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Ophidophobia

A World of Warcraft quest in Kelp'thar Forest. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Guide to Vash'jir Kelp'thar Forest Alliance Quests:

Optional Pre-quests:
A Personal Summons and Eye of the Storm
Either Into the Abyss: or Hero's Call: Vashj'ir

Main chain:
Call of Duty
Sea Legs (At any time, kill a Slitherfin eel to start Once More, with Eeling)
Pay it Forward
Rest for the Weary
Buy Us Some Time & Travelling on Our Stomachs
 (Be sure to kill a Sabreclaw Skitterer to get Crumpled Treasure Map which starts Kliklak's Craw)
To Arms! and Stormwind Elite Aquatic and Land Forces
On Our Own Terms
All or Nothing
Better Late than Dead
The Abyssal Ride
Good Deed Left Undone (optional)
Gimme Shelter! (also unlocks A Case of Crabs)
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
(which also unlocks A Girl's Best Friend and A Taste for Tail)
This is a convenient time to do The Horde's Hoard, which starts
from Tattered Treasure Map, dropped by Clacksnap Pincer

Next comes Can't Start a Fire Without a Spark

This allows for the optional quest Nerve Tonic, and the optional Bud Chain:


Around this time, kill Gilblin Collectors and hope
Lady La-La's necklace drops for Lady La-La's Medallion. There are conflicting reports of what quests are needed for the item to drop.
This is also a good time to kill Gilblingle for waterlogged journal which starts Blackfin's Booty.

The main chain continues:
Ophidophobia
A Desparate Plea
Undersea Sanctuary
Spelunking
Debriefing
Wake of Destruction
(also unlocks What? What? In My Gut...? and Decompression)
Come Hell or High Water (While in naga camp, pick up How Disarming)
The Warden's Time is auto-accepted
Across the great Divide leads to the Shimmering Expanse chain.

Don't forget to group up or come back at 85 for
An Opened Can of Whoop Gnash

Read all 14 on Wowhead ↗

Quest facts

LevelLevel 30-35
ZoneKelp'thar Forest
Quest ID25459

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25459))

What to do

StorylineVashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse, step 29 of 149
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP

Description

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's snakes. Any kind of snake - doesn't matter. While I was out searching for salvage, I saw a nest of sea serpents surrounding the nearby wreckage. I simply can't relax knowing that those awful creatures could slither up in here at any moment. Please, {class}! Do something about them!

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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.

Kelp'thar Forest Quest turn-in no plotted point

Nearby on the Kelp'thar Forest map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Kelp'thar Forest, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Kelp'thar Forest:

  • Smuggler's Scar, Vashj'irAlliance and Horde · about 30 yards south
  • Sandy Beach, Vashj'irAlliance · about 830 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 170 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
Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP

Storyline

Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse

Part 29 of 149.

Previous: Can't Start a Fire Without a Spark · Next: A Desperate Plea

  1. 24Gimme Shelter!
  2. 25Ain't Too Proud to Beg
  3. 26A Taste For Tail
  4. 27A Girl's Best Friend
  5. 28Can't Start a Fire Without a Spark
  6. 29Ophidophobia
  7. 30A Desperate Plea
  8. 31Oh, the Insanity!
  9. 32Dah, Nunt... Dah, Nunt...
  10. 33Shark Weak
  11. 34DUN-dun-DUN-dun-DUN-dun
  12. 35A Bone to Pick

Showing steps 24 to 35 of 149.

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.

  • Can't Start a Fire Without a SparkKelp'thar Forest · Level 30-35

    Mack's still out of it, and I fear we may lose him if I can't get this fire started. With the wood being soaked, we'll need something special to get it going. There's an abandoned camp nearby with a barrel of explosives in it. There's no way I can recover it on my own.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Desperate PleaKelp'thar Forest · Level 30-35

    The note in this bottle is soaked through, but still legible. In it, the author claims to have escaped from some sort of undersea naga prison. He is clearly in fear for his life, and you can't help but wonder if it might be one of your recently abducted shipmates.

The storyline at a glance

Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse has 149 steps, from Call of Duty to Full Circle.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shimmering Expanse (98), Kelp'thar Forest (48), Abyssal Depths (2), Vashj'ir (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Kelp'thar Forest map

  • Vashj'ir, Abyssal Depths43 steps, starts with Bio-Fuel

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.