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Lightning Definitely Strikes Twice

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

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Reanna+58via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Why must people always post "This is probably a reference to..." and then list the first thing that comes to mind without even giving it much thought? The saying "Lightning never strikes the same place twice" (despite being untrue) predates the song you mentioned by over a hundred years.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 20-30
ZoneSholazar Basin
Quest ID12537

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12537))

What to do

StorylineSholazar Basin, step 35 of 65
RewardsGloves of the Crackling Storm, Static-Dispersing Shoulderpads, Belt of Trapped Lightning, 10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

Okay, the crystal things... The big-tongues use the crystals to power their rain shrines. Zepik not know quite how it works, but Zepik does know that if they use wrong crystals, the clouds and the rain go crazy! Zepik tried to sneak in at one of their other rain shrines, but it not go so well. It sure to go much better with two! Take crystals, place at big stone pillar shrine thing, then smash them to release power. Zepik not sure what will happen, so might want to step back after.

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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.

Sholazar Basin Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Sholazar Basin map showing where to go for Lightning Definitely Strikes TwiceTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #119 45.3 37.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSholazar Basin 45.3, 37.1/way #119 45.3 37.1
  • Objective areaSholazar Basin 45.4, 37.2/way #119 45.4 37.2
  • Objective areaSholazar Basin 55.5, 69.6/way #119 55.5 69.6

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 Sholazar Basin map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Sholazar Basin:

  • River's Heart, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 730 yards south
  • Nesingwary Base Camp, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards south-west
  • Death's Rise, IcecrownAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,000 yards south-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.

Related

Choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationFrenzyheart Tribe +500

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Hands
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+6 Intellect, +9 Stamina, +7 Versatility, +7 Critical Strike
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for23 gold23 silver
TypeLeather Shoulder
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor8
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +11 Versatility
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for37 gold26 silver
TypeMail Waist
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +11 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for24 gold76 silver
TypePlate Legs
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor23
Stats+8 Strength or Intellect, +12 Stamina, +14 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for49 gold23 silver

Reputation: Frenzyheart Tribe +500

Driven from their lands by the Scourge, this fierce tribe of wolvar stumbled upon Sholazar Basin, where they intend to make their new home. Their aggressive nature has put them at odds with the various gorloc tribes known collectively as the Oracles.

Reputation group: Sholazar Basin.

Other quests in Sholazar Basin that reward Frenzyheart Tribe reputation: Playing Along (+350), The Ape Hunter's Slave (+350), Tormenting the Softknuckles (+500), The Underground Menace (+500), Flown the Coop! (+350), The Wasp Hunter's Apprentice (+350).

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

Sholazar Basin

Part 35 of 65.

Previous: A Rough Ride · Next: The Mist Isn't Listening

  1. 30The Sapphire Queen
  2. 31Flown the Coop!
  3. 32The Underground Menace
  4. 33Mischief in the Making
  5. 34A Rough Ride
  6. 35Lightning Definitely Strikes Twice
  7. 36The Mist Isn't Listening
  8. 37Hoofing It
  9. 38Just Following Orders
  10. 39Fortunate Misunderstandings
  11. 40Make the Bad Snake Go Away
  12. 41Gods like Shiny Things

Showing steps 30 to 41 of 65.

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.

  • A Rough RideSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    Zepik is best hunter of the Frenzyheart. Zepik hunts big-tongues... ugly things near swamps that try to steal all stuff they can find. Zepik going on long trek to break big-tongue shrine and try to scare them away. We no want big-tongues in this land anymore.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Mist Isn't ListeningSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    Gorillas and wasps are boring! Big-tongues the only thing fun to hunt. While we mess up rain shrine, we kill lots of mist big-tongues. That sure to make them not want to come back to village thing. <Zepik nods to himself confidently.>

The storyline at a glance

Sholazar Basin has 65 steps, from Need an Engine, Take an Engine to Reclamation.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Sholazar Basin (63), Un'Goro Crater (2).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • Into the Basin Complete the Sholazar Basin storylines listed below.
  • The Snows of Northrend Complete all of Hemet Nesingwary quests in Northrend up to and including Post-partum Aggression.

Other storylines on the Sholazar Basin 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.