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I'll Try Anything!

I'll Try Anything! is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Howling Fjord. It is step 106 of 162 in the Howling Fjord storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Howling Fjord at 60.3, 18.7. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

I never want to see another barrel of salted fish as long as I live! Filling barrels day in and day out, and there are still more to be filled!

I wish I hadn't used up all that bait I bought from Nat Pagle. Worked like magic, it did. Now I'm lucky if I can catch a fish an hour!

I hear the northern barbfish make pretty good bait, but who's crazy enough to dive into a freezing cold lake and hack up the water plants in search of them? Not me... but maybe, just maybe, I can persuade you to...

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationValiance Expedition +250
Top Comments

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1
NobodyYouKnow+23via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Just in case you didn't *quite* get the quest, try jumping into the lake he is fishing in. You should see some "water plants". They will sparkle the same way a chest or other quest objective does.

Interacting with the water plants will cause a Forsaken Spy, a Caldemere Snapper, or a Northern Barbfish to spawn. What you want to spawn is the northern barbfish. It seems there is a 33.33~% chance for either of the three to spawn. Luckily there is a 100% drop rate - if a northern barbfish spawns, after you kill it and loot it it you have 100% chance at getting a northern barbfish in your bag.

2
198515+10via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

There is an interesting issue with the NPCs spawned in this quest: they can all drown. Yes, drown.

This applies to all three of the possible spawns, the Forsaken Spy, the Caldemere Snapper, and the Northern Barbfish. Just root them (trap and fear probably work, too), and leave them alone. Takes about a minute.

This may not be the most useful information, but it's funny to just root the spawns, move on to more plants, and go back in a minute once the NPC has drowned. The corpses are lootable if they die in this manner.

3
210291+6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Can't confirm this. Did this Quest together with two guildies a few minutes ago. Took us about 40min and 100 plants. Droprate seems to be anywhere around 25%. For 12650xp this Quest is definately not worth the effort. The next Quest is really easy and done within 2min. So those two will take you about 15min for 30750xp, decide yourself if you want to do it ;)

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationValiance Expedition+250

Reward details

Reputation: Valiance Expedition +250

The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.

Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.

Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: Break the Blockade (+250), Scare the Guano Out of Them! (+250), Shoveltusk Soup Again? (+250), The Clutches of Evil (+250), Mage-Lieutenant Malister (+10), Two Wrongs... (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapHowling FjordTurn-in marker at 60.3, 18.7, 8 mapped points
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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.

Howling Fjord Quest turn-in 8 mapped points
Howling Fjord map showing where to go for I'll Try Anything!Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #117 60.3 18.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHowling Fjord 60.3, 18.7/way #117 60.3 18.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Howling Fjord 65.6, 19.9/way #117 65.6 19.9

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 Howling Fjord map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Howling Fjord:

  • Fort Wildervar, Howling FjordAlliance · about 110 yards north
  • Valgarde Port, Howling FjordAlliance · about 1,800 yards south
  • Westguard Keep, Howling FjordAlliance · about 2,000 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 330 yards east

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

Howling Fjord

Part 106 of 162.

Previous: The Yeti Next Door · Next: A Tailor-Made Formula

  1. 101In Service to the Light
  2. 102Sleeping Giants
  3. 103The Slumbering King
  4. 104Down to the Wire
  5. 105The Yeti Next Door
  6. 106I'll Try Anything!
  7. 107A Tailor-Made Formula
  8. 108Apply Heat and Stir
  9. 109Field Test
  10. 110Time for Cleanup
  11. 111Parts for the Job
  12. 112Warning: Some Assembly Required

Showing steps 101 to 112 of 162.

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 Yeti Next DoorHowling Fjord · Level 10-30

    Maybe if the sentries won't help me, you will? I'm the foreman of the mine just across the bridge. My men are mining ore for the weapons our expeditionary force will need to carve a path into the Grizzly Hills. A giant yeti has invaded the mine, blocking the tunnel we need to expand!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Tailor-Made FormulaHowling Fjord · Level 10-30

    We've been spraying down the vrykul village of Halgrind for weeks now and the vrykul just won't drop dead. Let's face it, <name>, by now our Plague has been exposed to humans, dwarves, dogs, livestock... you name it. As our strains adapt to their hosts, more impurities get thrown in the mix.

Quests that require this one

The storyline at a glance

Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Howling Fjord 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.

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