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Operation: Stir the Cauldron

Operation: Stir the Cauldron is a quest for level 15-30 in Searing Gorge. It is step 16 of 23 in the Searing Gorge storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Searing Gorge at 40.7, 51.6. It rewards 3 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 6,200 experience and money.

Description

I'm putting you on a flying machine, <name>.

You'll be responsible for softening our landing into the slag pit. Speak with your flight master here in Thorium Point, then fly down to the gorge.

Once you near your landing point, there will undoubtedly be hordes of Dark Iron dwarves waiting for you. Use our flying machine's guns to take out as many of them as you can, then land at the cavern's entrance. Rendan should be waiting for you by the time you arrive.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money21 gold
Experience6,200 XP
ReputationThorium Brotherhood +350
Top Comments

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Ninja1+153via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If people get confusing.
You are supposed to talk to your flight master depending on your faction.

**If you are alliance, you talk to Lanie Reed flight master.

**If your horde, talk to flight master Grisha.

You dont fly to the Iron Smith base.

Hope this clear some confusions

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,200
MoneyGold21g
ReputationThorium Brotherhood+350

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypePlate Legs
Item level25
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor20
Stats+7 Strength or Intellect, +10 Stamina, +13 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for31 gold69 silver
TypeMail Wrist
Item level25
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor8
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +5 Haste
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for15 gold87 silver
TypeLeather Waist
Item level25
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for15 gold81 silver

Reputation: Thorium Brotherhood +350

The dwarves of the Thorium Brotherhood epitomize excellence in craftsmanship and are bent on unlocking the secrets of Blackrock Mountain.

Reputation group: Classic.

Other quests in Searing Gorge that reward Thorium Brotherhood reputation: Gaining Even More Acceptance (+375), Gaining Acceptance (+15), A Proper Antivenom (+250), The Fewer, the Better (+250), Out of Place (+250), A Lumbering Relic (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapSearing GorgeTurn-in marker at 40.7, 51.6, 14 mapped points
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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.

Searing Gorge Quest turn-in 14 mapped points
Searing Gorge map showing where to go for Operation: Stir the CauldronTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #32 40.7 51.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSearing Gorge 40.7, 51.6/way #32 40.7 51.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Searing Gorge 41.5, 53.0/way #32 41.5 53.0
  • Objective areaSearing Gorge 38.1, 27.0/way #32 38.1 27.0

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Searing Gorge:

  • Iron Summit, Searing GorgeAlliance and Horde · about 260 yards south
  • Thorium Point, Searing GorgeAlliance · about 320 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 30 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 370 yards north

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Searing Gorge

Part 16 of 23.

Previous: The Mountain-Lord's Support · Next: Slavery is Bad

  1. 11Set Them Ablaze!
  2. 12They Build a Better Bullet
  3. 13Deceit
  4. 14Lunk's Adventure: Rendan's Weakness
  5. 15The Mountain-Lord's Support
  6. 16Operation: Stir the Cauldron
  7. 17Slavery is Bad
  8. 18Sweet, Horrible Freedom
  9. 19Rise, Obsidion
  10. 20Kill 'em With Sleep Deprivation
  11. 21Twisted Twilight Ties
  12. 22From Whence He Came

Showing steps 11 to 22 of 23.

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.

  • The Mountain-Lord's SupportSearing Gorge · Level 15-30

    Alright, alright! If I knew ye could dance like that, I wouldn't'a asked ye to do all that stuff earlier. Tell Overseer Oilfist that I'll be joinin' ye. I'll meet ye in the slag pit, lad! With the combined forces of Thorium Point and Iron Summit, those gorge-dwarves won't know what hit 'em!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Slavery is BadSearing Gorge · Level 15-30

    Much like Overseer Maltorius, I'm a rich dwarf. However, I earned my riches through hard work and wise decisions, not through slavery. OK fine, very little slavery. Hardly any. Anyhow, the first thing that I see inside these caverns are slavedrivers and taskmasters. I won't stand for this!

The storyline at a glance

Searing Gorge has 23 steps, from A New Master... But Who? to Welcome to the Brotherhood.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Searing Gorge (23).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

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.

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