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That Smart One's Gotta Go

That Smart One's Gotta Go is a quest for level 15-30 in Thousand Needles. It is step 57 of 107 in the Thousand Needles storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Thousand Needles at 69.9, 85.2. It rewards 3 reward items, 5,150 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

There's some kind of smart brain bug in the back of the cave. It's in charge of all of the silithid down there.

My ice cream is melting! How am I supposed to launch my ice cream empire, and save my inventory, if that thing's in there?!

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money21 gold
Experience5,150 XP
Top Comments

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Albo125+26via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

That Smart One's Gotta Go
There's some kind of smart brain bug in the back of the cave. It's in charge of all of the silithid down there.

Obvious Starship Troopers reference, specifically the Brain Bug at the end of the first movie.

(Also, check out the model of it. Another reference to the Brain Bug.)

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP5,150
MoneyGold21g

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeLeather Shoulder
Item level23
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor7
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina, +7 Versatility
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for9 gold80 silver
TypeStaff Two-Hand
Item level23
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon15 - 20 damage, speed 3.6
Stats+6 Agility, +8 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike
Suited toGuardian, Feral, Survival, Windwalker, Brewmaster
Sells to vendors for23 gold30 silver
TypePlate Wrist
Item level23
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor11
Stats+4 Strength or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +4 Parry
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for6 gold60 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.

3D Model

First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapThousand NeedlesTurn-in marker at 69.9, 85.2, 2 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.

Thousand Needles Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Thousand Needles map showing where to go for That Smart One's Gotta GoTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #64 69.9 85.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThousand Needles 69.9, 85.2/way #64 69.9 85.2
  • Objective areaThousand Needles 63.8, 86.3/way #64 63.8 86.3

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 Thousand Needles map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Thousand Needles:

  • Fizzle & Pozzik's Speedbarge, Thousand NeedlesAlliance and Horde · about 560 yards north-east
  • Gadgetzan, TanarisHorde · about 700 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 270 yards west

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

Thousand Needles

Part 57 of 107.

Previous: Freezing the Pipes · Next: Free Freewind Post

  1. 52Special Delivery for Brivelthwerp
  2. 53Special Delivery for Brivelthwerp
  3. 54The Greatest Flavor in the World!
  4. 55We All Scream for Ice Cream... and then Die!
  5. 56Freezing the Pipes
  6. 57That Smart One's Gotta Go
  7. 58Free Freewind Post
  8. 59Free Freewind Post
  9. 60Grimtotem in the Post
  10. 61Grimtotem in the Post
  11. 62Save the Sentinel
  12. 63The Brave and the Bold

Showing steps 52 to 63 of 107.

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.

  • Freezing the PipesThousand Needles · Level 15-30

    It's time to break out the I-Scream Cryocannon! We lifted the tech from the frost cannons on the river boats. If it's one thing that we gnomes are good at, it's miniaturization by way of making everything else that much bigger!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Free Freewind PostThousand Needles · Level 15-30

    Alas, it's time for you to leave. How quickly the chicks fall from the nest. Or, something. Anyway, you've done solid work here, my friend, but Quentin and the night elves have been crying that they urgently need your help with the Grimtotem at Freewind Post to the northwest.

Also counted by Thousand Needles Quests

Its criteria name 8 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Thousand Needles has 107 steps, from The Grimtotem are Coming to Spread the Word.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Thousand Needles (106), Feralas (1).

Other storylines on the Thousand Needles 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

Thousand Needles QuestsComplete the Thousand Needles storylines listed below.10
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