TheWoWDBIf - like me - you're here because you're trying to save a Horde/Alliance Slave Mage; they're not the targets you need to be saving. It is the miners.
Seems obvious to say, but myself and plenty of other people where standing on top of those Mages trying to lasso them.
Quest
Slave Labor
A World of Warcraft quest in Shimmering Expanse. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Around the large, open main area there are pits filled with big pearls. The pearl miners you need to save aren't really visible at the surface, you need to go up to the edge of the pits and look down in there. You can rescue NPCs of either faction.
Some useful info - Using the warrior ability, Heroic Leap to get past the invisible wall, you can get yourself stuck in the pits and be forced to hearth out :) so I wouldn't recommend using this and accidentally getting stuck like I did.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 30-35
Quest ID25907
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25907))
What to do
StorylineVashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse, step 62 of 149
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Description
It will take me some time to break through this barrier and communicate with Nespirah. In the meantime, you can save some of those men that the naga have enslaved in the pits below. <Duarn produces a length of rope from within his robes.> This should come in handy.
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.
Nearby on the Shimmering Expanse map
- Honor the Flame about 350 yards
- To the Deeps about 530 yards
- Wavespeaker's Trail about 530 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Shimmering Expanse, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shimmering Expanse:
- Tranquil Wash, Vashj'ir
- Silver Tide Hollow, Vashj'ir
- Legion's Rest, Vashj'ir
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 Shimmering Expanse map
Reward details
Reputation: The Earthen Ring +250
This gathering of the most powerful shaman of Azeroth seeks to maintain the balance between the world's elemental forces. Their main focus during the cataclysm has been to repair and stabilize the damage caused by Deathwing's arrival.
Reputation group: Cataclysm.
Other quests in Shimmering Expanse that reward The Earthen Ring reputation: Backed Into a Corner (+350), A Distracting Scent (+250), Totem Modification (+250), Undersea Inflation (+250), Don't be Shellfish (+250), Slippery Threat (+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
Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse
Part 62 of 149.
Previous: Making Contact · Next: Stick it to Them
- 57Back in One Piece
- 58Vengeful Heart
- 59Fathom-Lord Zin'jatar
- 60Nespirah
- 61Making Contact
- 62Slave Labor
- 63Stick it to Them
- 64Capture the Crab
- 65Breaking Through
- 66We Are Not Alone
- 67Hopelessly Gearless
- 68Body Blows
Showing steps 57 to 68 of 149.
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.
- Making Contact
I can't believe that Nespirah would willingly allow these naga to take residence inside her shell. As I see it, one of two things has happened: they have convinced her to willingly join their cause, or they have weakened her to a point where she cannot fight back. Either one is bad.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Stick it to Them
I may be unable to communicate directly with the beast Nespirah, but I can still feel some things indirectly. For example, I can clearly sense that Nespirah is not happy about the naga's presence here.
The storyline at a glance
Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse has 149 steps, from Call of Duty to Full Circle.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shimmering Expanse (98), Kelp'thar Forest (48), Abyssal Depths (2), Vashj'ir (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Shimmering Expanse map
- Azshara's Power
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.