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The Captain's Chest

The Captain's Chest is a quest for level 10-30 in The Cape of Stranglethorn. It is step 26 of 62 in The Cape of Stranglethorn storyline. It rewards 1 reward item, 2 reputation rewards, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

I used to sail a ship from here all the way to Ratchet, in Kalimdor. I was a successful captain with a sterling reputation.

Until...

Those cursed sea giants ruined me! They smashed my ship, killed my crew, and set me on a lifeboat to Booty Bay. I will not rest until their corpses pepper the ocean floor!

One of the giants, Gorlash, stole my captain's chest. I hear Gorlash wanders the coast east of here. Find him and get back my chest! Do that, and you'll have earned a captain's gratitude.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationBooty Bay +250, Bloodsail Buccaneers -250
Top Comments

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

1
617575+28via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Gorlash does not seem to wander. Instead, when he is not there (as in someone just killed him or whatever) the yellow marker is there on the map to show where he will be, but the skull does not appear on the minimap. When he is there, both the yellow marker on the map and the skull on the minimap will appear. His spawn time is fairly quick and he always respawns where the yellow marker appears on the map. I'm submitting a screen shot of him.

3
daerelas+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

For some reason, the new ZA/ZG quests seem to be phasing many low level quests out so you can't see the NPCs you need. I'm in mid-completion of these quests from Bambala, and Gorlash and other area quests cannot be completed because no NPCs or mobs appear in phase. Don't really understand what one has to do with the other, but thought I'd mention it if you're 85 and doing both Bambala and Loremaster questing simultaneously.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationBooty Bay+250
ReputationBloodsail Buccaneers

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Wrist
Item level24
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+6 Intellect, +6 Stamina, +3 Versatility
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for13 gold73 silver

Reputation: Booty Bay +250

This booming coastal city is run by Baron Revilgaz of the Blackwater Raiders. Mortal enemies of the Bloodsail Buccaneers and part of the Steamwheedle Cartel.

Reputation group: Steamwheedle Cartel.

Other quests in The Cape of Stranglethorn that reward Booty Bay reputation: Avast Ye, Scallywag (-25), An OOX of Your Own (+500), Avast Ye, Admiral! (-500), Traitor to the Bloodsail (+500), Dressing the Part (-250), Scaring Shaky (+250).

Reputation: Bloodsail Buccaneers -250

These bloodthirsty corsairs are the bane of many a merchant in the high seas. Sworn enemies of Booty Bay.

Reputation group: Classic.

Other quests in The Cape of Stranglethorn that reward Bloodsail Buccaneers reputation: Avast Ye, Scallywag (+25), An OOX of Your Own (-500), Avast Ye, Admiral! (+500), Traitor to the Bloodsail (-500), Dressing the Part (+10), Scaring Shaky (-250).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapThe Cape of Stranglethorn
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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.

The Cape of Stranglethorn Quest turn-in

Nearby on 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, StranglethornHorde · about 140 yards south
  • Explorers' League Digsite, StranglethornAlliance · about 920 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 480 yards 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

The Cape of Stranglethorn

Part 26 of 62.

Previous: Kill-Collect · Next: A Giant's Feast

  1. 21Plunging Into Zul'Gurub
  2. 22High Priest Venoxis
  3. 23Scaring Shaky
  4. 24Return to MacKinley
  5. 25Kill-Collect
  6. 26The Captain's Chest
  7. 27A Giant's Feast
  8. 28A Dish Best Served Huge
  9. 29Mok'rash the Cleaver
  10. 30Message in a Bottle
  11. 31Protecting Her Royal Highness Poobah
  12. 32Grubby Little Paws

Showing steps 21 to 32 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.

  • Kill-CollectThe Cape of Stranglethorn · Level 10-30

    There's three phases to debt collecting: asking nicely, asking forcefully, and something I like to call "Phase Three". Unfortunately, collecting during Phase Three is something that this old dog can't do any more.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Giant's FeastThe Cape of Stranglethorn · Level 10-30

    The next giant on my list is called Negolash. I remember vividly how he leapt from the seafoam and plucked poor Poop-Deck Paul from the crow's nest. Swallowed him in one gulp, he did. And snapped my mizzenmast in two on the way down. No man on my crew deserves such a heinous death.

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.

Related
The Calm Before the Storm
The Calm Before We Storm
The Campaign Begins
The Captain's Cache
The Captain's Foot Locker
The Captain's Logs
The Captive Bride
The Captive Bride
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