TheWoWDBAt first, this quest was confusing me greatly, as I could not find the Lab Director or the plans. After a bit of time searching, I noticed that there was a Buzzer outside the second most-eastern building of the Secret Lab (It is the one with a bank vault lock as a door). You will want to click this Buzzer in order to spawn the Lab Director, whom you kill for the plans. As of now, the Director will only drop one set of plans per kill, so if you are grouped be sure to spawn him once per person. There does not appear to be a respawn timer on the Lab Director.
Quest
Nine's Plan
A World of Warcraft quest in Azshara. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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I found this to be a funny nod to the B sci fi flick, "Plan Nine From Outer Space." Except here, Nine's Plan FOR Outer Space.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 5-30
ZoneAzshara
Quest ID14408
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(14408))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineAzshara, step 33 of 88
Rewards4,100 XP
Description
My benefactors used their diminutive intellect to construct an interplanetary transport. As designed, this so-called "Rocket" is a death trap. But I suspect a simple re-engineering of the fuel catalyst semifold would render a stable mixture, providing a breathable oxygen byproduct. To implement such changes, I require the original engineering plans. Locate the Laboratory Archives and ring the doorbell to gain entry. The plans will be held by the lab director himself, presuming he still lives.
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-inObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #76 42.2 76.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inAzshara 42.2, 76.1
/way #76 42.2 76.1 - Objective areaAzshara 45.9, 76.7
/way #76 45.9 76.7
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 Azshara map
- Twilight Skies about 470 yards
- All Aboard! about 750 yards
- Machines of War about 890 yards
- Weigh Anchor about 1,100 yards
- Ready the Air Force about 1,140 yards
- Smoot's Samophlange about 1,140 yards
- Ready the Navy about 1,230 yards
- Pre-Flight Checklist about 1,370 yards
- Where Is My Warfleet? about 1,370 yards
- Beating the Market about 1,370 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Azshara, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Azshara:
- Southern Rocketway, Azshara
- Bilgewater Harbor, Azshara
- Orgrimmar, Durotar
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
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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Experience4,100 XP
Storyline
Azshara
Part 33 of 88.
Previous: Segmentation Fault: Core Dumped · Next: Raptor Raptor Rocket
- 28The Keystone Shard
- 29Report to Twocrush
- 30Sisters of the Sea
- 31When Science Attacks
- 32Segmentation Fault: Core Dumped
- 33Nine's Plan
- 34Raptor Raptor Rocket
- 35Mysterious Azsharite
- 36A Gigantic Snack
- 37Befriending Giants
- 38Azsharite Experiment Number One
- 39The Terrible Tinkers of the Ruined Reaches
Showing steps 28 to 39 of 88.
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.
- Segmentation Fault: Core Dumped
Once we flush the central reactor, I need you to return the core to me. It's 100% refined azsharite crystal, which is both powerful and dangerous. And lovely. Oh precious azsharite, the shaper of worlds to come! The giant lever to your left will dump the core and send it to me via the rail system.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Raptor Raptor Rocket
Shortly after my intellect was augmented, I bred with Subject Four in order to create a unique race of cognitively superior raptors. Subsequently, Subject Four neither called nor wrote: I have determined to disembowel him upon our next encounter.
The storyline at a glance
Azshara has 88 steps, from Runaway Shredder! to The Conquest of Azshara.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Azshara (88).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Azshara map
- Twilight Highlands
- Xylem Challenge
- A Golden Opportunity
- The Jade Forest, The Remains of Hellscream's Fist
- Mists of Pandaria
- Legion Blacksmithing
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 for this zone
Guides and routes on this site that cover Azshara.
