Yes, it is RNG.
Quest
Searching For Clues
A World of Warcraft quest in Stormheim. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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[item=140730] quest item is a random drop from pirates across the shore. Blood crazed guys also can drop that item. Better slay some pirates near the boat, then try Swashbucklers, if still no drop.
Searching For Clues — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKqdOxAAlts
Each class in Legion has a long class hall quest chain — campaign. During that chain you'll raise your power and power of your class hall.
[class=4] class hall campaign quests are under the spoiler.
.Spoiler
[class=4] class hall campaign.[item=128870] quest chain.[item=128872] quest chain.[item=128476] quest chain.598[quest=40994]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85-dYgtA8X4698[quest=40995]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G67XUn4j0o8101[quest=42139]300 x [currency=1220]
[champion=778]
[champion=591]https://youtu.be/CN90ZPG-Jz810101[quest=43013]100 x [currency=1220]
Gang of Bandits training11101[quest=43014]191031000 x [currency=1220]
[item=140931]
[item=140517]https://youtu.be/qFf4BAgKMl420103[quest=44183][champion=779]22103[quest=43852]Crew of Pirates training23103[quest=44181][champion=780]26110250 x [currency=1220]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2g_CU6EJUs31110[quest=43885]371101500 x [currency=1220]
[item=139746]
[item=139506]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFmcZpPTJIw38110[quest=42800][champion=891]47110https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWJBU-LyOTU48110[quest=43723][champion=892]49110[quest=43724][champion=893]
Efficient questing tip: Run up the beach to [npc=108072] and pick up the quests A Stone of Blood and The Mystery of Dreyrgrot. You can also pick up the quest The Value of Knowledge from a crate in the middle of the pirate ships.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44155))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
It be no coincidence that we be in Citrine Bay investigatin' a murder, and we find th' band 'o pirates known as th' Red Blade here as well! Aye, this be no coincidence at all, {name}... but we be needin' proof! Ye go on ahead and look fer clues and I'll find some scallywags to interrogate. Aye {name}, we'll get t' 'th bottom o' this t' be sure! Thar be no doubt!
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #634 77.3 55.0
Coordinates
- Turn-inStormheim 77.3, 55.0
/way #634 77.3 55.0 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Stormheim 74.0, 52.4
/way #634 74.0 52.4 - Objective areaStormheim 77.3, 55.1
/way #634 77.3 55.1
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 Stormheim map
- It's Not Rocket Science about 100 yards
- The Shell, You Say? about 100 yards
- Bubble Baubles about 100 yards
- The Mystery of Dreyrgrot about 140 yards
- A Stone of Blood about 140 yards
- The Value of Knowledge about 140 yards
- What the Bonespeakers Buried about 140 yards
- Spilling Bad Blood about 140 yards
- To Catch a Banshee about 380 yards
- Combustible Contagion about 380 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Stormheim, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Stormheim:
- Greywatch, Stormheim
- Valdisdall, Stormheim
- Dreadwake's Landing, Stormheim
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Storyline
Saga of the Shadowblade I
Part 5 of 17.
Previous: Mystery at Citrine Bay · Next: Time Flies When Yer Havin' Rum!
- 1A Body of Evidence
- 2Spy vs. Spy
- 3The Bloody Truth
- 4Mystery at Citrine Bay
- 5Searching For Clues
- 6Time Flies When Yer Havin' Rum!
- 7Dark Secrets and Shady Deals
- 8Champion: Lord Jorach Ravenholdt
- 9Convincin' Old Yancey
- 10Fancy Lads and Buccaneers
- 11Champion: Fleet Admiral Tethys
- 12Throwing SI:7 Off the Trail
Showing steps 1 to 12 of 17.
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.
- Mystery at Citrine Bay
The Burning Legion invades Azeroth, and SI:7 is wasting valuable resources hunting down and assassinating one of their top agents? Something isn't adding up... We need to find out how deep this goes. Why was Amber Kearnen being hunted by her own organization?
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Time Flies When Yer Havin' Rum!
Thar be few pirates ye want to cross swords wit' less than th' Red Blade! They be salty dogs, indeed! That being said... they does have a way wit' rum! I'll level wit' ye, <name>... thar be few rums as jolly as that 'o th' Red Blade.
The storyline at a glance
Saga of the Shadowblade I has 17 steps, from A Body of Evidence to Champion: Marin Noggenfogger.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dalaran (14), Stormheim (3).
Other storylines on the Stormheim map
- The Trial of Valor
- The Trial of Will
- Wreck of the Skyfire
- The Secret of the Shieldmaidens
- The Trial of Might
- Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Goblins
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.