TheWoWDBHad trouble getting the skulls to drop until I did this:
After killing the pig, DONT LOOT.
Use the knife first.
Quest
How to Get a Head
A World of Warcraft quest in Maldraxxus. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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bugged as of 18th September. Skulls won't drop after using the cutter
I can just imagine the amount of people mistakenly Googling for "How To Get Head"...
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-54
ZoneMaldraxxus
Quest ID59750
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(59750))
What to do
StorylineTheater of Pain, step 2 of 17
Rewards36g 50s 40c, 11,050 XP
Description
An eager rookie who wants to be champion of the arena? People love a story like yours, but the first step is to get you noticed. Here's the plan. Marcel Mullby needs bloodtusk skulls, but it takes a real fighter to get those! You go kill some bloodtusks, use my knife to collect their heads, and deliver them to Mullby. That should get you recognition.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #1536 54.5 48.7
Coordinates
- Turn-inMaldraxxus 54.5, 48.7
/way #1536 54.5 48.7 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Maldraxxus 56.3, 42.3
/way #1536 56.3 42.3 - Objective areaMaldraxxus 54.5, 49.5
/way #1536 54.5 49.5
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 Maldraxxus map
- WANTED: Appraiser Vix about 70 yards
- Theater of Pain: Help Wanted about 100 yards
- RSVP: Grandmaster Vole about 110 yards
- Grandmaster Vole's Best Friend about 110 yards
- To Die By the Sword about 320 yards
- An Opportunistic Strike about 320 yards
- Champion the Cause about 320 yards
- WANTED: The Key of Eyes about 320 yards
- Bug Bites about 380 yards
- Slime, Anyone? about 380 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Maldraxxus, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Maldraxxus:
- Theater of Pain, Maldraxxus
- Keres' Rest, Maldraxxus
- Bleak Redoubt, Maldraxxus
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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Other quests on the Maldraxxus map
Reward details
Reputation: The Undying Army +135
Long ago, the Primus established the five houses of Maldraxxus to build the ultimate fighting force. Through might, cleverness, and guile, this unyielding armada is pledged to defend the Shadowlands against all threats.
Reputation group: Shadowlands.
Other quests in Maldraxxus that reward The Undying Army reputation: Callous Concoctions (+135), The Ladder (+135), ...Even The Most Ridiculous Request! (+135), Pool of Potions (+135), Stuff We All Get (+135), Read Between the Lines (+135).
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
Theater of Pain
Part 2 of 17.
Previous: The Last Guy · Next: ...Even The Most Ridiculous Request!
- 1The Last Guy
- 2How to Get a Head
- 3...Even The Most Ridiculous Request!
- 4Team Spirit
- 5Stuff We All Get
- 6Juicing Up
- 7Test Your Mettle
- 8Side Effects
- 9This Thing of Ours
- 10Leave Me a Loan
- 11Working for the Living
- 12Sure Bet
Showing steps 1 to 12 of 17.
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.
- The Last Guy
You're not the first newcomer wanting to become famous. There've been a lot like you around! The last few wanted to prove themselves by killing a giant bloodtusk... none of them ever returned! You want to get recognition? Go find all those missing newcomers and kill the bloodtusk yourself.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- ...Even The Most Ridiculous Request!
A fan of the competition, are you? Perhaps you would like to be more than a mere spectator? I will give you a small task... one that not only benefits me, but that also gives you a chance to meet some of the storied competitors here.
The storyline at a glance
Theater of Pain has 17 steps, from The Last Guy to Bet On Yourself.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Maldraxxus (17).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Maldraxxus map
- A Golden Dawn
- The House of Rituals
- Righteous Retribution
- House of Constructs
- The House of Eyes
- Loyal to the Primus
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.