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Defend the Drill (Alliance)

Defend the Drill is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Thousand Needles. It is step 46 of 107 in the Thousand Needles storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Thousand Needles at 91.4, 57.8. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

I'm not leaving here empty-handed! Are you?

I bet you were wondering what's in the giant crate. Well, wait no longer. I want you to take one of our drilling rigs to the oil pools and pump us up some crude.

Of course, you should expect the centaurs to attack. Just defend the drill long enough for us to get a barrel or two out of the ground.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationGnomeregan +250
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationGnomeregan+250

Reward details

Reputation: Gnomeregan +250

The former denizens of Gnomeregan, now living in New Tinkertown and in league with the Alliance.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Thousand Needles that reward Gnomeregan reputation: Two If By Boat (+25), Do Me a Favor? (+25), Down in the Deeps (+250), Bar Fight! (+250), In the Outhouse (+250), Pirate Accuracy Increasing (+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 mapThousand NeedlesTurn-in marker at 91.4, 57.8, 2 mapped points
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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.

Thousand Needles Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Thousand Needles map showing where to go for Defend the DrillTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #64 91.4 57.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThousand Needles 91.4, 57.8/way #64 91.4 57.8
  • Objective areaThousand Needles 90.1, 49.7/way #64 90.1 49.7

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 Thousand Needles map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Thousand Needles:

  • Fizzle & Pozzik's Speedbarge, Thousand NeedlesAlliance and Horde · about 680 yards south-west
  • Mudsprocket, Dustwallow MarshAlliance and Horde · about 1,600 yards north-west
  • Gadgetzan, TanarisAlliance · about 1,700 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 240 yards north

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

Thousand Needles

Part 46 of 107.

Previous: Eminent Domain · Next: Defend the Drill

  1. 42Back to Crazzle
  2. 43Back to Riznek
  3. 44Eminent Domain
  4. 45Eminent Domain
  5. 46Defend the Drill
  6. 47Defend the Drill
  7. 48Go Blow that Horn
  8. 49Go Blow that Horn
  9. 50Deliver the Goods
  10. 51Deliver the Goods
  11. 52Special Delivery for Brivelthwerp

Showing steps 41 to 52 of 107.

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.

  • Eminent DomainThousand Needles · Level 15-30

    It is our destiny to take this oil. Unfortunate that the centaur retreated to here when the sea rushed in. Unfortunate for them, that is. They've spit in our faces, <name>. We made them a generous offer and they made the mistake of not accepting. Now we...

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Go Blow that HornThousand Needles · Level 15-30

    That old, bitter centaur, Skycaller Vrakthris, mentioned a great air spirit that the centaur worship. To secure the Heights, the last step is for us to deal with this thing. I've seen them blow the giant horn at the top of the hill up there and an air elemental came down.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Thousand Needles · Level 15-30.

The storyline at a glance

Thousand Needles has 107 steps, from The Grimtotem are Coming to Spread the Word.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Thousand Needles (106), Feralas (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Thousand Needles 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 Defend the Drill. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Defend the Drill (this page)Alliance25798
Defend the DrillHorde25799
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