TheWoWDBIf 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
Quest
Operation: Stir the Cauldron
A World of Warcraft quest in Searing Gorge. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Lunk would certainly disapprove.
Currently bugged. Flying machine takes a huge amount of damage and drops out of the air before the waves finish. Chromie time makes no difference, can't complete quest on my squishy mage.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneSearing Gorge
Quest ID28052
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28052))
What to do
StorylineSearing Gorge, step 16 of 23
RewardsMountain-Lord's Legguards, 
Slag Pit Bracers, 
Dancer's Belt, 21g, 6,200 XP
Mountain-Lord's Legguards, Slag Pit Bracers, Dancer's Belt, 21g, 6,200 XPDescription
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.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-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 Gorge
- Thorium Point, Searing Gorge
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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Reward details
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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.
Storyline
Searing Gorge
Part 16 of 23.
Previous: The Mountain-Lord's Support · Next: Slavery is Bad
- 11Set Them Ablaze!
- 12They Build a Better Bullet
- 13Deceit
- 14Lunk's Adventure: Rendan's Weakness
- 15The Mountain-Lord's Support
- 16Operation: Stir the Cauldron
- 17Slavery is Bad
- 18Sweet, Horrible Freedom
- 19Rise, Obsidion
- 20Kill 'em With Sleep Deprivation
- 21Twisted Twilight Ties
- 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 Support
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 Bad
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.