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Terrapination

Terrapination is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Tanaris. It is step 27 of 48 in the Tanaris storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Tanaris at 50.0, 82.9. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

We need to obtain the object described in this journal, for certain. Extracting it from a chest would be a feasible matter, but the object itself sounds compromised, and unstable. Attempting to forcefully open the chest could be disastrous.

Fortunately, we know where the key is...statistically speaking, at least. There's plenty of sea turtles at the east end of this beach. One of them may hold the key.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Top Comments

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Sariko+19via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I believe this quest title is a play on words. Terrapins are a type of turtle, and trepanation is the process of drilling a hole in the skull to alleviate pressure and supposedly alleviate insanity, which is relevant in this quest chain.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapTanarisTurn-in marker at 50.0, 82.9, 25 mapped points
World Map

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.

Tanaris Quest turn-in 25 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #71 50.0 82.9

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTanaris 50.0, 82.9/way #71 50.0 82.9
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Tanaris 55.0, 87.3/way #71 55.0 87.3
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Tanaris 67.2, 59.1/way #71 67.2 59.1

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 Tanaris map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Tanaris:

  • Gunstan's Dig, TanarisAlliance · about 760 yards west
  • Bootlegger Outpost, TanarisAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards north
  • Gadgetzan, TanarisAlliance · about 2,600 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 420 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 1,700 yards north-east

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

Tanaris

Part 27 of 48.

Previous: What We Came For · Next: You Too, Brute?

  1. 22Chicken of the Desert
  2. 23A Great Idea
  3. 24Just Trying to Kill Some Bugs
  4. 25Define "Crazy"
  5. 26What We Came For
  6. 27Terrapination
  7. 28You Too, Brute?
  8. 29Un-Chartered
  9. 30Get The Centipaarty Started
  10. 31Maul 'Em With Kindness
  11. 32Sandscraper
  12. 33Thunderdrome: The Ginormus!

Showing steps 22 to 33 of 48.

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.

  • What We Came ForTanaris · Level 15-30

    Gnomeregan previously learned that the Bilgewater goblins of the Horde survived a crash on an uncharted island near Kalimdor before arriving in Durotar.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • You Too, Brute?Tanaris · Level 15-30

    It's time to conclude this matter efficiently. From what we've determined, this mysterious object is in the possession of the "smart" brute described in the journal. We don't know exactly what's happened to this creature, obviously, so you should take caution. This...

The storyline at a glance

Tanaris has 48 steps, from Seaside Salvage to The Grand Tablet.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Tanaris (48).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Tanaris 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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Database

Quest Location and Connections

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