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Falling Down

Falling Down is a quest for level 30-35 in Dread Wastes, added in Mists of Pandaria. It is step 1 of 58 in the Dread Wastes storyline, the opening step. The quest's turn-in marker is in Dread Wastes at 72.6, 28.7. It rewards 4,800 experience and money.

Description

It's bad enough trying to hold off the mantid, but now we've got spiders swarming up from the ruins below.

One of my best marksmen caught a blast of webbing around his leg and got pulled straight down!

We think he's alive, but I don't have the manpower to send anyone in after him. We're stretched thin up here, <class>.

If you want to help, use the rope behind me to drop down into the ruins. You're not afraid of heights are you?

How about spiders?

Rewards

You will receive:

Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
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The Truth Behind this Quest:

Adventurer A comes up to Bowmistress Li due to one of the many breadcrumb quests. "A volunteer for Dread Wastes duty? I think you might be the first. Pleased to meet you. One of my best marksmen caught a blast of webbing around his leg and got pulled straight down! Please save him!"

Adventurer A goes down the rope, where he rescues Marksman Lann. Marksman Lann points him to the Psycho Mantid fighting in the cave, and returns to his post, where he is greeted by Bowmistress Li. "Where is Adventurer A?" she asks. "There were some Mantid fighting that he wished to investigate," Marksman Lann replies. "I expect him back shortly."

Several hours pass.

Bowmistress Li returns to Marksman Lann. "Did he indicate he had any other plans?" Marksman Lann shakes his head. "No ... I hope I did not lead him to his death."
"You know what you have to do, right?" Marksman Lann nods. "I'll head down to look for him."

A few more hours pass.

Adventurer B comes up to Bowmistress Li due to one of the many breadcrumb quests. "A volunteer for Dread Wastes duty? I think you might be the first *COUGH*. Pleased to meet you. One of my best marksmen caught a blast of webbing around his leg ..."

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,800
MoneyGold13g 74s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapDread WastesTurn-in marker at 72.6, 28.7, 1 mapped point
Objective areaVale of Eternal Blossoms1 mapped point
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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.

Dread Wastes Quest turn-in 1 mapped point
Dread Wastes map showing where to go for Falling DownTurn-in

In-game waypoint: /way #422 72.6 28.7

Vale of Eternal Blossoms Objective area 1 mapped point
Vale of Eternal Blossoms map showing where to go for Falling DownObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #390 14.1 77.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDread Wastes 72.6, 28.7/way #422 72.6 28.7
  • Objective areaVale of Eternal Blossoms 14.1, 77.0/way #390 14.1 77.0

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 Dread Wastes map

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

Getting there

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

  • The Lion's Redoubt, Dread WastesAlliance · about 170 yards south
  • Serpent's Spine, Vale of Eternal BlossomsAlliance and Horde · about 260 yards north-east
  • Stoneplow, Valley of the Four WindsAlliance and Horde · about 910 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 290 yards north-east (on the Vale of Eternal Blossoms map)

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.

Build history

First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight patch 12.0.7, the oldest build in our datamine).

Quest Line

Storyline

Dread Wastes

Part 1 of 58.

Next: Nope

  1. 1Falling Down
  2. 2Nope
  3. 3Psycho Mantid
  4. 4Preserved in Amber
  5. 5Wakening Sickness
  6. 6Ancient Vengeance
  7. 7The Klaxxi Council
  8. 8The Dread Clutches
  9. 9Not Fit to Swarm
  10. 10Dead Zone
  11. 11In Her Clutch
  12. 12A Cry From Darkness

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 58.

Also part of: Dread Wastes (part 1 of 72).

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • NopeDread Wastes · Level 30-35

    We're holding, but just barely. Anything you can do to stem the tide of dreadspinners coming up the wall would be a big help. Feel like tearing open spider eggs one at a time by hand? I didn't think so. Take one of our dragon guns and light it up down there. I wanna hear those puppies pop.

The storyline at a glance

Dread Wastes has 58 steps, from Falling Down to Mazu's Bounty.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dread Wastes (55), Vale of Eternal Blossoms (3).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Dread Wastes 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.

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Falling to Pieces
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False Flag
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