TheWoWDBAfter receiving this quest, I went to the area marked on my map to talk to Solog Roark. He wouldn't do anything for me. You have to learn the blueprint for the ship first and then he will begin construction on your destroyer.
The blueprint is in your bags. I guess I should read the quest text better in the future.
Quest
Destroying the Competition
A World of Warcraft quest in Frostfire Ridge. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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You can save the Destroyer you build by learning the Battleship Plans early since it can be bought right away due to a hotfix. Before building the Destroyer, build a Battleship. Afterwards, you can build your Destroyer but do not send it on the mission at all. The mission is rigged to only sink a specifically named Destroyer (in this case, Durotan's Pride) and all other ships sent, regardless of completion %, will survive. By doing this, you'll finish the Shipyard tutorial with 4 ships instead of 2.
Apparently, the naval mission that you start with this quest (the first one with your Destroyer) is scripted to fail.
The mission will show an 86% success chance and will display a warning about your ships being permanently destroyed. If you are worried like I was, don't be.
The mission will always fail no matter what, and your Destroyer will be... well, destroyed! But fear not, the very next quest in the chain allows you to build another Destroyer, this one of Rare quality, which will now give 100% success chance on the naval mission.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 40
ZoneFrostfire Ridge
Quest ID39401
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(39401))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
One battle does not win the war, Commander. That Transport isn't gonna hold up long against this Iron Horde navy. We are going to need another ship. Lucky for us, a local smuggler has supplied us with the plans we need to build Destroyers. We should construct one of these ships immediately!
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #525 41.6 72.3
Coordinates
- Turn-inFrostfire Ridge 41.6, 72.3
/way #525 41.6 72.3 - Objective areaFrostfire Ridge 41.6, 71.1
/way #525 41.6 71.1
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 Frostfire Ridge map
- Naval Commander same spot
- Upgrading The Fleet about 60 yards
- Naval Domination about 60 yards
- If At First You Fail, Try Again! about 60 yards
- A True Naval Commander about 60 yards
- Equipping Our Fleet about 90 yards
- All Hands on Deck about 100 yards
- Let's Get To Work about 100 yards
- Shipbuilding about 100 yards
- Ship Shape about 100 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Frostfire Ridge, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Frostfire Ridge:
- Frostwall Garrison, Frostfire Ridge
- Stonefang Outpost, Frostfire Ridge
- Wor'gol, Frostfire Ridge
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- 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 Frostfire Ridge map
Reward details
Currency: Garrison Resources x 50
Earn resources to build-up and expand your garrison.
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 this quest fits
Other quests with this name
This one: Horde only · Frostfire Ridge · Level 40.
Other storylines on the Frostfire Ridge map
- Thunder's Fall
- Foothold in a Savage Land
- On the Shadow's Trail
- Garrison Campaign
- Ga'nar's Vengeance
- Defense of Wor'gol
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.