Quest

Make the Bad Snake Go Away

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

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Findra2008-08-23T13:03:21-05:00+20via Wowhead

Venomtip: 58,54
NE of the village, can be on either side of the waterfall

Powdercake2009-06-23T22:19:21-05:00+7via Wowhead

All of the other hunting companions had so much to say.
Lafoo: "Hi."
I lol'd so hard.

2468082008-11-15T16:49:46-06:00+5via Wowhead

You get a bag to summon a friend. He fights, but is not powerful. Other than that you just kill the stuff listed! Wait for venomtip to spawn.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 20-30

ZoneSholazar Basin

Quest ID12571

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12571))

What to do

StorylineSholazar Basin, step 40 of 65

Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

We were here long before the puppy-men came. This is very sacred place - we will not leave. You seem like maybe you good, but we have Lafoo stay with you just in case. You understand we think. There snakes thing that keeps trying to eat our hatchlings. Go with Lafoo and make them stop, okay? Especially big one near waterfall to northeast.

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.

Coordinates

Turn-inSholazar Basin 54.6, 56.4/way #119 54.6 56.4
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Sholazar Basin 43.1, 56.4/way #119 43.1 56.4
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Sholazar Basin 50.3, 72.1/way #119 50.3 72.1
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Sholazar Basin 58.5, 59.2/way #119 58.5 59.2
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Sholazar Basin 41.8, 68.4/way #119 41.8 68.4
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Sholazar Basin 52.3, 51.2/way #119 52.3 51.2
Objective areaSholazar Basin 57.7, 52.2/way #119 57.7 52.2

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 Sholazar Basin map

Desecrate this Fire! about 350 yards
Honor the Flame about 360 yards
Farseer Grimwalker's Spirit about 1,350 yards
Kaganishu about 1,350 yards

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 240 yards south-west
Warsong Camp, WintergraspHorde · about 1,100 yards south-east
Nesingwary Base Camp, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 500 yards west
Objective areaabout 490 yards south
Objective areaabout 190 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.

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Money10 gold50 silver

Experience4,100 XP

ReputationThe Oracles +350

Other quests on the Sholazar Basin map

Reward details

Reputation: The Oracles +350

The gorlocs of Sholazar Basin are a race of reptilian creatures who see themselves as guardians of the titan technology that remains in the zone (though they understand little of it). They find themselves in an escalating territorial war with the wolvar.

Reputation group: Sholazar Basin.

Other quests in Sholazar Basin that reward The Oracles reputation: Fortunate Misunderstandings (+350), Gods like Shiny Things (+350), Making Peace (+350), Back So Soon? (+250), The Lost Mistwhisper Treasure (+350), Forced Hand (+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 40 of 65.

Previous: Fortunate Misunderstandings · Next: Gods like Shiny Things

Showing steps 35 to 46 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.

Fortunate MisunderstandingsSholazar Basin · Level 20-30
I sorry! I not mean to get you in trouble! <The injured oracle stares at you blankly for a long while.> You save me! We thank you. We going to go back to village now. You come too... you can stay with us! Puppy-men kind of mean anyway. Let me know when you ready to go, okay?

After this quest