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Quest

S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E

A World of Warcraft quest in Netherstorm. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Tochiazuma+96via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Random drop, had nothing to do with where they were standing or anything. Took about 25 kills.

Like every low drop rate quest, of course, there are lots of posts about 'tricks' to use how to get the item. Just kill, kill, kill. ;)

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 25-30
ZoneNetherstorm
Quest ID10405

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10405))

What to do

StorylineNetherstorm, step 99 of 103
Rewards4,100 XP

Description

We must destroy the machinery that is making these nexus-stalker aberrations possible. To strike at their proto-accelerator would be futile as it is an ethereal creation. We must instead destroy the manaforge energy tube that they are using as a conduit. I have all that I need to create a device to overload the conduit save for one item. I need a wrapping from an archon or overlord that might be transforming soon in order to calibrate the device.

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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.

Netherstorm Quest turn-in 6 mapped points
Netherstorm map showing where to go for S-A-B-O-T-A-G-ETurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #109 56.8 38.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inNetherstorm 56.8, 38.7/way #109 56.8 38.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Netherstorm 55.7, 44.3/way #109 55.7 44.3

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 Netherstorm map

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

Getting there

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

  • The Stormspire, NetherstormAlliance and Horde · about 660 yards west
  • Cosmowrench, NetherstormAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards south-east
  • Area 52, NetherstormAlliance and Horde · about 1,600 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 220 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
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThe Consortium +250

Reward details

Reputation: The Consortium +250

Led by Nexus-Prince Haramad, the Consortium is a loosely affiliated cartel of ethereal smugglers, traders and thieves that has come to Outland to benefit from its riches.

Reputation group: The Burning Crusade.

Other quests in Netherstorm that reward The Consortium reputation: Warp-Raider Nesaad (+250), A Heap of Ethereals (+250), Assisting the Consortium (+10), Consortium Crystal Collection (+250), Request for Assistance (+25), Rightful Repossession (+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

Netherstorm

Part 99 of 103.

Previous: Potential for Brain Damage = High · Next: Delivering the Message

  1. 92Formal Introductions
  2. 93A Promising Start
  3. 94Troublesome Distractions
  4. 95Securing the Celestial Ridge
  5. 96The Ethereum
  6. 97Ethereum Data
  7. 98Potential for Brain Damage = High
  8. 99S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E
  9. 100Delivering the Message
  10. 101Recipe for Destruction
  11. 102On Nethery Wings
  12. 103Dimensius the All-Devouring

Showing steps 92 to 103 of 103.

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.

  • Potential for Brain Damage = HighNetherstorm · Level 25-30

    They're using relays to transfer information around the staging grounds. There is only one way for you to see these relays and extract the information they hold. Unfortunately, doing so may cause you irreparable brain damage.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Delivering the MessageNetherstorm · Level 25-30

    I'm sending one of my demolitionists out to place the disruption device. Just make sure no harm comes to him as he's placing the disruptor. Keep him protected! He will not fight back if enemies attack him, as he is only a holographic image, but the image can be destroyed!

The storyline at a glance

Netherstorm has 103 steps, from Distraction at Manaforge B'naar to Dimensius the All-Devouring.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Netherstorm (98), Shattrath City (4), Terokkar Forest (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Netherstorm 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.