TheWoWDBdespite being mandatory to progress in this zone, the murlocs have a fairly low spawnrate and droprate of the item, making this quest fairly frustrating to complete. There are murlocs outside the highlighted zone that drop the item aswell, so if the little murloc village in the highlighted area is too heavily farmed, you can give that a shot and just follow the beach for a bit.
Quest
Hot On the Trail: Murlocs
A World of Warcraft quest in Westfall. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Murlocks can be found along the northern beach. Kill them until one drops Murloc Clue
Also, be on the lookout for Captain Sander's Treasure Map which will start Captain Sanders' Hidden Treasure quest
Follow-up to Murder Was the Case That They Gave Me, also given by Horatio Lane.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 5-30
ZoneWestfall
Quest ID26214
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26214))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineWestfall, step 3 of 23
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
As pointless as I think that this is going to be, we need to investigate all of our leads. I need you to head out to the Longshore, west of here, on the coast, and shake up some murlocs. Try to find a clue or some info that can help shed some light on the murders. Return to me if you get lucky, rookie.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #52 60.0 19.3
Coordinates
- Turn-inWestfall 60.0, 19.3
/way #52 60.0 19.3 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Westfall 43.5, 9.7
/way #52 43.5 9.7 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Westfall 54.4, 9.5
/way #52 54.4 9.5
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 Westfall map
- Old MacDonald about 30 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,130 yards
- Supply Only the Finest Goons about 1,200 yards
- Misdeeds in Moonbrook about 1,210 yards
- Betrayal of the Brotherhood about 1,210 yards
- A Hungry Heritage about 1,370 yards
- Settled Dust about 1,880 yards
- Cut After Cut about 1,880 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Westfall, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Westfall:
- Furlbrow's Pumpkin Farm, Westfall
- Sentinel Hill, Westfall
- Goldshire, Elwynn
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Reward details
Reputation: Stormwind +250
One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.
Reputation group: Alliance.
Other quests in Westfall that reward Stormwind reputation: Furlbrow's Deed (+250), Murder Was The Case That They Gave Me (+250), Hot On the Trail: The Riverpaw Clan (+250), Lou's Parting Thoughts (+150), In Defense of Westfall (+250), The Westfall Brigade (+250).
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
Westfall
Part 3 of 23.
Previous: Hot On the Trail: The Riverpaw Clan · Next: Meet Two-Shoed Lou
- 1Murder Was The Case That They Gave Me
- 2Hot On the Trail: The Riverpaw Clan
- 3Hot On the Trail: Murlocs
- 4Meet Two-Shoed Lou
- 5Livin' the Life
- 6Lou's Parting Thoughts
- 7Shakedown at the Saldean's
- 8Times are Tough
- 9Westfall Stew
- 10You Have Our Thanks
- 11Hope for the People
- 12Feeding the Hungry and the Hopeless
Showing steps 1 to 12 of 23.
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.
- Hot On the Trail: The Riverpaw Clan
Seeing as how we have no other leads, we may as well chase down the information you got. There are a couple of Riverpaw gnoll camps in the area. Track them down and search for clues. Bring back anything that you might find. Isolate your search to the Riverpaw gnolls and scouts.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Meet Two-Shoed Lou
Looks like we got ourselves a real "whodunit" here, rookie. Unfortunately, it looks like the locals aren't willing to talk and the clues you got off the gnolls and murlocs are damn near worthless. We're going to have to initiate plan... be on the lookout for Two-Shoed Lou.
The storyline at a glance
Westfall has 23 steps, from Murder Was The Case That They Gave Me to Return to Sentinel Hill.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Westfall (22), Stormwind City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Westfall map
- Homecoming
- Battle Pet Tamers
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.