Here's a simple way to reach the cave, as discovered by a friend:
Get to the scaffolding with the three blast-off runes (you can get here quickly via the single rune at the ground floor of the excavation site).
Choose the middle rune. When you land, head several paces to your left. The cave entrance should be on your right.
Quest
The Delicate Sound of Thunder
A World of Warcraft quest in Howling Fjord. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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71.6, 69.8 inside the cave at the Baelguns Excavation Camp.
After passing by on an army of Dark Iron Dwarves an holograph titan appears talking to the crowd. After listening to the following lines, you get the quest completed.
Kronus yells: [Titan] Come, minions! Your master calls!
Kronus yells: [Titan] The work of your brothers in the Storm Peaks has reached a frenzied pace. Soon, Father will be freed.
Iron Rune Worker says: [Titan] Stop! Stop! Scrap metal moves itself now?
Iron Rune Construct says: [Titan] To interfere with construct's function results in termination. Move along.
Iron Rune Worker says: [Titan] Forgive my insolence!
Kronus yells: [Titan] Your brothers to the north have subjugated the stone behemoths and set them on the path to Ulduar. Soon, the remaining defenses of the Pantheon will be neutralized.
Kronus yells: [Titan] The three fissures opened by the mortals of this region must be silenced. The earth hears and sees what we do and will continue to interfere with our efforts if the way is not closed.
Kronus yells: [Titan] Bury this place! Your master demands it!
Complete directions:
- top of entrance to Excavation: 72.7, 67.5.
- take scaffolding all the way over to elevator at 72.3, 74.1
- take elevator down.
- get off elevator and jump down to scaffolding at 72.5, 73.9
- face relatively north and take ramp to right.
- you will take two ramps... after that go to the right.
- jump to scaffolding at 72.8, 72.2
- face the cliff wall and take the scaffolding / ramp up to the right. (There will an earth elemental stationary at the base of that ramp.) Base at 72.9, 71.6
- go up the scaffolding to the green dirt at 73.8, 71.0
- take scaffolding ramp on your left up to the deck.... you will come up to that deck underneath the next ramp you need to take.
- the ramp (base at 72.9, 71.2) up to the cave entrance.Hope this helps... a little complicated, but hey... better than nothing.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11495))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
The cavern that we opened at Baelgun's was the one place that most steered clear of... Can't say I blame 'em. The sound of thunder shot out of that cave, {name}! Loud, booming thunder! I think near the end, it was abandoned by all. Bad, bad things happened to any that went in to explore - most never coming back. I want you to check that cave out while you're at Baelgun's. Explore around the titan statue inside and report back with your findings.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #117 75.0 65.5
Coordinates
- Turn-inHowling Fjord 75.0, 65.5
/way #117 75.0 65.5 - Objective areaHowling Fjord 71.5, 71.0
/way #117 71.5 71.0
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 Howling Fjord map
- Hero's Call: Howling Fjord! about 850 yards
- To Northrend about 1,220 yards
- Honor the Flame about 2,250 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Howling Fjord, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Howling Fjord:
- Valgarde Port, Howling Fjord
- Fort Wildervar, Howling Fjord
- Westguard Keep, Howling Fjord
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Reward details
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Reputation: Explorers' League +350
This organization seeks to find the origin of the dwarven race by collecting Titan artifacts. Their most recent research has led them to various archeological sites in Northrend.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward Explorers' League reputation: My Daughter (+10), See to the Operations (+10), Danger! Explosives! (+250), Send Them Packing (+250), Leader of the Deranged (+250), The Book of Runes (+250).
Reputation: Valiance Expedition +350
The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: Break the Blockade (+250), Scare the Guano Out of Them! (+250), Shoveltusk Soup Again? (+250), The Clutches of Evil (+250), Mage-Lieutenant Malister (+10), Two Wrongs... (+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.
Storyline
Howling Fjord
Part 33 of 162.
Previous: Lightning Infused Relics · Next: News From the East
- 28We Have the Technology
- 29Iron Rune Constructs and You: Rocket Jumping
- 30Iron Rune Constructs and You: Collecting Data
- 31Iron Rune Constructs and You: The Bluff
- 32Lightning Infused Relics
- 33The Delicate Sound of Thunder
- 34News From the East
- 35The Clutches of Evil
- 36Mage-Lieutenant Malister
- 37Two Wrongs...
- 38Report to Scout Knowles
- 39War is Hell
Showing steps 28 to 39 of 162.
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.
- Lightning Infused Relics
Your construct is ready to go. All abilities have been given a once over and I've programmed the machine to both comprehend and speak the language of the titans.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- News From the East
Westguard needs to know what's going on here, <name>. I want you to personally deliver the news to Captain Adams. Whenever you're ready, let me know and I'll put you back in the construct for one final flight. It'll take you to Westguard Keep, but more than likely blow up in the process.
The storyline at a glance
Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Howling Fjord map
- Truthguard
- Wrath of the Lich King Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.