Skip to content

Quest

Swabbing Duty

A World of Warcraft quest in The Cape of Stranglethorn. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

Advertisement
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

3
stevenj+24via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I was having a terrible time with this quest. Having trouble targeting running around, everything people are complaining about. Worse, I have a mac with a one-button mouse, so right-clicking requires me to hold down a key, so it is hard to do that and move at the same time.

The solution was to set up two key bindings:

1) create a macro for "/target deck stain" and drag it onto your button bar for key 1

2) in key bindings, bind key 2 to "interact with target"

Then you just run around and hit "1 2" over and over again. No need to stop moving, no need to target. Becomes fairly easy.

I hope this helps a few other people.

Read all 166 on Wowhead ↗

Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneThe Cape of Stranglethorn
Quest ID26633

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26633))

What to do

StorylineThe Cape of Stranglethorn, step 43 of 62
RewardsSwabbie's Booties, Riptide Vest, Keelhaul Shackles, 10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

I want the surface of the Riptide t'shine like a star ruby, Swabbie {name}. I keep a tight ship around here, and it's swabbies like you that make it happen! Well, what're y'waitin' for, y'cockle-brained bilgerat? Head updecks and start swabbin'!

Advertisement

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.

The Cape of Stranglethorn Quest turn-in no plotted point

Nearby on the The Cape of Stranglethorn map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Cape of Stranglethorn, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Cape of Stranglethorn:

  • Booty Bay, StranglethornAlliance · about 470 yards north
  • Explorers' League Digsite, StranglethornAlliance · about 1,400 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 50 yards south

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.

Related

Choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeLeather Feet
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for1 gold33 silver
TypeLeather Chest
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +6 Haste
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for1 gold79 silver
TypePlate Wrist
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+3 Strength or Intellect, +5 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for90 silver79 copper
TypeMail Chest
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor14
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +6 Haste
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for1 gold78 silver
TypeMail Feet
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for1 gold33 silver
TypeCloth Legs
Item level19
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor5
Stats+6 Intellect, +9 Stamina, +6 Haste
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for1 gold76 silver

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

The Cape of Stranglethorn

Part 43 of 62.

Previous: Your First Day as a Pirate · Next: The Bane of Many A Pirate

  1. 38Up to Snuff
  2. 39Keep An Eye Out
  3. 40Getting In With the Bloodsail
  4. 41Seeing Where Your Loyalties Lie
  5. 42Your First Day as a Pirate
  6. 43Swabbing Duty
  7. 44The Bane of Many A Pirate
  8. 45Cannonball Swim
  9. 46Attracting Attention
  10. 47Ol' Blasty
  11. 48Our Mortal Enemies
  12. 49Drive-By Piracy

Showing steps 38 to 49 of 62.

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.

  • Your First Day as a PirateThe Cape of Stranglethorn · Level 10-30

    Ye may be a slayer of Fleet Masters, but rules is rules and orders is orders. And MY orders say that all new pirates start out as swabbies. It's the rule. You're to be working for Captain Keelhaul, the commander of the Riptide.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Bane of Many A PirateThe Cape of Stranglethorn · Level 10-30

    Gum disease. It's a real problem, <race>. I know you're new and all, and probably haven't ever needed your gums cut, but the rest of us pirates have to deal with a little thing called SCURVY. It's why we keep so many limes around here. Well... we used to keep limes around here.

Quests that require this one

The storyline at a glance

The Cape of Stranglethorn has 62 steps, from Dask "The Flask" Gobfizzle to Bloodsail's End.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Cape of Stranglethorn (62).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on The Cape of Stranglethorn 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.