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Learning to Communicate

A World of Warcraft quest in Borean Tundra. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Vlad+24via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Quick guide:

1. Go to Scalder (water elemental) [location coords if you dont need to look-up the npc page: 42.5,15.6]
2. Kill it...
3. Use [The King's Empty Conch] on the corpse.

Tips: He is usually dead (considering people are still leveling towards 80) so use /tar Scalder to target him.
If you do try to figure out where he is. Try using the item even if you are not close (or see) him, it has a
long range -around 30 yards. :)

You are done, fetch the next quest.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneBorean Tundra
Quest ID11571

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11571))

What to do

StorylineBorean Tundra, step 136 of 182
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

To help, you must learn how to speak the Winterfin dialect. We'll work with the forces of nature and magic to do that. Take this empty conch shell. At the bottom of the watery trench below exists Scalder, an elemental of air and watery fury. Once she is defeated, use the conch upon her remains to capture her magical steam. Return the full conch to me, and I'll imbue my knowledge of the Winterfin tongue into you. Luckily, a friend taught me a water breathing spell, which I will cast upon you.

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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.

Borean Tundra Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Borean Tundra map showing where to go for Learning to CommunicateTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #114 43.5 14.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBorean Tundra 43.5, 14.0/way #114 43.5 14.0
  • Objective areaBorean Tundra 43.0, 18.2/way #114 43.0 18.2

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 Borean Tundra map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Borean Tundra:

  • Bor'gorok Outpost, Borean TundraHorde · about 370 yards east
  • Amber Ledge, Borean TundraAlliance and Horde · about 780 yards south
  • Fizzcrank Airstrip, Borean TundraAlliance · about 790 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 160 yards south

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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationCenarion Expedition +250

Reward details

Reputation: Cenarion Expedition +250

An exploratory force sent to Outland by the Cenarion Circle to study surviving life forms. The Cenarion Expedition has quickly gained in size and autonomy since the opening of the Dark Portal.

Reputation group: The Burning Crusade.

Other quests in Borean Tundra that reward Cenarion Expedition reputation: Oh Noes, the Tadpoles! (+250), The Spare Suit (+10), Surrender... Not! (+350), Escape from the Winterfin Caverns (+250), A Mission Statement (+10), Unfit for Death (+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

Borean Tundra

Part 136 of 182.

Previous: Deploy the Shake-n-Quake! · Next: Winterfin Commerce

  1. 131Give Fizzcrank the News
  2. 132Scouting the Sinkholes
  3. 133Fueling the Project
  4. 134A Bot in Mammoth's Clothing
  5. 135Deploy the Shake-n-Quake!
  6. 136Learning to Communicate
  7. 137Winterfin Commerce
  8. 138Oh Noes, the Tadpoles!
  9. 139Them!
  10. 140I'm Being Blackmailed By My Cleaner
  11. 141Grmmurggll Mrllggrl Glrggl!!!
  12. 142Succulent Orca Stew

Showing steps 131 to 142 of 182.

Also part of: Winterfin Retreat (part 3 of 13).

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.

  • Deploy the Shake-n-Quake!Borean Tundra · Level 10-30

    Behold, the machine that will save us from the Nerubian threat! <Abner beams with pride as he presents the finished bot.> Take this remote control with you, and go out to the southernmost of the Nerubian sinkholes in the Geyser Fields. Use the remote to activate the Shake-n-Quake 5000.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Winterfin CommerceBorean Tundra · Level 10-30

    Now that you can speak with the Winterfin, it is time for you to let them get to know you. One of the best ways to do that is to conduct business with them. The murlocs prize clams over any other object and their only surviving merchant is Ahlurglgr.

The storyline at a glance

Borean Tundra has 182 steps, from Enlistment Day to Across Transborea.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Borean Tundra (178), Sholazar Basin (2), Wintergrasp (1), Dragonblight (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Borean Tundra 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.