If you're having trouble getting to rares before they die, there are seven rares that need drill rigs to open their caves, and these are announced one minute in advance, along with the drill rig code e.g. DR-CC61.
These rares are:
[npc=154701], [npc=154739], [npc=152113], [npc=153200], [npc=153205], [npc=153206] & [npc=150342]Coordinates for TomTom / Paste* users are below:
/way Mechagon 72.63 53.85 Drill Rig DR-CC61 - Cave for Gorged Gear-Cruncher
/way Mechagon 66.40 58.84 Drill Rig DR-CC73 - Cave for Caustic Mechaslime
/way Mechagon 68.38 48.14 Drill Rig DR-CC88 - Cave for The Kleptoboss
/way Mechagon 51.44 50.25 Drill Rig DR-JD41 - Cave for Boilburn
/way Mechagon 59.65 67.20 Drill Rig DR-JD99 - Cave for Gemicide
/way Mechagon 56.15 36.32 Drill Rig DR-TR28 - Cave for Ol' Big Tusk
/way Mechagon 63.53 25.00 Drill Rig DR-TR35 - Cave for Earthbreaker Gulroc*Paste is an addon that allows you to paste an extensive chunk of macro text in one single block
Quest
Security First
A World of Warcraft quest in Mechagon Island. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Quest facts
The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(56141))
Requirements
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Rare Enemies slain in Mechagon x 3
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 #1462 68.9 35.1
Coordinates
- Objective areaMechagon Island 68.9, 35.1
/way #1462 68.9 35.1
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 Mechagon Island map
- Security First same spot
- WANTED: Junkbrat and Roadtrogg about 40 yards
- Toys For Destruction about 40 yards
- Toys Like Us about 40 yards
- First One's Free about 50 yards
- Upgraded about 50 yards
- Send My Father a Message about 60 yards
- Abduction Reduction about 60 yards
- Your First Charge is Free! about 70 yards
- Recharging Rustbolt about 70 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Mechagon Island, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Mechagon Island:
- Prospectus Bay, Mechagon
- Overspark Expedition Camp, Mechagon
- Whitegrove Chapel, Drustvar
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 Mechagon Island map
Quest chain
- 1Unnamed step
- 2Security First
- 3Security First
Step 3 of 3. Chain order is read from the prerequisite data in the current retail client build, so it reflects what the game requires, not a curated storyline. A step the build does not name is kept in place, unnamed, so the sequence stays complete.
Where this quest fits
Before this quest
Taken from the quest's prerequisites.
- Security First
Objectives: Rare Enemies slain in Mechagon
Other storylines on the Mechagon Island map
- Making a Mount
- Expedition to Mechagon
- Welcome to Mechagon
- Allies of the Alliance: Mechagnome
- Mechagon Fishing
- Junkyard Tinkering
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.