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Scorched Earth
Scorched Earth is a Horde-only quest for level 50, added in Battle for Azeroth. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.
Quest Objectives
- Dreadtick Latcher killed x 25
- Dreadtick Latcher Nests destroyed x 8
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Quest is badly bugged. It only activates from way south of the map marker, also the firestick I got didn't work on the bugs. It pulled them nps, but then they ignored it and started beating hell out of me. good luck if you try this one.
Might have finally sorted this out.
- Go south from the map marker, across the rivulet (like, around the skeleton).
- Make sure the firestick shows up in inventory (diamond-headed flaming spear icon); this can be equipped on your action bars for use.
- Destroy the nests just by pointing the stick (pointing yourself) at them and activating.
- Damage the ticks by selecting them and activating the firestick. It seems to take about 25% health off them. It does not act as a normal wide-cone flamethrower.
- Beat up ticks.
The animations and fire effect worked very poorly in Bear Druid form, but seemed to be effective anyway.
Quest is bugged on alliance side.
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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #863 29.6 76.5
Coordinates
- Objective areaNazmir 29.6, 76.5
/way #863 29.6 76.5
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 Nazmir map
- Urok's True Death about 110 yards
- The Blood of My Enemies about 110 yards
- My Head and Shoulders about 110 yards
- Crocolisk Life about 240 yards
- Pulling Fangs about 240 yards
- Safe Flying about 240 yards
- Terrorizing their Eggs about 240 yards
- There's No Eye in Skyterror about 250 yards
- The Direhorn Mother's Fury about 340 yards
- Lurking in the Swamp about 430 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Nazmir, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Nazmir:
- Zul'jan, Nazmir
- Grimwatt's Crash, Nazmir
- Mugamba Overlook, Zuldazar
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.
First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight patch 12.0.7, the oldest build in our datamine).
Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Nazmir map
- Lost in Nazmir
- Go East, Old Tortollan
- Titanic Revelations
- Heart of Darkness
- Gaining a Foothold
- The Fury of the Zandalari
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.
Achievements
Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.
- Wide World of Quests: its criteria name 849 quests, this one included.
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