TheWoWDBI had some reservation with this quest. Lore-wise, it makes you look very bad. If WoW ever keeps a player level alignment of good and evil then this would definitely not be a good. However, with the questline so linear, I would be missing out on a lot if this wasn't finished.
Also even though they turned aggro, it doesn't matter after 10 levels, it's still a walk in the park through their camp. :)
Quest
Fake Gold for Black Gold
A World of Warcraft quest in Thousand Needles. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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After you turn this in he yells to his people to kill you for trying to give them fake gold. Obviously Skycaller Vrakthris doesn't pay any mind to that, as he still lets you turn in the Fake Gold for Black Gold quest, even though the rest of the village is hostile to you.
Be warned that completing this quest will turn all of the centaur on the crag (with the exception of the khan you turn the quest into) from Neutral to Hostile.
There are no spawns in range of the questgiver, i.e. you will not be attacked immediately upon turning in as long as you don't exit the tent... but be prepared to fight your way out; there will be no more breezy, aggro-free sauntering through the area. Unless you're a Rogue like me. ;-)
Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneThousand Needles
Quest ID25778
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25778))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineThousand Needles, step 40 of 107
Rewards1g 5s, 525 XP
Description
Now that the "gold" is ready, I want you to take it up to Khan Ablinh. He'll be so overwhelmed, I bet he'll offer to help us setup the drilling rigs. We could use the horsepower. Haha, get it? Horsepower?
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #64 91.3 53.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inThousand Needles 91.3, 53.8
/way #64 91.3 53.8 - Objective areaThousand Needles 91.4, 57.8
/way #64 91.4 57.8
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
- The Power of Thousands about 2,180 yards
- The Crone's Wrath about 2,460 yards
- Snakes and Stones about 2,460 yards
- Breaking Chains about 2,460 yards
- Battle Pet Tamers: Kalimdor about 2,690 yards
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 Needles
- Mudsprocket, Dustwallow Marsh
- Theramore, Dustwallow Marsh
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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Money1 gold5 silver
Experience525 XP
Other quests on the Thousand Needles map
Storyline
Thousand Needles
Part 40 of 107.
Previous: Fool's Gold · Next: Back to Crazzle
- 35Get Zherin!
- 36Get Koalbeard!
- 37The Ancient Brazier
- 38Fool's Gold
- 39Fool's Gold
- 40Fake Gold for Black Gold
- 42Back to Crazzle
- 43Back to Riznek
- 44Eminent Domain
- 45Eminent Domain
- 46Defend the Drill
Showing steps 35 to 46 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.
- Fool's Gold
We definitely DO NOT have the kind of gold that the Alliance is offering. <name>, we have to do something or we're not going to be able to get those drilling rights! Wait a minute! There was this report from an underwater survey that we did right after the Cataclysm struck.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Back to Crazzle
I am NOT stupid! Go back to your master and tell him that there will be NO deal! That is, if you can survive to make it back to him.
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
- The Elemental Lords IV
- Battle Pet Tamers
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.