TheWoWDBIn order to acquire this quest, you need to have finished both After the Crusade and Who Needs Cauldrons?. If you skipped Andorhal, you'll need to finish it or the farm area will not phase.
Quest
Lower the Boom
A World of Warcraft quest in Western Plaguelands. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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This also requires Foes Before Hoes.
Turning in this quest changes the phase of the "Felstone Field" area for your character so that there are big plague clouds all over.
The farmers mostly just cower in place and don't attack you unless you get really close to them.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-30
Quest ID26936
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26936))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Requires all ofAfter the Crusade, Who Needs Cauldrons?, Foes Before Hoes
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
WhereWestern Plaguelands, around 26.6, 56.1
StorylineWestern Plaguelands, step 36 of 63
Rewards5g 25s, 2,050 XP
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-inIn-game waypoint: /way #22 26.6 56.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inWestern Plaguelands 26.6, 56.1
/way #22 26.6 56.1
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 Western Plaguelands map
- At War With The Scarlet Crusade same spot
- Honor the Flame about 110 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,050 yards
- Keeping the Peace about 1,250 yards
- Sacred Ground about 1,250 yards
- Seeking Guidance about 1,260 yards
- The Light Reveals about 1,340 yards
- Finding the Scepter about 1,940 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Western Plaguelands, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Western Plaguelands:
- The Bulwark, Tirisfal
- Andorhal, Western Plaguelands
- Undercity, Tirisfal
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 Western Plaguelands map
Reward details
Reputation: Undercity +75
Led by Sylvanas Windrunner, the Forsaken have joined a tenuous alliance with the Horde and established this capital in the vast depths under the Ruins of Lordaeron.
Reputation group: Horde.
Other quests in Western Plaguelands that reward Undercity reputation: The Battle for Andorhal (+25), Scourge First... Alliance Later (+250), The Endless Flow (+250), War Machines (+350), Scholomancer (+500), Araj the Summoner (+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
Western Plaguelands
Part 36 of 63.
Previous: Foes Before Hoes · Next: Strange New Faces
- 31After the Crusade
- 32Latent Disease
- 33Foxes and Hounds
- 34Who Needs Cauldrons?
- 35Foes Before Hoes
- 36Lower the Boom
- 37Strange New Faces
- 38When Death is Not Enough
- 39Combat Training
- 40The Battle Resumes!
- 41The Farmers' Militia
- 42Supporting the Troops
Showing steps 31 to 42 of 63.
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.
- Foes Before Hoes
The men who till Felstone Field are no farmers. They're soldiers. Thassarian's forces needed food, so he sent some of the Alliance north from Andorhal, to tend Felstone Field. The battle for Andorhal may be over, but another battle looms... Forsaken versus human.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Strange New Faces
Now that Felstone is ours, we can use its acreage - and any dead bodies we find - for our own purposes. I've received orders from higher up that you are going to be helping out in this process. You may have met Lindsay Ravensun on the battlefield in Andorhal.
The storyline at a glance
Western Plaguelands has 63 steps, from Scourge First... Horde Later to Turning Yourself In.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Western Plaguelands (63).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Western Plaguelands map
- The Ashbringer
- Tirisfal Glades
- Scepter of Sargeras
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.