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Data Mining (Alliance)

Data Mining is an Alliance-only quest for level 25-30 in The Storm Peaks. It is step 23 of 113 in The Storm Peaks storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in The Storm Peaks at 39.4, 41.8. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

That disk you assembled... it's blank! That crafty Mimir must've hidden the information somewhere else. Look around the Inventor's Library; do you see any databanks there?

That might be what you need to do with the disk. Try using it near some of those databanks. Perhaps it's set to retrieve and store information from them. After you've tried your hand at that, contact me again and let me know what you've found. Meanwhile, I'll be trying to track down the other half of the archive key.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationExplorers' League +250
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
donquixote235+26via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I had the same problem many others have reported for this quest... using the disc would start an animation but then it would immediately finish, and nothing counted toward the quest.

First I tried flying out of the area and back in, same problem.

Second I tried logging out where I stood and then logging back in, same problem.

Finally I did both. I flew to the nearest innkeeper, logged out, logged back in, then flew back. Everything worked as soon as I did that.

3
narub+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

quest isnt bugged, due to lag it takes a while but your disk is indeed destroyed and replaced by another one with "use:"
Now that you have the disk completed just use it near the spheres floating where the gnomes where, they look like ww2 water mines exept that hover, cant miss them :P

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationExplorers' League+250

Reward details

Reputation: Explorers' League +250

This organization seeks to find the origin of the dwarven race by collecting Titan artifacts. Their most recent research has led them to various archeological sites in Northrend.

Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.

Other quests in The Storm Peaks that reward Explorers' League reputation: Sniffing Out the Perpetrator (+250), Pieces to the Puzzle (+250), Ancient Relics (+250), Norgannon's Shell (+250), The Master Explorer (+10), The Brothers Bronzebeard (+500).

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 mapThe Storm PeaksTurn-in marker at 39.4, 41.8, 9 mapped points
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.

The Storm Peaks Quest turn-in 9 mapped points
The Storm Peaks map showing where to go for Data MiningTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #120 39.4 41.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThe Storm Peaks 39.4, 41.8/way #120 39.4 41.8
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Storm Peaks 38.8, 41.7/way #120 38.8 41.7
  • Objective areaThe Storm Peaks 29.5, 73.9/way #120 29.5 73.9

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 Storm Peaks map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Storm Peaks:

  • Bouldercrag's Refuge, The Storm PeaksAlliance and Horde · about 680 yards west
  • Ulduar, The Storm PeaksAlliance and Horde · about 740 yards north-east
  • Frosthold, The Storm PeaksAlliance · about 1,700 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 40 yards west
  • Objective areaabout 1,700 yards south-west

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

The Storm Peaks

Part 23 of 113.

Previous: Pieces to the Puzzle · Next: The Library Console

  1. 18Baby Stealers
  2. 19Sirana Iceshriek
  3. 20On Brann's Trail
  4. 21Sniffing Out the Perpetrator
  5. 22Pieces to the Puzzle
  6. 23Data Mining
  7. 24The Library Console
  8. 25Norgannon's Shell
  9. 26The Missing Bronzebeard
  10. 27The Nose Knows
  11. 28Sniffing Out the Perpetrator
  12. 29Speak Orcish, Man!

Showing steps 18 to 29 of 113.

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.

  • Pieces to the PuzzleThe Storm Peaks · Level 25-30

    Thank the Light that someone got my message. Now that I'm safe from the iron dwarves, I need to ask your help with something. I've got a lead on Norgannon's keystone, which guards access to Ulduar's archives, but the Titans divided it into two pieces and secreted them away.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Library ConsoleThe Storm Peaks · Level 25-30

    Norgannon's shell is within our reach, <name>. Take the inventor's disk into the library's interior. There should be a console there that you can activate with the disk. I imagine Mimir stored more there than just Norgannon's shell.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · The Storm Peaks · Level 25-30.

  • Data MiningHorde only · The Storm Peaks · Level 25-30

The storyline at a glance

The Storm Peaks has 113 steps, from Clean Up to The Reckoning.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Storm Peaks (110), Zul'Drak (2), Crystalsong Forest (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on The Storm Peaks 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Data Mining. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Data Mining (this page)Alliance12860
Data MiningHorde12927
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