TheWoWDBI spent some time looking for the "chains" you're supposed to climb; was expecting to find a chain/rope that you click and it hoists you up.
Instead, what the dwarf means is that you can literally just walk up the chains towards the top of the tank.
Just in case someone else is having one of those moments.
Quest
Taking a Trip to the Top of the Tank
A World of Warcraft quest in Tanaan Jungle. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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If you can't find the quest giver, he is Archmage Khadgar.
He had no ! above his head for me. Ran around for ages.
Do not run up the chains while mounted. It seems if you make the dwarf run too fast he gets all Scottish and doesn't let you turn in the quest.
Quest facts
Quest ID35747
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(35747))
Requirements
Requires all ofThe Gunpowder Plot, The Shadow of the Worldbreaker, The Prodigal Frostwolf
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
We cannot risk the reactivation of the Dark Portal. Now is the time for the deathblow. Thaelin should have figured out how to get that tank working by now. Take him with you, and turn that tank against the Dark Portal itself. We will follow behind you.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #577 40.1 48.5
Coordinates
- Turn-inTanaan Jungle 40.1, 48.5
/way #577 40.1 48.5 - Objective areaTanaan Jungle 44.0, 29.7
/way #577 44.0 29.7 - Objective areaTanaan Jungle 37.4, 48.3
/way #577 37.4 48.3 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Tanaan Jungle 39.2, 48.5
/way #577 39.2 48.5
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 Tanaan Jungle map
- Ga'nar of the Frostwolf about 110 yards
- Polishing the Iron Throne about 110 yards
- Azeroth's Last Stand about 290 yards
- The Shadow of the Worldbreaker about 320 yards
- The Gunpowder Plot about 320 yards
- Onslaught's End about 350 yards
- The Portal's Power about 350 yards
- Warlords of Draenor: The Dark Portal about 350 yards
- The Prodigal Frostwolf about 360 yards
- The Battle of the Forge about 360 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Tanaan Jungle, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
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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Spell: Tier 4 Talents UnlockedUnlocks access to spending your fourth tier talent point.
Money16 gold98 silver
Experience5,450 XP
Storyline
Escape From Tanaan
Part 1 of 4.
Next: A Taste of Iron
- 1Taking a Trip to the Top of the Tank
- 2A Taste of Iron
- 3The Home Stretch
- 4The Home Stretch
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
Before this quest
Taken from the quest's prerequisites.
- The Gunpowder Plot
Ey, pal! We got an issue, here. Me ol' pal Thaelin's rigged together this here plunger out of spare Blackrock parts - engineerin' whiz that he is - but we're gonna need some gunpowder if we really want ta' do any damage.
- The Shadow of the Worldbreaker
Looks like we'll soon have another obstacle in our way: that ridiculously large tank that they have pointed at the Dark Portal. The Iron Worldbreaker, I think they call it. If I had some documentation on how it might work, then I might be able to figure out how to shut it down.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- A Taste of Iron
The way I see it, there's two ways to keep this tank from going through the portal: break the tank, or USE the dang tank ta' BLOW UP the dang portal. I can get 'er workin', I just need time. Hop in that turret off the starboard bow and keep 'em off my back.
The storyline at a glance
Escape From Tanaan has 4 steps, from Taking a Trip to the Top of the Tank to The Home Stretch.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Tanaan Jungle (4).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Tanaan Jungle map
- The Shadowmoon
- The Blackrock
- The Dark Portal
- The Bleeding Hollow
- The Shattered Hand
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.