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Quest
Scouting the Sinkholes
A World of Warcraft quest in Borean Tundra. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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With the QuestHelper functionality built into the client, this quest seems kind of ironic:
We go to spots marked on our map to...mark them on our map.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneBorean Tundra
Quest ID11684
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11684))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineBorean Tundra, step 160 of 182
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
Can you feel the tremors in the earth? The Scourge's nerubians are on the move deep beneath the ground. They've emerged to the southwest in the Geyser Fields, and are harassing the patrols Chieftain Wintergale sent out. <The taunka elder offers you a worn map.> Perhaps a single person can succeed where the patrols have failed. Take this with you to the Geyser Fields and map out the locations of the Nerubian sinkholes.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #114 77.1 37.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inBorean Tundra 77.1, 37.8
/way #114 77.1 37.8 - Objective areaBorean Tundra 70.3, 36.7
/way #114 70.3 36.7 - Objective areaBorean Tundra 69.7, 32.6
/way #114 69.7 32.6 - Objective areaBorean Tundra 66.4, 32.5
/way #114 66.4 32.5
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 Borean Tundra map
- Now With More Mechanical Fowl about 990 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,430 yards
- Smarter Than Your Average Trogg about 1,450 yards
- A Tundra Conundrum about 1,480 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,810 yards
- Warchief's Command: Borean Tundra! about 2,130 yards
- King Mrgl-Mrgl about 2,140 yards
- Adopt a Tadpole about 2,140 yards
- Unleashing Judgment about 2,590 yards
- Arcane Unleashed about 2,590 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Borean Tundra, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Borean Tundra:
- Taunka'le Village, Borean Tundra
- Unu'pe, Borean Tundra
- Warsong Camp, Wintergrasp
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- Objective area
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.
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Other quests on the Borean Tundra map
Reward details
Reputation: The Taunka +250
These hardy people are cousins of the Tauren and have become valuable scouts for the armies of the Horde as they march northward.
Reputation group: Horde Expedition.
Other quests in Borean Tundra that reward The Taunka reputation: Report to Steeljaw's Caravan (+10), We Strike! (+350), Shrouds of the Scourge (+250), The Bad Earth (+250), Blending In (+250), Words of Power (+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
Borean Tundra
Part 160 of 182.
Previous: Patching Up · Next: The Heart of the Elements
- 155Trophies of Gammoth
- 156Hellscream's Champion
- 157Load'er Up!
- 158The Power of the Elements
- 159Patching Up
- 160Scouting the Sinkholes
- 161The Heart of the Elements
- 162The Horn of Elemental Fury
- 163The Collapse
- 164Sage Highmesa is Missing
- 165A Proper Death
- 166Stop the Plague
Showing steps 155 to 166 of 182.
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.
- Patching Up
Remember all that gnomish duct tape you brought me? Well, I've found a use for it. The body of this flying machine is so banged up in places, that I'm going to need to reinforce it if I ever hope to fly.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Heart of the Elements
Now that we know the exact locations of the nerubian sinkholes, we can collapse them to halt the Scourge offensive and cripple their force. Wind Tamer Barah knows a way to harness elementals to destroy the tunnels the Nerubians are using, but she will require your help.
Other quests with this name
This one: Horde only · Borean Tundra · Level 10-30.
The storyline at a glance
Borean Tundra has 182 steps, from Enlistment Day to Across Transborea.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Borean Tundra (178), Sholazar Basin (2), Wintergrasp (1), Dragonblight (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Borean Tundra map
- Winterfin Retreat
- Light's Wrath
- Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
- Gnome Heritage Armor
- The Veiled Ossuary
- The Blue Dragons
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.