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Quiet the Cannons (Horde)

Quiet the Cannons is a Horde-only quest for level 15-30 in Thousand Needles. It is step 20 of 107 in the Thousand Needles storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Thousand Needles at 77.2, 74.5. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

Now it's time to do something about those darn cannons up on the bluffs to the east!

If you'd be so kind, hop into your boat and cruise on over to the Southsea Holdfast. Up top you'll see a bunch of cannons firing down on us.

Those pirates don't know squat about engineering. It shouldn't be too difficult for you to clog 'em up and make them explode.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationBilgewater Cartel +250
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
194296+19via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I thought it was also unclear what to do for this quest. But I figured it out after I completed it.

You get a hat in your inventory that when you right click on it, it will summon a boat that you can drive there yourself. It would have been useful but its all the same if you just swim to the pirate ships 90, 76.

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702724+11via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I ran around and around looking for "my boat" or anyone that might give me one. The previous boat quest catapults you off your boat into the air, parachuting onto the barge so you don't just "park it". That previous quest also gave you the "River Boat" item, which is NOT a highlighted quest item. As previously pointed out, it looks like a black pirate hat.

River boat - Use: Summon your river boat on the water's surface within 20 yards. May only be used in Thousand Needles (1 sec. cooldown)

Just rightclick on it to start the quest boatwise.

You actually get to drive the boat around, it's not an autoboat. If you run into ANYTHING on the water's surface, the boat disappears and it puts you on top of whatever you ran into, even a plank of wood. You can summon this boat FROM the water too. (Thankfully!) There's a dock up by the pirate ships that you can drive the boat ONTO. LOL

If you want to save some trips, Make sure you get the "A Little payback" and "Where's Synge?" quests before going over here.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationBilgewater Cartel+250

Reward details

Reputation: Bilgewater Cartel +250

Run by the ruthless Trade Prince Gallywix, the Bilgewater Cartel is the most powerful trading company on the Isle of Kezan. From their headquarters at Bilgewater Port, the cartel dominates trade all over the South Seas.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Thousand Needles that reward Bilgewater Cartel reputation: Two If By Boat (+25), Do Me a Favor? (+25), Down in the Deeps (+250), Bar Fight! (+250), In the Outhouse (+250), Pirate Accuracy Increasing (+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 mapThousand NeedlesTurn-in marker at 77.2, 74.5, 10 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.

Thousand Needles Quest turn-in 10 mapped points
Thousand Needles map showing where to go for Quiet the CannonsTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #64 77.2 74.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThousand Needles 77.2, 74.5/way #64 77.2 74.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Thousand Needles 91.5, 77.7/way #64 91.5 77.7

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 Thousand Needles map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Thousand Needles:

  • Fizzle & Pozzik's Speedbarge, Thousand NeedlesAlliance and Horde · about 110 yards north-east
  • Gadgetzan, TanarisHorde · about 940 yards south
  • Mudsprocket, Dustwallow MarshAlliance and Horde · about 1,700 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 640 yards east

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

Thousand Needles

Part 20 of 107.

Previous: Quiet the Cannons · Next: A Little Payback

  1. 15Circle the Wagons... er, Boats
  2. 16Circle the Wagons... er, Boats
  3. 17Circle the Wagons... er, Boats
  4. 18Circle the Wagons... er, Boats
  5. 19Quiet the Cannons
  6. 20Quiet the Cannons
  7. 21A Little Payback
  8. 22A Little Payback
  9. 23Where's Wizzle?
  10. 24Where's Synge?
  11. 25Sunken Treasure
  12. 26Sunken Treasure

Showing steps 15 to 26 of 107.

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.

  • Circle the Wagons... er, BoatsThousand Needles · Level 15-30

    The fires may be dealt with, but those Southsea pirates are still getting ready to board the Speedbarge! <name>, you need to go back to Griznak and get on your boat. Use the cannon to sink them before it's too late!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Little PaybackThousand Needles · Level 15-30

    It's time for a little payback, I think. Can you blame me? After they locked me down in that outhouse and left me to drown?! I'll make it worth your while if you head up to the Southsea Holdfast on the eastern bluffs and exact my revenge.

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Thousand Needles · Level 15-30.

The storyline at a glance

Thousand Needles has 107 steps, from The Grimtotem are Coming to Spread the Word.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Thousand Needles (106), Feralas (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Thousand Needles 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Quiet the Cannons. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Quiet the Cannons (this page)Horde25586
Quiet the CannonsAlliance25585
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