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Mission: The Abyssal Shelf

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

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Sware+47via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

One of the first quest you will be doing in Burning Crusade, the quest giver gives you the 'Area 52' bomb, with unlimited charges. Then you ask the guy to borrow a wyvern and you throw it off.

You are to hit the objectives with the bombs and has a pretty big area of effect.

The bomb deals 15,000 to 30,000 damage. The quest is also repeatable but no awards given after the first completion

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Reversion+35via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This chain gives you your first really good set of Outlands armor (legs, chest, helmet, wpn). Each piece should out-perform most quest items from Azeroth. Very good chain to start with as it will provide some much-needed gear upgrades when fresh from the portal.

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84264+29via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

You don't need to kill everything in one run. You can go back for a second run and finish with no penalty. Most common mistake: Not shooting fast enough. Fire the bomb as soon as it cools down. Second most common mistake: Aiming/waiting for clumps. You're going to hit peons no matter what you do, so aim for the overseers and cannons. Also, the "out of range" indicator (the zero with slash through it) lies, you can actually drop on stuff a little farther out even if your targeting indicator says you can't.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneHellfire Peninsula
Quest ID10162

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10162))

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 3.80.2.69874, read from the beta game data we hold
Versus the Classic Era clientNew in the WoW Forever beta client - quest id 10162 is not sighted in our Classic Era baseline (build 1.15.9.69722)

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

Description

Now that you've got your wings, perhaps you'd be interested in running another bombing mission? This time we've isolated the Legion's main production area, behind the forge camps to the north. I need you to get on a wyvern and destroy the whole damned thing! Here are your bombs - now, talk to Wing Commander Brack when you're ready for takeoff.

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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.

Hellfire Peninsula Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Hellfire Peninsula map showing where to go for Mission: The Abyssal ShelfTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #100 65.9 43.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHellfire Peninsula 65.9, 43.6/way #100 65.9 43.6
  • Objective areaHellfire Peninsula 66.1, 43.7/way #100 66.1 43.7

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 Hellfire Peninsula map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Hellfire Peninsula:

  • Thrallmar, Hellfire PeninsulaHorde · about 560 yards north-west
  • Hellfire Peninsula, The Dark PortalHorde · about 1,100 yards east
  • Spinebreaker Ridge, Hellfire PeninsulaHorde · about 1,300 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

Choose one of these rewards:

Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThrallmar +250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Chest
Item level29
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+7 Intellect, +11 Stamina, +7 Versatility
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for44 gold87 silver
TypeLeather Head
Item level29
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor8
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +11 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for32 gold88 silver
TypeMail Legs
Item level29
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor14
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +11 Stamina, +7 Versatility
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for42 gold82 silver
TypePlate Legs
Item level29
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor21
Stats+7 Strength or Intellect, +11 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for43 gold29 silver

Reputation: Thrallmar +250

The expedition sent through the Dark Portal by Thrall has built a stronghold in Hellfire Peninsula. Thrallmar serves as a base of operations for much of the Horde's activities in Outland.

Reputation group: The Burning Crusade.

Other quests in Hellfire Peninsula that reward Thrallmar reputation: Preparing the Salve (+250), The Assassin (+250), A Strange Weapon (+250), The Warchief's Mandate (+75), The Mag'har (+250), Burning Crusade: Through the Dark Portal (+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

Hellfire Peninsula

Part 6 of 103.

Previous: Mission: Gateways Murketh and Shaadraz · Next: Return to Thrallmar

  1. 1Eradicate the Burning Legion
  2. 2Felspark Ravine
  3. 3Forward Base: Reaver's Fall
  4. 4Disrupt Their Reinforcements
  5. 5Mission: Gateways Murketh and Shaadraz
  6. 6Mission: The Abyssal Shelf
  7. 7Return to Thrallmar
  8. 8Forge Camp: Mageddon
  9. 9Cannons of Rage
  10. 10Doorway to the Abyss
  11. 11The Assassin
  12. 12A Strange Weapon

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 103.

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.

  • Mission: Gateways Murketh and ShaadrazHellfire Peninsula · Level 10-30

    We've identified the two main transporters that the Burning Legion are using to bring in reinforcements: Gateway Murketh and Gateway Shaadraz. If you look east up the Path of Glory, you'll see them on either side of the road. I want you to bomb them both into oblivion!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Return to ThrallmarHellfire Peninsula · Level 10-30

    Hope you enjoyed your flight, friend. A messenger arrived while you were away - seems Nazgrel's got a new use for you. You'd best head back to Thrallmar and check in with him. I have a feeling the Legion's just getting warmed up.

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Hellfire Peninsula · Level 10-30.

The storyline at a glance

Hellfire Peninsula has 103 steps, from Eradicate the Burning Legion to Natural Remedies.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Hellfire Peninsula (103).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Hellfire Peninsula 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.