TheWoWDBA bit weird, the quest did appear on the map, but the NPC Blood Guard Toldrek was not around. I swam around, trying to find him, but with no luck. I logged off for like an hour, and he was back. Is he killable? Or does he despawn after a quest?
After I completed the quest, and was swimming back to turn it in, he was gone again (luckily, you turn it in at Fiasco Sizzlegrin).
User Stormkrow has to say the following about it, on the Blood Guard Toldrek page:
Apparently this NPC can bug with phasing. If this guy happens to not appear when you are in the area, I found that going back to Legion's Rest and then returning back to this above location caused him to reappear.UPDATE
After completing the follow-up quest Honor and Privilege, he is to be found on the surface, directly above his original spot!
Quest
Hostile Waters
A World of Warcraft quest in Shimmering Expanse. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Relog did it for me. Did not appear at first.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 30-35
Quest ID25969
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25969))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineVashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse, step 136 of 149
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Description
Fiasco came out here with a balloon of some sort that he retrieved from one of our ships. He tried to float it to the top, but those Muckskin Scroungers came out of nowhere and swarmed the thing. He's got an idea for another balloon, but we need to make sure that the past doesn't repeat itself. I need you to kill off those giblins. Or at the very least, enough of them to make them fear 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.
Nearby on the Shimmering Expanse map
- To the Deeps about 610 yards
- Wavespeaker's Trail about 610 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,200 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Shimmering Expanse, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shimmering Expanse:
- Stygian Bounty, Vashj'ir
- Legion's Rest, Vashj'ir
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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Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
Other quests on the Shimmering Expanse map
Storyline
Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse
Part 136 of 149.
Previous: Desperate Plan · Next: Come Prepared
- 131Honor and Privilege
- 132Welcome News
- 133Visions of the Past: Rise from the Deep
- 134Losing Ground
- 135Desperate Plan
- 136Hostile Waters
- 137Come Prepared
- 138Unfurling Plan
- 139Honor and Privilege
- 140Welcome News
- 141Visions of the Past: Rise from the Deep
- 142Her Lady's Hand
Showing steps 131 to 142 of 149.
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.
- Desperate Plan
Toldrek and Fiasco left to find a way to contact help. The trade lanes aren't far, so there might be a chance of success, but I'm wary to let anyone get their hopes up. In truth, we don't have any other options. We're not likely to last much longer here. The naga will find us eventually, and...
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Come Prepared
It's a short swim to the top. Not much trouble really. Hard to get any supplies up there though. Too heavy. All of the ships in all of the Horde fleets stow a survival kit. I had a balloon from the old survival kit, but it fell on hard times recently. I need another survival kit.
Quests that require this one
Other quests with this name
This one: Horde only · Shimmering Expanse · Level 30-35.
The storyline at a glance
Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse has 149 steps, from Call of Duty to Full Circle.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shimmering Expanse (98), Kelp'thar Forest (48), Abyssal Depths (2), Vashj'ir (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Shimmering Expanse map
- Azshara's Power
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.