TheWoWDBThis quest comes up when you bring up the Dragon Isles reputation summary (off the mini-map) if you haven't yet done the starting quests for Zaralek Cavern. It will tell you "Complete the quest Smells Like Loamm near Loamm in Zaralek Cavern". I found, on an alt, that I could go into Zaralek Cavern and do daily quests on an alt even though I didn't have the quests to go into the cavern. And this quest did not show up when I went to the correct location to pick it up.
If you have this showing on your Dragon Isles reputation summary as a requirement, it's because you have to unlock The Land Beneath. And, in order to unlock it, you need to have finished chapter 1 in The Forbidden Reach. I could not find anything saying that you had to have something finished in The Forbidden Reach before getting the quest to go into Zaralek Cavern. In fact, all of the 10.1 notes indicate that all of your characters should get the "The Land Beneath" upon logging in after 10.1 goes live.
I got very worried that I wasn't getting credit for Loamm Niffen reputation on my alt because this reputation showed as "Faction Locked". However, I did get faction reputation rewards from the reputation guy in Loamm, even though the Dragon Isles reputation summary showed the faction as locked.
Quest
Smells Like Loamm
A World of Warcraft quest in Zaralek Cavern. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The worst quest chain design by Blizzard in Dragonflight. It is so easy to miss this confusing quest chain and spend hours fighting monsters in Zaralak Cavern without unlocking Loamm Niffen rep. (Ask me how I know...)
It is very important you first grab this quest A Worthy Ally: Loamm Niffen
So the rep rewards count for credit allowing you to basically get the first sparks with no grind involved.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(72973))
What to do
Description
I smelled you weren't a bad sort from the start. A little sweaty, but not a bad sort. Consider this your personal invitation to Loamm, home of the niffen! Let's all meet just outside the entrance. That way I can give you and your pals the proper niffen welcome!
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2133 57.1 55.6
Coordinates
- Turn-inZaralek Cavern 57.1, 55.6
/way #2133 57.1 55.6 - Objective areaZaralek Cavern 58.5, 54.7
/way #2133 58.5 54.7 - Objective areaZaralek Cavern 57.0, 38.2
/way #2133 57.0 38.2
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 Zaralek Cavern map
- A Worthy Ally: Loamm Niffen about 40 yards
- Tougher Down Under about 50 yards
- Honor the Flame about 140 yards
- Excavation: Gaze of Neltharion about 700 yards
- Antiquated Antics about 760 yards
- Surveying the Tower about 760 yards
- Hidden in the Midden about 760 yards
- A Tower Yonder about 760 yards
- Cavernous Capers about 1,180 yards
- A Room Without a View about 1,180 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Zaralek Cavern, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Zaralek Cavern:
- Loamm, Zaralek Cavern
- Dragonscale Camp, Zaralek Cavern
- Obsidian Rest, Zaralek Cavern
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Reward details
Reputation: Loamm Niffen +2,500
Underneath the Dragon Isles, deep in Zaralek Cavern, lies the niffen town of Loamm. The friendly traders there are renowned for their hospitality, sense of smell, and peculiar bartering trade system.
Reputation group: Dragonflight.
Other quests in Zaralek Cavern that reward Loamm Niffen reputation: The Buddy System (+125), Best Friends (+125), Old Friends, Dear Friends (+125), The Heavy Crown (+125), Ancient Techniques (+75), Obsidian Essays (+75).
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
Breaking Ground
Part 13 of 16.
Previous: The Earth Gives Way · Next: Welcome to the City of Smells
- 5Scar of Earth and Fire
- 6The Patience of Princes
- 7It Was Not Enough
- 8Culling the Deep
- 9Niffen and Goliath
- 10Brother's Keeper
- 11Secrets From Our Father
- 12The Earth Gives Way
- 13Smells Like Loamm
- 14Welcome to the City of Smells
- 15Orientation: Loamm Niffen
- 16Six Hundred Feet Under
Showing steps 5 to 16 of 16.
Also part of: Zaralek Cavern (part 12 of 72).
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.
- The Earth Gives Way
You may stay here to see what comes of this relic, or meet me afterward in Loamm. That is Honeypelt's home, which she offered us respite at while you were still in the cave. I would only ask that you check on Wrathion. He may be a ceaselessly buzzing pest, yes, but...
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Welcome to the City of Smells
Ain't it incredible, uplander! Now for the backbreaking labor. We've got to deliver this deepflayer meat to all my customers and collect their pay. I'd carry it all myself, but I'm just a poor, old, frail, gorgeous woman in need now, aren't I?
The storyline at a glance
Breaking Ground has 16 steps, from The Land Beneath to Six Hundred Feet Under.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Zaralek Cavern (10), Valdrakken (3), Ohn'ahran Plains (2), Zaralek Cavern (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Zaralek Cavern map
- The Ancient Bargain
- Sundered Legacy
- The Dragons and the Scale Expedition
- Inevitable Confrontation
- Inherited Sin
- Azerothian Archives
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.