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Smells Like Loamm

Smells Like Loamm is a quest for level 36-80 in Zaralek Cavern. It is step 13 of 16 in the Breaking Ground storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Zaralek Cavern at 57.1, 55.6. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 9,500 experience and money.

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!

Rewards

Money28 gold9 silver
Experience9,500 XP
ReputationLoamm Niffen +2,500
Top Comments

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Nobody103+148via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This 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.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP9,500
MoneyGold28g 9s
ReputationLoamm Niffen+2,500

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapZaralek CavernTurn-in marker at 57.1, 55.6, 3 mapped points
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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.

Zaralek Cavern Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Zaralek Cavern map showing where to go for Smells Like LoammTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-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

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 CavernAlliance and Horde · about 120 yards west
  • Dragonscale Camp, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards south-west
  • Obsidian Rest, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 1,500 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 110 yards north-east
  • Objective areaabout 840 yards north

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Breaking Ground

Part 13 of 16.

Previous: The Earth Gives Way · Next: Welcome to the City of Smells

  1. 5Scar of Earth and Fire
  2. 6The Patience of Princes
  3. 7It Was Not Enough
  4. 8Culling the Deep
  5. 9Niffen and Goliath
  6. 10Brother's Keeper
  7. 11Secrets From Our Father
  8. 12The Earth Gives Way
  9. 13Smells Like Loamm
  10. 14Welcome to the City of Smells
  11. 15Orientation: Loamm Niffen
  12. 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 WayZaralek Cavern · Level 36-80

    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 SmellsZaralek Cavern · Level 36-80

    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

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.

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