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Help Those That Cannot Help Themselves

A World of Warcraft quest in Borean Tundra. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Moonfeather+31via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

D.E.H.T.A. Quest Series (in Borean Tundra)
Achievement: D.E.H.T.A's Little P.I.T.A (5 points) - awarded for completing quest series

Ears of Our Enemies - collect 15 Nesingwary Lackey Ear
Ned, Lord of Rhinos... - Kill Nedar, Lord of Rhinos and Lunchbox

Mammoth Chain


  2. Help Those That Cannot Help Themselves - free 8 trapped mammoth calves

  4. Khu'nok Will Know - escort mammoth calf to Khu'nok

  6. Kaw the Mammoth Destroyer - obtain [url= http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=35234Kaw's War Halberd

Caribou Chain


  2. Unfit for Death - trap 8 Nesingwary Trappers

  4. The Culler Cometh - kill Karen "I Don't Caribou" the Culler

Clams Chain


  2. Happy as a Clam - kill 10 Loot Crazed Divers

  4. The Abandoned Reach - locate Hierophant Liandra <D.E.H.T.A.>

  6. Not On Our Watch - collect 12 Shipments of Animal Parts

  8. The Nefarious Clam Master... - kill Clam Master K

Once the above chains are complete, you can take on the evil mastermind behind the exploitation of the Tundra.

Harold Lane (Final Boss)
The Assassination of Harold Lane - Kill Harold Lane

Rewards:
Band of Wholesome Preservation
Ring of Indignant Rage
Activist's Signet of Blasting
Achievement: D.E.H.T.A's Little P.I.T.A (5 points)

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149059+17via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This is my favorite quest in the game. I feel so good when the little baby mammoths get up out of those traps, I get all tingly and happy inside. I almost want to keep it just so I can keep breaking the little mammoths out of their traps forever.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneBorean Tundra
Quest ID11876

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11876))

What to do

StorylineBorean Tundra, step 64 of 182
Rewards4,100 XP

Description

They're majestic beasts, aren't they? <Lathorius points towards the mammoths of the northern tundra.> With each passing day their numbers diminish. Demons that call themselves hunters slay the beasts for sport and riches. <Lathorius' face contorts with anger.> It's the whimpers that drive me to madness, {name}. You can hear them, carried by the wind. The mammoth calves, trapped in the hunters' vile traps, call out to us. Take this hammer and smash those traps. Free the calves!

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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.

Borean Tundra Quest turn-in 11 mapped points
Borean Tundra map showing where to go for Help Those That Cannot Help ThemselvesTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #114 57.1 44.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBorean Tundra 57.1, 44.3/way #114 57.1 44.3
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Borean Tundra 55.9, 36.0/way #114 55.9 36.0
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Borean Tundra 54.6, 24.4/way #114 54.6 24.4

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 Borean Tundra map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Borean Tundra:

  • Amber Ledge, Borean TundraAlliance and Horde · about 800 yards north-west
  • Valiance Keep, Borean TundraAlliance · about 930 yards south
  • Fizzcrank Airstrip, Borean TundraAlliance · about 930 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 330 yards north
  • Objective areaabout 780 yards north

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.

Related
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationCenarion Expedition +250

Reward details

Reputation: Cenarion Expedition +250

An exploratory force sent to Outland by the Cenarion Circle to study surviving life forms. The Cenarion Expedition has quickly gained in size and autonomy since the opening of the Dark Portal.

Reputation group: The Burning Crusade.

Other quests in Borean Tundra that reward Cenarion Expedition reputation: Oh Noes, the Tadpoles! (+250), The Spare Suit (+10), Surrender... Not! (+350), Escape from the Winterfin Caverns (+250), Learning to Communicate (+250), A Mission Statement (+10).

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

Borean Tundra

Part 64 of 182.

Previous: A Mission Statement · Next: Khu'nok Will Know

  1. 59Gamel the Cruel
  2. 60A Father's Words
  3. 61The Trident of Naz'jan
  4. 62The Emissary
  5. 63A Mission Statement
  6. 64Help Those That Cannot Help Themselves
  7. 65Khu'nok Will Know
  8. 66Kaw the Mammoth Destroyer
  9. 67Nedar, Lord of Rhinos...
  10. 68Happy as a Clam
  11. 69The Abandoned Reach
  12. 70Not On Our Watch

Showing steps 59 to 70 of 182.

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.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Khu'nok Will KnowBorean Tundra · Level 10-30

    Although you have acted valiantly in freeing the trapped calves, many of them will still die. You see, without a caretaker, these calves must fend for themselves in the wild. But there is a way! Hope yet remains!

The storyline at a glance

Borean Tundra has 182 steps, from Enlistment Day to Across Transborea.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Borean Tundra (178), Sholazar Basin (2), Wintergrasp (1), Dragonblight (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Borean Tundra 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.