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The Best Way to Use Sheep

A World of Warcraft quest in Exile's Reach. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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1
GibbleFenwick+8via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Herbert instructs you to use Polymorph on Throg, which is what most people would probably do.
But if you Polymorph Herbert instead, Throg says that he knows this tactic and fills in the explanation.
When you hit Herbert to break him out of Polymorph, he says: "You're a loose cannon recruit. I'm impressed!"

2
TamiayTheGnome+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I had to find out. So if you walk away and don't hit him. Just sit, relax, chill. He eventually comes out of his polymorph and says exactly what he does when you hit him. But you do get the satisfaction of being even more of a loose cannon than the game expected! =D

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 1-10
ZoneExile's Reach
Quest ID59955

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(59955))

Requirements

ClassMage

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineThe Missing Expedition, step 31 of 68
Rewards40s, 1,750 XP

Description

I can't send you off without making sure you can cast Polymorph correctly. Why, if you messed it up you may transform someone into something completely different! I want to make sure I'm around to take notes if that happens. Let's see... ah, Throg will do nicely! I can spot a prime test subject from a mile away. Shall we begin?

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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.

Exile's Reach Quest turn-in no plotted point

Nearby on the Exile's Reach map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Exile's Reach:

  • Alliance Outpost, Exile's Reach OutpostAlliance · about 30 yards north-east
  • Ogre Citadel, Exile's Reach IslandAlliance · about 1,300 yards north-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.

Related
Money40 silver
Experience1,750 XP

Storyline

The Missing Expedition

Part 31 of 68.

Previous: A Mage's Knowledge · Next: A Monk's Focus

  1. 26Repair Yourself
  2. 27A Druid's Form
  3. 28A Hunter's Trap
  4. 29Hunting the Stalker
  5. 30A Mage's Knowledge
  6. 31The Best Way to Use Sheep
  7. 32A Monk's Focus
  8. 33One Last Spar
  9. 34A Paladin's Service
  10. 35A Priest's End
  11. 36Resurrecting the Recruits
  12. 37A Rogue's End

Showing steps 26 to 37 of 68.

Also part of: A Dark Ritual (part 14 of 33).

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.

  • A Mage's KnowledgeExile's Reach · Level 1-10

    You've got some good spells for a novice mage. There are a few things holding you back, though. For instance, it's absolutely clear to me you don't know Polymorph. If you did, you would've been using it on the harpies that were attacking us! Let's fix that.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Monk's FocusExile's Reach · Level 1-10

    You fought well against the harpies, but you'll need even more skill to best the challenges ahead. We must meditate and focus if we are to gain more strength. Come. I know of a place we can go.

The storyline at a glance

The Missing Expedition has 68 steps, from Warming Up to Home Is Where the Hearth Is.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Exile's Reach (47), Orgrimmar (14), The Waking Shores (3), The North Sea (2).

Other storylines on the Exile's Reach 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.