TheWoWDBI hit 120 pretty early in the Stormsong Valley quest line and in trying to skip straight to the Cycle of Hatred chain I ended up getting really frustrated.
If you skipped the quests at Brennadam and the Eckhart Lodge and Felicia doesn't offer you "Having A Blast," make your life easier by going directly to Sergeant Calvin on the bridge leading north out of Brennadam (57.6, 66.4) and do the quests until you get “Survivors." That will lead you to Patrick Eckhart at the Eckhart Lodge (57.8, 55.4), who will eventually give you “Worse Than It Looks,” which will lead you to Felicia Gladstone at Beacon Hill (46.4, 37), who will finally give you “Having A Blast.”
If you do what I did and finish the quests at Eckhart Lodge before figuring out that you need to start with Sergeant Calvin you will not get “Survivors” at all but Calvin will run out of quests and if you look at your map you will notice that “Having A Blast” is now available at Beacon Hill.
Quest
Having a Blast
A World of Warcraft quest in Stormsong Valley. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Take the dynamite near the mine entrance, then use it to kill 16 Warfang Miners and 4 Mine Technicians in Saltstone Mine .
/way Stormsong Valley 47.64 38.38 Dynamite
/way Stormsong Valley 46.62 36.30 Saltstone mine entranceHaving a Blast quest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMjJyQzIFEk
This quest is a part of Cycle of Hatred quest chain of the Stormsong and Dance achievement.
Id column is approximate quest № In Stormsong Valley storyline (Stormsong and Dance <= for more info)
This quest is pretty straightforward, so I doubt many people will check wowhead before doing it, but the quest gives you a huge cheat. The dynamite you're given does a pretty good knockback, but if you use it next to a blackpowder ore interactable (do the devs really think that's where black powder comes from? they could have just called it explodicite or something) it will instakill the miners and technicians and do about 70% damage to the big guys.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(51711))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
We're going to really hit 'em where it hurts, {name}. They're carting tons of black powder right out of that mine. This could end very badly for all of us if we don't do something. The mines are relatively undefended, I bet you can get in and wipe out their workers before they realize what's happening. Keep an eye out for some explosives, if we can use their own tools against them, even better!
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-inTurn-inTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #942 46.9 47.7
Coordinates
- Turn-inStormsong Valley 46.9, 47.7
/way #942 46.9 47.7 - Turn-inStormsong Valley 46.4, 37.0
/way #942 46.4 37.0 - Turn-inStormsong Valley 51.3, 37.0
/way #942 51.3 37.0 - Objective areaStormsong Valley 47.6, 38.4
/way #942 47.6 38.4 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Stormsong Valley 44.4, 37.4
/way #942 44.4 37.4 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Stormsong Valley 44.1, 35.7
/way #942 44.1 35.7
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 Stormsong Valley map
- Fun With Magnets about 210 yards
- Home, Home On the Range about 210 yards
- Lost in the Field about 250 yards
- Retaliation Coordination about 250 yards
- Reassembly Required about 250 yards
- Treasure Hunting about 330 yards
- Not On Our Payroll about 330 yards
- Anchors Aweigh Too Much about 330 yards
- Bomb Beats Rock about 330 yards
- Don't Turtle about 340 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Stormsong Valley, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Stormsong Valley:
- Deadwash, Stormsong Valley
- Seekers Vista, Stormsong Valley
- Fort Daelin, Stormsong Valley
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 Stormsong Valley map
Reward details
Reputation: Storm's Wake +25
Home to farmers, craftsmen, soldiers, and the mysterious tidesages, the Storm's Wake seeks to reclaim Stormsong Valley and affirm their place in Kul Tiras.
Reputation group: Battle for Azeroth.
Other quests in Stormsong Valley that reward Storm's Wake reputation: The Missing Fleet (+25), House Stormsong (+75), Haywire Harvesters (+150), Unnecessary Duress (+150), Proclamation Investigation (+150), A Risky Ploy (+75).
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
Cycle of Hatred
Part 1 of 7.
Next: Grizzled
- 1Having a Blast
- 2Grizzled
- 3The Mine Sweeper
- 4Burn It All Down
- 5Get Shredded
- 6Saw Dusted
- 7Eye for an Eye
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.
- Grizzled
I saw a particularly ugly and quite agitated goblin barking orders at the rest of the miners. I'm willing to bet he's crucial to their entire operation. If you can get into the mine and eliminate him, hopefully it will throw things into disarray.
Quests that require this one
The storyline at a glance
Cycle of Hatred has 7 steps, from Having a Blast to Eye for an Eye.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Stormsong Valley (7).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Stormsong Valley map
- A House in Peril
- Secrets of Stormsong Valley
- Deadwash Line
- Defense of Fort Daelin
- Not the Bees!
- Milstone Hamlet
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.