The quest worked fine for me once I figured out how to do it. The text is poorly written and it apparently coincides with a different Grummle escort quest that appears to fit the text better… which makes it all very confusing.
If you head roughly NW from the quest giver, immediately down the hill you can see red yells of help from a group of 5 Grummles carrying packs and leading yaks who need defended. They are following the path in the direction of the Dooker Dome, where you were erroneously told you need to take 5 Grummles. I mistakenly escorted these guys, right by the Dooker Dome, 3 times before realizing the reason I was getting no credit for it was that they were the wrong Grummles. I mistakenly kept assuming that the reason we weren't finding goods was that I only managed to defend 3 of them on my own. They're attacked by a lot of Hozen, repeatedly, which seem to be coming from the Dooker Dome. Again, confusing.
Here're the corrected instructions:
1) GO TO THE DOOKER DOME, exactly as the quest says. You DO NOT take any Grummles with you to the Dooker Dome, unlike the Quest says.
2) As soon as you arrive at the Dooker Dome, 5 Grummles with no packs will leap out of hiding and follow you. Lead them around. Unlike what the quest says, you DO NOT have to DEFEND THEM or even pay attention to them. As soon as a battle starts, they all hiding in the surroundings like ninjas. (This is really helpful, actually.) They come out of hiding and follow you again as soon as the battle is finished.
3) When you find the goods, unlike what the text says, the Grummles don't know what to do with them. You have to "explore" it first by clicking on it and waiting a bit. Perhaps you are checking for traps for them? Then one of them walks up, straps it to his back like a pack and runs off on his own. UNLIKE WHAT THE TEXT SAYS, you still DON'T have to DEFEND him, follow him, or anything. Just let him go.
Once I got all this figured out, it was actually a fun quest and leads you right up to meeting the two quest givers and freeing the second Yeti. It was all the misdirection that I had to battle through - repeatedly - that really doesn't fit under any definition of either 'fun' or 'interesting' that I am aware of. In multiple languages.
Quest
Grummle! Grummle! Grummle!
A World of Warcraft quest in Kun-Lai Summit. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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As it says the area with the supply crates is to the north west.. the gummie's do not show until you enter the area. there are plenty of grey looking crates around that are the ones you need, just mouse over and click
If you're thinking "But where are my little Grummle dudes?" They appear as soon as you enter The Dooker Dome :)
Quest facts
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What to do
Description
Now that grummles are rescued, we need to rescue our supplies. The Ook of Dook is only chief because he has supplies. Go to the Dooker Dome area north west of here. Take some grummles with you. Keep them safe and get them near supply crates. Grummles know what to do from there. Rabbitsfoot and I will meet you there.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #379 46.3 64.0
Coordinates
- Turn-inKun-Lai Summit 46.3, 64.0
/way #379 46.3 64.0 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Kun-Lai Summit 46.2, 64.2
/way #379 46.2 64.2 - Objective areaKun-Lai Summit 52.0, 67.2
/way #379 52.0 67.2
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 Kun-Lai Summit map
- Path of the Last Emperor about 560 yards
- The Monkey King about 580 yards
- Smelly's Luckydo about 630 yards
- The Trail of Ban-Lu about 640 yards
- To the Valley! about 780 yards
- Clearing a Path about 780 yards
- Legacy of the Korune about 780 yards
- Trapping the Leader about 780 yards
- The Harmonic Mallet about 840 yards
- The Shadow of Ban-Lu about 900 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Kun-Lai Summit, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Kun-Lai Summit:
- Kota Basecamp, Kun-Lai Summit
- One Keg, Kun-Lai Summit
- Winter's Blossom, Kun-Lai Summit
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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Other quests on the Kun-Lai Summit map
Storyline
Kun-Lai Summit
Part 68 of 88.
Previous: The Snackrifice · Next: Unleash The Yeti!
- 63A Monkey Idol
- 64No Pack Left Behind
- 65Lucky Yakshoe
- 66Hozen Love Their Keys
- 67The Snackrifice
- 68Grummle! Grummle! Grummle!
- 69Unleash The Yeti!
- 70The Leader Hozen
- 71The Burlap Trail: To Kota Basecamp
- 72Kota Blend
- 73A Fair Trade
- 74The Burlap Grind
Showing steps 63 to 74 of 88.
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.
- The Snackrifice
They took my grummles! Hozen don't eat grummles, but yeti do. And the Knucklethumps have a yeti. Please rescue my grummles. Cut them down or let them out of cages. Rescue them any way you can. Many fortunes and rewards if you do this.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Unleash The Yeti!
Your yeti ride gave me an idea. The Ook of Dook has a pet yeti he named Chomp Chomp. He uses this yeti to scare other hozen in to making him the leader hozen. We need to get rid of that yeti.
The storyline at a glance
Kun-Lai Summit has 88 steps, from Call Out Their Leader to Unbelievable!.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Kun-Lai Summit (87), Vale of Eternal Blossoms (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Kun-Lai Summit map
- Dominance Offensive
- Operation Shieldwall
- Mogu at the Gates
- Class Mount: Monk
- Escalation
- The Voice of Thunder
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.