Skip to content

Quest

The Great Escape

A World of Warcraft quest in Uldum. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

Advertisement
Top Comments

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

1
93865+28via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

"I know NOZING!" was the idiom of the blundering German prison guard, Sergeant Schultz, in the famous 60s sitcom Hogan's Heroes.

The quest is named after a hit 60s movie. The Great Escape, about an attempt by Allied POWs to escape a German WWII prison camp.

The quest itself is based off the real-life unlucky escape of "Der Fuhrer" from an attempted assassination by his own generals, who secretly hated him, when he happened to be protected from an exploding suitcase by the heavy oaken table he was sitting on the far side of. "Der Fuhrer" reacted with characteristic egoism and paranoia.

After the failed assassination, "Der Fuhrer" had many of his surviving generals killed and replaced with cronies.

2
625429+6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you do prefer to do this solo, given the respawn rates and tiny spaces, if you do get overwhelmed, simply hop off the side of the boat. They will not chase you unless you climb onto a dock. Once you drop aggro, make sure you're on the surface of the water, mount your flyer, head back to a better position :)

3
291365+6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Be careful when you do this quest if you fly out to land on the ships. There are three crewmen on the deck of every ship. All three aggro on you the minute you land on deck.

As a druid, i could go bear form and tank the three, but non-tank classes watch out.

Best way to start is land on the very rear corner of the deck, where the captain is. He will aggro immediately, but it's a single mob, not three.

Once the captain is dead, move off the rear deck as soon as you can and take one of the crewmen for the six Fresh Sailor Uniforms you need for "The Great Escape" quest (see link above). You need to get off that rear deck fast to avoid the Captain re-spawn, because he pops back up almost as soon as you kill him.

I had to clear all the crewmen on all three ships to get the six uniforms - there are a few crew inside the ships too.

Read all 26 on Wowhead ↗

Quest facts

LevelLevel 30-35
ZoneUldum
Quest ID28194

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28194))

What to do

StorylineUldum, step 77 of 101
RewardsMirror-Polished Boots, Officer's Formal Baton, False-Face Mask, 13g 74s, 4,800 XP

Description

Please, {class}! We need your help! We're being kept in this building against our will. And with the commander on such a tirade, there's no telling what he might do to us! Perhaps if you were to secure some uniforms for us, we could sneak away. We never should have come here. I see that now. If you help us escape, I will write the TRUTH of what has happened here. The men on those ships are all dressed in the garb we need.

Advertisement

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.

Uldum Quest turn-in 10 mapped points
Uldum map showing where to go for The Great EscapeTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #249 21.9 64.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inUldum 21.9, 64.0/way #249 21.9 64.0
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Uldum 24.8, 68.1/way #249 24.8 68.1

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 Uldum map

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

Getting there

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

  • Schnottz's Landing, UldumAlliance and Horde · about 50 yards south-east
  • Oasis of Vir'sar, UldumAlliance and Horde · about 2,300 yards north
  • Ramkahen, UldumAlliance and Horde · about 2,500 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 250 yards south-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.

Related

Choose one of these rewards:

Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP

3D Model

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

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeLeather Feet
Item level36
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor8
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike, +6 Mastery
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for35 gold48 silver
TypeStaff Two-Hand
Item level36
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon9 - 12 damage, speed 3.6
Stats+8 Intellect, +12 Stamina, +9 Haste, +6 Mastery
Suited toAugmentation, Fire, Arcane, Restoration, Preservation, Devastation, Frost, Balance, Shadow, Mistweaver, Elemental, Affliction, Demonology, Destruction, Discipline, Holy
Sells to vendors for84 gold97 silver
TypePlate Head
Item level36
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor20
Stats+8 Strength or Intellect, +12 Stamina, +6 Parry, +9 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for37 gold90 silver
TypeMail Hands
Item level36
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +5 Critical Strike, +6 Haste
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for25 gold55 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.

Storyline

Uldum

Part 77 of 101.

Previous: Lockdown! · Next: Sending a Message

  1. 72Make Yourself Useful
  2. 73Crisis Management
  3. 74Battlezone
  4. 75Missed Me By Zhat Much!
  5. 76Lockdown!
  6. 77The Great Escape
  7. 78Sending a Message
  8. 79Firing Squad
  9. 80Meet Me In Vir'sar
  10. 81Friend of a Friend
  11. 82Two Tents
  12. 83Master Trapper

Showing steps 72 to 83 of 101.

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.

  • Lockdown!Uldum · Level 30-35

    Zhat buildink did not explode by itself! Somevone is tryink to do me in, and you von't rest until I find out who! Shtaht vizh zhe guests. Visit vizh zhem, observe zheir demeanor, and zhen report back to me. If zhey know anyzhink at all, I vill haff zhem interrogated! Dismissed!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Sending a MessageUldum · Level 30-35

    I haf eyes and ears in every corner of zhis region, <race>. I haf heard of zhe murmurings zhat go on amonkst my troops. I haf been most tolerant of zhis pathetic behavior - until now! I vill send zhe message to everyvone in my ranks, zhat dissension vill not be tolerated!

Other quests with this name

This one: Uldum · Level 30-35.

The storyline at a glance

Uldum has 101 steps, from Easy Money to The Coffer of Promise.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Uldum (101).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Uldum 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.