This took me a while to figure out. The 'mounds' really appear as big freaking piles of rock scattering around the front of the fort. Just use the pitch there and they will come out.
Quest
Silithissues
A World of Warcraft quest in Southern Barrens. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Given by Crawgol in Desolation Hold in the South Barrens. You are given a Bucket of Burning Pitch that is to be used right outside Desolation Hold at a mound. After casting, a group of Silithid Swarmers will appear. These have very little health and don't hit hard, so it shouldn't be an issue if you get a bunch. When I did this quest, I got anywhere from 3 swarmers to 8.
The mounds do not sparkle and are not targetable. Just go onto them, and click on the pitch. Have an aoe ready!
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(24654))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
The silithid! They're bugs, {name}. Or something like bugs. They're not natural... and we built a fortress on the equivalent of an anthill. Take this burning pitch. It'll set the buggers on fire and plug up their burrows at the same time. Be careful when you pour this stuff on there - the silithid will come out in swarms! Look for silithid mounds around the exterior of Desolation Hold. They look like heaps of sand. Kill anything that crawls out.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #199 41.6 69.4
Coordinates
- Turn-inSouthern Barrens 41.6, 69.4
/way #199 41.6 69.4 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 42.2, 68.0
/way #199 42.2 68.0
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 Southern Barrens map
- Honor the Flame about 100 yards
- Cassandra Kaboom about 500 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 510 yards
- A Growing Problem about 2,360 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Southern Barrens, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Southern Barrens:
- Desolation Hold, Southern Barrens
- Vendetta Point, Southern Barrens
- Brackenwall Village, Dustwallow Marsh
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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Other quests on the Southern Barrens map
Reward details
Reputation: Orgrimmar +250
Founded by Thrall, this Horde capital city is home to many of the proud orc clans of Durotar.
Reputation group: Horde.
Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Orgrimmar reputation: Warriors' Redemption (+250), Eye for an Eye (+250), Put the Fear in Them (+250), The Low Road (+150), Stalling the Survey (+250), Meet the New Boss (+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
Southern Barrens
Part 60 of 89.
Previous: Flightmare · Next: Claim the Battle Scar
- 55Taking Back Taurajo
- 56Honoring the Dead
- 57Desolation Hold Inspection
- 58Changing of the Gar'dul
- 59Flightmare
- 60Silithissues
- 61Claim the Battle Scar
- 62Intelligence Warfare
- 63The Butcher of Taurajo
- 64Parts-is-Parts
- 65Hearts-is-Hearts
- 66Smarts-is-Smarts
Showing steps 55 to 66 of 89.
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.
- Flightmare
The Alliance has hired in Wildhammer mercenaries to control the skies over the Battlescar. I believe these same gryphon-riders were the ones to firebomb Taurajo during the attack. I want our skies scoured clean. The wildhammer dwarves fly low enough for a sharp-eyed <class> to hook them. Take this.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Claim the Battle Scar
We have fought the Alliance to a standstill here, even as the land beneath our feet falls apart. To the east you will find the Battlescar, a wide swath of decimated terrain. It is little more than a line in the sand, but it must be OUR line.
Also counted by Southern Barrens Quests
Its criteria name 25 quests; others include:
- Holdout at Hunter's Hill
- Warriors' Redemption
- Eye for an Eye
- Raptor Scraps
- Put the Fear in Them
- Stalling the Survey
- Keeping the Dogs at Bay
- Speaking Their Language
The storyline at a glance
Southern Barrens has 89 steps, from Running the Gauntlet to Sabotage!.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Southern Barrens (88), Northern Barrens (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Southern Barrens map
- Northern Barrens
- Battle Pet Tamers
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.
- Southern Barrens Quests: its criteria name 25 quests, this one included.