • Gadgetzan, TanarisAlliance · about 1,500 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 420 yards south

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

Tanaris

Part 21 of 48.

Previous: Bootlegger Outpost · Next: Chicken of the Desert

  1. 16Booty Duty
  2. 17Going Off-Task
  3. 18Filling Our Pockets
  4. 19Captain Dreadbeard
  5. 20Bootlegger Outpost
  6. 21Cutting Losses
  7. 22Chicken of the Desert
  8. 23A Great Idea
  9. 24Just Trying to Kill Some Bugs
  10. 25Define "Crazy"
  11. 26What We Came For
  12. 27Terrapination

Showing steps 16 to 27 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.

  • Bootlegger OutpostTanaris · Level 15-30

    We've done a bang up job here. I'm gonna make sure these mooks finish properly and then head back to Gadgetzan for a bit. If you want to keep making a good impression on our Steamwheedle friends, or just make more money, you should head southwest of here.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Chicken of the DesertTanaris · Level 15-30

    I've got an idea, but we're going to need bait. The other day I saw a rabid blisterpaw hyena wander too close to the edge of the chasm, and one of the silithid comes diving out of nowhere. Nearly swallowed it whole! Horrible sight. So we're gonna need hyena meat, obviously.

The storyline at a glance

Tanaris has 48 steps, from Seaside Salvage to The Grand Tablet.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Tanaris (48).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Tanaris map

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.

Related
Cutter
Cutthroat Business Practices
Cutting a Key
Cutting a Path
Cutting off the Head
Cutting off the Heads
Cutting Off the Legs
Cutting Off the Source
Database

Quest Location and Connections

More Quests in Tanaris

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