TheWoWDBOn the first ship, right under the deck between all the cannons.
Quest
Going Off-Task
A World of Warcraft quest in Tanaris. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Whenever I step onto the boat I pull about 4 of them within 10 seconds or so. I've died on 3 attempts so far.
Warning: Very slow respawn rate. If he's not there and you have other quests in the area, go do them first. I waited for 10 minutes or so before he respawned, and I don't even know how long before that he was killed.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneTanaris
Quest ID26886
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26886))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineTanaris, step 7 of 48
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
That nasty ship on the east side of the cove keeps firing its cannons at us. It's kinda funny seeing all the goblins get hit by cannonballs, but some of my gnome friends are being hit too! It'd be really, really nice if you could make your way past those cannons and onto the ship. There's a mean ol' taskmaster yelling at the other deckhands in there, and I'm sure if you beat him up or kill him, they'll stop shooting at us!
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 #71 72.2 45.2
Coordinates
- Turn-inTanaris 72.2, 45.2
/way #71 72.2 45.2 - Objective areaTanaris 74.6, 45.5
/way #71 74.6 45.5
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 Tanaris map
- The Great Detective about 710 yards
- Warn the Detective about 710 yards
- Toy Trouble about 710 yards
- The Final Toy about 710 yards
- Secret in the Sands about 710 yards
- Festive Reflections about 710 yards
- Short Circuit about 1,130 yards
- Tearing at the Seams about 1,230 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,580 yards
- Orders of Magnitude about 1,650 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Tanaris, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Tanaris:
- Bootlegger Outpost, Tanaris
- Gadgetzan, Tanaris
- Fizzle & Pozzik's Speedbarge, Thousand Needles
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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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 Tanaris that reward Gnomeregan reputation: Seaside Salvage (+250), Puddle Stomping (+250), Rocket Rescue (+250), Lootin' Plunder (+250), What We Came For (+250), You Too, Brute? (+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.
Storyline
Tanaris
Part 7 of 48.
Previous: Lootin' Plunder · Next: Filling Our Pockets
- 2Puddle Stomping
- 3Rocket Rescue
- 4Dead Man's Chest
- 5To The Ground!
- 6Lootin' Plunder
- 7Going Off-Task
- 8Filling Our Pockets
- 9Captain Dreadbeard
- 10All Cheered Out
- 11Seaside Salvage
- 12Puddle Stomping
- 13Rocket Rescue
Showing steps 2 to 13 of 48.
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.
- Lootin' Plunder
It's just really so wasteful that all these pirates have golden treasures lying around. Some of this stuff could be used for practical things! Like melting into wire, or intrinsic shielding matrices, or selling to other stupid races that buy gold just to keep it around.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Filling Our Pockets
I know we're here to make friends with the Steamwheedle goblins, but those awful Bilgewater goblins are so rude. Why, I just saw a bunch of them pulling gold fillings out of the teeth of the Southsea musketeers and strongarms. Do they think they can just take that for themselves?
Quests that require this one
Other quests with this name
This one: Alliance only · Tanaris · Level 15-30.
The storyline at a glance
Tanaris has 48 steps, from Seaside Salvage to The Grand Tablet.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Tanaris (48).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Tanaris map
- Suspicious Munitions
- Warbanding Together
- Bronze Reconciliation
- Cataclysm Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
- Legion Engineering
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.