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Hostile Waters (Horde)

Hostile Waters is a Horde-only quest for level 30-35 in Shimmering Expanse. It is step 136 of 149 in the Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse storyline. It rewards 4,800 experience and money.

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.

Rewards

Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
Top Comments

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Maartman+3via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

A 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!

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,800
MoneyGold13g 74s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapShimmering Expanse
World Map

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.

Shimmering Expanse Quest turn-in

Nearby on the Shimmering Expanse map

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'irHorde · about 430 yards north
  • Legion's Rest, Vashj'irHorde · about 510 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 200 yards south-west

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse

Part 136 of 149.

Previous: Desperate Plan · Next: Come Prepared

  1. 131Honor and Privilege
  2. 132Welcome News
  3. 133Visions of the Past: Rise from the Deep
  4. 134Losing Ground
  5. 135Desperate Plan
  6. 136Hostile Waters
  7. 137Come Prepared
  8. 138Unfurling Plan
  9. 139Honor and Privilege
  10. 140Welcome News
  11. 141Visions of the Past: Rise from the Deep
  12. 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 PlanShimmering Expanse · Level 30-35

    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 PreparedShimmering Expanse · Level 30-35

    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

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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Hostile Waters. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Hostile Waters (this page)Horde25969
Hostile WatersAlliance25894
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