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Quest

Mostly Harmless

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

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

Ford Prefect wrote a lengthy article about the planet Earth after 15 years of painstaking research. The editor's at the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy determined it was too long and pared it down to

Mostly Harmless.


This was quite an improvement over the previous article in The Guide which simply said:

Harmless


What, if anything, that has to do with this quest is unknown to me.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneSwamp of Sorrows
Quest ID27536

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27536))

What to do

StorylineSwamp of Sorrows, step 3 of 36
RewardsBogpaddle Leggings, Sloppy Spaulders, Armed Gauntlets, 10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

Here's another favor you can do for me, pal. We had a whole shipment of Landmines come in from Booty Bay just the other day. But someone stole the whole lot of 'em in the night! Whoever it was must be sloppy, because they dropped them all over the swamp to the east. No goblin I know would be that careless. I need you to go gather those landmines up for me. I'm sure they're perfectly safe and disarmed. Every single one. Yup.

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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.

Swamp of Sorrows Quest turn-in 11 mapped points
Swamp of Sorrows map showing where to go for Mostly HarmlessTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #51 75.0 13.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSwamp of Sorrows 75.0, 13.6/way #51 75.0 13.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Swamp of Sorrows 78.9, 22.5/way #51 78.9 22.5
  • Objective areaSwamp of Sorrows 73.1, 14.9/way #51 73.1 14.9

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 Swamp of Sorrows map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Swamp of Sorrows:

  • Bogpaddle, Swamp of SorrowsAlliance and Horde · about 80 yards west
  • Marshtide Watch, Swamp of SorrowsAlliance · about 430 yards south
  • Shalewind Canyon, RedridgeAlliance · about 500 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 180 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 50 yards south-west

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

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeLeather Legs
Item level27
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +10 Stamina, +10 Haste
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for37 gold88 silver
TypeMail Shoulder
Item level27
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor11
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +5 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for30 gold24 silver
TypePlate Hands
Item level27
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor13
Stats+5 Strength or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +8 Parry
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for20 gold98 silver

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

Swamp of Sorrows

Part 3 of 36.

Previous: Croc-Out · Next: Crazy Larry

  1. 1Maliciously Delicious
  2. 2Croc-Out
  3. 3Mostly Harmless
  4. 4Crazy Larry
  5. 5Kill Gil
  6. 6Can't Take It With Them
  7. 7In With a Bang
  8. 8Orcs and Humans
  9. 9Lumbering Oafs
  10. 10Tides of Darkness
  11. 11Reinforcements Denied
  12. 12Marking the Fallen

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 36.

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.

  • Croc-OutSwamp of Sorrows · Level 15-30

    The Stagalbog east of town is swarming with crocolisks. Swarming, you hear me? I've sold every bit of crocolisk you could imagine. Crocolisk hides, teeth, tails, tongues, eyes, you name it. My point is, they ain't sellin' anymore. There's too many crocs! We're over-supplied and under-demanded.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Crazy LarrySwamp of Sorrows · Level 15-30

    You're gettin' it, <name>. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. Well, more like I scratch the back of your whole army, and just a little harder than the backs of the other side! Was that too complicated? What I'm sayin' is, that's a lot of backs.

The storyline at a glance

Swamp of Sorrows has 36 steps, from Maliciously Delicious to With Dying Breath.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Swamp of Sorrows (35), Deadwind Pass (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Swamp of Sorrows 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.

Guides and routes on this site that cover Swamp of Sorrows.