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Recon Essentials

Recon Essentials is a quest for level 15-30 in Searing Gorge. It is step 7 of 23 in the Searing Gorge storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Searing Gorge at 37.3, 29.0. It rewards 4 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

We used to have more stuff around here. I think there was a spyglass somewhere nearby, along with a smithing tuyere.

I'm pretty certain that they've been stolen by Dark Iron dwarves. Yes, I know that I'm a Dark Iron dwarf! I'm talking about the bad ones that live down in that gorge.

You'd best check the steamsmiths that work just south of here. They'd be most likely to use tools like these.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money21 gold
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThorium Brotherhood +250
Top Comments

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

When you do this quest with [npc=47269], he will smother the Dark Iron Dwarf you are fighting and give you the loot afterwards.

However, if he is currently smothering one and you aggro another - you will have no choice but to kill that one. Even when he is finished with the first one, [npc=47269] will not register that the second one exists (until you kill him, and he tells you off for doing so)

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold21g
ReputationThorium Brotherhood+250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypePlate Head
Item level25
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor17
Stats+7 Strength or Intellect, +10 Stamina, +13 Versatility
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for23 gold33 silver
TypeMail Waist
Item level25
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for15 gold61 silver
TypeLeather Legs
Item level25
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +10 Stamina, +7 Versatility
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for30 gold93 silver
TypeCloth Shoulder
Item level25
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+5 Intellect, +8 Stamina, +5 Haste
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for23 gold7 silver

Reputation: Thorium Brotherhood +250

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.

3D Model

First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapSearing GorgeTurn-in marker at 37.3, 29.0, 13 mapped points
World Map

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 13 mapped points
Searing Gorge map showing where to go for Recon EssentialsTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #32 37.3 29.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSearing Gorge 37.3, 29.0/way #32 37.3 29.0
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Searing Gorge 46.6, 40.6/way #32 46.6 40.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Searing Gorge 39.0, 49.7/way #32 39.0 49.7

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:

  • Thorium Point, Searing GorgeAlliance · about 20 yards south-east
  • Iron Summit, Searing GorgeAlliance and Horde · about 600 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 270 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 310 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Searing Gorge

Part 7 of 23.

Previous: Rasha'krak · Next: Dark Ministry

  1. 2Dig-Boss Dinwhisker
  2. 3Thorium Point: The Seat of the Brotherhood
  3. 4Heat That Just Don't Quit
  4. 5Curse These Fat Fingers
  5. 6Rasha'krak
  6. 7Recon Essentials
  7. 8Dark Ministry
  8. 9In the Hall of the Mountain-Lord
  9. 10Siege!
  10. 11Set Them Ablaze!
  11. 12They Build a Better Bullet
  12. 13Deceit

Showing steps 2 to 13 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.

  • Rasha'krakSearing Gorge · Level 15-30

    Based on this information you've delivered, I believe that one of this "Archduke's" minions may already have turned its eyes toward Thorium Point. His name is Rasha'krak, and he patrols the lava pools just to our south.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Dark MinistrySearing Gorge · Level 15-30

    I got one more assignment for ye. This one comes straight down from the Overseer himself. Seems he was pretty shook up once he heard about that "Archduke" ye discovered. He's asked for us to hunt down three Twilight ministers that work over in Firewatch Ridge, to the west.

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.

Related
Reclaiming Velhan's Claim
Reclaiming What's Ours
Reclamation
Recompense
Reconcilable Dissidents
Reconnaissance... for my, uh, Recovery
Reconvene
Recover the Bones
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