TheWoWDByou have to mount one of the catapults located at 23.52 and just nuke the mobs coming at you
Quest
Keep Them off the Front
A World of Warcraft quest in Deepholm. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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You don't drive the catapult; you just sit there and shoot. There's only one weapon button.
Aim with your mouse; use Control-1 to fire.
When I tried this quest, I was unable to aim up or down with the mouse. However, I found that the up & down arrows in the action bar still works.
Very easy if you aim close and bombard the ones being held still by the Stonehearth.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 30-35
ZoneDeepholm
Quest ID26755
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26755))
What to do
StorylineDeepholm, War & Gunships, step 23 of 57
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Description
Oh good, you brought another catapult with you! Clay might be older than dirt, but he makes a mean war machine. Well, you didn't bring it all the way out here for your health, flesh bag. Get in one of those things and bombard the fungal terrors and reinforcements streaming out of Needlerock Slag. We have to keep them off the front!
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #207 22.7 52.0
Coordinates
- Turn-inDeepholm 22.7, 52.0
/way #207 22.7 52.0 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Deepholm 22.9, 48.9
/way #207 22.9 48.9
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 Deepholm map
- Therazane's Choice about 250 yards
- Titanic Forging about 280 yards
- Clingy about 440 yards
- Making Things Crystal Clear about 840 yards
- Intervention about 840 yards
- Putting the Pieces Together about 840 yards
- So Big, So Round... about 840 yards
- Rock Bottom about 840 yards
- Entrenched about 840 yards
- Imposing Confrontation about 1,210 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Deepholm, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
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
Storyline
Deepholm, War & Gunships
Part 23 of 57.
Previous: Close Escort · Next: Reactivate the Constructs
- 18Fixer Upper
- 19Battlefront Triage
- 20Troggzor the Earthinator
- 21Rush Delivery
- 22Close Escort
- 23Keep Them off the Front
- 24Reactivate the Constructs
- 25Mystic Masters
- 26Down Into the Chasm
- 27Sprout No More
- 28Fungal Monstrosities
- 29A Slight Problem
Showing steps 18 to 29 of 57.
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.
- Close Escort
Alright, I think I've got it working again. You've got to get the catapult to the stone trogg town, Needlerock Slag, just to the north of the front. The driver will go with you. I'll head back and let Gravel know. There's no doubt that the stone troggs will try to stop you.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Reactivate the Constructs
We sent a number of our war constructs north into Needlerock Slag, but none of them ever returned. We know that the stone trogg mystics have done something to them. What we're concerned about is that the mystics will control and turn them against us, like they have with the fungal giants.
The storyline at a glance
Deepholm, War & Gunships has 57 steps, from Where's Goldmine? to The World Pillar Fragment.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Deepholm (57).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Deepholm map
- Deepholm, The Stone Throne
- The Elemental Lords II
- Call of the Doomhammer
- The Elemental Lords III
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.